INOVAGAIA brings Vision and Innovation to Web Summit 2025

INOVAGAIA returned to Lisbon for four intense days at Web Summit 2025. Four days of total immersion in innovation, continuous learning, collecting inspiration, and fostering connections that drive the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We now return to Gaia with our luggage full of new insights, ideas, and contacts that strengthen the path we have been building over the past years. The knowledge gained and the connections made are the energy that propels us to continue empowering, accelerating, and soaring higher and higher.

This year marked a special moment: for the first time, INOVAGAIA had its own stand. And what a stand! The powerful image of the eye – a symbol of vision, focus, and future – stood out and captured the attention of hundreds of visitors. Truly impactful!

From Gaia to the World
Throughout the four days, the INOVAGAIA stand became a meeting point for our incubated startups Pocket Theatre, Bauu, Visual Thinking, Impacte, and SIDIS®, for the winners of the Scale Up With Us Acceleration Program tickets – Títulos Sublimes and VaultHaus – and for several partners who support us, such as our associate from Scale Up With Us and Luiz Panareli from INDICO.

We welcomed dozens of foreign startups, promoters, and young entrepreneurs full of ideas and a desire to create. The connections made were numerous and invaluable.

Our participation also extended to the Startup Portugal stage, where, at the invitation of IAPMEI, we shared our experience with the Startup Visa program. In this session, the success story of the incubated startup SIDIS® Data Platform was presented, with Javier Ramírez, CEO of SIDIS®, and Luís Santos, representing INOVAGAIA, showing how the Portuguese ecosystem is generating global impact.

For the president of INOVAGAIA, António Miguel Castro, “INOVAGAIA’s presence at Web Summit 2025 was a milestone for our journey. We invested in our own stand, a bolder positioning, and an image that reflects the vision and ambition we have for our ecosystem. The response we received confirmed that this was the right decision. The INOVAGAIA team showed in Lisbon what truly sets us apart: competence, energy, and a deep sense of mission.” He adds: “Being on a global stage like Web Summit is a commitment to support those who want to create, innovate, and grow in an even more visible and determined way. Here, we took the first step toward an increasingly international, collaborative, and transformative future.”

More than just a presence, we carried and elevated the INOVAGAIA attitude: collaborative spirit, ambition, openness to the world, and the desire to raise the name of Gaia on one of the largest global innovation stages. We also took the opportunity to showcase our Scale Up With Us program, reinforcing our mission to support those who want to grow.

Web Summit 2025 was inspiring, challenging, and unforgettable.
And, as we always believe in the future… 2026 is the next goal!