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Twenty-Seven Portuguese Startups Touch Down at Web Summit Rio Through 11 June — €20 Million in Backing, 269 Employees and an AI / Health-Tech / Defence Stack Span Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela

Twenty-Seven Portuguese Startups Touch Down at Web Summit Rio Through 11 June — €20 Million in Backing, 269 Employees and an AI / Health-Tech / Defence Stack Span Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela

Twenty-seven Portuguese startups landed at Web Summit Rio on Monday for the 8–11 June run, with €20 million in cumulative backing and 269 employees spread across Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela — Startup Portugal and Unicorn Factory Lisboa anchor the fourth-consecutive Brazil push.
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Diário da República Publishes Decreto-Lei 113/2026 on 8 June — Autonomous Driving Tests on Portuguese Roads Open From 8 July at a 0.2 g/l Operator Alcohol Cap, 20 km/h Speed Discount and Quadruple Liability Cover

Diário da República Publishes Decreto-Lei 113/2026 on 8 June — Autonomous Driving Tests on Portuguese Roads Open From 8 July at a 0.2 g/l Operator Alcohol Cap, 20 km/h Speed Discount and Quadruple Liability Cover

Decreto-Lei 113/2026, published in Diário da República on 8 June, opens Portuguese public roads to autonomous-driving tests from 8 July under a six-year operator licence floor, a 0.2 g/l alcohol cap, a 20 km/h speed cut and quadruple insurance cover.
The Portugal Brief
Tekever Doubles Its French Investment to €200 Million Over Five Years at Choose France 2026 — Cahors Excellence Centre Hits Summer Opening as 200 Skilled Jobs Land Across Occitânia and Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Tekever Doubles Its French Investment to €200 Million Over Five Years at Choose France 2026 — Cahors Excellence Centre Hits Summer Opening as 200 Skilled Jobs Land Across Occitânia and Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Portuguese drone unicorn Tekever doubles its France investment to €200 million over five years at the Choose France 2026 summit in Versailles — adding 200 highly skilled jobs across Occitânia and Nouvelle-Aquitaine and bringing the Cahors industrial centre online this summer.
The Portugal Brief
Segurança Social Direta Locks Two-Factor Authentication Into Mandatory Operation on Tuesday 12 May 2026 — NISS-and-Password Logins Now Require an SMS or Email Code, and the Username Migrates From NISS to the Registered Email

Segurança Social Direta Locks Two-Factor Authentication Into Mandatory Operation on Tuesday 12 May 2026 — NISS-and-Password Logins Now Require an SMS or Email Code, and the Username Migrates From NISS to the Registered Email

The Portuguese Social Security portal — Segurança Social Direta, the single online front-door for almost every benefit, contribution and worker-employer transaction that runs through the Instituto da Segurança Social — switches its authentication...
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