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Who Is Tocha? The Startup Funder Whose Feed Runs on "And You, What Do You Think?" (2026)

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Naïlé Titah

Zuletzt aktualisiert: 26.10.2026

Tocha runs a startup. His LinkedIn headline is "Helping humans to build and fund businesses," he is co-founder and CEO of Comudel in Lisbon, and he co-built an investment vehicle that lets people back startups from 1,200 euros. So you would expect his feed to be about funding. It is not. At MagicPost we analyzed 100 of his Portuguese-language LinkedIn posts from the last year, and the single biggest finding is that his company posts barely register, while a reflection on Nordic prime ministers having dinner pulled 4,010 likes, roughly 57 times his median post.

This is who Tocha is, according to the best source: his own posts, measured.

Tocha: identity card with key LinkedIn numbers

His story, in his own posts

Tocha posts under a single name, but the work behind it is specific, and he narrates it himself.

The investor who bets on the founder, not the idea. His clearest origin signal is a post about how he picks startups. "Já investi em várias startups na minha carreira. Algumas foram um sucesso. Outras nem por isso." ("I have invested in several startups in my career. Some were a success. Others not so much.") The lesson is a stance: "O fundador é tão ou mais importante quanto a ideia... a capacidade de 'ler' alguém não se aprende em livros. Aprende-se com experiência." ("The founder matters as much as or more than the idea... the ability to 'read' someone is not learned in books. It is learned through experience.")

Building AngelsWay against a wall. He tells its founding as a barrier he refused to accept: "Quando começámos a AngelsWay, a ideia parecia impossível de ser feita." ("When we started AngelsWay, the idea seemed impossible to pull off.") The legal minimum to invest in a venture fund was 50,000 euros, and he wanted people in at 1,200. "Mas conseguimos! A lei mudou... Foi POSSÍVEL!" ("But we did it! The law changed... It was POSSIBLE!")

Two years of Comudel, and a win. "Após dois anos a construir a Comudel, estou orgulhoso de termos vencido o Winter Batch da Unicorn Factory Lisboa." ("After two years building Comudel, I am proud that we won the Winter Batch of Unicorn Factory Lisboa.") He signs off with a number only he would pick: "confio a 142% nas pessoas que estão comigo" ("I trust the people with me 142%").

The mission underneath all of it: defending entrepreneurs in Portugal. This is the recurring nerve of his feed. "Em Portugal, passas de 'um pobre trabalhador' a 'filho da mãe explorador' em muito pouco tempo." ("In Portugal, you go from 'a poor worker' to 'exploitative son of a gun' in very little time.") His stated ambition is "dignificar a imagem dos empreendedores em Portugal" ("to dignify the image of entrepreneurs in Portugal"), because "os políticos distribuem a riqueza... mas os empreendedores juntamente com as suas equipas criam-na" ("politicians distribute wealth... but entrepreneurs together with their teams create it").

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What he actually talks about

His categorized feed reads like a founder's notebook, but the weighting is the story. Punchy advice is his largest register (25 of 100 posts), followed by personal reflection (15) and provocative positions (9). Launch announcements, the posts you would expect a CEO to lead with, are a small slice (5).

The split that matters is between the two halves of his output. On one side, the company posts: AngelsWay, Comudel, the call to "fala com um dos 436 Angels da comunidade" ("talk to one of the community's 436 Angels"). These are useful and on-brand, and they earn in the low hundreds of likes at best. On the other side, the reflections, where he steps back from his own business to ask a bigger question about leadership, Portugal, or technology. Those are the posts that travel. His feed is run by a founder, but it is carried by a commentator. And one stylistic constant ties it together: he ends most posts by turning to the reader, the most measurable thing about him.

Who he writes for

Two audiences, both explicit. The first is the Portuguese founder who feels unfairly judged, the one he wants to defend and fund: "Se estás a criar uma startup sediada em Portugal e procuras o teu primeiro investimento, fala com um dos 436 Angels." ("If you are building a startup based in Portugal and looking for your first investment, talk to one of the 436 Angels.") The second is the reader he wants to argue with, addressed directly post after post: "E tu, o que pensas?" ("And you, what do you think?"). The offer (early-stage funding) is aimed at the first; the reach comes from the second.

His best posts

His measured corpus is recent, so there is no breakout year to chart. His biggest hits, reproduced from our data (click through to the originals):

4,010 likes, with 199 comments and 228 reposts. A reflection on Nordic leadership: the Danish prime minister hosting the Swedish and Norwegian PMs and the Finnish president for dinner at her home, "Sem grandes palcos. Sem hierarquias rígidas." ("No big stages. No rigid hierarchies.") The close is pure Tocha, a question pointed at home: "Agora, imagina este cenário em Portugal… Difícil, não é?" ("Now imagine this scenario in Portugal... Hard, isn't it?") A topic far from his funding work, and his biggest post by a distance.

3,008 likes. A remote-work debate built entirely as questions: "Será que o Trabalho Remoto é o futuro do trabalho?" ("Is remote work the future of work?") No verdict, just a framed argument handed to the reader. It is the question format in its purest form.

1,555 likes, and 176 reposts. A leadership lesson: "líderes não devem apenas concentrar-se nos resultados, mas sim nas pessoas que os alcançam" ("leaders should not focus only on results, but on the people who achieve them"). A "people over numbers" stance his audience shared heavily.

The pattern across all three is the headline finding of his feed: his biggest posts have no product in them at all. When Tocha stops selling and starts asking, reach multiplies.

