We're a group of experienced builders, creative thinkers and investors, whose goal is to transform two key things: the way companies address innovation and how new ventures are put together.

The Labs Team is developing and prototyping solutions for emerging technologies by working closely with industry leaders in retail, telco, cyber-security and media industries.

Nurture your starting business with our keen tech insight. Work side by side with Bright Pixel’s best developers.

We keep a close eye on new businesses that operate on the uncharted waters of emerging technologies. Our mission is to support them with early stage funding.

Bright Pixels culture is a collective result, combination of talent and mindset of every team member. This is where ideas come to life.

Labs

When uncertainty proves right

The Labs Team thrives in highly demanding environments, where critical thinking, creativity and fast iterative execution are crucial.

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We build projects and transform companies.

Our Lifecycle

Understanding

Defining the problem.
Defining the proof of concept.
What's the time window we have available?
What are the results we're expected to deliver?

Execution

Implement the agile methodology of choice.
Execute the experiment.
Measure, adjust, repeat.
Report the progress.
Deliver the project.

Analysis

Analyze the results.
Act on the results and findings.
Spawn a new project or product, or
Create a new, adjusted, experiment, or
Close the project.

What we do

Systems architecture
Designing of simple, highly scalable, cost-efficient, maintainable, secure and modular architectures for technical platforms.
Hardware prototyping
We're capable of building small runs of hardware base prototypes using electronics combined with digital fabrication techniques like 3D printing, CNC milling, and silicone molding.
Web development
Full stack web development using microservices and APIs, frameworks like NodeJS, Python, Elixir, (Native)ReactJS, NoSQL databases, Redis, Spark and other cloud-based services.
Design
Design and web design. Building brands, identity guidelines, graphical materials, DOM and CSS assets, fluid mobile responsive interfaces, interactive visualizations.
Usability and UX
Conceptualizing website and application's user experiences: storytelling, mockups, information architecture, navigation, and usability.
Cyber-security
Web application security assessments with diagnosis and how to fix, best practices, policy guides, training, vulnerability management.
Emerging technologies
Exploring emerging technologies and using different approaches to business challenges. Experience with machine learning, Blockchain, VR, natural language and computer vision.
Technical Due Diligences
Our diverse know-how and the experienced team at Bright Pixel puts us in a privileged position to examine, diagnose and advise technology-based businesses and report on their platforms with a unique in-depth perspective.

Portfolio

See Bright Pixel Labs projects, made alongside Portuguese industry leaders in telco, retail, cybersecurity and media.

Shopping cart assistant

We built a personal voice assistant for retail customers involving hardware, speech recognition, computer vision and web APIs.

Voice recognition
Computer vision
Hardware prototyping
Personal assistant
E-commerce

client:Continente

Telco Dataviz

Interactive visualization tools around anonymized data from NOS using big-data, HTML5 and JavaScript technologies. Strong emphasis on simplicity and usability.

Visualizations
Interactive
Usability
Big-data
Statistics

client:NOS

P24

The goal of this project is to provide tailored news to users when they return online, keeping a strong emphasis on Audio and Video content.

Media
Big-data
Podcasts
Personalization
User behaviour

client:Público

TV Slack

Social experiment on the TV using the NOS EPG, events data, and Slack, a popular group chat platform.

client:NOS

IPTV
Social TV
Chatbots
TV/Web fusion

Trend Analysis

Business intelligence tool for competitive analysis. Uses social media and news feeds, natural language and sentiment analysis to estimate consumer product trends.

client:Worten

UI/UX
Data visualization
News and Social Media
Sentiment analysis
Data processing

Branding and UX

Bright Pixel imagined and designed S21Sec's new brand and identity guidelines together with their new website for a better UX and information structure.

Branding Identity
Design
Guidelines
Graphics
Frontend development

client:S21Sec

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Clients

Some of the companies we're working with

Partners

We stand on the shoulders of our partners and their best-in-class products and services in the Labs. They help us accelerate our experimentation process and move faster.

SonaeIM is an IT corporate venturing-company, aiming to manage and build a portfolio of worldclass tech-based companies linked to retail and telecommunications. They're also Bright Pixel's investor, which means we create a lot of synergies on evaluating opportunities, finding clients for the Labs and accessing co-investors.
Microsoft has partnered with us since day one. Bright Pixel is one of the top 200 global incubators qualified for the BizPark Plus program. Our startups have access to hundreds of Microsoft software packages, Azure cloud infrastructure, and free support.
NOS put together a discounted communications plan for our startups, provided our headquarters' building with 1Gbit/s symmetric fiber Internet access and access to their IPTV platform, not to mention direct access to C-level executives and sales teams inside the organization.
Cisco powers Bright Pixel's startups with access and support to their Devnet API portal, training, amazing Wifi infrastructure in our building -- using their Meraki platform -- and Cisco Spark video conferencing equipment for our remote meetings.

