Building Global Innovators

BGI IUL MIT Portugal is an American style, deep innovation accelerator part of the MIT Portugal program. BGI is based in Lisbon (Portugal), conducting some components of its acceleration program in Cambridge (USA). It is an NFP organisation founded in 2010 set up by one of the top management universities in Portugal, ISCTE-IUL. As a deep innovation accelerator, BGI focus on 4 verticals: Medical Devices and Health IT, Smart Cities and Industry 4.0 solutions, Enterprise IT and Smart Data and Water Economy. Since 2010, BGI has accelerated 120 ventures which have aggregately raised over €111 Mio, with a survival rate of 73% to date and creation of 727 high-tech jobs.