The people behind Caju
A small team, building Caju with the people who use it.
One founder, hands-on every day, and a group of advisors who work with autistic children and know what actually helps.
Founder
Bruno Gomes
Founder & engineer
Évora, Portugal
I'm Bruno, from Évora. Before Caju I was the founding engineer at SimpleStudy, an Irish edtech startup, where I helped scale the product and engineering as it grew. I started Caju because of a personal, family connection to autism, and because the support tools families and therapists in Portugal actually needed didn't exist yet. I build Caju hands-on, every day, alongside the people who use it.
Advisors
Guided by people who do this work every day.
Caju is shaped by therapists and educators who work directly with autistic children. They keep it grounded in real sessions, real classrooms and real families.
Beatriz Conceição
Clinical advisor
Portugal
Speech and language therapist and coordinator at the Escutamente clinic. She works with children, teenagers and adults on language, articulation, feeding and early literacy, and recently wrote a children's book about a happy relationship with food. Beatriz has helped shape Caju since the early days, keeping it grounded in how communication actually works in a real session.
Ana Castro
Accessibility advisor
Madeira, Portugal
From Madeira, she is an early-childhood educator (University of Évora) with postgraduate training in special education and advanced specialisations in inclusive education and ISNA-certified Snoezelen multisensory stimulation. She works in a primary school with a specialised classroom, alongside children with specific needs, mostly neurodevelopmental ones. She cares especially about communication and language, inclusion and accessibility, and loves singing and walks by the sea.
Mónica Teixeira
Accessibility advisor
Madeira, Portugal
A specialist teacher and trainer, she lives and works on the island of Madeira. She holds a degree in early-childhood education and a BA and MA in educational psychology from the University of Madeira, with postgraduate training in special education. Her research interests are inclusion, specific educational needs, specific learning differences (especially in reading and writing) and autism. Passionate about photography, reading and travel, she volunteers with inclusion-focused initiatives and associations.
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