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Ricardo Marvão is Co-founder of Beta-i, a collaborative innovation platform with global reach started in 2010 and the main builder of the startup ecosystem in Lisbon, experts in designing and managing projects for large corporations around the world from strategy to pilot testing & venture building. The main industries are Energy, Healthcare, Oceans & Sustainability.
Ricardo Marvão co-founded also a number of educational projects in Portugal like Próxima Geração (an academy for the next generation of young politicians), the Singularity University Portugal (training thousands of corporate executives/year), the European Innovation Academy (massive entrepreneurship summer school for 500 global university students/year, running now for 9 straight years), Native Scientists “Same Home Town” (science education for primary school thru a global network of 1000 PhDs impacting over 5000 students) and the "Space for Business" post-graduate program with ESA and business schools St.Gallen, RSM, Bocconi, IE & NovaSBE.
Ricardo Marvão has over 10 years of international experience in the Space Industry, sending satellites to space, working for ESA, Inmarsat, Airbus, Embraer and many others in several continents. He also co-founded in 2005 a startup in the space industry which he sold back in 2010 to a large IT international corporation.
Marvão raised a €21M pre-seed fund and have invested in over 60 startups. He currently lives in Brussels with his wife and 2 boys.
