Feb 1, 2023

In this episode, we catch up with Ricardo Marvão the Co-Founder of Beta-i . Ricardo Marvão is a key figure in Portugal’s thriving startup ecosystem. Currently, he is pioneering a new paradigm for innovation: collaborative innovation. It builds on his experience working in the public sector, building ecosystems and mentoring entrepreneurship. Over the course of his distinguished career, Ricardo has invested in promising startups, launched the Lisbon Startup Guide and is also a jury at the European Innovation Council for the European Commission. He’s someone who has been at the forefront of developing and exploring synergies between the public and private spheres – looking at how connections can positively influence tomorrow. His latest venture, Beta-i, launched in 2010, is a collaborative innovation consultancy with global reach. It leverages acceleration expertise and networks to help ecosystems grow, connecting a huge network of entrepreneurs, mentors, experts, investors and knowledge institutions to solve things that matter. In this episode, Ricardo shares more about the company, what the next generation of innovation looks like, how the public and private spheres can work together, and, we discuss Portugal’s exciting startup ecosystem. Tune in now! This episode is brought to you by Vanta, helping you scale security practices and automate compliance for the industry’s most sought-after standards. To close and grow major customers, you have to demonstrate trust. But proving your security and compliance can be time-consuming, tedious, and expensive. Especially for startups. Unless you use Vanta. Vanta automates up to 90% of the work for the most sought-after compliance standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and gets you audit-ready in weeks instead of months. With Vanta, you get up to 400 hours of your time back and reach up to 85%  in cost savings. And for a limited time, EU-Startups listeners get $1,000 off Vanta. Just go to  vanta.com/eustartups  to get started. - Advertisement -