151002 admitted startups by sector

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ItaliaRestartsUp 2015 - Start-ups
Macro-sector
Agriculture, food and beverage
Sector
Agriculture, food and beverage
COMPANY NAME
HK HORTICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE SRL
WEB SITE
http://www.hkconsulting.it
REGION
Emilia Romagna
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ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 74.90.11
DATE OF INCORPORATION
29/07/2011
STARTUP DEVELOPMENT STAGE
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Apple and pear fruit growth monitoring and forecast system
PRODUCT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
HK was founded by:Zibordi Marco and Pierpaoli Emanuele (HK full time
managers)Corelli Grappadelli Luca: Unibo Full ProfessorManfrini Luigi: HK
president, Unibo researcher Morandi Brunella: Unibo researcherLosciale
Pasquale: Cra-Sca researcher
YOUR VISION
To be the global leader that growers look to for support in horticulture
technology, information services. We want them to know that their
profitability, sustainability and success in the field – and community – is what
drives us every day.
YOUR MISSION
We will focus on using innovative horticultural practices to make fruit crop
production more profitable and sustainable. We will protect and maintain a
reliable food supply by bringing to use innovative agricultural tools and
technologies.
YOUR PROJECT
Daily fruit growth rate is the result of complex interactions between tree and
environment. Total income depends on size class distribution, average fruit
diameter and total production. The service can be used for every apple and
pear cultivar.HK monitoring service allows growers to use fruit as a natural
sensor. Thanks to Calibit (http://calibit.it/en), grower can measure the
necessary number of fruit needed to monitor one hectare, in only 15 min. Then
data are sent to PerFrutto, the web page which real-time analyses them, builds
fruit growth curve, shows growth velocity and forecast total yield and size class
distribution well in advance.With traditional production system, these
informations are available only at the end of the season, making impossible to
understand the effectiveness of decisions taken all along the growing season.
PerFrutto is a decision support system which allows growers to know now
which will be the coming production and giving them the chances to evaluate
the efficacy of any agricultural practice (irrigation, thinning, fertilization, etc.)
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
no patents
COPYRIGHT
no copyrights
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MARKET SEGMENT (ESTIMATED VALUE, EUR)
YOUR MARKET SHARE ONE YEAR FROM NOW
YOUR COMPETITORS
192.000.000
Italy: 1.7%Abroad: 0.13%World: 0.26%
No direct competitors until now.There are some comparable as like AgFirst
(NZ), Farmers Business Network, Inc (USA) and other irrigation management
companies.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our service gives forecast for fruit production and also a decision support
system for irrigation scheduling.We have already developed specific tools:Calibit, external memory digital calliper- PerFrutto, web page for real time
analysis
HOW MUCH CAPITAL ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? (EUR) up to 500.000
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 90
FROM WHOM?
BANK LOAN (POR-FESR)
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
3ND Srl
WEB SITE
https://www.vino75.com
REGION
Toscana
09/02/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
The best wine shop in Italy
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
2 engineer with 10 years experience in Java web developing, 1 retail expert, 1
food & beverage expert
YOUR VISION
To keep the wine searching and wine buying simple, even for non-experts. To
become the most popular online wine shop
YOUR MISSION
Offer the most accurate wine selection from the best wine producers giving the
best user experience possible.
YOUR PROJECT
VINO75 was born in the august 2014, after 2 years of platform development.
At the moment we count 1.300 different wine labels from more then 300
producers with which VINO75 has a direct business.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 500.000 to 1mln
PATENTS
Proprietary JAVA EE e-commerce paltform
COPYRIGHT
Proprietary JAVA EE e-commerce paltform
100000000
YOUR COMPETITORS
NA
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Innovative e-commerce platform, catalogue, team
HOW MUCH CAPITAL ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? (EUR) from 1 mln to 3 mln
FROM WHOM?
Club Italia Investimenti 2Club DigitaleNana BiancaOthers
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
Bauzaar.com
WEB SITE
https://www.bauzaar.it/
REGION
Lombardia
13/12/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
E-commerce innovative web platform in the pet care market.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Founders (Matteo and Domenico) had great experience in the e-commerce
industry (Zalando) and Consulting (Ernst&Young M&A Adv.). Tech team see an
experienced back-end developer and a front-end developer taking care of the
tech asset of the firm, developed from skratch. 1 FTE dedicated to top-class
customer service by phone-email-chat-whatsapp. Marketing is headed by an
experienced manager who worked for Zooplus and Arcaplanet before + 1 FTE
responsible for email marketing and affiliation. 1 FTE works as buyer
assistant/admin and 1FTE for logistics.
YOUR VISION
Become leader in Europe in the e-commerce industry for premium and super
premium products for dogs and cats.
YOUR MISSION
Delivery the best quality products with an excellent customer service to all
people having dogs and cats at home and considering them part of their family.
YOUR PROJECT
We want to fill the gap in the Italian market online giving customers the chance
to receive the best customer service and the high quality products for their
pets. The project is to become the second top player in the Italian market by
2018 and then to go for international expansion.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
PATENTS
no patents
COPYRIGHT
no copyright
YOUR COMPETITORS
2 bn
4-6% in Italy
Zooplus, Arcaplanet, Miscota, PacoPetShop, DogSitter
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Bauzaar is an innovative platform aiming at become the top-class e-commerce
for customers in the premium and super premium segments of the pet care
market. We are the first player in Europe with a frequent delivery service
allowing customers to repurchase automatically and with a very flexible control
panel through our web app. Technology (user experience) and customer service
are the most important values in our business.
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FROM WHOM?
Boox and H-Farm have been the first accelerators believing in our team and
business model. Then the venture capital Programma 101 together with Club
Digitale and Club Italia Investimenti invested about €500k in the last 18 months
to sustain the growth of the business in Italy.
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
cloudesire.com
WEB SITE
www.cloudesire.com
REGION
Toscana
01/08/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
the unique platform able to self-provision any kind of app
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
we master opensource and cloud computing, we have international experience,
2 out of the 4 founders have 15 years of entrepreneurial experience
YOUR VISION
The license software is dead. We are enabling any ISV to become saas-ready
in hours, without investments, across any cloud.
YOUR MISSION
we want to become the Spotify for business applications, enabling playlists of
software for any kind of business segment
YOUR PROJECT
ClouDesire allows Software Vendors to sell and distribute Applications as SaaS.
Through any Cloud. Within minutes. Without programming.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
PATENTS
zero
COPYRIGHT
no
500B$
5.000.000 €
YOUR COMPETITORS
appdirectodincomputenext
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE self provisioning on the cloud of any kind of application no programming
required to the ISV cloud agnostic (we can provision on any cloud provider)
we cover the full billing/invoicing/payment process we have all the store
features (both for one-to-many and ,any-to-any stores)
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 500k€
FROM WHOM?
we obtained roughly 500k€ from h2020 program
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
iCarry SRL
WEB SITE
http://www.icarry.it
REGION
Lazio
23/06/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Local and national (soon international) most innovative delivery web platform.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Daniel Giovannetti, CEO, 23 years. In 2012 he built with success its first startup
in USA. https://it.linkedin.com/in/dgiovannetti Antonio Silvestre, COO, 24
years. Since 2008 creating tech communities all over internet.
https://it.linkedin.com/in/ansilvestre Gabriele Ferrieri, CFO, 23 years. Worked
at Regione Lazio (2015), at Tribuna Italia as Editor (2012-2014) and at Mirica
International as Marketing Assistent https://it.linkedin.com/pub/gabrieleferrieri/89/705/335/en Shareholders:As above plusMassimo Giovannetti,
56 years. Working at EMC2 as EMEA Sales Manager (2010-today), worked at
IBM (2000-2004) as Business Development Executive.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimogiovannetti Federico Faraone, XX years.
Working at EMC2 as Account Manager (2009-today), worked at VMWare.
https://it.linkedin.com/pub/federico-faraone/3/711/959
YOUR VISION
Be the world leader in the provision of innovative and dynamic logistics
services, on transportation and e-commerce, based on an open and solid
community, made up of people, partners, customers, and ideas. A community
aiming to decrease the unemployment rate and the delivery costs
(consumption of CO2 included).
YOUR MISSION
Improve global logistics in favor of a more sustainable system, using all
available technology to reduce costs and unnecessary travel. Create new jobs,
based on a better management of resources in the field of e-commerce, and all
related logistics.
YOUR PROJECT
With the establishment of a community of innovative couriers in constant
growth, iCarry has reinterpreted the concept of transport services based on
sharing economy’s philosophy. Starting from the local same-day-delivery
service, iCarry uses an advanced algorithm able, as first goal, to improve the
local and national logistics, significantly reducing the overall consumption of
CO2. Visiting iCarry.it you can now find the best options to deliver your goods
anywhere locally over 2000 occasional and professional couriers. (national and
international deliveries are coming as 2nd and 3rd step respectively).
International iCarry would be found at launch visiting iCarry.coAlso,
partnering with professional couriers iCarry reached the top of the quality of
the service offered. These are the just the basis with which iCarry will build its
future. Building an innovative and user friendly ecommerce (mobile app), and
collaborating with most productive businesses of Italian (and European) cities,
iCarry will revolutionize the way we shop: visitors, community members and
delivery customers could buy partners goods and services today for TODAY.
After all same-day-delivery is becoming the delivery standard.The company's
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next goal is to create a network of shippers who can respond to customer
needs and commercial operators, while maintaining high quality standards.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Actually no industrial patents except brand international registration of
"iCarry".
COPYRIGHT
International Figurative TradeMark under registration "iCarry" - Trade mark
status: Application published.
YOUR COMPETITORS
30.000.000.000
iCarry launched its first service with iCarry.it on middle of
July 2015 and more than 2000 users subscribed to its
platform in less than two months since started. Even
with a limited marketing budget, in these two months
iCarry.it have raised 100K read pages, more than 17K
sessions and 10K users, with the first deliveries completed
with success, and all this just focusing on four Italian cities
(Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna).The platform currently
has a weekly exponential growth of 20%+ on the users side
and by 40%+ on the visits.In one year we expect 50K
registered users on our platform, starting from a monthly
growth of 25% to arrive to 250%.Also, we expect to have
at least 10 main couriers partners (and their relative
franchises) in each covered city, with 150 commercial
partners in each covered city.Last, but not least, we
would expect to have opened our services to London city.
Today the market iCarry wants to join in is populated by two kind of
competitors, who they’ve not “connected” and/or “expanded” their services
putting them all-together yet, like iCarry is already starting doing.A)
Competitors who offer same-day-delivery to merchants who have a local
presence with their physical store, but who do not have an ecommerce website
to sell and bellboys to deliver their goods.In Italy (and in most of analyzed
countries) these competitors focused their efforts in Food&Beverage field.
Here we can find businesses like JustEat, Deliverex (bought this year by JustEat),
Foodinho, Foodora, BacchetteForchette, myFood, Moovenda (startup stage),
UberEats (not started yet), PonyU (not started yet).Their business model
starts with pilot project in Rome or Milan, then they expand on Milan (or Rome,
depending on the starting city), and then they try to expand their services all
over the other important cities (Naples, Turin, Bologna, etc.). The time involved
in the expansion usually is around 6-12 months per city, depending on the
funding round of € raised with private investments and equity crowdfunding’s
campaigns.B) Competitors who created web platform and mobile apps to
build a community based on sharing economy, to let people gain/save money
on travelling, letting them deliver goods in behalf of other persons/businesses. –
this is the iCarry.it platform approach, done in different ways.Actually the
most important competitor (not launched on market yet) is TocTocBox, a
company who raised over 80K € through equity crowdfunding, and who will
launch the mobile app soon in September/October. Their approach is the same
of BlaBlaCar ones, just long distances’ deliveries: using your car you can deliver
goods from city to city all over the country.As said, they’ve not hit the market
yet.In USA, there is Roadie a startup who raised millions of investments: its
concept is the same of TocTocBox, long distances.Then, there is Deliv.co, the
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startup defined “Amazon’s rival” who has created a community of occasional
couriers based on sharing economy and who created specific API to let the big
merchants implement their delivery services in their ecommerce websites.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Besides the fact to let people registered on iCarry.it as occasional couriers to
receive a recovery for their travels, iCarry gives the possibility to local and
national professional couriers and bike messengers to candidate to work closely
with iCarry’s commercial partners (coming from the iCarry Shop service and not
only).Thanks to a great algorithm iCarry can reduce cost of delivery
exponentially to the popularity of the service, increasing the professional
couriers sales and iCarry’s incomings directly.Relating to city-to-city
deliveries, iCarry wants to implement this feature on its platform and apps, way
better: adding trains to car system. Actually there’s no way for national
courier to beat in term of costs and speed a same-day-delivery done with a
train. Let’s take the Rome-Milan track for example: very unlikely a courier can
delivery a package in 4 hours from Rome to Milan for less than 5-15 €.iCarry
is already working closely with the Italian Parliament to make this new side of
our projects a reality really soon.Partnering with Bike Messengers, and
optimizing the transportations all over the country (remind: trains are green
power!), iCarry can also achieve what are called “white energy certificates” :
reducing the CO2 in fact, iCarry could obtain as award an interesting number of
white certificates (and this number would grow exponentially each year), those
in simple words are energy stock certificates, and they can be sold in the energy
market, let making a huge net profit for the owner (iCarry in this case). In
addition to all of this, iCarry thought to solve merchants’s needs (especially of
big merchants) who already have an ecommerce website and who don’t want
(or don’t want only) to be on iCarry Shop.A system) APIs system, as Deliv.co
does, letting the merchants implement iCarry’s delivery system on their
ecommerce websites.B system) Voucher system: merchants can buy and
manage online multiple shipping services with discounted price. iCarry already
has developed a specific innovative platform to let merchant do this
(http://partner.icarry.it) – is not on market yet.In addition to ALL of this,
iCarry is creating a huge network marketing all over the country, starting from
the four already targeted cities. People inside iCarry’s network will be
intermediaries with the task of massively increase the commercial partners,
both for iCarry Shop and iCarry’s deliveries.
FROM WHOM?
During a non-equity (reward) crowdfunding campaign, at the beginning of
iCarry's idea, the Italian collossum Poste Italiane (Italian 1st postal service)
wanted to award the idea, contributing with € 5.000 to our embryonic project
in January.
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
MARINANOW
WEB SITE
www.marinanow.com
REGION
Sardegna
16/05/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Book and list Berths and Boats anywhere in the Mediterranean!
YOUR TEAM
PRODUCT
The team has over 30 years of industry expertise in the nautical world, two
founders who previously created software companies and strong consultancy
and business acumen.The management team is made by:•
Alessandro
Sestini, CEO: Founder of Arcadia Web Services, Sailor and Skipper for >18y;
•
Paolo Codina, CTO: Founder of Web Design company Pevero Ltd, Linesman
for > 4 years; •
Andrea Corvaglia, CMO: Comes from family of Boat Builders,
Linesman for > 12 years; •
Livio Quintavalle, COO: MBA from HKUST and
Berkeley; •
Livio Marcheschi, CFO: MBA from Leeds University Marinanow
employs 2 programmers and 2 people offering customer support services.
YOUR VISION
Marinanow aims to become the first one-stop-shop for sailing, combining
berth and boat bookings with related services to provide customers with their
dream holiday.
YOUR MISSION
The mission of Marinanow is to simplify the lives of everyone involved in the
nautical industry.This means partnering with an increasing number of marinas
to become the de facto standard for berth booking in the main market in the
world: the Mediterranean.
YOUR PROJECT
Marinanow is an online marketplace for people to list, discover and book
berths and boats anywhere in the Mediterranean. It is the bookings.com of the
nautical world, allowing users to search for the nearest marina or boat,
compare prices and book instantly.Booking places in marinas is a tough job:
search and price comparison can take days, with no guarantee of success.
There is no reliable online platform that gathers contact details and allows
instant booking of berths, so requests are still mainly managed manually.With
Marinanow, users choose from over 400.000 berths and 4.000 boats, while
marina and boat owners are provided with an easy-to-use booking system to
manage their catalogue and boost their revenues.The whole booking process
is managed online, from search to payment, improving price transparency for
users and payment certainty for marina and boat owners.Berth and boat
markets are complementary: moving charters to selected ports increases
bargaining power with marinas, while existing users can be turned into new
suppliers by renting their boat or berth on Marinanow.There is the strong
opportunity to become the One-Stop-Shop for sailing by expanding the existing
presence in the biggest market in the world: the Mediterranean.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
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TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
none
COPYRIGHT
none
YOUR COMPETITORS
5000000000
We have already affiliated around a third of marinas in the
Mediterranean and we expect to have 50% of them by the
end of next year.
The main competitor in the European berth market is PortBooker
(Spain).Some local competitors are emerging in Northern Europe (e.g.
Havneguide, Dockspot, Navily), demonstrating both the existence of lucrative
local markets and the challenges in scaling beyond the national scale.New
competitors are also emerging and raising funds in US, namely Dockwa and
DockSkipper (who recently merged together).The boat market is more
competitive. Main VC-backed players are BoatBound (US), GetMyBoat (US) and
Incrediblue (GR). Italian competitors include Sailogy and Antlos.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 1.Founding team with extensive industry expertise and connections (>30 years
in sailing); 2.Well positioned to become the leader in the Mediterranean
berth market, with around a third of marinas already affiliated and on track to
have 50% by the end of next year; 3.Strategic partnerships with Port
networks and Marina groups (e.g. Marinedi) and players offering
complementary services, namely Navigo Toscana (network of industry players,
developing a software to streamline the port documentation process for
recreational vessels), First Bunker (bunkering), Navis and other Marina
Management software providers, Emergensea (boat rescue service); 4.Highly
defensible berth market: high barriers to entry and no established leader;
5.Strong up-sales and cross-sales opportunities exist, leveraging
complementarities between the boat and the berth business (existing users can
be turned into new suppliers by renting their boat or berth on Marinanow,
while charter boats rent out multiple berths in a single cruise). Berth market is
indeed the entry point to a €200Bn global marine tourism market, where
Europe accounts for 40%; 6.Chances to capitalize on the growing interest in
“marine startup” by VCs (Boatbound: $4.5M – 2014; Boatsetter: $1.9M – 2014;
Getmyboat: $1.5M – 2015; Incrediblue: 2.6M – 2015)
FROM WHOM?
•
United Ventures: main Italian VC fund investing in digital startup (€65M
under management); •
The Net Value: primary Italian digital startup
accelerator; •
Hermaea Ventures; •
Other business angels.
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
Quomi Srl
WEB SITE
www.quomi.it
REGION
Lombardia
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 479110
17/04/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
We deliver organic high quality ingredients directly at our customers' door
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Quomi has a team of high level professionals:- Daniele Bruttini has been
Country Manager Italy for Wimdu and TravelBird, and Commercial Head for
Zalando Italy, taking care of setting up and launching the company on the
Italian market.- Andrea Bruno was Operations Manager for Zalando Italy,
managing 3 milion orders and a team of 70 people, including Zalando Customer
Service- Alessandro Pantina is Brand Marketing Manager for Zalando Italy &
Spain, managing a budget of € 20 mln / year
YOUR VISION
Quomi wants to revolutionise the way people eat. We will do this by becoming
the ultimate resource about food: it will have contents. be a social platform.
acquire & process big data and provide a curated food service throughout
YOUR MISSION
Quomi aims at building not only a scaleable food e-commerce with a solid
competitive position but wants to be the number one platform for text and
visual food contents, to provide proactive and dynamic social sharing
community and finally become The online food Brand
YOUR PROJECT
Quomi delivers organic high quality ingredients directly at our customers door.
We offer a curated food service that lets people save time and diversify their
way of eating. We plan and deliver, you enjoy! Every week, a new menù will
be avaiilable with new recipes: our customers can decide what they want to
eat next week and receive directly at their door a box with all the right
ingredients in the exact quantities they need. We only work with the best
Italian suppliers and products, we are a partner of the SlowFood Foundation
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Quomi provides a service which is not patented.
COPYRIGHT
Quomi has no registered trademarks
YOUR COMPETITORS
approx. € 500mln in 2014 in Italy
approx 1%
Quomi has no direct competitors on the Italian market. A few players are
providing services which could be competing with Quomi, like for instance
Supermercato24 or Cortilia. None of them, by the way, provides a service which
can be compared to Quomi.On the international markets, quite a few big
players can be identified. They have already validated this business model in the
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main European markets and in the US. None of them, by the way, has focus on
the Italian cuisine and made in Italy products.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The main advantage Quomi has is based on the high level profiles of this team
members: the founding team has gathered relevant successful international
experience in the startup and ecommerce industry, launching in Italy a
successful company such as Zalando.Moreover, we are the first mover on this
business in the Italian market.Finally, compared to the big international
players, Quomi has access to high quality niche Italian producers and has a
strong focus on the Italian culture and cuisine.
FROM WHOM?
Quomi has already received relevant funding from two Italian investors:Euroventures- Digital Magics
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
sailsquare srl
WEB SITE
www.sailsquare.com
REGION
Toscana
12/05/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
The first marketplace for sailing experiences offered by private boat owners.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Simone Marini (founder): Manager and entrepreneur with 15+years experience
in CxO positions in the IT market. Riccardo Boatti (founder): Manager and
entrepreneur with 15+years experience in the new media.Marco Viganò: COO
& Board MemberFrancesca Ellisse: Marketing managerMarcello Demurtas:
Creative/UX directorAlessandro Zanchetton: New Business
managerFrancesca Bettari: Customer OperationsDaniela Surace: Customer
Operations
YOUR VISION
There is an opportunity window to enter a sector - the nautical tourism
market - with a new approach, leveraging some clear market trends as:Sailing has become an accessible experience: increase in comfort and safety in
modern yachts have broadened the public interested in this kind of experience
that nowadays has become mainstream;- Collaborative consumption
business models are being widely adopted in all economy sectors;- Peers
have become major influencers in tourism purchasing decisions;- Experiential
travel - exploring a destination like, and with, locals - is the new frontier of
tourism.
YOUR MISSION
Our dream is to make sailing experiences accessible to anyone, enabling the
sharing of unique experiences among people from all over the world.We aim
to become the #1 platform for sailing holidays in the world in the next 5 years.
YOUR PROJECT
sailsquare connects people who have a boat with people who want to make an
experience at sea. Through a peer-to-peer platform, travelers can participate in
sailing experiences directly offered by private boat owners. Once registered
on the platform, it's possible to apply as a boat owner. Boat owners must pass
a selection process carried out by sailsquare, after which they can list their own
holiday proposals. Other users can browse the proposals and, eventually, book
a holiday. The offer is made up of hundreds of proposals throughout the
Mediterranean and the Caribbean, each listing is accompanied by a detailed
description about the holiday organisation, a map of the navigation area, the
profiles of users who have already joined and of the skipper himself, his
experiences and the feedbacks received from other users. Users can get in
touch with the boat owner through an integrated messaging system and ask
for further information and, finally, join the experience by paying online their
share. Sailsquare ensure the security of transactions by collecting the fees
from participants and forwarding them to the owner once the experience is
started, deducting a commission on the paid fee.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
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TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
N.A.
COPYRIGHT
N.A.
YOUR COMPETITORS
72000000000
The market share will be still very low, but we expect to
grow with a 5x factor, with respect to 2015 figures, which
report bookings for about 700k€ (estimate).
There are lots of competitors, which have different positioning, the most
important ones are:BoatboundYachticoIncrediblueBluewagoThe Yacht
Week
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Sailsquare targets a far broader market than its competitors, because it’s the
only platform that manage “single berth” bookings.Moreover, it is the only
one that relies on “social network” features in order to foster engagement and
virality.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? (EUR) more than 3 mln
FROM WHOM?
We raised the money from a pool of private investors (serial entrepreneurs,
business angels, some customers), and an istitutional one (LigurCapital).
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
Seejay
WEB SITE
www.seejay.co
REGION
Lazio
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 63,12
05/02/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Seejay is a social media marketing service based on hashtag storytelling.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
The team has lots of experience in builing successful startups: Carlo Brunelleschi
(CEO) was founder and CEO of Decoro Urbano, a platform leader in egovernment; Fabrizio Ferreri (COO) was COO and co-founder of Urlist, a leading
platform in content sharing.Our CTO, Andrea Ortis, directs a team of senior
professional developers in the creation of innovative software to manage,
publish and promote large amounts of data of different types.Both
commercial and strategic departments can count on top profiles as Francesco
Cazzaniga, former marketing manager of Tod's, and Fabio Blandino, former
manager at Microsoft.
YOUR VISION
Our vision is based on three premises:- for brands and publishers it is
increasingly difficult to gain the attention of their online users; - social
networks are becoming increasingly important in the dynamics of
communication between companies and their target audience;- storytelling is
becoming a key tool to communicate corporate identity and value
proposition.Considering these background premises, our vision is to create
and propose a new paradigm for online marketing, what we call: "real-time intopic advertising".
YOUR MISSION
Seejay is a social media marketing service that exploits the full potential of the
hashtags to expand businesses, increase sales, increase audience of brands and
publishers. Our mission is therefore to offer to brands and publishers the
possibility to launch innovative online marketing campaigns with high
performance if compared to traditional marketing channels.
YOUR PROJECT
1) Our customers identify hashtags relevant to their business, service or
product which they intend to promote. For each chosen hashtag there are
groups of users who are posting on social networks with that hashtag, who are
potentially interested in the business of our customers. 2) On the chosen
hashtag, our customers build their Social Walls.The Social Wall is a collection
of content collected from social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+,
Pinterest, Instagram, Vine, YouTube, Flickr) about one or more hashtags.The
Social Wall allows to engage users who are posting on social networks with the
chosen hashtag.3) To the users who are posting on social networks with the
chosen hashtags, and already engaged through the Social Wall, our customers
send via Seejay their commercial message. Hashtags allow customers to reach
targets in line with their message. The hashtags in fact ensures the alignment
between activities, products and services that our customers intend to
promote and their audience (recipient of the commercial message). This kind
of marketing campaigns, based on hashtags, has a conversion rates much
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higher (+70%!) than that of other marketing channels.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
None. We only have a trademark registration for "Seejay" in Italy.
COPYRIGHT
The service is owned by Seejay Srl.
140.000.000.000
YOUR COMPETITORS
The main direct competitors are:- Storify, it is a content curation service that
allows users to build "stories" by integrating theirs own content with content
from different social networks. http://storify.com/ - RebelMouse, Tint,
Tagboard: services that let users embed "social feeds" from the main social
networks both in their web and mobile platforms.
https://www.rebelmouse.com/ http://www.tintup.com/ https://tagboard.com/
- SocialBro: marketing platform that uses Twitter to launch a new kind of
marketing campaigns.http://www.socialbro.com/ - Twitter Curator: service
that allows media publishers to group, analyze and display real-time Twitter
conversations.https://curator.twitter.com/
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The distinctive value proposition of Seejay is based on the following points:- It
is a marketing tool and at the same time a content curation platform;- It works
with all the main social networks and any website can be a Seejay source of
content;- It integrates services that competitors do not offer in a single
product: a) "social" storytelling, that is, content curation that produces Social
Walls as output;b) organic promotional tools to launch effective marketing
campaigns; c) analytics and sentiment analysis related to both the Social Walls
and the marketing campaigns launched.Below, additional elements that
differentiate Seejay from competitors: - The possibility to include a "Request
contributions" form in the Social Walls. This form is a "call" addressed directly
to the audience to stimulate their engagement; - A greater number of features
for the creation of the Social Wall: during the collection of content, Seejay
simplifies content curation with an interface dedicated to this stage of the
process and the possibility to automatically create Social Walls; at the editing
stage, it offers filters and options in greater numbers than its competitors,
providing the possibility of a complete customization of the Social Wall; at the
publication stage, it offers more (and always increasing), graphic templates for
displaying content; - A system for the creation and the automatic, live update
of Social Walls;- The integration of semantic features, and especially the
extraction of entities and categorization of the Social Wall content.A
significantly lower pricing also differentiates Seejay from its competitors. We
finally offer our service in self-provisioning (of course, with pre and post-sale
services where required), while none of the competitor services can be used
quickly and immediately but require to contact the sales force to request a
demo.
FROM WHOM?
