Bright Pixel
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.
Labs
When uncertainty proves right
Bright Pixel is uniquely positioned to work with industry leaders in the retail, telco, cyber-security and media industries and help them make use of technology and experimentation to solve critical challenges in their businesses.
Our team has years of experience with emerging technologies and working in highly demanding environments where critical thinking, creativity, and fast iterative execution were crucial.
If you're a looking for a new perspective on the future of your industry, and you think digital transformation processes take forever, then talk to us, we'd love to hear and help.
Our Lifecycle
Understanding
- Understanding the business of the customer.
- 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
The core team of developers and design creatives in the Labs has more than ten years of experience in web and mobile technologies, cyber-security, big-data, machine learning, and large-scale critical applications.
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Systems architecture
Designing of simple, highly scalable, cost-efficient, maintainable, secure and modular architectures for technical platforms.
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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.
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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.
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Design
Design and web design. Building brands, identity guidelines, graphical materials, DOM and CSS assets, fluid mobile responsive interfaces, interactive visualizations.
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Usability and UX
Conceptualizing website and application's user experiences: storytelling, mockups, information architecture, navigation, and usability.
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Cyber-security
Web application security assessments with diagnosis and how to fix, best practices, policy guides, training, vulnerability management.
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Emerging technologies
Exploring emerging technologies and using different approaches to business challenges. Experience with machine learning, Blockchain, VR, natural language and computer vision.
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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
Some of our projects in the Labs
Shopping cart assistant
We built a personal voice assistant for retail customers involving hardware, speech recognition, computer vision and web APIs.
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.
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.
client:Público
TV Slack
Social experiment on the TV using the NOS EPG, events data, and Slack, a popular group chat platform.
client:NOS
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
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.
client:S21Sec
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Incubation
When ideas turn into businesses
We have an unusual approach to invest in tech projects and startups.
Our experienced team of engineers, product designers, and the close relationship we have through our labs with companies and entities from several sectors (from Retail to Telecom, Energy to Healthcare, Government to Fintech,…), create substantial synergies.
That allows us to mitigate two of the most dangerous risks with any early stage venture: building the right product and finding the first customers.
We are always interested in projects that make good use of emerging technologies.
Talent, Ideas, MVP's & Startups
We do not have ordinary incubation nor acceleration programs. We believe that they are actually great in helping out startups that are jumpstarting their projects. That is why we support several of the best programs that happen every year in Portugal and abroad.
Nevertheless, we like to focus our work on one-to-one relationships with a few teams at each time. So, we can invest in projects or startups that are in early stage of development.
Our unique approach allows us to support projects, entrepreneurs and startups, having in mind several different sources of opportunities:
- ideas that are born through our Labs,
- ideas that great and smart people have and that we help to build from scratch
- ideas that are starting to be developed by startups that need our help
We are always interested in projects that make good use of emerging technologies.
We are also privileging projects that might have more relevance to verticals and areas where our interest is higher due to the strategic partnerships we have in place.
Whenever we think there's an opportunity on the table, we try to partner with a good team of promoters with the know-how and the drive to turn an idea into an MVP that can then become a startup, if all goes well :)
We fund the MVP, helping during the process with the resources that need to make it happen.
It’s a tailor-made approach where for each project we agree on what is needed to guarantee that the project has what it takes to succeed. We can provide a set of services and resources - tech support, designers, legal support, several IT tools, infrastructure, access to industry partners, office space, you name it.
Then, if the MVP proves to be successful - namely, if it has customers interested in it and other investors willing to back it - we, at BRPX, will help transform the project into an actual startup and boost the team to conquer the world, together with the help of other co-investors, launching, in the process, a robust, less risky, validated product into the market.
Think you have a good fit with us? Let's talk!
Click here to apply for our incubation program.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.
Get to know Probe.ly Internal
Graf.ly
Power to the newsroom
Graf.ly is a new kind of approach to the digital newsroom that aims to put journalists and editors in full control, with content at the center of the universe, state of the art UX, KPIs that matter, mobile ready and offline support.