Start me up

When ideas turn into businesses

Take advantage of our omnipresence in the emerging technology markets and the experience that comes with it.

Build the right product and define a suitable go-to-market strategy with us.

We embrace the fact that most of the entrepreneurs are on different pages of a similar story.

Bottom line is to build a successful business.

BREAKING GROUND

Insert Coin program turns humble beginnings into thriving ventures.

Start me up means taking the first step towards a goal. If your goal is to found a successful business, but you don’t have the idea or resources, Insert Coin has both. If you have an idea, someone to walk with and you need a support system with a lot of space for freedom and creativity, Insert Coin has it too.

TELL ME MORE

FROM GROUND UP

Elevate your MVP and take your startup to the next level.

You had an idea, assembled a team, developed one of first versions of your product and now you’re a little stuck. You either need financial support, a top-notch tech support or you don’t know what you need. Either way, we can help.

Collaboration

You can't talk about entrepreneurship and startups in Portugal without mentioning Beta-i. Bright Pixel is proudly and deeply collaborating with their Lisbon Challenge, a pre-seed acceleration program that funds 10k for 1.5% equity, to help startups build and launch their product in 10 weeks, and Lisbon Investment Summit event.

Founded in 2014, Startup Braga is designed to assist the inception and development of high potential entrepreneurial projects for international markets. We are collaborating with the 5th edition of Startup Braga acceleration program.

Located in Barcelona, EGI Booster is a vertical acceleration program for early stage startups. Its focus is on SaaS e-commerce/e-retail industry verticals targeting European ambitious B2B solutions.

We stand on the shoulders of our partners and their professional products and services. They help us take our startups and MVPs to the next level.

SonaeIM is an IT corporate venturing-company, aiming to manage and build a portfolio of world-class tech-based companies linked to retail and telecommunications. They're also Bright Pixel's investor, which means we create a lot of synergies on evaluating opportunities, finding clients for the Labs and accessing co-investors.

Bright Pixel offers AWS Activate credits to our startups, as part of the perks. AWS Activate is a program designed to provide your startup with the resources you need to get started on AWS.

Cisco powers Bright Pixel's startups with access and support to their Devnet API portal, training, amazing Wifi infrastructure in our building -- using their Meraki platform -- and Cisco Spark video conferencing equipment for our remote meetings.

Invoice Express is everyone's favorite invoicing software for startups and SMBs in Portugal. Rupeal offers 6 months of their "Grande" plan for free, to any of our incubated companies.

NOS put together a discounted communications plan for our startups, provided our headquarter's building with 1Gbit/s symmetric fiber Internet access and access to their IPTV platform, not to mention direct access to C-level executives and sales teams inside the organization.

Priberam is the leading partner for language technology in Portugal. Their lab team conducts applied and exploratory R&D in the areas of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

Investment

Boosting startups to the next level

Investment is the third Bright Pixel pillar that leverages the tech expertise and properly validates investment opportunities. Our mission is to mitigate risks, launch startups and prepare them to scale.

Let us know about your funding round.

We believe that a good start significantly influences the growth rate of a business and its overall success.

Themes

Our ticket size can go up to 1M€, with possible larger follow-ons. We operate within Retail, Telecom, Cybersecurity and IoT with a particular interest in following tech B2B use cases:

Big data and advanced analytics
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Natural language interfaces
VR/AR
Blockchain
Collaborative platforms
Communication and workflows
E-commerce
Customer Experience

Our Investment Management Team and the Investment Committee have years of proven experience in the market by successfully building and selling companies along with managing global technology-based investment funds.

Portfolio

Probe.ly

Web application vulnerability scanning suite for agile teams

Probe.ly automates web vulnerability scanning and is targeted at companies that build online services. Companies can cost effectively request scans of web applications and manage the lifecycle of the vulnerabilities found in a sleek and intuitive web interface.

Founded2016
StageTraction
ThemeCybersecurity
HQPortugal

Get to know Probe.ly

Eat Tasty

Delicious food, from your neighborhood

Food network orchestrator focuses on empowering home cooks. EatTasty will bring to our daily lives the taste and recollection of authentic home cooked food, wherever we are and regardless of our ability to cook.

Founded2016
StageTraction
ThemeAdditional Investment
HQPortugal

Get to know Eat Tasty

Reckon.ai

Transforming Retail Through AI

Track economic indicators, promotions, discounts and allocation between stores to optimize prices, stock management and supply chain.

Founded2017
StagePilot
ThemeRetail
HQPortugal

Get to know Reckon.ai

Advertio

Online Advertising made simple.

All-in-one free online advertising platform aiming at small advertisers all over the world.

