Geração C

What Geração C does

Geração C, as represented in the available data, corresponds to Cascais Ambiente, a municipal company (empresa municipal) wholly owned and controlled by the Câmara Municipal de Cascais (Cascais Municipal Council) in Portugal. Cascais Ambiente delivers environmental services to the municipality of Cascais, with a documented service line in municipal waste management and selective collection of bio-residues (organic food waste). Its operational territory is the Cascais municipality, which comprises four parishes (Alcabideche, Carcavelos e Parede, Cascais e Estoril, and S. Domingos de Rana), and it began pilot/initial selective bio-waste collection in Carcavelos in 2019.

The company's business model is that of a public-sector municipal entity: it does not generate commercial revenue from external customers in the conventional sense, but is funded and directed by its sole owner, the Cascais Municipal Council. The reported headcount range is 1–10 employees, and the entity is classified as a government state entity under Portuguese company-type taxonomy. Pricing, customer segmentation, GTM motion, technology stack, products and services, certifications, partnerships, and management team data were not disclosed in the input. The associated web property surfaced in the data, cascaisjovem.pt, is the Cascais Jovem (Cascais Youth) municipal portal rather than a direct product page for Cascais Ambiente, indicating that the public-facing digital surface is hosted under the wider municipal umbrella.

The strategic posture evidenced is that of a captive, territorially-monopolistic municipal operator with a single historical expansion event (food-waste collection in Carcavelos, 2019). No funding rounds, M&A activity, leadership changes, regulatory actions, product launches, partnership formations, or AI/ML capabilities were disclosed. The data therefore supports a narrow factual profile: a small, government-owned environmental services operator embedded in the Cascais municipal structure, with limited public disclosure of operational and financial detail.

Name

Geração C

Legal name

Cascais Ambiente

Website

https://cascaisjovem.pt

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Geração C corresponds to Cascais Ambiente, a municipal environmental services company owned by the Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Portugal. It delivers waste management and selective bio-residue collection across the Cascais municipality.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Youth and Environmental Services

NAICS

Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs (92411)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPALAEAE

Commercial Food Waste Programs & On-Site Solutions (Cafeterias, Grocers, Hospitality)

Business & Public Services/Waste Management & Remediation Services/Organics & Composting Services (Food Waste, Yard Waste, Anaerobic Digestion)

Keywords

• Municipal youth programs
• Waste management services
• Bio-residue collection
• Municipal public services
• Community engagement programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Cascais, Cascais

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

Geração C operates a youth-focused municipal initiative hosted at cascaisjovem.pt, providing programs and information services for young residents of Cascais, Portugal. The associated municipal entity, Cascais Ambiente, provides environmental services including waste management and selective collection of food waste (biorresíduos), which began in Carcavelos in 2019. The combined offering targets residents of the Cascais municipality with locally delivered public services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Youth Programs and Information Portal A municipal youth-focused information and program service delivered through the cascaisjovem.pt portal, aimed at young residents of the Cascais municipality in Portugal.
• Selective Bio-residue Collection Door-to-door selective collection of food waste (biorresíduos) for households and businesses in Carcavelos, within the Cascais municipality.
• Waste Management Services General municipal waste management services delivered by Cascais Ambiente for residents of the Cascais municipality.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Regional players

• Lipor: Intermunicipal waste management and recovery service for eight municipalities in the Porto region. Peer in that it operates municipal-scale waste collection, selective sorting, and organic/composting recovery under public-sector governance.
• Ersuc: Regional waste management operator serving municipalities in central Portugal. Direct comparability with Cascais Ambiente as a municipal-scale waste collection and treatment operator under the EGF umbrella.
• Valnor: Waste management operator in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Comparable peer in municipal solid waste and selective collection services delivered under regional public-sector mandates.
• Resiestrela: Regional waste management company serving municipalities in the Serra da Estrela region. Peer in operating selective waste collection and recovery systems for Portuguese municipalities.
• Amarsul: Portuguese waste management operator serving the Setúbal Peninsula, part of the EGF group. Comparable as a regional municipal waste and recycling service provider delivering collection services on behalf of local councils, like Cascais Ambiente does in Cascais.
• Ambilital: Waste management operator in the Algarve region of Portugal. Comparable municipal waste and recycling collection operator, with similar tourism-driven volume dynamics to Cascais.

Broad incumbents

• Prezero (Portugal operations): European environmental services platform with Portuguese municipal and recycling operations. Direct peer in selective waste collection, bio-waste, and circular-economy services for municipalities.
• FCC Environment Portugal: Portuguese arm of the FCC group's environmental services division, operating municipal waste and recycling concessions. Comparable as an established municipal waste service provider competing for the same category of public-sector contracts Cascais Ambiente serves.
• Hera Group: Italian multi-utility group with significant waste management and circular-economy activities. Comparable as a larger operator running municipal waste collection, organic/composting services, and regulated environmental services across multiple local territories.
• EGF (Environmental Global Facilities): Portugal's largest private waste management group, owning multiple regional municipal waste operators (Amarsul, Ersuc, Resiestrela, Valnor, etc.). Comparable as the dominant incumbent organizing municipal waste concessions across Portugal, including organic-waste lines that compete with public operators like Cascais Ambiente.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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