Now in its fourth edition, The Journey returns to help disrupt the tourism industry, especially in demanding and urgent times like 2021. The Journey - innovation for tourism As every sector, Tourism has always had to adapt to external variables. The year of 2020 in...
We have been talking about SingularityU Portugal Summit Cascais for a long time now, but it is completely natural that there are still some doubts about it. To clear them out, here are some frequently asked questions about this one of a kind event. What is...
Carlos, Paulo, and Federico met at MIT. They collaborated on a project and were eager to continue working together in one way or another. However, they needed an idea. The idea was to create an interface where the user simply inserts the input into a prespecified...
Food has never been more trendy and business around it is exploding. Food is on prime-time tv, online influencers have made their careers around it, chefs are the new rockstars and suddenly everyone is calling themselves a ‘foodie’. The plethora of opportunities...
Andrea Baldereschi, founder of Remidi, had an idea - a sensor suite embedded into a glove, allowing you to tap and alter sounds with the twist of your wrist - but having an idea of a product and having an idea of a business are two totally different things. Lisbon...
Impraise landed a Series A Investment of $10.6 Million last month (July, 2018). Impraise helps companies retain and engage key talent by empowering individuals to take ownership of their performance and development. Impraise decided to join Lisbon Challenge after a...
Through the years there have been several success stories from startups that participated on Lisbon Challenge. Though it’s hard to keep track at times of them all - we’re making an effort on that direction -, we like to keep updated of their successes. Actually, we...
The third edition of Smart Open Lisboa has already selected the 14 startups that will work side by side with the partners. All of them have proven to be what Lisbon needs right now in terms of mobility after the 5-day bootcamp. The selected startups are AppyParking...
The energy sector is in constant change and it’s to be on the forefront of that change that EDP in partnership with Expresso launched their seventh edition of EDP Open Innovation and for the first year Beta-i is an acceleration partner. This acceleration program is...
The first SingularityU Cascais Lisbon Chapter is happening on July 11 at IDEIAhub - Palácio Sotto Mayor. And what is this? Well, it’s an event to introduce the community to Singularity’s view and mission and to introduce people to an exponential mindset. More than...
Last week I’ve been on the last day of Protechting’s bootcamp. It’s far from being my first one, but it was the first time I actually stopped to analyze them. Not to judge them, not to evaluate them, but to have their backs even without speaking. A lot of our startups...
After 157 applications from 35 different countries that included 15% focused on Insurtech, 28% on Fintech and 31% on Healthtech and after a selection process, Protechting is ready to receive its 25 finalists selected for the bootcamp. Among the selected 23 there are 5...
The Norwegian writer Erling Kagge describes boredom as experiential poverty. By that he means that, when we find ourselves either lacking or overstimulated from experiences (e.g. never going out vs going out every night for a week), our brain specifically tells us,...