Ericeira Tech Hub
Design render of the Hub above Ericeira in daylight. A round building with planted terraces stands among the white houses of the town, on the cliff above the Atlantic.

Ericeira · Mafra · Portugal

We are building the place the next technology comes from.

A fund, an incubator and accelerator, a research arm and a coworking space under one roof on the Atlantic. Owned by stewards, so the mission cannot be bought.

What happens now Apply

The Hub above Ericeira. Design render.

The problem

Technology shapes us. Who shapes the technology?

What gets built now will shape a generation. The problem is not what it does. It is where it comes from.

  1. Built from fear

    Arms races, surveillance, attention capture. Fear builds to defend and to extract.

  2. Built from the mind

    Engagement gets measured. Whether anyone is better for it does not.

  3. Built on defence money

    A research network for people who all knew each other. No trust built in, ever since.

Why now

This is the decade the architecture gets set.

A product can be regulated after it ships. An architecture cannot. It is chosen once, early, by whoever is in the room. Foundation models, quantum and neurotechnology arrive together, and the defaults set now hold for a generation.

$12.6bn

Capital is ahead

Into quantum startups in 2025, 6.3 times the year before. The money arrived. The questions did not.

Source: McKinsey Quantum Technology Monitor 2026

9,322

The builders are here

Digital nomad visa applications to Portugal, October 2022 to September 2025. They come for six months and leave again.

Source: Conta-la, 2026

5.5%

Tech is the economy now

Of Portugal's GDP is now tech, up from 3.8% in 2020.

In simple terms

We are building the right environment for technology to be built from.

The right environment means whatever it takes for what gets built here to come from a conscious place.

The people

Rested, present and practised, so the work comes from a settled place.

The place

Ocean, quiet, good food, and rooms made for the work.

The ownership

Steward owned, so no one can buy the mission out from under it.

The vision

A new kind of technology hub.

A fund, an incubator and accelerator, a research arm and a coworking space under one roof, with a community running through all four. It starts as a pop up, grows into a resident cohort, and only then becomes a building. Each stage has to pay for the next one.

Projects are judged by the change they create, not by growth alone.

Design render of the gathering hall. A long timber hall with a curved roof, glass walls, and people on a wooden deck above the sea.

Where people gather

The gathering hall

A great hall with glass on every side and the Atlantic in front. This is where people gather, eat at long tables and take on the big questions together.

Design render of the working floor. Long timber desks along a curved glass wall facing the Atlantic.

Where the work happens

The building

Coworking, the café, the incubator and accelerator and the research rooms, with the working floor facing the Atlantic. Built for long days of focused work, and for the conversations in between.

Around the building

The grounds

A fire pit, a sauna, natural pools and kitchen gardens. The grounds turn a workplace into somewhere people stay.

  • Fire pit
  • Sauna
  • Natural pools
  • Kitchen gardens

The Hub in practice

Four verticals, each with clear edges.

Being raised

Fund

Pre seed and seed, before the architecture is fixed.

Early applications

Incubator & Accelerator

Idea to product, then scale.

Partners in place

Research

Findings turned into products.

Taking names

Coworking

Desks, rooms, programmes. Skills given back.
Active monthly Community and events run through all four. Steward events and dinners, every month.

What happens now

You do not have to wait for the building.

The building comes last. The community is already here. This is what you can join today.

  • Active monthly

    Steward events

    Fifteen to twenty stewards around one table, in Ericeira and Lisbon. The best way to meet us is to come to one.

    Ask for an invitation

  • Early applications

    Applications

    For founders, researchers, founding members and capital. Tell us what you are building and we reply within two working days.

    Apply

  • Starting

    The sound research group

    Consciousness and sound, with researchers and builders from three countries. The first online workshop is being planned.

    Join the list

  • Coming

    Tech meetups in Ericeira

    For the engineers, designers and founders who already live here. Bring what you are working on.

    Join the list

  • Spring 2027

    Groundswell

    The global ethical tech event. Three days and five hundred people on the Atlantic, with talks, workshops and long dinners.

    Join the list

What we stand for

Six kinds of transformation.

  1. 01

    Individual

    People leave changed, not only better funded.

  2. 02

    Entrepreneurial

    Founders build companies that stay true to purpose.

  3. 03

    Technological

    Products designed around the person, not the attention.

  4. 04

    Social

    Members give their skills to each other's projects.

  5. 05

    Environmental

    We answer for what the work costs this place.

  6. 06

    Organisational

    Steward ownership keeps control with the mission.

Steward owned, so the mission cannot be bought.

How ownership and investment work

Advisors and partners

Who stands behind the build.

Implementing partner AGPC Investments Advisor Antonello Monti Research partner The Works Research Institute
Meet the partners
Design render of the fire pit at dusk. A sunken stone circle with cushioned benches around a fire, among olive trees and gardens above the sea.

Come and sit by the fire.

The big conversations here end around one, with the ocean behind you.

Tell us who you are