Portugal Startups
Lisbon · 2026-09-13 · 4 days to Startup Summit Lisbon
· edition built from snapshot 2026-09-13
The Portuguese startup ecosystem — companies, founders, investors, institutions and the events where they meet — mapped on a graph built from primary sources that are frozen and hashed. Every claim on this site walks back to a hashed copy of somebody else’s page — we connect the dots, we do not draw them.
Beta, agent-produced, human-reviewed. The research, extraction and drafting are done by software agents. Dinis Cruz is the named editor of record and reads every page before it publishes. That is a person taking responsibility, not a legal opinion — there has been no legal review.
Every claim here walks back to bytes we hold. Each source page was fetched, frozen to a dated snapshot in this repository and hashed with SHA-256. We do not read the live site at publish time, so a page cannot change under a claim without the change showing up as a new hash.
We report what others have published. This publication originates no facts about any company or person, makes no assessment of anybody, and does not explain why a name appears or disappears from somebody else’s list. The full limits →
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A record attempt the agenda does not mention
Two Portuguese outlets say a 48-hour Guinness pitch marathon runs alongside the summit on 16–17 September. The event's own agenda page, four days out, does not list it. Both are frozen; neither is wrong yet.
2026-09-13 · 3 frozen sources · reviewed by Dinis Cruz
Five names arrived and one left
Between 8 and 13 September the published speaker list for Startup Summit Lisbon 2026 went from 60 to 64. We have both copies and both hashes, which is the only reason anyone can now say that.
2026-09-13 · 3 frozen sources · reviewed by Dinis Cruz
Two names for three stages
The agenda calls them the Unicorn Stage and the Impact Stage. The AI-summary page calls them the Main Stage and the Startup Stage. Both are published by the same event on the same site today.
2026-09-13 · 4 frozen sources · reviewed by Dinis Cruz
The room, as a graph
The event, its speakers, the organisations they are listed under, the programme, the evidence and what the press says — one graph, 329 nodes, every edge a verb you can read as a sentence in English or Portuguese. Start with the people and switch the other blocks on one at a time.
The graph
Filter by pack, colour by type or by who is investor-side, trace a path between any two nodes and read it aloud, keep a view. The same instrument graphs.sgit.ai uses.
The files
Every JSON file the section is built from, every frozen page with its hash — rendered, as a graph, and raw. Nothing on this site exists that is not in that list.
64 speakers
Filter by name, role or organisation. 7 are investor-side by listed title — a published formula, not a fact about anybody.
This week in Lisbon
The programme as the event’s own agenda page publishes it, transcribed from the frozen copy and checked against it verbatim by the gate. The page calls itself a summarised view and says more is announced weekly.
2026-09-16
- 19:00Welcome Drinks
2026-09-17
- 07:30Morning Run
- 09:00Doors Open
- 09:30Opening Keynote: Welcome to Startup Summit 2026 · Unicorn Stage
- 10:00–10:30The LP Perspective · Unicorn Stage
- 11:05–11:30The Fundraising Meta-Game · Impact Stage
- 11:45–12:15AI or Die · Unicorn Stage
- 13:00Lunch
- 14:00Investor Office Hours
- eveningFounder Social
2026-09-18
- 09:00Day 2 Welcome
- 09:30–10:00Day 2 Opening — Portuguese Unicorn Conversation · Unicorn Stage
- 10:10–10:35What I Built With AI · Impact Stage
- 11:20–11:45Hardware Meets Software · Impact Stage
- afternoonSpeed networking
- eveningClosing Celebration
Two session titles name AI. That is a fact about titles, not about content: the agenda publishes no description, and this publication does not know what either session will say.
