TechValley - an event being co-promoted by Startupi and Galeria de Projetos - is tomorrow! It will be held in the afternoon, at Unicamp in Campinas. Registration is free, and there is still space available.
Besides speaker Jorge Zavala, director of the tech business accelerator TechBA, in San Francisco (USA), the event includes a variety of Brazilian panelists. Read more…
Today I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Bedy Yang, a Brazilian consultant with experience in fair trade, entrepreneurship and innovation. She’s been based in San Francisco for 7 years.
Bedy is using her experience and connections to prepare a Silicon Valley tour for Brazilian entrepreneurs, part of her project Brazil Innovators. Read more…
Thanks to Graciane Martins (who coordinated the space for project presentations at Campus Party), and her Project Gallery, the first ever TechValley event in Brazil will be held August 18th at the Unicamp campus, in Campinas. Read more…
Sharing is great. It’s even better when investors share the criteria they use to decide whether to invest in startups!
Check out the powerpoint and video from a presentation by Simon Olson of Fir Capital, which he gave last week at Sambatech. Read more…
It’s time for Desafio Brasil 2010 at FGV/SP. Desafio Brasil (”Challenge Brazil”) is a competition for tech startups (from IT to biotech to clean tech) involving pitching, mentoring and networking as competitors progress through the levels to the finals. This year there is more emphasis on the regional stages, to get more entrepreneurs and investors involved. Read more…
January 8th was the third annual Crunchies Awards, sponsored by the internet technology blog TechCrunch.
The event took place in partnership with GigaOM (see their recently referenced cloud computing article here) and VentureBeat (which has previously written about Brazil as the next frontier in social advertising).
More than 900 people gathered in the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco for the awarding of the trophies to the best entrepreneurs, investors and startups in the world.
See the list of winners here.
And below you can see video of the awards in each category:
Live TV : Ustream
