Universidade de Aveiro

Scouting and evaluating tech startups for investment funds  -  Disruptive Tech Expert  -  Startup Mentor  -  Public Speaker

Lecturer in AI ethics and social impact at the “AI for Marketing and Sales for Executives” postgrad programme

Coimbra Business School | ISCAC

Invited Professor

Helping investors find amazing startups and startups going big

UNION Venture Builders

Supporting the definition and implementation of the international growth strategy

B11 Top Talents

Board Advisor

I was invited by Kevin Monserrat to join the CV ecosystem as an expert network member in 2019 to support the business across its mission to help redefine startup acceleration. After I went through my mutual assessment I was able to trade my professional services and time with CV’s startups for CVDS the ecosystem currency. Or I am able to help the CV Review Committee with due diligence on the startups they are hoping to work with. I add value by helping where I can when I have the bandwidth and I am happy with my membership as it gives me access to some of the most cutting edge innovation right now coupled with a strong list of exciting projects to work on.

Consilience Ventures is a data-driven venture capital ecosystem, using its own digital currency (not a cryptocurrency) to invest in high growth b2b start-ups from pre-seed to Series A. It uses a combination of data and human-driven decision making to raise the probability of selecting the best start-ups to which CV offers unparalleled support to achieve massive growth.

Consilience Ventures

Global Expert Member

Reducing cross-infection and Hospital Acquired Infections while increasing the comfort of bedridden patients, by creating a new solution to provide warm-water, fully sterilised showers in-situ, on the bed.

We are starting pilots with major hospitals in Portugal and Germany, and looking for the next round of investment.

ihcare - innovation hospital care

Co-Founder & CTO

Providing expert analysis of disruptive technologies for the Horizon 2020 European Union program, including technological viability and market potential.

European Union Research Executive Agency

Disruptive Technology and Innovation Expert

Blogging furiously on self-development while being a serial entrepreneur.

Check it out at:
http://theinnerpreneur.blogspot.pt

The Innerpreneur

Blogger

Mentored at various acceleration programs, among which:
- European Innovation Academy (Generic, the largest extreme acceleration program in the world)
- Lisbon Challenge (Generic)
- Rede Nacional de Mentores (Generic State Mentor Network)
- Smart Open Lisboa (Smart Cities)
- NOE (Generic, covering 4 Universities)
- SIBS PayForward (FinTech)
- EDP Energy Acceleration Madrid (Energy)
- Amorim Cork Challenge Barcelona (Physical Product)
- UATEC (Generic)

Also mentored several projects in Business Management and Go-To Market Strategies.
- Petable - Pet management application for passionate pet owners
- Engenius UA - Student team participating in the Formula Student competition
- Heaboo - Revolutionary energy and water saving devices
- Visor.ai - ChatBots for the masses
- FeetIt - Mobile 3D modelling of your feet, getting perfect fits every time
- PET Universal - Pet Care management taken to the next level

Entropic Ventures

Business Mentor

Public speaker on Entrepreneurship and Innerpreneurship, having delivered presentations at events such as:
TEDxAveiro (PT)
Porto Tech Hub (PT)
European Innovation Academy '19 & '20 (PT)
Appril Festival (NL)
Oper8IT (PL)
Startup Mentorship Academy (GR)
ESOMAR (PT)
Ignite Covilhã and Ignite Aveiro (PT)
IEEE Induction (PT)
Innovation Now (PT)
In Touch 
ENI - Empower New Ideas
TSI2Market
Entrepreneurship Fair NEEEC - UC '15

C Further

Public Speaker

Responsible for solving intractable problems in unexpected ways and getting blockchain and machine learning to behave for our clients in the UK, US, Benelux, Nordics and Brazil.

Also getting new tech startups evaluated for large investment funds and setting up Business Innovation Acceleration Programs (BIAPs) for corporates in the meantime.

Vigil

Chief Innovation Officer & Cofounder (Exited)

VIGIL365 has helped dozens of companies navigate the process of planning, scaling and managing highly technical nearshore projects across borders — increasing technical capacity and business success.

Our 3-step process is designed to provide total confidence when scaling complex technical projects across borders. We analyse your technical needs, introduce you to suitable technology providers and provide ongoing project oversight — keeping you engaged and informed during your nearshore project lifecycle.

Portugal Business Liaison 

An experienced congregation of Gators partnered with SalesForce and make use of their amazing cloud platform to make magic happen in businesses around the World.

We are operating in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Portugal for now, but don't be surprised if we are lurking under the water next to you already. 

Drop us a call! We'll be there in a Snap!

YelloGator Lda

Co-Founder

As a Business Angel and Chief Genie Officer I was responsible for making stuff happen, namely being involved in the creation, acquisition, funding and development of projects and companies such as:
2015 - Heaboo, Disruptive Water Heating Device
2015 - Petable, Vet and Pet Owner Mobile App
2015 - Driven, CRM and Digital Marketing experts
2015 - Outfit, Outsystems Development
2015 - Edge Innovation Aveiro, Tech Innovation 
2014 - WittIT Inc, Open-source nearshoring services
2013 - EDOTVISION LDA, video signal-processing R&D
2013 - Brainiac Lda, NeuroMarketing
2013 - EDGE AMAZING SOUND TECHNOLOGIES LDA, audio signal-processing R&D
2013 - E.NEAR, Nearshore IT services

E.Gen Ventures

Founding Partner

Development of a new platform for virtual assistant management, co-funded by IAPMEI, development of the associated business model and business plan.

