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Angel Investor
Sep 2024
Angels Way (aka AW) is a community-driven investor focused on Portuguese-based early-stage Startups that have a direct impact on making the world a better place through the use of technology.
The goal of Angels Way is to support and develop the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as to create a like minded community to bring value to everyone involved.
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2024
Co-Founder
Oct 2024
Modern organizations no longer operate in static environments.
Data continuously moves across engineering systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, third parties, and increasingly AI workflows. Yet most governance and security models still rely on periodic audits, static documentation, and manual evidence collection.
Qala AI is the Governance Control Plane for Software Engineering.
We help organizations continuously reconcile governance intent with real engineering implementation and runtime behaviour - providing provable visibility into how sensitive data is actually handled across modern systems.
Our platform enables security, governance, and engineering teams to:
- Continuously validate controls
- Detect operational drift
- Trace sensitive data flows
- Improve AI and third-party governance
- Reduce blind spots across distributed systems
- Move from assumptions to continuous evidence
Because controls on paper are not the same as controls in production.
The AI era is accelerating system complexity, data movement, and governance risk. Traditional governance models were not designed for this reality.
Qala was built for it.
Angel Investor
Sep 2024
Angels Way (aka AW) is a community-driven investor focused on Portuguese-based early-stage Startups that have a direct impact on making the world a better place through the use of technology.
The goal of Angels Way is to support and develop the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as to create a like minded community to bring value to everyone involved.
2005
Strategic Partnerships Manager
Oct 2005
Founded in 2012, JE Portugal unifies, represents and fosters a movement that has its genesis in Europe in 1967 and arrived in Portugal in 1990.
The Portuguese Network counts with more than 1100 Junior Entrepreneurs, members of 23 Junior Enterprises:
> Aveiro Smart Business
> Base IPAM
> Bright Lisbon Agency
> Católica Consulting Linked
> Católica Students Consulting
> EPIC Júnior
> FEP Junior Consulting
> In-Nova
> ISCAC Junior Solutions
> Iscte Junior Consulting
> ISEG Junior Business Consulting
> Iuris FDUP Junior
> JEEFEUC
> jeKnowledge
> JuniFEUP
> Juniscap Business Solutions
> JUNITEC
> LisbonPH
> Nova Junior Consulting
> STAR Junior Enterprise
> SUNIporto
> UTAD Solutions Consulting
> Young Minho Enterprise
Moreover, there are more than 17 Junior Initiatives from North to South of the country - groups of students which are preparing the fundation of a Junior Enterprise.
Internationally, JE Portugal is member of JE Europe - European Confederation of Junior Enterprises, represented in 16 countries and globally represents 65 thousand Junior Entrepreneurs and 1700 Junior Enterprises.
Based on the potential for developing the skills of university students, the Junior Enterprise imposes itself as a school of leaders that awakens from an early age the entrepreneurial attitude of young people in favor of solving the real problems of their environment. At the end of the day, it is all about better preparing a generation to build the future.
2004
Co Founder and PM
Oct 2004
Issued from the Academia Politécnica, which was founded in 1837, the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) is a leading institution of international reputation whose achievements in research and teaching have established itself in the forefront of the universities of engineering.
