Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Lisbon

A tech scene built inside a decade, by people who just arrived

Web Summit's move from Dublin to Lisbon in 2016 accelerated something that was already underway: a wave of founders, remote workers and relocating engineers drawn by the city's cost of living and Atlantic-facing location, competing against London, Berlin and Amsterdam. A young Lisbon startup today is often a genuinely mixed team, some who grew up here, some who moved specifically for the job, and that mix is harder to coordinate than a team with years of shared context to fall back on when a status update goes missing.

A five-person team like that doesn't have a dedicated HR or marketing hire yet either, usually just a founder covering both between building the product, and a "free" tool that quietly starts billing after a month is one more thing pulling attention away from the actual company at exactly the point it's still finding its footing.

ShipSprint's Free plan covers five users and two projects, permanently, and engineering, HR, marketing and operations run on the same subscription, which suits a young, internationally mixed team that doesn't have a department for any of them yet.

Lisbon's own cost-of-living advantage over London, Berlin or Amsterdam is a genuine part of why so many of these teams chose the city in the first place, and it tends to make founders unusually deliberate about every other line of spend too. A subscription that scales predictably with headcount, rather than one that quietly grows into a separate bill per department, fits that same careful instinct.

Free that doesn't add uncertainty to a candidate's decision

A candidate deciding between offers is often more likely to ask how they'll be measured than a local hire recruited through a network of people who already know how the company operates, and a free tool that turns into a surprise bill is a bad first impression at exactly the moment a young team is trying to look stable to someone weighing several options. ShipSprint's Free plan has no expiry: five users and two projects stay free for as long as a team needs them.

ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in India, and billed per seat in rupees with annual billing available. That's a fact about the company, not a claim of a Portuguese or EU entity, and worth knowing before onboarding a team.

What a candidate is really asking, underneath "how will I be measured", is whether the company is honest. ShipSprint's answer stays consistent as the team grows past the founders: no screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, only delivered work and logged hours, adjusted for leave and visible to the person the scorecard describes rather than hidden from them.