Living in an ultra-peripheral region – in this case, Madeira Island - cannot be considered as an impediment to business and personal development. Luís Tavares is 23 years old and thought that the opportunities only arose in large metropolises until he got to know Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs - a program that allows anyone to develop their business idea in external markets, having the opportunity to learn from older and more experienced foreign entrepreneurs, whilst getting to know different places and cultures.
Like so many young entrepreneurs, Luís was looking for a company that could help him develop this idea until he found GEMAST Consulting, a startup based in the city of Brescia, in Italy. Having ANJE – Portuguese Association of Young Entrepreneurs as one of the local contact points of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs program, Luís was able to contact GEMAST; the match was mutual and his adventure in Italy finally began.


Know the Startup Portugal Plus measures
The Portuguese Government launched Startup Portugal Plus, program that aims to be a new impulse for the national entrepreneurship strategy launched in 2016. The Startup Portugal Plus program contains 20 new emergent challenges that join forces with a full hand of initiatives of the first version of the strategy. The main goals are more ecosystem, more funding and more internationalization.
Between 2014 and 2015, ANJE held 261,000 hours of training on 828 courses.
11 infrastructures spread around the country and almost 140 physical spaces for setting up companies.
ModaLisboa and Portugal Fashoin undertake to join forces in promoting Portuguese fashion
Last Tuesday, September 11th, ModaLisboa Association, which organises ModaLisboa – Lisboa Fashion Week, and ANJE – National Association of Young Entrepreneurs, which organises Portugal Fashion, signed a cooperation agreement under the scope of their Portuguese fashion promotional activities. The ceremony was presided over by Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, who thus recognises not only the importance of this sector, with a direct impact on the economic context of the country and the promotion of an international image of modernity, but also the relevance of the two structuring projects in national fashion joining forces.
NGI Forum comes to Porto to discuss the Future Internet
The NGI – Next Generation Internet Forum comes to Porto on the next September 13th. Technology R&D experts, policymakers, innovators, activists and academics will meet in Porto to shape the Future Internet as an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies the values that Europe holds dear: openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and protection of data. ANJE supports the event that will take place at Alfândega do Porto.
Horizon 47 launches Moon for the global market in the Brera Design District
Driven and motivated by the challenge of creation, Horizon 47 has created a unique product that challenges technology integration in furniture and design. Moon is an armchair that has an invisible sound system, completely integrated, that uses the outside rigid structure of the armchair to act as a speaker. Combining conventional audio technology with vibration speakers, this innovative approach can offer a product with an outstanding acoustic experience, optimized for the user, but also capable of delivering sound for the ambience, creating incredible atmospheres. The product is, since yesterday, in an exhibition in the Brera Design District.
Bnesis gets 400K€ in funding and goes to Open Banking Lab
Bnesis, startup responsible for a solution that combines multiple (regional and global) external services in a single API was one of the projects involved on the 1st badge of SPA – Startup Porto Accelerator and closed a 400.000€ investment round with BValue C and SpeedUp Group. After accelerating 12 weeks in the tech program designed by ANJE – Portuguese Association of Young Entrepreneurs and INESC TEC, the startup gets the smart-money needed to expand on the global market and was selected to the Open Banking Lab accelerator.
The 10 projects accelerating at Startup Porto Accelerator
The second edition of Startup Porto Accelerator is coming to its end and now, after refine concepts, test models and get some inputs it´s time to know more about the 10 projects that are accelerating in the programme organised by ANJE – Portuguese Association of Young Entrepreneurs and INESC TEC. Subcultours, Couch MW, GO-ER, EmotAI, iClimate Advisor, Lumer, BeGoodToo, B.Create, Predict Churn and The One Pixel Games are moving forward to the final period of acceleration and the Demo Day for these entrepreneurs is near.
WE'BIZ Walking Tour: the unique journey that revealed that "Portugal is Ready to Scaleup"
It was an inspiring journey, full of examples of success made in Portugal and carried out by entrepreneurs, scaleups, startups, investors, incubators, accelerators and corporates with promising perspectives to the future. The conclusion of this Walking Tour? Yes, "Portugal is Ready to Scaleup".