Startups

AI-CXO

🇧🇷 BRASIL

AI-CXO is an innovative BusinessTech company developing a new generation of affordable, AI-powered ERP solutions designed specifically for small businesses, startups, and independent companies. The platform integrates essential business functions such as Finance, HR, CRM, workflow automation, reporting, and social media management into one intelligent ecosystem. What makes AI-CXO unique is its embedded executive AI assistant architecture. AI-CFO supports budgeting, forecasting, cash flow control, and financial decision-making. AI-CTO helps businesses with technology planning, cybersecurity awareness, digital transformation, and process automation. AI-CEO connects all business intelligence layers, providing strategic recommendations, growth insights, and executive-level guidance. Built to replace expensive and fragmented enterprise systems, AI-CXO offers powerful tools in a simple and scalable environment accessible to growing companies. It empowers entrepreneurs to operate with the discipline of large corporations while keeping costs low. By combining ERP efficiency with executive intelligence, AI-CXO transforms everyday operations into smarter decisions, faster growth, and stronger business competitiveness in the digital economy.

Azores Life Sciences

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

Azores Life Science is a biotechnology company created in the Azores since 2017, it began operating in biotechnological cosmetics, developing the Ignae brand which is already successfully spreading in Hong Kong and China. Since then, it has positioned itself in the international premium segment. It focuses on the valorisation of endogenous resources from the Azores, such as macroalgae, microalgae, marine microorganisms, and dairy products. In addition, Azores Life Science has already successfully won competitions such as the 929 Challenge and joined different incubation and acceleration programs to validate its solutions, increase scientific maturity, and develop the industrial application.

BioStrata

🇧🇷 BRASIL

BioStrata is an AI-powered multiomics intelligence platform designed to accelerate discovery in precision health, neurological disorders, and smart ageing research. The platform integrates genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics into a unified environment that enables researchers to manage studies, track samples, discover biomarkers, and generate actionable scientific insights. Unlike traditional laboratory information management systems, BioStrata combines advanced research operations with artificial intelligence, allowing users to identify molecular patterns, explore cross-omics relationships, and support hypothesis generation without requiring extensive bioinformatics expertise. Its cloud-native architecture enables rapid deployment, scalability, and seamless collaboration across academic institutions, biotechnology companies, clinical research organizations, and healthcare innovators. Initially focused on neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, autism spectrum disorder, and epilepsy, BioStrata is expanding toward broader precision medicine and longevity applications. By transforming complex biological data into meaningful intelligence, BioStrata empowers organizations to advance biomarker discovery, personalized interventions, and next-generation healthcare innovation.

Brainding

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

Brainding is a Portugal‑based company that applies applied neuroscience and behavioral science to improve communication, decision‑making and human performance in organizations. We combine scientific methods with strategic communication to help companies understand how people perceive, feel, react and decide — both as consumers and as collaborators. Brainding operates across marketing, organizational behavior, leadership, customer experience and communication strategy, bringing a scientific layer to business innovation. Its innovative approach delivers Neuroscientific Behavioral Profiles, Consumer Neuroscience Studies, Strategic Plans Based on Neuroscience and Proprietary Frameworks & Protocols

B² (BrainBody)

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

B² (BrainBody) is an innovative SportsTech and HealthTech company transforming physical performance and rehabilitation through intelligent brain stimulation technology. The platform combines advanced neurostimulation technologies such as tDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation)andTMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) with artificial intelligence to enhance recovery, accelerate motor learning, improve focus, and optimize human performance. Designed for athletes, physiotherapists, physicians, rehabilitation centers, and home users, B² delivers safe, personalized stimulation protocols supported by real-time monitoring and smart reporting. Its AI engine tracks session outcomes, adherence, cognitive readiness, recovery trends, and progress indicators, enabling data-driven decisions for training and therapy. The personalized program can be applied in elite sports preparation, injury recovery, pain management, neurorehabilitation, endurance optimization, and cognitive resilience. The platform bridges neuroscience and movement science, bringing clinical-grade technology into practical daily use. By integrating wearable innovation, digital therapeutics, and intelligent analytics, B² is redefining how people train, recover, and perform. It represents the future of performance enhancement where the brain becomes the starting point of every physical achievement.

