Company Name:

Fractal Mind

Incubation Round:

Explore

Application Track:

Track 2

Proposed by:

PLAY&GO

Data Provider:

PLAY&GO

Challenge Name:

Analyze the behavior of tourists and increase their average spending

Product Description

The product is a web-based interactive platform, that combines a robust data value chain and game design visual guidelines to maximize usability and engagement, empowering users to easily, and in real-time, not only identify the value gap in tourism related service offerings across locations, but also to be able to do that dynamically and with a deeper understanding.

By combining different contextual datasets (tourist traffic, venues, locations, demographics, weather, etc), the product creates a model that will analyse existing historical data and generate forecasts regarding tourist behaviors, along with the drivers behind it, as well as simulate what will happen if service offerings change, and its impact in other services or other neighbourhoods of a given city. Inspired by video game design principles, the product will present that information in a readable an actionable fashion to its target audience, in this case, municipalities and tourism bureaus or tourism groups.

Usage of Standards for data interoperability:

REST API documented under Open API specification
JSON as the data format for API output
EU (eIDAS) date format
Database modelling and naming standards:
- snake_case for table naming;
- full_length_id for id column naming;
- all tables include timestamp columns for create and update;
Geographic coding standard ISO 3166 for country codes
Datasets made available will subscribe to the W3C’s Data Cube Vocabulary (W3C 2014)

*Expose phase is open to all Experiment phase teams

Location:

Portugal

Sector:

Tourism & Entertainment

Website:

https://fractalmind.pt/

Company maturity:

Scaling in products or markets

Investment level:

Bootstrap

Funding raised:

< EUR 100,000

Collaboration opportunity:

Company Description

Fractal Mind was born in 2015, when Rui, their founder, was challenged to transform the way Worten employees celebrated their day-to-day activities. That project became the biggest gamification project in Portugal and one of the longest running employee gamification initiatives in the world. Since then, they've applied gamification to many different business contexts and have helped companies like Vodafone, Adidas, Worten, NOS and Via Verde address challenges in employee and customer engagement, corporate training and event engagement. MindOverData, their partner, is a Data Boutique consulting firm, working on Big Data and Machine Learning, merging business needs with technology. They envision data as the resource and people as the enablers of business solutions.

Tiago Perdigão

CEO with more than 20 years of experience in Mkt & Retail, in companies like Jerónimo Martins, FNAC and adidas, in Portugal and EMEA.

Carlos Pinto

Senior Data Scientist with an MSc in Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Sciences, and 15 years of experience in insurance, gaming and betting, retail.

Manuel Pimenta

CXO with 13 years of experience as a Developer, Analyst and Gamification Designer, with clients in verticals like Banking, Retail, Telco and Health.

David Duarte

CTO with more than 15 years of experience in Games and Software Development, in companies like Videobserver and Big Fish Games.

Vasco Jesus

Head of Analytics in different companies and teams spread throughout different geographies, University Invited Lecturer, 22 years of experience.