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Top 25 Startup incubators based in Portugal
RevenueBase identified 185 startup incubators headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026 and tracks 2,778 professional contacts across them, including 310 with verified work emails. Lisbon is the largest hub.
This list covers startup incubators headquartered in Portugal, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest startup incubators based in Portugal
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,496 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Instituto Pedro Nunes is a non-profit private organization founded in 1991.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Envisioned by the Lisbon City Council with the aim of expanding Lisbon’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, from startups to scaleups, and eventually unicorns, we work as an engine for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BGI is a startup accelerator, born in 2010 from a partnership between MIT Portugal (MIT Portugal Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative) and ISCTE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Inovcorp é um grupo empresarial fundado em 2011 por Nuno Conceição e Pedro Conceição.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “START Lisbon is a chapter of START Global, Europe’s leading student-run initiative for entrepreneurship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A non-profit organization founded in 2006, named Agência DNA Cascais - Cascais, um Concelho Empreendedor (Cascais, an Entrepreneurial Municipality).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lionesa Business Hub has created a true business resort with all the services that anyone might need: hairdresser, gym, laundry, bank, restaurants, bars… We provide activities…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “COREangels is a global brand of hands-on angels, investing in early-stage startups through local portfolio funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Incubators & accelerators are hard at work building the entrepreneurship of today and tomorrow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uma instituição de referência no fomento do empreendedorismo e no apoio ao tecido económico local, a INOVAGAIA aposta na projeção de um cluster de inovação e de desenvolvimento da…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Startup Leiria is the association driving the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Leiria region, Portugal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We help companies accelerate their innovation roadmap connecting them to the global startup ecosystem, and creating their own new business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “REDangels is a group of Business Angels, established in Aveiro, Portugal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “University of Aveiro Incubator, created in 1996, is a space for hosting, stimulating and supporting the incubation of innovative business ideas and startups, mainly of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Startup Braga is a leading innovation hub, designed to assist the inception and development of high potential entrepreneurial projects for international markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nesta Casa estamos a elevar o Impacto a tema central na sociedade, abrindo as portas do Impacto a todos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Build Up Labs is a venture studio and a startup incubator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NONAGON is the first Science and Technology Park in the Azores, located in the city of Lagoa, on São Miguel Island.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A IRIS é uma incubadora de captação de ideias e projetos, e apoio à criação, desenvolvimento e aceleração de iniciativas de inovação e empreendedorismo social.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Existimos para ativar e apoiar o empreendedorismo enquanto ferramenta poderosa de transformação e desenvolvimento sustentável.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You will work with experienced operators who've built what you're trying to build.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founders Founders is a founder-led network helping startups scale smarter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O INOPOL Academia de Empreendedorismo é uma unidade orgânica do Politécnico de Coimbra que tem como missão: Promover uma cultura de inovação e empreendedorismo e potenciar a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a professional group of angel investors (former Coreangels Portugal) and enthusiastic about supporting growth of promising startups, while generating returns for both…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nexus is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in visionaries with transformative ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: startup incubators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names startup incubators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of startup incubators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name startup incubators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Startup incubators based in Portugal at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Portugal, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Portugal, over 185 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among startup incubators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Portugal whose own description of what they do matches “startup incubators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names startup incubators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among startup incubators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Portugal are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 310 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Startup incubators by metro
- Startup incubators in Lisbon34
- Startup incubators in Lisboa30
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names startup incubators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many startup incubators are there based in Portugal?
RevenueBase identified 185 startup incubators headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Instituto Pedro Nunes, headquartered in Coimbra, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most startup incubators?
Lisbon leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Lisboa (30) and Porto (14).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 310 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 185 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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