Ready, Set, Go: It's time to launch!
🚀 Ready, Set, Go: It’s time to launch!
We know that diving into a sea of uncertainty and gathering the courage to launch into new adventures can be as exciting as it is terrifying. That's why we take great pride in seeing our startups launch new products. It's a sign that we continue to support brave female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.
⚽ sqill, a professional video social network, which is reinventing the way athletes showcase their talent by connecting them to clubs, scouts and agents, has just launched its first version available for Android and iOS. Now any sportsperson can show off their 'moves' and reach further.
🧳 LUGGit, the mobile app for baggage collection and delivery, is now a platform that can also be integrated into any business that wants to improve customer experience, from hotels to travel agencies. Through LUGGit's new API, hosts can use the YnnovBooking platform to send automated emails to guests before their arrival to book the LUGGit service and thus better enjoy their first and last hours in the city!
🔉 For lovers of hi-fi sound: innuos has launched a new music server. The PhoenixNET Audiophile-Grade Network Switch is designed from scratch for those who listen to music on a network without sacrificing sound quality and enjoying digital music better.
💊 Doctorino, a marketplace for healthcare professionals that allows online appointment booking, has launched a new feature: it is now possible to receive your prescribed medicines at home a few hours after leaving an appointment.
🧑🏽💻 Thorly Education has also launched a new edition of its Python course for people with no programming background. The course starts on March 22 and runs for 12 weeks in after-work hours.
And it doesn't stop there; Last week, Verbz launched their app and came second on Product Hunt, so it's our startup of the week. You can read about this fantastic app further down in the Startup of the Week area!
WHAT IS HAPPENING
💪Y Combinator is one of the largest accelerators for seed-stage startups. Through its programmes, it supports startups in the early stage of the capital raising process and has applications running for the 2021 batch until March 19!
🌍The Journey - Innovation for Tourism is looking for innovative solutions in tourism to, in four months time, develop pilot projects with impact and capable of accelerating the recovery of the sector. Applications for the next edition, which will be 100% online, are running until March 7.
👩CTIE - Center for Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship will award the best female entrepreneur in Portugal. The winner of the Women Entrepreneurship Award will receive, in addition to mentoring and access to the advanced program in entrepreneurship and innovation management, a prize of three thousand euros!
EVENTS
MARCH 20
CONNECTING DOTS VIRTUAL SUMMIT | NAVIGATING THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY
A global online event, organised by our Bluedot that will bring together leaders, electric car professionals, electric charger manufacturers, startups and investors for the future of mobility.
JOBS
🚙Indie Campers takes us around the world in the best possible way, and the time has come to take some OPERATIONS INTERNS to different cities in Germany! Besides other vacancies it has available, the startup is also looking for a LANDLORD SUCCESS INTERN to work full-time in Lisbon.
STARTUP OF THE WEEK
VERBZ IS LIVE!
Our startup Verbz has a product that has already gone live! This is an app that, through voice, wants to increase productivity and team performance by facilitating the creation of notes, assignment of tasks, announcements, meeting registration, among many other features. In the founders' words, Verbz is a platform to "make it happen" - a bit of Siri, with a touch of Asana and a dash of Slack.
P.S: On launch day, it ranked 2nd on Product Hunt! 👏 Congratulations, Verbz!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
📍 Lisbon has a new "message": the recent digital city newspaper has arrived and, this week, we can already read our community's ideas for the city. Rita Marques, the founder of Impactrip, spoke to us about the future of tourism in a post-pandemic scenario, and Sérgio Ribeiro, the founder of Planetiers, talked to us about sustainability. In the coming days, more entrepreneurs will speak about their vision of the future for the city.
🧠 Over 20 Artificial Intelligence startups have come together to create the AI Infrastructure Alliance, intending to build software and hardware for machine learning that allows standards to be adopted.
🧙🏽♂ Our entrepreneur in residence, Sean Tierney, shared with our entrepreneurs four lessons he has learned over his 20 years of experience in the process of creating and running several startups. The talk is now available on Grid7's Youtube channel.