Now everything starts ...
After being accelerated for 2 months, the 3 winners of the 20 most innovative startups in the tourism industry were announced today. Projects will receive financial and service awards to enhance their implementation and impact.
The winning projects of the program will be awarded, in addition to prizes for services provided by the partners of the initiative, financial prizes aimed at enhancing their impact on the market: the winner will receive €15,000, 2nd place €3,000 and 3rd place €2,000.
• 1st place: Valpas – Valpas transforms hotels and suppliers in the hospitality industry into visibly cleaner places to stay when away from home, protecting them from the dirtiest creatures: bed bugs. The Valpas bed bug safety standard has been implemented in over 60 award-winning hotels.
• 2nd place: Insurion – Insurion is the parametric insurance platform that allows travel agencies, airlines and hotels to earn sales fees for parametric insurance to tourists with instant payments.
• 3rd place: Look@ – the smart selfie sculpture – Helping tourists to live the moment to the fullest, capturing those moments and making them unforgettable.
Check here the video of the Awards Ceremony and the words of 2020 aceleratech edition winners.
Finalists
Ancient Worlds
B.A.M Blockchain Ticketing
Chillwall AI
Eddy Travels
Food’n Road
Holedo
Hop A Tour LTD
IVI
Insurion
Local Purse
Lookat
MiceTribe
RevApp
Shuttle Planet
Smart Guide
The VR Voyage
Valpas
Victoury
We Bee
Wheel The World
Have you ever imagine a robot as a travel guide?
Will hotels of the future still have receptions?
How will the tourism industry look like in the future?
During the last few months we have selected and accelerated some of the most innovative startups in the world in the tourism industry! They are now ready to show you what will change in tourism and how to prepare yourself for the future!
Join us in Tourism Tech Summit to discuss all of that with Aceler@tech in Portugal finalists and help us build a better future for the tourism industry!
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For the next step?
ACELER@TECH in PORTUGAL is an international acceleration program, organized by Acredita Portugal and supported by Turismo de Portugal, aimed at creating and developing new businesses based on innovative and challenging ideas in the tourism sector.
The program aims to support the development of innovation projects in the areas of Tourism and travel that contribute to economic, social and environmental sustainability, adding new technologies and methods that help companies in the sector to move from traditional operating models to advanced technologies and processes more efficient.
Who you will meet
During the program participants will have access to Speed Meetings with tourism SMEs, startups with a solution or product developed in Portugal, investors, and more.
Mentors
Fernando
Fraga
Filipe
Cordeiro
Pedro
Baião
Cristiano
Viegas
Marisa
Ribeirinho
Thomas
Egger
Olga
Cavaleiro
Léo
Capelossi
Joaquim
Pereira
João
Lopes
Deolinda
Silva
Pedro
Gomes
Bruno
Brandão
Tomás
Penaguião
Isabel
Neves
Luis
Reis
Jose Alberto
Lopes Costa
Filipe
Portela
José
Vale
André
Almeida
Luís
Ferreira
Luís
Santos
Carla
Pires
António
Castro
Sofia
Morais
Juan Manuel
Revuelta Pérez
Sara
Cristóvão
Marta
Salvador
António
Loureiro
Ana Helena Pinto
Marta Miraldes
Investors
Brave
Generation
Olisipo
Way
Bynd
Venture Capital
Portugal
Ventures
Semeia
Ventures
Shilling
Partners
Vega
Ventures
Indico Capital
Bruno
Brandão
Davide
Catarino
Isabel
Neves
Filipe
Portela
Jose Alberto
Lopes Costa
Pedro Cerdeira
Piloting Partners & Portuguese Startups
Our events
Don’t miss the webinars we have scheduled for you!
Feb 17 at 16:00
Launch
session
Feb 24 at 16:00
Investment
Opportunities
Mar 3 at 16:00
Wine and Food
Opportunities
Mar 10 at 16:00
Hospitality and tourism support opportunities
Mar 17 at 16:00
Opportunities linked to Region Diversity
Mar 24 at 16:00
Health, Nature and Impact opportunities
Mar 31 at 15:00
Opportunities related to support, financing and entry into Europe
Selection criteria
BUSINESS MODEL
Degree of development and innovation of the business model and its sustainability
TEAM
Multidisciplinary and ability of the team to develop projects
TRACTION
Proven initial traction of the concept
SCALABILITY
Potential for growth and profitability of projects.
INNOVATION
The degree of innovation of the proposed solutions
SUSTAINABILITY
Projects adaptability to the environment sustainability, social and economical goals
Program
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