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Naïlé Titah

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How he writes (the question-closer fingerprint)

Here is Tocha measured against the average creator:

How Tocha writes versus the average creator, measured

Metric (per post)	Tocha	Average creator*
Words	~128	185
Words in the hook	9	11
Words per paragraph	14	13
Words per sentence	8	10
Emojis	1	2
Hashtags	0	0
Exclamation marks	1	1
Hooks built on questions	23%	n/a
Hooks built on numbers	10%	22%

*Median across the 3,344 creators we analyzed with 20+ posts each.

The numbers point in one direction. At ~128 words he writes meaningfully shorter than the 185-word average, and his sentences run eight words against the typical ten, so his posts move fast. But the defining trait is not length, it is the question. He opens roughly a quarter of his posts with a question (23%) and uses number hooks at less than half the benchmark rate (10% versus 22%). He does not lead with statistics; he leads with a problem and hands it to you. When our system describes his style in one word, it says: punchy. The picture is a short, low-decoration post that starts with a question and, as the next section shows, almost always ends with one.

The "AI tells" in his style (read this the right way)

Run Tocha's writing through the patterns people now call "AI tells," and one number jumps off the chart:

The AI-pattern fingerprint of Tocha's style

Two thirds of his posts (67%) close with a question. That is not occasional, it is his signature, and it is the engine behind those 199-comment reflections: every post is built to be answered. His second-most characteristic move is the "It's not X, it's Y" contrast formula, in about a third of posts (33%), the most flagged "AI" pattern on LinkedIn. A "the real problem is..." reveal bridge and a generic advice frame each show up in about a quarter, and the "Here's how" opener only occasionally.

Do not read this backwards. Tocha does not write like an AI; AI writes like creators such as him. These moves read as robotic today because the models trained on the platform's best writers and then stacked every device into a single post. Tocha reaches for the contrast formula when it lands and otherwise leans on the move that is genuinely his: the closing question. And the column of zeros is just as telling. He never hedges ("it's worth noting that..."), never opens with a transition word like "Moreover," and never bolts on an automatic P.S. The discipline is the signature. (Full story: how to spot AI writing on LinkedIn.)

When he posts

Tocha publishes about 8 times a week, favorite day Thursday, with a typical slot around late morning and almost nothing on weekends (about 2%): a steady weekday cadence aimed at a working audience. His volume sits in the busier half of what our posting-frequency study measured, and which slot actually performs is exactly what our best-time-to-post data is for. His median post earns about 71 likes and 9 comments, a healthy comment rate that the question-close clearly feeds. And if showing up in his comments is part of your own playbook, that is what an engagement feed is for: his posts, every day, without hunting the timeline.

Where do these charts come from? Everything on this page runs on MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics, and it works on your profile too: your best posts, your audience, your benchmark, even a side-by-side with creators like Tocha.

What to steal from Tocha

End with a question, on purpose. Two thirds of his posts hand the reader a decision, and his biggest posts pull hundreds of comments because of it. The close is the engagement, not an afterthought.
Sell less, ask more. His company posts earn hundreds of likes; his open questions earn thousands. Pick the moments to pitch and let curiosity carry the rest.
Localize the big idea. His top post took a global leadership story and ended with "imagine this in Portugal." A universal observation lands harder aimed at your reader's own backyard.
Pick a fight worth having. "Dignify the image of entrepreneurs" is a position, not a tip. A clear stance gives every post a reason to exist.
One AI move, never six. A contrast formula where it fits, the rest his own voice. That restraint is the line between a signature and an AI tell.

Study him, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can dig into Tocha's numbers the way we just did, analyze your own LinkedIn analytics with the same depth, and write in the spirit of his style, in your own voice. The data on this page is the product.

Where this data comes from

Everything here is MagicPost's own research. MagicPost analyzed 100 Tocha posts from the last year: timing, engagement, topics, writing metrics, and the AI-pattern profile from a 30-post style sample. Every biographical claim is quoted from one of his own public LinkedIn posts and linked to it. Tocha is not affiliated with MagicPost; his style is one of those MagicPost tracks closely.

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Who is Tocha?

A Portuguese entrepreneur based in Lisbon, co-founder and CEO of Comudel, with around 25,000 LinkedIn followers. He co-built the AngelsWay investment community and writes in Portuguese about funding startups, leadership, and entrepreneurship in Portugal, under the headline "Helping humans to build and fund businesses."

How does Tocha make money?

By his own posts, through his companies: Comudel, which he has built over two years and which won the Winter Batch of Unicorn Factory Lisboa, and AngelsWay, the investment community he helped create so people could back Portuguese startups from 1,200 euros. We only state what his posts state.

How often does Tocha post on LinkedIn?

About 8 times a week in our data, most often on Thursdays around late morning, with almost nothing on weekends (about 2%).

Does Tocha write with AI?

His fingerprint is light on most "AI tells" and never adds the usual filler (no hedging, no transition openers, no automatic P.S.). His two most characteristic moves are human habits: closing two thirds of his posts with a question, and the "It's not X, it's Y" contrast in about a third, a pattern people now mislabel as an AI tell.

Is Tocha growing on LinkedIn?

Our engagement data covers his last year, where his median post earns about 71 likes and 9 comments, and his best reflections reach into the thousands. We measure engagement per post, not follower count over time, so this reflects how hard his posts land.

Can I write like Tocha?

You can learn the mechanics: MagicPost learns a creator's writing style (length, rhythm, hooks, signature moves) and helps you write in that spirit, in your voice.

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Naïlé Titah

CEO @ MagicPost

LinkedIn hat seinen Algorithmus erneut geändert. Und dieses Mal ist es spürbar.

Ich bin in einer guten Position, um das zu wissen:

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Naïlé Titah

CEO @ MagicPost

LinkedIn hat seinen Algorithmus erneut geändert. Und dieses Mal ist es spürbar.

Ich bin in einer guten Position, um das zu wissen:

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His story, in his own posts

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What he actually talks about

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Who he writes for

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His best posts

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