At brighter AI, we are on the mission to protect every identity in public. Our leading anonymization solutions for video data are based on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. We were named “Europe’s Hottest AI Startup” by Nvidia and won "The Spark - The German Digital Award" by Handelsblatt & McKinsey. Established in 2017 within the automotive industry, we are today serving companies in various sectors and are supported by outstanding investors.
KIT-AR creates industrial-strength products for a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, and electronics. It assists manufacturers in reducing production errors by connecting and improving shopfloor employees. They are now able to get it right the first time, every time, all the time, thanks to their augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) products. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
Amplemarket develops a sales intelligence platform to help businesses reach their revenue goals. Amplemarket assists clients with everything from lead generation to prospect engagement, allowing them to focus solely on selling. With Amplemarket, clients can easily find the data that helps them close deals.
Neuraspace's proprietary AI technology enables more accurate satellite collision risk prediction and, by applying a data fusion strategy, offers increased robustness and resilience. The platform also automates many of the current manual processes and communications and delivers an end-to-end solution, providing operators with actionable orbital maneuver recommendations to avoid collisions, while delivering valuable insights to various other stakeholders including regulators, insurers and other Space-asset dependent businesses.
Cintoo develops technologies and solutions for managing and leveraging the 3D data coming from Reality Capture devices in the cloud. Cintoo has developed a unique point cloud-to-surface technology that translates data from terrestrial laser scanners into a new generation Reality Data that is versatile, collaborative, distributable, streamable and efficient. This technology is embedded into Cintoo Cloud ™ , a laser scanning hardware and BIM platform agnostic cloud-based platform.
Knokcare is an app-based healthcare platform offering patients a holistic solution for their health through a combination of AI chatbots, video calls, face to face appointments at home, and integration with hospitals in one single application. This solution is convenient for the patient and efficient for the health system: the AI chatbot helps patients self-assess their condition and directs the patient within the app to a video appointment or a face to face appointment. If the issue is serious enough, knock will direct the patient to the hospital.
Reckon.ai have been working with several retail customers for the last years and they found that the task of competitive analysis in this vertical is still in the early days of what modern technology can do for them. You wouldn’t believe the number of problems and inefficiencies screaming for solutions in the digital age. So they decided to build Reckon, a cloud platform for smart retail product analysis and price comparison that uses powerful machine learning algorithms, data fusion and computer vision to reshape the way retailers get their competitive intelligence data.
CASAFARI is a real estate network that provides agents with access to an updated and comprehensive real estate database. The proprietary technology simplifies the process of collecting, cleaning, and evaluating every property on the market, ensuring that agents have access to accurate and up-to-date information.
StudentFinance is a provider of educational financial services that aims to provide students with success-based financing. The company's services select students through a selection process based on data forecasting using artificial intelligence technology and invest in students who primarily have technical skills and can become software engineers, data analysts, or cybersecurity experts, allowing students to advance in their career path and get the right job while also repaying the money. StudentFinance was established in March, 2019 in Madrid, Spain by Mariano Kostelec.
OutSystems is a low-code platform that enables businesses to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps. The modern application platform's high productivity, connected, and AI-assisted tools help developers to innovate through software. It enables organizations to build applications that transform the customer experiences, delivers workplace innovation, automates processes, or modernizes core systems faster. OutSystems makes this possible by combining the power of low-code tools with advanced development capabilities, enabling visual development of entire applications that easily integrate with existing systems. The company is backed by investors such as Abdiel Capital, Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, and Armilar Venture Partners. Paulo Rosado and Rui Pereira co-founded the Boston, Massachusett-based company in 2001.
Automaise provides artificially intelligent virtual employees for customer service. Automaise offers a growing portfolio of virtual employees ready to be hired for various business verticals and tasks/processes.
Didimo is the world’s leading provider of fast, automated solutions for the generation of high-quality real-time humans. Our high-fidelity 3D didimo human avatars are created in around 90 seconds, from inputs as simple as a 2D photo. Our PaaS allows content creators, software developers, collaboration platforms, and app builders to integrate a fast, robust, and reliable solution for generating user-generated avatars in their own software solutions. Our patented and flexible pipeline can translate various image-based inputs of a user’s face, and using automated machine vision, topology generation, texturing, and rigging components, to output a real-time ready high fidelity avatar. These are designed to be perfectly suited for real-time engines - and include a full facial animation system and text-to-speech animation capability.
