SCHOOL OF STARTUPS
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The School of Startups provides the resources, guidance, and environment to set your business on a path to success. Over 90 hours of immersive, hands-on training and personalised mentorship will equip the selected entrepreneurs for the 2024 edition with the tools to validate and grow their ideas in the market.
This three-month acceleration program supports business ideas in fields like web3, healthcare, arts & design, tourism, environment, energy, space, fintech, artificial intelligence, and more.
Benefits
The selected projects of the 2025 edition will gain access to the UPTEC workspaces, an extensive event network with over 100 yearly events, and a network of investors, industry partners, and entrepreneurs. Benefits include practical workshops covering market analysis, differentiation, marketing, pricing strategy, intellectual property, investment preparation, and pitch training.
Work at UPTEC spaces
Training conducted by experts
Dedicated mentoring
Pitch Training Sessions
Networking with partners, investors and entrepreneurs
Connection with industry, startups and academia
WHO CAN APPLY
Future entrepreneurs who have business ideas on arts, sciences, technologies, health or cleantech and wish to start their own company.
DURATION
October 2025 – January 2026
LANGUAGE
English
FORMAT
In-person
Location
UPTEC Asprela I
ACCESS
PRICE
425€ + VAT - 1st cut-off date
500€ + VAT - 2nd cut-off date
Timeline
Application deadline – 1st cut-off date
21 September 2025
Application deadline – 2nd cut-off date
5 October 2025
Kick-off
22 October 2025
Pitch day
28 January 2026
Mentors
The School of Startups’ dedicated mentorship programme offers 5 office hours sessions of 1 hour each, both online and in-person. More than 40 experienced mentors will support entrepreneurs throughout the process, guiding them in market research, product development, and business strategy.
André Camelo
CREA
André Gonçalves
Dreamshaper
André Pereira
InanoEnergy
António Rocha
Smartex
Carlos Carvalho
Adyta
Carlos Lei
Uplink
Craig Allan Ahrens
ShiftMed
David de Almeida
Unigrains
Débora Campos
AgrogGrIN Tech
Eduardo Mendes
Connect Robotics
Felipe Ávila da Costa
Infraspeak
Filipa Frois
FAHR 021.3
Gonçalo Riscado
Culture Trend Lisbon
Heitor Alvelos
ID+
Hugo Prazeres
i3S
Hugo Reis
FAHR 021.3
Hugo Sousa
Ubirider
Humberto Ayres Pereira
Rows
Inês Henriques
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Jéssica Monteiro
Pixar Animation Studios
João Gomes
Tatara Razors
Jorge Ribeiro
Os Filmes do Pinguim
Júlio Martins
Everythink
Liliana Rodrigues
4Humanz
Luis Valente
iLoF
Marcelo Sousa
Snyk
Maria João Correia
OERN
Maria João Maia
Corium Biotech
Maria Miguel Ferreira
Factory Lisbon
Paula Pinho
KPMG
Paulo Ferreira
Ubirider
Rita Branco
3xP Global
Rita Mota
CyanoCare
Rosa Romero
Sphere Ultrafast Photonics
Samuel Gonçalves
Summary
Sara Brito Coimbra
Villa Mangui
Tiago Sá
Wisecrop
Vanessa Sanches
Bantumen
Vitor Teixeira
iClimate Adviser
12
Editions
+500
Participants
+200
Projects
+70
New Companies
65M€
Investment Raised
PARTNERS
With the support of Santander Foundation, UPTEC will award six inclusion scholarships for free access to the School of Startups to underrepresented groups (women entrepreneurs and people of African descent). Beyond that, UPTEC will award two scholarships to projects from creative and cultural field. These scholarships are part of UPTEC’s actions to correct inequalities in entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem access.
