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António Lucena de Faria

António Lucena de Faria

Fábrica de Startups

Founder and CEO at Fábrica de Startups S.A.

Antonio Lucena de Faria is a creator of companies who developed his first business with only 15 years of age. At the age of 17 he moved from Porto to Lisbon to take an Economics Course at Universidade Católica.

In early September 1983, he went to Minneapolis in the United States, where he did an MBA at the University of Minnesota. He returned to Portugal in late 1986, and in August 1987 created Methodus - Sistemas de Informação, S.A.

Since then, he has created more than ten companies. In September 2011, he launched the project ActionFlow in Silicon Valley (USA). He is currently the CEO of Methodus and Founder of Fábrica de Startups.

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