Prodsmart fits over 100,000 euros to consolidate markets – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

There was the trip scheduled for Munich, for the next day, though Gonçalo Strong could even celebrate with a dinner at your Alentejo. The Typical Tavern Wednesday in Évora, would be a likely hypothesis. Radiant, but “very nervous”, the computer engineer 35 years was awarded the desired additional investment – given this 2nd edition box Entrepreneur Award. An initiative that brought together hundreds of participants at Culturgest in Lisbon.

In January, the Prodsmart won another check of 100,000 euros, Caixa capital, to win the Startup Lisboa Boost precisely the gas created by the venture capital fund CGD group.

electromechanical industrial Son, with a unit in Arraiolos, a provider of Tyco Electronics in Évora, then, Gonzalo began in adolescence for “errand boy”; then dispenser; later, creator of “IT solutions for the company”; until, in 2012, it revolutionized “a typical consulting project” and created the technological infrastructure Prodsmart.

it is, in the words of the young CEO of a” production management system for manufacturing companies, that lets you know in real time everything that is happening on the shop floor, using mobile devices, tablets and smartphone . “

Conclusion: the system” reduces the waste of 75 to 80 percent and increase efficiency of around 20 percent. ” Allows “to know what is happening on the production line without going there or even without being in the same physical location.”

“ End the paper, making any production line in digital factory and then a smart factory “is already today a reality that involves 1,500 people, some dozens of companies that use the Prodsmart platform in Portugal and Germany.

“ Consolidate these two markets “is the fate of 100,000 euros conquered. After Germany – where the current partner is “Festo, a giant industrial automation, with 300,000 customers” – the startup intends to “take the step to the UK,” even in 2016, with the United States as “a goal for next year.”

in terms of technological development, there is the idea of ​​”end with stocks on the planet and transform production in a span> download “. Ie, extend the system to “break the boundaries of a factory, creating a macro process with all units involved. If one is late, those waiting can adjust their production process.”

At 100,000 euros box Entrepreneur Award, contributed six other startup , an event that took place” above expectations, with the participation of about 800 people and more than 20 international funds ” the debriefing of the Business Network by Stephan Morais.

for the administrator of Caixa Capital, the affluence and the registered dynamics are a sign that “Portugal is to be recognized as a center of innovation. it is a phenomenal progress since before Lisbon was not ranking at all. as I’ve been told, this is Berlin for three or four years, but with real technology. “

the image of dynamism and entrepreneurship of the German capital was indeed one the signs that led the Irish Paddy Cosgrave to invest in making the Web Summit in Lisbon next November. Earned the message from his brother, and told the cashier Entrepreneur Award, saying it had discovered “a Berlin version with much better weather.”

further compounded the thousands of messages via Facebook, Twitter and other digital channels which then received from the Portuguese. Lisbon was eventually selected to host for three years, the Web Summit, a technology conference that is one of the most remarkable congregation of events startup .

the success of the initiative perspective is, judging by the words of the Web Summit CEO: “. in the presence of over a thousand journalists, they will see a different side of Portugal If the world does not yet know enough about Lisbon will turn out to know much more” .