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GROW Mobility, the Startup Program powered by the leading European motorway company Brisa, offers innovative startups the opportunity to test their technology in a real environment - spanning 17 highways, more than 1.600 km of road infrastructure and over 8 million clients.

More than 8 million customers, 2.600+ employees and 1.600+ km of road infrastructure make Brisa a leading European motorway company & pioneer in electronic toll collection. The Portuguese company counts innovation as one of its fundamental vectors, allowing it to be at the forefront of technological evolution.

By joining GROW Mobility, you can now profit from the groups’ 45+ years of experience with proven results delivered. GROW Mobility is a program for startups who think globally and have a scalable solution with an MVP in place.

Looking For Innovations In 3 Categories

Brisa’s mission is to provide efficient mobility for people – in cooperation with innovative startups that already have an MVP in place. To build the future of mobility, Brisa is looking for innovations in three categories:

  • Road Infrastructure: Improving operations & engineering, including but not limited to big data & analytics, drones to assess and monitor roads, rails, bridges & lighting conditions and/or accidents & GNNS.
  • Tolling & Telematics: Includes multimodal mobility (e.g. ticketing), recognition technologies (e.g. plate recognition) as well as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data and the like.
  • New Mobility: Fewer highways built and a lower car ownership culture calls for New Mobility solutions in the realm of Connectivity (V2I, V2X, Connected Vehicles, etc.).

Winning Startup Gets Access To Brisa’s Entire Resources

Together with the winning team, Brisa will build a pilot with the startup’s product or service, combining the startup capabilities with the resources and market reach of Brisa.

For the duration of the pilot, all the time needed to be worked on location (Brisa HQ, Portugal), Brisa will support travel expenses and accommodation for all members of the team who are working directly on the project. In addition, the project cost will also be supported by Brisa.

To further scale your product & accelerate development, GROW Mobility offers:

  • The opportunity to work with a strong market leader and pioneer in electronic toll collection
  • Full access to the entire spectrum of Brisa’s market incl. 8+ million clients, 1600+ km of road infrastructure & more
  • Connections to new clients & investors
  • A sandbox for field tests
  • Contact to an extensive mentor network
  • Management insights & access to administrative tools
  • Exclusive access to office spaces on Brisa’s Campus in Portugal
  • Possible later financing

The previous winners Heptasense already conducted a pilot with Brisa. Brisa’s CCTVs and Heptasense’s computer vision algorithms were tested to automatically detect incidents on highways. 2019’s winner, PARKD, is currently preparing the launch of their pilot with Brisa to test PARKD’s value proposition of starting, stopping, and paying for fleets’ parking sessions automatically.

Key Dates & Timeline

  • 10 Feb 2020: Application opens
  • 17 Apr 2020: Application closes
  • May 2020: Winner Announcement
  • From Summer 2020: Pilot Project

Apply Now!

Brisa is headquartered in Portugal, however, their technology is also employed in the Netherlands along with the United States. The group operates in three main areas:

  • Operations: Coordinates resources required for active traffic management including assistance to road users.
  • Technology: References players worldwide for innovative and distinctive technology solutions supporting mobility intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
  • Mobility Services: Includes electronic toll collection, and fuel stations, among others.

Brisa appreciates proposals that already show a clear idea of how your technology or solution can be tested in Brisa’s environments.

Apply now & present your use case to test your solution in Brisa’s unique environment!

 

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