Entrepreneurs Can you define “startup”? Daniela Monteiro Apr 29, 2015 Cristina Fonseca is a co-founder at Talkdesk. When Talkdesk was born, it was not supposed to be a company; it was just a project to help the founders win a MacBook Pro. Four... continue reading
Featured Guess which startup just received one million euros Ana Almeida Apr 27, 2015 There is a Portuguese medtech startup in the European Innovation Champions League! SWORD Health was selected for funding under Horizon 2020 SME Instrument, with a project of 1.3... continue reading
Featured Meet one of the first travel guide apps available on Apple Watch Rafael Pires Apr 24, 2015 More than just an ordinary watch, the Apple Watch offers all the features we can find in Apple’s smartphones, and even some extra ones. The Portuguese startup iClio, from... continue reading
Entrepreneurs Yo, from stupid to bubble to the most useful app of 2014 Daniela Monteiro Apr 23, 2015 Last year was quite chaotic to Or Arbel. He created the dumbest app of them all: a one single feature app that just says YO. That simple. The app is so lean that it was rejected... continue reading
Entrepreneurs Meeting Ray Chan, CEO of 9GAG Ana Almeida Apr 22, 2015 One doesn't simply bump into the CEO of 9GAG, and miss the chance for an interview! Ray Chan was at Go Youth Conference last weekend in Lisbon, and even though he's not... continue reading
Featured Portugal in the eyes of international VCs Inês Silva Apr 20, 2015 It’s not everyday that you have big international VC firms talking and meeting Portuguese startups and founders. That was what happened in the past two days at the... continue reading
Events Startup Braga Acceleration is on again Daniela Monteiro Apr 20, 2015 The first edition of the Startup Braga acceleration program ended on January 29th with interesting results: the 7 teams that participated were able to raise over €1.7M and... continue reading
Events Leveraging Youth With a Conference Ana Almeida Apr 19, 2015 Go Youth Conference (GYC), created by and for young entrepreneurs, happened during this weekend in Lisbon, and PortugalStartups.com couldn’t miss it. Tiago Vidal, who created... continue reading
Featured ASA – The new Startup Accelerator on the block Rafael Pires Apr 17, 2015 The Portuguese startup scene is growing at a fast pace. Besides the investment wave we saw during the last weeks, all the news we get every single day are a good proof of that.... continue reading
Entertainment MusicYou raised 300.000€ in seed investment Ana Almeida Apr 16, 2015 MusicYou, a new Portuguese music sharing app, raised 300.000€ in seed investment. The investment round was lead by Smart Equity, with participation from Brains2Market. And as... continue reading
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