PORTUGAL’S 50 HOTTEST STARTUPS
Medical appointment scheduling consultaclick.com Consultaclick.com is a startup founded in 2010 to revolutionize the healthcare appointment system in Portugal and abroad. Consultaclick is a web-based appointment-making system, which makes the process more efficient, affordable, and quick process to find and schedule a medical consultation. Patients have access to a transparent, secure, fast, and non-prepay system so they can find the appropriate specialist fit for their needs and availability. Without any added cost, patients are provided a personal area where they register and where all appointments are made for greater control of their clinical progression. At the same time, the platform is available to physicians and brings them greater professional visibility, the ability to disseminate their resumes, simplified schedule and appointment management, and an overall more professional, modern, and efficient process. Doctors will be able to create a profile, post their resumes, provide exact times for potential patient appointments, easily notify patients of any delays or unanticipated communication, and automatically maintain an updated list of patients and their respective queries. Since early internationalization was a goal for the company, Consultaclick. com is headquartered in Lisbon, but already has offices in São Paulo (Brazil) and Madrid (Spain).
Social media tarpipe.com Tarpipe was founded in 2008 by Bruno Pedro and Vitor Rodrigues to make social networking experiences more interactive. It not only allows users to connect different networks and applications, but also to monitor them and synchronize data automatically via a workflow interface. On their website it is defined as “Like yahoo pipes, but much more powerful.”
Online restaurant reservations mytable.pt My table is a brand created by Virtual Lda Index, which seeks to enable users to reserve a table at national quality restaurants, plan a group event, or surprise someone special with complete comfort and safety. My table provides a dynamic and well-structured platform for the general public to express their views and vote on what they enjoyed about restaurants where they have eaten. This vote creates the Top Restaurants list. This information has a real impact on customer choices and aims to gives consumers the power to choose a restaurant based on community opinion. This startup creates the essential conditions for customers to use table reservation services regardless of the form or location of access with a seamless,
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simple, and transparent user experience. My table also created a Customer Service center in order to facilitate and strengthen contact with users.
Collaborative consumption all-desk.com All-desk is an online platform that brings together people who want temporary workspaces and owners who want to share spaces, such as meeting rooms, seating in open space, conference rooms, small offices or training rooms. All-desk was a start-up finalist in the MIT Portugal Competition and promises to become a world reference in the area of services for professionals and companies.
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s a static analysis tool that helps you change and modify code, Qamine searches for spots where a modification might be needed everytime a developer makes a code change. The USA wastes $60 Billion every year correcting bugs. This corresponds to approximately a quarter of the Portuguese GDP in 2011. Qamine is a Software Testing as a Service platform with the purpose of making software developing more efficient. Developers struggle daily with feature development, system refactoring and bug/issue correction. Qamine keeps an eye on your code, suggesting places you may want to modify. It is provided as a service, for cloud hosted software projects, or as a hosted installation for companies that host their code internally. The main goal for the founder Jaime Jorge is then to provide a static code analysis tool that is compatible with cloud projects without the hassle of installation, configuration and workflow modification.