Founded2017
StagePre-Revenue
ThemeAdditional Investment
HQPortugal

Get to know Advertio

Continuum Security

We help you design, build and manage the security of your software solutions.

Automated threat modelling integrating security at development stage through a questionnaire-based for development teams.

Founded2015
StageGrowth
ThemeCybersecurity
HQSpain

Get to know Continuum Security

Jscrambler

Leader in JavaScript Application security for web and mobile applications.

Highly innovative security products to protect Web and Mobile Applications. Its flagship product is the leader in JavaScript Application Security, trusted by more than 30,000 companies and individuals.

Founded2014
StageGrowth
ThemeCybersecurity
HQPortugal

Get to know Jscrambler

Sensei

AI platform for retail that captures in-store data with great precision.

Founded2017
StagePilot
ThemeRetail Tech
HQPortugal

Get to know Sensei

Place me

Location intelligence for sales prediction.

Placeme is an online tool that predicts location sales potential and analyzes omnichannel customer journeys, helping you to create a winning sales strategy.

Founded2017
StagePilot
ThemeRetail Tech
HQPortugal

Get to know Place me

Taikai

Open innovation platform connecting innovators and corporates.

Open Innovation Platform that allows corporates to challenge and award the community (startups, academia, innovators / entrepreneurs).

Founded2018
StagePre-revenues
ThemeAdditional Investment
HQPortugal

Get to know Taikai

Place me

Your management platform for all your retail techs.

Streamline the use and adoption of an increasing number of technology solutions by organizing your technology environment on one single platform and empowering your retail teams in managing these solutions!

Founded2017
StageTraction
ThemeRetail Tech
HQFrance

Get to know Beamy

Ventures Team

Bright Ventures' team combines a unique background in top-level management, software, product development, entrepreneurship, investments, venture capital and consulting, with several decades of experience in the telecom, media, retail and technology industries.

Celso Martinho

Partner

Alexandre Santos

Partner

Benjamin Junior

Partner

Marcos Azeredo

Associate

Frederico Santos

Investment

Pedro Vieira

Investment Committee

Nuno Gonçalves Pedro

Investment Committee

Epifânio da Franca

Investment Committee

Talent

An accident of genes

Bright Pixel remains close to the talent ecosystem by actively supporting it. Organizing events, from small-scale meetups to the biggest hackathon in Portugal - Pixels Camp, is fundamental to spark Bright Pixel’s questioning culture. Ultimately, fostering new ways of approaching innovation in tech attracts the best to collaborate with us.

We're hiring!

At Bright Pixel we're striving to build a culture of transparency, communication and merit to promote the highest possible levels of creativity and innovation.

BRPX TEAM

Company’s culture is a byproduct of people who work here, together. Get to know us!

Celso Martinho

CEO e Founder

Alexandre Santos

Chief Investment Officer

Nuno Loureiro

Designer

Benjamin Junior

BizDev & Funding

André Cruz

Software Engineer

Cláudio Gamboa

Software Engineer

Carlos Rodrigues

Software Engineer

Nuno Pereira

Software Engineer

Isa Costa

Designer

Nuno Jesus

Software Engineer

Ana Pascoal

Product Analyst

Ricardo Malta

Software Engineer

Marcos Azeredo

Investment

Karolina Piechocinska

Content Manager

David Silva

Investment Analyst

Sofia Cardita

Data Engineer

Emanuel Alves

Software Engineer

Miguel Carvalho

Software Engineer

Edite Cruz

Partnerships & Projects

Benjamim Alves

Software Engineer

Frederico Santos

BizDev

Job openings

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Junior Backend Programmer

Company: Bright Pixel Labs

We're hiring a curious and motivated junior programmer to join the Bright Pixel Labs team at our Chiado office. This person will help build backend components (eg. web APIs) using different technologies (eg. Python, Node.js, Go), depending on the project, alongside our team of experienced developers.

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Experienced Backend Developer

Company: Bright Pixel Labs

We're hiring an experienced backend developer to join the Bright Pixel Labs team at our Chiado office. Should have a good understanding of web-related technologies as well as working experience with one of Python, Node.js, Go, or similar languages and their ecosystems. Software architecture experience is valued but not required.

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Junior Frontend Programmer

Company: Bright Pixel Labs

We're hiring a curious and motivated junior developer to join the Bright Pixel Labs team at our Chiado office. This person will help build web applications using different frontend technologies (eg. React.js, Vue.js, jQuery, React Native), depending on the project, alongside our team of experienced developers.

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Experienced Frontend Developer

Company: Bright Pixel Labs

We're hiring an experienced frontend developer to join the Bright Pixel Labs team at our Chiado office. Should have a good understanding of underlying web technologies (eg. HTTP) as well as experience with a modern Javascript framework (eg. React.js, Vue.js, Angular) and its ecosystem. Strong skills in plain Javascript are valued but not required.