Get to know Graf.ly Internal
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.
Get to know Eat Tasty External
Meshapp
Next generation content app builder
Meshapp unifies content into engaging experiences that fuel your marketing success. Create and manage engaging content channels and activate your audience according to your marketing goals.
Get to know Meshapp External
Reckon.ai
Transforming Retail Through AI
Track economic indicators, promotions, discounts and allocation between stores to optimize prices, stock management and supply chain.
Get to know Reckon.ai Internal
Viable Report
Smart matchmaking
There is a perfect investor for your startup, and Viable's goal is to help you find it. A correct match is often the crucial point that allows for a startup to survive and move successfully from one investment round to the next.
Get to know Viable Report ExternalCollaboration
As collaboration is in our DNA, we are focused on building long-lasting partnerships. We foster close relationships with partners with whom we feel that act under the same values and principles as we do: to find and help ambitious entrepreneurs with drive, vision and talented enough to disrupt the technological world.
We are growing
Officially launched on the January 11th of 2018, Reactor is an innovation hub focused on the corporate world, especially in the industry’s innovation and digital transformation, as well as in the startup world, on the creation and support of new ventures.
We help to incubate and invest in startups that have interesting and ambitious tech projects. We have office space and we support them on what they need along their entrepreneurial ventures.
This friendship has resulted from the willingness and combination of skills between Porto Business School, Lionesa Enterprise Center and Bright Pixel. Furthermore, we also count with the support from Beta-i, Chain Reaction, and NOS.
We deeply collaborate with our partners on their programs and initiatives by:
- Having an active role from the initial assessment to the selection of the final best projects
- Giving mentorship and support to the participant startups
- Investing in the projects that stand out from the crowd
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.
Having its HQ in Silicon Valley, and spread by more than 170 cities around the world, Founder Institute is a 4-month acceleration program oriented by a global network of initiatives and mentors, that help entrepreneurs to launch their own technological startups. We are hosting the Portugal FI chapter at Bright Pixel.
Partners
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.
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.
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
Bright Ventures is the investment arm of Bright Pixel. We invest in tech companies with a particular focus on B2B for the retail, telco, cyber-security and media verticals, in different stages of development, from early (MVP) to growth stages. Our ticket size goes from 50K€ (Pre-seed) to 500K€ (Seed), plus possible Post-seed and Series A follow-ons.
Our investment management team and investment committee have years of proven experience in the market, building and selling their companies and managing global technology-based investment funds.
Themes
Bright Ventures is the investment arm of Bright Pixel. We invest in tech companies with a particular focus on B2B for the retail, telco, cyber-security and media verticals, in different stages of development, from early (MVP) to growth stages. Our ticket size goes from 50K€ (Pre-seed) to 500K€ (Seed), plus possible Post-seed and Series A follow-ons.
Our investment management team and investment committee have years of proven experience in the market, building and selling their companies and managing global technology-based investment funds.
Our investment themes are Retail, Telco and Media, and we look for the following B2B use cases:
- Data Analytics
- Cyber-security
- Customer Experience
- Digital Business
We're also looking for promising enabling technologies that have the potential to be used transversally in any industry. For example:
- Big data and advanced analytics
- ML/AI
- Natural language interfaces
- IoT and home automation
- VR/AR
- Blockchain and crypto
- Collaborative platforms
- Communication and workflows
Think you have a good fit with our investment strategy? Let's talk!
Click here to start.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
Staying close to the talent ecosystem and supporting or organizing selected events is key to experiment, showcase and learn from emerging technologies including those that aren’t directly related to our core areas. Events are primordial to spark Bright Pixel’s questioning culture, foster new ways of thinking and innovate, and ultimately attract the best to join our project.
Events
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.
For sixty hours straight, 1.000 participants enjoy world-class presentations, demos, community events and its classic 48-hour coding competition.
