Startup Investor Accelerator Portugal

Priyanka is the founder of Horenso and a brand strategist specialising in early-stage startup positioning and marketing. She works with founders at the most critical stage of building where clarity of positioning, voice, and messaging determines whether a brand gets attention or gets ignored.
She is also a mentor at leading global startup accelerators including Climate-KIC (EU), Catalist (LatAm), and Brainforest VC (Switzerland), where she supports founders building climate and deep-tech ventures.

#### What You’ll learn:

• The subtle patterns making websites and decks feel “AI-made”
• Why polished copy still fails to persuade investors and customers
• What high-converting brands are doing differently with AI
• How to use AI as a strategic advantage instead of a content machine
• Practical frameworks and prompts to improve your messaging immediately

#### Who Should Attend:

Startup founders, SaaS and Tech teams, Growth marketers, Founders raising capital, Teams rebuilding websites or messaging, Anyone relying heavily on AI for content and communication.

RSVP NOW to secure your spot for free!
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About the Organizer – SIA: Startup Investor Accelerator
SIA is a dual-track program for startups and investors. Startups can receive €100–200K in funding through our investment rounds. Investors learn by doing—developing their angel investing skills in real deals.

Next opportunities
Stay in the loop by visiting our website and following us on LinkedIn.

• Startups Express your Interest here - You could be one of the next startups selected for our funding competition.
• Investors Express your Interest here - Explore our hands-on angel program to grow your investing skills and confidence.

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About the Organizer – SIA: Startup Investor Accelerator
SIA is a dual-track program for startups and investors. Startups can receive €100–200K in funding through our investment rounds. Investors learn by doing—developing their angel investing skills in real deals.

Next opportunities
Stay in the loop by visiting our website and following us on LinkedIn.

• Startups Express your Interest here - You could be one of the next startups selected for our funding competition.
• Investors Express your Interest here - Explore our hands-on angel program to grow your investing skills and confidence.

Our guest speaker this week is Dima Yurchenko, a Partner Acquisition Manager at SumUp, one of Europe’s leading fintech companies serving 4M+ merchants across 37 markets.
For many SaaS and SMB-focused companies, payments are still treated as a third-party utility instead of a strategic growth driver. Yet embedded payments have become one of the most powerful ways software platforms can increase revenue, improve retention, and expand internationally.
In this workshop, we’ll explore how portfolio companies across industries such as hospitality, sports, wellness, healthcare, field services, retail, and e-commerce can integrate online and in-person payments directly into their products to create new recurring revenue streams and stronger customer relationships.
We’ll cover:

• What makes a strong embedded payments opportunity
• How software companies monetize payments successfully
• Common mistakes founders make when evaluating payment providers
• Key signals investors should look for within their portfolio
• Strategies for international expansion and cross-border payments
• Real partnership examples from across Europe, including SaaS integrations and international merchants

#### **Who should join:** Startup founders, scale up team leaders, mentors and investors.

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About the Organizer – SIA: Startup Investor Accelerator
SIA is a dual-track program for startups and investors. Startups can receive €100–200K in funding through our investment rounds. Investors learn by doing—developing their angel investing skills in real deals.

Next opportunities
Stay in the loop by visiting our website and following us on LinkedIn.

• Startups Express your Interest here - You could be one of the next startups selected for our funding competition.
• Investors Express your Interest here - Explore our hands-on angel program to grow your investing skills and confidence.

Our guest speaker this week is Vita Shafinska — an influencer with more than 700 000 followers on Instagram and founder of GCreators, an AI Operating System for Creators, and Star Creative, a marketing agency.
Vita will share how she uses generative AI to create high-quality social media content faster and more efficiently, based on her real case study as an influencer and founder working with global brands. She will explain how a single idea or prompt can be transformed into images, videos, talking avatars, and full content campaigns using modern AI tools, as well as demonstrate practical workflows for building an AI-powered content factory that automates up to 90% of content production while preserving personal voice, creativity, and brand identity.
Who should join:
Startup founders, scale up team leaders, mentors and investors.

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About the Organizer – SIA: Startup Investor Accelerator
SIA is a dual-track program for startups and investors. Startups can receive €100–200K in funding through our investment rounds. Investors learn by doing—developing their angel investing skills in real deals.

Next opportunities
Stay in the loop by visiting our website and following us on LinkedIn.

• Startups Express your Interest here - You could be one of the next startups selected for our funding competition.
• Investors Express your Interest here - Explore our hands-on angel program to grow your investing skills and confidence.