What the press says
7 pages by other publishers, each fetched, frozen and hashed before it was cited. The summaries are ours; nothing is quoted. Follow the link for what they actually wrote. Machine surface: coverage.json.
| Who | What it says, in our words | Our copy |
|---|---|---|
| Startup Summit Lisbon Opens Applications for 48hr Pitch Marathon AICEP Portugal Global · news · 2026-07-29 | Announces applications for a 48-hour non-stop startup pitch marathon run alongside the summit on 16–17 September 2026, as an official Guinness World Records attempt, with almost a thousand founders taking part remotely or in person at Unicorn Factory Lisboa's Beato Innovation District. | frozen1d816054b512… |
| Startup Summit Lisbon will officially attempt to set a Guinness World … Portugal Business News · news · 2026-07-29 | Reports the same Guinness World Records attempt: a 48-hour pitch marathon with almost 1,000 startups pitching, founders participating remotely or in person. Its summary line dates the marathon to 17 September and its body to 16–17 September; both are on the same page. | frozena7f76c5faa4a… |
| Startup Summit Lisbon 2026 | ScaleUp Porto ScaleUp Porto · listing · 2026-07-07 | An event listing by the Porto scale-up body: dates 17–18 September, venue Beato Innovation District with the street address, and a description of the summit as a large-scale founder, investor and corporate conference. | frozenc72500fcdfca… |
| Startup Summit Lisbon 2026 — StartupEvents.org StartupEvents.org · listing | A calendar listing carrying the event's own framing — 2,000+ target attendees, 150+ speakers, 200+ booths — with start and end times (17 September 07:30 to 18 September 17:45) and a calendar export. | frozen31384d735b8e… |
| Startup Summit Lisbon 2026 (September 2026, Lisbon, Portugal) – Dates,… Startup Map Hub · guide | A dates-venue-guide page: 17–18 September 2026 at Unicorn Factory, Beato Innovation District, with the street address. | frozenfe73aa268041… |
| Startup Summit Lisbon 2026 | Founder, Startup & Investor Event Tickets… Eventbrite · ticketing | The ticketing listing: 17–18 September, 09:30 to midnight, Unicorn Factory Lisboa. Its agenda widget carries tabs for 16, 17, 18 AND 19 September, with the Welcome Drinks on the 16th from 19:00 to 22:00. The event's own site names no 19 September activity. | frozen708af0b08175… |
| Lisbon Tech Events 2026 — Founder & Investor Guide Startup Summit (the event itself) · event's own | The event's own guide to Lisbon tech events in 2026, positioning the summit among them: 17–18 September at Beato, 200+ booths. | frozend2b3f53baf7f… |
Excluded: Returned HTTP 404 ('Ocorreu algo de errado') when fetched on 2026-09-13. A search engine still returns it, titled as a 16–17 April 2026 edition. It cannot enter the register because it did not resolve, and this publication does not know whether an April edition happened. Recorded as excluded rather than silently dropped.
The list is moving
Between the two snapshots this section holds, the published speaker list went from 60 to 64: 5 names added and 1 removed. Both copies are in this repository and both are hashed. Name by name →
How this is made
Seven agent roles and a named human. Dinis Cruz is the editor of record and reads every page before it publishes. The roles, each with a centre of gravity and a list of what it refuses:
- Researcher — No claim without bytes we hold.
- Extractor — The graph says what the frozen copy says, and nothing more.
- Cartographer — The map is closeable, or it is not a map.
- Diff Watch — What changed is the story.
- Writer — Every sentence traces to a node.
- Editor — The publication's voice, and the things it will not say.
- Publisher — Versions are promises, and a beta says so on its face.
The method · The team · If you are named here · The limits
For builders
This section is the first pass of a publication that will move to its own domain. The commissioning brief for the natively Portuguese newsroom that follows it — written for the agent that will build it — is here, and it opens by saying which of its own problems this section has already solved.
For an agent
The front page of Portugal Startups. Machine surfaces: /portugal/data/graph.json (the whole section as a graph, with packs), ontology.json (types and verbs with inverses, in English and Portuguese), coverage.json (third-party pages, frozen and hashed, summarised not quoted), sessions.json, people.json, sources.json. Every source is primary and hashed; every claim walks back to one. The role_class on a person is a published FORMULA over the listed title, not a fact. This publication assesses nobody and explains no absence from anybody's list.