"Three words: I love Lisbon" Paddy Cosgrave told Lusa,

when he was asked about the balance of the technology summit one day before it ends

WebSummit2016 Revisited 7-8-9-10 November 2016

18.11.2016, Pedro Faria https://pt.linkedin.com/in/pedro-mb-faria

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Overview• Talks ~160 just on Nov’8 (!) imagine 3 days!!!, 677 Speakers • 1,490 startups:135 joined START, the track to the most promising

startups. 270 joined BETA, the growth-stage track, while 1,080 joined ALPHA, the early-stage track

• 1,300+ of the world’s most influential tech investors were present • 2000+ media people covering the event • Corporate stands, not many, nowhere similar to B2B tech events • Visitors 53,056 w/ tickets, 166 countries, 15.000+ companies

• Web Summit has said the number of women attendees this year was twice last year, with 42% of delegates female

• The summit also said that 67,000 unique devices connected to the wifi system this year, with 20 terabytes of download - ten times the traffic of last year.

• Streaming of 4,207,053 views over the course of the three days on fb • 1,835,841 messages were sent on the Web Summit app • 97,000 Pasteis de Nata consumed

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The Political Act From right to left Portuguese Prime Minister Mr. António Costa

and Lisbon Mayor Mr. Fernando Medina

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The Political Act From right to left Portuguese Prime Minister Mr. António Costa

and Lisbon Mayor Mr. Fernando Medina

Nuno Silva and Swonkie

Davos for Geeks• A Bloomberg afirma ainda que a conferência “vai gerar cerca de 200 milhões de

euros para a economia de Lisboa, através de reservas de hotéis, restaurantes, viagens de táxis”, segundo dados da Associação de Turismo de Lisboa.

• No ano passado, foram criadas 37.924 novas empresas, “o maior número desde 2007, de acordo com a Duns & Bradstreet, salientando que o “o emprego melhorou mais do que o inicialmente previsto pelo governo para este ano, ao contrário da economia endividada, que deverá crescer menos do que em 2015”, explica o site.

• Sete empresas portuguesas no ‘top 50’ das preferidas dos investidores: Codacy, a Unbabel, a Aptoide, a Kinematix (com equipamentos na área da biomecânica para melhorar o trabalho dos atletas), a Performetric (com um software de gestão da fadiga mental), FARMControl (sensores para monitorização da eficiência das explorações pecuárias) e ainda a AgroINSIDER, com o mesmo negócio mas para as explorações agrícolas. Há também uma oitava empresa fundada por portugueses nos EUA, a Defined Crowd, por Daniela Braga

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Portugal saw €29.2 million in funding in 2015 and €41.3 million so far in 2016

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• The biggest round was student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces with its $24 million Series A funding round in November 2015 followed by in-car web startup Veniam’s $22 million Series B in February 2016. Customer behavior startup Movvo raised €5.5 million in June this year while last month AI translation startup Unbabel grabbed $5 million in Series A.

• The biggest funds in the country are Portugal Ventures and Caixa Capital, the latter recently participating in Unbabel’s Series A round. Others include EDP Ventures, Ganexa Capital, and BES Ventures.

• Ireland is far ahead of Portugal capital-wise. In 2015, Irish startups raked in €200.5 million, and so far in 2016, they have already garnered €326.5 million. October was major for the country with anti-cancer startup Carrick Therapeutics (€86.4 million Series A), Genomics Medicine Ireland (€36.4 million Series A), Aqua Comms ($25 million), and home monitoring company Smartfrog (€20 million Series C). A whole 46 percent of Irish venture capital is from abroad, “€241m in 2015 compared with €132m the previous year,” reports the Guardian.

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• The biggest round was student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces with its $24 million Series A funding round in November 2015 followed by in-car web startup Veniam’s $22 million Series B in February 2016. Customer behavior startup Movvo raised €5.5 million in June this year while last month AI translation startup Unbabel grabbed $5 million in Series A.

• The biggest funds in the country are Portugal Ventures and Caixa Capital, the latter recently participating in Unbabel’s Series A round. Others include EDP Ventures, Ganexa Capital, and BES Ventures.

