NextLap is the open innovation program designed to give a new life to tyre components. Between September 2020 and May 2021, it joined innovators and industry partners to develop new solutions focused on the end-of-life tyres and its derived components – rubber, steel,...
Attentive has been in Beta-i's ecosystem for a long time - they were winners of the Fall Edition of Lisbon Challenge in 2015. Since then, they have grown their company and took advantage of Beta-i's network and events - just like Lisbon Investment Summit. We spoke...
Gil Dibner, Founder and Managing Partner at Angular Ventures, has been confirmed as a speaker on Lisbon Investment Summit, happening on the 6th and 7th of June in sunny Lisbon. The first time Gil came to Lisbon Investment Summit was a random accident, but a fortuitous...
António Carvalho started his work in innovation when he joined Portugal Ventures - he is now leading Bluetech, the first Blue Economy accelerator backed by the Portuguese Ministry of the Sea. With a background on Corporate Finance & Management, António first came...
Beta-i partnered up with Galp to help bring customer-centricity into the culture of Galp. This resulted in the project “Think Like Your Customers”, a training program focusing on human-centricity through design thinking. According to an article on Harvard Business...
American Electric Power & AusNet One of the characteristics that make Free Electrons a huge opportunity for startups is that it is truly global: the startups joining the program will get a chance to work with 10 global utilities, with experience and big markets...
Lisbon Challenge by Beta-i, our flagship accelerator program, kicked off today in our Beta-i building, for its 11th edition. Get to know one another The day started with really getting to know each other. After a healthy breakfast to break the ice, Ricardo Marvão,...
https://www.facebook.com/smartopenlisboa/videos/2360694344160841/ The third edition of Smart Open Lisboa (SOL), an open-innovation programme connecting some of the most relevant players in the residential and commercial real estate sector with startups to implement...
Free Electrons, the first global energy startup accelerator program, that connects the world’s most promising energy startups with leading utility companies, just selected the 15 teams that will now join the piloting phase program, after the Bootcamp. The Bootcamp The...
Heptasense, a portuguese startup, was selected to join Data Pitch, an ambitious European project to accelerate startups from the continent, and challenged to solve a series of challenges by working with data. Beta-i, in partnership with the European Commission,...
Lisbon Challenge by Beta-i, our flagship accelerator program, will be kicking off its 11th edition - the Spring Edition of 2019 - next Monday, April 8th. Having a startup is probably the toughest business there is. Lisbon Challenge was built to help founders grow 1...
Digital transformation is taking over a large spectrum of industries, with the integration of digital technology into all areas of business, fundamentally changing how companies operate and deliver value to customers. In the vanguard of this transformation is Free...
The Payment Services Directive 2 - PSD2 - is set to be fully implemented until the end of 2019, as banks must comply with all the regulations of the directive by September. Although the impact cannot be measured as off now, we can see some of the changes happening...