Portuguese startup Intuitivo has secured €1.35 million in Seed funding to strip away administrative burdens from teachers, tackling a problem that pushes Portugal to the top of an unflattering OECD ranking.
The EdTech company landed the investment from Caixa Capital and the Impact Innovation Fund, which 3xP Global manages under the Venture Capital Programme of Portugal’s Capitalisation and Resilience Fund. Banco Português de Fomento administers that programme. Techstars, COREangels Lisboa, COREangels Porto, and Angels Way also participated. Angels Way represents Portugal’s first community-structured fund, pooling contributions from 436 small investors.
João Guimarães, co-founder and CEO, described the company’s origin plainly: a teacher asked for help, and teachers have shaped development ever since. “Our goal is simple: to give time back to those who teach,” he said.
Guimarães founded Intuitivo in 2021 alongside Duarte Oliveira and Diogo Silva. The platform serves primary schools through higher education, letting educators design, schedule, and grade assessments while delivering student feedback digitally.
Teachers can build tests from scratch, tap a shared exercise library, or use AI to transform old PDFs into interactive, auto-graded digital assessments. Students open their tests through a single link, no account or software download required.
Live assessment monitoring, anti-cheating safeguards, and automatic performance breakdowns by student, class, and exercise round out the feature set.
The need feels urgent. OECD’s TALIS 2024 survey found actual teaching consumes only 43% of a teacher’s working hours. Portugal ranks first among 44 countries in time spent on grading and assessment.
Intuitivo projects it will save teachers roughly 165,000 working hours during the 2025/26 school year alone. Around 75,000 registered teachers use the platform, backed by more than 200 contracts with municipalities, school clusters, and private institutions covering 500-plus schools nationwide.
School administrators gain centralized dashboards to track results and adoption across entire institutions.
The fresh capital will accelerate product development and nearly double headcount from 11 to 20 employees by year end. Expansion beyond Portugal targets Brazil, a market with 2.2 million teachers, roughly twelve times larger than its home base.
“Brazil is the natural step,” Guimarães added, citing language, teacher openness to digital tools, and existing users already on the platform.
