✨ Our December Update: Launching Sidekick
Dear friends,
As our Festive Season treat 🎁 this year, we give you Brighteye Sidekick – a brand-new hub for our content, created and curated for the Edtech and wider startup community. Soft launched today (it’s in beta so articles will change!), Sidekick is a central portal for free learning resources to support Founders and Operators (and beyond) in your hard work building great companies. You can see more details of what can be accessed now below, and we will keep adding 🧱 more relevant content as we move into 2025.
Before slowing down a little over the Holiday Season, we hope you’ll enjoy our last updates of 2024, including:
Selected News from the Portfolio – UpHill, Shakers and Adam achievements
Insights – The Italian (Ed)tech Ecosystem deep-dive
Events – Young VC Dinner in Milan
See you in the New Year!
Best,
Team Brighteye ☀️
📣 SELECTED NEWS FROM THE PORTFOLIO
🙌🏼 Award for new UpHill Client
We are proud to share UpHill Health’s successful implementation of Unidade Local de Saúde São José's digital oncology care pathways, on the very same day the Lisbon Hospital was honoured with the "Innovation in Health: All for Sustainability" award. The Award is focused on driving healthcare forward by promoting sustainability and innovation while introducing advanced technologies into clinical practice. UpHill is helping oncology teams deliver timely care for their patients, and the Unidade Local de Saúde São José solution addresses key challenges such as care coordination, information centralisation, and patient traceability, offering a strong example of innovation in action.
🏆 Shakers on Europe’s Fastest growing startups
Shakers have been named in Sifted list of the 250 Fastest growing startups in Europe – in any tech space!! Our talented portco is a “Madrid-based HR tech startup that helps companies work with freelancers. Since launching in 2021, Shakers has worked with over 3,000 individuals and supported some 450 companies including Inditex, Uber, and Telefónica in their hiring needs. The company raised a €6m seed round in November 2023.”
The Shakers team also just released “the most comprehensive report on flexibility and remote work in Spain in recent years” (in Spanish 🇪🇸), partnering with En Clave de personas — a think tank of major Spanish companies committed to innovation. Great insights, team!
📰 The Adam journey on CzechCrunch
Good to see how our portco Adam secured coverage on CzechCrunch for the opening of their first non-European office in Hyderabad, India — marking a major milestone in the company’s journey. Here's what else you can read about (in 🇨🇿 Czech):
🚀 Building Adam from scratch: How they grew to €8M without developers and why they’ve started hiring them now
🌍 Global expansion: From first launch in Prague to reaching Australia
🔧 Broadening our offerings: Introducing electricians and full renovations to our services.
🔎 INSIGHTS
📣 Introducing Sidekick
We are extremely excited to unwrap our new Brighteye Sidekick today! Soft launched just now, Sidekick is a central portal for free learning resources to support Founders and Operators in your hard work building great companies.
We have collated our content in what we hope is a digestible way:
Articles - every piece of content in one big list
Collections - sub-categories like Marketing or the Why We Invested Series
Reports - all our published reports and research, like the Education in the AI Era Series
It’s a work in progress, so please bear with us and some content will change! We will add more to the hub – so keep watching this space as we move into 2025!
🔖 Exploring the Italian (Ed)tech Ecosystem
Ahead of a visit to Milan last week (see below), we took a closer look at the Italian tech ecosystem to better understand the forces shaping the direction of Italy’s Edtech sector, including the macro environment, education system and burgeoning tech scene. This may also serve as an overview for companies considering expanding into the Italian market!
🎪 EVENTS
👋🏽 Ciao Italia
We enjoyed partnering with Edtech Italia and Future of Work House on the Edtech & HRtech Connect event in Milan last week, meeting inspiring investors and entrepreneurs from the vibrant Italian ecosystem.
🇮🇹 Una Serata Speciale a Milano
Following the event, our Associate Ghita Targhi had the pleasure of hosting the Young VC Dinner - Milan Edition, where a group of great people came together to share great conversations and amazing food. We look forward to future 🔮 editions already!