Filas Lazio: financial group of the "Regione Lazio" to support local
companies;Club Italia Investimenti 2: big italian investment fund;Nana
Bianca: accelerator in Florence founded by the former founders of
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Dada;Werter Mambelli: business angel and manager; former head of
Commodore for the Southern Europe;Gianni Linari: business angel and
entrepreneur, shareholder of many listed companies (i.e. Cuki Spa)
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
tailoritaly srl
WEB SITE
http://tailoritaly.com/
REGION
Lombardia
03/03/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
Ecommerce platform to personalize and buy made in Italy outfits
YOUR TEAM
PRODUCT
Monica Calicchio, creator of Tailoritaly, had the crucial task of organizing and
developing the foundation of the company by implementing a successful,
scalable and sustainable business over time. This impliesdifferent relevant
activities that need several complementary management skills.In his role as
CTO, Luca Adalberto Vandro manages IT assets of Tailoritaly and leads the
development team.As Creative Director of Tailoritaly, Giuseppe Giammetta
has the task of building the image and the company’s communicative identity.
Francesco Leone is Senior developer of Tailoritaly. Vito Plasmati Web Designer
of Tailoritaly and the artistic director for User Interaction.
YOUR VISION
Tailoritaly aims to become the first E-commerce platform that exports the
Italian tailoring experience worldwide.
YOUR MISSION
To allow every women to wear the perfect look that:- Excelle for the quality
of the fabrics and manufacturing process- Perfectly fits body shapes- Is
personalized and unique
YOUR PROJECT
Tailoritaly is the first e-commerce platform that allows customers to instantly
personalize and buy Italian pret-a-porter products.On the product side, we
revolutionize the customers’ shopping experience through the personalization
of garments and fashion accessories. Clients become their own stylists,
interacting with a 3D platform and benefiting of the endless customization
options: several combinations of patterns, fabrics, colors and details.
Moreover, the high quality rendering of the models ensures an incredibly
realistic 360°preview of the products.On the process side, TailorItaly
innovates the production chain by overcoming the inventory issues, since
products are realized only after the customers’ orders. We enhance the
business of SMEs and smallcompanies, connecting them with the end
customer and digitizing the Italian excellence in fashion.Indeed, our processes
shorten the value chain, increasing profits for the producers and reckoning
onexisting resources to reduce wastes.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We do not have patents.
COPYRIGHT
We do have copyright on the 3D configurator to instantly personalize fashion
items sold on tailoritaly.com
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YOUR COMPETITORS
58 bn euros
0,0086
Tailoritaly combines the three main elements of a successful fashion company
adding unique value through the personalization platform.• Customer
experience: Dior, Louis Vuitton and many others propose an intense
experience, however their products are standardized and expensive.•
Customization: Itailor, DIS and Tailor4Less propose few and standard
personalization options, with no research for uniqueness.• Quality: Scarosso
and Net-A-Porter propose high quality products but, differently from our Made
in Italy certified garments, they lack of transparency on the producers’ country
of origin.• Range of products: YOOX, Privalia and Farfetch offer a wider
selection, however they propose standard branded products.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our competitive advantages are:• High quality tailoring becomes accessible to
a wider customer base;• Presence of a 3D configurator that supports the
customization of the product;• Tailoritaly centralizes and manages the end-2end relationship along the entire fashion supply chain in the field of fashion;• a
unique network of Italian suppliers committed to high quality that handcraft
small quantities;• the acquisition of a consistent customer base being an early
mover.
FROM WHOM?
- TIM WCAP accelerator : 25000 - Politecnico di Milano inside the EIT European
horizon process: 25000- Business Angels: 70000
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Macro-sector
E-commerce
Sector
E-commerce
COMPANY NAME
VIN.CI. SRL
WEB SITE
ProfumeriaWeb.com
REGION
Lombardia
28/09/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
An e-commerce site that offers great selection, strong convenience and
excellent customer service for beauty products
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
The founder, Vincenzo, is an online enthusiast with more than 15 years
experience in the on line marketing and advertising. It has worked at Microsoft
Advertising for 6 years, as Sales Manager, and at Amazon Italy as Head of
Marketing, for 2 years. His knowledge of the online advertising industry helps
ProfumeriaWeb to have a positive ROI on all the marketing activities, included
the ones for the first purchase of the new customers. He has vision, he sees the
big pictures.Federico, in the team after a few months and now one of the
shareholders, is a very precise person, detailed oriented and errors finder. He
has covered several roles in the company, from catalogue quality to web
marketing, from CRM to buying strategy. It is the ideal complementary to
Vincenzo, as it focuses on details, on processes, on problems, rather than on
the big picture, projects or solutions.Luca is the action-man: he wants always
to act. He has a commercial background, and now is a key player in the buying
strategy, monitoring all suppliers with the help of several monster-excel files
that he created and manages.Chiara is the psychologist of the group: she
oversees the customer service and is able to understand and interpret the
feelings of the customers and of the team. She has a crucial role in taking the
team back to the most important mission: customer satisfaction.Gaia is our
cataloguer: she oversees our catalogue, working to add more and more
products, brands, categories.
YOUR VISION
ProfumeriaWeb will become the place to visit on line to find information
about and buy every beauty product (perfumes, cosmetics, hair products,
make-up, nails products, tanning products) at the most convenient conditions.
It will offer a full range of services, being not only a shop but an information
source and an advisor.
YOUR MISSION
ProfumeriaWeb will offer a full range of products, being the place with the
richest catalogue and the most convenient conditions. It will establish a strong
ecosystem with suppliers, beauty consultants, make-up artists, customers, in
order to help find the right beauty product for each customer. The beauty
industry is so specific and the beauty customers are so demanding, that the
verticalization is a key strategic factor.
YOUR PROJECT
The Project can be divided into several steps.The site will continue to grow in
Italy, consolidating its leadership and becoming the point of reference for
beauty products. The aim is to reach this not only with the pure sale of
products, but also creating a place to visit to have information, read reviews,
receive suggestions and help about beauty products. A blog and video-channel
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will be created, exploiting the very huge current trend of bloggers, make up
consultants and skin experts that reach thousands of users on line. With the
help of the traffic on the site, we will increase the content. With the help of the
content, we will increase the traffic and the sales.In parallel, we will look for
international expansion, finding 2-3 European markets where to enter. This will
help us gaining scale and establishing network relationships with industry
players.Furthermore, we will start having a presence in the wholesale
industry , in order to increase our international presence and the ability to find
products at the best possible conditions.When the market presence is strong
and ProfumeriaWeb has a clear leadership, it will start producing and selling its
own branded products, helping to increase the margins and the variety of
products sold.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 2,5 mln to 5 mln
PATENTS
The Company owns the website ProfumeriaWeb.com, an e-commerce site
dedicated to sales of perfumes, cosmetics, makeup and beauty products. Born
in 2010, the activity has seen a strong growth (about +100% year over year in
the last 3 years), reaching an estimated annual revenue of 3.0 million euros in
2015. It is the “on line only” perfumery leader in Italy, with more than 130,000
monthly unique visitors.It is already profitable, with an EBITDA of 3.8% on
sales. It has no bank loans and positive cash flows.It operates with a just-intime approach, having reached agreements with about 10 products suppliers
that share their inventory daily, ensuring a quick, effective and efficient
comparison between their specific conditions. As a result, every day it is
possible to place orders, for each product sold, to the most convenient
supplier, with benefits in the areas of margins, quickness and
cashflow.ProfumeriaWeb receives certified review by its customers with the
help of Consorzio NetComm. About 90% of these reviews assign 5 stars to the
service, indicating strong level of satisfaction. This is also clear considering that
more than 60% of new customers of the last 12 months has placed already at
least a 2nd order.
COPYRIGHT
The Company owns the trade mark ProfumeriaWeb, which is very simple, clear
and self-explanatory. It operates with the web domain ProfumeriaWeb.com
which is also owned with the .it and .eu suffix
YOUR COMPETITORS
4660000000
ProfumeriaWeb estimates to reach a sales figure of about
7 million euros in 2016, with a market share of the online
market of about 10%
Other pure internet players (Profumo-clic.it / echarme.it)Big off-line retailer
chains (Sephora, Douglas, Marionnaud)Wholesalers that are staring operating
on line (Beautyprive, Farmacosmo)Small store chains or single shops that own
an internet site (Ditano.com, Pinalli.it)
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE ProfumeriaWeb has been one of the very first movers. As a result, it is very well
positioned in organic search. It has also a very good word of mouth and a clear
and simple name, easy to remember.It has developed a system that compares
suppliers and ensure best costs and convenience in the purchasing process. Its
owner has been in the online industry for 15 years and knows online marketing
very well.
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FROM WHOM?
Digital Magics, incubator of digital companies. It is helping ProfumeriaWeb to
find new investors.
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Macro-sector
Energy management and production
Sector
COMPANY NAME
ADSUM Srl
WEB SITE
www.adsumsrl.com
REGION
Marche
01/03/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Aquaskid, the plug&play and modular system
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Three skilled engineers, one operation manager, one very skilled technical
director and myself as the sole administrator; we outsourced the mechanical
and electronic operations.
YOUR VISION
Adsum is a design and engineering company, specialized in advanced skid
modules for hot water generation, which are easy to install and offer
sophisticated energy savings. The company's activities are based around two
key technologies; thermal exchange and liquid flows management
YOUR MISSION
The Company's commercial focus is to realize products with a high level of
know how. It is based on decades of experience in international business and
intellectual property development. These competences together with research
and the generation of new ideas allows us to add continuously further value to
our products and clients
YOUR PROJECT
Expanding the business basically in all Europe and becoming leader of the
technology
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
PATENTS
One (PCT) with an extremely positive EPO report (grant) plus another one
under filing; Title: Control method for a household water heating unit having a
thermal accumulator
COPYRIGHT
Controlling of the vertical thermal gradient in a thermal accumulator through
temperature sensors by two working modes, saving and booster.
YOUR COMPETITORS
20 mln €
500k€
Nobody with such technology in Europe
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Plug and play and stand alone system, high efficiency, assembled, controlled
and certified in the plant; no works required in the Customer location.
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FROM WHOM?
We are searching for contractors able to acquire our patents, design technology
and the trademarks as well, to export in the own region and start the own
activities of the market; they are investors which are interested to have a
license of a project program already established.
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Macro-sector
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Energyntegration Srl - STI
WEB SITE
http://www.energyntegration.com
REGION
Lombardia
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 35.11, 28.21.29
14/03/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Real solar roofs: BI-PV, BI-ST, BI-PV/T (Hybrid) roof coverings
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Ing. Alberto Lorioli, CEO and Sales DirectorIng. Matteo Martinucci, (partner)
QA & Technical ManagerP.I. Enzo Coduri, Project & Production Manager
(actually, the "product inventor")
YOUR VISION
Even if the field of solar energy, and the PV sector specifically, is highly
competitive, we believe that having high level BI solutions - including a Hybrid
one - will open a growing niche market in Italy and in many other countries:
new buildings, but especially building restorations.
YOUR MISSION
To achieve a leading position in the market segment, in Italy and abroad, being
perceived as an "atelier" which provides beautiful solar solutions that can be
implemented on value building / historical centers etc.
YOUR PROJECT
Before the incorpration of Energyntegration, people of the team had
developed the idea, made the very first product prototypes, a couple of plants
(BI-PV and BI-ST) based on such products.So far, Energyntegration has
improved product design, fully developed and tested (at POLIMI) the Hybrid
type, setup manufacturing process and implemented pilot plants (PV, ST and
Hybrid) in the operational headquarters; investments in tools and equipment
to cope with volumes of a first period are being made too.A very promising
manufacturing and commercial cooperation with M/s EnergyGlass Srl has
recently been launched.If business grows as expected, additional capitals will
be needed to make new investments in equipment, people and
marketing/commercial activities.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Energyntegration Srl -STI manufactures BI-PV, BI-ST and BI-PV/T (Hybrid) roof
coverings under an Exclusive License Agreement signed with Elletiemme Srl;
Elletiemme Srl:• owns Italian Patent Nr. 1.387.831 (dossier Nr. 5085 A IT 834)
with title “Dispositivo di copertura per tetti e simili”• is waiting for European
Patent with title “Covering device for roofs and the like”; application Nr. EP
2.297.529 (dossier Nr. 10684 W EU 834) as validation of International Patent
Nr. WO 2009/156821.
COPYRIGHT
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just for Italy, around Euro 150.000.000
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YOUR COMPETITORS
Considering Italy only and of course the specific market
segment, to stay on the safe side, we have foreseen less
than 1 % one year from now.The specific market segment
size adding export can likely be estimated in at least Euro
500.000 or more just considering European countries; but,
some overseas markets have shown significant interest
already.Therefore, the actual market share we need
should be extremely low.
In the field of Hybrid, we believe that our solution is the only real BI-PV/T so far
(with performances well aligned to the ones of the excellent Hybrid products by
ALEO and by BRANDONI that are not-integrated).Regarding BI-ST, the direct
competition is very limited (as far as we know, IMERYS TOITURE with a solution
warned for not-authorized replication of a patented solution (ours).Speaking
on BI-PV, instead, there are several competitors proposing various sorts of
solutions (e.g.: SOLARCENTURY, ELETTROTEGOLA, LUMETA, TEGOLA CANADESE,
IMERYS TOITURE, THESAN, REMENERGY) with advantages and drawbacks.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Premise / the scenarioIn the world of renewable energy, solar energy plays an
important role: both for production of electricity by photovoltaic conversion
(PV) and for collecting thermal energy (ST); with a variety of technical solutions
and arrangements.Depending on local situations and policies (direct
incentives, fiscal deductions, …) of each country, you find a different mix of
huge plants for massive production of energy (especially speaking on PV) and
small / medium size plants (PV and ST) installed on buildings, either residential
or public buildings (schools, hospitals, etc.) or belonging to the service sector
(such as hotels, resorts, sport complexes, shopping malls, etc.), but to a certain
extend industries too.Focusing on plants installed on buildings, there are a lot
of products that are designed “to be simply installed on or above roofs”;
products that, regardless to their higher or lower quality in terms of technical
performances, have nothing to do with aesthetics.While this aspect might
have no importance in many “ordinary” situations, there is a significant (and
growing) number of cases where somehow strict aesthetic requirements must
be respected: typically, buildings located in hystorical centers or in areas with
landscape retrictions, but also high-class houses whose owners only want solar
solutions if their visual impact is minimum.Considering that:•
the
implementation of renewable energy solutions for a certain % of expected
consumption has become / is becoming a must for all new buildings and for
building renovation in more and more countries•
in several countries (in Italy
for sure), building renovation will represent the main business of the building
sector•
in several countries (e.g.: Italy, Germany), existing buildings that need
renovation with energy improvement are often located within hystorical
centers / restricted areasyou may conclude that BI solutions are absolutely
required and will have a growing importance in the coming years.While a few
BI-PV products (solutions for facades, shelters, verandas, etc. and for pitched
roofs too, usually with drawbacks) and not so many BI-ST products exist; no BIPV/T (Hybrid) have been made available in the market yet as far as we
know.What makes our products specialOur BI-PV, BI-ST and BI-PV/T (Hybrid)
solutions are right addressed to the targets above and specifically developed to
be the right option in all such cases; in fact:➢they are designed to be
integrated in all kinds of pitched roofs, shelters, etc. (overlapping factor can be
adjusted in a suitable range in order to match “tile” length)➢they are
available in all colors in order to merge with sorrounding tiles / with the rest of
the roof minimizing their chromatic visual impact; in “Standard versions”, you
just speak about color of frame / frame+background of PV cells, but, in “Plus
versions”, also active part emulates the wanted shade thanks to special
KromatixTM front glasses, so achieving the highest chromatic
integration➢thanks to limited dimensions and weight, fitters can
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conveniently handle them, even carrying them through roof manholes (which is
a dramatic advantage when working on old buildings in city centers)➢thanks
to optimized mechanical solutions also involving hydraulic connections, their
installation is extremely easy and quick, not requiring any additional items or
coordination with tinsmiths or other actors of building sites; for instance, the
installation of 3 kWp Energyntegration BI-PV roof coverings can be performed
by 2 fitters in 2 hours (net time not including removal of old tiles in case of
renovation);➢all three series have same dimensions and shape since based
on a unique pressed and painted aluminium frame; thanks to that, you can
create a technically optimum configuration, combining suitable quantities of
just BI-PV, just BI-ST, and/or BI-PV/T (Hybrid) roof coverings, always achieving a
stunning global result from the aesthetic point of view, incomparably better
than by most of alternate products when existingA couple of
remarks:•
Energyntegration BI-PV, BI-ST and BI-PV/T (Hybrid) products are
patented (manufactured under exclusive license);•
likely, Energyntegration BIPV/T (Hybrid) products represent the only Building-Integrated Hybrid solution in
the market so far.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? Euro 450.000 (+ a voucher
of Euro 15.000 from
"Startup per EXPO" by
Regione Lombardia)
FROM WHOM?
Own resources account for Euro 155.000:Euro 10.000 capital equitiesEuro
145.000 reservesOn April 24th, 2015, a bank loan of Euro 450.000 covered by
a Guarantee for Innovative Startup Companies issued by MCC (Medio Credito
Centrale) has actually been released to us by UniCredit SpA.[ Apart from the
above, a voucher of Euro 15.000 has been got from the competition "Startup
per EXPO" by Regione Lombardia. ]
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Macro-sector
Sector
COMPANY NAME
ISIDE srl
WEB SITE
www.iside.eu.com
REGION
Marche
27/07/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Up to 30% greater energy, extremely lightweight, building integration capability
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
The staff of iside includes young researchers and design engineers as well as
experts academics. The management team is composed of:-Carlo Maria
Bartolini: CEO, University full professor and senior researcher,-Massimiliano
Renzi: PhD, Project manager and university researcher,-Matteo Santolini:
PhD, Project manager of energy system, -Marilena de Padova: PhD,
Administrator-Lorenzo Egidi: PhD student in solar energy system.
YOUR VISION
Develop and bring to market the most advanced technologies in the field of
solar concentration to optimize the performance of solar energy conversion.
To do this they will have to overcome with adequate design incompatibilities
aesthetic and architectural.
YOUR MISSION
•
Basic study and experimental analysis of each component and casting of a
team of high knowledge researchers.•
Patents and protection of intellectual
property.•
Interaction with the technological development firms, the
university and the main international industries.•
Creation of industrial
partnerships for the transfer of the product prototype on the market.
YOUR PROJECT
Our business offers an innovative product for the green energy market that
demands grid-parity oriented solutions. It is an High Concentration PhotoVoltaic (HCPV) system with a lot of advantage:much higher energy conversion
efficiency than traditional PVs, very small size, flexibility of installation,
integrated architecturally, heavy foundations are not required.The market
expected will give them control costs and make the product
competitive.•
Define customer problemNowadays the technology of
photovoltaic concentration is used only in large plants, with very high weight
and dimensions, requiring often heavy and expensive basement for
installation.Solutions that allow the installation of civil buildings or industrial
complex, heavy, expensive and aesthetically unpleasant.•
Describe the
solution you sell (products and service)ISIDE’s HCPV is a solution for the small
and medium size installations that can be mounted in almost every surface and
with different disposition, without losing its performance, thanks to a patented
tracking system. ISIDE-HCPV is also an optimized solution to the high
concentration of technology and then, compared to traditional photovoltaic,
allows greater energy production, higher efficiency and a minimization of the
PV material.IN OTHER WORDS, IT REPRESENTS THE MODERN SOLUTION OF
SOLAR TECHNOLOGY FOR SMART-GRIDS
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
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TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Italian Patent AN2013A000094, and PCT/IT2014/000046 “Concentration and
solar tracking device for photovoltaic cells”. It consists of a solar tracking device
for photovoltaic cells in concentration, which is provided with a central core
which is equipped with motion on one axis and then of some movable arms on
the other axis. The system ensures the highest precision in tracking solar,
makes possible the installation of concentrating solar groups and ensures a
high integration to buildings.The mark is already registered and can be
proposed to international field.
COPYRIGHT
The patented ISIDE’s HCPV features unique advantages: up to 30% greater
electrical energy, extremely lightweight, integrated architecturally
YOUR COMPETITORS
900.000.000 growing up to 2.000.000.000
The corporate annual projections are the follow:2016:
1.500 k€ (0,15% market share)2017: 4.000 k€
(0,3%)2018: 8.000 k€ (0,5%)2019: 16.000 k€
(0,8%)2020: 24.000 k€ (1,2%)
The more important producers of concentrated photovoltaic systems: Emcore,
Spectrolab – Boeing, Concentrix, Amonix and SolFocus….Due to the fact that at
present the concentration photovoltaic systems are used in solar farms, since
they are great and therefore not suitable for applications of small and medium
size, the main competitors can be considered also the standard photovoltaic
panels (Sharp, Q-cells, Suntech, Kyocera, Sanyo, Mitsubishi.…)
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The main competitive advantage are: High conversion yield, Modularity and
installation flexibility, Compactness and lightweight, Easy installation: Excellent
design solution for building integration installations, Environmental
compatibility and reduced amount of photovoltaic material.Iside has filed the
following patent: WO 2014/184815 A1, patent pending n. PCT /IT2014/000046.
It is international extension phase (EU, US, Brazil, China, India…)
HOW MUCH CAPITAL ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? (EUR) from 500.000 to 1 mln
FROM WHOM?
Cefla s.c.a r.l. has invested 300.000 in the project. The company focuses on four
principal fields:•
Dental Solutions: Designing and producing dental and
medical equipment.•
Finishing Solutions: Producing finishing production lines,
including painting, decorating and ennobling processes for wood, glass, plastics,
metal and fibre cement.•
Shopfitting Solutions: Furnishing solutions for
supermarket chains and custom-made products for specialised stores.•
Plant
Solutions: Designing, constructing and servicing civil and industrial plants, with
an emphasis on renewable energy.Within this fourth business unit, it was
proposed investment on ISIDE
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Macro-sector
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Mipu srl
WEB SITE
www.the-energyaudit.com
REGION
Lombardia
25/01/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Two software platforms: energy analysis and energy management.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Our team involves 4 young engineers graduated at techical univesities
("Politecnico") in Milan and Turin; they all have significant international
experience and speak 2 foreign languages fluently. Two of them worked actively
in developing the software and building up the customer base in Italy; the other
two are temporary living in Tokyo and Seoul to offer sales and technical support
to our distributors there.
YOUR VISION
To spread awareness and knowledge about energy efficiency from Europe to
Asia.
YOUR MISSION
To help industries consume less energy step by step and predict the expected
energy consumption behaviour of your assets.
YOUR PROJECT
Now that our product is fullly developed and tested, our goal is to scale the
business in Italy and abroad by creating a network of qualified distributors.
Such distributors will be trained on the software by us and will be helped in
finding potential buyers. Besides Italy, our target countries are Japan and South
Korea, where we have 2 members of our team and where we have already
developed the first sales with our local partners. Therefore, we are looking for
investment to bear marketing, advertisement and software localization costs.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We have one pending application to get a patent for the development of an
energy behaviour modeling algorithm. Such algorithm allows you to create
models (baseline) for the management and control of energy consumption in
industry.
COPYRIGHT
We own full intellectual property of all our software modules.
YOUR COMPETITORS
1 billion euro
0,1%
We have seen no energy behaviour model which can be compared to ours in
the market so far. The most important competitors we have are in the energy
monitoring sector (es. Schneider Electric, Teamsystem).
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We have developed an unique algorithm for forcasting energy consumption or
production behaviour of an asset or a system. Thanks to this we can implement
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predictive maintenance solutions working 24/7 at a very low cost.
FROM WHOM?
No external investors so far
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Macro-sector
Sector
COMPANY NAME
New Energy World srl
WEB SITE
www.newenergyworld.it
REGION
Marche
05/07/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Heliostat with thermodynamic process for clean energy generation
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
The company is composed of two members, one covering the role of managing
director (Daniel King) and the other of technical director: dr. Claudio Pierantozzi
(Chemical). The administrator also plays the role of sales manager.Technical
support to date in the company is Mr. Tiberio Simonetti, who has studied the
technology in detail. Also it holds a lot of experience on production lines, having
for many years made the entrepreneur with the role of manager Automated
production lines
YOUR VISION
Alone you go faster, together we go farther
YOUR MISSION
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
YOUR PROJECT
The target market of the project and of the investment involves the renewable
energy sector which is an industry that keeps on growing rapidly. Major
investments are expected to be generated by the renewable energy’s industry
together with a huge number of new job opportunities. In this context, New
Energy World S.r.l. has developed a prototype consisting of a solar tracker
,which can be considered as included within the of solar-thermodynamic field.
This technology is totallyclean since it is not composed of polluting material.
None of the composing materials will have to disposedof and there are not
any corrosive substances or representing any danger to the human health. The
technology is completely manufactured in Europe and lasts for a considerable
amount of time without losing in terms of performances. Furthermore, some
European countries ( such as Italy ) have adopted a system of public economic
incentives for solar-thermodynamic power generators which makes the
investment very profitable. In addition to the above, this peculiar technology
has a huge advantage in the fact that it can be easily used in remote areas
where the supply of energy is still a serious issue thus representing a
remarkableadded value to the relevant communities
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
The company has some patents and a prototype for the production of
electricity from the sun . Solar trackers steel focus the radiation at a precise
point where there is a fluid ( in this case air ) that increases in temperature and
therefore the speed and pressure.The air then sets in motion a turbine. The
system is equipped with a thermal tank superinsulating take the form of
materials that allow the system to produce energy for 24 hours. The
technology has many advantages compared to photovoltaic: high yields (
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exceeding 50% ), production for 24 h / day due to the presence of a thermal
reserve, Payback in 5 years ( Italy ).
COPYRIGHT
Other patents have been obtained in the past in relation to the proposed
technology by our collaborator Tiberio Simonetti. The New Energy World Ltd.
has a license agreement with Tiberio Simonetti for the exploitation of this
patent. These patents were part of the technology:- Certificate of patent for
utility model No. 0000264581- Patent application for industrial invention
AP2010A000005In 2013 we introduced the patent application of the
technology complete. The patent application of the technology has been filed
on 23.07.2013 at the Chamber of Commerce of Ascoli Piceno ref. n.
AP2013A000004, applicants are the New World Energy S.r.l. and our
collaborator Simonetti Tiberio following other patent applications by the same
applicants
1000000
YOUR COMPETITORS
The technology developed to date made no competitors. There are similar
projects in development with the following companies and institutions: Enea,
Angelantoni
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The system is very simple and does not have multiple conversions, as the
currently used solar-thermodynamics plants, thus reaching extremely high
performance levels (above 50%).Main advantages of our system are the
following:- Large capturing areas thus having a very low cost rate per
Kilowatt;- High performance levels ( exceeding 50% );- 24 hours energy
production thanks to heat reserve chamber;- Financial incentives granted by
some national governments such as the Italian one by (D.M. 11/04/2008and
06/07/2012) over a 25 years period;- Return on the investment in only in 5
years (in Italy);- Perfect static and dynamic balance thanks to the use of
appropriate counterweights;- Absence of any possible issue causable by strong
wind gusts to the solar-tracker thanks to the specificround shape regardless of
the position of the tracker;- Low costs of raw materials absence of any kind of
fragile materials;- High resistance to all weathering conditions (a guarantee of
up to 40 years can be offered) and no lost interms of performance through the
years;- Low production costs;- Absence of corrosive fluids;- Low energy
losses and therefore high electrical efficiency;- No environmental issues linked
to disposal of its materials
FROM WHOM?
bank loans
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Macro-sector
Sector
COMPANY NAME
SMART-I
WEB SITE
www.smart-interaction.com
REGION
Lazio
10/10/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
SmartEye is the new intelligent system to reduce the energy consumption for
public lighting and to provide interactive services for Smart City.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
SMART-I is a young and passionate Company that brings easily people to
challenge their qualities. Our Team has common vision of enterprise that leads
to choices easily shared, and it is well balanced between technical development
and business growth, which leaves room to ideas and research about new
technologies, without losing the goal of business. The founders Mauro and
Gabriele met some years ago in the first Italian Drone Company where they
have frequently collaborated on the development of intelligent systems based
on computer vision for military drones, and they have often cooperated in
international technology projects, being in perfect harmony both from technical
and management point of view.Mauro is the Company’s CEO, while Gabriele is
the CTO.Part of the team are also the qualified staff from Enel S.p.A. that are
part of the Board of Directors (Donata Susca) and of the Advisory Board
(Luciano Tommasi).The development team is made of high skill engineers,
designer and computer scientist, most of them with a PhD in their
field.Currently the Company team is totally made of 9 people, plus the Enel
staff.We are currently hiring another team member that will assume the role
of CMO.
YOUR VISION
To create the inter-connected city of the future.
YOUR MISSION
To help Cities to become Smart, and to increase the quality of life of everyday
people by introducing new technology that interacts friendly with the City.
