2019. What came first?
Pay attention to this newsletter. It’s the last time you’ll be reading it in 2019.
We keep on fostering the Lisbon ecosystem and supporting our star entrepreneurs on the challenge to grow, scale, look for investments and do good.
But how?
▪️ incubated 25 more projects;
▪️ 900 office hours;
▪️ hosted 25 workshops;
▪️ at THE Demo Day, we saw more than 22 of our startups shine along with Casa do Impacto in front of a community of 20 investors and more than 190 people!
To pay a tribute to our first CEO we launched the first Entrepreneur of the Year - João Vasconcelos Award and gave it to Daniela Braga, one of the most inspiring tech women in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
▪️ hosted 3 editions of Launch in Lisbon;
▪️ 25 projects;
▪️ 29 participants flew from 9 different countries to get to know our city and country, and how to launch their businesses here!
At our acceleration program From Start-to-Table, we helped develop 25 projects on the restaurant ecosystem with:
▪️ +260 mentoring hours;
▪️ 30.000€ in awards;
▪️ entrepreneurs from 12 different countries!
▪️ 22 new partnerships established;
▪️ 14 new investors in our network;
▪️ hosted 11 Pint Slam editions - one of them was a one time Web Summit special 🚀
▪️ 1 Pitch Slam (Semana do Empreendedorismo Edition)!
Startup Lisboa cares about diversity - we partnered up with our long-time Women in Tech friends and now we’re officially hosting their headquarters here in Lisbon.
We made energy consumption more efficient at our headquarters and Casa Startup Lisboa, and launched new measures to reduce plastic use. ❌ We also joined Fridays for Future together with Casa do Impacto 👉 we are #entrepreneursforfuture
▪️ with Center for Technological Investigation and Entrepreneurship (CTIE) and Ironhack: WE/CODE Women Edition
▪️ with Fundação Vasco Vieira de Almeida: Legal Hackathon
▪️ with Ordem dos Engenheiros - Região Sul: Economia Circular & O Futuro do Trabalho dos Engenheiros!
Together with Lisbon Municipality and InvestLisboa, we showed the best of Lisbon to foreign entrepreneurs during the Web Summit. We flew to Canada to not just meet Justin Trudeau, but also to explain to him why is Lisbon so much cooler than Toronto (haha, joking 😉).
Plus, we were featured in the media 174 times (wow). 🔎