Intuitivo raises €1.35M seed to take teacher tools to Brazil
Seventy-five thousand Portuguese teachers already grade through Intuitivo. A €1.35M seed co-led by Caixa Capital now points the Porto company at Brazil, a market twelve times the size.
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Founded 2021 · Porto, Portugal
Intuitivo, a Porto company founded in 2021, has raised €1.35 million in seed funding co-led by Caixa Capital and the Impact Innovation Fund to take its teacher assessment platform into Brazil.
A seed co-led by Caixa Capital and a Banco Português de Fomento vehicle
Intuitivo announced the round on October 23, 2026. Caixa Capital co-led it with the Impact Innovation Fund, managed by 3xP Global under the Venture Capital Programme of the Capitalisation and Resilience Fund, administered by Banco Português de Fomento. Techstars, COREangels Lisboa, COREangels Porto and Angels Way all took part.
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Angels Way deserves a line of its own. It is a Portuguese community fund that pools 436 small investors, a rather different entry on a cap table from the usual seed syndicate.
The company says the money goes to three places: deeper product development, growth from 11 people to 20 by the end of 2026, and the move into Brazil.
One link, no account, 165,000 teacher hours
Intuitivo sells a digital assessment platform to schools. Teachers build tests from scratch, pull from a shared exercise library, or hand the system an existing PDF and let it produce an interactive, auto-graded version. Students open a single link and sit the test with no account and no software to install. During the test, teachers get real-time monitoring and anti-cheating controls. Afterwards they get statistics by student, class and exercise, and school leadership gets a dashboard of results and teacher adoption.
Around 75,000 teachers are registered. More than 200 contracts with municipalities, school clusters and private schools cover over 500 schools in Portugal. About a million assessments ran through the platform in 2025/26, and the company estimates that saved 165,000 teacher working hours over the school year.
“Our goal is simple: to give time back to those who teach, to use with their students or simply for themselves,” said João Guimarães, co-founder and CEO, who started the company with Duarte Oliveira and Diogo Silva.
K-12 takes 13% of a shrinking pot
Global edtech venture funding reached $512 million across 63 deals in Q1 2026, down 24% on value and 10% on deal count against Q1 2025, and workforce training took more than 70% of it (HolonIQ, April 2026). K-12, where Intuitivo sells, got 13%. North America took 62% of the total, and European funding value fell year over year.
Underneath the funding cycle, the market itself grows slowly. HolonIQ’s Global Education Outlook (November 2024) puts global education spend on course for almost $10 trillion by 2030, a 4.4% CAGR, with K-12 at 3.5%. No reliable sizing exists for the school assessment software segment on its own; the figures circulating for it come from report mills, and we will not repeat them.
Scale the round against our own funding records and it sits where you would expect. Sainaptic raised €1.2 million ten days earlier, on October 13, led by Brighteye Ventures, for AI exam marking. Alice.tech raised €4.3 million led by Cherry Ventures in May 2025. Mallow’s €11 million seed in September stands out as the exception. A €1.35 million seed in European edtech in late 2026 is a normal, unremarkable number. That is itself the signal, because this is a sector where the money has gone quiet.
Portugal does not appear on Europe’s edtech map
So where does a company like this sit in the European picture? HolonIQ’s 2026 Europe EdTech 200 (June 2026) gives 39% of the cohort to the UK, 13% to Germany and 12% to France. Those three hold 64% between them. Italy and Spain share 17%. Portugal is not named at all.
The good news is what sits under that absence. Intuitivo reaches 500 schools and a million graded assessments in a country of roughly 10 million people, on €1.35 million of seed money and in a funding environment far thinner than the one its British peers work in. That is a capital efficiency story the Europe EdTech 200 does not measure.
Imagine if the Brazil move lands. Brazil has about 2.2 million teachers, roughly twelve times Portugal’s. Guimarães put it plainly: “We want to take what we have built in Portugal there, on a much bigger scale.” Portuguese-language software has a second market built into it, one that English-language edtech has to buy its way into, and Portugal’s companies rarely press that advantage hard enough.
What we are watching is whether €1.35 million buys enough runway to prove the Brazil thesis before the next round. Eleven people going to twenty, across two countries, in a market where capital has moved to workforce training, is a thin margin. The companies that come through a quiet cycle tend to be the ones that were never spending much to begin with. Watch Porto.
