Lisbon’s 9th Entrepreneurship Week
Another Lisbon Entrepreneurship Week is starting. From September 21st to 27th, the city unites its entrepreneurial ecosystem in the 9th edition of the event, which this year focuses on sustainability and the recovery of the city’s economy. PME Investimentos will be present on the 21st, at 5:30 pm with Marco Fernandes, our CEO, at the Talk “Lending and Equity” included in the session “Financing Solutions for Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Venture Capital”. Join us! Register here …
Indie Campers featured on “The Guardian”
Indie Campers, startup of our portfolio, featured on The Guardian as a safe way to travel and holiday in Portugal. Read more here …
Barkyn’s CEO is Europe’s “Most Innovative Pet Care Business Leader”
André Jordão, CEO and co-founder of Barkyn, startup of our 200M portfolio, has just been distinguished internationally at the Global CEO Excellence Awards 2020 by receiving the award for “Most Innovative Pet Care Business Leader”. Congratulations André and Barkyn team! Read more here …
360imprimir featured in RTP1
360imprimir, supported by the 200M Fund, and its project @ 360hyper highlighted in RTP1’s “3 minutes to inspire Portugal”. Watch here …
SOL Tomorrow Program – 2nd wave of applications
Applications for the second wave of SOL Tomorrow program are still open until September 2. Organized by Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Betai, with the partnership of 200M Fund and Social Innovation Fund, both managed by PME Investimentos, the program is focused on finding startups providing innovative solutions in the response to the social and economic challenges that the city of Lisbon, population and companies face in the times of COVID19. The program is fully remote and open for international startups too. Applications herei …
200M Fund invests in PICadvanced
PICadvanced is the latest investment from the 200M Fund, in a Series A financing round of € 4 million, in partnership with Verizon Ventures, Verizon Communications Inc.’s venture capital arm for investments in innovation and technology. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Ílhavo, PICadvanced is a specialist in solutions on optics using integrated photonics, since conception, packaging and integration on electrotechnology, telecommunications and biomedicine products. In 2019, and for the second consecutive year, PICadvanced was included in the list of the 25 major Portuguese Scaleups. For António Teixeira, co-founder of the company, this investment “allows the new growth phase of …
Newsletter july 2020
In this month’s newsletter, we highlight the opening of applications for SIF DEBT, the guaranteed and subsidized credit line of the Social Innovation Fund. We also tell you about the recent coinvestment in BITCLIQ, the first startup in the blue economy to receive investment from SIF, the visit that, together with the Secretary of State for Planning, we made to Agroop and, as always, about the initiatives and news from our companies. See here …
Take a look at SOL Tomorrow’s first Collaboration Design Sprint
As part of the partnership with the SOL Tomorrow Program, organized by Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Beta-i, we participated in the Collaboration Design Sprint with the first 10 startups selected within the program, that showed very interesting solutions and discussed their implementations plans with the program partners. In this special edition of Smart Open Lisboa, we are supporting the SOL Tomorrow program through 200M Fund and SIF – Social Innovation Fund, managed by PME Investimentos, to help Lisbon find innovative solutions to solve the challenges brought by Covid19. Congrats to all the participants! …
TonicApp is nominated for the Portuguese Women In Tech awards
TonicApp is nominated by the Portuguese Women in Tech (PWIT) association, as the best startup founded by a woman! In just 4 years, Tonic App has been recognized by Forbes as one of the projects led by women to follow, won several international awards in the area of technology and health and counts with the support of partners such as 200M Fund. Congratulations TonicApp. Read more …
Tonic App’s founders are finalists at the EPICAwards
The founders of Tonic App, company of our portfolio, are nominated for IE Business School’s EPICAwards in the category Creators. IE highlighted Tonic App’s founders Andrew Barnes, Christophe de Kalbermatten, Daniela Seixas and Dávid Borsós among more than 66,000 alumni worldwide for their continuous learning and journey of excellence. Congrats! Read more here …
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