WHERE TO WORK
L ACS, Rocha Conde de Óbidos, 1350-352
This creative hub near the river Tagus offers coworking
spaces, a daily programme of cultural events
and a rooftop with a 360° view of the city. lacs.ptWHERE TO DRINK
A Tabacaria, Rua de São Paulo 75/77, 1200-426
For excellent cocktails, head to former this former
tobacco-shop in the cool Cais do Sodre district,
suggests Hugo Oliveira, communications manager at
the Beta-i startup hub. facebook.com/a-tabacaria097LISBONBY JOÃO MEDEIROS 38.7223° N, 9.1393° WBarkynBarkyn caters to
humankind’s best friend.
For a subscription fee
of €45 a month, clients
receive a box with food
tailored to their dog’s
nutritional needs, plus
personalised snacks and
toys. The package also
includes remote access
to a vet. The startup,
founded in 2017 by André
Jordão and Ricardo
Macedo, has raised €1.7
million, and is available in
Portugal, Spain and Italy.
"We wanted to create the
service we wanted as
customers,” says CEO
Jordão. barkyn.comHeptasense SWORD HealthSurveillance often relies
on humans monitoring
multiple screens for hours
on end. Heptasense’s
video analytics software
is able to recognise a
wide range of behaviours,
including people carrying
dangerous objects
and predicting vehicle
collisions. “Our mission
is to detect and predict
threats without relying
on facial recognition,”
says co-founder Ricardo
Santos. It has customers
in eight countries,
serving Vodafone, BMW
and Mercedes-Benz.
heptasense.comIn 2015, Virgilio Bento,
André Santos and
Márcio Colunas founded
SWORD Health, a digital
therapist service that
brings physiotherapy to
patients’ homes. Using
AI to track and digitise
human motion, it gives
patients real-time
feedback during physical
rehabilitation. According
to Bento, this technology
means patients can
recover faster and at half
the usual cost. By April
2019, the startup raised
$8m in a funding round
led by Khosla Ventures.
swordhealth.comA decommissioned power station, a 15th century convent and former
bread factories are part of the 20-building, 100,000m^2 complex in the east
Lisbon neighbourhood of Beato being converted into the biggest startup campus
in the world. The Beato Creative Hub – a joint project between Lisbon City Hall
and Startup Lisboa – will host co-working, events, roof terraces and bars. “The
Beato Creative Hub is Lisbon showing the world that the city is serious about
becoming one of the most important innovative hubs,” says Inês Santos Silva, a
managing partner at innovation consultancy firm Aliados. It’s also confirmation
that Lisbon, which roared back to life on a wave of tech entrepreneurship, is
feeling more confident than ever – a fact reflected in a diverse spread of startups.LISBONAttentiveAttentive was born
out of founder Daniel
Araújo’s frustration
when he worked as a
sales analyst at Google.
“My sales team was
spending way too much
time doing admin work,
such as logging calls and
meetings, or registering
opportunities that
weren’t yet in the CRM
[customer relationship
management system],”
he says. His solution was
Attentive, a personal
assistant app for sales
teams that integrates
with CRM tools such as
Salesforce and HubSpot,
connects with Slack and
Calendar, and sends
alerts about clients and
competitors. The startup
has raised €1.9 million.
attentive.usSound ParticlesSound Particles is doing
for sound what CGI has
done for visual special
effects. Founded in 2016,
CEO Nuno Fonseca uses
a particle system – a
CGI technique that uses
graphical 3D objects
to simulate effects like
fire, rain, smoke, dust or
explosions – to create
sound effects. With
Sound Particles, Fonseca
explains, the user can
select a few clips from
a sound library and use
them to simulate tens
of thousands of sounds
in just a few minutes.
Sound Particles’
software has been used
in blockbusters including
Game of Thrones,
Alita, Wonder Woman,
and Ready Player One.
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