A group of startups pooling resources for shared initiatives: shared infrastructure, events and information sharing.
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The annual fee funds incubator activities: organizing events and monthly check-ins, maintaining shared resources, and joint initiatives decided by members.
Monthly in-person meetings where each founder shares their month's progress, pitches updates, and exchanges practices and learnings with other founders. It creates a network of accountability and recurring peer learning.
The ideal target is tech-based startups — software, deep tech, or products with social/environmental impact that incorporate technology. The focus must be global: exportable projects designed to scale beyond the local market. Not a fit: local small businesses, agencies, service providers, or projects without a scalable product component.
Early-stage startups that: have a prototype or functional product; are testing the market (pilots, early adopters, first sales); have pre-seed or initial seed (<€1M) or are bootstrapped.
At least one cofounder should be in Viana do Castelo or have a connection to the city. Events and check-ins are in-person, so it doesn't work for 100% remote teams. But if you're from outside and interested, get in touch so we can figure out how it could work.
Monthly in-person founder check-ins, administrative and operational support, funding and open call information sharing, and access to the cooperative's self-hosted tools. There are no mentoring services included by default, but the program is run by everyone — startups collectively decide priorities and initiatives.
Examples: meeting room booking (fair use), access to cooperative staff at cooperative rates (application preparation, accounting, automation, software engineering), basic legal support, and access to tech infrastructure (servers, equipment, software licenses).
The startup becomes a member of the cooperative, with a voice in incubation program decisions. It maintains full legal and operational independence — there's no equity or shareholding involved. The cooperative functions as a shared support structure, not as an investor or accelerator.
We have a growing database of templates and drafts for: service contracts, budgets/proposals, NDAs (non-disclosure agreements), MOUs (memoranda of understanding) and LOIs (letters of intent). These resources are shared among startups and updated based on collective experience.
