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Intuitivo

Techstars '23

Porto, PT · Founded 2020 · 2 known investors

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Intuitivo is a digital assessment platform that helps teachers manage the evaluation process more efficiently in schools. The platform enables content sharing and collaboration among educators while improving student engagement and outcomes.

Also known as Intuitivo

Founders & leadership

Intuitivo was founded in 2020 by João Guimarães and Duarte Oliveira.

JGJoão Guimarães
João GuimarãesCo-Founder & CEO
DODuarte Oliveira
Duarte OliveiraCo-Founder

Investors · 2

Techstarslisted by TechstarsBoulder · $220K

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Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements
  • Undisclosed amountseed roundMar 2022 · 2 sources
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Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Intuitivo is a digital assessment platform for education, built around a three-step workflow: create, schedule and grade. Teachers can build tests, worksheets, class quizzes, revision quizzes and homework from scratch, import an existing PDF, or reuse exercises from a shared library organised by year, subject and topic and searchable through an explore page. The editor supports multiple question types — multiple choice, open text, ordering, fill-in-the-text, tables, true/false, captioning and others — and multimedia content including audio, video, music notation and formulas, which can be mixed within one assessment. Teacher groups allow colleagues to collaborate on both creating and grading assessments.

Assessments are distributed to a class via a single link, with no requirement for students to create an account, and can be taken in class or at home on Windows, Chromebook, macOS, Android or Linux devices without installing an app; work resumes where it left off if connectivity drops. A full-screen exam mode adds monitoring, including detection of window switching and per-student shuffling of questions and answer options. Closed questions are graded automatically on submission, with optional instant feedback, and results can be shared by email, Excel or PDF. Per-student and per-class statistics show success rates by question to inform subsequent lessons.

An AI layer covers two functions: assisted creation, where the teacher specifies topic, year level and difficulty and the system generates a first draft of exercises; and AI-based import, which converts existing PDF materials into digital, auto-gradable assessments. The company states the platform reduces assessment preparation and grading work from roughly four hours to about 30 minutes.

Business model

Intuitivo offers a free entry point for individual teachers alongside paid plans, and sells an institutional offering to schools and school groups that standardises assessments across an institution and includes training and dedicated support. Prospective institutional customers are routed through a demo booking, and teachers can also refer their school so the company contacts the leadership directly.

Subscription plans, with a free tier for individual teachers and paid institutional plans covering a whole school or school group with training and dedicated support.

Traction

The company's site reports more than 60,000 teachers, over 1 million assessments created and use in more than 5 countries. Coverage from November 2024 reported more than 35,000 teachers and more than 300,000 students using the platform at that time. Users cited on the site include teachers and leadership at Portuguese school groups such as Real School Group, Marinha Grande Poente School Group, Apresentação de Maria School and Corga de Lobão School Group.

Latest developments

Following the November 2024 Web Summit PITCH win, the platform has added AI-assisted assessment generation and AI-based PDF-to-digital import, and reports growth to more than 60,000 teachers and over 1 million assessments created.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Positioned as an all-in-one assessment tool that consolidates tests, worksheets, quizzes and homework in a single platform rather than requiring teachers to switch tools per task. The company frames its opportunity around 85 million teachers worldwide who spend 46 percent of their time teaching and about 1.5 months a year creating and grading assessments, and cites a $5 billion assessment software market.

Combines assessment authoring, distribution, proctoring, automatic grading and analytics in one product, with teacher-to-teacher collaboration groups, a shared exercise library, no student account requirement, cross-device and offline-tolerant delivery, and AI both for drafting new assessments and for converting existing PDF materials into auto-gradable digital form.

Technology

Web-based platform delivered from the cloud and usable on any device without app installation, with offline resilience that lets students resume an interrupted assessment. It includes an automatic grading engine for closed questions, a proctoring mode with full-screen lockdown, window-switch detection and per-student randomisation of questions and options, and analytics producing per-question and per-class success rates. AI components generate draft exercise sets from a topic, year and difficulty prompt, and recognise the structure of uploaded PDFs to convert legacy paper materials into auto-gradable digital assessments.

Go-to-market

Bottom-up adoption by individual teachers who can start free and build a first assessment in minutes, converted upward into institution-wide plans sold to directors and coordinators via demo requests and teacher referrals of their own schools. The company also uses testimonials from teachers, principals and pedagogical consultants at Portuguese schools, and gained visibility by winning the Web Summit PITCH competition in Lisbon in November 2024.

Teachers and school leadership (directors and coordinators) across primary, middle, secondary, vocational and higher education, spanning subjects from languages and mathematics to sciences, humanities and economics.

Geography

Headquartered in Porto, Portugal, with a user base concentrated in Portuguese schools and reported usage in more than five countries; the site is available in English.

History

The company is listed with a 2020 founding date and a team of 1-10 employees based in Porto, Portugal. It joined Techstars in December 2022 and is also backed by CORE Angels Lisbon and Demium. In November 2024 it won the Web Summit PITCH competition in Lisbon, with CEO João Guimarães receiving the trophy on Centre Stage after a final judged by Katelin Holloway (Seven Seven Six), Edith Yeung (Race Capital) and Zach Coelius (Coelius Capital).

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Assessment preparation and grading time savedJan 202688%
Assessments createdJan 20261,000,000 assessments
Countries with usersJan 20265
EmployeesJan 20241-10
Grading time savedNov 202440%
HeadcountAug 202620
Monthly website visitsJan 20247,800 visits/month
Students reachedNov 2024300,000 students
Teachers on platformJan 202660,000 teachers

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Nov 2024
Wins Web Summit PITCH competition

Intuitivo won the Web Summit PITCH competition, beating GovGPT and Scoutz in the final out of 105 competing startups; CEO João Guimarães received the trophy on Centre Stage from judges Katelin Holloway (Seven Seven Six), Edith Yeung (Race Capital) and Zach Coelius (Coelius Capital).

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Jan 2024
CORE Angels listed as investor

A startup directory records CORE Angels as an investor in Intuitivo as of 24 January 2024; separate press coverage states the startup is backed by Techstars, CORE Angels Lisbon and Demium.

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Dec 2022
Techstars listed as investor

A startup directory records Techstars as an investor in Intuitivo as of 12 December 2022.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Intuitivo do?
Portuguese edtech platform where teachers create, publish, monitor and auto-grade digital assessments.
Who founded Intuitivo?
Intuitivo was founded by João Guimarães, Duarte Oliveira in 2020.
Who are Intuitivo's investors?
Intuitivo's investors include 3xP Global, Techstars.
Where is Intuitivo headquartered?
Intuitivo is headquartered in Porto, PT.