In the software world, new technologies have recently put on the hands of companies and developers highly powerful tools which involve a leap in computing capabilities. First, heterogeneous multicore systems have become small and affordable supercomputers. Second, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and big data are revolutionizing entire economic sectors. These powerful tools were up until now only accessible to a minority of organizations with massive resources but finally they have become mainstream. However, to take advantage of these powerful capabilities, companies need to adopt the computing technologies created for years in (HPC) market, particularly parallel computing. PARALLELWARE ANALYZER is the most complete and fast software aimed to enable developers to overcome the complexity of parallel programming. Appentra is a Deep Tech global company that delivers products based on the Parallelware technology, a unique approach to static code analysis specialized in concurrency and parallelism. Our aim is to make parallel programming easier, enabling everyone to make the best use of parallel computing hardware from the multi-cores in a laptop to the fastest supercomputers.
Codavel helps mobile apps ensuring they deliver a fast experience to every user, no matter what's the user network, device or location. Traditionally, user experience is highly dependent on the user's WiFi, 3G or 4G connection quality. Metrics like user retention, conversion and even revenue are in the hand of wireless links. With Codavel, mobile apps can end the loading time instability in WiFi, 3G and 4G, and get back in control. As a result, every user gets a 5-star experience, whether they’re connected through a fast WiFi network or a sluggish 3G connection. We are working towards a world where internet-based services are frustration-free. For every user, anytime, anywhere.
WalliD is the global protocol for certified identity document transactions. WalliD allows users to encrypt and store their identity documents in their Ethereum wallets and enables safe and fast validations on the web to online services with Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements or subscription features. The protocol supports Certification Authorities (CAs) and digital certificates issued through public key infrastructure (PKI). This architecture ensures that all ID documents stored in users' wallets have a digital certificate issued by a reliable CA and that online services have a trustless way to validate them.
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull request and allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.
Vawlt is a dynamic storage platform that simplifies the operation of multiple clouds while improving data security standards. The company is working in several technologies related to data security because we believe everyone is entitled to control and decide the destiny of their own data, and companies should be more responsible in handling such valuable, and personal, assets. Vawlt is a start-up from Lisbon, Portugal, founded by researchers from a very prolific R&D group - LASIGE - within the University of Lisbon.
Automaise provides artificially intelligent virtual employees for customer service. Automaise offers a growing portfolio of virtual employees ready to be hired for various business verticals and tasks/processes.
OutSystems is a low-code platform that enables businesses to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps. The modern application platform's high productivity, connected, and AI-assisted tools help developers to innovate through software. It enables organizations to build applications that transform the customer experiences, delivers workplace innovation, automates processes, or modernizes core systems faster. OutSystems makes this possible by combining the power of low-code tools with advanced development capabilities, enabling visual development of entire applications that easily integrate with existing systems. The company is backed by investors such as Abdiel Capital, Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, and Armilar Venture Partners. Paulo Rosado and Rui Pereira co-founded the Boston, Massachusett-based company in 2001.
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull request and allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.
FASTinov is a R&D intensive Startup with a patented disruptive technology to perform fast and reliable antimicrobial susceptibility tests in acute care settings.
Tradiio is a music app for web and mobile which blends streaming with direct-to-fan artist funding. Music fans have the ability to discover the best emerging artists through crowd curation. Artists can then monetize their fan base through inviting them to join their Circle (beta), where they can provide exclusive content and behind the scenes access in exchange for monthly recurring payments.
Feedzai is a data science company that helps financial institutions prevent, detect, and remediates fraud risk. Feedzai has one mission: to make banking and commerce safe by combining fraud prevention and anti-money laundering under one platform to manage financial crime. Founded by data scientists and aerospace engineers, Feedzai is considered best in a class by Aite and one of the most successful AI companies by Forbes. The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers use Feedzai to safeguard trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving customer experience.
Tradiio is a music app for web and mobile which blends streaming with direct-to-fan artist funding. Music fans have the ability to discover the best emerging artists through crowd curation. Artists can then monetize their fan base through inviting them to join their Circle (beta), where they can provide exclusive content and behind the scenes access in exchange for monthly recurring payments.
Tradiio is a music app for web and mobile which blends streaming with direct-to-fan artist funding. Music fans have the ability to discover the best emerging artists through crowd curation. Artists can then monetize their fan base through inviting them to join their Circle (beta), where they can provide exclusive content and behind the scenes access in exchange for monthly recurring payments.