Cinetable

🇲🇴 MACAU, CHINA

Cinetable focuses on Cultural innovation in Macau and brings the “Fork n Film” concept, redefining leisure beyond casinos with a 30‑seat immersive dining cinema in Taipa. Guests watch Western and Asian films while enjoying three‑course menus inspired by the films themselves, across a variety of movie genres that change every week. It’s a cultural, family‑friendly, and Instagrammable experience: see the movie, taste the movie. Macau’s 240K households and 40M annual tourists love both cinema and dining out. CineTable captures this demand by blending two passions into one premium experience. Operating weekends with curated sessions for adults, families, and kids, we expect strong occupancy and profitability within months. We are seeking MOP 430K to launch, covering equipment and initial operations. In Six Months, CineTable reaches break‑even with healthy margins, supported by repeat visits and tourist traffic. Aligned with Macau’s world-class tourism image, CineTable embraces non‑gaming tourism, cultural and historical industries, innovation and sustainability through local sourcing and zero‑waste practices. CineTable is where cinema meets cuisine, delivering unforgettable moments for locals and visitors, and positioning Macau as a hub for cultural leisure beyond gaming.

CyberX

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

The Ethical Hacking Services is a cybersecurity company founded in Portugal that, with its international growth, expanded with an office in Dubai (UAE). The company focuses on offensive security and advanced threat intelligence, helping organizations identify vulnerabilities, exploitable risks, and security weaknesses before malicious actors can take advantage of them. Its flagship platform, The Omniscient (The O), is an AI-powered threat intelligence system designed to detect early indicators of emerging physical and digital threats by analyzing large volumes of publicly available data in real time across multiple languages and sources. By combining ethical hacking expertise with artificial intelligence, CyberX supports organizations, governments, and critical sectors in strengthening resilience, situational awareness, and proactive risk prevention.

Farmly

🇧🇷 BRASIL

A Farmly é uma startup de tecnologia que revoluciona o mercado de cafés especiais por meio do Direct Trade (Comércio Direto) utilizando uma plataforma digital inteligente de integração. Conectando produtores na origem diretamente a torrefações globais, a plataforma elimina intermediários e burocracias da cadeia de suprimentos tradicional. Com foco em rastreabilidade total, sustentabilidade e transparência, a Farmly garante que uma fatia maior do valor retorne ao campo, enquanto democratiza o acesso a lotes exclusivos e soluções de logística consolidada (como o FarmlyGo) para torrefadores. É a digitalização que une o impacto social na fazenda à eficiência operacional na ponta consumidora

Fome de Tudo Institute

🇧🇷 BRASIL

The Brazilian Institute Fome de Tudo, also active in Angola and Mozambique, is expanding into China has stood out for its innovative approach, including the development of technology to combat hunger and food waste, recognized in the official BRICS WBA 2025 report. Positioning itself as a true transformation agency, Fome de Tudo operates through five integrated pillars: social protection — focused on fighting hunger and post-environmental disaster actions —, health (including both physical and mental health), technology, innovation and research, training and education, and entrepreneurship focused on the circular economy and economic empowerment. The Institute is an official member of the G20 Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty and a global partner of the World Food Programme (WFP), the largest humanitarian agency of the United Nations and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and was also prominently featured at COP30. The partnership with the University of Saint Joseph reinforces a shared commitment to sustainable solutions, applied knowledge, and global-scale social impact.

GoPitch.AI

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

GoPitch is an innovative AI-powered communication platform designed to help individuals and organizations master high-impact speaking with confidence, clarity, and emotional balance. Built for startup founders, sales professionals, executives, educators, and students, the platform transforms communication training into a measurable and gamified development journey. GoPitch uses advanced artificial intelligence to analyze facial expressions, vocal tone, speech emotion, posture, pacing, and language patterns during presentations, meetings, pitches, or interviews. A comprehensive sentiment engine tracks communication performance across different scenarios, helping users understand how they are perceived and where improvement is needed. The platform provides personalized coaching, progress scoring, scenario-based simulations, and long-term analytics aligned with each user’s objectives—from investor pitches and classroom presentations to sales negotiations and leadership communication. With browser and mobile accessibility, GoPitch becomes a personal communication coach available anytime. By combining behavioral science, emotional intelligence, and AI analytics, GoPitch empowers users to speak with greater influence, presence, and consistency throughout their professional and personal journeys.

