Speaker details

8th Annual IBA European Start-up Conference

24 Sep - 25 Sep 2025

Grande Real Villa Itália Hotel & Spa, Cascais, Portugal

Speaker information

João Aroso

Biography

João de Sousa Aroso is the Founder and CEO of Leadzai, a digital marketing platform that helps small and medium businesses grow through automated online advertising and AI-powered customer acquisition. He is a postgraduate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a founding board member of Oscar, venture partner at Lince Capital and an investor in proGrow. Previously, he founded Página na Hora, which acquired the Portuguese Yellow Pages and later sold them to a private equity fund.

Session

The founders’ perspective: the good, the bad and the ugly

Thursday 25 September (1630 - 1715)

Speaker

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