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers to save time in code reviews and to tackle technical debt efficiently. Developers spend 10%-20% of their time reviewing code. Gartner estimates the global technical debt to grow to $1 Trillion by 2015. Codacy tracks new issues by severity level for every commit and pull request and allows a hassle free customization of static analysis It provides advanced code metrics on the health of a project and on the performance of teams.
LaserLeap Tecnhologies was established to address the need for a painless method to deliver medicines through the skin, and promote faster and more effective treatments. Two decades of research with lasers and ultrasound led to a technology that combines affordable lasers with innovative materials, and is capable of permeabilizing the skin to medicines and cosmetics in a safe, painless and effective manner. Established on 2011 in Coimbra, Portugal, the company focuses in the skin permeation of cosmetics, anesthetics, drugs for skin cancer, vaccines and biotechnology drugs.
Nutri Ventures is a powerful story, with lots of adventures and engaging characters, specially designed to make kids feel good by having fun, and providing interactive content. It's the first animated series, targeted at kids under 10, with multiplatform content that will engage and entertain children while creating an opportunity to educate them on the importance of healthy food. But Nutri Ventures is much more than an animated series: It’s a Cause! It contains specific content for parents, educators and others stakeholders, promotes healthy food and establishes partnerships to develop additional content and support nutritional programs. Nutri Ventures vision is to engage our children through entertainment to educate them about proper nutrition and create an exciting overall environment about healthy food!
Ecofoot was founded in 2012, with the goal of bringing H2COLOR and other exclusive products to the market. The team is a mix of researchers from the University of Minho and entrepreneurs and investors, all with a vision of a less toxicological, more ecological and sustainable coloration industry. Although very recent, Ecofoot has already been known in the media for its breakthrough technology: we are the first company using the concept of hybrid dyes.
Ynvisible is an electronics company that specializes in the internet of things industry. It features and develops technological enablers of the IoT are enhancements in cloud computing infrastructure, wireless communications, microelectronics, and notably low power electronics. The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Setubal, Portugal.
HeartGenetics genotyping technology is based on a DNA MICROCHIP that can include all genetic variants that have been proved to be the main cause of a specific cardiac genetic disease. Genotyping is achieved through a high-throughput and high accurate DNA Microchip platform optimized for genetic analysis using an iPlex MassArray system.
Muzzley is an intelligent mobile app+cloud+api/sdk intelligent platform for IOT consumer world. It's a single entry point that avoids the consumer to have hundreds of different apps to interact with hundreds of different devices. The system predicts the user desires according to the constant learning algorithm and suggests/takes actions to improve his/her relation with the connected devices.
Ubiquity is a multinational business process and call center outsourcing organization dedicated to helping partners improve customer satisfaction while reducing operating costs. The world's leading outsourcer for the fintech and emerging payments sector, Ubiquity offers live customer experience management services, interactive voice response (IVR) solutions, and a comprehensive risk and compliance solution, including fraud investigations, and disputes and chargeback management. Ubiquity has developed a next-generation technology platform engineered for operational excellence while delivering partners meaningful and actionable business intelligence. Headquartered in New York City, the company’s expanding network includes delivery locations in the United States, Hungary, El Salvador, the Philippines and an innovation hub in Amsterdam, where the company develops artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to optimize customer service agent performance. Together with its partners, Ubiquity is pioneering a new approach for maximizing the potential of every customer contact.
Private Equity Round in 2012
Iosil Energy Corporation produces "high purity polysilicon," the essential raw material for solar cells. The Corporation was founded in 2007, with its R&D facilities located in the National Institute for Nanotechnology In Edmonton, Alberta. The company has demonstrated its ability to produce high-purity solar grade polysilicon from the waste material (or “kerfâ€) created by wafer sawing operations, saving costs.
Equigerminal operates as a veterinary company that develops and produces anti virus and other biotechnological products. The company offers an anti virus solution for Equine Infectious Anaemia virus. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Cantanhede, Portugal.
Weduc is a school communication software provider. They offer a school engagement platform, a mobile app for schools that is available in both the app store and google play, school communication solutions, a website for schools, and management tools.
