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Joana Pinto

Startup Founder, CEO, Business Mentor, Advisor, Angel Investor
Helping founders and business directors: Market Validation, Strategy, Product, Growth, Pitch, Fundraising
Portugal
Speaks English and Portuguese
5.0 (7 reviews) Active today Usually responds in a few hours

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$270 / month

I help (pre-)seed founders launch & grow, and support business directors tackle strategy challenges.

2 calls per month (40min/call)

Unlimited Q&A via chat

Expect responses in 2 days

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About

I’m a biomedical engineer turned entrepreneur with a deep passion for innovation and startup growth. With a keen business mindset and strong technical foundation, I bring a dynamic blend of product thinking and strategic vision to founders and early-stage teams.

Over the past several years, I’ve built and advised ventures across healthcare, AI, and deep tech, bringing a hands-on approach to product development, go-to-market strategy, and customer discovery.

🚀 Founder & Healthtech Innovator
I co-founded Clynx Health, a digital health startup transforming physiotherapy through gamified, AI-powered telerehabilitation. I led the company from idea to market—building a certified medical device, securing funding, enabling thousands of therapy sessions, and collaborating with leading hospitals, healthcare stakeholders, and research institutions.

💼 Startup Advisor & Strategic Mentor
I’ve advised early-stage startups including: Lampsy Health (AI healthtech): co-led GTM strategy and supported their successful pre-seed raise; Scientisst (biosignal education tools): guided strategic repositioning and helped secure first international sales; Various founders and ventures across sectors, through platforms like MentorCruise, SantanderX, and Unicorn Factory.

💸 Deep Tech & Angel Investing
I’ve worked at the intersection of tech transfer, innovation, and commercialization,supporting spinout ventures in AI, IoT, and telecommunications, and helping secure venture capital and public funding.
As a business angel with AngelsWay, I help scout, evaluate, and support early-stage startups across sectors.

🎯 I specialize in:

- Validating startup ideas through first-principles research & user discovery

- Building lean MVPs and real-world experiments

- Navigating B2B sales and partnerships

- Designing B2C growth strategies

- Raising capital from VCs and public/non-dilutive sources

- Scaling mission-driven teams across product, ops, and commercial functions


What mentees say

Chris

Chris

5 out of 5 stars

Standard Plan · 
10 months

Joana was great a mentor, super insightful and helpful! A great thought partner!

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Chris

Chris

5 out of 5 stars

Joana is a great mentor! She's really helpful and insightful about health and is great with formulating strategy.

PATRICIA

Patricia

5 out of 5 stars

Standard Plan · 
1 month

Joanna is a great mentor. Really involved and hands on. This is the 2nd time I've met with her and will continue to work with her.

Christian

Christian

5 out of 5 stars

Session

Joana made the intro call a very pleasant and insightful experience. in very little time lots was exchanged and planned! was very patient and present. Very quickly came with impactful suggestions!

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