SRS advises Taikai on €2m seed funding round

SRS Advogados has advised Porto based Taikai on its recent €2 million seed funding round

SRS has provided external counsel to the Porto headquartered start-up Taikai, on its recent €2 million capital raising seed funding found. This was led by the German fund Finlab EOS VC Fund and with participation from the Portuguese funds Bright Pixel and Portugal Ventures.

FinLab EOS VC is the investment fund of Block.one, focused on developing the EOSIO exosystem and making venture investments.

Taikai is a startup aimed at creating a talent marketplace and helping companies in their recruitment procedures through innovation challenges. TAIKAI’s goal is to connect creators and companies, by crowdsourcing solutions for their challenges, using hackathons as a tool to find, test, validate new ideas, products and talent globally. The name TAIKAI or 大会 (“coopetition” in Japanese) is the act of joining competing forces to cooperate to achieve a brighter solution together.

The SRS team was was led by patner Paulo Bandeira (pictured left) and associate Giorgio Galli (pictured right).