SAKPROJECT unique technology provides a non-intrusive (no contact with skin) and fast (less than 30 seconds) scanning process generating a 3D model with an incredibly high accuracy. SAKPROJECT developed the concept of Football custom protection – a combination of high-tech processes and materials that result in the most effective protection a player can wear while playing Football.
CURRENT provides electric utilities a Smart Grid solution that increases the efficiency and reliability of the electric grid while reducing the environmental impact of electric usage. Their integrated solution combines advanced sensing technology, two-way high-speed communications, 24/7 monitoring and enterprise analysis software and related services to provide location-specific, real-time actionable data. CURRENT is also a fully-integrated communications service provider, with the capability to offer high-performance broadband services and home energy management services to every plug in every home or office using the electric wires.
Spectrum Bridge is a privately held, telecommunication software company focused on making bandwidth more readily available to enterprises and consumers. The company's core business is providing greater availability and access to wireless bandwidth and the efficient allocation of spectrum within a wireless network. The company creates intellectual property (IP) and software applications, operates a spectrum exchange, and provides complete spectrum allocation solutions. Its patented technology provides wireless networks with the ability to dynamically access available spectrum via a database-driven cognitive network architecture.
Feedzai is a data science company that helps financial institutions prevent, detect, and remediates fraud risk. Feedzai has one mission: to make banking and commerce safe by combining fraud prevention and anti-money laundering under one platform to manage financial crime. Founded by data scientists and aerospace engineers, Feedzai is considered best in a class by Aite and one of the most successful AI companies by Forbes. The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers use Feedzai to safeguard trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving customer experience.
Magpower is one of the world`s largest manufacturer of CPV solar modules and trackers, and is presently expanding the manufacturing capacity to an annualized run rate of 54MW by the end of 2013. By enabling clean and renewable electricity at lower costs, Magpower provides a sustainable alternative to conventional energy sources. The vision to produce solar energy at an affordable price has driven Magpower to become one of the fastest growing manufacturers of solar systems in the world. The MagSun® TRK-180 represents the latest advancements in solar module technology and is rapidly driving down the cost of solar electricity to rates comparable with traditional fossil fuel-based energy sources.
Founded in 2006 as a result of the entrepreneurial spirit of its current President, Professor Pedro Pacheco, BERD was born in order to commercially exploit the Organic Prestressing System (OPS) advantages, developed by the OPS Group of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Oporto (FEUP). Based in the north of Portugal town of Matosinhos, BERD began its process of internationalisation in 2007 and is currently operating in countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, United States, Russia, Turkey, Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, among others.
Domatica is a company specialized in IoT technology focused on bridging the gap between the physical world and the logical world of software. Since its inception in 2002, we have sought to address this major issue of IoT, with a completely differentiating approach, now the so-called IoT Edge. In this sense, using all the expertise of our multidisciplinary team, we have created easyedge, a flexible, reliable, robust and secure IoT Edge platform that allows virtually any device to be connected to any type of application in a simple and easy way. Domatica operates in a B2B perspective, privileging strategic partnerships with market players, such as software or hardware manufacturers. Through them it was possible for Domatica to put its technology at the service of numerous IoT projects around the world.
TxVia offers the most advanced transaction processing technology for emerging payments and financial services, as well as comprehensive supporting services. Its solutions encompass the full scope of consumer, corporate and government payment applications. TxVia enables electronic payments with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model, a fully customizable solution that supports its clients' specialized processing needs. TxVia clients, which include some of the largest payments companies in the world, realize significant time-to-market, cost, scalability, reliability and security benefits from its custom—rather than one-size-fits-all—platforms.
Petra Solar is a technology company, pioneering "smart solar" which couples distributed solar energy generation with smart grid technology, with their own smart grid communication infrastructure and platform. Petra Solar's smart energy systems are being deployed in both the largest distributed solar electric project and the largest rooftop project in the world today.
TxVia offers the most advanced transaction processing technology for emerging payments and financial services, as well as comprehensive supporting services. Its solutions encompass the full scope of consumer, corporate and government payment applications. TxVia enables electronic payments with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model, a fully customizable solution that supports its clients' specialized processing needs. TxVia clients, which include some of the largest payments companies in the world, realize significant time-to-market, cost, scalability, reliability and security benefits from its custom—rather than one-size-fits-all—platforms.
