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Acelera Portugal by Hypernova isn’t a passive accelerator. It’s an investment program.
We invest €100,000 per startup: €50,000 in cash and €50,000 in structured support delivered through a 3-month accelerator built to help startups close commercial deals, align with real market needs, and get on the radar of strategic investors from Day 1.
Acelera Portugal gives you more than just guidance — we provide infrastructure, capital, and momentum, tailored to your real-world scaling goals.
Get high-signal exposure through curated events we bring our startups into: Web Summit (Lisbon), SIM Conference (Porto), NOVA NEXT (Aveiro), and Our AP Investor Roundtables.
Each startup receives €50,000 in cash to accelerate hiring, product development, and sales. It’s designed to give you breathing room (and firepower) to move fast and build strong foundations.
More than mentors, our team works directly with you to shape your exit strategy, unlock investor interest, and close deals. You’ll be supported by real partners, not passive advisors.
Work side-by-side with our team to execute: sharpen commercial readiness, run real deal and investor conversations, and hit weekly targets. We’ll also get investor essentials ready: financials in order and a complete data room for fast diligence.
Portugal has become a serious launchpad for global founders. The startup ecosystem reached five thousand active startups in 2025 (+8% YoY), with growing revenue, jobs, and international ambition, and the country has produced 8 unicorns over time.
In Aveiro, founders plug into a compact, execution-friendly tech corridor. Aveiro was recognised by the European Innovation Council as a European Rising Innovative City and the Inova-Ria cluster alone brings together 100 tech companies backed by the talent pipeline of the University of Aveiro.
Aveiro is one of Portugal’s most important industrial–innovation nodes, with companies like: Siemens Gamesa, PRIO Energy, Altice Labs, Bondalti Chemicals, Amorim Holding, Navigator, Saint-Gobain, WEST HORSE and Bosch.Portugal has been one of Europe’s standout economies in the post-Covid period and in 2025, The Economist ranked Portugal as the best-performing economy in its global comparison. Portugal is a practical launchpad: direct access to the EU Single Market (450.4M consumers and roughly €17.1T GDP), plus a bridge to Portuguese-speaking markets through the CPLP/PALOP network (around 268M people and roughly $2.47T GDP).
Our 2,000 m² hub near Aveiro is built for focus and recovery. Alongside great connectivity, workspaces, and meeting rooms, there’s an extensive on-site garden and the beach is just 15 minutes away.With around 2,500 sunshine hours per year in the Aveiro region, it’s easy to switch from deep work to a real reset. Portugal is one of the most peaceful countries on the planet, due to higher levels of safety and security, Portugal ranks 7th among 163 nations on the Global Peace I (Global Peace Index 2025), day-to-day quality of life supports energy, clarity, and execution.It also offers a reliable and stable political system based on solid democratic principles, where citizens and organisations enjoy high levels of freedom and protection of human rights.
We set the commercial and investment engine in motion. Through focused workshops and 1:1 sessions, startups define their ICP, sharpen messaging and pitch, map the GTM motion, and build investor-ready financials and fundraising strategy. By the end, teams are equipped to win customers and raise capital. The pre-accelerator happens before the final investment decision.
During these weeks, the focus is to build a targeted pipeline and book your in-person meetings in Portugal — mentors, investors, potential partners, and customers. Together, we’ll secure the right introductions, lock meetings into the calendar, and set the stage so arrival in Portugal starts with momentum.
Founders spend 6 weeks in Portugal to activate commercial outcomes. With pre-matched mentors and investor meetings and simconf (Porto) and NovaNext (Aveiro) as the backdrop, this phase turns strategy into pipeline and pipeline into contracts. Furthermore, Startups will further craft their exit roadmap, align on long-term KPIs, and gain ongoing support through founder meetings, check-ins.
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