by catherinel | Nov 21, 2017 | Startups
Last week, Lisbon was host to the world’s largest tech conference, the Web Summit. As a result, tens of thousands of people from the tech community made their way to our vibrant capital.
To welcome international guests, Beta-i organized a side event. We brought together the entire startup community on one afternoon for the Lisbon Startup Tour. And, this year, for the first time the tour had a special track made for journalists, representing BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, La Voz de Galicia, Les Echos and ECO.
La Voz de Galicia quoted Pedro Rocha Vieira’s “[Lisbon] is one of the most important cities in the world when it comes to innovation, ideas, and projects”, underlining the importance of an event like Web Summit to bring investment and entice companies to move to Lisbon, like it already happened in London, San Francisco and Berlin.
The importance of a startup tour for correspondent journalists is that they are used to write about everything that happens in the country, not about tech in particular. Taking the time to guide them through the Portuguese ecosystem can only enrich the ecosystem and make them pay more attention to the melting pot Lisbon is turning into.
“A perfect intro into Lisbon’s startup scene ahead of Web Summit, well-organized, informative and fun to a recommendation to anyone who is curious to learn more about Lisbon’s young entrepreneurs and the startup ecosystem”.
Barbara Noppinger @ Advantage Austria, Lisbon
However, the Lisbon Startup Tour is also geared at groups of investors, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem players. These groups crisscross throughout the city to entrepreneurial hot spots such as Hub Criativo do Beato Lisbon’s’ awe-inspiring 35,000m2 future innovation and creative hub, distributed amongst 20 buildings being renovated to house national and international entities in the areas of technology, innovation, and creative industries.
Among the stops on this tour was Bright Pixel , the group of experience builders and technologists, Portugal’s next unicorn Uniplaces, who raised one of the biggest Series A in Europe and who has one of the top startup offices in The World According to Inc. Magazine, Talkdesk, the cloud call center software whose founders have made it to Forbes ’30 under 30 list, Unbabel the first Portuguese startup on Y Combinator who is leveraging Artificial Intelligence to empower over 40,000 translators worldwide. And unique coworking spaces like Cowork Lisboa in the trendy LX factory.
“Lisbon Startup Tour is a great initiative to give an inside perspective of Lisbon as one of the hottest StartUp hubs in Europe”
Nuno Pimenta @Google
If you could not make it to this year’s edition, make sure you stay tuned for the next one.
by catherinel | Oct 10, 2017 | Startups
The Web Summit is around the corner. You can feel it in the air and there’s is a frenzy of activity similar to what we experienced last year. This time, everyone knows what to expect. But is everyone really ready for it?
For us, the main value of the Web Summit, or any conference for that matter, comes from preparation! So, to ensure that the Portuguese startups get the best out of the Web Summit, one of the first activities that Beta-i will be hosting is the Road2WebSummit Bootcamp in partnership with Startup Portugal and Web Summit. For those who don’t know, this is an immersive 2-day workshop for the lucky startups chosen for the Websummit Alpha program. That is, a whopping 150 startups. The Bootcamp, running both in Lisbon and Porto, will offer practical and hands-on sessions to help them better plan, set clear objectives and milk the Web Summit before, during and after.
Taking some key learnings from last year edition, this year we have an even more focused program with excellent partners and speakers from Torke CC, Faber Ventures, Web Summit, Startup Portugal and also Beta-i’s very own in-house experts.
To give you a sneak peak, the topics we choose to focus on are:
Building Relationships with Investors at the Web Summit – Yes! building relationships, not getting investment. I mean, hopefully, you get it, but the investment can at times be a lengthy process. So we’re bringing everything back down to earth and speaking frankly about what is needed to start that relationship so that months after we will have a success story.
Building Relationships with Corporates at the Web Summit – While it’s not exactly sexy, sometimes it’s the right thing for your business. Getting a large corporate client onboard as a partner who uses your solution can reap the same or sometimes better results. But unlike investors, they are a whole different player to deal with.
