Booking a court or a sports pitch is sometimes hard work, as André Duarte, AirCourts Co-Founder, explains. He proposes an app to make things easier. I talked to him recently to find out more. What is AirCourts and how did the idea come about? AirCourts is a mobile App and website for discovering and booking sports venues. Users can browse hundreds of sports venues and … [Read more...]

Going back to the tourism sector, we turn to a company that will be present in the upcoming WebSummit: TravelCentral24. I talked to André Conde, their Founder & CEO, to find out more about their plans and their app YouGoTo.com. In a nutshell, how did TravelCentral24 come about? I should split this in two: It came to fruition because of a product I was working on 2 years … [Read more...]

The tourism sector in Portugal is one of the country's strongest economic engines, trading countless millions of Euros a year. Climber is a hotel management tool that aims to help improve hotel's profits and their pricing system. I talked with Mário Mouraz, co-founder of the company. In a nutshell, what is Climber and how did the idea come about? Climber Hotel is an easy to … [Read more...]

Most of us love to travel, I'm assuming. And most of us take care of planning online, I'm also assuming. Tripaya is a site that proposes to make this process much easier. I chatted with founder André Ramos to find out more about it. What is Tripaya and how did the idea come about? Tripaya is a new travel site that makes it easier than ever to plan a trip or vacation. For a … [Read more...]

Travelling is a much loved activity. Having help in the form of an app featuring city tours would be cool. If, besides that, the tours adapt to your mood, even better... Well, meet Inviita. I talked with Bernardo Véstia, their CMO. What is Inviita and how did the idea come about? Inviita is a mobile app that automatically creates city tours anywhere in the world, according … [Read more...]

Loqr is a player in the website security arena, aiming to avoid fraud in financial transactions. I talked with Ricardo Costa, CEO of Loqr to find out a bit more about them. In a nutshell, what is Loqr and how does it propose to improve website security? Loqr is, above all, a disruptive Authentication solution! With that we mitigate risk and avoid high costs to any … [Read more...]

Alarm clocks are something most of us use every day. Cuckuu's mission is to make it a social experience, integrating all kinds of fun features. I talked to João Jesus, Cuckuu's CEO. In a nutshell, what is Cuckuu and how did the idea come about? Cuckuu is a free mobile app for iOS and android. It uses something that people use almost every day, an alarm clock. By using … [Read more...]

The market for productivity tools is vast. What if you could measure performance and reduce work fatigue? That's what Performetric proposes to do. I talked to André Pimenta, their CEO and co-founder. What is Performetric and how did the idea come about? Until recently, the majority of job offers consisted, essentially, in physical activities. However, this paradigm has … [Read more...]

Information is everywhere and in overwhelming quantities. Attentive aims to manage that information and deliver it as you need it, integrating their system with the companies' CRM. I talked to Daniel Araújo, CEO of Attentive, to find out more about it, and about the startup scene in general. What is Attentive and how did the idea come about? Attentive is an enterprise tool … [Read more...]

This week I talked with Paul Bleicher, COO of Codacy, a startup providing a tool to help programmers worldwide with their coding practice. They won the Web Summit award in 2014 and have been growing more and more recently. Here's a little more about them. How can programmers best take advantage of your service? Developers spend between 20-50% of their time reviewing code. … [Read more...]