Featured Gaming Startups booming! Bica Studios closed seed round Rafael Pires Mar 31, 2015 Led by Portugal Ventures, the gaming start-up Bica Studios announced that it has closed its first seed investment round. The goal is to boost the development of new games. SMASH... continue reading
Funding JOBBOX.io raised €750.000 in seed investment Ana Almeida Mar 26, 2015 JOBBOX.io, a tech hiring marketplace with a peer referral rewarding system raised €750.000 in seed investment, in a round led by Portugal Ventures and co-investment from Best... continue reading
Industries What if tourism agents could “fight” for travelers? Rafael Pires Mar 9, 2015 Let me introduce you to UBEOS, a 100% Portuguese startup project aiming to provide a greater convenience to the customer when it comes to planning a trip. UBEOS was launched on... continue reading
Entertainment Tradiio, a music discovery platform, has raised $975,000 Rafael Pires Mar 7, 2015 Available via the web and through iOS and Android apps, Tradiio’s free platform lets users listen to new music from up-and-coming artists, giving them virtual coins to... continue reading
Fashion A $1 Billion Milestone for the Portuguese Startup Scene Daniela Monteiro Mar 6, 2015 Now it might be easier to answer the common question of what's the most prominent Portuguese startup. If you're into startups, by now you already know that this week... continue reading
Agriculture First Portuguese startup on Seedrs Inês Silva Mar 5, 2015 Covilhã based Agroop is the first Portuguese startup to raise money on Seedrs. Agroop is a cloud based platform that allows farmers to manage their operations from their... continue reading
Launching The first BMX Sensor in the World is Portuguese – Iddo Rafael Pires Mar 3, 2015 The BMX innovation has been dead since 1970, according to the team behind Iddo. It’s quite a long period considering the passionate community around it. Passion and lack of... continue reading
Featured Johnny Dash, a new endless runner game for Android Rafael Pires Feb 27, 2015 It looks like the Portuguese gaming community has another game to brag about. We are talking about Johnny Dash, that was released yesterday by Insane Sheep, an independent video... continue reading
Awards NearUs and Surfstoke among the finalists of the EU Mobile Challenge Rafael Pires Feb 25, 2015 Two Portuguese apps got into the 6 finalist of the EU Mobile Challenge. The challenge is organized by Applied Innovation Institute (AII), the IE Business School and Mobile... continue reading
Agriculture Team from Bangladesh wins $10K in Lisbon’s Thought For Food Summit Inês Silva Feb 18, 2015 Last Friday, Lisbon received for the first time the international event Thought for Food Summit. After two successful editions, one in Brussels and another in Berlin, Lisbon was... continue reading