National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (Associação Nacional de Jovens Empresários) is a private association of private of public utility that represents the young Portuguese entrepreneurs and supports them in their business activity. It was a pioneer of the promotion of youth entrepreneurship in Portugal and they concentrate their efforts in the so-called qualified entrepreneurship, in order to create conditions for young people to convert their knowledge into business value.

Porto, in the North of Portugal, is granite, river and sea, solidness and wide horizons. Land of entrepreneurship that generates jobs and income. The city enjoys a truly strategic location, which fosters the exchange of human capital, ideas, knowledge, and culture. Porto is a startup and scale-up hub that inspires sustainability. This global destination welcomes all range of different businesses: local; national; international; public and private.

Indico Capital Partners is a new Lisbon based early stage independent Venture Capital firm founded by the former senior VC team at Caixa Capital, who were responsible for backing almost all the Portuguese startups that went on to raise significant rounds of capital internationally. With 50 million Euros of capital targeting software as a service companies, artificial intelligence enabled products, marketplaces, mobile and digital companies, the fund is supported by a very senior group of Portuguese and international entrepreneurs and partners with major accelerators in Europe and the US.

Sonae IM is an IT corporate venturing-company aiming to manage and build a portfolio of world class tech-based companies linked to retail and telecommunications. Investment unit focused on technology businesses around the Retail and Telecommunications Innovative tech solutions and International focus.

Team Genesis is a team of lawyers from Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados (MLGTS) that was created to provide legal advice in relation to venture-backed scalable tech emerging companies with innovative business models. Our main focus is on “bet the company” transactions. The aim is also to help such companies successfully scale their businesses internationally by leveraging MLGTS’s international network (MLGTS Legal Circle and Lex Mundi). The team is extremely active and experienced in national and international investment rounds and exits, notably equity rounds (seed and preferred rounds), convertibles notes (or convertible equity/differed subscription), venture debt and trade sales (including acqui-hires), both for founders and investors. The team advises national and international investors and startups on a daily and day-to-day basis and has successfully attracted mandates from companies and investors active in the following areas (B2B and/or B2C): fintech, life sciences (biotech and medtech), big data, cleantech, legaltech, infratech, sharing economy, internet services and apps, gaming, SaaS, consumer services (including marketplaces), consumer goods, food delivery, and more.