Web Summit

The director of Start Up Portugal has called on the government not to scrap the favourable NHR tax regime for some cases of overseas investors and relocators, as well as calling for investment [...]

Portugal’s 4,000 or so startups employ around 25,000 and have generated a turnover of €2.3Bn with business exports of €1.3Bn according to statistics released by Startup Portugal at Web Summit on [...]

Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas admitted on Tuesday that the political crisis currently engulfing the government could undermine investor confidence in Portugal. “What we’re going through will affect [...]

Web Summit, considered the largest tech fair in the world, opened on Monday evening with a record number of start-ups and for the first time without former CEO Paddy Gosgrave. According to the [...]

The day before the world’s largest technology and startup event opened in Lisbon today, Web Summit’s new CEO Katherine Maher has avoided comment on the current corruption imbroglio surrounding [...]

Former Wikipedia Foundation head Katherine Maher has been appointed the new CEO of Web Summit, replacing Paddy Cosgrave who stepped down earlier this month over his controversial statements over [...]

The co-founder of Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave, has quit his leadership of Web Summit as more and more Israeli companies (and major tech giants) pull out of the annual Lisbon event in November [...]

The co-founder of one of Portugal’s successful unicorns has admitted that many startups will never get off the ground, let alone have the chance to go bust. Talkdesk founder, Cristina Fonseca and [...]

Startups that want to compete for €90 million in digital vouchers to develop their ideas and grow their companies have until 25 November to submit their proposals to the public institution that [...]

Musiversal, which enables musicians to produce works with other musicians from around the world via live broadcast was considered the ‘Most Promising Startup’ of the Road to Web Summit, a [...]