Dispatches from the ground — visits, meetings and conversations across the Portuguese innovation ecosystem, as they happen.
As part of the mission, IMOBI Holdings held a strategic meeting with the Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI), a Porto-based innovation and business consultancy, to discuss potential future partnerships.
The mission also included a strategic meeting with OPorto Accounting, a Porto-based accounting and company-formation firm.
Allan Sales (CEO, IMOBI) and Sérgio Pinto (CTO, VIRTUS/UFCG), with the INOVA.GAIA team, at INOVA.GAIA, Vila Nova de Gaia, following the signing of IMOBI Portugal's incubation agreement.
On 30 September 2026, IMOBI Portugal signed its incubation agreement with INOVA.GAIA, Vila Nova de Gaia's innovation hub. The agreement gives the group's European entity an operating base inside the local ecosystem — a physical counterpart in Portugal for partners building Horizon Europe consortia, bilateral R&D programmes, and EU open calls.
Allan Sales (CEO, IMOBI) overlooking the Douro from the Porto Cathedral terrace, and Porto City Hall square — a short walk from IMOBI Portugal's new base in Vila Nova de Gaia.
Left to right: Rui Miranda, Coordinator at Tecbis – IPN's Business Accelerator; Allan Sales (IMOBI); Sérgio Pinto (VIRTUS/UFCG); João Quintas (IPN, Laboratório de Automática e Sistemas).
IMOBI Holdings, a US-based innovation holding with operations in Portugal and Brazil, visited IPN Tecbis in Coimbra as part of its mission exploring partnerships across the Portuguese innovation ecosystem. The visit highlighted strong synergies around digital health, AI, and embedded systems, with IPN's network and IMOBI's technical delivery partners — including VIRTUS (Brazil) — seen as complementary pieces for future collaboration, including potential Horizon Europe initiatives in digital health.
Inside the OpenDay @IPNHealthproof session, hosted by IPN's Laboratório de Automática e Sistemas — alongside HEALTHCHAIN, an EU-funded initiative on digital transformation in healthcare.
More dispatches from the mission to follow.
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