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Last March, we spoke about Memeoirs, the startup that creates hardcopy or digital books from digital content, on the occasion of a €225,000 investment from Pozzoni Group, the Italian and international printed materials giant which, following a philosophy of open innovation, decided to take advantage of the business integration opportunities offered by Memeoirs. Memeoirs recently […]

We were walking in Genoa, when a person stopped us: “Can you help me cross the road and reach the bus stop?” He was a blind person and that episode gave us an idea. We studied Biomedical Engineering and we wrote a paper on computer vision: we can give make a robot understand the environment […]

Videogames and Augmented Reality right in the middle of the Italian countryside, really? That’s what people say when dealing with KetchApp , the startup of mobile games my brother Elvis and I founded just an year ago. As fun-lovers, I admit this kind of reactions make us smile a bit, but I can’t deny they […]

I’m Giacomo co-founder of WalletSaver, an Italian startup that has just launched an App that suggests the best mobile tariff plans in according to the user’s consumption profile (phone calls, sms, internet). Basically we analyze how much a user uses the smartphone (how many calls, how many sms, how much internet) extracting data directly from the phone […]

United Ventures, the European technology-focused Venture Capital firm, has today announced the closure of its first fund with $80 Million. The new fund, entitled United Ventures One, is a significant milestone for the Milan-based Venture Capital firm and signals a renewed interest by investors into the European tech sector. The firm to date has already […]

It all started with a mind-blowing presentation of the future of cars and mobility with AeroMobil 3.0 a Czech masterpiece of engineering able to fly you and your brave passenger at over 200km/h for 700km without traffic lights nor pedestrian crossings. In case you are going to be one of the few lucky owners, just […]

During my three days in Dublin, at Web Summit, really worth, I did so many things, met many people and many international and Italian startups. The event was really huge, you have to attend in a well organized way, as I wrote here, if you don’t want to go round as child at the carnival, […]

  In Berlin, the two-day event dedicated to big data held on the 1 and 2 of October, at its second edition, has been confirmed as a point of reference in the context of international events. The startups contest won by Measurence.     AIR, WATER. EARTH. DATA. – This, the inspiring slogan chosen for […]

The first impressions from last week’s Webit are those of a well organized international conference. Located right on the Bosphorus, it includes a variety that is hard to find at similar events in Europe. In two days more than 70 startups showcased their projects in a dedicated networking section, while two parallel tracks on Digital […]

Finally Japan. It was the last leg of my Asian Trip. If I can summarize with one sentence the relationship between Europe and Japan in the early stage investment sector I could say that Europe doesn’t see Japan and viceversa. I didn’t know that much about what was going on in Japan in our sector […]

When I was in Singapore, ready to go to Hong Kong few investors told me: “in Hong Kong you will have much more time to for sight-seeing, there isn’t that much up there in the early stage sector”. Actually at the end the landscape resulted to be not that bad. It was more difficult to […]

The Far East is the first leg of my trip around the world in search and discovery of the most significant hubs for startups and the early stage venture capital market. In the last couple of years (as co-founder and MD of the angel group Italian Angels for Growth) I observed a clear trend of […]