Ranked agencies for startup clients
Innovagency
Verified#1Lisbon
Best for: Retail, telecom and banking teams wanting one partner for strategy, UX design and engineering—Continente, Vodafone, Novo Banco.
Other Land
Verified#2Lisbon
Best for: Early- to growth-stage SaaS and consumer product teams needing embedded senior design capacity.
Runtime Revolution
#3Lisbon
Best for: Product companies that need an embedded engineering team to build and scale a product—design supports delivery, not research-led UX.
Imaginary Cloud
#4Lisbon
Best for: Scale-ups and mid-market product teams needing engineering-led builds with UX/UI design folded in—not standalone design work.
About this list
Lisbon's startup roster is engineering-led. Most of these teams build and ship, with design folded into delivery rather than sold as standalone research — Runtime Revolution and Imaginary Cloud both document engineering-led product builds where UX supports the code; Innovagency documents strategy, design and engineering together for retail, telecom and banking clients like Vodafone and Novo Banco.
That makes Lisbon a strong fit for a startup that needs a product actually built, not just designed, and it comes at a €50–100 per hour budget band. Other Land is the roster's design-first exception, documenting embedded senior design capacity for early- to growth-stage SaaS and consumer teams.
Choose by what you're missing. If you have product direction and need an embedded team to build and scale, the engineering-led shops fit well; if you need discovery and research before a line of code, this roster is thinner and the design-first studios are the ones to read closely. Each profile's verified client roster and editorial review show whether an agency leads with research or with delivery.
Expert Insight
Why startup fit matters
Startup engagements compress discovery, design, and validation into weeks — agencies without documented startup work routinely misjudge that pace and over-process the early phases.
Founder-led decision-making needs an agency comfortable presenting directly to the person writing the cheque — not one built for layered enterprise sign-off.
Stage fit matters as much as sector fit: MVP-shaping work (early-stage) and scale-systemization work (scale-up) are different disciplines, and the chips on this page distinguish them.
Evidence beats claims: 'we love startups' appears on almost every agency site; at least two named, published startup engagements per listed agency appear on this one.
Frequently asked questions
4 agencies in our directory combine verified startup client evidence with a Lisbon base. The current top-ranked are Innovagency, Other Land, Runtime Revolution — rankings follow our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, credibility, completeness), never paid placement.
Published rates across this page's agencies run €50–100 per hour (median ~€75). Project totals depend on scope — our cost calculator breaks estimates down by team size and engagement length.
Each listed agency has at least two documented, named startup clients — published case studies or engagement descriptions our research actually read, with source URLs stored per client. Logo walls without published evidence carry no weight, which is what separates this list from self-declared directories.
3 of the agencies on this page document an embedded / team-extension working model. See the team-extension page for the full verified list, or check the engagement chips on individual profiles.
Page last updated July 9, 2026 from 4 agencies. Most recently reviewed: Innovagency on July 7, 2026. How we rank