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About Talora

Built by studio people, for studio people.

We spent a decade running design studios and agencies. Talora is the workspace we wished we had on every one of those projects.

It started with a spreadsheet called final_v7.

Inês and Daniel met in 2016 at a branding studio in Porto. Inês ran client relationships, Daniel ran everything technical, and both of them lost a little piece of every week to the same problem: work lived in one tool, feedback in another, invoices in a third and the real status of a project lived only in somebody's head.

By 2022 they were running their own studio of twelve people and stitching together seven apps to keep clients informed. The spreadsheet that held it all together was called final_v7. That was the moment they decided to build something better.

Talora launched in Lisbon in 2023 with a simple idea. Give studios one calm place for clients, projects, approvals and payments, and give their clients a portal that feels as considered as the work itself. Today it is used by more than 2,400 studios in 38 countries.

Inês Carvalho Daniel Brooks

Inês Carvalho and Daniel Brooks
Co founders of Talora

Warm valley landscape at dusk
"We wanted clients to feel looked after, and studios to feel less stretched. Everything we build still comes back to those two feelings."
Inês Carvalho, CEO
Founded in Lisbon
2023
Founded in Lisbon
Studios and agencies
2,400+
Studios and agencies
Countries with paying customers
38
Countries with paying customers
People on the team
21
People on the team

What we believe

Four ideas guide how we build Talora, who we hire and which features we say no to.

01

Calm by default

Software should lower the temperature of a project, not raise it. We remove notifications before we add them, and every screen has to earn its place.

02

Clients are people too

Half of the people using Talora never pay us. We design the client portal with the same care as the studio side, because that is where trust is built.

03

Ship small, ship often

We release something useful almost every week, talk to customers every day and keep the changelog honest about what is new and what we fixed.

04

Earn trust slowly

Your client list and your invoices are your livelihood. We treat security, privacy and uptime as product features, not as fine print.

The people behind Talora

A remote first team of 21, with a home base in Lisbon and teammates across nine time zones.

Backed by investors who believe in independent studios

  • Meridian Ventures
  • NORTHSTAR
  • Atlas Seed
  • tidewater
  • Crescent Capital

Careers

Help us make client work feel lighter.

We are hiring a Senior Product Engineer, a Product Designer for the client portal and a Customer Success Manager for the Americas. Remote within Europe and the Americas, with a yearly team week in Lisbon.

  • Remote first
  • 4 day weeks in August
  • Learning budget
  • Equity for everyone
Get in touch about roles

Give your clients a better experience, starting this week.

Set up your portal in about ten minutes. Import clients from a spreadsheet and send your first invoice today.

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