Yesterday was an important day for the Portuguese world of start-ups. The Codacy, which developed a platform – aimed at businesses – analysis and monitoring of program codes, was awarded his pitch at Web Summit 2014, one of the largest technology conferences in the world, which is taking place in Dublin, Ireland .
Jaime Jorge, the founder of Codacy, had four minutes to present your company and convince a jury of figures as diverse as Danae Ringelmann (founder of Indiegogo), Ciara Byrne (technology journalist Fast Company), Phil Libin (CEO of Evernote), Guy Wollaert (CTO of Coca-Cola), or the unmistakable Robert Scoble.
Along with Jaime Jorge, also spoke the leaders of the other three finalists for pitches , sponsored by Web Summit 2014, in which more than 1500 start-ups from around the world participated.
The pitch was the winner of Codacy, that with more of 3000 customers now receive 10 000 euro investment and the right to a meeting with officials of Coca-Cola, US (Coca-Cola is the main sponsor of the contest).
The website TechCrunch who has been closely following the world of start-ups, reported the Portuguese prize, writing: “The company is based in London, but the coaching staff operates from Lisbon. It should be noted that, because Lisbon is emerging as a true ecosystem of new technologies in Europe, with the same costs for Berlin but with the typical climate of southern Europe. “
The Codacy Beta won the award, aimed at start-ups that have passed the initial stage and got some investment. The Codacy where 8 people are working today, received a year ago an investment of about 400 000 euros of Portuguese funds Espírito Santo Ventures and Faber Ventures. The BaseStone (comments above) received the Alpha Award, and also be entitled to 10 000 euros and meeting with officials of Coca-Cola.
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