Manuel Vilhena

MANUEL VILHENA

Help to reforest Serra da Lousã

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Manuel Vilhena

Co-Founder @Silveira Tech

Manuel Vilhena

Co-Founder @Silveira Tech Re-generation Village

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Studied economics in Lisbon and Environment Management in Amsterdam. Learned very little in class and a lot out it.
Worked in sales for a Telecom startup in Amsterdam and it was eating me inside. Switched to a solar panel company to quiet my eco-anxiety. Got fired after 1 week due to Trump's 2016 election (holding company tanked in the stock market).
Got back to Lisbon and helped a newly-born tech company grow like crazy until it was acquired in 2022.
Silveira Tech: side hustle since 2017 → full-time end of 2022.
Summer ’24: Launched Mina in Lousã’s historic district - a cultural house testing ideas for Silveira and championing all things local.

Revitalizing an abandoned village in the mountains of central Portugal

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Silveira tech Re_generation Village

Revitalizing an ancient village turning it into an innovation meets nature hub for entrepreneurs

Regenerating 230ha of a mountain in Serra da Lousã

Long-term stays - 2 weeks to 9 months

Reconnect humans with Nature, others & themselves

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Mina

A Cultural House in Lousã's historic district. A cafe-bar, events center and ceramics atelier where we bring the mountain to the town center.

Experimenting with several ideas for Silveira

Prioritizing local products and suppliers

Established as the main cultural driver in town

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Other Projects

Re_Grow - a tree nursery + insect farm in Lousã. Food scraps from Mina feed the bugs, whose poop fertilizes saplings. Once ready, they go up the mountain to be planted in Silveira. Circular economy at it's finest!

TBA - Solving the “no housing = no workers” paradox. Building affordable rentals for local teams - still in the blueprint phase.