Techstars Lisbon in partnership with Semapa NEXT

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BATCH NUMBER 2 FOR TECHSTARS LISBON IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SEMAPA NEXT HAS BEEN SELECTED!

The second edition of Techstars Lisbon in partnership with Semapa NEXT will open with ten startups, and 2 of them are ours - EMOTAI and Secret City Trails! This acceleration programme intends to support and accelerate startups in Industrial Technology, Mobility, Travel, Sustainability areas, as well as companies with far-reaching solutions that can adapt to all industries. Startup Lisboa is the only Affiliate Partner of this programme in Portugal. Techstars is a global network of entrepreneurs with programmes in various cities around the world and has been in Lisbon since 2019.
Like last year, the startups aren’t just from Portugal, but also the USA, Australia, France and Israel, and they’ll be here working non-stop for three months until the 27th of May.
Check out our startups that were involved in the 2019 edition (20tree.ai was already incubated, and Viciniti and Verbz joined Startup Lisboa later) as well as - Secret City Trails and EMOTAI – who will take part in this year’s edition! 👇

  • EMOTAI is with us since last year and is going to blow us away in this edition of the acceleration programme with its tech headbands! These biomedical engineers want to revolutionise gamers' performance. Oh yeah!

  • Secret City Trails was one of the ten startups selected for this year’s programme! They’re passionate about cities and, through games and riddles available on their app, they want their users to be too. #proud

  • 20tree.ai was the only startup from Startup Lisboa to take part in the programme’s first edition and closed with an impressive pitch! Using AI, computing and satellite images, this startup can assure forest management. 👌

  • Verbz.ai took part in the 1st edition and ended up joining Startup Lisboa after. Voice is a trend in the tech revolution and this startup will definitely be at the front line. We’re looking forward for news!

  • After a killer pitch, and just like Verbz, Viciniti has been incubated in Startup Lisboa since last year. It is infrastructure software that helps industrial organisations run secure applications on-premise.

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LANDING.JOBS JUST RAISED 2 MILLION EUROS!

Yes. Our startup, which connects tech professionals to companies, just raised 2 million euros! LC Ventures Group and investor Jacobo UG Investment were responsible for this investment.
This is excellent news, and with this, the startup will now expand geographically to other cities in Portugal, Europe and the USA, as well as put a strong emphasis on remote work! Congratulations Landing.jobs, Pedro Oliveira and José Paiva! 👏 

NOMADX

NomadX is a community of digital nomads who have come together with an objective: to provide these types of professionals with homes and spaces for 1 to 6 months while making them much more accessible than Airbnb. Currently, and only in Portugal, NomadX has more than 1,000 properties available, and they are any digital nomad’s dream. This startup of ours has just started a crowdfunding campaign, available here! In times like this, when digital nomads and remote work are the hot topics, it’s projects like this that build strong foundations for this kind of work. Go, go, go! ❤️

What is branding’s role in boosting your business? Cecília Lombardi is giving a workshop on Branding for Startups using hands-on tools and methods to build brands that can promote businesses! Sign up here.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

Santa Casa Challenge - Apply until March 8th

Women Entrepreneurship Award by CTIE - Apply until March 15

Women4Climate Lisboa - Apply until March 29

Creative Startups Azores - Applications open

StartUP Visa by StartUp Portugal - Applications open

Incubation @ Startup Lisboa - Sky's the limit but you always have to start somewhere

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Along with some startups, companies and institutions, we have signed a green commitment to the city of Lisbon, and we have decided to #evoluir.


Now, March being the green month, we will be sharing some of the steps we have committed to take to reduce Startup Lisboa’s impact on the pollution of our city and work towards sustainability, in the upcoming newsletters.

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