YOUR PROJECT
Our project is based on the SmartEye System, which is a distributed system of
optical sensors that provides different services related to energy savings by
means of an automatic urban scene analysis.Once installed on street lamps,
the system is able to retrieve autonomously the following information:semantic interpretation of weather conditions, -analysis of the brightness
degree of the scene,-detection of moving objects along the visual field,identification and classification of vehicles and pedestrians,-detection of
dangerous situations (fire, accidents).The aim is to facilitate the development
of a wide urban sensor network, based on SmartEye, which allows for real-time
analysis of urban scenarios and the application of adaptive control techniques
for the following goals:- adapting the lighting level in public plants according
to real-time environmental conditions through the analysis of urban scenarios,
both in terms of weather conditions (for example fog) and lighting level(i.e.,
the contribution of light due to the snow reflection factor); - providing an
energy on demand service, which allows to maintain the lighting level to the
lowest degree allowed by the law (which is typically determined to assure
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safety on roads)and increase it only when it is really needed (automatically
detecting the presence of a user, such as a vehicle or pedestrian).In order to
increase the range of applications and better fit the customer requests,
SmartEye is offered to the customer both in a Scalable and in a Stand-Alone
configuration. The Scalable version can be purchased to cover a wide set of
applications that can be expanded in its functionalities according to pre-set
scalable configurations that satisfy an increasing set of needs.According to
this, each SmartEye can be up-scaled also during its normal operation, in order
to satisfy a unexpected need of the customer.There are three scalable version
of SmartEye that can be requested:-SmartEye for Lighting. The base solution
that provides different services related to the Energy Savings for public lighting
and produce different data related to the City Mobility. It is part of this version
also the video stream from the on board camera to a remote visualization
device. -SmartEye Plus. The plus solution that extend the Lighting version
increasing the set of data available for City Mobility and provides extra
functionalities related to Parking Control and to the Traffic Light
Management.-SmartEye Evolution. The best of SmartEye! The Plus version
with also an intelligent security module that provides extended services
related to the Urban Security, the Road Safety Analysis, and much more,
included also an automatic alarm report system.At the same time, two StandAlone configurations are also possible to satisfy the customer need to cover
only a well determined area of application:-SmartEye Road Care. The StandAlone Full Mobility solution that provides different data & services related to
the City Mobility. It is part of this version also the video stream from the on
board camera to a remote visualization device.-SmartEye City Safe. The
Stand-Alone Full Security solution for more than video surveillance: it contains
an intelligent security module that provides extended services related to the
Urban Security, the Road Safety Analysis, included also an automatic alarm
report system.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Italian patent and PCT for the system SmartEye.SmartEye is a system
characterized by a distributed network of smart optical sensors for adaptive,
predictive, and on-demand control of public lighting. The invention pertains to
the technical sector of monitoring and video-surveillance installations.
SmartEye is a smart apparatus for adaptive, predictive, and on-demand control
of public lighting, characterized in that it comprises at least one local device,
equipped with optical means for acquisition of images and/or video streams,
data-processing means, as well as further means for continuous and automatic
on-board analysis of the set of variables regarding at least traffic conditions,
weather conditions, and degree of luminance of the stretch of road being
analysed.
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SmartEye design and logo copyright is on-going.
YOUR COMPETITORS
9B$ in 2019
We are now approaching the market and promoting the
Solution around Europe. The market itself is still under
expansion and not yet ready. Anyway, we expect to reach
a share of the market of about 20% in the next 5 years.
Although the main core of the SmartEye System is the local sensor installed on
the street lamps, and although the SmartEye node, compared to the traditional
sensors, can acquire much more information with is sole sensor than a set of
connected traditional sensors, the targeted market of the product is related to
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the solutions available for Smart Lighting. Currently, the market is governed
mainly by start-up companies, with at least 20 companies that offer various
forms of intelligent lighting systems on a world scale.The main competitors are
identified as follow:- Lonworks that proposes a system that allows for dimming
based on default programming;- Illuminetsys , which provides a system for
lighting adaptive control, analyzing the lighting parameters with a CMOS Low
Light camera sensor;- Lightmeter, which proposes a photovoltaic cell for the
analysis of the brightness at night;- Philips Lumimotion, that is a video optical
sensor that detects the presence of pedestrians and cyclists and adapts the light
consequently to their passage;- Umpi WTC (Wise Traffic Controller), that is
able to detect the traffic flux over urban roads, classifying the type of vehicle
and the main dynamic parameters (as mean speed).- Lightwell, a compact
sensor module for occupancy based lighting, monitoring and controlling of
outdoor streetlights
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our product competitive advantage is related to the SmartEye increases
significantly the energy savings for public lighting up to 80% when coupled with
led lamps, thus extending the business opportunities of the commercial partner
(ESCO) and providing economic benefits to the end user (Public Authorities).
Moreover SmartEye is able to provide different services with just one
installation, as for example smart parking, road monitoring, and urban security.
From the business point of view the System is not sold as a product purchase,
but as a service. It means that the customer is required to pay a monthly fee to
get the benefits, instead of buying, installing and maintain the product.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 750,00€
FROM WHOM?
We received a grant of 100K€ in 2013We received a first round of funding of
250K€ from Enel S.p.A.We won the Enel Lab competition and received in total
650K€ of funding from Enel S.p.A. in exchange of shares.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
221e s.r.l
WEB SITE
Www.221e.it
REGION
Veneto
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 62 - 02
12/12/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Our main products are inertial sensors and their possible applications.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
The founder and ceo worked for about 10 years in a multinational enterprise,
developing the technology behind their multi-prize winning security product.
After that he decided to found the company and selected a team of engeneers
who collaborated with the university in the R&D department.The General
Manager, who mainly takes care of the commercial, pr, marketing and financing
side, has an international experience, having worked for many years outside
Italy. The team is young, very motived and competent.
YOUR VISION
Our vision is to create an innovative firm that develops smart products.
Applying new approaches to tackle challenging questions. Our purpose is to
contribute to the advancement of technology to benefit people.
YOUR MISSION
Our mission is to contribute to a continuous change towards a better world.
Putting our research at the service of people, while respecting the environment
and improving the living standards.
YOUR PROJECT
We are developing smart products based on the technology of inertial sensors
useful for safety or performance enhancing in different fields.In particular we
can sell our sensor for B2B or/and we can develop finished product lines to be
sold B2C. At the moment we are working in two different projects, developed
as possible applications of intertial sensors: a system for drone safety and a
movement/performance tracker for sport and medicine.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Waiting for approval of a patent regarding a system for protection for drones
to avoid damage to the drone itself and above all to people when the drone fall.
COPYRIGHT
No copyright at the moment
YOUR COMPETITORS
1.000.000.000
3% corrisponding to 3.000.000 of euro
The most important player in the inertial sensor industry is a belgian company,
x-sense, but they are mainly specialized in the entratainment industry, while we
prefer focusing on other possibilities.There are other companies that produce
inertial sensors, but our products have a very high performance compared to
the other competitors.
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We are flexible and we offer a range of other technologies that can be
connected with the inertial sensors, useful to create advanced smart
products.Moreover, our sensors have the best performance on the market
and a very competitive quality/price ratio.
FROM WHOM?
We received two public financing, one from the Veneto region for 50.000 euro
and the other from the Treviso Chamber of Commerce for 20.000 euro, gaining
two different startup call.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
Alleantia S.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.alleantia.com/en
REGION
Toscana
06/06/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Plug&Play Industrial Internet of Things.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Alleantia has a well-diversified management team with very qualified executives
and board, having extensive experience on technical development, business
development and business management.Antonio Conati Barbaro is Chairman
& CEO, Former Telco BU Director in Accenture, 20+ years in telecommunication
networks and services, large scale ICT projects, solution lead for mobile service
platform (SDP) and IP mediation platform. Accenture Inventor Award 2006, coauthor of one international patent. Formerly Software Engineer at AT&T Bell
Labs. Profile at it.linkedin.com/in/antonioconatibarbaro.Stefano Linari,
Alleantia CTO, serial entrepreneur (Linari Engineering, SM&T), MS with honors
in Nuclear Engineering, international projects at CERN Geneva (CMS project (the
Higgs Boson experiment) cooling system) and FNAL Chicago (ILC Project). 12+
years of experience in industrial automation (PLC, SCADA, and motion control),
process control and design). Holds five national and international patents.
Profile at: it.linkedin.com/in/slinari.Advisors: - Ken Forster: Entrepreneur,
Executive, Advisor and Investor with 25+ - years experience. Formerly Managing
Director EMEA, ThingWorx. Profile on
www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Ken/Forster- Pierluigi Zenevre: Entrepreneur,
Executive, Strategic Advisor with 30 years experience in Manufacturing, Tooling
machines, Automation. Profile on it.linkedin.com/pub/pier-luigizenevre/57/985/1ba- Francesco Torelli, Lawyer at international law Firm Bird
& Bird, formerly General Counsel in a Venture Capital firm. Profile on
it.linkedin.com/pub/francesco-torelli/2/577/7b.
YOUR VISION
Business-effective Industrial Internet of Things deployment require (a) easy,
fast and scalable integration of existing devices used today (5+ billions, that
will remain in place for many years) and the new ones, and (b) making devices
information and interaction capabilities available across all Enterprise
applications, to support IoT-driven process transformation.
YOUR MISSION
Make any application communicate with any industrial device, plug&play.
Our solution enable software providers, system integrator and infrastructure
providers to serve its customers by making devices integral part of Enterprise
Architecture, through its information and interaction.
YOUR PROJECT
"Only 0,6% of devices are connected today (Cisco, Dec 2014)”. Whatever the
number, Alleantia connects the remaining 99,4%, plug&play, to any
application. Factories, machines, buildings, already use billions of legacy
devices, capable to provide useful information and interactions. New devices
are added continuously, while enterprise require additional information and
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control capabilities. A vast minority, tough, is ‘IoT enabled’. Traditionally,
devices integrates to specific ‘silos’ applications (e.g. SCADA systems) with
costly ad-hoc development and integration, requiring expert personnel.
Basically, IoT Application Cloud Platforms follows similar approach. Markets
require now a complete, dynamic integration of physical devices to many IT
applications (ERP, CRM, Asset Management, Analytics, …), supporting all
enterprise stakeholders and processes transformation. Alleantia provides
the capability to connect plug&play any device to Enterprise ICT and the Web
in a multi-vendor / multi-cloud model. Alleantia XPANGO technology makes
any device IoT- and Web-ready and interoperable in seconds, with an unified
device semantic. Around XPANGO we built the Library of <Things> that sports
already 3500+ device plug-ins (the largest worldwide). Our powerful IoT
Gateways connect devices, add intelligence, creating 'device avatars' that
support multiple concurrent applications through several APIs (REST, Modbus,
FTP, proprietary plug-ins). Alleantia Cloud-Gate platform create a powerful
middleware to integrate any kind of device to any Enterprise applications,
platforms and vertical solution.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
In October 2014 we filed for EU Patent covering a special device for using
Alleantia technology on smartphones, in home and small business environment.
COPYRIGHT
None at this stage.
YOUR COMPETITORS
10B€ by 2017
Currently we address only Italian market (limited by
resources constraints), but we have several request to
expand in US, Europe, and Asia. 150+ systems deployed,
thousands of devices controlled, growing in the
manufacturing, service management, energy and Telco
sectors.Being already engaged with very large providers
(2 among Fortune 500 companies), and pushing forward
internationalization and positioning in Manufacturing,
assuming appropriate investments supporting we expect
to positions as one of the primary provider of IIoT
integration middleware in Europe and selected non-EU
areas, used by many software vendors and integrators.
Our current direct competitors are ‘ad hoc’ development required for deploying
IoT Applications and protocol gateway vendors (e.g. Netbiter/HMS, EWON,
Advantech, Eurotech). Indirect competitors for IIoT solutions are IoT Application
Platforms.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The vast majority of IoT Application Platforms deals only with 'smart devices'
(intelligent, IP connected, web-managed, app-driven etc.), while integration of
legacy is done in general through ad-hoc integration. Besides, competitor’s
approach drives implementation of vertical silos, non-interoperable, challenging
the achievement of the whole IoT-driven Enterprise transformation
potential.We provide a turnkey solution for these two BIG problems. As such,
our ‘unfair competitive advantage’ is: •
Plug&play device integration, for any
technology•
Designed to support multiple applications and
software•
Integration architecture supporting concurrent
applications•
Flexible software-defined expandable solution•
As-a-service
target business model.ABI research nominated Alleantia among the 2015 Hot
Tech Innovators, while Cambridge BLN IoT named it 'One to Watch'.
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HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 200k€
FROM WHOM?
Shareholders are currently 10, among them some of our advisors Zenevre and
Torelli (see below) and bespoken Italian Business Angels:•
Marco Bicocchi
Pichi, MBA, entrepreneur and start-up board member of several successful
startups. Board Member at Italia Startup (association). Italy's Business Angel of
the Year 2013. President at ItaliaStartup. Profile on:
it.linkedin.com/in/marcobicocchipichi•
Alberto Giusti, Managerial
Engineering, Internet expert, Serial Entrepreneur, investor in more than 10
internet and software companies. Profile on it.linkedin.com/in/albertogiusti
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Mechanical engineering
COMPANY NAME
Bclever srls
WEB SITE
www.bclever.it
REGION
Veneto
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 28.99.2 Fabbricazione di robot industriali per usi molteplici (incluse parti e acces
26/09/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
A printer able to change our home
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
The team is composed by three founders (one graduated in business
administration, two in engineering) and three employee involved in the
technical development.
YOUR VISION
To make the buildings nice
YOUR MISSION
To become the leader in big surfaces decoration
YOUR PROJECT
To develop a printer able do decorate big surfaces in a very easy way, without
limits.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
PCT/IB2012/000929 Device to reproduce images or graphical patterns in
general on surfaces, and corresponding method
COPYRIGHT
no copyright
YOUR COMPETITORS
15.000.000.000
0,05% (value of the share 7.500.000€).
There are two competitor company, one in Australia and one in China,
producing a vertical plotter able to print over walls. Both the printer don't have
the ability to reproduce an image bigger than the dimensions of the printer.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Spider is the first printer in the world with the ability to print with two variable
dimensions. This new logic allows the image printing on different materials with
the desired dimensions.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 118,63
FROM WHOM?
The company raise 118.630€ by public grants. The company received also
public grants confirmations for 436.470€ and public loans confirmations for
430.400€
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
Biotechware SRL
WEB SITE
www.biotechware.com
REGION
Piemonte
14/02/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
CardioPAD PRO is a 12 leads professional ECG aimed at professionals who wish
to have a telemedicine platform.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
We have different expertise (Software,Hardware, Medical Devices, Regulatory,
Legal, Marketing).The R&D team average age is 34.Management team has
different support from consultant and some shareholders who actively support
the Board. The team is multicultural (Dutch and Persian) and each member
know that together we achieve more.
YOUR VISION
Cloud Technology and Internet of Things will disrupt the traditional healthcare
model.
YOUR MISSION
Biotechware will be the Cloud Services provider for healthcare data, leveraging
costs of the traditional healthcare model.
YOUR PROJECT
We wish to grow and accelerate development and sales to complete our vision.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
UIBM/EPO Patent concerning portable solution for easing the use of a medical
device for the Patient and the Operator at the same time.
COPYRIGHT
Cloud platform for storage and evaluation of medical records, integrated with
devices for telemedicine solutions.
YOUR COMPETITORS
6000000
We expect to reach 2000 Pharmacies in 1 year.
Aerotel/Card Guard are manufactures with telemedicine
products.Philips/Schiller are incumbent that may be able to enter the
telemedicine market.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The business model is platform as a Service. We are focusing different niches
from main competitors and we provide a combination of products and services
that are strongly connected.
FROM WHOM?
Victoria Asset Management, Switzerland.Asset Management
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company.David Trabaldo TognaBusiness AngetTelemedico SRLCompany
that since 1995 works in the telemedicine field.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Buono Vending Srl
WEB SITE
www.buonovending.com
REGION
Lombardia
10/12/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Buono Vending: the ice-cream chariot in the digital age.
YOUR TEAM
PROTOTYPE
Stefano Maggiolino, CEO - PhD in Material Sciences - experienced entrepreneur
having successfully developed and succesfully sold a high-tech start-up.
Nicola Scuor, CTO, - PhD in Material Science - 15 years experience in consulting
and teaching. Roberta Visintin, Design Manager, MSc in Industrial Design.
Alberto Emprin (MSc Eng./MBA) - Business Development- 20 years
experience - Cristina Mauri - MSc Economics - Administration - 20 years
experience.
YOUR VISION
We will become the global reference in vending system for artisan hard icecream, allowing small and medium sized producers to compete against
industrial ice-cream treats with more genuine and varied products.
YOUR MISSION
We are on a mission to reinvent the ice-cream chariot and bring-it to the digital
age: artisan hard ice-cream is globally a growing market, but artisan producers
face hard competition from soft-ice cream & frozen yogurt shops, prepackaged ice-cream, high fixed costs per point of sale and unsold product
waste.
YOUR PROJECT
Buono Vending design, manufacture and market innovative packaging and
vending system for the automatic vending of traditional hard-pack ice cream
(e.g. "Italian gelato"). We will allow artisan ice cream producers and new
entrepreneurs to sell their products in new locations, 24 hours a day, to
multiply their selling points with limited investments, to reach and interact
with their customers while improving their productivity, reducing waste and
hygienic risks.Our system consist of a packaging machine whichcan process
any kind of ice-cream, and a number of highly customizable, interactive
vending machines able to deliver 1,2 or 3serve of ice-cream complete with a
choice of up to 8 toppings.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
A) Italian patent request UD2014A000130 (July 2014)B) Patent extension
filing (PCT) PCT/IB2015/055684 (July 2015)The patend filed describes an
equipment to automatically store frozen and serve frozen food (e.g. icecream)
and the method thereof.The patent request covers the core of the
technology of Buono Vending icecream automatic serving system, including the
multiple, single serve packaging used to store frozen and dispense individual
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icecream balls, and the microwave heating system used to prepare it for
consumption.
COPYRIGHT
None
YOUR COMPETITORS
50 M€
We expect a turnover of approximately 500 k€ in 2016,
based on national sales and without further investments,
and we expect to enter into foreign markets as soon as
2017 based on potential new international investors and
partners..
Icetro (Corea), Moobella (USA), Bravitech (Italy), Gelmatic (Italy)Note: none
of the above companies serve the same type of product provided by Buono
Vending.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Putting together a smart portioning & packaging solution with a flexible
automatic vending system, we have created a new and unique breed of "icecream points of sale" suitable to replace or implement the traditional parlors
and ice-cream chariots, with several additional advantages. IPR strategy is in
place and the speed of development in thenational market and support from
international investors/partners shall allow us to be well ahead of the
competition on a global basis.
FROM WHOM?
Freecapital Srl is a private investing fierm based in Milan who invested 100k€
plus committed to another 100k€ based on milestones achievements.An
Italian Business Angel invested as well another 50k€ plus committed to another
50k€ based on milestones achievements.Note: Buono Vending received in
July 2015 a grant for a long-term/loan of approximately 700k€ from a national
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
Digital Habits SRL
WEB SITE
www.digitalhabits.it
REGION
Trentino Alto Adige
26/10/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
5 Connected products which combine elements of sound and light. These
design objects provide a great user experience with wireless controls, touch or
gesture interface and open the access to richer features through an ecosystem
of connected apps
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
We have a seasoned Management team of professionals with 15+ years of
experience in designing, engineering and distributing high end consumer
products.Giulio Gaioni: CEO & serial digital entrepreneur, +20 Years
developing high performance businesses for KLM NL, Sainsbury UK, Mercedes
Benz DE. Innocenzo Rifino: Designer +15 year styling products for Panasonic
Japan, Haier China, Comelit Italy Diego Rossi: Head of Product, +15 developing
consumer products for Luce Plan, Panasonic, HaierGiancarlo Virgillito: Product
Engineer, +40 Years in engineering entertainment systemsGiacomo
Degl’Innocenti: International Sales Manager, +15 years developing markets and
sales networks for companies such as AdNotam, Polk, etc.
YOUR VISION
In 3-5 Years from now the way we live in our homes will be revolutionized
realizing the “Connected Home” vision. People will use Phones, Tables and TVs
as remote controls to improve their experience, wellbeing and entertainment
in the home.
YOUR MISSION
We develop high-end design products and systems that improve entertainment
and wellbeing in the connected home, making life easier and creating a
superior experience. We are closing a gap in the current market where the
focus is on automation systems forgetting the end-device which is often dump
and cheap. Digital Habits give a new role to the end-device making it valuable
and feature rich.
YOUR PROJECT
Digital Habits is an innovative tech company based in Milan that creates
connected design products engineered to make life simpler.We take a new
approach to improve the experience of people that look for innovative high
quality products which are easy to use. With a perfect balance between style
and technology our products represent the new essence of Italian design,
simple and elegant products that give an exclusive experience in your
home.We won several international awards (RedDot Design, Core 77, Expo
Award) and received a large press coverage (selected by CNN as best 10
Technology objects for your home, presented on TED Talks ideas worth
spreading, The Telegraph, Mashable, Gizmag)Our products are unique as
they blend multiple levels of perception (sound and light) can be used with a
gestural interface, without touching any button with simple movements of
your hand or with an iOS or Android App. We have closed the market test
phase, started distribution in Italy and given our current high export ratio are
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looking at expanding our sales internationally.We are looking at a partner
that can support us in the growth of our business providing financial capital or
synergies to create critical mass and economies of scale
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We have a design patents that cover the design and features of our latest
innovative connected product CROMATICA. This is registered by the UAMI in
the European Union.
COPYRIGHT
We have copyrights of our firmware, software and mobile apps. We adopt an
Open Strategy of entry versions of our solution as a commercial strategy to
stimulate adoption within the development community to help grow our
mobile app ecosystem.
YOUR COMPETITORS
Several Billions
The reference market is very wide. Within a year we will
achieve a fraction of percent of the addressable market.
We target revenues of 5-8 Millions in next 3-5 years.
Our products, especially CROMATICA our latest development are unique and do
not have direct competition. In the “Connected Home Market” there are a lot of
small new players focusing on different niches such as: home security (cameras,
etc), Energy Saving (thermostats), etc. We focus on home entertainment.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We bring to the market unique products with a unique value proposition
including: attractive superior design, mobile apps connectivity, innovative
gesture interface and a new functional experience in entertainment blending
sound and light
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 104.000 Euro
FROM WHOM?
We received 104K Euro in funding from the province of Trento investing in High
Tech.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
D-Orbit
WEB SITE
www.deorbitaldevices.com
REGION
Lombardia
07/03/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
The smart propulsive decommissioning device works to make space safer.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
D-Orbit's team includes senior officers and managers with decades of
experience in the aerospace industry. We hired also young but skilled engineers
now trained among according to space standards (i.e. ESA training). Currently DOrbit has 28 people among Italy, Portugal and US.
YOUR VISION
Space is an asset human being is starting using and will be a key environment
for the future growth of our kind. D-Orbit is going to be the industry leader on
sustainable space system development offering products and service to help
mitigating space pollution issues and correctly manage the orbital space for
commercial and public entities.
YOUR MISSION
Every satellite launched in space shall be decommissioned at the end of
mission via a safe and fast manoeuver that will dispose it in a controlled way. DOrbit is the only provider of technology ensuring full compliance with current
and future regulations.
YOUR PROJECT
D- Orbit aims to significantly contribute to sustainability in Earth and Space, for
both the main stakeholders: satellite manufacturers and operators. D-Orbit has
obtained many positives feedbacks and endorsements from such players like
ESA, NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and received strong interests
from customers and end-users. The expected outcome of the project is to
make the decommissioning device a standard and fully integrated part of any
space-bound satellite and launcher stages. D-Orbit has developed a smart
propulsive device that can be installed on satellites before launch and is able to
remove in a quick, safe and controlled manner any kind of satellite from its
orbit, in order to avoid collision with other operating spacecraft or falling
uncontrolled on Earth. Its device extends the operative life of the satellite by
up to six months, allows for easier and cheaper decommissioning operations,
and helps re-position the satellite in case of launch failure or for rapid collision
avoidance maneuvers.The next step will be addressing satellites already in
space.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
ITALY (N. 0001406511) granted on 24-Feb-2014PCT (PCT/EP2012/064123)
submitted on 18-Jul-2012 - PendingEPO PCT/EP2012/064123 submitted on
15-Jan-2014 - PendingUSA 14/232,869 submitted on 14-Jan-2014 PendingCHINA 201280035941.8 submitted on 20-Jan-2014 - PendingRUSSIA
2014 105836 submitted on 17-Feb-2014 - PendingINDIA 1036/CHENP/2014
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submitted on 10-Feb-2014 - PendingCANADA 2,841,893 submitted on 17-Feb2014 - PendingAUSTRALIA 2012 285783 submitted on 10-Jan-2014 PendingBRASIL BR 11 2014 001459-0 submitted on 21-Jan-2014 PendingUKRAINE 2014-01585 submitted on 17-Feb-2014 - PendingJAPAN
2014-520656 submitted on 3-Jun-2014 - PendingSOUTH KOREA 10-20147004112 submitted on 18-Feb-2014 - Pending
COPYRIGHT
D-Orbit brand is protected in the following countries: Italy, european
Community, China, India, Japan, Russian Federation, USA
YOUR COMPETITORS
€200 billion/year Addressable market: $53B
0,008
Passive decommissioning systems (solar sails, tethers, inflatable balloon),
however, at low technology readiness level.Satellites’ on board propulsion
system currently used for decommissioning.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Independent: our system works even if the satellite stop workingAutonomous:
our system does not require any support from the satellite to decommission it.
With our system satellite operators can use the full amount of propellant
onboard and effectively generate extra revenue extending the life of the
satellite up to 6 monthsFast: our system remove a satellite in hours, instead
than yearsCost effective: it is cheaper than any other system providing same
features. The cost is covered by the extra-revenues and savings the satellite
operator can have using itCompliance: fully compliant with current and
incoming regulation. Today, the only independent system dedicated to
decommissioning and fully compliant on the market.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? €3.5m
FROM WHOM?
TTSeed SrlQuadrivio Capital SGR Venture Capital fundComo Ventures
dedicated to fostering technology start-upsFinancial debt by Unicredit
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
GARULEU s.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.garuleu.it
REGION
Sardegna
07/12/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Revolutionizing beekeeping: automation technology for the production of royal
jelly
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Researchers of University of Rome La Sapienza compose the team. Their skills
cover the knowledge necessary for the design and industrialization of the
apparatus. Our CEO guarantees the economics and financial knowledge.
YOUR VISION
In the next years, we could offer an innovative solution, which can
revolutionize the world of beekeeping.
YOUR MISSION
Provide innovation for increasing the productivity in the field of agriculture and
beekeeping
YOUR PROJECT
Garuleu mission is to manufacture and to sell an automatic system for
increasing the production of the royal jelly. Now, we have completely
developed the prototype but for entering in the market, it will be necessary to
find financial resources for the following tasks: •
Developing of the product
for the market ; •
Increasing the staff;In fact, these two goals are necessary
for starting the production of the machine. In particular, for the marketing it
will be necessary the engineering of the machine and at the same time, for
starting with the production it will be necessary to employ new people and to
invest in stock. From our analysis, we will be able to enter in the market in one
year from the start of the above described tasks.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Italian Patent N. 1417414, being converted into European patent (application
no. 2908624). An apparatus adapted automatically to handle larvae grafting
operations in beekeeping, which is the essential, and most time-consuming
operation in royal jelly production. In particular: •
By way of a camera, we
scan the honeycomb in order to identify the appropriate larvae; •
Image
processing procedures are used to detect the perimeters and the centers of
the cells and of the larvae in the cells for identifying the good larvae•
These
larvae are extracted using a manipulator adapted to pick from the cells and to
placed into artificial cells
COPYRIGHT
NONE
2.000.000
Design of the machine, and projected price, has been
defined after discussing with the main Italian operators
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(CoPait). In this way, we have opened a channel with our
principal perspective customers, and no competition exists
currently, so that we predict 100% share.
YOUR COMPETITORS
From our market analysis at the moment none competitors exist on the market
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We are the one and only producer of the proposed apparatus that reduces the
grafting cost. The cost of manual grafting technique is about 40% of the total
cost for typical royal jelly production. The wholesale price of the royal jelly is
about € 300 per kg. Increasing the production about of 20kg, a typical
beekeeping enterprise will have an € 6000 per year increase of the profit,
compared to 7000€ projected price of the machine. CoPAIT strongly supports
adoption of the machine, also towards the French market.
FROM WHOM?