UltraCell Corporation (Livermore, CA) was founded in 2002 to commercialize an advanced Reformed Methanol Micro Fuel Cell (RMFC) technology invented at the U. S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This technology enables a breakthrough in micro fuel cell performance. UltraCell is the first to commercialize RMFC technology to provide clean renewable energy to power portable electronics. The Ultracell XX25 is the only system to have undergone extensive Military Specification qualification testing and field trials.
Based on new, highly active nanoscale material initially developed at MIT, A123Systems' low impedance Nanophosphate electrode technology provides a competitive advantage over alternative high power technologies. A123's cell and electrode designs lower cost/watt and cost/watt-hour. They have higher voltage than other long-life systems, enabling lower pack cost. Their long life leads to reduced lifecycle and system costs resulting in greater overall price-performance . Competitors include [Valence](http://www.valence.com), [Saft](http://www.saftbatteries.com) and [Lion Cells](http://www.lioncells.com).
Nutrigreen Created in 2009 by a young, yet experienced team, responsible for launching innovative products on the market – Fruit and vegetables ready to eat – Nutrigreen is a Portuguese company which produces and markets fresh fruit derivatives, with solid partnerships with some of the major portuguese and european distributors.
Spectrum Bridge is a privately held, telecommunication software company focused on making bandwidth more readily available to enterprises and consumers. The company's core business is providing greater availability and access to wireless bandwidth and the efficient allocation of spectrum within a wireless network. The company creates intellectual property (IP) and software applications, operates a spectrum exchange, and provides complete spectrum allocation solutions. Its patented technology provides wireless networks with the ability to dynamically access available spectrum via a database-driven cognitive network architecture.
Oceanlinx is an international renewable energy company with a unique, commercially efficient system for extracting energy from ocean waves and converting it to electricity, or utilising that energy to produce clean, fresh water from brine.
Watson Brown HSM Limited develops and supplies polymer recycling technologies based on the principles of Mechanochemistry. It offers toll processing services, recycled compounds, down cycling compounds, and custom products. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Germany, and America.
SafetyPay is a global, secure Internet payment solution that enables online banking customers to make online purchases from merchants worldwide and pay directly through their local bank account in their local currency. SafetyPay was developed in response to the growing need for a safe and secure online payment method, which also could be used internationally.
Multiwave offers pulsed fiber lasers that allow the customer to control key operating parameters. Multiwave also offers other optical sources based on fiber-optic technologies, as well as product design, product development and engineering services aimed at developing and selling cost-effective and reliable products and solutions that resolve customer pains.
TxVia offers the most advanced transaction processing technology for emerging payments and financial services, as well as comprehensive supporting services. Its solutions encompass the full scope of consumer, corporate and government payment applications. TxVia enables electronic payments with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model, a fully customizable solution that supports its clients' specialized processing needs. TxVia clients, which include some of the largest payments companies in the world, realize significant time-to-market, cost, scalability, reliability and security benefits from its custom—rather than one-size-fits-all—platforms.
MALO CLINIC was established in 1995 by Dr. Paulo Malo. Today is world’s leader in Implantology and Dental Cosmetic as well as an Educational Centre on Oral Rehabilitation that trains over 3,500 professionals coming from all over the world per year. Besides Dentistry MALO CLINIC expanded to other health specialties, projecting an innovative concept of Medical Spa through a strong bet in wellbeing which resulted in the foundation of a Health Management business group spread worldwide known as MALO CLINIC Health & Wellness.
Atraverda is an advanced material company that owns the intellectual property rights to a conductive ceramic known worldwide through its trademark, Ebonex®.
OutSystems is a low-code platform that enables businesses to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps. The modern application platform's high productivity, connected, and AI-assisted tools help developers to innovate through software. It enables organizations to build applications that transform the customer experiences, delivers workplace innovation, automates processes, or modernizes core systems faster. OutSystems makes this possible by combining the power of low-code tools with advanced development capabilities, enabling visual development of entire applications that easily integrate with existing systems. The company is backed by investors such as Abdiel Capital, Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, and Armilar Venture Partners. Paulo Rosado and Rui Pereira co-founded the Boston, Massachusett-based company in 2001.
Intelligent water management reduces the need for costly new alternatives including recycling and desalination. It means knowing how much water is being used and where it can be saved. AquaSpy technology has been proven in the toughest environment of all - outback Australia. Its sensors have helped farmers improve yields by as much as 100%. Now they are being used across agricultural markets, in cities and towns, and beneath some of the world's finest golf courses, in the Americas, Australia and Europe. There are over 50,000 AquaSpy sensors in use around the world. AquaSpy Group has representation across the USA, Latin America and Australia.
