At the Web Summit, we met with the founder of JustEnjoy, Luis Caixado. He’s also Community Manager at the coworking and incubation community for entrepreneurs, Canopy Lisbon. Luis Caixado explained how he’s now working together with the US-based company, Canopy, to help companies and entrepreneurs thrive. Founder of JustEnjoy, Luis Caixado, interview. Miguel Salvado: Hello,…
MADRID (ViaNews) – Anthony Zador is Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Biology at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, wherein 1953, Watson made the first public presentation of DNA’s double-helix structure. Mr. Zador went to this year’s edition of the Web Summit to talk about “Using Artificial Intelligence for good”. He believes AI is “going…
MADRID (ViaNews) – Brett King hosts one of the most popular FinTech Radio Show in the world, “Breaking Banks,” and founded the New-York based start-up called “Moven” with its concept of a downloadable bank account. Mr. King considers himself a futurist and was named “King of the Disruptors” by Banking Exchange magazine. Brett has advised…
Right at the heart of the Money Conf in Madrid we met with Mr. Thorsten Terweiden, the Deputy Head of Fintech for InvestHK. InvestHK is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government department responsible for foreign direct investment. They have set up a dedicated Fintech team in Hong Kong with correspondents in London (Mr. Thorsten…
The Lisbon Business Angels’ Club hosted another edition where startups where able to pitch and showcase their projects to investors. According to Sergio Miguel Gonçalves, the former project manager for the Lisbon Business Angels’ Club, “about 30% of the event attendees were investors and the event outcome was, once again, extremely positive”. Miguel Salvado: We’re…
LISBON (ViaNews) – James Cooper, Adweek Editorial Director, gave Via News an interview at Web Summit where he shared his thoughts about the Web Summit, Adweek, the media business, and entrepreneurship. “Advertising and technology marketing is full with incredibly vibrant and interesting topics for companies and also individuals.” James Cooper Miguel Salvado: How are you…
Miguel Henriques is the president of the Portuguese Federation for Business Angels’ Network (FNABA). FNABA has 17 affiliate clubs, including the Lisbon’s Business Angels Club which is now celebrating its third anniversary. We met with Miguel Henriques for an interview where he talked about entrepreneurship, the kind of investment business angels look for, and the…
We met with David A. Steinberg, the founder and CEO at Zeta Global, to understand what he thinks about Web Summit, entrepreneurship, and Trump becoming the US president. Miguel Salvado: Hi David, welcome. David Steinberg: Thank you for having me. What a great country you have. It’s so great to be here. “Trump now has…
LISBON (ViaNews) – Right at the heart of the Web Summit we met with the co-founder of JustEnjoy, Luis Caixado. JustEnjoy is about delivering memorable moments for families during their holidays. They have a ready to use package with a specially selected group of toys and props to help the children engage with the city…
Landing.jobs is a tech jobs marketplace with a human approach to recruitment and aims to increase efficiency between job openings and talent. We met with the founders, Pedro Oliveira and José Paiva, to understand how they managed to come up with a leading European tech jobs marketplace. Miguel Carvalho: Landing.jobs is now leading in the…
