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Apr 2024
Lisbon Art Weekend is a non-profit organisation that aims to contribute to the strengthening and fluidity of the contemporary art scene in the city through merging a diversity of art spaces such as galleries, artist run spaces, private art collections, museums and public projects dedicated to the arts. LAW will organize an annual weekend for art lovers from Portugal and around the world to visit Lisbon and its contemporary art scene and assist to parallel events centered around contemporary visual arts.
LAW’s main objective is to offer to the public of all backgrounds an opportunity to meet and visit Lisbon’s ever growing urban contemporary art scene and experience artworks and performances in their natural habitat. Additionally, LAW strives to offer a framework for discussion through a selection of parallel events.
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May 2022
We’re a home-sharing community with a mission to empower displaced policyholders, claims adjusters, and hosts with efficient and affordable relocation solutions that create a sense of home and comfort during challenging times.
For displaced policyholders, we ensure they are not uprooted to unfamiliar places but are instead relocated to comfortable temporary homes in their neighbourhoods, enabling them to maintain a sense of familiarity during challenging times.
Claims adjusters benefit from our technology-driven solutions, simplifying the relocation process, reducing costs, and ensuring the happiness of policyholders.
Hosts, on the other hand, gain access to insurance housing contracts, resulting in higher income, better guests from their communities, and a reduced regulatory burden.
Through these interconnected services, we foster a sense of belonging and comfort, making a positive impact on policyholders, claims adjusters, and hosts alike.
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Mar 2021
Axya is a modular cloud-based source-to-pay software that focuses on manufacturing companies ready to take on digital transformation. We build the tech necessary to manage complex and fast-paced procurement operations fit for a disruption-heavy market.
If you are still using email, spreadsheets, and tech made in 2000 to run your operations in the current environment, you will feel overwhelmed and stressed out.
There is a better way.
We’ve proved that we can improve operational efficiency by 80% by automating away most of the recurring dreadful follow-up work.
We’ve reached that performance by:
⦾ Ensuring the process is tailored for procurement operations in manufacturing companies. It’s simple, it works and it’s fast.
⦾ Leverage all the data lost in emails and excel to improve your procurement operations. Every week spent on Axya automatically builds up your procurement operations knowledge base.
⦾ You are not alone, with a dedicated team of procurement professionals and engineers specializing in manufacturing a click-away, your procurement is in good hands.
Good news also for your suppliers, we have a 100% guaranteed adoption rate. They will enjoy your procurement process much more while working through Axya.
Procurement operations in manufacturing need to evolve in order to stay resilient and deliver good value for your business. We believe that by leveraging your data you can improve your operations, reduce costs and delight your customers better than your competition.
An agile enterprise requires a connected procurement operation, contact us at axya.co to see how our solution can give your team more breathing room.
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2026
CEO & Founder
Apr 2026
Atlas by Cortese is a Lisbon-based boutique talent placement and headhunting brand focused on commercially important roles.
We help founders, operators, and growth-minded companies hire carefully selected talent across:
sales
business development
partnerships
growth marketing
CRM / lifecycle
customer-facing leadership roles
Atlas was built around a simple observation: Portugal — and especially Lisbon — has become home to a highly interesting pool of internationally experienced professionals who are often underleveraged by traditional hiring models.
Many of the professionals we work with have international experience across North America, the UK, France, Europe, and the Middle East, and are already remote-ready, commercially credible, and aligned with modern distributed teams.
Atlas combines:
founder-level commercial understanding
selective search and placement
local proximity in Lisbon
and, where relevant, support for fractional or transition-style roles
This is not high-volume recruitment.
It is a more selective, founder-led, relationship-driven approach to commercial hiring.
Based in Lisbon. Built for international hiring.
2024
CEO & Founder
Dec 2024
We offer meal kits that include balanced recipes as well as the necessary ingredients to prepare them.
Co-President, Co-Founder
Apr 2024
Our mission is to strengthen Canada-Portugal economic relations by fostering, on both sides of the Atlantic, a vibrant business community that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and sustainable growth.
Board Member
Apr 2024
Lisbon Art Weekend is a non-profit organisation that aims to contribute to the strengthening and fluidity of the contemporary art scene in the city through merging a diversity of art spaces such as galleries, artist run spaces, private art collections, museums and public projects dedicated to the arts. LAW will organize an annual weekend for art lovers from Portugal and around the world to visit Lisbon and its contemporary art scene and assist to parallel events centered around contemporary visual arts.
LAW’s main objective is to offer to the public of all backgrounds an opportunity to meet and visit Lisbon’s ever growing urban contemporary art scene and experience artworks and performances in their natural habitat. Additionally, LAW strives to offer a framework for discussion through a selection of parallel events.
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