Portugal 🇵🇹
Full EU and Schengen membership with founder-friendly setup: fast incorporation, a competitive small-company tax position, and residence routes for investors, remote workers and retirees.
Europe
Expand Your Business to Europe
Europe gives a single company access to the EU single market and a single residence permit access to the Schengen area. If you are deciding where to start a company in Europe, the real question is which country gets you in fastest and cleanest. Our answer, today: Portugal, as the entry point, with two concrete levers, a residence route and a company. This page routes you there: Portugal business expansion. It is written for non-EU founders and expats at the very start of the continental decision, before a country is picked.
EU single market: one company, access to 27 member states
A residence permit that carries Schengen mobility
Fast, low-capital company setup, from €1 of share capital
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Portugal 🇵🇹
Full EU and Schengen membership with founder-friendly setup: fast incorporation, a competitive small-company tax position, and residence routes for investors, remote workers and retirees.
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Coming soon: London and the wider UK, one of the fastest places to incorporate and a global finance hub, join our European coverage next.
Estonia 🇪🇪
Coming soon: Estonia and its e-Residency programme, a fully digital route to an EU company run from anywhere, are on the way.
Why Europe for international business
One single market
Incorporate in one EU member state and you can trade across all of them, without national barriers inside the bloc.
Schengen mobility
A residence permit from a Schengen country carries short-stay mobility across the whole area, which matters for founders who travel constantly between clients, teams and home.
A predictable regulatory frame
Company law, tax filings and investor protections are harmonized at the bloc level, so a European entity is legible to banks, partners and acquirers worldwide.
Talent and time zones
A deep, multilingual workforce, and a working day that overlaps with both the US morning and the Asian afternoon, make Europe a practical base for international operations.
Banking and capital access
A European entity sits inside the bloc banking system, with euro-denominated accounts, SEPA payments and access to European investors and grant programs, all of which get materially easier once you operate through a local entity rather than from abroad.
Europe by the numbers
The continental frame, in numbers that matter to a founder deciding where to land.
27
EU member states
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Around 450 million
Single market consumers
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Schengen zone
Free-movement area
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Countries we cover in Europe
EU market access is identical whichever member state you incorporate in, so the decision rides on the variables that differ: entry cost, incorporation speed, residence routes, language friction and running costs. Portugal scores well on each, which is why it is our entry point.
Portugal
Portugal pairs full EU and Schengen membership with a founder-friendly setup: fast incorporation, a competitive small-company tax position, and several residence routes for investors, remote workers and retirees. Through our Portugal services you can handle both tracks in one place: the residence visa, and the company you run it through.
- EU and Schengen
- Full member
- Incorporation
- About 1 hour
- Residence routes
- Investor, remote, retiree
Frequently asked questions
Europe and Portugal guides
All country guides live in our Portugal insights hub: visas, taxes, the NIF and company formation, each verified against official sources and dated. They cover the full arc of a Portugal project, from the first tax number to the long-term residence milestones. New European countries will appear here as coverage expands.
Residency
Portugal Golden Visa
The residence-by-investment route: the €250,000 to €500,000 options after real estate was abolished, presence of about 7 days a year, and the path to citizenship.
Residency
How to move to Portugal
Every residency route compared, Golden Visa, D7 and D8, with the income or investment each needs and the path to permanence and citizenship.
Company formation
Company formation in Portugal
Incorporate a Portuguese company from €1 of capital: the routes, the official fees, the documents and the realistic timeline for non-residents.