New world, new challenges: Kicking off with this post, we’ll be sharing during the next days and weeks some Questions & Answers in a chat with Beta-i’s CEO, Pedro Rocha Vieira. You’ll get to know more about the big picture of what’s happening at Beta-i right now....
This week I had the pleasure of attending Road2WebSummit, the run-up event that has been building momentum for Europe’s biggest Tech-Event. Amongst the Hotshots, Politicians and Gold-Diggers (I’ll let you decide where I belong on that list), was Web Summit resident...
On the 1st of January of 2015, new VAT regulations were put into place in Europe. In a nutshell, it meant that companies with automated digital services (read: anything downloadable or used online), rather than paying the VAT of the seller’s own country, would have to...
Yesterday was a great day for the Portuguese startup scene. The Road 2 Web Summit event took place in the new hub Criativo do Beato and 66 Portuguese startups were selected to attend the Web Summit in Lisbon this November. We couldn't be happier for all those...
I first heard of Pixels Camp about a month ago, when Celso Martinho invited us to Bright Pixel for a meeting. I knew very little about the event, just that it was supposedly Europe’s biggest hackathon, from what Ricardo Marvão, co-founder of Beta-i, had told me. That...
This Monday Lisbon City Hall hosted the kick-off event for the experimentation phase of the Smart Open Lisboa with great news. The 9 selected startups for the experimentation phase will get free access to Web Summit. Smart Open Lisboa is a new program that challenges...
I have something important to tell you. This story starts back in 2011, when Ricardo Marvão from Beta-i sent an email to Wired, the leading tech magazine in the world, to let them know that Lisbon had a booming startup scene and that they should take a closer look. At...
A couple of weeks ago I was on holidays writing our regular newsletter for Beta-i and I felt like doing something different. Because we were in the middle of August and pretty much everyone was on holidays I decided to take an unusual approach... Instead of summing up...
[fusion_text]The first open data program for startups in Lisbon, Smart Open Lisboa, that will improve the lives of millions of people, is about to begin... After a thoughtful selection of projects we have chosen 10 startups to join us for the experimentation phase....
Putting Portugal literally on the map... Lisbon Challenge alumni, Uniplaces, was highlighted on CB Insights as one of the most well-funded startups in Europe. This promising student accommodation platform has closed one of Europe's biggest Series A last year, led by...
Our Lisbon Challenge alumni, Infraspeak, was recently accepted into one of the best startup programs in the world, 500 Startups. And if going to San Francisco wasn't enough... they've also secured an investment from Caixa Capital. Following the footsteps of Portuguese...
Building a product is never easy. And building a product with materials that make it eco-friendly and sustainable is even harder. Some people tend to ignore it and keep going forward, while others look for alternatives that will help them build awesome products and...
A recent report by the European Startup Initiative called Startup Heatmap Europe, has revealed that Lisbon is among the top 5 cities in Europe to build a startup. This report gets specifically interesting when it comes to the choices made by founders. For instance,...