M4 Innovation Healthtech

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

M4 Innovation is a healthtech startup built on more than 20 years of continuous experience applying artificial intelligence to healthcare, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Its foundations lie in a long-standing trajectory at the intersection of AI, neuroscience, engineering, and medicine, where data-driven approaches have been used to better understand biological systems, support clinical decision-making, and improve patient care. Over the past two decades, the team behind M4 has been involved in the development of intelligent systems for biomedical signal processing, medical data analytics, neurotechnologies, and human–machine interaction, working closely with academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and research centers. This experience has shaped a strong commitment to scientific rigor, ethical responsibility, and translational impact, ensuring that technology development remains closely aligned with real clinical and societal needs. Today, M4 Innovation operates as an integrated healthtech platform, combining artificial intelligence, neurotechnologies, robotics, and multiomics to create advanced solutions for digital health, precision medicine, rehabilitation, and intelligent clinical environments. By uniting deep technical expertise with a multidisciplinary perspective, M4 Innovation aims to accelerate innovation in healthcare while keeping the human being at the center of technological progress.

LuYuAqua

🇨🇳 ZHUHAI, CHINA

LuYuAqua is an AI-driven provider of comprehensive hardware and software solutions for smart fisheries. We offer not only technological equipment but also complete, end-to-end project system solutions. The core logic of LUYUAQUA is to build a trinity system comprising the “AI Decision Layer + RCU Engineering Layer + Business Model Layer”, utilizing the “Constant Boundary Philosophy” to cap risk limits and secure minimum returns. Currently, LUYUAQUA has successfully demonstrated the capability for industrial replication of high-value-added fish species. This endows agriculture with financial attributes that are asset-backed and securitizable (ABS), thereby providing a brand-new paradigm integrating engineering and capitalization for global agricultural modernization.

Manycontent

🇧🇷 BRASIL

Manycontent is an advanced AI-driven platform redefining how organizations create, manage, and scale digital content. By combining generative AI, neuroscience insights, and hyperautomation, it delivers a fully integrated ecosystem for marketing and sales operations. The platform enables automated creation of high-impact text, images, and videos, intelligent scheduling across social media, and data-driven optimization through real-time analytics and competitor benchmarking. Its adaptive machine learning continuously refines content performance based on audience engagement, ensuring increasing precision over time. What distinguishes Manycontent is its all-in-one architecture, integrating multiple AI models, conversational agents, and marketing tools within a single SaaS environment, significantly reducing operational complexity and costs. Designed for startups, SMEs, and enterprises, it empowers teams to achieve up to tenfold productivity gains while maintaining strategic consistency and brand relevance. By transforming content production into a scalable, intelligent workflow, Manycontent positions itself as a key enabler of next-generation digital growth

MindFlux

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

MindFlux is an advanced NeuroTech and EdTech platform designed to improve cognitive performance, emotional balance, and personal development through gamified training experiences powered by neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The system combines engaging mobile and browser-based applications with real-time biometric inputs such as EEG brain signals and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) to create highly personalized training journeys. MindFlux offers multiple games and exercises focused on attention, memory, focus, emotional regulation, stress management, logic, and mental resilience. Its multimodal AI assistant continuously monitors progress, identifies patterns, and provides adaptive coaching, motivational guidance, and smart recommendations based on each user’s evolving profile. The platform is suitable for students, professionals, athletes, wellness users, and organizations seeking measurable cognitive growth and better mental performance. Through advanced analytics dashboards, users can track achievements, readiness levels, and long-term development. By merging gamification, biofeedback, and intelligent coaching, MindFlux transforms brain training into a practical daily experience—making cognitive optimization accessible, engaging, and scientifically driven for the modern world.

NeuroGemini

🇲🇴 MACAU, CHINA

NeuroGemini is a pioneering HealthTech company building the next generation of precision neuroscience through the creation of each person’s Neural Twin — a multidimensional digital replica of the human neurophysiological profile. By integrating advanced data from EEG, fNIRS, HRV, GSR, clinical laboratory exams, medical imaging, genomics, proteomics, and lifestyle variables, NeuroGemini transforms complex biological information into actionable intelligence. Its proprietary platform uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large-scale data lake architecture to model brain function, predict risks, monitor health trajectories, and personalize interventions over time. The result is an intelligent ecosystem capable of supporting clinicians, researchers, wellness professionals, and high-performance users with unprecedented precision. NeuroGemini has applications across neurology, mental health, rehabilitation, cognitive enhancement, and preventive medicine. By merging neuroscience, digital health, and predictive analytics, the company aims to redefine how we understand the brain and human potential. NeuroGemini is not only analyzing the brain — it is creating the future of personalized neuro-intelligence.

