About the water and “yes, we did it!"

Dear Community,

Here I am writing again, much later than I intended. I hope you had a good start to this year. For us it was great, not perfect, but a clear improvement compared to the second half of 2024. 🙌

A few weeks ago, after dropping off my children at school, I went for a short hike in the Collserola Natural Park just beside it.

As I was walking the trail, with only my dog Gus, light rain falling, a lush forest and the smell of petrichor (a concept someone I deeply admire taught me recently), I noticed an unusual sound. It was a very familiar sound that I could not connect to that place: the sound of running water.

For many years I have hiked that trail but never had I seen it like that: water was flowing through the trampled trail, old watercourses were back to life and the landscape was as verdant as ever.

That experience reminded me of a sentence I heard once in a documentary and always wanted to share with you: “Wherever water flows, life follows”.

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A successful funding round

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This is what our captable looks like now

I know you probably heard about it already but we finished a new funding round (a series A as it is called in the startup world).This was a very successful raise in a very challenging moment: geopolitics are as unpredictable as ever, many VCs are saving money for their investees (in case of emergency) and there is a growing rhetoric worldwide about sustainability not mattering any more (just when it should matter the most).We raised 2.9M€ in total, nearly 2,4M€ from different institutional investors from PT, FR, CH and CA, both existing and new shareholders, and almost 500k€ from our community, making them (or you!) our 4th biggest shareholder. 🙌

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Highlights of Q1 2025

• Our community invested over 1M€ per month every month in the first quarter of the year!
• We hired Carol, Vasco, Pedro, Adriana and Margarida for QA, Impact, Finance, Marketing and communications.
• We launched transfers between wallets - you can now move funds instantly and for free between your wallets.

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And lastly, dividers don’t have to be functional. They can also be used as a standalone design element, customizing themwith images, patterns, or text that inject personality into the confined space.