💥 Looking for girl power

The third edition of the Women Entrepreneurship Award, the CTIE - Center for Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship (the entrepreneurship centre of the Católica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics and associate of Startup Lisboa) award for the outstanding female entrepreneur of the year, is coming up. For over three years, CTIE has been promoting female leadership and entrepreneurship, and we have been proud partners of their initiatives.

🙋🏽 This edition's news: there is a prize of three thousand euros. Applications are open until April 15th for Portuguese or foreign entrepreneurs with a project with activity in Portugal, who hold a leading position in the organisation they represent (founder, director, executive director or CEO) and who own a significant part of the business, with a proven track record in the market.

To strengthen the community of female entrepreneurs of our ecosystem, CTIE, in partnership with the Made of Lisboa, the Portuguese Women in Tech and Startup Lisboa will organise, today at 5 PM, an online workshop on "Negotiation skills for female entrepreneurs" with the participation of Cristina Raposo (from our Onalytics) in a panel moderated by Maria Guimarães, Head of Content at Startup Lisboa.

WHAT IS HAPPENING

📍 Today we are proud to release our SCALE community report, in collaboration with Dealroom (download here), where we can dive into the strong and collaborative European technology ecosystem and where Lisbon could not fail to be present.

🚀 Is Lisbon on your business growth and expansion roadmap? Our soft landing programme Launch in Lisbon will take place from 10th-12th March, in an online format, and will focus on the essential and necessary topics for entrepreneurs, investors and freelancers who want to bring their businesses to our city!

🏥Applications for the 6th edition of the Santa Casa Challenge from our partner Casa do Impacto are running until March 21st! The three winners will win free tickets for the 2021 Web Summit edition, free incubation at Casa do Impacto, and 15,000 euros to develop the project. This year, these awards go to technological solutions that respond to health problems.

EVENTS

FEBRUARY 23

CONCENTRATED STARTUP WISDOM TALK WITH SEAN TIERNEY

Sean Tierney, Entrepreneur in Residence at Startup Lisboa, will share with us the experience and the four main lessons learned over 20 years as a startup founder. After the talk, there will be space for Q&A.

FEBRUARY 24

IDC FUTURE OF DIGITAL INNOVATION | DIGITAL LEADER PANEL

The future of digital innovation is the theme of the event that will bring together Miguel Fontes, our Executive Director, Bruno Castro, from IDC and Zertive, João Dias, from NOVO BANCO, and Marco Nigris, from Fintech House at IDC FutureScape 2021.

JOBS

🔎Would you like to contribute to the development of one of the next Portuguese unicorns? DefinedCrowd is hiring for its Lisbon offices a WEB DEVELOPER and a WEB MANAGER.

☁️Imaginary Cloud is hiring for several positions in Lisbon and Coimbra offices! If you have what it takes to join this startup that develops custom software and apps, apply as a PROJECT MANAGER, JUNIOR DEVELOPER or DATA SCIENTIST

STARTUP OF THE WEEK

VIRTUAL AND REMOTE STORYTELLING? CYANGO CAN HELP!

Cyango has a storytelling virtual tour software that allows hosts to show and tell the story of their venues and businesses in an immersive and interactive virtual tour. This is a simple, effective solution that meets the new needs of businesses and people when it comes to knowing more about a place from a distance and making a safe choice.

This startup, which was also the winner of Tourism Solutions Now! program, is available to present its product to everyone, in BETA version for now! See here how Cyango can help your business

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

🏠 Clubhouse app is here to stay, and The New York Times published an article about the startup's journey: "Clubhouse is following a classic Silicon Valley startup path that social media companies like Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook have also trod: viral growth followed by the messy issues that come with it."

🙋🏽‍♀️ Casa do Impacto is, since 2018, agglomerating startups empowered to develop innovative projects with at social outcome. Therefore, the entrepreneurship hub of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa reveals the map of the impact ecosystem in Portugal.

💸 Worrying that your product isn't financially viable? This Courier article spells out five lessons from the experience of having a product that wasn't economically sustainable.

Looking for girl power.