UmbrellaWorks

Business development and management of remote SalesForce software development teams.

Wool-e

Partner

Coderhat is an open-source and mobile development company, striving to deliver amazing results by hiring proud geek software makers.

In this company I have the position of Business Developer and Innovation Evangelist.

As a Business Developer I have participated in the creation of the business model, business strategy, acquisition of new clients and the internationalisation of the company with the opening of our NYC counterpart and acquisition of our first US customers.

As an Innovation Evangelist I was mainly responsible for identifying and acquiring relevant innovation projects and manage our participation in them. This has allowed us to:
- Acquire a participation in Petable, a Vet and Pet Owner mobile app that has already been funded in a Round A by Portugal Ventures;
- Participate as mobile technical lead in project YoLP, a mobile app that uses AI to create a model of human taste, promoted by Edge Innovation and co-funded by IAPMEI.

Coderhat c|:

As the R&D Director:
- Program Manager and Business Model Designer of Heaboo, a water-heating device based on a proprietary patent pending phase-change material technology, recently shortlisted by KIC Innoenergy;
- Inventor, Program Manager and Solution Designer of MoBuy, a patented pending television chrono-location architecture and product placement solution;
- Program Manager of YourLunchPal, a mobile application and Big Data solution for the modeling of human food taste, co-funded by IAPMEI;
- Program Manager of PubTV, a patent pending real-time logo recognition technology for video-streams and product placement solution;
- Program Manager of FetalECG, a portable, real-time, always-on, fetal ECG analyzer and alarm system; 
- Business Mentor of Petable, a pet timeline application that integrates with veterinary clinics to provide a 360º view of you pet, recently invested by Portugal Ventures.

As a Project Manager:
- Program Manager of the Information System Delivery Department at ZON TVCabo responsible for managing  the internal and outsourced development of the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), Geo-Referenced Addresses, Product Catalog Reengineering and Mediation Reengineering projects;
- Project Manager and Architecture Designer of Portugal’s first full Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), ZON Mobile ;
- CRM Project Manager of the Revenue Assurance Issue Prevention team at the leading Portuguese cable provider, ZON;
- Siebel 2000 eCommunications CRM Solution Designer and Project Manager for the remodeling of an Order management subsystem at Phillip Morris Portugal;
- Sharepoint 2007 Project Manager of the Intranet Project for Banco Finantia, a Portuguese investment banking group.

As a Strategic and Process Reengineering Consultant:
- IT Strategy Advisor for the Autoridade Nacional de Segurança Rodoviária (ANSR);
- Program Advisory, Process Mapping and Reengineering for Accenture at ZON in the scope of the offshoring to India of part of the Siebel development team.

Edge Portugal

This company was created to support the development of Heaboo, a disruptive water heating device based on a proprietary and patented phase-change material technology, of which I am co-inventor, that has the potential of reducing global energy consumption by 1,5%.

I was responsible for creating the business model and business plan, acquiring funding with round A investors and general business management.

Since it's inception this company has achieved a 1 333% valuation growth.

Founder

CRM Director, responsible for creating and managing the CRM offer.

Business Manager for the Portugal Telecom account, having been directly involved in a twofold increase of the consulting team for this client (from 2 to 5 consultants).

CRM Consulting, having assumed the following roles:
Siebel 7.5.3 eCommunications CRM Team Leader of the Failed Orders, Blocked Orders, Massive Order Cancellation, Manual Order Processing and Order Management Stabilization teams, responsible for extensive changes of the Order management subsystem of the leading Portuguese cable provider, TV Cabo;

Xpand-IT Solutions

Unit Director

Business Manager for the Portugal Telecom account, having been directly involved in a twofold increase of the consulting team for this costumer (from 11 to 21 consultants).

CRM Consulting, having assumed the following roles:
- Siebel 7.7 CRM Solution Analyst and Developer at a Saudi Arabia’s mobile service provider startup, Mobily (Etihad Etisalat);
- Siebel 7.5 eCommunications CRM Analyst, Developer, debugger and bug fixer, part of the CRM Support Team, at a major Portuguese mobile telecommunications service provider, OPTIMUS;
- Siebel 7.5.3 eCommunications CRM Analyst and Developer at the leading Portuguese cable provider, TV Cabo.

Altior

Business Manager

CRM Consulting, having assumed the following roles:
- Siebel 7.5.3 CRM Solution Analyst, Developer, debugger and bug fixer at the leading Portuguese cable provider, TV Cabo;
- Architecture Consultant in the scope of the Definition of Application Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of all Information Systems areas for a major Portuguese mobile telecommunications service provider, OPTIMUS.

DMR Consulting

Consultant

Mobility Management Expert for the Core Network Operation Team, part of the Application Data Expert Team (ADET), responsible for the development of the management object model for the GSM, GPRS and UMTS Core Network.

David Carvalhão