by Maria Raimundo* | originally published in Observador Despite the pandemic having brought unprecedented challenges, healthcare systems that already prioritized data-centric strategies and patients were better prepared to respond to the outbreak. Soon, they managed...
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Free Electrons: Meet the partners and what they are looking for! (Part 2)
Free Electrons is a truly global accelerator backed up by an alliance of energy utilities, committed to supporting energy entrepreneurs and startups to transform the energy market with next-generation ideas. Energias de Portugal (EDP) EDP is an energy producer,...
Free Electrons: Meet the partners and what they are looking for! (Part 1)
Free Electrons is a truly global accelerator backed up by an alliance of energy utilities, committed to supporting energy entrepreneurs and startups to transform the energy market with next-generation ideas. American Electric Power American Electric Power, based in...
The 7 R’s of the Circular Economy
Like we mentioned in our last article, Circular Economy aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value, at all times. The way to do this is to focus on the principals of the model, commonly known as the “7 R’s” of circular economy....
CardioID: in the heart of Smart Open Lisboa
CardioID’s goal was to produce a technology that would allow changing of routines of authentication and biometric identification of users and they did it by monitoring the heart signals. Each one of us has a heartbeat or a cardiac morphology that is unique - like a...
Tech startups are here to give you a perfect Valentine’s day
To celebrate Valentine’s day, CBInsights shared a map of the most romantic tech startups. We’ve taken a look at the list and we’ll show how to create a perfect Valentine’s day! Start the day with a surprise Flowers are a staple of romance! Surprise your significant...
How Free Electrons changed Jungle’s mind about accelerators
Jungle is an innovative startup that is on a mission to reduce uncertainty. Wind turbines, power transformers, and heavy industry machinery - they use tailored AI models to identify when assets are underperforming and predict when they will fail. They started out in...
Smart Open Lisboa: Meet the partners of SOL Housing
Smart Open Lisboa is back again, in its vertical SOL Housing, dedicated to upgrading Lisbon's City Life. This vertical has a broad spectrum of opportunities in several areas: assisted living, retail experience, infrastructure and more. The best way to identify them is...
Why Your Startup Should Apply to Smart Open Lisboa Housing
What makes SOL Housing, the new Smart Open Lisboa vertical, the place for your startup? Explore the reasons why you should consider participating in the programme if you have a startup with a solution for these challenges: urban management & smart infrastructure,...
Circular Economy is not a fad, it’s here to stay
A new paradigm that allows infinite growth with finite resources As we mentioned in our Consumer Trends Report, the Circular Economy is one of the trends that will be taking over the conversations. Don’t know much about it? Let’s do an overview of the basics of...
SOLshare: meet the winner of Free Electrons 2018
SOLshare came into Free Electrons programme with a bold mission: to create networks, share solar electricity & eliminate poverty. And they actually proved they can do it - that’s how they became the winners of a $200.000 prize of Free Electrons World's Best Energy...
5 reasons you should attend Lisbon Investment Summit #LIS
The Lisbon Investment Summit, also known as #LIS, will be back on 6th and 7th of June to our sunny city. The surprisingly informal and slightly unexpected startup conference will bring together the best startups and investors. Here are the top reasons why you don’t...
Smart Open Lisboa brings a new light of Innovation to Lisbon
Smart Open Lisboa is the open-innovation programme of the Lisbon Municipality that is bringing innovation to the city in several different verticals. The last edition was focused on the mobility vertical, and brought several startups who are successfully working with...