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Corporate Venture Capital Sonae IM rebrands to Bright Pixel Capital

May 2022 SONAE Corporate Venture Capital Sonae IM rebrands to Bright Pixel Capital “Building a Brighter Future Together” is the company’s new claim and strategic drive Bright Pixel Capital has €300M to invest over the coming years, in industry-changing companies on a global scale The company maintains its strategic focus on DNA industries: Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies Sonae IM, a leading corporate venture capital company from the Sonae Group and a prominent European investor in Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies, is changing its brand to Bright Pixel Capital (www.brpx.com). The rebranding comes with a new tagline – “Building a Brighter Future Together” – and the ambition to continue identifying unique and industry-changing opportunities. Bright Pixel Capital’s new identity conveys modernity and agility while emphasizing its values of financial drive, and growth orientation. "The industries of Retail Technologies, Digital Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies...
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Sonae IM sells Wedo Technologies

September 2019 SONAE Sonae IM sells Wedo Technologies Two strong players in Roaming, Revenue Assurance, and Fraud Management come together to further strengthen their ability to provide cutting edge technology and solutions to the telecommunications industry Sonae IM has reached an agreement with Mobileum to sell WeDo Technologies. With this transaction, Sonae IM continues to carry out an active management strategy of its portfolio of technology-based companies, with the aim of consolidating its position as a reference international investor, while reinforcing WeDo Technologies’ growth path and relevance in the global market, which represents a clear opportunity for the company and its people. Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, WeDo is a leader in risk and business management solutions for communication service providers (CSPs) globally, helping them to drive revenues, mitigate risk, and prevent fraud on their networks. WeDo’s rich and exhaustive portfolio of products and solutions is backed by advanced analytical insights,...
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SmartSeg Project

November 2017 SONAE SmartSeg Project The SmartSeg project aims to develop a Marketing solution that has as main objective the creation of an intelligent segmentation motor to support marketing professionals in the definition of campaign targets. During the implementation of the project, Bizdirect will develop a tool that will provide the platform already in use by the Marketing professionals (Microsoft Dynamics CRM) with intelligent tools of segmentation. The challenge is to aggregate ‘dead data’ that already exists in the organizations, with ‘live data’ that results from analysis of social networks, having as a basis a specific context that is being promoted by a given campaign. This solution thus pretends to provide the Marketing departments with a tool that will also consider the feeling/behavior of the final consumer/prospect/influencer, as an essential parameter to include or exclude the individual from the Marketing campaign. This solution is based on four essential pillars: Provide...
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Saphety wins EU CEF Telecom eInvoicing project

July 2017 SONAE Saphety wins EU CEF Telecom eInvoicing project Saphety, in consortium with 7 major hospitals and 30 suppliers, was selected by the European Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) to implement SAPHeIN project. SAPHeIN project aims to promote the uptake and accelerate the use of e-Invoicing (2014/55/UE) amongst public entities established in Portugal and Spain, while respecting the European Standard and focusing on semantic interoperability. Building on existing commercially available electronic invoicing and B2G solutions such as “SaphetyGov” and “SaphetyDoc”, SAPHeIN project will enable to automate current manual processes in Public Hospitals, in order to drive down costs and move those public entities towards a higher efficiency and profitability. The Public Health sector is specifically at the centre of interest of this proposal, acting as a first target and a priority sector regarding its huge social and economic impact, and its potential role to facilitate the e-Invoicing adoption...
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Jornal Público – P24

June 2017 SONAE Jornal Público - P24 Público has long been in the forefront of digital innovation: in the early years of the internet, our newspaper was the sixth all over the world to go online, early in 1995; and also one of the first to have a dedicated newsroom creating news online, since 1998. We are now claiming back that legacy and maximizing our efforts to develop an innovative approach regarding news products. As such, when Google announced that it was funding innovation efforts in media all over Europe with its brand new programme DNI, we took the chance. We won the first round, also the second and are now competing for the third. The project that won the first round (and a grant over 500k€) is P24, already fully functional on our website. P24 is an innovative approach to audio news and personalization, because it consists on a...
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ShopView2Market