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Blockchain Engineer

Company: Bright Pixel Labs

Will be involved in R&D and developing projects using blockchain technologies (eg. Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric). Should be knowledgeable in both the soft aspects of building a blockchain solution (eg. market incentives), as well as the underlying blockchain technology itself. Must be able to code smart contracts with security and reliability in mind, in Solidity and/or Go.

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About

We have a pitch too

Bright Pixel redefines the standard approach to business and cultivates a model that tackles the ever changing nature of technology. We are transforming two key things: the way companies address innovation and how new ventures are put together.

How we came to be

Bright Pixel was born on the 20th of April, 2016.

We're a group of experienced builders, creative thinkers, and investors. Our background and connections derive from the Web and Telecommunication industries. Two decades of shaping the Portuguese Internet left us with a deeply ingrained notion that rules change daily, business and otherwise.

Our three-step, distinctive venture builder model starts with developing projects in the enterprise area, the Labs. It allies our technical proficiency with strong ties to the market. As a result, we’re operating a powerful and responsive ideation tool, that mitigates many of the early stage venture risks and creates compelling synergies for the Start me up and Investment stages.

Today, at Bright Pixel, we are uniquely positioned to work with industry leaders in the retail, telco and media businesses, the growing startup ecosystem, universities, and other investors from around the world.

Events

Are you looking for the most relevant calendar of business events in Portugal? Register to Bright Pixel’s hosted events.

Find yourself lost in inspiring, bleeding edge topics in areas like technology, design, investment and entrepreneurship. Stay up to date with our recommendations. We regularly curate a list of go-to events in the Portuguese startup ecosystem.

LET’S CONNECT

Pixels Camp is a three days non-stop event targeted at creative minds. It packs a coding contest where teams will pitch their projects on stage, hundreds of talks addressing emerging technologies and fun activities like the Tech Quiz, Nuclear Tacos or Presentation Karaoke.

Pixels Camp is community driven, custom tailored specifically for those who attend the event. Based on their bios and previous work evidence, the curators aim at selecting the best, most participative and motivated programmers and creatives to attend the event.

We thrive to give our participants an unforgettable experience. Content and projects are exciting, but fun activities at Pixels Camp are an important part of the show. Nerdy ones, of course.

Pixels Camp is a yearly technology cult event spanning over three days of non-stop technical talks, workshops and coding.” devia ser “Pixels Camp is a yearly technology cult event spanning over three days of non-stop technical talks, workshops and coding

For sixty hours straight, 1.000 participants enjoy world-class presentations, demos, community events and its classic 48-hour coding competition.

More information on Pixels Camp

In all Pixels Camp Editions

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Talks

Pixels Camp is already one of the largest European free video content repositories online. We video recorded and edited every single talk at Pixels Camp and then made them available in the Pixels Camp YouTube Channel.

Check the video archive

Other events in the past

We participate in other events, and in the past we have been involved in these events:

Open Source Camp

The first Open Source Development Conference organized by Microsoft Portugal and powered by Bright Pixel is now a reality!

We know it’s very, very hard for some of you to believe it, but… this isn’t the Oscars and “This is not a joke!”.

Yes, Microsoft has big love for Open Source. So much that they are the largest corporate contributor to open source software on GitHub.

This camp is about deep content and incredible technology so the agenda was built with more than 25 sessions on topics such as Docker, Blockchain, .NET Core, ElasticSearch, Linux, Bots, React, Kubernetes, Serverless and others.

Open Source Camp

Lisbon Maker Faire

Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning. The original Maker Faire event took place in San Mateo, CA and in 2014 celebrated its ninth annual show with some 1.000+ maker exhibits and 120.000+ people in attendance.

In 2016, Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Bright Pixel and the Lisbon City Hall organized the 3rd edition of the Lisbon Maker Faire, the biggest event and showcase for the Maker’s community in Portugal.

Lisbon Maker Faire

Lisbon Investment Summit

Lisbon Investment Summit is Europe’s surprisingly informal and slightly unexpected startup conference. We bring together top investors, entrepreneurs and executives from all over the world.

The event is known for casually creating unique networking opportunities, unlike bigger conferences, and real investment opportunities. Be part of #LIS17 and get to know Lisbon’s growing tech scene.

Bright Pixel will be proudly sponsoring this year's edition.

Lisbon Investment Summit

Lisbon Challenge

Lisbon Challenge is a pre-seed accelerator based in Lisbon that helps startups build and launch their product in 10 weeks.

The program brings on experienced entrepreneurs and market experts to mentor startups, giving the structure they need to grow a solid founding team, and helping them define the roadmap for product market fit.

It all starts with a boot camp. A one week intensive and immersive program to prepare teams to pitch their startups to the investment committee for the final selection.

Lisbon Challenge