Hello Porto Queens! A few of us are coming up there for the Happiness Camp summit September 23-25, wondering if anyone would like to meet up for a meal or coffee? 🥰❤️ & tag Porto founders in the comments!

The Santander X Portugal Award is once again connecting entrepreneurs, startups and students with real funding, mentorship, and a global network - and applications close Sep 21. Startup Category Who it's for: startups constituted in Portugal with an innovative or tech-driven solution. What you need: a product or service already on the market, plus traction - revenue, funding raised, or a consolidated team. - 1st place: €10,000 - 2nd place: €6,000 - 3rd place: €4,000 2025 winners included The After Cancer (post-treatment cancer support platform), Lampsy (epilepsy-detection device), and ROOTKey (cyber resilience for Portuguese companies). University Category Who it's for: students, recent graduates, teachers or researchers with an early-stage project. What you need: a conceptual prototype or MVP, and a team of at least 2 people. - 1st place: €5,000 - 2nd place: €3,000 - 3rd place: €2,000 2025 winners included Safetyscope (smart video surveillance), and UpSpeech (speech therapy platform). What winners get, beyond the cash: - Specialised mentorship from the Santander X network - Training and dedicated support to grow your project - Visibility across the Portuguese innovation ecosystem - A shot at the Santander X global final

Unicorn Factory Lisbon has just opened a door that normally takes months of networking to open. It’s called the Hospitality Open Innovation Program. Turismo de Portugal + Pestana Hotel Group + FEEL GROUP, all in the same program. The deal is simple: They have the hotels. You have the solution. So, they test it together, in a real-world setting. 21 open challenges. Among them: → Guest retention and experience → Data and marketing intelligence → Automation of daily operations → Back-office automation → Smart sensors in the physical space Applications are open until September 13. After that, this opportunity is over. Thank you to Marta Miraldes and Unicorn Factory Lisboa for opening this door to the ecosystem. Do you know a startup that should take advantage of this opportunity? Tag the founders before the deadline passes or share the link to this post. https://www.hospitality.unicornfactorylisboa.com/

Hi ladies! I'm relocating my business from Germany to Lisbon at the start of 2027 and setting up a Unipessoal Lda with a virtual office first. Does anyone have a recommendation for an awesome, English-speaking Contabilista in Portugal who is great with digital businesses and cross-border invoicing? Also: I will be in Lisbon for 10 days in November and would love to meet up with our community members there :) Would love any direct intros or contacts! Thanks so much in advance!

Hello ladies! I need some help/advice. I want to choose an email marketing tool that I can use to open a wait list for a program I am running in the late summer, and then continue to use to build a list outside of Substack (my current newsletter) and I'd love to hear about which ones you use. I've been thinking of using Mailerlite, as my web designer suggested, but she also mentioned I need to register an official email address with my website domain and it seems a bit complicated and an extra cost. So, my question to you is, which email marketing do you use that is cheap and easy to set up? And if you have an email with your website domain, how/where did you get it? I am quite newbie to these matters so any input will be valuable! Thank you!! Ana