Pixels Camp'16 Edition
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Wi-Fi APs
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
Campfire Events
Campfire Events are all year calendar of tech talks around Portugal and Europe in small venues or office facilities, organized by the Pixels Camp team and their partners.
If you feel you should put your mad skills at work and share your knowledge with the community, be it technology, product design, entrepreneurship or your vision about the future, then talk to us. We will provide you with access to thousands of other developers, a stage, video capturing, streaming and a great, engaged audience.
Interested in speaking at or hosting a Pixels Campfire?
Talk with us!Other events
Here's a list of events Bright Pixels co-organizes or will be sponsoring this year.
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 ChallengeAbout
We have a pitch too
We're a group of experienced builders, creative thinkers, and investors with many years of experience on our backs, who got together due to multiple crazy coincidences and whose shared goal is to transform 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 with many years of experience on our backs, who got together due to multiple crazy coincidences and whose shared goal is to transform two key things: the way companies address innovation and how new ventures are put together.
The team roots and its connections come from more than twenty years working with emerging technologies in the Web and Telecommunication industries.
Two decades shaping the Portuguese Internet left us with a deeply ingrained notion that rules change daily, business and otherwise.
Today, at Bright Pixel, we are uniquely positioned to work with industry leaders in the retail, telco and media businesses, the growing startup's ecosystem, universities, and other investors from around the world.
Our three-step distinctive venture builder model, where we use the Labs and the projects we're doing in the enterprise space as a powerful ideation tool, allied with our technical capabilities and strong ties with the market, allow us to mitigate many of the early stage startup risks and create compelling synergies for the incubation and investment stages.
Events
Be a part of Bright Pixel´s unique events
Bright Pixel will host a set of events that cover most bleeding edge topics in areas like technologies, Design, Investment, entrepreneurship. Stay tuned not miss a single event.
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Are you ready?
Insert Coin is a Bright Pixel program that helps entrepreneurs thrive.
It tackles all the stages of a startup cycle.
Beginning with ideation, moving forward to execution and investment. Success or not, always ending with a lesson learned.
Work your way through it with our help along the way. Are you up for the challenge?
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The idea
Put your thinking cap on.
Ideas are only worth what you make of them. Execution is key.
You have the drive to be an entrepreneur, but you're short on the inspiration?
We prepared a list for you.
Let´s Play
Build the idea
It's time to build your MVP and test it with real customers. We can help you with:
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Testbed with clients
Level up
Fundraising time
Take it to the next level and unleash your product’s full potential.
Our fund works like financial muscle, supporting your early-stage funding.
APPLY NOW
Game over
Continue?
Everybody fucks up. It’s part of the learning process. Share your experience and listen to fellow entrepreneurs.
One rule:
Don’t blame anyone but yourself.
JOIN OUR MEETUP
hall of fame
No guts, no glory
Consider this the ultimate list of advisors and mentors.
It’s where we give our kudos to fearless startups and entrepreneurs.
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Let’s talk about turning an idea into a successful business Get in touch.
Team
We're hiringAnd we've got a hell of a team!
Our founders are a hell of a team with many years of proven experience in fields as diverse as product development, investments and funding, web programming, highly scalable systems, big data and AI, information security, usability and design.
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.
Celso Martinho
CEO e Founder
Alexandre Santos
Chief Investment Officer
Nuno Loureiro
Designer
Benjamin Junior
BizDev & Funding
André Cruz
Software Engineer
Claudio Gamboa
Software Engineer
Carlos Rodrigues
Software Engineer
Nuno Pereira
Software Engineer
Isa Costa
Designer
Nuno Jesus
Software Engineer
Bruno Martins
Software Engineer
Ana Pascoal
Project Manager
Ricardo Malta
Software Engineer
Ana Pinto
Data Scientist
Paulo Ribeiro
Software Engineer
Marcos Azeredo
Investment
João Castro
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
Kátia Amaro
Designer