Funding from Region Sardinia (piano di sviluppo aziendale, cofinanziato da
Sardegna Ricerche nell’ambito del P.O.R. F.E.S.R. Sardegna 2007 – 2013 Linea di
attività 6.2.1.a “Sostegno alla creazione e sviluppo di imprese spin-off da
Università e centri di ricerca e alla creazione e sviluppo di nuove imprese
innovative”)
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
GD INTERNATIONAL SRL
WEB SITE
WWW.GDINTERNATIONAL.IT
REGION
Emilia Romagna
04/12/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
The first case "All In One" Smartphone that integrates a retractable stereo
earphones with mic remote independent (useful for telephone - ideal for Face
Time) and / or listen to music with high quality of sound and consistent with
the Shock Protection in case of fall. With this product we are creating a new
market segment that combines a protective case for your mobile and
protection to humans from radiation using earphones with you. Let's start with
the best-selling smartphones in the world: iPhone 5 / 5s from June 2015 to
October 2015 iPhone6.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Gabriele Zecca as Ceo and project manager.An external team as remunerated
partners for:Industrial Design, Packaging, Industrial production, Engineering
team, web design, Meccatronica company,
YOUR VISION
Help the new generations on using better the smartphones: safer and
enjoiable way.the main target is who needs to spend more than 2 hours
calling without using the earphones and who wants to have always available
the smartphones tools (music, facetime, skype, ...) without having the doubt:
"where are the earphones?"
YOUR MISSION
Develop products to support a Smart and Healthy way to use the Smartphones,
Phablet and Tablets, exploiting all the time the best from a Smartphones with
lower health impact.
YOUR PROJECT
Launch the first case for Smartphone that integrates a retractable stereo
Time) and / or listen to music with high quality of sound and consistent with
the Shock Protection in case of fall. Develop new tools that can be added to a
Case to solve the main problems that a normal person can afford any time
he/she is affording on using his/her smartphone.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Brevetto concesso in Italia n. 0001411869 del 7-11-2014, PCT⁄IB203⁄001070
richiesto 28/05/2013.The present invention relates to an apparatus for
reproducing sounds, removably fixable to an electronic device such as a mobile
telephone or a multimedia player of audio files or the like. In greater detail, the
present invention relates to an apparatus for reproducing sounds, provided
with a sound loudspeaker which can be located in proximity to a user’s ear. As
is known, a problem which occurs in the field of mobile telephony relates to
enabling use of the mobile telephone, or otherelectronic device, while leaving
the user’s hands free, especially if the user is occupied in driving a vehicle, or
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maintaining the apparatus distant from the ear, so as to avoid damaging
Electromagnetic influences.
COPYRIGHT
The first case "All In One" Smartphone that integrates a retractable stereo
Time) and / or listen to music with high quality of sound and consistent with the
Shock Protection in case of fall. With this product we are creating a new market
segment that combines a protective case for your mobile and protection to
humans from radiation using earphones with you. Let's start with the bestselling smartphones in the world: iPhone 5 / 5s from June 2015 to October 2015
iPhone6.
YOUR COMPETITORS
600 mio Euro
0,4%
Anyone directly, but, becouse the earphones and the protective cases you can
buy separately, we can think part of this markets could be an interesting source
of business.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Uniqueness, Italian Industrial design, manufacture plastic materials in Italy,
Mechatronics components assembled and controlled in Italy, Competitive Edge
is the Complexity of the different components and business model.the pipeline
of new products is very rich for smartphones and tablets.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 100.000,00 €
FROM WHOM?
One share holder is financing 50% of the project.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
H.I.C.S. (Human Interface Control System)
WEB SITE
www.hicsperience.com
REGION
Basilicata
24/08/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
customizable touch panel, high design, low cost, multi-sensory terminal
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
- Dr. Gerardo Graziano he worked in major auditing firms and Business
Consultancy (Price Waterhouse, Ernst&Young). business consultant, follows
development plans and restructuring for a number of important groups and
startup- Ing. Bruno De Nisco, deals with plant HBA and technical legislation,
writes books and articles in trade magazines.- Ing. Massimiliano Malavasi,
deals with plant HBA in the area of assistive technology for disabled people,
writes scientific articles,member of the leading industry associations.- L'Aquila
university computer science department (prof. Fabio Graziosi)- Prof. Egidio
Mancianti, one of the fathers of the HBA in Italy.
YOUR VISION
WAND, is the norm in my rooms. WAND reduces the structural complexity and
cost of managing family becoming an indispensable support in every room of
the house.
YOUR MISSION
Provide a system of information (information technology + automation)
tailored for families, scalable and adaptable "real-time", the cost of which is
covered by savings and customized services provided in each room of the
house.
YOUR PROJECT
The project of the HICS overcomes the division between information
technology products (information technologies) and domestic systems (home
automation), creating infomation devices (info+mation) high-tech and lowcost (taking advantage of economies of scale in other areas of technology) that
allows a simplified and efficient use of the house, the domestic systems,
electronic devices and services on-line. HICS systems are applicable in houses
where there are already home automation systems or in homes with
traditional systems without performing building work. The touch panel WAND
already connects with the main systems of HBA and many electronic devices
present on the market. The project has undergone changes and adjustments
thanks to the suggestions of experts who have viewed the project. The
company HICS is also developing other devices owners to offer low-cost
solutions for homes with traditional systems.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
WAND,a small touch panel (-based) device to be mounted inside standard
boxes on the wall, as part of the wiring system of the building.Italian patent
(design) n° 102321 del 22/05/2015 TOUCHPANEL SENSORS WITH CAMERA
AND FRAME WITH REDUCED TO A MINIMUM THICKNESS PERMITTED BY
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TECHNOLOGY, APPLICABLE TO THE WALL OR BUILT(request extension patent
europe and the united states)Italian patent (design) n° 102322 del
22/05/2015TOUCHPANEL FULL SCREEN FRAME WITH REDUCED TO A
MINIMUM THICKNESS PERMITTED BY TECHNOLOGY, APPLICABLE TO THE WALL
OR BUILT(request extension patent europe and the united states)
COPYRIGHT
WAND behaves as an advanced interface for interaction among the various HBA
systems, electronics devices, and information services. Patenting process is
ongoing.
YOUR COMPETITORS
$58.9 billion in 2014
up to 0,5 mln euro
Crestron, AMX,Legrand, etc. currently there are products that have different
shapes and sizes, reduced functionality, high cost and the need for electrical
work for installation.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Cost of production is very low, no electrical work for installation, simplified
management of devices and services, integration third-party systems and IT
devices.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? Around 300.000 euro
FROM WHOM?
Currently no investors. HICS is ranked in first place of the notice on the start-up
of the Region of Basilicata and is funded by c.ca 200,000 euro grant
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Industrie Additive Srl
WEB SITE
www.industrieadditive.com
REGION
Piemonte
10/10/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
New affordable and reliable Metal 3D Printer able to timlessly build big near
net shape part at a fraction of the costs it used to take.
CONCEPT
YOUR TEAM
A team of passionate engineers, supported by high-skilled external
professionals and an executive-entrepreneur leading and sharing with them the
duty of the start-up venture. We are eager to speed-up our research and willing
to share our experience, inventions and enthusiasm with a solid industrial and
financial partner.
YOUR VISION
Unleash Additive Manufacturing over a wider customers base, reaching new
market segments (including some high-tech ones, such as "in-space" research
for new manufacturing processes) leveraging the easiness, affordability and
reliability of the process.
YOUR MISSION
Efficiently design and engineer a full range of polymer and metal, wire-feed
additive manufacturing industrial systems through continuous innovation;
investing in human and knowledge capital.
YOUR PROJECT
The final goal of the project is to prototype and industrialise an additive
manufacturing system using a direct energy deposition technique, enabled by
wire-feeded advanced welding techniques (Plasma, CMT, others) to produce
3D metal parts in different metal alloys - directly from a CAD design.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
One Patent, filed October 2014 nr. TO2014A000851, obtained preliminary
approval from European Patent Office. The invention relates to Additive
Manufacturing - or 3D printing - process optimisation; specifically, it is suited
for large parts 'built' by mean of wire-feed additive manufacturing - approved
claims focusing on in-process and post-process heating management.
COPYRIGHT
Industrie Additive's brand; Product design (industrial-grade 3D printers) by
Italdesign - Giugiaro Design.
Around 0,7B€ (systems only)
0% Wire-feeded Metal Additive Manufacturing is a new
approach to the technology. 2014 Wohlers Report, one of
the most prominent voices over AM industry data,
indicates that a few competitor were in early development
stage of new wire-feed machines at the beginning of 2014.
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YOUR COMPETITORS
Shiacky Inc.EOS Gmbh3D SystemsStratasys
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We applied advanced welding techniques to Additive Manufacturing, using a
system that is wire-feed and produce large near-net shape parts using metal
alloys. The advantages of our system - applying a patented solution to optimise
the heating cycle, especially in large built - are, among others: speed,
affordability (easy and cheeper compared to powder-based processes), and
dimensions of parts being built.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 400K€
FROM WHOM?
The investment has been made by an Industrial PMI (Tauring Spa), and their
individual owners, who acquired an overall 35% of the company's shares.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
INOXSAIL srl
WEB SITE
www.inoxsail.com
REGION
Lombardia
11/01/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
Self adjusting, modifying and taking, airfoil profile structural fin for sailing
yachts
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Roberto Bosi: the founder, inventor, designer and CEO: architect (former
entrepreneur in the building industry), sailing instructor and skipper.Claudio
Bonini: Engineer (PHD in fluid-dynamics).Laura Bosi: Visual Designer,
marketing, operations.
YOUR VISION
A new concept of maunufacturing leveraging the enormous opportunities of
italian tradition and avoiding the big investements of a new factory.Design
and engineering using the most advanced software and the particular type of
production model allow INOXSAIL to innovate from the core in the nautical
industry. The first margins are high: the yachting world is rich and we avoid the
dangerous and costly phase of setting a plant and, scaling the supply chain, the
big costs of trasportation: we can build anywhere.
YOUR MISSION
Innovation in the sailing industry nowadays is oriented towards complication,
high costs, difficult and dangerous navigation: is for very few people. Rich,
athletes, engineers. Fostering an usable innovation we want to enhance the
sailing experience for everyone, spreading the culture, the joy and the
challenge of sailing among the more people we can.
YOUR PROJECT
The patented product is a self-adjusting airfoil profile structural fin for sailing
yachts. Modifying its airfoil section into asymmetric the fin generate more lift
and better directed towards the bow: the whole boat goes faster and more
towards the wind. The device does not need any action from the cockpit and
does not use energy. The crew will sail as ever without changing mindset nor
operations.The other innovation is the developing of a building technology
for the hulls of sailing yachts: thin sheets of titanium coupled in a structural
sandwich.Light, rebust and safe (unsinkable and unpierceable), durable as
titanium and fully recyclable. Our sailing yachts have a traditional design and
the highest technology for the best sailing experience.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
One italian patent request deposited (Feb. 2013)One PCT (with priority on
italian) with EPO report received: 17 claims out of 17 positive. (Feb. 2014)
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On the designs of the boats there is the normal copyrights of a professional
design work.
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YOUR COMPETITORS
€ 250 mlns
It takes more than one year to foster this kind of
innovation. Our goal is to have a stable market of 1/10 of
the potential within 5 years.
The product is not on the mass market yet and there is very little similar, like
the trim-tabs, which are not retail techonlogies. Virtually any shipyard could be
a competitor though: the idea is relatively simple and with a revers-engineering
process any manufacturer in the nautical industry could became a
competitor.There are few patents of something similar the closest is of Mistral
(the swiss big one of windsurfs in the '80s), but it has been dropped.Our direct
competitors are then the one that produce sails, equipment, electronics or any
other product that make sailing yachts go faster and win races.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Besides of the patent, it took us two years for the engineering: structural
design, fluid dynamics simulations, velocity predictions, control of deformations
and reactions to the sea water flow.The product is now under test at sea and,
although we know that with a big investement that advantage is probably
reduced to six months, the aim is to remain a step forward of competitors.The
Registered Trade Mark "Phinna" has already starded to be used to define the
product on italian sailing and nautical magazines: we want that any similar
product should be put on the market will be called with our brand.
FROM WHOM?
€ 50k in december 2013 from business angels€ 114k from the Regione
Lombardia program "re-start/start-up"
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Kentstrapper Srl
WEB SITE
www.kentstrapper.com
REGION
Toscana
01/08/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
We produce easy to use 3d printer with high performance
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
We have started as a family company then we have involved external
collaborators, to create a team with a backgrounds of different capacities. Each
collaborator brings his knowledge within the company to develope the project.
The team is divided into areas of expertise : design,manufacture, marketing and
sales. The company wanted to focus on the strengths and creativity of young
people forming a team with average age of 30 years. Moreover we have college
students in internships that receive the opportunity to have a first work
experience.
YOUR VISION
Kentstrapper aims to become a reference point for the Italian technology ,
creates machines that will help the production process of companies and
wants to incorporate the technology of 3D printers in educational processes .
R&D is the key driver of the company .
YOUR MISSION
Kentstrapper company founded as a family wants to spread the technology of
3D printers in professional environments , schools and to individuals. We try to
spread this technology in school labs since primary school . We believe this
technology let satisfy a basic need of the human society : Make.
YOUR PROJECT
The company is specialized in the design, production and sale of 3D printers
and accessories. Our machines are projected and developed in Italy and are
assembled manually with a great attention to details. We also follow the postsale customer with training courses and technical assistance. Kentstrapper
currently provides three types of 3D printers: Volta: developed for the
company, reliable and precise. Galileo Smart: An entry-level 3d printer, highquality suitable for makers and schools. Galileo SmartUP: A semi-professional
printer with a large work area . Thanks to these three products and a lasercut
we can provide a complete service that enables the development and custom
manufacturing of any object,. People can make real their project in cheap
and fast way. We are developing two new projects with innovative features
that differentiate it from the current market
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We applied for a patent on an innovative system for our 3d printers
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Our brande is registered in Italy
From 2,5 bilion dollars in 2013 to 16,2 bilion dollars in
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2018.
YOUR COMPETITORS
Kentstrapper aims to become a reference point for the
Italian technology, developing new produtct according to
the needs of the target market and choosing an
appropriate advertising campaign to communicate the
products. All this will increase the market share of the
company
We have many competitors , both national and international , and to make our
products the best choice we invest heavily in research and development. R&D
is the key driver of the company .
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE There are many strengths on which our company can rely on. We produce
machines affordable but that can compete in quality with machines produced
by major companies. We are very comfortable with customers trying to settle
quickly a good relationship to make them feel at ease, which is why we are
committed to responding quickly to their questions and to satisfy quickly and as
well as possible their needs trying to satisfy every need us is required. We focus
very much on support after the purchase of the machine trying to follow as
much as possible the customer .Another important strength is that it is a
family based company and this means that we have created a very close-knit
group that tries to collaborate as much as possible.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? Nothing
FROM WHOM?
We don't have yet any external investors
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
La Comanda srl
WEB SITE
www.lacomanda.it
REGION
Lombardia
10/01/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
CLICK'N'PIZZA
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Myself: 45, engineer, ex Manager in Nokia Italy: director of services sales and
marketing team. (App stora, maps, music, games)Andrea Gaggi: 50, ex BC and
CFo of Nokia Italy
YOUR VISION
Creating great value by closing small gaps.
YOUR MISSION
A 1-click device for everybody, to connect people to their services in the
easiest and fastest way
YOUR PROJECT
CLICK'N'PIZZA: a connected fridge button to order your favorite menu with 1
single click. It's also possible to customize menus and recive special promos on
the device itself.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
FI2012A000160 - DISPOSITIVO PER LA TRASMISSIONE AUTOMATICA DI ORDINI
EPRENOTAZIONI.FI2013A000142 - APPARATO PER LA GESTIONE
AUTOMATICA DELL’ASSUNZIONE DIMEDICINALI DA PARTE DEL PAZIENTE.
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comany logo
US: USD10Billions+
YOUR COMPETITORS
Smartphone apps and other IoT solutions (e.g. Amazon Dash)
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE First movers. Big endorsement from media after launch at MWC 2015. Still a
unique Customer experience
FROM WHOM?
Private investors
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Marioway Srl
WEB SITE
www.marioway.it
REGION
Lombardia
15/04/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
An innovative hands-free, two-wheeled, self-balancing, ergonomic,
verticalizing, electric wheelchair.
YOUR TEAM
PROTOTYPE
The management team of Marioway carries the vision to design and bring on
the
market this innovative wheelchair. Mario Vigentini (Man of vision), has over 20
years' experience in working with people with disabilities. Lorenzo Pompei
(CEO,
CFO) is a business angel with over 10 year experience in international banking.
Massimo Ghidelli (R&D) is a professional engineer with 20 year-experience in
mechanics. Gaëlle Garandeau CFO, carbon-neutral account and entrepreneurial
skills
gained in Asia, Europe and Africa. Flaviano Tarducci is specialised in digital
content
management and human rights. Luca Castignani, PhD in Mechanical
Engineering,
automotive director, is our CTO and Innovation Manager.
YOUR VISION
Marioway is a cultural revolution, a tool of social integration, and a medical
device
for people unable to walk. Marioway wants to revolutionize the quality of life
and the
social relationships of people with walking impairments.
YOUR MISSION
To create a wheelchair so extraordinary that everybody can desire (people with
walking impairments as well as able-bodied): ergonomic, hands-free, electricpropelled, allowing the user to move around (both indoorand out-doors) at its
original body height and to communicate with others at the same eye-level.
YOUR PROJECT
Marioway is an innovative social enterprise that aims at revolutioning the use
of a wheelchair forpeople with walking impairments.People with walking
impairments have trouble in conducting their daily activities due to
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anoverwhelming amount of wheelchairs available in the market that do not
let them use their hands, ergonomically seat or just be simply out and about:
this squanders their freedom, life quality and relationships with other
people.Marioway is a new path, at the forefront in this field, with the creation
of a hands-free and electric propelledwheelchair so extraordinary that
everybody can desire it. The device allows the user to move both indoor and
outdoors,at its original body height and to communicate with others at the
same eye-level. Marioway is fully crafted and designed in Italy and will allow
users to benefit from:• interaction with the external world from user's
original body height;• customization of the device to user's body;•
improvement, thanks to an ergonomic position, of life quality through
betterbreathing, digestion, posture;• practice of passive gymnastic;•
ownership of a piece of beauty.There is currently no such device on the
market that allows a user to benefit from all of the above.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Patent #1 09/08/2013 Italian national phase deposit for patent labelled as
“mezzo di
locomozione elettrico” BG2013A0000021. PCT extension on 09/08/2014 of
“inverted pendulum type vehicle” WO2015/019281 A1.
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On 02/2015 Marioway’s trademark was deposited.
€€2.06 Billion in 2015
Marioway aims at obtaining a market share of 0.09% of the
global electric-powered
wheelchairs.
YOUR COMPETITORS
The main categories for wheelchairs are: manual wheelchairs, power
wheelchairs,
mobility scooters, stand-wheelchairs, gyroscope-based, and Exoskeletons.
Direct
competitors or similar ideas to Marioway are: Standard Stand-up wheelchair,
such as
“Levo” from Switzerland: they are bulky and quite expensive (> € 25k);
Gyroscopicbased wheelchairs: i-Bot from J&J Medical Devices was discontinued in 2009
(the
price at $ 25k made it out of reach to many, and the design was poor);
AddMovement,
a Swedish firm, or Going (from HandyTech) and several others offer similar
solutions, but do not exceed a few hundreds units sold in total per annum; The
Italian
Genny Mobility is a viable competitor, although it is not stand up and not hands-
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free.
The potential market is fairly vast (270k users in Western Europe and Northern
America, according to our estimates), hence there is room for more than a few
manufacturers.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE There is not on the market a wheelchair that allows a paraplegic user to: Ride
an electric, 100% hands-free mobility device through a combination of upper
body movements; Interact with the external world from a natural upright body
height; Customize the device to the body’s measures; Thanks to an
ergonomic position, improve life quality;Moving easier and safer thanks to an
app / improving the security / creating community and integration with other
Marioway users / a solar-powered charging station with USB
connection.Marioway can be used by ordinary people and by people with
disabilities without seeing the difference between the users while riding it. For a
person that has stayed many years sat on a wheelchair Marioway could be a lifechanging device.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? €700000
FROM WHOM?
Bank and private investors.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
QUICK SRL
WEB SITE
www.metrakititalia.com
REGION
Abruzzo
26/07/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
The product range comprises the following models: MKX50 small, MKX50,
MKX65, MKX85, Engine (engines), MKX GREEN (electric).
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
The company Quick Srl was founded in July 2012 to perform primarily in the
design, manufacture and sale of motorcycles for competitions with Metrakit
brand (40 years of history in the racing motorcycles market and
engine).Gabriele Scalzi (45) and Matteo Di Lorenzo (36) are the key persons,
driving the management of the company, as well as strategies on the frontier
technical / sales.Both are mechanical engineers and provide engineering
expertise, experience and specific know-how acquired in the motorcycles
field.The financial investment is guarantee from institutional italian fund.
YOUR VISION
Fun, passion and competitiveness are therefore the typical features of the
customer reference.The company's mission:- High technological value of the
product offer, without compromising on quality and performance, and able to
impose itself on international markets- Strengthening and development of
the brand over time it becomes synonymous with the discipline of motorcycle
and Made in Italy/Europe internationally- Passion and motivation,
assumptions of a design approach and continuous innovation- Industrial
autonomy of "core" components of the product (internal production of chassis
and engine)- Strong export oriented.
YOUR MISSION
The mission is the development of the market of motocross for young,
segment marked by special factors such as the turn to a young audience
extremely passionate and demanding.For these reasons, given the complexity
of business and the need to carefully schedule all dynamic management and
financial, operations are effective only from 2015.
YOUR PROJECT
The mini-cross bike is the result of the study "maniacal" and combined of two
elements: "marketing" and "Technology". The bikes are designed and built for
racing use by children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 years, making use of a
highly qualified staff and advanced technological means with which to achieve
autonomy in the whole production cycle: from research and design, through
the machining and assembly, until the distribution of products on the market
Italy, Europe and the rest of the world.The product range comprises the
following models: MKX50 small, MKX50, MKX65, MKX85, Engine (engines),
MKX GREEN (electric) and the commercial offer also extends on sales of spare
parts and accessories, services high margins and allow to consolidate its
presence in the market and develop customer orientation, which is to
continuous search for better performance.Especially in the first 2-3 years, the
company's strategy will focus on the introduction of the product and the
achieving the positioning of the product in the high end of the market, by
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means of:- Strong marketing activities (brand marketing and merchandising),
to be developed through media channels and internet, fairs and events and
especially through participation in sports competitions in motorcycling youth,
through the direct commitment of importers and dealers, supported in this by
the company.- Customer loyalty, thanks to the efforts made in bringing the
children to the world of competition and accompany them on the path of
growth racing to achieve their dreams of champions.- Propensity to flexibility,
meaning the ability to renew the concept of the product in response to
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
From jan2015 the company has the patents, all intellectual property, design
and drawings, brand protections, all the tools and facilities necessary for
motorcycles production and sale.All the products are tested and totally
defined.
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Brand protection in Europe, United States and South America
YOUR COMPETITORS
500.000.000,00
Our share one year from now is to achieve a quote of 0,4%
of the total market segment; the final goal is to achieve
progressively a quote of 3% of the total market within 5
years since now.In our business plan is estimated an
annual turnover of 14.000,000 in the year 2019.
The mini-cross market has the distinction of being extremely hungry for
novelty, to now being dominated by a single player (KTM)who holds more than
90% of the market-share; so the customers want to differentiate themselves
and to have amore exclusive product, provided that is reliable and competitive
with KTM.This market is protected from global Japanese players (Honda,
Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki) because they cannot produce the 2 strokes engine,
because their law; this 2-strokes technology is obliged for these kind of bikes.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE To differentiate itself from competitors and position themselves on a mediumhigh target, the Quick Srl tip on the following competitive factors:- Quality and
technical performance guaranteed (frame and swingarm in aluminum alloys,
suspension of the highest level, own motor, not derived road, but designed and
built for racing use, compact and lightweight)- Product customizationInnovation and research continues on design and mechanical part- Quality of
after-sales activities
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 200.000,00
FROM WHOM?
INVESTOR is Fi.R.A. S.p.A. It's a public and institutional investor based in
ItalyOur company get additional capital through an italian project called
"START HOPE"Fi.R.A. is the handler of this project; support italian companies
to start up and develop the activities. The identification of projects for funding
is made through careful analysis of the corporate structure, the business plan
and the potential of the project.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
SESTOSENSOR SRL
WEB SITE
www.sestosensor.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
20/07/2009
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
"virtual" sensors created at any point of 200km optical fibre
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Our team features a total of 150 years of direct business experience, 50+
patents and more than 70 publications.The team has ans established track of 4
innovative fiber optic sensing products already on the market, a sales network
covering most part of the Europe and won several innovation awards such as
the K-idea (2014) and European Photonics Venture Forum (EPVF, 2015) awards.
YOUR VISION
Light for sensors that make sense - providing sesing solutions tailored to the
real market needs of innovation, performance and cost-effectiveness
YOUR MISSION
Follow long-term customer needs with an astonishing mix of innovation,
service and competitiveness
YOUR PROJECT
- strategic technology for €1.5B market- multiple market applications (oil &
gas, power grid, mining, railway)- very few existing competitors- large price
& performance advantage- strong IP protection- high profitabilityexperienced team
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Licensee for 7 patent and applications comprising1) PCT IT2014 000075
(extended to US14763167 and EP14732413.1) interrogation apparatus for
distributed fiber optic sensors 90% cheaper than existing devices and 50%
more performant2) PCT IT2015 000114 interferometric interrogation
apparatus for distributed optical fibre sensors having 120% resolution
increase3) BO2015A000234 fast tuning pump-probe laser source for fiber
sensor interrogator having 99% measurement time reduction
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New cost-effective "virtual" sensor for Oil&Gas applications (temperature,
deformation, pressure at any point of 200km optical fibre)
YOUR COMPETITORS
1500000000
0,0002
Only 3 active competitors in the world that are able to use the same (Brillouin
scattering) technolgy:- Omnisens SA (Switzerland)- OZ Optics Ltd.
(Candada)- Fibristerre GmbH (Germany)
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The new patented photonic interrogator core reduces the hardware cost of the
sensing equipment of up to 90% with performance increase from 50% to 150%.
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FROM WHOM?
We are currently discussing a $1.2M equity operation with a large utility
company from Hong Kong, and we have 3 other VC request still on hold
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Skyrobotic SpA
WEB SITE
www.skyrobotic.com
REGION
Umbria
23/12/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
SR-SF6 is a 5 kg, 40-minute autonomous, multi-role vertical take-off and
landing platform.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Skyrobotic, as a part of Italeaf group, can maximize the contribution of the
holding company in administrative, managerial, business development,
commercial and financial segments. Skyrobotic has a team of 6 engineers with 3
PhD with experience in unmanned systems, software, mechanical, avionic
segments. Other 4 employees (IT consultant, assembler, mechanical specialist
and supply manager) complete the team.
YOUR VISION
Let your business fly
YOUR MISSION
development, manufacturing and marketing of drones in mini and micro
classes for the civil and commercial use in the professional market. With a
constant focus on innovation, the company intends to achieve the leadership in
the field of unmanned aircraft, taking care of the whole industrial chain, from
design to system integration, right through to production turnkey platform
robust, practical and effective in the field of remote sensing proximity.
YOUR PROJECT
Skyrobotic aim to reducw the drone weight to2kg (including payload),
improving endurance (90 minute autonomy) while maintaining
performance and stability. Its navigation system will be further developed
to include sense-and-avoid technology which, combined with its low weight,
will allow the drone to fly beyond-VLOS over populated areas, making it
extremely versatile for multiple applications. Specifically, we are developing
this lighter low-priced (€10,000) drone for traffic management and air
pollution monitoring applications, by which Dronitoring will penetrate the
nascent drone market, getting Return of Investment in 1 year and a net profit
of €20 million by 2019.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
PATENTS
No patents
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The brand Skyrobotic is under OAMI tade mark registration, the brand is
registered in Italy compliant with the italian laws
YOUR COMPETITORS
€ 20-25 million
0,2
Sensefly, Microdrones, Trimble, Aibotix
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE RTK (real time kinematic system) integrated (the first drone in european
scenario).Total design control. Proprietary technology (Autopilot, avionics,
mechanics, firmware, pilot software, etc.).superior performance: ability to
flight in an extended range of temperatures -20°/+ 50 °, ability to handle wind
bursts of up to 10 m / s. endurance up to 40 min in the working conditions.
propietary new generation autopilot : skyrobotic sr-5000 is the heart of the
advanced features of SF6.• functions of target tracking for video• at faster
speeds for dynamic relief aerofotogrammetrico• navigation of automatic
piano 3dcompliance with the safety regulation: automatic management of
failure, redundancy, termination system of independent flight and ability to
schedule "no fly zone", mission including flights near congested
areas.Centimeter accuracy of orthophotos and 3D digital models without the
need for relief of GCP.Ability to perform measurements with high precision
even in areas not reached.Combination of picture quality availableby
multicopter with direct georeferencing accuracy.Ability to use the RTK
system with all sensors available for the system SF6, returning georeferenced
data in caserooms are used optical, thermal and multispectral MicroLidar
etc.Compatibility of GCS SkyRobotic with receivers based GPS / GNSS.
