Alright, this was fun. TechCrunch had their very first event in Lisbon with drinks, pitches and a stunning view over the city at Silk Club. And the Pitch-Off couldn’t have gone better… Quotanda, a startup that is part of Lisbon Challenge Fall’15, was the winner of the Pitch-Off competition at TechCrunch Lisbon and will get a table at TC Disrupt Startup Alley in TechCrunch Disrupt London.

Thanks to the event’s sponsor, Aptoide, we had a great night in one of the best rooftop bars of Lisbon and got to network with some people from the top accelerators in Lisbon, as we had the European Accelerator Summit during the day, at Beta-i.

Mike Butcher, Editor-At-Large at TechCrunch, was our host for the evening and introduced the 8 startups that we’re pitching (so many familiar faces… from current Lisbon Challenge startups, such as Quotanda, Videona, Remidi and TimeResQ, to Lisbon Challenge Alumni, like MagniFinance). For the Pitch-Off we had two more judges, accompanying Mike: Tak Lo, from Techstars London, and Carmen Bermejo, from Tetuan Valley in Madrid.

In the end only one could be crowned the winner at TechCrunch Lisbon and that was Quotanda, a startup focussed on democratising education by allowing students to get better loans to pay for their university tuition fees. Congratulations for the great pitch and see you at TechCrunch Disrupt London. We’re now setting some high expectations for this current batch… Keep it up.

P.S.: If you want to help promising startups, like Quotanda, in their intriguing tech challenges and get a chance to win a UDI Drone or a Wacom Tablet, register here for our Hackathon this weekend.