Name

PELE

Legal name

Pele Associação Social e Cultural

Website

https://apele.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Porto

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Cultural Funding: PELE operates as a structure co-financed by the Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for Arts, representing its primary revenue source for operational sustainability.
2. Project Grants: PELE receives project-based funding from various institutional sources including Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (PARTIS initiative), EEA Grants Portugal, and municipal governments for specific artistic and social programs.

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

PELE is a Porto-based non-profit cultural association that develops long-term, community-embedded participatory art projects. It runs theatrical co-creations, exhibitions, training programs, and a mobile cultural center, working with residents of Porto's eastern parishes and Amarante. Programs are delivered through physical venues (Casa d'Artes do Bonfim, Adega), a mobile intervention bus, and European partnership networks, and are funded primarily through Portuguese and European public cultural grants.

Product overview

PELE is a cultural and artistic association that operates as a portfolio of community arts and social projects rather than a unified software product. The organization offers multiple concurrent artistic programs including FERA (feminine narratives), Laboratório Nómada (art-science-ecology for youth), azevedo (regenerative art for urban territories), #Mobile Cultural Center (public transport arts programming), #Expanded Parliament (collective creation spaces), #Satellite (nomadic art modules), Cicatriz (digital memory archive), and ENXOVAL (gender equality through art). Projects range from exhibitions and performances to educational workshops, European training initiatives, and community engagement programs. PELE is co-financed by the Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for Arts and based at the House of Arts of Bonfim since 2017.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Porto City Council (Câmara do Porto)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPorto City Council promotes PELE's work through the Municipal and Intercultural Mediators project, integrating PELE's long-term community mapping and dialogue work with municipal intercultural policies. This partnership supports projects like Narratives of Migrant Women in the City of Porto.
• Parish Council of Bonfim (Junta de Freguesia do Bonfim)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince 2017, PELE has been based at The House of Arts of Bonfim under a protocol with the Parish Council, providing the organization with its primary physical space for operations and community programming.
• STCP (Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration to transform bus line 400 into a mobile cultural center, with monthly musical performances along the route connecting Porto center to the Azevedo neighborhood, creating unique cultural access points.
• Lovers & LollypopsmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMusic curation partnership for the Mobile Cultural Center project (#CCM), with Lovers & Lollypops curating musical acts and artistic interventions along the STCP bus line 400.
• Studio QuackmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration in the Expanded Parliament residency, working together on structures for collective action and archaeological research in the Adega space, exploring more-than-human participation frameworks.
• LandramajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the Expanded Parliament project exploring multiple forms of regenerating territory and (re)knowing heritage, including performative meals from wild plants and acorns.
• LiporminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLipor technicians conducted a composting workshop and community composter creation with neighbors and the artistic team as part of the Common Place project.
• Coletivo SuspeitomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration to create 3 nomadic modules (Workshop, Kitchen, Presentation) for the Satellite project, structures capable of occupying and being activated in multiple centers.
• ArtworksmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Satellite project for creating nomadic modules that extend public space and welcome different proposals for listening, creation, and artistic programming.
• Cercar-te ProjectmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with young people from the Cercar-te project for archaeological workshops and activation of the Kitchen structure, including expeditions to collect food products at the city's Oriental Park.
• Associação Mutualista MontepiominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint initiative to establish a community garden (horta) at the Adega space, involving planting of various vegetables and collaborative community building.
• MEXEmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPELE participates in MEXE, a platform that brings together citizens, artists, and cultural structures in programming that triggers spaces of confluence between artistic creation and social realities.
• Galeria Municipal do Porto / PING! ProgrammajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the Municipal Gallery's PING! Program for Incursion to the Gallery, which introduces students to Porto's artistic fabric through visits to galleries, artist studios, and creative spaces.
• Teatro do FriomajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to organize a sensorial filmmaking workshop led by Mathew C. Wilson, focusing on cultivating attention, enhancing perception, and expanding experience.
• European RESTORE Project (Erasmus+)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean cooperation project promoting the exchange of good practices in community theater, developing the profile of community theater facilitators and increasing training and employability opportunities.
• FBAUP (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaster's program students in Contemporary Artistic Practices visit PELE projects as part of their studies, creating educational partnerships and knowledge exchange.
• ManifestamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPELE participated in Manifesta 16 Ruhr with Arca, a collaborative project celebrating biodiversity and local memory as part of this European Biennale.
• Coletivo FebremajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration focused on structuring a thought-action plan that enhances new dialectics for public space, exploring intersections between artistic creation, architecture, urban furniture, and anthropology.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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