FROM WHOM?
Skyrobotic was established by 2 co-founders: Italeaf, group leader in the fields
of cleantech and innovative industry listed on the First North segment of
NASDAQ OMX in Stockholm Stock Exchange, with its track record, operational
experience and financial capacity, and Siralab Robotics, know-how provider
with a decade of experience in the field, a company with high technological
content. Now Skyrobotic has Eur 2.5 million of share capital and other
shareholders like Sifip Srl, a company active in the TLC sector and other
business angels.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
SpaceEXE Srl
WEB SITE
www.spaceexe.com
REGION
Lazio
02/02/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
WHEARE is the new way of playing and watching football, everything in real
time, everything on the palm of your hand.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
WE ARE A HIGHLY SKILLED AND MOTIVATED TEAM OF 5, WHOSE
COMPETENCIES COME OUT OF THE AEREOSPACE INDUSTRIES AND
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.CEO: ALESSANDRO DI FELICE is a skilled manager
with more than 15 years experience in Italian and international companies like
SERCO and TELESPAZIOCTO: MIRKO ANTONINI is a GNSS and satellite
communication expert, members of many international scientific
society.BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: CORRADO CERVELLATI is a young motivated
international relations graduate with international experience and expertise in
FDI and SEZSYSTEM ENGINEERING: GIANLUCA ATZENI is specialized in
hardware development with a deep experience in R&D activities in the CNR
(Research National Center).TESTING AND SYSTEM MAINTENANCE:
ALESSANDRO MARIOTTI is our «Boot on the Ground» he conduct tests and
reports
YOUR VISION
SpaceEXE vision is to be at the center of the IoT revolution, transfering the
skills gained is satellite navigation to mass market, and especialy to hit the
football market to innovte it with cutting edge technologies and
applications.We believe that the GNSS technologies can provide an
improvement in everyday lifes of people and companies, helping them to
provide better services or improving the quality of their lives.
YOUR MISSION
SpaceEXE mission is the technology transfer from space to mass market of
applications and knowledge to generate value added services in the field of
automotive, sport and leisure and land monitoring.
YOUR PROJECT
The project WHEARE aims to provide an innovative service based on GNSS
applications in the football market. The service will be based on a system,
which is mainly constituted by shinguards equipped with a high precision
wearable GNSS receiver, communication system, battery, PCB and a software
for the real-time data interpretation and correlation of football players
cinematic data.Innovation is essentially determined by the combination of 3
specific challenges:1.High-Precision: thanks to Differential Galileo highprecision performances we can assume to reach real-time accuracy in the
football player position up to 30 cm, as confirmed by our preliminary
tests.2.Miniaturization: to be able to develop a GNSS-based device
integrated with IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) so thin to be integrated in
shinguards. 3.Real-Time: transmitting GNSS navigation messages in real-time
during football matches, trainings and competitions The major innovation is
constituted by implementing a system capable to offer together the above
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mentioned three technology challenges.Real-Time data will be processed and
analyzed to provide useful statistics to control pre-defined tactics, to monitor
the performances of athletes, to prevent accidents and to plan workouts, but
also and especially to provide television networks a new added-value service.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
SpaceEXE submitted two patentes in two years.These are patent pending and
had a research report positive in two point over three.The first patent regards
the integration of a GPS device inside a shin-guard, the second one instead
regards the overall architecture of the performance monitoring system
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SpaceEXE has no copyright over names of definitions at the moment, but it's
plannning to register the name of the product as a trademark in the future.
YOUR COMPETITORS
7 billion euros
From one year to know we are planning to serve at least
10 professional football teams, in Italy and Europe and to
sign a contract with an important broadcaster (Sky) for
covering a season of Serie B Italia.We are at the moment
in the process f signing an agreement with an important
video analysis provider to present a joint offer to Sky Italia,
as result of extensive talk with the top management of the
latter and in agreement with the Serie B president Andrea
Abodi.
There are two kind of competitors at the moment:- GPS performance
monitoring companies, which mainly operates with professional football teams,
aiding them monitoring training sessions.- Video Tracking and Video analysis
companies that mainly operates with broadcasters, providing them tactical and
performance insights for post match analysis and in game statistics.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our system WHEARE have 3 main advantages that make the system
competitive on a technological side.- Extreme miniaturization: the system is
integrated inside a shin-guard allows its usage in official matches, also in respect
to new FIFA regulations that opens to GNSS devices in matches- Real Time: our
systems offers a technical a tactical insight over team performnces that is able
to surpass the service offered by both video analysis software and GPS
recorder- High Precision: Our knowledge in satellite navigation allowed us to
reach new pick in precision in position and we are able through differential GPS
to have up to 40 cm in positioning error.
FROM WHOM?
SpaceEXE mainly received funding from public sources, from European, National
and Regional agencies.The first funds SpaceEXE received have been the results
of a series of consulence services, made by the founders of SpaceEXE to ASI
(Associazioni Sportive e Sociali Italiane), then another grant was given to the
company by FILAS (now merged with Sviluppo Lazio in Lazio Innova), under the
"Spin-Off di Ricerca" call.SpaceEXE have been also funded by ESA for the
incubation program and also managed to won 2 VAL call with lazio Region.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
XMetrics - Empowering Performance
WEB SITE
www.xmetrics.it
REGION
Lombardia
10/06/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
XMetrics, the ultimate activity tracker designed by swimmers for swimmers
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Founders team:CEO - Andrea Rinaldo, 34 years, MBA, former professional
swimmer and swim CoachCScientistO - Davide Macagnano, 35, PhD in signal
processing, expertise in algorithm developmentCMO - Francesco Quartuccio,
39, MBA, former marketing manager in multinational companiesCIO - Stefano
Perego, 43, engineer, former firmware developer and application
engineerCTO - Emanuele Vazzoler, 40, MBA, expertise in HW development and
testing Other significant XMetrics team member.CFO - Gianpietro Pasquon,
54, former CFO and Financial director in corporate companySales Manager Massimo Mucciolella, 45, previous experience as general managerOverall,
Xmetrics counts 13 people
YOUR VISION
We see a future where wearable devices will be part of our everyday life being
integrated in our personal objectives. Wearable devices will follow us in our
activities, from job to fitness helping us in having a better and healthier
lifestyle.
YOUR MISSION
In 3years, we want to be recognized like the reference company for the
wearable device sport industry. We want to provide the best activity tracker
for athletes designed to maximize their user experience and to improve their
life and sport performance. Activity trackers will supply the high data quality
available
YOUR PROJECT
The first 2 products have been realized specifically for swimmers, both
recreational and professional. They have unique selling proposition that put
them in an advantage position towards the competitors. We want to capitalize
this investment, penetrating better market segments, and to develop new
hardware platform that while being suitable to be used in different sports
scenarios almost seamlessly.Having this in mind, challenging objectives for
the next three years are:•
2nd HF 2015: increase brand reputation in
swimming and expand market presence.•
2016: develop new product
features for swimmers; continue expand market presence; start selling pay-peruse premium apps.•
2017: introduce new multi-sport products (ex.
Triathlon); penetrate market; push PPU model.•
2018: new sports & more
apps and services; new geographical markets.Nevertheless, one key aspect
will be to: establishing the brand reputation and credibility amongst the elite
athletes.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
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PATENTS
First patent have been submitted in Italy in 12.2013 and extended with an
international PCT in 12.2014. Other 2 patents have been submitted in Italy in
July 2015. For this reason, the main claim is not fully reported but only an
extract of them: 1.Wearable detector for the detection of parameters
related to a physical activity 2.Mechanical Remote controller to enable data
tracking, settings of the device and enabling of feedbacks in wearable
device3.Remote controller to enable data tracking, settings of the device
and enabling of feedbacks in wearable device, using touch surface and
proximity sensor
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“Xmetrics” registered in Italy and already granted, approval process in UK, USA,
CANADA, JAPAN, EUROPE
YOUR COMPETITORS
5.8bln
We don't have direct competition. Other activity trackers
are for multipurpose or for other sport.
Indirect competitors are Garmin, Suunto, Shot, Instabeat, Misfit, Swimovate,
Swimmo.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We have for advantages compare with actual swimming activity
trackers:•
Back head position: swimmers don’t like wristwatches because are
uncomfortable to wear, back head position is the most comfortable and the
most precise to gather swimming data•
Real time audio feedback: swimmers
are always concentrated in their style, they pursue perfection and they don’t
want any distraction, a real time audio feedback while swimming through
earphone is the best way to keep the focus on your training •
Advanced data
analysis: while competitors devices provide “counting” features, e.g. number of
laps, number of strokes, SWOLF index and timing, XMetrics goes beyond it
providing detailed analysis of the training, up to fraction of seconds, from data
to knowledge•
Coach data sharing: coaches have always looked for powerful
and simple tool to monitor swimmers’ performance, they need to know exactly
where to improve, XMetrics provides the precision they need.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? € 1.2mln
FROM WHOM?
Breed Reply Ltd, venture capitalist from the group Reply SRL, active in the
segment of IoT, Big Data and Wearable devices. Xmetrics has been the first
startup funded by Breed Reply Ltd.
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Macro-sector
Engineering
Sector
Electronics
COMPANY NAME
Xnext S.R.L.
WEB SITE
www.x-next.com
REGION
Lombardia
02/02/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Innovative technology, performing punctual recognition of foreign bodies,
hazardous substances..
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Mix of high -skilled senior engineers and young – volcanic minds from different
cultural and academic extraction, Xnext has his strength in Human Resources:
the founders, both nuclear-electric engineers with +20 years of experience in XRay and aerospace sectors, will work side-by side with young researchers from
different cultural and academic words.
YOUR VISION
Become a world player in X-Ray in line non Destructive Tests systems
YOUR MISSION
-Cover traditional segments for non-destructive in line tests-Answer to and
stimulate new needs in food, pharma, and waste recycle, and wherever there is
the need of innovative in-line tests.
YOUR PROJECT
Our project started in 2011 by winning a call for an industrial reasearch and
experimental project co-founded by Regione Lombardia e del MIUR, which
drove us to produce the first demonstrator, called “Spectroscan”, in
partnership with approvato con Decreto n. 5485 del 21 giugno 2012 il
Politecnico di Milano and CNR. At the moment, we are developing case study
in partnership with leaders in food manufacturing, with great oucomes: our
machine has been able to perform the punctual identification beetween two
different kind of cheese, and contaminants in water. The next step is to take
our product from a TRL 5 to a TRL 9.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
European Patent EP2405260: “Method and apparatus for performing noninvasive x-ray inspections of objects”. The invention is related to an apparatus
and method for x-ray inspections based on x-ray scanning of an object under
examination utilizing x-ray detectors capable of counting the photons incident
on each spatial element, providing not only a measurement of the attenuation
produced by the object, but also recognition of the individual photon energy
and association of the counts to an histogram with predefined energy bands. ,
in order to identify homogeneous substances, either solid or liquid or gaseous,
and determine their chemical composition with fast response and high level of
accuracy.
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Copyright is on our brands: Xnext, Xspectra
600 MUS
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YOUR COMPETITORS
TBD
Competitors can be split in:a)Conventional systems: companies selling
conventional X-Ray inspection equipmentb)Conventional technology:
companies producing single-double sensors energy boards, whith detection
software and electronics, selling crosswise the market in OEM
way.c)Spectroscopy Technology: companies providing multi-energy sensors
boards (up to 256 chnnels), with CdTe revelators and electronic and picture
scan software, selling crosswise the market in OEM way.Among those, our
main competitors: Nikon Metrology NV, Teradyne, Omron, Viscom, Nordson
Nordson, Raycon Bulk, GE, North Star, Toshiba, Bosello High Tech, Gilardoni,
Smiths – Heimann, Rapiscan, L3, NuctechThis potential competition,
confirming that Xnext is walking on the right path, will have a positive effect, by
expanding market and will help to increment attention to in-line specroscopic
applications.It has also to be underlined that all competitors mentioned above,
could turn into potential customers if interested to acquire Xnext technology.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The Xnext technology is based on the following innovations versus state-of-art
:Operates with penetrating X rays, providing therefore information about the
inner structure of materials.Performs X rays spectroscopic analysis, by means
of photon counting detectors and electronics, with capacity of discrimination of
the energy levels of the incident radiation.Operates at high scanning speed,
allowing utilization in the production line conveyors.Utilizes dedicated
software algorithms for each particular application, in order to maximize the
sensitivity and reproducibility of the fault free materials identification
FROM WHOM?
AVG s.r.l., (16,67%) Consulting company specialized in Food sector, based in
Parma – Italy. CEO, Valerio Guareschi.Giacomo Neri, (11,66%) Professori in
Economics and Strategy at Università Cattolica, formarly Global Managing
Partner Strategy & Operations at PWC Advisory.Francesco Gulli, (5%) Professor
in applied economics at Università Bocconi
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Pharmaceutical industry
COMPANY NAME
Aesis Therapeutics
WEB SITE
http://it.linkedin.com/pub/paolo-lombardi/6/3AA/BA1
REGION
Marche
03/01/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Two product candidates against HER2+ breast cancer and mesotheliomas,
resistant cancers
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Industry veterans and senior entrepreneurs with a broad expertise in the
discovery & development of oncology drugs, forged in multinational
(Farmitalia, Menarini, Pharmacia, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca) and biotech companies.
Skilled Team combining 180+ years experience and 220+ patents, with a track
record of achievements in Oncology R&D, represented by globally marketed
products.
YOUR VISION
To move corporate inventive findings up to development stages which will
deemed significant when proposing innovative drug candidates to commercial
partners: Biotech and Pharmaceutical companies combining in-house R&D and
licensing-in of New Chemical Entities (NCE) from smaller biotechs. Revenues
in the order of hundreds of millions will come from up-front, milestones
payments, royalties.
YOUR MISSION
Hispano-Italian dual spin-out shell company from the drug discovery small
biotechs AROMICS (Barcelona) and NAXOSPHARMA (Milano) commited to do
business in the drug discovery sector by early developing innovative drugs for
curing poorly responsive cancers Full operative access to Barcelona and
Milano research facilities, personnel, backgrounds, foregrounds, IP.
YOUR PROJECT
Anticancer compounds addressing diseases with poor outcome via innovative
therapeutic protocols. First-in-class compounds modulating clinically validated
drug targets in cancer treatment, through viable mechanisms of action the
potential advantages of which have not yet been taken in the art. Two drug
candidates are proposed for the cancer treatment of: - poor prognosis
breast cancer, by impairing the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
(HER2) expression;- malignant mesotheliomas , by downregulating cellular
levels of over-expressed thymidylate synthase . Drug candidates are
structurally related to berberine, a herbal alkaloid safely used in Ayurvedic and
Chinese medicines since hundreds of years to cure a variety of diseases.
Rational chemical modifications of berberine lead to a class of derivative
compounds able to correct or compensate aberrant genetic expressions of
cancer cells by targeting post-transcriptional control processes and by
suppressing nascent protein synthesis. Aromatic groups bonded to a suitable
position of the parent berberine create a propensity for additional aromatic
interactions with the cellular target. These types of interactions are ubiquitous
in nature, and their geometry is relevant for the molecular recognition in
biological systems, in the present instance the targeting post-transcriptional
control processes to correct or compensate aberrant genetic expressions of
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cancer cells.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
US8188109B2 relates to benzoquinolizinium salt (berberine) derivatives and to
processes for the preparation of said compounds. The invention also
encompass pharmaceutical compositions containing said derivatives and the
use of said compounds for the manufacture of medicaments suitable for the
treatment of cancerous disease.
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N.A.
YOUR COMPETITORS
Billions
NA
Anticancer drugs currently in Clinical Phase II for same indications
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Patent. In house drug design and chemistry. First-in-class drugs candidates with
a novel mechanism of action the potential advantages of which have not yet
been taken in the art. Team people who know how to do the job because they
have already done it.
FROM WHOM?
NA
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
AMIKO SRL
WEB SITE
WWW.AMIKO.IO
REGION
Lombardia
11/02/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Amiko provides Quantified Medicine for a mindful and lighthearted health
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Duilio Macchi - Founder, CEOFounded two health companies: Idea-Z &
FarmantisMartijn Grinovero - Founder, MarketingVP Strategy & Business
Development at Alpha FoundersAlexander Marinov - Founder, FinanceBus
Dev & Financing Manager: Medical Devices at NIMITAlessandro Fato Founder, CTOEmbedded Systems Project Leader at IBTProduct
Development TeamMath, Physics, Product design, Computer & Biomedical
engineering
YOUR VISION
Quantified medicine is targeted at tackling essential problems in healthcare:
the problem of medication adherence, the burden of treatment experienced
by chronic patients, the necessity to transition to results based models.
Amiko can tackle these problems through electronic medication add-ons that
track the usage of a medication in real time.
YOUR MISSION
Amiko is developed in order to provide real-time feedback and guidance to the
patient on all the common errors associated with medication intake and
medication scheduling. Our solution delivers a unique set of medication
related data at an unprecedented level of detail that are fundamental for
transitions to evidence-based models.
YOUR PROJECT
Amiko is based on proprietary and patent-pending sensors for the acquisition
and analysis of medication state and usage data.Our solution operates with
beautiful smart medication enablers which are seamlessly attached to 95% of
medication packagingWe can alleviate the burden of treatment for patients,
track and improve medication adherence and enable evidence-based
healthcare.Amiko utilizes a quantification as a service revenue model. The
core revenue component is the delivery of quantification services to pharma.
This is in the form of studies (clinical setting, or real world) to prove the value
of medications and generate market assets.We especially focus on
conditions such as COPD, Asthma, Diabetes & Multiple Sclerosis which are
highly burdensome and specific while being under supplied with potential
solutions. $190 billion is the revenue loss for the pharma industry annually
due to non adherence. There is huge opportunity for optimizing
pharmaceutical research and building market assets so that medications with
clear value can reach patients. The bourden is felt also by the Healthcare
System. Of the $290 Billion/year in avoidable medical spending in the US, we
believe we can save at least $70 Billion each year at an 800% ROI for
healthcare payers.
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
ITA [IT2013CO00017 20130516]PCT [WO2014184293 ]"DEVICE FOR
CONTROLLING THE INTAKE OF DRUGS, SYSTEM FOR SIGNALING AND
CONTROLLING THE INTAKE OF DRUGS"Patents cover the use of mems to
infer details about drugs usage, by means of monitoring medication packagings.
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"amiko" is a registered trademark.
160 Billion
YOUR COMPETITORS
asthma&COPD: Propeller Health, Cohero Health, SmartinhalerDiabetes:
Common Sensing, Vigiliant, Timesulin, MiSugr
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Broad range of devices compatibility, full automatic tracking, detailed tracking
of all the medication usage process.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 175'000
FROM WHOM?
100'000 Finlombarda Spa (loan)30'000 grant Regione Lombardia75'000
grant FICHe Consortium (Future Internet CHallenge eHealth)
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Life sciences
COMPANY NAME
BIOGENERA SpA
WEB SITE
www.biogenera.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
15/12/2008
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
A unique platform for the discovery of new personalized biotechnology antigene drugs.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
BIOGENERA R&D team is composed by 15 researchers having multidisciplinary
skills and recognised at the international level, mostly having studied at the
University of Bologna. The founders are Dr Roberto Tonelli that is a professor of
Pharmacology and Prof. Andrea Pession that is the Chief of the Pediatric
Oncology Clinic of the University of Bologna. They have a long experience in the
field as documented by many scientific international publications.
YOUR VISION
Biogenera, has developed a unique and highly innovative biotechnology
platform for the creation, in a very short time compared to traditional
approaches, new drugs that act at the level of specific gene (antigene).Thanks to this biotechnological platform for the creation of new drugs,
BIOGENERA will increase its potential drug pipeline and will implement a new
research line for the treatment of other incurable cancers and pathologies
presenting a high medical need.BIOGENERA wants to become the
international leader biocompany of the important, niche market of paediatric
oncology, developing new company departments specialised in adult oncology
and widening the range of activities in relationship with the increasing rare
diseases which currently do not have treatments; this will lead to a more
individualised and patient-specific medicine.
YOUR MISSION
To develop innovative therapeutics for paediatric and adultoncology patients.
Our proprietary innovative Biotechnology drug discovery platform to modulate
gene transcription will also be applied in a variety of high medical need
therapeutic indications, including Rare Genetic Disease, neurodegeneration,
Infectious Diseases.
YOUR PROJECT
BIOGENERA SpA has developed a unique and highly innovative biotechnology
platform for the discovery and development of new drugs based on an
approach that acts directly at the level of genes (anti-gene drugs).The first
area of application of this new therapeutic approach, has already led to the
identification and development of the first specific drug for the treatment of
pediatric incurable cancer.This drug has already obtained the official
acknowledgement of Orphan Drug by the European Medicines Agency (EMA)
to treat Neuroblastoma (the most deadly paediatric cancer).The main goal of
BIOGENERA is to develop the pharmaceutical product which will treat
incurable paediatric cancers. Moreover, the drug has been proved to be
efficient to treat also some very aggressive adult cancers. In addition, through
biotechnology platform for the creation of new drugs, BIOGENERA will expand
its pipeline of potential medicines and will implement a new line of research
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for the treatment of other cancers and other incurable diseases with a high
medical need.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
PATENTS
The patent portfolio include 20 final approved patents (covering Europe, USA,
Canada, Japan) and 15 patents under approval process (covering Europe, USA,
Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South
Korea, India, UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, Russia). The patents regards the
innovative drug discovery process based on oligonucleotides containing
proprietary sequence motifs which potently increase the degree of gene
silencing, and the new drug for cancer.
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NO copyright
YOUR COMPETITORS
30.000.000.000 Euro
0
There are no competitors now.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The unique and innovative drug discovery process developed by BIOGENERA
enables the identification of new personalized drugs in a very short time (2-3
months), overcoming many problems and limitations of the traditional the drug
discovery process approaches.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 5.000.000 euro
FROM WHOM?
2.7 ML from ZMV venture capital fund that co-invested with Italian Angels for
Growth (IAG).2.3 ML from business angels that created a vehicle company
(ProVita srl)
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Life sciences
COMPANY NAME
COCCITECH SRL
WEB SITE
www.coccitech.com
REGION
Veneto
18/03/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
100% NATURAL, 100% BIODEGRADABLE, 100 % ORGANIC
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Marco Lucchetta, CEO of the company with 55% of the share, has a strong
applicative research reached from italian and international companies and
institutions, moreover he has a market knowledge from his family business.
Pieremilio Garbellotto, with the 45% of the share, is an expert entrepreneur.
He is owner of some companies located in Italy and abroad. Marika de Pollo,
she is working in Coccitech from one year, she is a microbiological and chemical
analyst. Lisa Coletti (chemical analyst) and Riccardo Marcato (agronomist and
scientist) are collaborating with the company and they will be structured soon.
Now the company is looking for marketing and commercial workers. The
company is developing a commercial structure.
YOUR VISION
The agricultural has a very important purposes, to give food to many people
and to create an healthy and safety world.
YOUR MISSION
New innovative products for plant protection. Products able to substitute the
pesticides and to produce fruits, vegetables and cereals with high nutrition
level.
YOUR PROJECT
The company has a new innovative product for plant protection, against fungi
as Botrytis cinerea. Moreover the company are studying and trying other
products for plant protection. COCCITECH SRL will start very soon the
commercialization of the first product in Italy and abroad using distributors.
Moreover the company wants to create an internet commerce for end users.
The company has all structures (laboratories, field testing, greenhouse and
commercial structure) in order to create and to sell new products.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We are registering two patents: - A special product for plant protection, this
product is made using natural molecules, 100% biodegradable and with organic
certification. This innovative product is able to contrast some plant diseases in
viticulture and horticulture. It is able to substitute the some pesticides. - A
new material to adsorb proteins in wine to avoid protein instability.
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COCCITECH, It is a registered European brand.
75 billions
The company is in the early stage. Anyway the product has
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an important innovative content. The company could have
less that 1 ‰ of the global market , around 1 million of
euro as turnover.
YOUR COMPETITORS
Multinational corporations
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE New concept, flexibility, organic product, completely biodegradable, patented.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 112800 euro
FROM WHOM?
From a private investor located in Italy and owner of different companies.
Veneto region: from a special financial fund called "Veneto Sviluppo" and
regarding an other project in collaboration with University of Padova.
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Corion Biotech
WEB SITE
http://www.corionbiotech.com/
REGION
Piemonte
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 72 11 00
06/12/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Preeclampsia Therapy
CONCEPT
YOUR TEAM
•Tullia Todros: MD, Prof. University of Torino, Director of Obstetrics and
Gynecology University Clinical Dep.; Role: inventor, Chairman. Alessandro
Rolfo - Biotech Doctor, PHD; Role: inventor, CEO, CSO. Carlo Cavallero:
Chemical Engineer, MBA, over 25 years international management experience;
Role: CEO, COO. Domenica Giuffrida: MD, PHD. Annamaria Nuzzo: Biotech
Doctor, PHD student. Oriella Di Prima: Charter Accountant; Role: CFO.
YOUR VISION
Develop a new therapeutic approach for a "cell therapy without cells" first
application Preeclampsia treatment
YOUR MISSION
a new and ethical approach to human protein production
YOUR PROJECT
Develop the preclinical study for Preeclampsia using our proprietary
technology. If we succeed we believe a major partner should invest for the
clinical trial.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Title:A conditioned medium obtained from placental mesenchymal cells and
use of thereof for the therapeutic treatment of preeclampsiaPriority: 21
December 2011Application NO: PCT /IB 2012/057611Title:Preeclamptic
placental mesenchymal stem cell conditioned medium for use in the treatment
of a tumour Priority: 2 October 2012Application NO: PCT/IB2013/059064
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YOUR COMPETITORS
2500000000
0%, as other pharma projects in early stage, reveneus are
expected in 6 to 8 years from now
the more challenging competitors are companies working with mesenchymal
cells like Pluristem of Israel
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Corion Biotech’s original and innovative approach is using hPDMSCs-molecules
instead of direct cell administration.We believe our approach offers a unique
opportunity to treat preeclampsia, human pregnancy-related syndrome
affecting over 5% of all pregnancies, thus being the main cause of fetal and
maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide. Importantly, preeclampsia
accounts for serious long-term negative effects for both mother and child as
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cardiovascular disorders, diabetes and metabolic syndrome.It is not
necessary ti emphasize the sensitive and delicate therapeutic environment of
maternity. For this reason we designed a careful therapeutic approach, like the
use of purified cell metabolites instead of direct cells injection.A cell therapy
based on hPDMSCs-secreted molecules instead of a direct administration of
living cells to the patient is a totally new approach which maintains the
effectiveness of cell therapy avoiding the risk of direct administration of living
cells.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 170.000€
FROM WHOM?
public funds for University start up + IP spa a venture capital fund specialized in
biomedical investment
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
ECCENTRICA SRL
WEB SITE
www.eccentricalab.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
28/05/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
The best way to train and rehab hamstrings.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Dr. GIUSEPPE GUADAGNO physical trainer and consultant in sports such as
basketball and football team that is professional and non professional.Dr.
FLAVIO GUADAGNO, mechanical engineer , maintenance manager at ENI and
designer of technological plants.Dr. ANTONIO NIGRO, electronic engineer,
plant manager of a gas plant at SNAM and designer of electric and automation
systems.
YOUR VISION
The Human being living on the Earth system is subject to natural forces that
govern and balance all movements. The only purpose of technology is to help
him with his physical and spiritual progress, respecting his balance. The idea of
following the natural motion born from this concept.
YOUR MISSION
ECCENTRICA main vision is planning and implementing technological solutions
in respect of the human mental and physical health, granting satisfaction for
the customer expectations.