Pluvialis Biotech

🇧🇷 BRASIL

Pluvialis Biotech will be the first Brazilian spinoff producer of bioproducts from the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis, the main source of the pigment astaxanthin. Our research team, composed by chemists and fishing engineers, developed a new technology (Patent deposited: INPI – BR 10 2024 008326 1) that increased both the microalga biomass production and its astaxanthin content. A scaleup of the technology is going on using an open culture system. The project “Scale-up of the cultivation of the microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis: production of astaxanthin, a high-value-added antioxidant pigment for the nutraceutical and cosmetics production sectors” is being supported (R$593,668.27; US$ 108,000) by the state funding agency FUNCAP (Process 07806924/2023) – Call No. 05/2023 – Entrepreneurial Researcher Program – Formation of Academic Spin-offs.

The Danyalgil Company

🇵🇹 PORTUGAL

Trust Infrastructure for the Digital Era is a Portuguese deep-tech startup focused on digital trust, blockchain-based authentication, and verifiable provenance. The company helps organizations issue, sign, store, and transfer digital assets in ways that can be independently verified by anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Its flagship platform, blue·auth, is a token-based trust infrastructure that anchors certification, electronic signature, custody, storage, and transfer of digital assets directly on blockchain, producing cryptographic proofs that are immutable and publicly auditable.

Currently in incubation, The Danyalgil Company is developing pilot programs with educational institutions and professional bodies in Portugal, while preparing its expansion across the European Union and into Brazil through partnerships with regulated sectors.

Vantara

🇲🇴 MACAU, CHINA

Vantara is redefining how cybersecurity services are delivered. Built for penetration testers, managed security service providers (MSSPs), and enterprise security teams, Vantara unifies the entire security assessment lifecycle into a single intelligent platform—from attack surface discovery and vulnerability assessment to AI-powered remediation planning, client engagement, and progress tracking. Unlike traditional tools that generate technical findings but leave remediation as a manual process, Vantara transforms security data into actionable business intelligence. Its proprietary AI engine automatically converts scan results into prioritised remediation roadmaps, complete with risk analysis, implementation guidance, effort estimates, and investment projections. This dramatically reduces reporting time while improving the quality and consistency of security recommendations. By integrating seamlessly with industry-standard tools such as Nessus, Nmap, Burp Suite, and OWASP ZAP, Vantara enhances existing workflows rather than replacing them. The platform enables security providers to scale operations, increase profitability, and build long-term client relationships through continuous security engagement. In a market facing growing cyber threats, talent shortages, and increasing compliance demands, Vantara delivers the intelligence, automation, and operational efficiency required to secure organisations at scale.

Virtutis Energy

🇧🇷 BRASIL

Virtutis Energy is a Brazilian startup currently consolidating its innovative business model by combining renewable energy generation with a financial platform that enables the leasing, investment and association of solar power plants. Since its founding in 2020, the company has invested approximately US$50,000 in its initial structuring and development, and received several innovation awards and accreditation programs, such as Tecnova III and the Partec/UFC in Brazil. The company is launching the app, which will provide a secure and transparent process for clients seeking to reduce their energy costs, investors interested in participating in specific solar power plants, and plant owners who wish to integrate their power plants into the Virtutis Energy platform. Virtutis Energy is seeking to expand its financial operations to China, Australia, the United States, and the European Union, working with partners who develop solar power plants for foreign entrepreneurs in Brazil and connect them to our solution. Virtutis Energy is the democratisation of clean energy investment and secure and reliable mechanisms for entrepreneurs to build, connect and commercialise their solar power plants.

Zhongbiao International (Macau) Biotech Co.

🇲🇴 MACAU, CHINA

This startup focuses on biotech innovation. It integrates green, low-carbon bio-agricultural technology with traditional Chinese medicine fermentation and selenium‑hydrogen small‑molecule water to significantly enhance bioavailability of active ingredients. It provides science‑backed functional materials, fermented herbal teas, and data‑driven health solutions. Its platform incorporates multi‑omics, AI quality control, and carbon footprint assessment. With R&D bases across China and clinical collaboration with the University of Saint Joseph, the company drives evidence‑based TCM and modern health innovation for global well‑being.