How to Network like a Pro – Conferences in my opinion offer unparalleled networking opportunities. So many people, many of them interesting people, many of them not living in your country. The Web Summit brings so many people together you need to know how to approach them, filter them and move along to the next effectively.
How to Hack the Websummit Online and Offline – This will be an epic workshop giving you the tools to be creative and think outside the box to make your startup visible. Because let’s face it, the Websummit is a marketplace. It is huge and slightly disorientating, but for the Alpha startups, it is an opportunity to be seen!
How to pitch your Startup – Not only pitching on stage but learning the techniques of the elevator pitch and how to quickly introduce yourself so that my grandmother understands what you are doing for a living.
Goal Setting – Making sure that you know what you are going out there to do!
The Bootcamps take place already on the 18th/19th of October in Lisbon and on the 25th/26th in Porto and we’re looking forward to work with all Web Summit Alpha Startups:
- 3DWays
- 4Geo
- AdsYeah!
- advertIO
- Agriw
- Aixtel Engineering
- AltarIO
- Alugados alugados.pt
- Analiticómania
- Apponscreen
- Aquaponics Iberia
- Aromni
- Awesome
- Bandora Systems
- BeOnit – IoT Solutions
- BeOutdare
- Biklio
- BLOCKS
- Botly
- BrainScrap
- Cereja no Topo da Net
- CloudStream Portugal
- comunicatorium
- Cosoftw
- Costa Rank
- Darefor
- Darwin & Warhol Marketing e Comunicação
- DentlaSoft
- Diktalist
- Doc-Digitizer
- Drag & Print
- Drible Lda
- Drivit
- euPago
- Exaud
- Famel
- FarmCloud
- FAXIME Game Studio
- Fintech Server
- Fixando
- FoundVet
- Framelink
- Full Circle
- FullNumber
- Gamma Flow
- Globestamp
- Goin
- GOVWISE
- gowi-fi
- GuideSquare
- Hipnode
- HotelVoy
- Houzguide
- IBSHURANCE
- Icontrends
- Ideal Sumario
- Ideia Magenta
- Infinite Foundry
- INFOECO
- INIU – Your True Nature
- Inspire IT
- Invoice Capture
- izigo
- Jamap Consult
- Kylega
- Lettuce Grow
- Lisdesigners
- Loyalchain
- Lymphact
- Mad4ideas
- MakeWise
- Mapidea
- Match-Photos
- Metablue Solution
- Mitdream
- MITMYNID
- Mobinteg
- mobiware
- MOC
- Moloko
- Mredis
- Muuv
- My Greener Trip
- Nazareth Collection
- NDI Lda – Pipa Apps
- Near Partner
- Neargrow
- NeuroPsyAI
- Nrides
- Nutsoft
- OyO – Organize Your Office
- P2T – Email protector
- ParallelWisdom
- Parcela Já
- Perceive3D
- PetUniversal
- phyen
- Picma
- PicoSpark
- Pixelplan – Digital Web
- Pixnit
- Pluralo
- Poosh
- Probe.ly
- ProGrow
- Prova de Vida
- Reckon.ai
- RedShift
- RETMARKER
- Reveal Portugal
- RI-TE Radiation Imaging Technologies
- Rotacional
- SANA HR
- Scrutinit
- Serfarma
- Shake It
- SHELF.AI
- SHLOKLABS
- Shut Eye Space
- SMARTIDIOM
- SmartLunch
- SnapCity
- Social Grid
- SOFT4BOOKING
- SOFTINGAL
- Sound Particles
- Storesace
- Strayboots
- Supper Stars
- Swwel
- Techwelf
- Think Future
- tIV- the INNER Value
- Tonic
- twoosk
- U.MAKE.ID European Best Manufactures
- UOU MOBILITY
- Upstream
- Vision Tech Lab
- Voxelscope
- Wallnut – Construction business
- We are Casino
- Weasy
- WeCreateYou
- WeDoTech
- WelcomeToNet
- Wonder Cover
- YouBeep
- YOUSHIP
- Zeta Mobile