• Ireland is far ahead of Portugal capital-wise. In 2015, Irish startups raked in €200.5 million, and so far in 2016, they have already garnered €326.5 million. October was major for the country with anti-cancer startup Carrick Therapeutics (€86.4 million Series A), Genomics Medicine Ireland (€36.4 million Series A), Aqua Comms ($25 million), and home monitoring company Smartfrog (€20 million Series C). A whole 46 percent of Irish venture capital is from abroad, “€241m in 2015 compared with €132m the previous year,” reports the Guardian.

http://www.geektime.com/2016/11/15/dublin-vs-lisbon-forget-web-summit-which-is-the-better-fit-for-startups/

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Ireland’s €486 million H1 2016 (compared to €309 million in the first half of 2015). It is indisputable that Ireland bests Portugal, and by extension that Dublin bests Lisbon, on venture capital. (https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/venture-capital-ireland)

• The biggest round was student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces with its $24 million Series A funding round in November 2015 followed by in-car web startup Veniam’s $22 million Series B in February 2016. Customer behavior startup Movvo raised €5.5 million in June this year while last month AI translation startup Unbabel grabbed $5 million in Series A.

• The biggest funds in the country are Portugal Ventures and Caixa Capital, the latter recently participating in Unbabel’s Series A round. Others include EDP Ventures, Ganexa Capital, and BES Ventures.

• Ireland is far ahead of Portugal capital-wise. In 2015, Irish startups raked in €200.5 million, and so far in 2016, they have already garnered €326.5 million. October was major for the country with anti-cancer startup Carrick Therapeutics (€86.4 million Series A), Genomics Medicine Ireland (€36.4 million Series A), Aqua Comms ($25 million), and home monitoring company Smartfrog (€20 million Series C). A whole 46 percent of Irish venture capital is from abroad, “€241m in 2015 compared with €132m the previous year,” reports the Guardian.

http://www.geektime.com/2016/11/15/dublin-vs-lisbon-forget-web-summit-which-is-the-better-fit-for-startups/

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http://www.ivca.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IVCA_Economic_Impact_Final.pdf

Ireland’s €486 million H1 2016 (compared to €309 million in the first half of 2015). It is indisputable that Ireland bests Portugal, and by extension that Dublin bests Lisbon, on venture capital. (https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/venture-capital-ireland)

KUBO Robot, the educational coding robot for kids

• September 1, 2014, KUBO started as a research project in Social Technology Lab at the University of Southern Denmark.

• 2015 Micro Grant (2x) • In September 2016, we were

accepted into the program Entrepreneurial Pilot by Innovation Fund Denmark

• In September 2016, it was announced that a large Scandinavian IT Company, KMD

• WebSummit2016 PITCH Winners

PapayaPods pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4H0m5RBcMY

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Overview, future trends• Augmented reality (AR)

• “Virtual reality insanity” https://www.facebook.com/AutoTechConf (Second half of Day One of AutoTech @2h14m)

• Augmented Reality: Why everything is not all digital https://www.facebook.com/PandaConf/ (Day One of PandaConf @1hr37m)

• “Designing security and safety for billions” https://www.facebook.com/pg/WebSummitHQ/videos

• Mobility • Hyperloop (“The age of moonshots and Hyperloop One”, https://www.facebook.com/pg/WebSummitHQ/videos/

@27m) • Autonomous/electric vehicles (“Driving a connected future” https://www.facebook.com/AutoTechConf/

@1hr04m • Electric bikes/bicycles • Drones (Droneport, RedLine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a034IOhMFGQ) • Cargo autonomous planes (“Airbus flying on sunshine”, https://www.facebook.com/AutoTechConf/ Second half

of Day One of AutoTech @1hr30m)

• Wearables, Robots, Machine Learning, Gaming • Mr Cosgrave also said there was room for further growth at the venue, which has a

capacity of 80,000, and the Web Summit was not yet using the entirety of the facilities.

• Bloggers like Robert Scoble say it is the best tech conference in the world

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