Portugal Startup Scene | December 2020

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End of year note

2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. I am glad it is finally over!

The best moments in 2020, for me, were my investments in Replai.io and Skoach. João, Francisco, and Rita, thanks for welcoming me on your journey! On the personal side, I also did my 3rd investment and now have 3 amazing kids to play with while working from home 🙂

2020 was also my first year as the Portugal Startup Scene newsletter curator. I hope this newsletter, my blog, and resources curated were helpful to you and you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. I also want to thank João Duarte Leite for helping me setting up the newsletter and providing valuable advice. Thanks mate!

Unlike previous months, in this month newsletter I focus on what happened in 2020. For that I have put together some charts and comments, you can find them here. I have added the usual information below.

For 2021, I wish you a Happy New Year and hope you are as energized as I am! I am working on some exciting things and hope to have news to share in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned…

Check here 2020 Yearly report

December Highlights

Atomico launched a great report about the European ecosystem, including some interesting facts about Portugal. In complement, check Sifted summary and analysis
Lurdes, from Bynd, was received the best female business angel in Europe awarded
Portugal Ventures invested €18M this year and expects to add 59 new investments in the upcoming weeks
Bright Pixel shares the 21 by 21 trends
Innocrowd is now supporting startups in Portugal (and Spain)

Accelerator deadlines, pitch competition and events

January 14: Indico Pre-seed Demo Day
January 21: KFounders
January 23: Check-in Tourism Innovation Program
January 29: Portugal Finlab
January 29: Demium Lisbon accelerator
January 31: Portugal Ventures – Tourism call
February 10: Founders Showcase
February 28: Mais Ajuda
March 5: Portugal Ventures Open day
March 7: Smart Open Lisbon – Green Capital
March 10: Launch in Lisbon Startup Lisboa
Always open: Startup Lisboa incubation; CTT 1520 startup program

Resources for entrepreneurs

Aiming to support Entrepreneurs and with contributions from many of you, I put together resources for Startups based in Portugal. Visit the Resources summary page here. It includes information about investors, Term-sheets, among other resources.

Contributions with additional resources are welcome!

New resources added this month

2020 report

Funding round

Startup: Bizay/360imprimir (https://www.bizay.com/)

Amount: €32M

Investors: European Investment Bank, Pathena, Omnes Capital, 200m, Indico Capital Partners, LeadX Capital Partners, Iberis Capital

Startup: Virtuleap (https://virtuleap.com/)

Amount: €127k

Investors: Innovation Global Capital

Startup: GoParity (https://goparity.com/en)

Amount: €100k