YOUR PROJECT
The first goal of Eccentrica SRL is to market Eccentrica Leg Curl in Europe, US,
Australia and all over the world. Eccentrica Leg Curl is the first of many
innovative products and solutions conceived by ECCENTRICA SRL, so the main
project of ECCENTRICA SRL is to design, patent, produce and market this
products all over the world and give consultant services for other companies
operating in the biomedical, sport and fitness market.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Eccentrica SRL, at moment, has got one patent forEccentrica Leg Curl is an
innovative product, dedicated to the training and rehabilitation of the
hamstrings and of knee’s pathology.Unlike other products currently in
commerce, Eccentrica Leg Curl allows, together with the classic way of
workout, to isolate the eccentric phase of motion, that is the phase where the
muscle has to hold up to the weight force of a falling load, excluding the
concentric phase. The all without the help of external assistance and according
to the natural movement of the leg.
COPYRIGHT
Eccentrica Leg Curl is registered at PCT.
10000000
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YOUR COMPETITORS
Technogym, Cybex, Biodex, Panatta
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Hamstring injuries are the most frequent in sports like football, ahtletics, rugby,
american football ecc...Scientific resarches has shown that the eccentric
training is the best way to prevent hamstring injuries and to rehabilitate this
muscles Eccentrica Leg Curl is the only one machine that allows to isolate the
eccentric phase of the movement for the hamstrings, without an external
assistant.
FROM WHOM?
Capital came from European Funds of Regione Emilia Romagna.
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
Gentras S.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.gentras.com
REGION
Toscana
08/03/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
1) CODE LineTheme Pack Sampler for DNA and assessment of genetic
susceptibility.The samples collection consist of the recovery of non-invasive
buccal epithelial cells through the use of buds sealed sterile sticks.• CODE #
1SKIN AGEING RISK • CODE # 2EFFICIENCY & Metabolism: Vit D and FOLATE•
CODE # 3OBESITY PREDISPOSITION• CODE # 4EFFICIENCY of CAFFEINE
metabolism• CODE # 5LACTOSE INTOLERANCE2) TRUECODEDefinition:
DNA autosampling kit for informative paternity testDescription: the kit allows
any interested subject to proceed independently to the collection of biological
material on which subsequently require the paternity test information.3)
DENTALa) Microbiological testTyping and Quantification of periodontal
bacteriab) Genetic testinterrogation of the IL-1 gene cluster4)
VETERINARYa) ANIMAL SEXING: molecular sexing of any kind of avian
speciesby extraction of DNA from featherb) AVIAN PATHOLOGIES
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
VALENTINA CESATI, 41 anni - PhD BiologistVisiting Fellow presso l’NIH
(National Insistute of Health) a BethesdaSILVIA QUATTRONE, 44 anni – PhD
BiologistVisiting Fellow presso il Blanchette Rockefeller Neuroscience
Institute - Johns Hopkins University – Rockville (MD).ALESSANDRO
QUATTRONE, 49 anni – Biologist -Professore ordinario e Direttore CIBIO
Prorettore alla RicercaASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Blanchette Rockefeller
Neuroscience Institute, Johns Hopkins University-West Virginia
UniversityDIRETTORE DI RICERCA, Unità di Genetica Medica, Ospedale IRCCS
CSS San Giovanni Rotondo (FG)Al suo attivo: più di 50 PUBBLICAZIONI
SCIENTIFICHE, RASSEGNE e CAPITOLI DI LIBRI, 8 BREVETTI, CONSULENTE
SPECIALIZZATO nel settore.LEZIONI, SEMINARI, partecipazioni come RELATORE
a CONGRESSI INTERNAZIONALISARA SIMONI BiotechnologistERIKA ELIA
BiologistLEONARDO DECARIA Bioinformatic
YOUR VISION
VisionMake genetic information EASILY ACCESSIBLE to everybody.Mission
YOUR MISSION
Gentras, across a wide range of products and services,develops and provides
innovative solutions toRESPOND WITH SIMPLE and EFFECTIVE answers to the
increasinglyfrequent requests for typing on genetic basis.
YOUR PROJECT
The sequencing of the human genome has led to a great deal of useful
information forthe genetic characterization of each individual. Today
technological advancement allows to "read" within the genome of each of us,
letting us understand what has made our uniqueness and how we can use it to
live better.Core technology: the same technical approach for countless
applicationsGentras has its strength in continuous learning, developing and
marketing services/ products with high technological content based on the
analysis of DNA. The vision and creativity combined with specific skills, make
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Gentras a unique company in this field, capable of providing innovative
solutions for genetic characterization of each individual.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Brevetto europeo N. 10425193.9 (pubblicazione N. 2395338 del 14-12-2011)
relativo a: “dispositivo per l’ottenimento di campioni di
DNA”.Descrizione
Oggetto della presente invenzione è un dispositivo non
invasivo per la raccolta, il trasporto e la conservazione di campioni di cellule da
epidermide. Il dispositivo che viene qui descritto presenta caratteristiche che lo
rendono economico da produrre e di semplice utilizzo, ed è strutturato in
maniera tale da limitare fortemente il rischio di contaminazioni incrociate. Il
dispositivo risulta pertanto utilizzabile in ogni situazione in cui si renda
necessario ottenere in maniera non invasiva un campione biologico da cui poi
estrarre il DNA di un dato soggetto.
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YOUR COMPETITORS
4500000
500
Identigene AssureDNAEasyDNAGeneticLabLaboratorio
GenomaNGBgentics
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Stesso approccio tecnico permolteplici applicazioni su canali distributivi
diversificati Gestione «in-house» completa del product life cycleOpportunità
storica verso servizi differenziativi: la farmacia dei serviziGentras primo player
nella modalità di presentazione dei prodotti sul canale della farmaciaElevato
contenuto tecnologicoDiagnosi precoce: valutazione dello stato attuale della
malattia Percorso terapeutico miratoSemplicità del prelievo
FROM WHOM?
InvitaliaCamera di Commercio PratoNew minor partners
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
Glomeria Therapeutics Srl
WEB SITE
www.glomeria.com
REGION
Abruzzo
16/04/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
breakthrough novel PD platform addressing the main clinical needs:•
a
connecting device able to fully remove bacteria contamination, .•
a new APD
machine offering continuous peritoneal pressure measurement to prevent
overfilling and peritoneal membrane degradation.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Glomeria Therapeutics has a lean, yet complete and international, organization,
with a diversified team with significant scientific, technical, sales and industrial
background. The founders and management have more than 80 years’ crossfunctional experience in the medtech industry (Roche, Dara Bioscences, Baxter,
Gambro, Sorin, BD) and very good connections with the main operators in the
dialysis sector and principal companies of the sector. Glomeria today is 15
people, still growing.
YOUR VISION
We believe Peritoneal Dialysis is a perfect answer to the increasing patient
need of cure in the End Stage Renal Disease environment with a better impact
on quality of life and overall cost by solving the major unmet clinical needs of
the state of the art products solving sterility issues and peritoneal membrane
preservation
YOUR MISSION
We believe we would increase patient cure level and life expectation of ESRD
patient by develping smart and effective PD platform based on patient safety
enhancement and improved performance.
YOUR PROJECT
Glomeria Therapeutics S.r.l. (“GT”) is focusing on research, development, and
commercialization in the global markets of an innovative peritoneal dialysis
(PD) therapeutic platform for end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients based on
“Safety Tools” as major breakthrough technology elements of the unique
Customer Value Proposition. A strong patent portfolio and key industrial
alliances cover our therapeutic platform.Dialysis is a chronic treatment, which
means that each patient represents a multi-year stream of revenues. The two
main factors for this growth are the ageing of the population in industrialized
countries and the increase in healthcare expenditures in developing ones.
HealthCare systems are pushing for HomeCare as a measure to keep high HC
Level while decreasing Costs; for ESRD patients are looking to new ways of
treating costly dialysis patients on HomeCare (Peritoneal Dialysis – PD) rather
than in AcuteCare (HemoDialysis – HD) setting, resulting in a +15% of
HomeCare in 2013 in UK. Actually there are some important limiting factors in
expanding PD use worldwide, whose represent its main unmet clinical
needs.Moreover the risk of patient drop out from PD toward HD due to the
limiting factors (peritonitis, overfilling, etc.) is relevant from the clinical point of
view as well from the economic and hospital organization ‘s one.
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
15 Patents (PCT/US)Connector device for connecting PD set in a complete
sterile wayConnecting device for connecting blood trubings in a complete
sterile wayConnecting device for connecting tubing with liquids in a sterile
way by means of breakable barriers.
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SmartPDDesmoPD
YOUR COMPETITORS
4.0 Bln worldwide
0,1%
BaxterFresenius
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE SterilityPeritoneal membrane preservation through smart pressure sensor
driven device
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 7.5 mln Euro
FROM WHOM?
Quadrivio SGR TTVenture FoundVertis SGRSofimac Venture Capital
FoundFARO SgrSpinDial Spa
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Life sciences
COMPANY NAME
GREENBONE ORTHO SRL
WEB SITE
www.greenbone.it
REGION
Emilia Romagna
18/03/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Bioinspired by Nature: no more amputations or multiple painful surgery.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Lorenzo Pradella, CEO&COO (25 years experience in R&D, business and
VC)Anna Tampieri, Chief Scientist (27 years experience in Biomaterials with
major track record in bone regeneration)Simone Sprio, Project Coordinator
(17 years of experience in Advanced Materials)Andrea Ruffini, Senior
Researcher (12 years of experience in Materials Science)Alberto Ballardini,
Researcher (PhD in Materials Science)Elena Venturelli, Senior
Regulatory&Quality in Medical DeviceAngela Palumbo, Regulatory&Quality
(Biologist with a Master in regulatory and quality). Scientific Advisory
Board:Prof Marcacci and dott Elizaveta Kon (Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute
Bologna)Brad Weiner and Ennio Tasciotti (Methodist Hospital Houston TX USA)
YOUR VISION
GREENBONE wants to become a worldwide leader for biomimetics by
providing innovative and easy to use bio-inspired solutions that will help cure
severe diseases.
YOUR MISSION
GREENBONE will develop a highly innovative bone implants technology, to
generate biomimetic – reabsorbable – wood-derived scaffold suitable to
address severe high morbidity condition including non-union fractures.
YOUR PROJECT
Greenbone first target is a clearly recognized unmet clinical need:
pseudoarthrosis or non-union fractures. It represents an highly valuable niche
market that can clearly demonstrate the properties of the new scaffold
allowing its application in most of the other orthopedic surgery market
segments. Accordingly a four year development plan is under execution with
three main pillars: 1) Regulatory compliant manufacturing line (accomplished);
2) GLP study in sheep (completion 3Q2016); 3) Pilot study in humans - about
30 patients in 4 EU/Israel hospitals (completion mid 2018). All activities will be
performed fully in compliance with regulatory and quality requirements. CE
Mark is planned by 1Q2016. USA regulatory is 510K.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
3 patents focused on biomimetic scaffolds obtained from natural wood suitable
to induce effective bone regeneration.GreenBone is obtained by processes of
chemical-physical transformation starting from ligneous structures, selected on
the basis of their morphological-structural similarity with the complex structure
of bone in different anatomical regions.
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Patents have been filed in many countries including US. First patent has been
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already granted in EU.
YOUR COMPETITORS
EURO 8.9 Billion
GreenBone will complete development and be suitable for
commercialization by the end of 2018.
The market is dominated by global players such as Biomet, DePuy Synthes,
Medtronic, Stryker, Wright Medical, and Zimmer. In addition also regional
companies (i.e. Wright Medical) play a remarkable role. Among early stage
companies none is developing biomimetic large scaffolds for bone graft except
using 3D-printing which still have significant limitation due to the use of
polymers.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE GreenBone performances are paramount vs all others materials: it is a Ca/P
ceramic (with all the very well known advantages) being also endowed with
anisotropic structure and optimal mechanical properties never seen in a porous
ceramic material, with also extraordinary bone regeneration properties. The
only one suitable to generate large scaffold targeting critical size defects in long
bone in addition to spinal and other applications.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? EURO 3.0 millions
FROM WHOM?
Zernike Meta Venture, Italian Angel for Growth (IAG) and private.
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
COMPANY NAME
INNOVITAS VITAE S.R.L.
WEB SITE
www.i-vitae.co
REGION
Lombardia
23/04/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
IMMUNOX a diagnostic serviceNOFLAMOX a food supplement
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
RENATO COLOGNATO: Degree in Biology (IT '99), PhD in Clinical Pharmacology
and Toxicology (DE '04), postgraduate diploma in Applied Genetics (IT ’06) President & Chief Scientific OfficerMASSIMO MARIOTTI: Degree in Biology (IT
'96), postdoc at Cardiovascular Research Center - Harvard Medical School
(Boston, USA) - Chief Technical OfficerMASSIMILIANO MANGANINI: Degree in
Biology (IT '98), postgraduate diploma in Pharmacological Research (IT ’03)
Chief Operating OfficerALESSANDRO SCOZZESI: Advanced Diploma in
Economics (UK '96), Degree in Economics (IT '99), II level Master in
Biotechnology Law and Management (IT ’10) CEO and Chief Financial Officer
YOUR VISION
"Setting New Pathways for Life".This is our visionary approach for a better
and faster innovation, since we feel committed to such a delicate mission, thus
leading the field of Reproductive Medicine.
YOUR MISSION
"Penetrating the market with new disruptive methods and technologies for
diagnosing and curing Human Infertility".These goals can be achieved by
converting our wide scientific background to new medical and clinical best
practices.
YOUR PROJECT
I-VITAE has developed a cutting-edge diagnostic service and a food supplement
as a new and effective combined approach to support physicians and Assisted
Reproductive Technologies (ART) specialists in the diagnosis and treatment of
unexplained female infertility by identifying if and how the ‘unbalanced’
female immune system is a reason for infertility, and provides a food
supplement as therapeutic solution, which act by balancing the immune
system, resulting in many cases in a pregnancy.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We submitted basically two families of patent applications: 3 relate to
IMMUNOX, the diagnostic method, and 3 to NOFLAMOX the food supplement.
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We have the copyright covering unpublished scientific data.
20 b€
Considering the target, ART centers and clinics, and starting
addressing the Italian market we expect to have 8% of the
market in terms of ART centers and clinics.
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YOUR COMPETITORS
There is no evidence of competitors so far since we are the first to make a step
beyond in infertility diagnosis, claiming the immune system as a triggering
factor. Consequently we've proved that our food supplement rebalances the
immune system, resulting in pregnancy.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE I-VITAE has discovered a new biomarker, detected in the serum, and patented
its diagnostic method. I-VITAE has combined it with other 3 existing biomarkers
(but never associated with infertility before), creating a diagnostic panel, called
IMMUNOX, through which clinicians can understand if and how the female
immune system can be a potential reason for infertility.The food supplement
named NOFLAMOXTM acts as a “modulator” of any deficit detected in the
immune system, by supporting the efficacy of ART, contributing therefore to
turn an unexplained infertility cause into a potential pregnancy.I-VITAE bases
its know-how on:⊕A diagnostic panel named IMMUNOX⊕A botanic
food supplement named NOFLAMOXTM IMMUNOX is marketed as DaaS
(Diagnostic as a Service). It’s a diagnostic service on blood samples, carried out
in an exclusive laboratory, and comprises 4 different analysis compared with 4
biomarkers included in the panel. One of them envisages diagnostic analysis by
using a proprietary and patented method, while the 3 remaining biomarkers
through an analysis based on the ELISA platform.The final result is expressed
through a new brand indicator called IRR (Immuno-infertility Relative
Risk).NOFLAMOXTM is a herbal or botanic food supplement manufactured by
an external manufacturer under I-VITAE license, which is currently being
notified to the Ministry of Health for the marketing authorisation (so far the
product has been prepared by specialized pharmacies).IMMUNOX is carried
out on blood samples of potentially infertile patients both before and after the
delivery of NOFLAMOXTM.
FROM WHOM?
Antonio Panigalli is an angel investor with a solid track record (previously
involved in KIWI and FONDAMENTA)
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
Light4Tech srl
WEB SITE
www.l4t.it
REGION
Toscana
24/10/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Emoled: the light that cures wounds.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Company Founders:Prof. Francesco Pavone, Director of the European
Laboratory of Non Linear Spettroscopy (LENS), in charge of the scientific
activity.Ing. Domenico Alfieri: Expert in Optoelectronics in charge of design
and development of the device.Claudio De Mauro (phd in physics) in charge of
optical and photonic development.Lorenzo Targetti, entrepreneur, in charge
of business developmentother members:Ing. Cristina Tripodi, biomedical
engineer, in charge of the medical part and quality.
YOUR VISION
L4T acts as a link between Research and Industry.We want to become the
ideal partner to develop projects of applied research in the field of photonic.
YOUR MISSION
Light4Tech is a platform to transform optic, photonic and specrtoscopy
research into marketable products in the field of biomedical devices and
microscopy.
YOUR PROJECT
Through an European funded project (Eutig Treat) a biomedical device using
specific light waves generated by LED sources has been developed and tested
for inducing the coagulation of blood and accelerating the healing process of
difficult and chronic wounds.Full testing on animals have been performed
with very promising results.L4T owns the right for the commercial
exploitation of such device. It intends to seek regulatory approval and
introduce the device into selected markets to proof the commercial success of
the product and generate and exit selling the whole company to one of the top
incumbent pharmaceutical players in the wound healing market.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
European Patent #WO 2008/068712 Awarded"LED device for the hemostasis
of blood vessels"This is a portable biomedical device that in the presence of a
wounded skin, through the generation of a given amount of photonic energy
generated by LED sources at specific wave length increases selectively the
hemoglobin temperature inducing the hemostasis process.
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"Emoled" is the commercial brand of the Biomedical device under development
and testing.
€143,0 mln
0% - The product will be introduced into the market in 18
months from now.Expected sale's volume in the first 12
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month from starting commercialization €0,7mln
YOUR COMPETITORS
Advanced wound care products such as NPWT (Negative Pressure Wound
Therapy) and other Therapy devices for Wound Healing
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Innovative technology (no other devices use LED visible light)Cost effective
(market price under 1.000€)No risk of collateral effects Portable Easy to
useNo maintenance
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? €150K
FROM WHOM?
We have a pre commitment from a private investor with extensive knowledge
of the pharmaceutical sector met through "BackToWork" initiative by Il Sole 24
Ore.
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
LiquidWeb s.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.braincontrol.it
REGION
Toscana
16/06/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
breakthrough technology that gives disabled people the ability to control
objects with their minds.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
BrainControl has strong technical foundations and a diversity of experience.
CEO/Founder Pasquale Fedele, who has more than ten years’ experience in the
ICT sector, has put together a team that includes international business
experience, hardware and software designers, a speech pathologist who takes
care of the patients' training and an advisory committee of doctors who work
directly with the our target customers on a daily basis. The team is highly
motivated to make BrainControl available to customers.
YOUR VISION
Our vision is to improve the quality of life for people suffering from severe
disabilities and being the world’s first assistive technology that is usable by
people who cannot move any muscles or communicate,
YOUR MISSION
Our mission is to have a breakthrough impact on the quality of life of people
suffering from severe disabilities helping both them and their family and
caregivers. Through Braincontrol technology we wanto to give disabled people
the ability to control objects with their minds.
YOUR PROJECT
BrainControl is a breakthrough technology that gives disabled people the
power to control objects with their minds, allowing them to control a
communicator, domotic devices (lights, doors, windows, alarms, temperature,
bed position, etc.), wheelchairs, and other assistive technologies. Based on a
proprietary Brain-Computer Interfaces technology (BCI), BrainControl
interprets the electric map that correspond to certain brain activity and allows
patients to control a tablet PC through specific thoughts, overcoming physical
disability, and improving communication and environmental control. The focus
is on assistive applications for people affected by degenerative neuromuscular
disease (multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - ALS) and ischemic or
traumatic injury, which each year affect more than 3 million patients.
BrainControl is the world’s first assistive technology that is usable by people
who cannot move any muscles or communicate, but who are consciously
aware, a state called “locked-in” or “apparent coma”.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
BrainControl is a breakthrough technology that gives disabled people the
ability to control objects with their minds. BrainControl works like a “mental
joystick”,allowing people affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS),
Multiple Sclerosis, ischemic or traumatic injuries or other disabilities to
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overcome severe physical and communicative disabilities (3.7 million people
worldwide).A patent application has been submitted in March 2015 in Italy,
which can be converted into an international patent within one year.
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A brand copyright application has been submitted in March 2015 in Italy
YOUR COMPETITORS
€18 billion.
We started a market test with the first version of
BrainControl in the middle of 2014 in order to test the
business model. The product is proposed “as a Service”
with a purchase option.The service model allows users to
do the training and evaluate the benefits of the product,
then continue with the service model or to purchase (with
the support of private insurance or national health
system). To date we have reached these numbers: 33
customers (including 3 Medical/Public Health
organizations); 103 (private) and 43 (business) leads.
BrainControl fills a technological void concerning assistive technologies for
patients in advanced-stage of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (locked-in or
apparent coma), who are not able to use eye-tracking devices, and is an
alternative to eye-tracking systems which can be used both as a substitute or a
complimentary product.There are a few companies working on BCI applied to
assistive technologies that are built on a stream of research called “Visually
Evoked Potential” or P300, which is inherently different than the “Imagined
Movement” brain activity that BrainControl uses; The action and activity that
the user performs is different, as is the headset that is used (dry vs gel based
electrodes), the portability and the price. We need to also be aware of Emotiv
and NeuroSky, the makers of the commercially available headsets that we use.
They are currently focused on the gaming market, but could create assistive
technology products in the future.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BrainControl is clearly differentiated from its few competitors, because of the
sensors/inputs used (EEG instead of eye-tracking or voice recognition) and the
underlying BCI technology (Imagined movement instead of Evoked
Response/P300). These differences create several competitive advantages,
including being usable by people who can’t use currently available technologies
and being portable and usable in more environments. It is also aggressively
priced, making it more accessible than competing products.
FROM WHOM?
1st place (out of 600 applicants), “Gaetano Marzotto Prize - for new social and
cultural enterprises”, Vicenza, Italy, 17 November 2012.The first version has
been realized through personal investment of € 100,000, € 20,000 from a
research grant offered by Siena Province, € 100,000 from the Marzotto prize
and 30,000 euros from the Terre di Siena Creative prize.
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Life sciences
COMPANY NAME
My Genomics
WEB SITE
www.mygenomics.eu
REGION
Emilia Romagna
07/11/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
GenoTest trnasform Raw genetic data into information. Doctors suggest
actions to live longer and better.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Scientifically solid, extended sales reps all over italy, with a CEO managing them
all scientifically.
YOUR VISION
DNA holds relevant information about our health, people want to live longer
and better, we can help them.
YOUR MISSION
Inform people how they should behave to be healty and avoid become ill.
YOUR PROJECT
Raw data > information > actionWe use DNA scan hi-lelvel technologies and
gruoped a team of specialists to interpret the RAW DATA and transform that
into deliverable INFORMATION, mainly on oncology and cardiology.We chose
these fields because are the most relevant "killers" and nutrition because it's at
the basis of daily energy intake. ACTION is proposed from the doctor to the
clientAgents and Docotrs and enthusiastic about our analysis.Clients feel
safer.The potential is huge and we are structured to be scalable and global.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
PATENTS
no patents yet
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logo and product name: "GenoTest"
YOUR COMPETITORS
5000000
20%
Personal genomicsLaboratorio GenomaGenomix 4 Life23andme
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The business is highly scalable - Completeness of information - long term value
arising from correlation genotype/phenotype
FROM WHOM?
San Marino Government, San Marino Chamber of Commerce, US Venture
Capital, with which we created a joint venture www.carpevitagenomics.com
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
Neuron Guard
WEB SITE
www.neuronguard.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
20/05/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
Integrated neural solution for patients with Acute Brain Damage (ABD)
YOUR TEAM
PROTOTYPE
Enrico Giuliani, a 33-year old medical visionary, is the founder and creator of
the integrated cerebral protection system. A medical doctor with a
specialization in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Enrico lived the Emergency
experience while volunteering for the Red Cross Emergency ambulance service.
Mary Franzese, a 29-year old professional, is the cofounder and CMO. Master
Degree in Economics and Master MISA at SDA Bocconi School of Management,
she had a managerial experience of rehabilitation center. Mary has joined
Neuron Guard in the early stage of its incubation because of her competence in
the field of accounting and strategy.
YOUR VISION
Our expected outcome is to contain ABD consequences to save lives and
resources in the context of continuing healthcare quality improvement and
cost effectiveness. Our vision is to potentially introduce our solution in all
those public crucial places exactly as the AEDs (Automatic External
Defibrillator), contributing in saving millions of lives thanks to the early on-site
treatment.
YOUR MISSION
Our mission is to develop and introduce into clinical practice an innovative,
effective and simple solution for the emergency and hospital treatment of ABD
based on a portable device delivering quick and stable controlled brain
hypothermia.
YOUR PROJECT
We intend to offer an integrated neural solution for patients with ABD in order
to reduce neural lesions and save portions of the brain that would otherwise
be damaged and result in loss of functions such as speech, vision, motion, and
even the ability to breathe. It takes just 8 minutes for a portion of the brain to
be irreversibly impaired. Early on-site treatment is key to protecting the
brain.The business opportunity we can take advantage of is huge, considering
the size of the market (healthcare spending equal to $333.5 billion), the
novelty introduced by our approach and the concrete opportunity to save a
dramatic number of lives by the adoption of our product. The treatment can
be started directly at the site of the event and continued at the hospital in
compliance with best practices guidelines.The estimate funds needed to
undertake all the necessary activities to reach the commercialization stage are
fixed in approximately €2,3M. The majority of costs will be represented by
personnel costs (approx€1M), while a consistent part will be related to
subcontracting (€685K). Some quote of the “direct costs” will cover travels and
subsistence for dissemination of the project/product, as well as for
promotional materials; part of the costs will cover the purchase of equipments
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needed for prototyping, demonstration activities as well as goods and services
(€224K).
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Neuron Guard S.r.l. is the owner of the asset as well as of the Italian patent.
The process for patenting started in October 2013, in cooperation with an
Italian patent attorney and reached the assignment on January 2015. A PCT
application was recently submitted in key country markets such as Europe,
USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, Emirates, Qatar, Brazil,
Russia, India, China. Furthermore, a crucial strategy recently elaborated by
NeuronGuard’s team of IPR experts indicated the way of a continuing patent
application, pursuing additional claims to the original invention, and – in
relation – setting a so-called “(extended) patent family”.
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The wording "Neuron Guard" is a Community as well as an International
trademark issued by OHIM (registered in November 2014) and WIPO
(registered in July 2014).
€200 billion
YOUR COMPETITORS
While the actual competitors playing on the market rely on added values such
as hypothermia stabilisation or targeted hypothermia treatment, we can offer
to the customers a unique system able to be portable, providing hypothermia
stabilisation as well as targeted hypothermia treatments.Possible competing
technologies for hypothermia are: direct application of intrinsically cold
materials (e.g. ice, gels) or chemical compounds capable of absorbing heat;
expansion of compressed gasses; passive heat dispersion; active heat removal
with a cooling circuit connected to a radiator; forced ventilation. Most current
devices are based on these technologies for achieving therapeutic hypothermia,
but they lack either the portability for emergency use or the ability to sustain
the conditions that are required to achieve solid clinical results for ABD
treatment. Possible competitors are Cryothermic Systems (the only portable
solution), Philips (InnerCool) and Cincinnati Sub Zero (cooling blankets).
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our approach is unique and brand new as we intend to produce brain
hypothermia (with a required temperature decrease T of 3C) through a
controlled cooling of the carotid and cerebral arteries blood with aportable
neck collar. While present available solutions can offer only stable
hypothermia performance and on-site use & portability and targeted
hypothermia only in few cases, our solution can guarantee all these 3 relevant
performances when in action, including intelligent monitoring and prognostic
functions, representing a strong as well unique selling point to the potential
customers.Our product is based on the neuro-protective effect of hypothermia
to significantly reduce brain damage. It consists of a portable device that
delivers a quick, stable and controlled hypothermia in the head area. Being
portable, the treatment can be started directly at the site of the event and
continued at the hospital in compliance with best practices guidelines. The
complete system we will introduce into the market will comprises a set of 2
devices: refrigerating collar and collar control unit. Target temperature is in the
range of 32°/34° C, and our system can keep the benefit of the treatment for
approx 48/72 hours, being able to adjust adaptively the degree of temperature
according to the different patient's feedback. This also represent a safety
system against soft tissues injury (STI) due to low temperature.
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HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? <=€110k
FROM WHOM?
