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Sword Health Threads AI Physiotherapy Into the SNS — Virgílio Bento's Unicórnio Carries the Free-to-Patient Programme at Hospital de Santa Maria on a 97% Wait-Time Cut and 45% State Saving for Back, Knee and Shoulder Pain

Sword Health Threads AI Physiotherapy Into the SNS — Virgílio Bento's Unicórnio Carries the Free-to-Patient Programme at Hospital de Santa Maria on a 97% Wait-Time Cut and 45% State Saving for Back, Knee and Shoulder Pain

The Serviço Nacional de Saúde (National Health Service, SNS) crossed a digital-health threshold on Thursday afternoon as Sword Health — the Porto-founded musculoskeletal-care unicórnio that Virgílio Bento and Márcio Colunas built in 2015 — locked in...
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Open-plan tech workspace with rows of laptops

Caixa Capital Anchors a €1 Million Portugal Prize as the Startup World Cup 2026 Lands at Unicorn Factory Lisboa Across 17-18 June — 50 Finalists, a 10-Slot Pitch Cut and a $1 Million October San Francisco Run Frame the Pegasus Tech Ventures Track

Portugal's Startup World Cup 2026 opens 17-18 June at Unicorn Factory Lisboa with 50 startups chasing a €1M Caixa Capital cheque and a $1M Pegasus Tech Ventures ticket to the October San Francisco final — Carlos Moedas headlines, Brisa, Galp and Microsoft anchor the speaker bench.
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Seguro Lays Out a Mediterranean-Atlantic AI Platform at the 19th COTEC Europa Symposium in Venice — Memorandum With Spain and Italy Sets a European Rights-and-Democracy Third Way Between the American Market and Chinese State Models

Seguro Lays Out a Mediterranean-Atlantic AI Platform at the 19th COTEC Europa Symposium in Venice — Memorandum With Spain and Italy Sets a European Rights-and-Democracy Third Way Between the American Market and Chinese State Models

President António José Seguro pitched a Mediterranean-Atlantic AI Platform at the 19th COTEC Europa symposium in Venice on Wednesday, signing a memorandum with Italy's Mattarella and Spain's Felipe VI to anchor a European rights-and-democracy third way between US market and Chinese state AI models.
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Server racks with green LEDs and cabling — illustrative of the Start Campus hyperscale build in Sines, Portugal

Sines Start Campus Carries the 1.2 GW Hyperscale Build Across the BdP Investment-Forecast Upgrade — SIN01 Operating, SIN02 Lift From Nscale's €465M Second-Building Commitment and the Six-Phase 2030 Roadmap Recast the Macro Read

Banco de Portugal's June bulletin credits a single private campus — Start Campus at Sines — with the bulk of the 2026 investment-forecast lift from 3.8% to 4.5%. Inside the 1.2 GW build, the Nscale €465M SIN02 anchor and what the macro read now hinges on.
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