June 2017 SONAE ShopView2Market Amongst the challenges faced by retailers all over the world, two have a huge impact on the P&L: Out-of-Stocks - 25% percent of 8.3% global out-of-stocks are caused by poor shelf management (Source: ‘Retail Out-of-Stocks: A Worldwide Examination of Extent, Causes and Consumer Responses’ –GMA & FMI Study) Planogram (POG) compliance - non-compliance corresponds to ~1% of gross product sales that can be translated in to a lost sales of $10 to $15 billion of total $1.5 trillion sales (Source: Studies from T__he ISI Sharegroup and National Association for Retail Merchandising Services -NARMS) Verification of compliance with pre-defined store and shelf layouts is a recurrent activity performed by retailers at each store through a manual and time-consuming process. Wrong product placement and out-of-stock scenarios are a cause of diminishing revenues, contractual penalties with suppliers and decreasing consumer satisfaction. To address these challenges, WeDo Technologies, in partnership...
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Happy Birthday Bright Pixel

April 2017 SONAE Happy Birthday Bright Pixel Sonae IM is extremely happy that Bright Pixel is celebrating today its first year of existence. So far, it has been very interesting and promising ride. The company builder studio model has been tested and has already produced some interesting results. Bright Pixel has three main areas: Labs: a lean and very experienced team of tech & product developers that work closely with big corporate companies in experimental projects. Several innovative tech projects were developed with leading players in retail, telecom and other sectors. Besides that, Bright Pixel lead the co-organization of a major tech event in Portugal - Pixels Camp - that joined more than 1.000 of the most tech talented people in Portugal during 3 non-stop days packed with workshops, speakers and a great hackaton. This year it is going to be huge (like Trump would say it!) and you should...
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Bizdirect eXtreme365 Lisbon

February 2017 SONAE Bizdirect eXtreme365 Lisbon Bizdirect will be participating as a Premier Sponsor at eXtreme365 eXtreme365 is the largest event for the Dynamics CRM community in Europe. The event will take place in Lisbon for the first time during March 13th-17th. More than 600 participants from around Europe including world-renowned speakers from Microsoft are attending. Bizdirect will also host a session with the theme “Working side-by-side in a Nearshore model” on March 14th dedicated to partners. Bizdirect will be sharing its experience on working side-by-side, across Europe during the last 3 years, with Dynamics CRM partners, who consider Bizdirect to be an extension of their team. Hosting such an important event is a big step and a result of the expansion strategy as a competence center of excellence in Microsoft solutions. It would be great to have you all there! Join Bizdirect at their ISV Showcase and learn more...
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WeDo UG Malaysia

February 2017 SONAE WeDo UG Malaysia For the second time WeDo Technologies hosted its Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management educational conference in Malaysia. This year it was held at the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, on January 17-18, 2017. Over 75 attendees and 17 telecom operators, from 10 countries were represented in User Group Malaysia (WUGMALAYSIA17). See here the highlights Also, save the date: May 10-12, 2017 WorldWide User Group’17 event held in Lisbon
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Can you dodge bullets?

December 2016 SONAE Can you dodge bullets? Great poker players are usually focused on a specific game format – the one they are best at playing and making money – while strictly managing their finances to decide at which level they will be playing, according to their total bankroll. In the investment world, the story isn’t much different. The game format working as a metaphor for asset class, sector or geography and bankroll for determining the stage one will be entering. One of the key rules to become a great investor is to have a solid philosophy and enough discipline to stick to it. They work as a cornerstone to which investors make investment decisions. In its definition, investors project their beliefs about how markets work and how individuals who constitute it behave. These beliefs can save from situations such as this one. On the other hand, an investment strategy...
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