We are a networking
and biz dev company.
Bringing business to like-minded individuals and organizations through trustworty relationships powered by personalized tech.
THE WAY
HOW WE SEE THE BUSINESS
We love this.
The feeling that you can always achieve more. Be more. Meet more. Know more. Grow more. Earn more. Impact more.
This flame inside us that drives us beyond. Always looking further. Always moving forward.
We believe in merit. In adding value. In being part of a relationship where everyone wins.
It keeps us up at night. It wakes us up early in the morning.
We also believe that putting people and ideas together will take you further. Will help you go that extra mile. Seek an extra victory. Find that extra that will give you an edge.
This is what we bring to the table. That attitude. That energy. The trust, power, knowledge, strength, and motivation.
To you and your business.
We are RESTLESS VENTURES - A purposeful networking and business generating company for like-minded organizations and individuals.
If you feel this way, let’s not work, let’s do business. We mean it.
Rodrigo Rodrigues
Founder / Executive Partner
HOW
HOW WE DO BUSINESS
THE PEOPLE
A curated, exclusive, closed and trustworthy network of individuals located in the USA, South America, Europe, Middle-East, Asia and Africa, with a global out-reach, providing contacts, opportunities and relationships in all known (and some future) industries.
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Direct relationships;
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Full transparency and responsibility;
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Value driven and values oriented;
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Relationships over transactionships.
A secure and safe platform - specifically developed by and for RESTLESS VENTURES - that allows the management of the network of trustworthy, like-minded MEMBERS (individuals and organizations) in deal-making and biz dev OPPORTUNITIES:
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Improves processes and efficiency;
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Reduces time, focusing on agility and quickness of all steps;
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Guarantees complete security and safety for everyone involved;
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Bring transparency, professionalism and structure to an informal, confusing and very inefficient industry/service.
WHAT
WHAT AND WHOM DO WE BRING TO THE TABLE
If you are...
Deal maker
(sales or buyer mandate)
THAT NEED
Either a buyer or a seller of their products.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
A network capable of reaching out to all types of producers and buyers of products in all the world.
CEOs / Large Corporations
THAT NEED
To acquire new companies or tech to solve growth or innovation challenges.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
Low-profile and low-key procurement and scouting of solutions.
Start-ups
THAT NEED
Leverage business; New sales channels; New clients (B2B); New revenue streams or markets.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
New relationships and networking to cater to those challenges with the possibility of being present as advisers.
SMEs
THAT NEED
Leverage business; New sales channels; New clients (B2B); New revenue streams or markets.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
New relationships and networking to cater to those challenges with the possibility of being present as advisers.
Individuals
THAT NEED
Time and focus for potential business opportunities that aren’t being leveraged or taken care of.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
Time, energy, focus and trust to make them happen.
Investors
THAT NEED
Looking for new opportunities or projects to invest in.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
Exciting and potencial filled ventures.
Investees /
Growth Seekers
THAT NEED
Funding, new partnerships, setting up with potential partners or new investors.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
New contacts and trustworthy solutions.
Project Promoters
THAT NEED
Funding or investors.
RESTLESS VENTURES BRINGS
A new vision and open the right doors to make your project happen.
BIO
RODRIGO
(DE BARROS) RODRIGUES
(22/08/1981)
Founder and Executive Partner
RESTLESS VENTURES
Rodrigo was born in Venezuela, bred and raised in Lisboa in international schools. Part of Lions International from the age of 17-27. Specialist in Branding, Strategic Creativity, Co-Creation and Business Development he participated in creating several success brands in Brandia Central and then his own Once Upon a Brand founded in 2008 and followed by TORKE CC in the last 7 years where he was CEO.
Through the holding company Billy The Group - part owner of TORKE CC - he was also non-executive partner in Stunt Soccer (a sports deal-making company), Beta-i (an innovation consultancy firm with a strong connection to the start-up scene) and former companies such as Mustard (production and activation agency) and Couture (a research people-centered innovation company).
University teacher of marketing and branding, entrepreneur for over 14 years he specialized in design thinking through his training as an Apple Sales Trainer.
He was also considered 40 under 40 by Exame magazine in Portugal in 2014.
Specialized in marketing, branding, sales and facilitation with a particular focus on having led all business development of the companies he was responsible for and taking them always into new markets, revenue streams and objectives.
In 2013 he became Partner, Strategic Ideator and co-created the Ideators methodology at TORKE CC taking ever since co-creation thinking to people and organizations who want to solve challenges and problems around the world with more than 250 workshops in 14 different countries in 4 continents. During this period he lived in São Paulo in 2015 and 2016.
This means having participated, coordinated and led - from a Strategic Planning point of view - hundreds of projects where identifying, mapping and understanding stake-holders was crucial to then analyze them to generate efficient and objective-driven co-creation sessions that could last several days or roll-out to projects with many months of consecutive co-creation workshops.
He’s non-executive director and on the advisory board at IES-Social Business School.
In 2014 and 2017 he celebrates his two best co-creation projects so far: the arrival of his daughter and son.
He lived between São Paulo and Lisboa – also due to his food-tech business Savage by Olivier a delivery-ghost restaurant.
He was invited and acts as a non-executive founder for ADYANT Consultants, a boutique branding agency that develops strong strategic projects for brands seeking a deep movement into the future.
His direct involvement in organizations and companies in such varied sectors as:
Innovation consultancy;
Branding and marketing strategy;
Political and public campaigns;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Food-tech;
Training and Sales.
Has given Rodrigo the capacity to feel comfortable and confident in all industries as a catalyst of new processes and focusing on relationship building.
His role as mentor or presence in advisory boards is also extensive and focused primarily in organizations that seek to change the world in a purposeful and meaningful way.
He’s now focused and leading his new venture, a purposeful networking and business generating company for like-minded organizations and networking individuals called RESTLESS VENTURES with successful ventures in start-ups and facilitating deals in industries such as tourism, medicinal cannabis, beverages, bio-tech, energy, amongst many others.