The project has been financed entirely with the savings of the two founders,
Enrico Giuliani (€150k) and Mary Franzese (€100k), who together they have
over 100% of the capital. It has to be pointed that Mary Franzese invested in
Neuron Guard in October 2014, after more or less one year from the
incorporation of the company. Additionally, a few relevant funding was
granted to the company by Emilia Romagna Region (€95K) as well as the Intel
Business Challenge Europe 2014 (€13,7K). Our growth is accelerating due to the
great interest our business innovation is granting from scientific and venture
capital ecosystem.During the time frame of the project, we will present our
project to potential private funding bodies, in order to further improve the fund
raising and maximise the investment.
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Noxamet SRL
WEB SITE
http://www.noxamet.com/
REGION
Lombardia
12/07/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Metal-nonoates have peculiar properties of controlled release of NO
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Riccardo Roggeri, President and CEO. He is responsible for planning and
controlLuigi Casella, board member, CSO and CTO. manages and supervises
R&D and production regarding the Business Unit of PaviaLucia Morbidelli,
board member, CSO and CTO. manages and supervises R&D and production
regarding the Business Unit of SienaEnrico Monzani is the technical supervisor
for R&D and Production of the Business Unit of Pavia Unit. Martina Monti is
the technical supervisor for R&D and Production of the Business Unit of
Siena.Francesco Casella is the junior project manager. Also dedicated to
Marketing and Financial Communication.
YOUR VISION
We do not sell immortality, but we want to make deseases less deadly.
YOUR MISSION
Provide a wide range of pharmacological products that enhance the quality of
life of mankind through better, more effective, less invasive treatment of
cardiovascular diseases.Applications in the fitofarmaceutical sector will allow
the optimization of agriculture in a more responsible way - more profitable and
harmless for the ecosystem.
YOUR PROJECT
The ultimate goal is the preclinical development of a new family of nitric oxide
(NO) donors, metal-nonoates, with potential therapeutic activity in various
human diseases, but primarily cardiovascular system related.The metalnonoates, in which the properties of NO release by specific prodrugs are
modulated and enhanced as a result of their complexation with metals,
represent a significant innovation compared to the drugs traditionally used as
NO donors.These compounds, developed and patented by Noxamet Ltd. can
take advantage of the versatility of metal ions: the capacity to coordinate multifunctional binding molecules, the flexible stereochemistry, and the variability
of ionic charge and chemical reactivity, to promote a controlled release of NO
.Preliminary and published results, on in vitro and in vivo models,
demonstrated that metal-nonoates exert a protective effect on the vasculature
(endothelium, smooth muscle cells and platelet) and induce an antihypertensive effect in more efficient manner than commercial NO donors,
without resistance occurrence. Repeated daily administration of metal
nonoates is safe and well tolerated by mice and rats.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Brevetto numero EP1370544 B1 in europa 2006 ; U.S.A. (US Patent 6,897,218,
2005)Cina (Patent ZL 02800754.9, 2006). Titolo: “Nitric oxide donors based
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on metallic centres”The patent relates to a new class of nitric oxide (NO)
donors, releasing metal complexes characrerised by the presenze of a
NONOate residue. Its use as pharmacological agent is able to induce vascular
relaxation, exert endothelio-protective effect on the coronary disctrict.The
invention also relates to a process for preparing the aforesaid compounds and
to pharmaceutical formulations containing one or more of the aforesaid
compounds.
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Noxamet does not have copyright registration
YOUR COMPETITORS
830000000
N/D
No competitors.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The competitive advantage is determined by the intrinsic characteristics of the
compounds, the metal-nonoates.Metal-nonoates represent a significant
innovation because the properties of NO release by specific prodrugs are
modulated and enhanced as a result of their complexation with metals: they
are two orders of magnitude more potent and with prolonged efficiency than
currently available NO-releasing compounds on the market.They also show
more in-vivo activity and are stable even at high temperatures and do not
decay: their transportability is one of the main critical success factor, alongside
the quality and the assortment of the expertises of the shareholders.Also, the
potential of the cardiovascular sector of the global pharmaceutical market is
particularly relevant.
FROM WHOM?
No private investors, only public fundings.
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
P2R srl
WEB SITE
http://www.playtorehab.com
REGION
Lombardia
03/12/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
NiuRion: a smart game for the rehabilitation in virtual places
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Gabriele Ceruti: physio at Treviglio Hospital. He has got tasks at the Bicocca
University of Medicine and Surgery in Milano, including the teaching of
pediatric physiotherapy. He’s the leader-inventor of NiuRion, co-founder of P2R
and Project Manager”Thomas Orlandi: graduated in Information Technology at
the University of Milano, he announced studies of systems of informatic
security. In 2011 he founded E' CEO of iWebDev, society founded by him. He’s
co-founder of P2R and CEO.Jessica Rispoli: graduated in Physiotherapy at the
University of Milano Bicocca. She works as physio in private structures in
Bergamo. She’s Co-founder.
YOUR VISION
can offer to physios colleagues a an available economic tool to became a mass
product and to create a net of researchers “from the low”.To became the
leader of the world of the smart game for the neuromotor rehabilitation in the
next 5 years
YOUR MISSION
to render the rehabilitation a funny and involving activity for patients; to an
available price to the medium consumer. To allow to physios to measure and
to verify with objective feedbacks the healing route proposed.
YOUR PROJECT
NiuRion, a professional device very innovative projected to assist the therapist
and the patient in the rehabilitation practice taking advantage of the tecnology
of play in virtual places to guide the sessions of rehbilitation, maximizing the
medical effectiveness and proposing a funny and involving experience to the
patient at the same time, in particular thanks to an intelligent system of
autoregulation and specific setting on the user (approach feed-forwarddeposited system).The user, after wearing the inertial sensors (thanks to an
elastic clothes) and fitting in front of the screen-video of some device- can do,
inside a virtual space, rehabilitative exercises adapted to his problems through
ludic activities where it’s asked to reach a specific play’s goal. On the screen,
the patient will see a representation of himself (avatar) in a way to follow the
moves in a real time; the avatar will be in a specific stage and he will do motor
actions to interact with the space around him. The different exercises
proposed by NiuRion are developed and studied by a team of specialists in the
domain of rehabilitation to act with effectiveness on different motor
disabilities. In this way, the patient can do specific actions and moves, in order
to do with effectiveness the healing route prefixed.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
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PATENTS
P2R s.r.l. is the free license holder of 2 questions of vocational competence
certificate number EP13703135 and number PCT/IB2013/050052 aimed at the
coverage of the intellectual property in Europe, USA, Japan, China, Brazil and
India. In particular the innovation offers a method and a system to offer
rehabilitation sessions through the use of virtual environment and ludic
proposal, based on scientific evidence.
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A method and a system for the neuro-motor rehabilitation using interactive
system-places.
YOUR COMPETITORS
990000000
We’ll enter on the market on February 2017 and we
stimated a EBITDA of € 1.167.500
Valedo Motion di Hocoma, Bioval di RM lngenierie, Riablo di CoRehab.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Possibility to assist at all bodily segments, possibility to work OFF line and ON
line, very convenient price (sometimes also less than the 75%), maximum
accessibility, very high play value and longevity, exclusive and unique patented
system of artificial intelligence of autoregulation, exclusive system of
management of clinical scores, compatibility with console and portable devices.
FROM WHOM?
To this day financed by da Bando Start Up for Expo and Bando Frim Start up and
restart ( financial backer FinLombarda ). We look for private investors and/or
industrial partnerhip
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
Quipu Srl
WEB SITE
www.quipu.eu
REGION
Toscana
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT C 26.60.02
19/01/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
A new generation of biomedical ultrasound systems based on software
applications.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
The management team includes three engineers, who share 15 years work
experience in the field of medical ultrasound, and one economics graduate with
10 year experience in sales management, business development and customer
relationship management. Quipu has a scientific advisory board that includes
opinion leaders and members of the main Scientific Societies in the field of
diagnostic ultrasound.
YOUR VISION
We believe that software applications can change the world of medical
ultrasound systems and can overcome the limitations that make ultrasound
still underutilized.
YOUR MISSION
The mission of Quipu is to design a new generation of biomedical ultrasound
systems based on software applications.
YOUR PROJECT
Quipu developed a new software platform that runs on a standard computer
and can work in conjunction with ultrasound devices currently available in
hospitals. The applications process the ultrasound video images and provide
advanced functions for standard (and also low-end) devices.The current
business model of Quipu is licensing the software applications. We developed a
flexible licensing scheme that allows several license types and guarantees
software protection.Up to now, Quipu has developed its first two applications
in the field of cardiovascular disease prevention. The result is an assessment of
the patient’s cardiovascular risk that is based on objective measurements of
sub-clinical manifestations of the cardiovascular disease.The software
product is a CE medical device (93/42/EEC) and is obtaining FDA
clearance.Company next steps will be:To finalize the software platform
(today it runs only on an Apple PC). We are making it compatible with
Microsoft, Linux and Android computers/tablets.To develop new applications.
We are now working on new applications in the fields of cardiology,
interventional therapy and hepatology.To introduce a next-generation
ultrasound system. We are now evaluating hardware devices provided by OEM
companies to design a smarter ultrasound scanner that will be operated by the
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We produce a software and we don't have patents.
COPYRIGHT
We have the copyright on all our software
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7 billion
YOUR COMPETITORS
The competitors are a number of small companies specialized in the
development of software for ultrasound image analysis (for example, TomTec
Imaging Systems GmbH, Germany). Most of them were created to
commercialize a single application arising from a research laboratory and did
not undergo significant development. None of them proposes a platform for
applications such as the one developed by Quipu.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The ultrasound device market is dominated by a few large manufacturers. It is
conservative market with a product life cycles of several years. We enter into
the market with a software solution that works with current devices. In a
second step, we propose a complete solution that replaces current devices.
FROM WHOM?
Quipu seed capital was provided by their founders
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Medical devices
COMPANY NAME
Wellness & Wireless Srl
WEB SITE
www.wellnessandwireless.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
21/03/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
SuperOp daily suggests athletes the ideal training load to improve performance
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
The management team consist of Paolo Gambini (CEO and CMO) and Maurizio
(CEO and CTO) and of Prof. Marco De Angelis MD.Paolo and Maurizio are
experienced managers with nearly 20 years of experience with start ups in the
international telecom industry (Tiscali, Tinet, Ipergy, ISDnet) and long term
working experience in UK, Germany, Spain, France and Belgium.Marco has
over 20 years experiece in sports phisiology and has worked for the Italian
Olympic Committee, ESA, NASA and acts as a consultant for a variety of olympic
teams in Italy, Russia, China and Vietnam.
YOUR VISION
Changing the way athletes (pro and amateurial) around the world train thanks
to a methodology that is unique, highly effective (proven by two olympics
athletes including a world record holder), hard to imitate and suitable for
virtually any sport. SuperOp is a first to market that will create a new market
segment.
YOUR MISSION
W&W mission is to to improve people’s wellbeing and health by overcoming
the constraints of space and time through the use of mobile and personal
technologies and, where needed, through the communication and support of
specialists through video, phone and messaging.
YOUR PROJECT
We are now finalising the testing of SuperOp to then move to market it into a
number of territories (USA, EU, Russia and China first). SuperOp can be sold
both as stand-alone app and as a physical product: a box containing a
bluetooth blood pressure meter that the athlete must use to measure the
parameters requested by SuperOp.W&W therefore is looking for the
financial resources to market SuperOp in one or more of the above territories
through: -Engagement of opinion leaders (journalist, bloggers and
trainers/coaches) -Engagement of local and/or sport-relevant testimonials, Targetted advertising campaigns-Building a sales network to target sport
appareils chains and stores (with focus on stores specialised in Running,
Cycling, and Triathlon).
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We own no patents yet. However the algorithm behind our methodology to
improve athletes performance has been developed by our Chief Medical
Officer, Prof. Marco De Angelis, as the result of over 20 years of clinical studies
on professional athletes phisiology. Such intellectual property is therefore a
trade secret of Wellness & Wireless
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We own the copyright on Yukendu brand and logo. Yukendu is the first service
we launched in 2014.
YOUR COMPETITORS
30 - 40 billions
0,02% out of the total market segment.However our
product is a first to market and will likely create a new
market segment
The only competitors are special training centers that provides intrusive and
expensive clinical analysis to athletes. Analysis that can not be repeated daily
and that therefore have a limited impact on the long run performance
improvement.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our product (SuperOp) is the first and only approach in the market that can
assess on a daily basis, inexpensively and in a non intrusive way (by using a
blood pressure meter) the ideal intensity of the training load that an athlete can
take on that day to optimize her performance and reduce the risk of injuries or
overtraining syndrome. The algorithm behind this novel methodology is
Wellness & Wireless intellectual property and trade secret.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 900,000 eur
FROM WHOM?
1- Fondo Ingenium Emilia Romagna IIIngenium is managed bythe DutchItalian joint venture Zernike-Meta Ventures and is aiming at supporting
innovative start-ups within the region of Emilia Romagna.2. Regione EmiliaRomagna: Bando start-up innovative Anno 2013 - Asse 1 POR FESR 20072013’Attività I.2.1
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Macro-sector
Life sciences
Sector
Life sciences
COMPANY NAME
WISE
WEB SITE
www.wiseneuro.com
REGION
Lombardia
02/09/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
The new generation of Neuromodulation leads: unbreakable, less invasive,
cheaper.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
The WISE team is made by 8 operative people (1 CEO, 1 Administration
Manager, 1 R&D Manader, 5 R&D Engineers)Management team:Luca
Ravagnan: CEO and co-founder of WISE S.r.l. He holds a PhD in Physics, and he
has long-term experience in basic and applied research in the field of
nanotechnology. (see: http://goo.gl/BJjdDP and http://goo.gl/4pgwE7).Mario
Zanone Poma: Chairman of WISE. Graduated in Economics, he has long lasting
managerial experience having been CEO and chairman of big size companies as
Kalle Infortec, Telepiù, Mediocredito. Sandro Ferrari: R&D Manager and
Partner of WISE. He holds a PhD in Biomaterials and a Master in Project
Management.
YOUR VISION
WISE’s leads will overcome major limitations of today’s state of technology,
improving the treatment of patients that are already profiting from
Neuromodulation while at the same time opening up Neuromodulation to
patients in fields and clinical indications in which the complex technical
demands cannot yet be met by existing technology.
YOUR MISSION
WISE has the mission of developing and marketing the new generation of leads
for Neuromodulation and Neuromonitoring for the treatment of Chronic Pain
and for presurgical Epilepsy monitoring: highly biocompatible, foldable,
stretchable, minimally invasive and cheaper to produce than existing products.
YOUR PROJECT
WISE is presently producing and testing the prototypes of electrodes for
Neuromonitoring and Neuromodulation.During the last year, the prototypes
have been extensively electrochemically tested, showing high efficiency for
both stimulation and recording (compared to the products on the market).
Miniaturized prototypes of electrodes have been tested in vivo on Guinea Pigs.
Presently WISE is continuing the animal testing of the electrodes, is further
optimizing the manufacturing steps and is completing the engineering phase its
first product line for human use (Cortical Grids). In June 2015 WISE has
successfully closed a VC financial round by €3,000,000 (with the participation
of 4 new investors) that is now allowing WISE to upscale its structure both
concerning its equipment and its working force. Indeed, in order to obtain in
2016 the CEE mark the Cortical Grids and to start the production and
commercialization, WISE is developing a dedicated production line and it is
focusing on their pre-clinic and clinic validation.Since its foundation, WISE has
received as recognition of the innovativeness of its products, 9 national and
international Innovation Prizes, two Business Plan Competitions and 5 best
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presentation Awards at International Investor Meetings.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
One Italian Patent granted: - MI2010A000532; "Metodo per la produzione di
manufatti elastomerici funzionalizzati e manufatti così ottenuti"Two PCT
applications in national phases: - PCT/EP2011/054903; "Method for the
production of functionalized elastomeric manufactured articles and
manufactured articles thus obtained"; nationalized in EP (11716496.2), USA,
Canada, India, Israel, Korea, Japan (granted in Japan).- PCT/EP2012/074492;
"Method for the production of stretchable and deformable optical elements,
and elements thus obtained"; nationalized in USA, EP, Korea, Japan, Israel.
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The company Logo was registered as trademark (MI2015C002054).
YOUR COMPETITORS
Neuromodulation: $2.8B in 2013
The company will obtain CE mark for the first product in
2016 and will start the product commercialization in 2017.
The Neuromodulation market is nowadays characterized by three main
multinational companies addressing the major medical needs (Medtronic,
Boston Scientific and St. Jude) and several medium-sized companies specialized
on specific pathologies (such as Cyberonics, Neuropace, Algostim, etc.). Most
of these companies outsource the manufacturing of the leads to medium-sized
companies (such as Greatbatch Medical, Stellar Technologies, Ardiem Medical,
Blackrock Microsystems). All these manufacturers produce the leads with a
standard technology, i.e. manually welding standard cables to rigid electrodes
and therefore producing rigid, poorly stretchable, invasive and highly expensive
leads. WISE will compete with these traditional manufacturers by selling less
invasive, highly reliable and cheaper leads.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WISE S.r.l. is a startup company having the mission to develop and market the
new generation of implantable electrodes (leads) for Neuromodulation for the
treatment of chronic pain and for Neuromonitoring. WISE produces its leads
through a proprietary technology named Supersonic Cluster Beam Implantation
(SCBI), which allows the metallization of biocompatible silicones.SCBI consists
in embedding metal nanoparticles inside a preformed polymer base in order to
form a conductive metal-polymer skin on its surface. The electrodes obtained
with this technique are strongly attached to the polymer, resist without
electrical failure to extensive deformations of the polymer, such as bending and
stretching, and have very good performances in terms of biocompatibility.
Furthermore, SCBI allows to embed electronic circuits in foils as thin as a few
microns without damaging the foil itself. WISE’s technology is disruptively
innovative, since it will change the way leads for Neuromodulation are
produced and it will guarantee reliability performances unattainable with
existing technologies. Finally, SCBI will open completely new therapeutic
scenarios, since the low invasivity and high conformability of the leads
produced by WISE will allow to produce completely new neural interfaces.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? EUR 4,240,000
FROM WHOM?
INVESTORS: - Agite! SpA (Italy), - High-Tech Gründerfonds - HTGF (Germany),
- Atlante SEED (Italy), - b-to-v Partners (Switzerland)- Amigdala Srl (Italy)Principia SGR S.p.A. - Principia III – Health (Italy)- Atlante Venture (Italy)-
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Antares Srl (Italy)- F3F SpA (Italy)
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Macro-sector
Logistics, mobility and product tracking
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Attain IT Srl
WEB SITE
www.attainit.eu
REGION
Veneto
25/01/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Cloud-based vehicle remote monitoring and diagnostics
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Attain IT is a young and dynamic company, composed of 100% personnel under
the age of thirty-five years. Attain IT staff includes all graduated personnel,
specialized either in Mechanical or Control System engineering.
YOUR VISION
Exploiting existing information, e.g. published over the vehicle on-board data
network, without the need of additional sensors, allows implementing
effective and robust solutions for diagnostics and monitoring functionalities
and advanced systems for personalized driver support.
YOUR MISSION
Development of SW products and services for the acquisition and processing in
real-time of data from mobile systems (such as vehicles and personal devices
sensors) and by means of mobile devices (such as smartphones and embedded
systems).
YOUR PROJECT
Enhancement and improvement of the platform and technology used to
remotely retrieve data on the status of a vehicle from the on-board data
network. Currently the technology is implemented and provided in the form of
service as Fleet BCM-Battery Charge Monitoring and Fleet FLM-Fuel Level
Monitoring. The service allows the remote monitoring of the battery charge of
electric vehicles and fuel level of conventional ones through a CAN/Bluetooth
device providing selected access to the on board data network. An on-board BT
dongle controlled by Attain IT through a renowned third-party device, sends
the battery level, the vehicle mileage and the vehicle status to Attain IT
servers. Geolocalized information are then available both on a dedicated fleet
management web page and through customized web services, for integration
with ERP.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Attain IT owns the following four patents:- Italian P. Nr. BO2013A000513:
ACCESS-CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE WATERCRAFT TRAFFIC
IN A LIMITED TRAFFIC ZONE- Italian P. Nr. BO2011A000055: METHOD FOR
INDIRECT AND REAL-TIME MONITORING OF THE STATE OF THE TYRES OF A
VEHICLE- Italian P. Nr. BO2009A000514 - U.S.A. P. Nr. 8,260,491 B2: METHOD
FOR ANALYSING THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE DRIVER OF A VEHICLE- Italian P. Nr.
BO2007A000531 - U.S.A. P. Nr. 8,060,273 B2: METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING A
COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE
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YOUR COMPETITORS
1.457.400.00 euro/year
110.000 euro/year (2016)Based on the following
estimations:Car-sharing: 1600 vehicles
euro/month x 12 months = 48.000 euro/year.Large fleets:
2000 vehicles
60.000 euro/year.Growing all per year basis.
Competitors are engineering and IT companies, either directly or in partnership
with large suppliers of navigation systems, with expertise in the connection to
the on-board data networks, data interpretation and real-time software
development either for Desktop/Server or embedded applications.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Flexibility and vertical know-how in the following areas:-Advanced physical
mathematical algorithms implementing model-based and data-based solutions,
applied also to human behavior detection;-Expertise in connecting to the onboard data networks to read and exploit information circulating over
them:•
CAN bus•
FMS•
OBD-II-
Solutions implemented on a wide
variety of standard and custom hardware platforms either with operating
systems or proprietary firmware
FROM WHOM?
The external capital is constituted by public funding provided by Italian Public
Administrations, in particular by the Borough of Venice and by Regione
Veneto.The Borough of Venice in 2011 awarded Mr. Attilio Brgihenti and his
sons with the first place in the VII call for the assignment of grants for the
settlement and development of business companies in areas of urban decay.
Thank to this grant Attain IT was founded on the 25th of January 2011 as a spin
off of S.A.T.E. (www.sate-italy.com), a private engineering company specialized
in research and innovation with long experience in the design and development
of physical mathematical models applied especially to the automotive, energy
and large engines industry, with renewed customers in Italy, Germany,
Scandinavia and India.The Regione Veneto awarded Attain IT in 2013 and 2014
three grants for the execution of Research and Development projects in the
field of diagnostics and sustainable mobility, specifically:-Model based
diagnostics (2013) aiming at developing and improving the model based
diagnostic applications of the company.-Mobility Tracker (2013-2015), aiming
at the development of enhanced algorithms and the identification of the
suitable technologies to provide, across a variety of devices, a diary of mode
and length of use of transportations means such bike, walking, car riding, and
public transport (in collaboration with Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble,
France).-E-driver tutor suite (2014-2015) aiming at enhancing the
technologies owned by Attain IT, adapting them to electric vehicles.
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Macro-sector
Sector
COMPANY NAME
DIENPI S.R.L.
WEB SITE
www.dienpi.com
REGION
Marche
22/12/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Smart Label: new and modern way to comunicate.
YOUR TEAM
PRODUCT
Dienpi srl, a label manufacturer based in San Benedetto del Tronto, was born
officially in 2012 but comes from more than thirty years experience of DIENPI
members in the fashion accessories. Dienpi is like a big family and his team
works with satisfaction.
YOUR VISION
With our products we would like to reflect all quality standards required by
applicable law, in the matter of protection and ethics of the workplace. Our
collections often include the use of ecological materials .From some years
we are promoting our new and modern products on the foreign market.
YOUR MISSION
Our mission is to expand the sales network to the foreign market and give to
our customers a new possibility of certification of the product with our
SMART LABEL.
YOUR PROJECT
DIENPI presents SMART LABEL, the new digital safer DENIM LABEL for
Counterfeiting, Traceability, Customers Engagement and more. It's an
interactive, unique and not reproducible label that communicates with
devices equipped with NFC (Near Field Communication) technology.It is very
simple to use: just hold the your NFC smartphone or tablet to the DENIM
SMART LABEL and read what appears on the display. SMART LABEL allows
the BRANDS to communicate to the consumer the differentmultimedia
contents displayed on the smartphone:•
Tell the denim story or the brand
story* Information on products or collection* Launch advertising
campaigns or competitions* Promote loyalty bonuses* Register
customers on its database* Invite consumers on their social networks*
Comunicate the entire production chain or process transparently.*
Certificate of the jean’s authenticity SMART LABEL provides an important
support to consume awareness and responsible.The SMART LABEL makes
the difference of the jean that hosts it and it becomes a great tool of
communication, not only a stilistic one, but of real content, readable by
anyone at any time. SMART LABEL is created and patented by DIENPI, it’s
washable and it will be readable even after various treatments.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 1 mln to 2,5 mln
PATENTS
NR. 1 - SMART LABELDIENPI presents SMART LABEL, the new digital safer
DENIM LABEL forCounterfeiting, Traceability, Customers Engagement and
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more.It's an interactive, unique and not reproducible label that
communicates with devices equipped with NFC (Near Field Communication)
technology.It is very simple to use: just hold the your NFC smartphone or
tablet to the DENIM SMART LABEL and read what appears on the display.
SMART LABEL allows the BRANDS to communicate to the consumer the
different multimedia contents displayed on the smartphone.
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NR. 1 - SMART LABELDIENPI presents SMART LABEL, the new digital safer
DENIM LABEL forCounterfeiting, Traceability, Customers Engagement and
more.
YOUR COMPETITORS
5.000.000
We would like to propose the use of the SMART LABEL to
the clothing brands medium high and in particular to the
manufacturers of denim Italian and foreign.We would
like to extend the utility model in Europe and in America
and Japan.
Now our competitors are the other companies who produce labeling.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our competitive advantages are:- our new project SMART LABEL;- our
prices;- our production all Made in Italy;- our hight quality;- our delivery
times;
FROM WHOM?
From a lot of banks.In particular: - Banca delle Marche;- Banca Carige, who
decided to finance the new development.
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Macro-sector
Sector
COMPANY NAME
Sherlock S.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.sherlock.bike
REGION
Piemonte
17/06/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
GPS antitheft device for bicycles connected to a mobile app
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Most of the profiles needed for the technical development, marketing and
managerial aspects are present within the founders team. Pierluigi Freni takes
care of the business aspects and coordinates the operations. The technical area
is managed by Matteo Stoppa and Stefano Martinallo, responsible for the
hardware design and development and the software development, both for the
back-end infrastructure and the front-end. Nathalie Biolcati and Francesca
Manna are in charge of the economic and financial aspects, the marketing
strategy, distribution channels and relations with stakeholders. Marzia Testa
focuses on UX design for mobile and web interfaces, usability and social media
management.
YOUR VISION
Sherlock helps you keep the things you love safe, controlling them from a
distance. Make your choices without constraints, without fearing accidents or
thefts.
YOUR MISSION
We connect you to the objects and people around you, collecting data and
empowering the communication between the owner and the object.
YOUR PROJECT
Being a cyclist means embracing a sustainable lifestyle, enjoying commuting
and promoting a change in society. Every year more than 3 mln bicycles are
stolen in Europe and bicycle theft is a critical issue worldwide.Sherlock is a
GPS-based antitheft device, connected to a mobile app, that allows cyclists to
locate their bicycles and retrieve them in case of theft. Sherlock is embedded
into the structure of the bicycle, is characterized by an unobtrusive design and
provides a flawless user experience.The value that Sherlock offers is based
on:- Bicycle localization: constant and precise monitoring of the position of
the bicycle thanks to the combination of a GPS module and an Internet
connection (GSM/GPRS). The position is defined with an error lower than 5
meters and it can be consulted through a mobile app.- Push alarm
notification: once the alarm is activated, if the bike is moved above a certain
threshold or exit the geo-fence the user receive an immediate push
notification on the smartphone.- Unobtrusive design: the device is very
compact and light. It can be freely installed inside the frame of the bicycle, the
handlebars or the seatpost and it is not visible from the outside.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
None
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The Sherlock trademark is registered in Italy and it is going to be extended
abroad
YOUR COMPETITORS
€530 mln
Sherlock’s market share in 2016 will be equivalent to
0,05% of safety devices sold in Europe.
Most of the main competitors are in a startup phase. They are Lock8, BitLock,
Bike+, BikeSpike, SpyBike, Locca, Cricket, Bikeep and Connected Cycle.Some of
these devices offer performance tracking, the opportunity to share the
customer’s own bike, but, in case of a theft attempt, they are subjected to the
same problems of common padlocks; some are complicated to install and in
many cases they even require the intervention of a specialist and almost all of
them alter the aesthetic of the bicycle.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE When common locks and chains fail at preventing bicycle theft, there is almost
no chance to retrieve the bicycle: Sherlock leverages IoT technology in order to
provide an innovative solution with sustainable costs and at a competitive
price.Sherlock’s competitive advantage lies in its invisibility (concealed inside
bike structure/handlebars/headset), its easy installation and its practicality. The
device is less exposed to atmospheric factors and does not change the bike
design. Also, the GPS guarantees a precise location of the bike (≈ 5 meters) and
tracks the cyclist’s performances (being compatible with major tracking
platforms, e.g. Strava). Extra added value is provided by Sherlock mobile app: it
will forward bikes’ data to the bike national registry and directly report theft to
the local police (e.g. pilot program in cooperation with Municipality of Turin).
