Emilio Maciel is an entrepreneur with a wide-ranging experience in sales and software development, having worked with different startups in several countries. After a year-and-a-half at McKinsey Brazil, he was responsible for founding Groupon in Brazil and in China. During his time in Malta at the...
Bobby Johnson is an expert at fixing things. His job requires him to fix some of the most complex problems on some of the worlds most used platforms. He was Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he led the infrastructure engineering team for six years....
One of the many important subjects which was discussed at the Start Up Festival which took place in Malta on the 13th and 14th of October was the issues which companies are finding when it comes to recruiting and holding on to employees Employees are no...
Christoph Sollich, known as the Pitch Donor or Pitch Coach emphasised the importance of pitching during his presentation at the 2nd edition of the Startup Festival, stating that every startup founder is constantly pitching their ideas. During his presentation he outlined a variety of lessons to ensure effective pitching....
The Start Up Festival which took place in Malta on the 13th and 14th of October also served as the perfect place for the launch of the Startup Residency Programme. Dr. Miriam Dalli, Minister for Environment, Energy and Enterprise announced the launch of the Startup Residency...
Space and Malta might sound remotely unrelated but this panel helped to prove us all wrong. Fresh from their recent trip to US for meetings with space technology giants NASA and Space X the panellists discussed Malta's vision for its contribution to the space sector. This...
Shark Tank, an internationally renowned investment program, landed in Malta last year. Here startups had the opportunity to pitch their ideas to five sharks who then had the opportunity to invest in these startups. The Start Up Festival which took place in Malta on the 13th...
British-South African YouTuber turned investor and serial entrepreneur, Caspar Lee, rose to prominence with his popular YouTube channel featuring sketches, musings from his life, and celebrity interviews with many of the world’s biggest stars including Ed Sheeran, Dwayne Johnson, Chris Pratt, Kevin Hart and Anna Kendrick. During his speech at...
· Total Attendees: Over 800· Total Deal Room Meeting: Over 300 · Launch of the Start Up Residency Programme · More than 300 Students The Start Up Festival Malta 2022, which took place between the 13th and 14th October, was a huge success, with over...
CityFalcon's Malta Team City Falcon, a Malta based start-up which transforms unstructured financial news and content from over 13,000 sources into structured data, and then delivers analytics, insights and news in real time, has launched with eToro. They serve eToro through their Financial News API. eToro is...