Sometimes a startup needs funding. Other times, it’s all a matter of knowing the right people, or being synched with the next trends. And you never know where that can come from. That’s why we, at Beta-i, are organizing the Investment Day on Oct 2, which includes Mini Seedcamp Lisbon and Caixa Tech Tour.
Mini Seedcamp Lisbon:
As you know, Seedcamp is probably the most connected international seed investor in Europe, and the leading micro-seed investment and mentoring program. They’re coming back to find the next upcoming startups: Portugal is the country outside the UK with the most startups invested by Seedcamp, including Zercatto, Popcorn Metrics, Crowdprocess, Hole 19, Modelo3, Cashtag and Codacy (most are Beta-i alumni). Not to mention the fact that Seedcamp created a new €30M fund just last month.
Caixa Tech Tour:
Caixa Tech Tour is coming to Portugal for the first time specifically to connect the top high-growth startups with 50+ international investors, who represent €10+ billion in funds under management. This is part of a 3-day,Iberia tour.
With only a handful of high-tech startups selected to pitch, this is a great opportunity for you to look into what the best startups in Iberia have to offer, and to network with some of the leading entrepreneurs, investors and tech experts in Europe.
Agenda:
13:30 - 14:30 Registration
14:30 - 15:00 Welcome by Pedro Rocha Vieira (Beta-i) and Carlos Espinal (Seedcamp)
15:00 - 16:00 Startup pitches
16:00 - 16:30 Inspirational keynote [TBC]
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break + networking
17:00 - 17:05 Welcome to Caixa Tech Tour by José de Matos
17:05 - 17:20 Keynote by António Pires de Lima (Minister of Economy)
17:20 - 18:30 Panel: 5 Iberian successful stories (with also Luís Teixeira, Operations Director, Farfetch, and possibly a representative of Talkdesk)
18:30 - 19:30 Networking
The following startups got selected to pitch at the event:
BGUEST
B-Guest is an intelligent mobile concierge that helps hotels to collect critical and valuable information of guest’s behaviours, in order to increase their outlets sales and turn guest stays more comfortable.
With B-Guest, guests will be able to order or request any type of hotel service (room service, restaurant, spa, housekeeping, taxi…) and local activities (restaurants, museums, events…) through the comfort of their own mobile devices, at any time, in any place, in any language, without waiting.On the other hand, with B-Guest, hotels will have an intelligent virtual staff member to up sell their services by suggesting each guest at the right time what they really want and like, according their profiles, type of trip, time of day, weather…
B-Guest can be integrated with hotels management software to streamline orders and requests processes, decreasing some operational costs and increasing staff’s productivity.
doDOC
doDOC is a technology that automatically formats any document with a single click by separating the writing experience from the styling hassle, enabling users to fully focus on content.
Document preparation is a 6B euro market, and we chose the scientific publishing industry,
a 600M euro segment, as the entry market, since formatting and styling is highly critical in this industry. With more than 1000 documents created since the beginning of its beta test seven weeks ago, doDOC is already proving itself as a technology that will revolutionize the way documents are written. We are first targeting the segment of R&D industries and individual young researchers, both with high number of publications. Our team has a variety managerial and technical skills: Carlos Boto uses his executive and go-to-market experience to lead the business development. Paulo Melo uses his extensive startup and product development experience to make the market fit a reality. Federico Cismondi uses his extensive startup and software experience to develop the technology of doDOC.
Earthindicators
Earth Indicators is a technological company dedicated to sustainable management of natural resources, developing cloud-based analysis tools and solutions, ensuring quick and easy understanding and integration of environmental values in management.
Feed Cruncher
FeedCruncher is a real estate promotional engine. Our goal is to provide an easy and automatic way of promoting properties in international markets.
Ignidata
Ignidata let’s you create your own market research and crunches the numbers for you, delivering real time results for consumer habits.
We help brands narrow their bonds with their consumers and help with customer acquisition along the way. With our platform, brands ask questions and get real responses straight to a comprehensive dashboard with rich data that they can analyse in real time.
Legal Flow
Legal Flow’s mission is to build the most visual & easy-to-use Legal Project Management SaaS for the next generation of lawyers. Legal Flow combines simplified project management software with a matchless visual mapping tool, designed specifically for the legal industry. With our unique mapping tool, lawyers can instantly map, edit and share their legal and business processes, without the support staff’s help or the need to hire business people.
Skilleo
Skilleo is an online platform where developers can compete on online coding competitions to prove how skillful they are to other developers and tech companies. They can also learn new coding skills and apply for tech jobs. We also allow companies to find and have access to the best developers with proven coding skills, while building coding competitions to challenge developers and see who is the best developer. Companies can also create and manage job ads and invite the best developers to apply for those jobs. We simply want to be a place where tech people, from Computer Science students to Senior level Developers can interact with each other like a community, exchange content and also learn, with content shared by developers or by our courses. And since developers now a days have information scattered on several platforms, we want to centralize that information on their Skilleo profile, making it a hub of knowledge and skills.
Trip Dashboard
Trip Dashboard helps tourism businesses optimize their offering through an easy to use, intuitive, online dashboard with graphical representation of tourism indicators in near real-time. Trip Dasboard aims to help tourism businesses contextualize their performance in a geographic region, access activity predictions and tourist demand profiles.
Vitalidi
We are exploring the use of Electrocardiographic (ECG) signals collected off-the-person for biometrics in daily life. ECG signals are quite appealing for biometrics since they: a) are continuously available; b) can be easily acquired; c) can only be collected in live subjects; d) are not easily spoofed or masqueraded, and e) are correlated with the psychophysiological condition of the subject.
Weclipse
Weclipse allows one person to record a 7-second clip, give it a caption and send it to a maximum of 4 friends. The friends to whom the clip was sent only get the caption if they record something related (or not) with it. When all the friends have recorded their parts, a video is compiled with the clips of everyone, and immediatly available to all.
Wonnova
Wonnova offers a gamification platform (Woost) that allows companies to integrate gamification elements on every site or intranet, in an easy and quick way, to help them achieve their goals by boosting customer loyalty and/or enhacing employee productivity. Woost pursues to be the next generation of gamification platforms, it will help companies learn from their mistakes and fix their gamification strategies to get real results from them.
If you want to get involved with investment key players of the tech world, register to attend the event.