THE EVENT

Have you heard about Farfetch, Feedzai, Unbabel, Uniplaces, Talkdesk, Orankl, Portugal Ventures, Caixa Capital?

They’re all Portuguese. It’s time for you to meet the local startup scene.

Lisbon Investment Summit is the main seed & early stage startup investment event in Portugal. It’s a startup & innovation event that connects the best international startups with Europe’s top investors & innovators.

But it’s so much more. From live deals on stage to quality networking time with the speakers – including some of the best innovation directors on the planet – it’s definitely going to be a different startup event.

You can count with the Lisbon Challenge Demo Day, where you’ll meet Europe’s up & coming top startups, IE Venture Day and panels powered by Startup Europe and EYIF, among many, many other initiatives.

Plus, on the same week, we’re going to have in town the Volvo Ocean Race and UXLX – one of the biggest user experience conferences in Europe. And, of course, Festas Populares de Lisboa with tasty local food, great weather and amazing surf. Oh, did we mention that Lisbon was considered Europe’s most innovative region this year?

If you want to get know the Lisbon startup scene, meet amazing startups and have a great time – this is it.

Some of the investors who will be there have invested in groupon, Dropbox, Facebook, etsy, Spotify, OutSystems, Prezi, bittorrent, FollowPrice, Codacy, and many more.

Here are some of the innovators at #LIS15:

Caixa Capital




Cisco



Earlybird



eRepublik Labs

Accel



Faber Ventures

Balderton capital



Feedzai

Lifehacker



Nasa

Portugal Ventures

Pro Founders



Uniplaces



Techradar



Tech.eu



Point Nine



Socialatom

Smart Equity

THE AGENDA

Go to many events? So do we.

And because of that, we’re really fed up with the same old structure and presentation formats. Guess you’re too.

We’re working on a different kind of format, to make #LIS15 a completely different experience for you. Check out below for a sneak peek.

In the meantime, we have an open call for live mentoring. If you have a startup and would like to get real mentoring on stage during #LIS15, you can apply here.

THE WORKSHOPS

We all learn a bunch of stuff during events by listening to talks and panels but we rarely get the chance to put it into practice. So, for this edition, we’re embracing the learn by doing motto. Thus, if you want to:

Know more about the entrepreneurial opportunities in Europe;

Learn with experts;

Participate in Hands-on Events.

Register for extra talks and workshops below sponsored, supported or event being organised by some of our most prestigious partners including Atalanta, EYIF, Digistart, European Project LIFE.

The workshops are part of #LIS15, you need to get your ticket first. Find further information on the workshops here.
Only a few tickets are available for these exclusive sessions taking place in an intimate room of an old palace. You might not get twice this opportunity to meet top-notch speakers in such an environment. Secure your seats!

Meet the speakers: Adam de Sola Pool

CEO, Environmental Investment Partners

Adam, as a venture capitalist has founded over twenty renewable energy and environmental companies in central Europe. He invested through Environmental Investment Partners which was funded by family and HNW investor money. Adam tries to inculcate a commitment to a triple bottom line (people, planet and profits) into all his energy and environmental infrastructure projects.

Since returning to the USA in late 2013, Adam has been a mentor at TechStars, MIT Venture Mentors and other organizations.  He has helped bring European startups to the Boston area for funding, strategic development and market expansion.  Harry has been a Venture investor with Balderton Capital since 2009 which is one of Europe’s largest VC funds, and an early investor.

Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co. in London and New York, and has a degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford.

Meet the speakers: Sandra Sick

Startup Consultant, Coach and Mentor

Having worked for several tech startups in California and then consulting for a number of years, Sandra Sick relocated to Lisbon 4 years ago. She provides marketing services to various clients and is very involved with the startup community throughout Portugal. As an Entrepreneur in Residence, mentor, coach and instructor, Sandra has been involved with all 4 editions of Lisbon Challenge and enjoys working closely with teams to help strategize and solve their very real marketing and customer acquisition challenges.

Meet the speakers: Marco Marinucci

CEO & Founder, Mind the Bridge Foundation

Marco Marinucci is an angel investor, startup afecionado and managing partner of Mind the Seed, an early stage venture capital firm. In Silicon Valley since 2002, Responsible for Google’s content acquisition activities from 2005 to 2012. Founder and CEO of the Mind the Bridge (MTB) a San Francisco based foundation, fostering Entrepreneurship education.

He’s also the founder and CEO of the Mind the Bridge Foundation, the non-profit organization that connects the most innovative startups with Silicon Valley’s partners and investors. Marco’s 20+ years professional experience spans from artificial intelligence research to startups in VoIP, Ecommerce, Elearning and Ticketing. He’s a contributor for Il Corriere della Sera (the leading Italian newspaper) and board member and lecturer of IE Business School (a top tier EU business school).

He was awarded Primi-10 2013: “Outstanding human beings that are an example and inspiration for our generation and generations to come.”

Meet the speakers: Alberto Onetti

Chairman & President, Mind the Bridge Foundation and Startup Europe Partnership

Forward-looking, dividing his time between Italy and the United States, Alberto works on bridging technology to business. Alberto Onetti is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with core competences in corporate strategy and finance. Among the others, he founded, together with Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol, Inc., a mobile personal cloud company based in Silicon Valley with R&D in Europe.

Alberto is Professor of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship. In 2009 he has been appointed as Chairman of the Californian Mind the Bridge Foundation, its mission is to inspire, educate and stimulate a new generation of young European entrepreneurs and create startups inspired by the methods and successes achieved in the Silicon Valley. Through the seed venture fund Mind the Seed, whose he is Partner, Alberto concretely invests in the best startups to create successful international ventures.

Since 2014 Alberto has been selected by European Commission to help drive the Startup Europe Partnership (SEP), the first integrated platform to support growth and sustainability of European companies.