Carlos Figueiredo
CEO & Founder
Flainar
Viseu, Portugal
CEO and founder of Flainar, making arts and culture accessible as therapeutic and preventive tools for mental health through cultural prescription
My organisation
About me
Carlos Figueiredo is the CEO and founder of Flainar. He holds a degree in Physics Engineering (University of Coimbra) and a PhD in Digital Media (University of Porto & UT Austin), with over 20 years of experience in ICT and innovation.
He co-founded Edit on Web (2003–2010), a science and culture publishing platform, and has lived and worked in Italy, Morocco, Ireland, Germany, the USA, and Spain. These experiences shaped his belief that diversity and collaboration are fertile grounds for creativity, that trees teach us resilience, and that meaningful collisions fuel entrepreneurship.
From 2021 to 2023, Carlos was a European project manager at UPTEC (Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto), focusing on Cultural and Creative Industries, business acceleration, and innovation ecosystems. Passionate about human-centered innovation, he is a strong advocate for creativity, culture, and social impact as engines of human progress.
My organisation
Flainar is a deeptech startup that helps patients, healthcare providers and companies with cultural prescription as a therapeutic tool for mental health and well-being.
Skills
- Cultural prescription
- project management
- R&D+i
- digital media
- Business
- Culture and Arts
- Culture and Creative Industries
Interests
- Mental Health
- innovation
- Cultural and Social prescription
- eHealth
- well-being
- technology
- Arts
- Culture
- Museums