The Portuguese Musiversal won the ‘most promising’ startup award at the Road 2 Web Summit and the national Windcredible won the ‘startup’ award with the best performance in Bootcamp, Startup Portugal announced today.
Musiversal won the ‘most promising’ startup award at the Road 2 Web Summit and Windcredible won the ‘best performing startup’ award at Bootcamp, Startup Portugal announced today.
In this edition, there is one “‘startup’ that we consider to be the most promising of the group, in terms of business model and future prospects” and “another that was most excited” about the process, said the executive president (CEO) of Startup Portugal, Antonio Dias Martins.
The official spoke at the press conference to announce the winners of the Road 2 Web Summit (R2WS) program.
Musiversal is a technology that allows music makers to produce their works with musicians from all over the world, via live broadcasts, after being the winner of the €15,000 prize for the Road 2 Web Summit’s most promising start-up.
Windcredible, which created micro-wind generators for urban, industrial and rural applications, won the ‘startup’ award with the best performance in the Bootcamp, worth 5,000 euros.
Every year R2WS selects Portuguese ‘startups’ to represent the country at the largest technology event in the world.
“We are open to investment and scaling to become the next Portuguese unicorn,” Xavier Jameson, the founder and administrator responsible for Musiversal’s operations, said at the press conference.
This ‘startup’ already has 35 musicians, including one from Ukraine, and allows music makers to produce their works with artists from all over the world through live broadcasts.
Windcredible has made wind micro generators. The microgenerator has the capacity to produce 2.7 megawatts/hour per year, half the energy consumption of a home and, according to founder Filipe Fernandes, the aim is to be commercialized as soon as possible.
During the press conference, the CEO of Startup Portugal emphasized that the group chosen this year to represent Portugal at the technology summit is “very diverse”, from all over the country, noting that together these technologies have already “more than 11 million euros “.
This year’s edition of the R2WS program had 200 applications, of which 100. More than half (55%) are based in Lisbon.
The Web Summit, which started Tuesday, ends today, with its seventh edition reaching maximum capacity with 71,033 participants from 160 countries, with the largest number of startups and investors ever.
Source: DN
