Ela Canela. The restaurant with no rules where nothing goes to waste
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It has served meat and fish before, presented breakfasts, brunches and even dinners. It now has a vegetarian menu and serves lunch with what comes
The money will be used to increase the team and boost the growth of the project, especially in its expansion throughout Europe and North America.
Lisbon-based Goparity has announced a €2 million investment round. Founded in 2017, Goparity is a fintech platform that makes a difference: it is a platform that connects social and environmental impact projects looking for funding with people who want to invest in sustainability.
The funding round was led by the European Mustard Seed MAZE fund and was also supported by Schneider Electric Energy Access and a crowdfunding campaign ,the company said in a statement. In total, nearly 1,000 people invested to become GoParity shareholders.
In total, more than 600 thousand euros were raised through crowdfunding. This amount will be used to drive the project’s growth, mainly in its expansion throughout Europe and North America, namely Spain and Canada, as well as in the development of new financial products. In addition, GoParity also intends to hire in the next two years between 12 and 15 people to join the team, which currently has 17 employees in Portugal and three in Canada.
Marta Cerqueira is from Minho and vegetarian. Luckily, she lives in Lisbon, where there is more tofu than curd. She has been a journalist for over 15 years, the last of which writing about food and sustainability. Now, out of the newsroom, she continues to write whenever she can, be it in magazines, journals, post it, or on her Instagram page, which she uses to share a life that is divided between being a mom-person-foodie-traveler. Still, she created Peggada so she could write about what doesn't fit in a magazine, journal, post it or Instagram: a better world.
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