State venture capital has injected half a million euros into Adeci, the online solution created by young Telmo and Hélder that allows restaurants to predict what will happen in their business over the next 28 days. With 2,200 active establishments in Portugal, it is followed by Spain and the United Kingdom.
The “eureka” moment came in the summer of 2021. Telmo Taipa was doing work for his master’s degree in Industrial Engineering at a brewery in Gaia when the owner commented: “The work is great, but if you told me what I was going to sell tomorrow, that would be perfect.” With the phrase “resonating” in her mind, she realized that “it might be possible to respond to that need”…