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9 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 9 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 🎂For our 9th birthday, everyone got a passport and a mission: leave with 9 new connections.B...
25/05/2026

9 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 9 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 🎂

For our 9th birthday, everyone got a passport and a mission: leave with 9 new connections.

Because we're still sure of one thing: founders scale faster together. ❤️

BOOM = fundraise-ready + board-smart. 📈This week, Inês de Macedo Santos (Armilar) helped our Big Bang Bada Boom cohort u...
21/05/2026

BOOM = fundraise-ready + board-smart. 📈

This week, Inês de Macedo Santos (Armilar) helped our Big Bang Bada Boom cohort understand the decisions that shape a fundraise: SAFEs, dilution, cap tables, and investor trust.

Thank you for bringing the investor perspective to the room. 🙌

You added AI. Did your team adopt it? 👀On 9 June, Patrícia Gomes from .pt shares how a traditional Finance team moved in...
20/05/2026

You added AI. Did your team adopt it? 👀

On 9 June, Patrícia Gomes from .pt shares how a traditional Finance team moved into AI-augmented workflows.

What changed? What resisted? What finally clicked?

☕ The Tea On AI Team Migration
📅 19 June · 13:30
🎟 Free entry · Sign up in bio

”Culture-fit beats skill-fit”. 🎯Sofia Matos (People & Culture Director @ ) closed the People & Ops module of Big Bang Ba...
19/05/2026

”Culture-fit beats skill-fit”. 🎯

Sofia Matos (People & Culture Director @ ) closed the People & Ops module of Big Bang Bada Boom with the playbook she's been sharpening since she was Infraspeak's first People hire.

Five hands-on exercises later, our cohort had felt every lesson. 🙏

What are you building on top of the electricity? ⚡Last week, Jorge Teixeira (BrightFactory) made the case that the LLM i...
13/05/2026

What are you building on top of the electricity? ⚡

Last week, Jorge Teixeira (BrightFactory) made the case that the LLM is like electricity: necessary, but not the product.

What keeps users coming back is the empathy layer above it. The part competitors can't copy. 💡

Next up in Product Season:
☕ The Tea on AI Team Migration
🛠️ Building Your AI-First Product w/ Loka

Sign up on Luma (bio).

Selling to giants? 🐋This week at BBBB, Afonso Santos (Head of Retail Media @ Kevel) walked the cohort through how he wen...
30/04/2026

Selling to giants? 🐋

This week at BBBB, Afonso Santos (Head of Retail Media @ Kevel) walked the cohort through how he went from $180 contracts to seven-figure deals with Continente, NOS, El Corte Inglés and PayPal.

A real lesson on strong relationships, transparency, and standing eye to eye with the buyer. Thanks, Afonso. 🙌

Another round of the Resident Olympics, settled on the battlefield. 🔫🥷Airsoft podium:🥇 LabOrders🥈 iLoF🥉 XhockwareThe lea...
28/04/2026

Another round of the Resident Olympics, settled on the battlefield. 🔫🥷

Airsoft podium:
🥇 LabOrders
🥈 iLoF
🥉 Xhockware

The leaderboard keeps moving. 💪

Last week, F2 welcomed ,  and InvestPorto to talk about where Porto's tech ecosystem is heading.3 organisations. 3 angle...
27/04/2026

Last week, F2 welcomed , and InvestPorto to talk about where Porto's tech ecosystem is heading.

3 organisations. 3 angles. 1 good conversation.

Thanks to Ricardo Neves, David Mestre, and João Rodrigues for joining us. 🙌

Week 3 of BBBB was all about the revenue engine. ⚙️Miguel Alves Ribeiro () reminded the cohort that most startups don't ...
24/04/2026

Week 3 of BBBB was all about the revenue engine. ⚙️

Miguel Alves Ribeiro () reminded the cohort that most startups don't run out of product, but out of pipeline hygiene, channel clarity, and honest unit economics.

Four hours, one fix per team. 🫵

Thanks, Miguel. 🙌

What makes AI feel human? 🤖On May 7, Jorge Teixeira (Chief AI Officer @ BrightFactory) unpacks the intersection of emoti...
22/04/2026

What makes AI feel human? 🤖

On May 7, Jorge Teixeira (Chief AI Officer @ BrightFactory) unpacks the intersection of emotional intelligence and engineering, and the hard-earned lessons of building AI people actually trust.

☕ The Tea On The Human Side of AI
📅 7 May · 13:30
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