Alexandre Mendes

Alexandre Mendes builds companies and the ecosystems around them. He is a non-executive board member at Grupo Almedina, strategic lead consultant for the EU-backed SYSTEMEU innovation programme, advisor to MindPartner and co-founder of desconfIA, a critical-thinking initiative — and is currently helping put together a new VC fund. He advises Startup Braga, which he ran as Executive Director from 2017 to 2020, growing its portfolio from 96 to 138 startups and its investment base from €12M to €65M. He then led the venture arm at Subvisual for five years, backing 50+ VC-funded ventures. He is an angel investor and guest lecturer at Porto Business School.