In a city full of culture, discovery still feels scattered. Too many tabs, too many feeds, and too much noise make it harder than it should be to find the events, artists, and communities that give a city its energy and depth.
The most meaningful cultural activity is often the least visible. Independent screenings, underground nights, emerging artists, and small venues are still too hard to find — especially for newcomers and expats who do not already know where to look.
Scene Seeker was born from that frustration, not as a startup idea first, but as a community need that became a product. Founded by Tiago Ferreira and Filipe Andrade, also behind DÉBRIS (music collective), it is being built by locals, for locals.
Working product in market, still at an early stage.
Artists, promoters, collectives, and venues are not just content sources. They are the people and structures that give a city its identity, energy, and cultural depth. Yet mainstream platforms often favor scale over substance, and the most exciting culture remains invisible.
The ambition is for Scene Seeker to become cultural infrastructure: a discovery layer that helps audiences find more, and helps local scenes grow with greater visibility, care, and integrity.
The long-term direction is to build from discovery into useful cultural infrastructure. If the discovery layer becomes genuinely valuable, it can expand into organizer tools, promotion, partnerships, and fairer ticketing.
The principle is not to extract value aggressively from already fragile ecosystems, but to help more value circulate locally while making cultural participation easier and richer.
Product vision, technical execution, design, and real proximity to the cultural scenes it is built for.
Advised by Dan Martens (Enterprise Coach, Centre Dansaert — 100+ entrepreneurs supported, Vlerick Business School) and Judit Lantai (incoming Secretary General - Association Civic Tech Europe; Vice-President - Civil Society Europe).