Chipidea Microelectrónica
Series C in 2007
Chipidea Microelectrónica offers analog and mixed semiconductor solutions to wireless communications, digital media, and consumer electronics market segments. It provides analog subsystems for wireless and wire line communications, device-to-device connectivity, multimedia, and power management in Europe, Asia, and North America. The company offers analog and mixed Internet protocol products in various categories, including analog to digital converters, analog filters, analog front end, analog standard cells, audio and voice, clock management, digital modules, over sampling modulators, power management, radio frequency, USB link controllers, and USB physical interfaces for blue chip customers.
OphthalmoPharma (OPPH) is a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of ophthalmology treatments. Their product pipeline addresses major unmet medical needs including dry eye syndrome, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Ophthalmopharma has granted Altacor exclusive rights for its two proprietary therapeutic products for the treatment of glaucoma and dry eye as well as exclusive rights for its EyeBar, a nutraceutical for the prevention of dry AMD and the preloaded injector for delivery of intraocular lens in cataract and corrective lens replacement surgery (currently known as SOLO).
Sousacamp, SGPS, S.A. produces and supplies mushrooms for the food industry and households. The ocmpany is based in Braganca, Portugal.
Superbac develop our activities based on the responsible principle of nature self-remediation and create specific microorganism blends to fulfill different needs. We produce concentrated blends on an industrial scale, focusing on formulations which are easy to use and can be applied continually. Founded in 1995, SuperBAC is a biotechnological solution company, focusing on Innovation. Our solutions stimulate sustainability in the production processes in the fields of agribusiness, sanitation, energy, bioremediation, and retail. We have Research and Development centers and units in the United States, Brazil, and Colombia to come up with solutions that are environmentally correct and economically feasible.
Coreworks® S.A. is a leading provider of Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) for multi-standard multimedia such as DTV, IPTV, portable audio players, and mobile internet devices. Our products have been implemented in a wide variety of technologies, for more than 30 customers worldwide. Our products include digital audio encoders and decoders such as Dolby Digital, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC and AAC+), MPEG1/2 Layers 1/2, digital audio interfaces such as SPDIF/AES-EBU, TDM, I2S, and asynchronous sample rate converters. Coreworks' products rely on the SideWorks™ patent pending technology for automatically creating pre-silicon configurable and post-silicon reconfigurable hardware accelerators. Our solutions achieve three to five times more efficiency in terms of silicon area and power consumption, compared to the competition. Coreworks was founded in 2001 by two professors of the Technical University of Lisbon (IST) doing research on Reconfigurable Computing at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering R&D (INESC-ID). The company received an A-series investment round from Espírito Santo Ventures in 2006, and three R&D grants from the Portuguese government. Its complex technology is still undergoing developments.
Dreams is a global company that is redefining the concept of interactivity, with a focus on the exciting field of Augmented Reality technologies. Over the last few years they have been developing full-scale interactive environments (from stores to exhibitions), products and intellectual property, combining technology and design.
Global Active is the Portuguese holding of a group of companies specialized in projects for agriculture, cattle breading and forest planning.
Clarity Payment Solutions develops electronic payment solutions and processes payment transactions for emerging and specialty markets.
Vortal is a leading G2B2B (Government to Business to Business) eMarketplace operator, serving more than 50,000 companies and 2,000 contracting authorities in 3 continents. The company was founded in 2000 with a mission “to help our clients buying better and selling more", to achieve superior performance” in a high performance collaborative cloud-based solution. Vortal supports its customers through its offices in Portugal, Spain, UK and the Czech Republic , with a team of highly-motivated people from 7 nationalities. Business foundation has been built on becoming the leader in Portugal, both in the Private and Public markets regarding electronic procurement. Since 2010, Vortal has been consecutively distinguished as one of "100 best companies to work in Portugal", in a survey carried out by “Accenture" and "Exame" magazine. In 2011, the Association of Electronic Commerce and Interactive Advertising distinguished Vortal as the "Best B2B e-commerce website". At an International level, Vortal was included in the Deloitte “Technology fast growing 500 EMEA ranking” and recognized by Gartner regarding expertise and capabilities, namely in the publications “Strategies for Public-Sector Investment in Procurement Applications" and "Cool Vendors in Procurement Applications".