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? €130,00
FROM WHOM?
The Sherlock project was selected for funding from frontierCities, an EU-funded
project (http://www.fi-frontiercities.eu/) that supports the development and
deployment of smart mobility solutions in European cities. The goal of
frontierCities is to bring the benefits of smart mobility solutions to citizens,
enhancing the urban mobility and the quality of life. This programme directly
funds SMEs and Start-Ups to develop and deliver innovative solutions whose
ultimate beneficiaries are European citizen and cities.The Sherlock project is
one of the 27 projects selected among about 600 international candidates. This
grant will allow us to go from the prototype to the product and to jump start
the commercial phase.
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Macro-sector
Manufactured goods
Sector
Clothing and accessories
COMPANY NAME
BANALE
WEB SITE
banale.com
REGION
Lombardia
09/10/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
A portable design Toothbrush. 2 in1 and rechargable
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Founder, Tommaso Puccioni (34) - SALES & MARKETINGFounder, Stefano Bossi
(35) - SUPPLY CHAINDavide Etzi (39) - CFOFilippo Biagi (35) DESIGNERMarta Azzolin (23) - DESIGNERSimona Cattaneo (24) - OPERATIONS
YOUR VISION
There are a lot of personal car accessories that today are just perceived as
industrial products for a low range mass market.We believe that exist new
premium markets for advanced products.
YOUR MISSION
Create a new brand for advanced personal accessories.
YOUR PROJECT
Banale will launch 12 new personal accessories in the next 5 years. At the
beginning we'll distribute mainly in beauty, fashion and design third parties
stores and online. Then we'll open Banale Stores.Corporate sales and
technology licensing represent other powerfyul stream of revenues.We can
reach a turnover of 20MLN in 2019 being present in UE and extra UE.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
n°2 UE Design Patents.Both patents cover different releases and multiple
designs of our first product, TOOTHBRUSH.
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Trade mark is registered.
YOUR COMPETITORS
100 MLN
0,02
It's a brand new market segment.We don't have direct competitors, none with
our proposition and placement strategy. We have structured indirect
competitors on the mass market (Procter & Gamble, Johnson, Reckitt ecc)
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We have in mind strong and innovative products by which Banale will try to
disrupt consolidated personal accessories market and present itself as an
innovator brand which created a new premium market segment.Our main
advantage is this multiple first strike.Then we have good patents.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? more than 900.000€
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FROM WHOM?
Banale collected 120.000€ from private investors and more than 900.000€ in
public and bank loans at favourable credit terms.Private investors pre
revenues evaluation of Banale amounts to 1.000.000€. External investors are
Giovanni Borroni, business angel who acquired 10%, and Marco Sittoni, bank
manager, who acquired another 2%. Public Loans are: 1. Invitalia: 519.000€
(10 years loan at 0%)2. Finlombarda: 115.000€ (5 years at 0,5%A bank loan
of 300.000€ (5 years) is provided by Banca Intesa.
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Macro-sector
Manufactured goods
Sector
Building material
COMPANY NAME
EN-TECH SRL
WEB SITE
www.plyterm.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
09/12/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Modular heating panels freestanding and efficients.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
We are young engineers : our aim is to revolution the idea of heating. We try to
twist the rules, to see the matter in another light. The team is so composed:
Doct. Fabrizio Alfieri ( Moralizer and mad inventor), Eng. Nicola Haghighi (The
punctilious) and Eng. Damiano Alfieri (The geek). We are in collaboration with
Ecotec Energia (Engineering study).We move our first steps into the basement.
From the beginning our incubator was REI: Reggio Innovazione. We won
Regional Competition announcement 2014. The total amount of our
investment plan is 120000,00 EUR. We also won the UpIdea competition
announcement, organized by Industrials Association. Now, we harvest the fruits
of our work so we are moving in to a more structured situation and we are
trying to organize an industrial production. We are also trying to export our idea
abroad.
YOUR VISION
Our vision refers not merely to high efficiency heating systems but also to any
area that offers the opportunity to reduce pollutant emissions, reuse
materials, and promote social progress in terms of health and wellness.
YOUR MISSION
EN-TECH Srl's corporate mission is based on a leitmotif: promotion of social
well-being while reducing environmental impact.
YOUR PROJECT
Plyterm: The intelligent heating En-Tech is driving a revolution in the space
heating sector: Plyterm or "layered heating" is a system of electrically heated
modular floor panels. Rather than heating the interior space, these products
are designed to deliver warmth to the occupants. Each product made under
our Pylterm registered trade mark has been developed to solve heating needs
in the most diverse application environments. The common thread lies in our
patented system of modular coupling systems that assure flexibility and the
maximum freedom in choosing the heating surface. Apart from its modularity,
the key feature of PLYTERM lies in the energy savings available thanks to the
irradiation technology employed. In addition, PLYTERM dispenses with the
need for centralised structures such as boilers etc., since each module
functions independently. All our products are CE marked and in compliance
with the following directives: 2011/65/EC (RoHs), 2014/30/EU (EMC),
2014/35/EU (LVD). The internal electric heating element is certified in
compliance with NEMKO and the CB certification scheme.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
one patent.Modular smart heating
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Plyterm or "layered heating" is a system of electrically heated modular floor
panels. Rather than heating the interior space, these products are designed to
deliver warmth to the occupants. Each product made under our Pylterm
registered trade mark has been developed to solve heating needs in the most
diverse application environments.
YOUR COMPETITORS
45.000.000.000 EURO
0
NoOne this kind of heating. Thermal Technology and Warmflor is a company
producer a different electric system heating but is not modular. SOME
COMPETITORS CAN BE ABOUT MAKING HEATING SYSTEMS HYDRONIC
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE VERY LOW PRICE , LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION, EASY INSTALLATION
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 130000,00 EUR
FROM WHOM?
People near us that are trusting in our project.
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Macro-sector
Manufactured goods
Sector
Building material
COMPANY NAME
Equilibrium Srl
WEB SITE
www.equilibrium-bioedilizia.it
REGION
Lombardia
05/01/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Hemp based biocomposites for comfortable and healthy zero energy building
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
- Paolo Ronchetti, CEO, degree in Economics and Business and MSc in
Sustainable Developement. Prior to Equilibrium, he worked as researcher and
consultant in the fileld of futures studies and strategic innovation towards
sustainability.- Daniele Lombardo, CFO, degree in Economics and Business at
University of Bergamo. Prior to Equilibrium he worked in positions with both
finance and marketing responsibility. - Gilberto Barcella, R&D, has more than
20 years experience in the construction sector with a wide range of roles and
responsibilities as technical and sales manager, project manager and
entrepreneur.
YOUR VISION
Full regeneration of people, environment and economy bringing abundance to
the world and a society where any building fulfil zero energy standards thanks
to envelopes made of vegetable based biocomposites.
YOUR MISSION
Leadership in green building through constant innovation in hemp based
biocomposites for energy efficient, comfortable and healthy buildings.
YOUR PROJECT
Equilibrium is the innovative startup operating since 2011 in the field of green
building with a full range of effective, certified and patented solutions for
energy efficiency. We manufacture, install and market both Biomattone® and
Natural Beton®, hemp and lime biocomposite materials able to provide high
energy efficiency, top living comfort and healthiness to new and existing
buildings. Buidling envelopes made with Biomattone® and Natural Beton® help
maintain constant levels of indoor temperature and relative humidity in
residential, commercial and industrial buildings. Among the most interesting
applications we offer solutions for walling systems, roof and floor insulation,
insulation of existing wall, thermal plasters and finishings. Biomattone® and
Natural Beton® allow high savings during construction and management arising
from the under-sizing or total elimination of heating, cooling and humidity
control equipments. Biomattone® and Natural Beton® are the first building
materials with zero CO2 footprint in the construction sector. The vegetable
component of the biocomposites is able to completely offset the CO2
emissions expected during their whole life cycle.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
PATENTS
No. 1 Italian patent pending filed on 22/07/15 with ref. no. 102015000036734
and title “Composizioni comprendenti microrganismi simbiotici, un processo
per la loro produzione e loro uso nel campo edilizio” (compositions
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comprehending symbiotic microorganisms, a process for their production and
use in the construction sector). A mix of selected symbiotic microorganisms
shows major improvements in compressive strenght, setting time and prevents
emergence of mould.
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No. 5 registered trademarks: Equilibrium, Biomattone, Natural Beton, CNB
Canabium, NLB Natural Lime Binder
YOUR COMPETITORS
15 B€ in EU by 2019
0,1% in Italy
Direct competitors: - Calcecanpa, Italy ( a brand born from cooperation
between three companies, i.e. La Banca della Calce srl, IVAS spa and Calce
Piasco spa)- Hemp Eco Systems, Switzerland- Chanvribloc, FranceIndirect
competitors:- Ytong- Wienerberger- Lecablocco
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE - innovative business model- 5 years experience with biocomposites
production, processing and construction- outsourced & scalable productionsales network built on long term partnerships- ownership of biocomposites
spraying equipment- direct training for planners, designers & architectspatent pending & licencing strategy
FROM WHOM?
- Barbara Ceschi a Santa Croce is an angel investor and social entrepreneur.
Previous experience as CEO in marketing and import/export between Italy and
India.- Graziano Morganti is an angel investor and social entrepreneur.
Previous experience as CEO of Kapriol Spa (production of tools for building) and
Provincial Administration- Daniele Lombardo is an angel investor and
member of the team since 2011. Previous experience in finance and marketing.
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Macro-sector
Manufactured goods
Sector
Building material
COMPANY NAME
Finiresearch Srl
WEB SITE
www.finiresearch.com
REGION
Lazio
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 52.23 - 72.19.09
16/05/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Difference between life and death.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Small but excellent in what we do, our team is made up of people with
expertise in engineering, business operation, and marketing. Everyone brings
crucial input to the company and everyone is decision maker as well as best
team member we can count on.
YOUR VISION
With the right partnership, we hope to launch our product and operate in
Europe and worldwide in the next one to three years.
YOUR MISSION
Transportation infrastructure serves as lifeline for individual and the society as
a whole. We aim to make safety a standard no matter on the ground or in the
air.
YOUR PROJECT
We have developed an aircraft arresting system, also known as engineered
material arresting system (EMAS) as a joint research program participated by
Italian civil aviation authority (ENAC) and a major Italian civil airport. The
system is a passive arresting system installed beyond runway threshold. It
enables controlled deceleration of aircraft in case of overrun while ensuring
safety of passengers and crews on board as well as structural integrity of the
aircraft. It constitutes the alternative means of compliance for airports which
have difficulty to meet the requirement of runway safety area published by
respective civil aviation authorities. Furthermore, the technology can be
applied to motorway as well.In the application to road transportation, the
system is installed adjacent to the areas of motorway presenting geographical
challenges with the capacity to safely capture a heavy duty vehicle in case of
loss of control. Globally there is a multi-billion euro market for such safety
system in airport sector. In additional to US and European markets, new
market is emerging as well. With the recently implemented agressive
regulation in China, a spike in market growth is expected in the next three to
five years.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Patent n. 0001397955 (2013)Patent Pending n. RM2014A000647
(2014)Aircraft Arresting System: A safety system installed beyond the
threshold of runway with the capacity to safely capture an aircraft in case of
overrun within a significantly reduced distance.Vehicle Arresting System: A
safety system installed adjacent to the areas of motorway presenting
geographical challenges with the capacity to safely capture a heavy duty
vehicle in case of loss of control.
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Finiresearch
YOUR COMPETITORS
billion
We are ready to provide for the Worldwide market the
most competitive selling policy.
ESCO american company
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Product: Our technology provides significant improvement from both
operational and maintenance aspects, thus saving our clients hundreds of
thousands of Euro. Price: We are offering the most competitive pricing policy
worldwide. A significant reduction in price is expected compared to our
competitor.
FROM WHOM?
Bank
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Macro-sector
Manufactured goods
Sector
Clothing and accessories
COMPANY NAME
Orange Fiber srl
WEB SITE
www.orangefiber.it
REGION
Trentino Alto Adige
05/02/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Sustainable and vitamin-enriched textile from citrus waste, for conscious
consumers.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
- Adriana Santanocito, 35 years, Founder. Fashion Product Manager, specializes
in textiles fabrics and new technologies for sustainable fashion. She studied
fashion design and collaborated withPolitecnico di Milano (dept. of material
chemistry) to develop Orange Fiber process for celluloseextraction, its
transformation into a textile and the nanotechnologies enrichment.- Enrica
Arena, 27 years, co-founder, MA in Development Cooperation, postgrad in
Communication for International Relations, specializes in marketing,
sustainability, communication, events management and fundraising. She is in
charge of project management, strategic communication andPR for Orange
Fiber with a special focus on national and international keynote presentation,
grant application and networking with the startup ecosystem.Full time
consultant:- chemical engineer, specializes in industrial scale up, he
coordinated the prototyping phase and isnow in charge of supervising the
industrial plant optimization in Sicily- textile engineer, specializes in cellulose
derivatives textiles, he coordinated the finishing of our yarnand textile, helping
us also to find partners in our supply chain.
YOUR VISION
We want to establish a textile brand using the Ingredient Brand model, as
Gore Tex or Lycra, focusing on sustainability and wellness. We decided to
address cellulose derivatives textile market demand using a material derived
from renewable sources.
YOUR MISSION
Develop process and products for innovative sustainable materials from
biomass with a small carbon footprint.
YOUR PROJECT
Orange Fiber is a project born in 2012 with the aim of creating sustainable and
vitamin-enriched fabrics from citrus waste. We implement innovation in term
of active principles released on the skin and above all in the production,
extracting cellulose apt to be yarned and used for fashion from citrus industrial
waste.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We registered an Italian patent then extended in PCT for the production of
textile from citrus products.
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We hold an European Patent for our brand, Orange Fiber.
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YOUR COMPETITORS
8 mln € by 2020, 5% of TAM
By 2016 we want to produce10 ton of citrus celluloseand
sell 40.000 meters of textile, at an average price of 35€/m
euro for a turnover of 1.400.000 €. By 2018 we aim at
producing 150.000 meters of textile and sell for 25€/m
with a turnover of 3.750.000 €.
For the first years our main competitors are producers of nanotechnologies
enriched cellulose textile. At present, other products on the market use
chitosan and aloe vera and are positioned mainly in the underwear sector, the
main european player is Lytess. In the future, we aim at becoming alternative to
existing man-made fibers. Income and population growth are the major factors
driving increases in textile consumption and it has been estimated that in
thenext 5 years the per capita fiber consumption will grow around 2.5%
p.a.The growth of total fibre demand and consumption could only be covered
by man-made fibers, that are divided into synthetics (petroleum-based) and
man-made fibers (mainly derivate from cellulose). Considering that certain
properties of cellulosic fibers cannot be substituted by petroleum-based
synthetics (Polyester, Polyacrylonitrile, Polyamide, Polypropylene and others),
we decided to address cellulose derivatives textile market demand using a
material derived from renewable sources – namely cellulose extracted by citrus
pulp.Life-cycle analyses on cellulose fibers from wood showed that man-made
cellulosic fibers have much smaller carbon footprint compared to cotton. For
instance, for the production of man-made cellulosefibers no pesticides and
synthetic fertilizers are needed and the water required for one kg of fiber –
compared to cotton, is from 20 to 30 times less.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our process re-uses citrus pulp, which is an industrial products that is normally
disposed or dried – in small quantities – for animal feeding, implying
environmental and economical costs for the citrus transformation industry.
Compared to cellulose fibers from wood, we don’t use tree grown for our
purpose or land distracted from food cultivation, but we process non-food
leftovers of that are not rival with human feeding.In Italy, every year, more
that 1 million tons of citrus pulp is produced and has to be processed or
disposed. At the world level, with Brazil, USA and Mexico as the top player in
the citrus transformation industry, the leftovers production reaches more than
1,800,000 metric tons.Business Plan We want to establish a textile brand using
the Ingredient Brand model, as Gore Tex or Lycra. We aim at positioning
ourselves at the top of the value chain, selling the textile and develop more
enrichments, thus controlling the whole supply chain. Our customers are
textile companies and fashion brand. Our market is cellulose derivatives textile
from renewable sources - Cosmetotextilesniche - to be sold to textile
companies and fashion brand.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? >200.000
FROM WHOM?
We founded Orange Fiber s.r.l. in Italy in february 2014 and we established an
headquarter in Sicily – Catania, and one in Rovereto – Trentino. Since our
establishment, we have been funded by threeBusiness Angels and
TrentinoSviluppo for more than 200.000 €. Thanks to these capital, we
developed the first prototypes of our textile, obtened mixing together the
exclusive yarn from citrus waste with silk, that we presented in Milan during the
Vogue Fashion Night Out, on September 16th, 2014. In november 2014 we
registered our trademark and since then we worked, together with sicilian juice
producers and our team, to scale up our process to apply it at the industrial
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level and createsynergies with other researches. In april 2015 we have
performed our first industrial test and we are working hard to analyse the result
and improve the process.
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Macro-sector
Other services
Sector
Financial exchange systems
COMPANY NAME
CARBONSINK GROUP
WEB SITE
www.faircarbon.it
REGION
Liguria
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 72.19.09, 74.90.93
07/05/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
The first Italian Carbon Credits marketplace.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Cofounders had the first inception about the potentiality of fair carbon credits
during their studies or working experiences abroad. Andrea Maggiani mastered
in economics with a thesis at SUNY (NY) on Carbon Credits; Dr. Vaglio PHD in
Anthropological Science studied the impact on local population of carbon
projects and is currently scientific advisor at Dhuram University (UK); Dr. Ferrini
part of the Board of Directors of International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) and
full professor at University of Florence studied intensively the effects of
deforestation on climate change publishing more than 190 papers on the topic;
Francesco Marino MBA at Dartmouth served as internal consultant for ENI
understanding the impact of energy project in west Africa and south America;
Riccardo Caliari founder of Cloros, successful company with the goal to develop
solutions for energy efficiency in the industrial field.On the top of that
CarbonSink enriched its strong and diverse team with 2 PHDs that are providing
strong and sounded scientific knowledge.
YOUR VISION
We believe in the incredible power of connecting corporate targets with local
needs. The execution of this goal is not an easy task. You might need on one
side a corporate savior team, on the other scientist that understand the
impact on local population and environment of the project, and strong
connections with NGOs, suppliers and governmental bodies. CarbonSink has
all of them in house!
YOUR MISSION
Our mission is to face climate change by providing sustainable strategies to
reduce environmental impacts. We develop projects, which aim to reduce
greenhouse gas emission and improve carbon stocks; hence, the name Carbon
Sink. We collaborate with NGOs and local communities to support an ethical
and sustainable development. Our projects range from forest preservation to
energy efficiency and sustainable agriculture. We support companies to assess
their carbon footprint and we provide them with high quality carbon credits,
certified according to reliable international carbon standards.
YOUR PROJECT
The FAIR CARBON platform has been created to help choosing the best
offsetting solution of business's or organization’s environmental impacts in a
conscious and transparent way.By purchasing the Certified Carbon Credits
we’ve carefully selected the customer can offset its greenhouse gas emissions
and contribute to mitigate the climate change, generating at the same time a
wide range of environmental, social, economic, health and biodiversity cobenefits.Its purchase will directly finance the development of projects and
initiatives that CarbonSink implement in developing countries together with
our partners, in a concrete and transparent manner.
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
FAIR CARBON CREDITS enable businesses to compensate for their emissions,
meet their carbon reduction goals and support the move to a low carbon
economy and at the same time promote "climate equity" and social and
economic benefits. By purchasing carbon credits to offset their emissions,
businesses contribute essential finance to energy efficiency projects around
the world. CO2 compensation and local content are among the most
important targets of CSR around the globe. With fair carbon credits clients can
get both! (Carbon credits are the results and warranty that the project has
been executed accoring to international standards, this is the direct reflection
of result based finance).The main characteristic of fair carbon credit is that
the customers can reach two goals with one investments:●
Compensation:
promote their “green” business compensating CO2 emissions with the credits
generated by the projects●
Sustainability and local content: execute projects
locally in developing countries with local partners getting an immediate and
direct impact.
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FAIR CARBONThe first Italian Carbon Credits marketplace.
YOUR COMPETITORS
Voluntary demand for carbon offsets is valued at $4.4
Billion over the past decade – including $395 M newly
contributed in 2014. The majority of this value (60%) is
attributed to voluntary demand from private-sector
actors. While motivations vary, private buyers
commonly cite corporate social responsibility (CSR) or
the desire to demonstrate climate leadership as their
primary drivers for voluntary carbon finance. Yet even
the most “purely voluntary” offset demand is often
inextricably linked to the broader climate policy context
Not defined at the moment.
We are the first carbon credit selling platform in Italy so we don’t have
competitors in our country. At a global scale we have the following competitors,
members like us of the ICROA panel:BP Target NeutralCarbon
ClearClimate FriendlyClimate Neutral
GroupClimateCareCO2balanceEco ActFirst
ClimateNexusOffsettersThe Carbon Neutral CompanyThe South
Pole Group
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Carbon Sink as project developer can reduce the transaction cost (no bookers or
intermediaries) and ensure that organizations could easily identify carbon
offsets (web application) which had been thoroughly and independently audited
to the highest standards available, and in doing so put their environmental
integrity and credibility.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 250,00€
FROM WHOM?
Cloros Srl , Busines Partner and Shareholder
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Macro-sector
Other services
Sector
Financial exchange systems
COMPANY NAME
siamosoci srl
WEB SITE
www.siamosoci.com
REGION
Lombardia
19/05/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
financial instrument for retail investing in startups safely and smartly (mainly
through equity crowdfunding channel).
YOUR TEAM
PROTOTYPE
DARIO GIUDICIFounder and Chairman. Expert in Financial markets and
strategiesFRANCESCA GRASSISales and business development ALBERTO
PERETTICFO, legal and compliance.SARA CERVELLERAMarketing,
communicaton and social networkDOMENICO GENOVESEBusiness Analyst
ANGELICA CATALANOBackofficeDAVIDE GHEZZIOrganization , internal
process and ITGIUSEPPE GERBINOVisual designer and frontend developer
YOUR VISION
Sharing economy, P to P finance and crowdfunding will change and
consistently widen in few years the startup and PMI funding opportunities (as
far as equity and debt), opening an impressive new market (5,1 USD bn
worldwide, according to the Massolution 2013 CF Crowdfunding Industry
Report)
YOUR MISSION
Bring equity crowdfundig to success in Italy first (and in Europe then), helping
startup companies funding at the earliest stage (seed - pre seed) by channeling
a small part of the overall household savings.
YOUR PROJECT
Siamosoci aims to facilitate the investment of household savings in startup
companies by eliminating the hurdles that up to now have been kept this
opportunity unavailable to the retail market (business angels only have had
access to these deals) through a new way of proposing the ‘equity
crowdfunding’ instruments provided by Italian regulations.As everybody
knows, equity crowdfunding as is currently implemented by competitors is not
working at all.The drivers of our innovation are the following:1)Enhance
quality of the deals through binding partnership with the relevant players in
field (Incubatori certificati) who are charged of supply quality
deals;2)Facilitate and make smart the investment experience of the retail
investor by offering the opportunity of investing in a SPV that, once funded
through the equity crowdfunding channel, will invest its equity capital in a
wallet of quality deals supplied by its partners (see above). Advantages: no
selection to do, no information to get, hedging of the investment. This is not
just a business idea: some SPV have been already funded (as a private club
deal), and we have many in pipeline.Siamosoci financial need is mainly for
scaling the project from the private placement size to the mass market.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
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PATENTS
none
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SIAE registration - software for a marketplace / social network for startups and
business angels
YOUR COMPETITORS
4,5 € bn (fonte Massolution 2013 CF Crowdfunding
Industry Report)
0,02%
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE -new disruptive model for implementing equity crowdfunding;-dealing with
startups since inception (2011);-track record of facilitating startups fund
raising;-skilled team with a specific know how in the relevant field.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? eur 1.000.000
FROM WHOM?
AZIMUT HOLDING SpAVia Cusani, 4 - 20121 Milano
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Macro-sector
Other services
Sector
Other services
COMPANY NAME
VEASYT srl
WEB SITE
live.veasyt.com // veasyt.com
REGION
Veneto
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 62.01.00, 74.30.00
11/01/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
VEASYT Live! is the marketplace for video remote interpreting service.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
The VEASYT team presents a valuable integration of multidisciplinary expertise
(linguistic, technical, managerial) necessary to drive the growth of the company
in any of its strategical area. Moreover several key advisors guarantee
significant support to the activities. In the near future the team wants to further
enlarge in order to realize the market penetration, nationally first,
internationally after.
YOUR VISION
VEASYT wants to help people to communicate in a better way to built a better
world.
YOUR MISSION
VEASYT Live! breaks down communication barriers providing the best
interpreters on any computers or mobile devices in a click.
YOUR PROJECT
VEASYT Live! is a professional video remote interpretation (VRI) service via the
web from computer, tablet and smartphone, in 15 vocal languages and sign
languages.Thanks to VEASYT Live!, anyone can have a professional interpreter
available in any place, any field of interest and any language.VEASYT Live!
allows customers to choose the interpreter that best suits their needs,
selecting them on the basis of language, field of specialisation and the
feedback received from other customers. The service adapts to a wide range of
needs: business negotiations, international trade fairs, healthcare, municipal
offices, tourist offices, hotel and touristic reception, and many others.VEASYT
Live! can be used in two ways:- by appointment: with the opportunity to
consult a wide database of interpreters and book one at least 24h in advance.
Each interpreting slot adds up to 30, 60, 90 or 120min;- “instant” call: with no
need to reserve the interpreter. Professionals in the required language are
available within 3–5 min, calculating the service cost per minute.The
professional interpreters work independently, videoconferencing from the
comfort of their own home or office, choosing the days and times they are
available.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
The company develops digital services; according to Italian legislation a patent
application is not possible. VEASYT is a registered trademark.
COPYRIGHT
No copyright application.
2 billion
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YOUR COMPETITORS
The company expects to cover 0,25% of European market
in one year, getting the opportunity to reach a 5M Euro
turnover.1% share for a 20M Euro turnover in two years.
Main competitors are:- large companies/agencies providing on-site
interpreting service and over the phone interpretation. VEASYT Live! video
remote interpreting experience is much better than the one over the phone
thanks to the video experience. Moreover VEASYT guarantees an high level of
professionals, pushing on quality;- recently a few American startups developed
over the phone vocal services, such as VerbalizeIt and Babelverse. A video
experiece is much better;- video remote interpreting services in sign languages
for deaf people are active in a few American and European countries. Unlike
VEASYT, these companies are focused only on the sign languages niche;- other
potential competitors are automatic translation services like Skype Translator.
This kind of systems will become more and more useful for conversations that
don’t need high quality level of translation; otherwise VEASYT Live! wants to
offer a professional tool for everyone who wants to do a step forward and
enjoy a high quality interpreting service for various needs, i.e. business,
healthcare, touristic.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE VEASYT guarantees an high quality selected professional interpreters to the
customers in vocal and sign languages over the video, on computer, tablet and
smartphone. By an appointment, with the opportunity to consult a wide
database of interpreters and book one at least 24h in advance, or in an “instant”
call, with no need to reserve the interpreter, calculating the service cost per
minute.Plus, a total indipendence to the interpreters to manage their
availability in the platform during the week.For both, VEASYT guarantees a
continuos support for a professional growth of the interpreters, thanks to
partnerships with important universities and education institutions (with online
and onsite professional courses).
FROM WHOM?
VEASYT Live! is a digital service developed by VEASYT srl, a Ca' Foscari
University of Venice spin-off born thanks to the knowledge of the University
which develops innovative accessible digital solutions for the removal of
communication barriers. The University provides about 40 languages in its
courses (it is among the universities where you can study the most languages in
the world) and the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies,
which hosts the company, is the only one in Italy to provide training in Italian
Sign Language (LIS) over a course of five years, exactly equalized to any other
verbal language.In December 2013 VEASYT srl has gained 170.000 E in a first
round investment from a business angel, Andrea Ghello (LinkedIn profile:
https://it.linkedin.com/pub/andrea-ghello/a5/595/3a0), who belongs to
Business Angel Network Veneto (BAN Veneto) and VeNetWork. The company
raised up also 75.000 E thanks to public grants and 10.000 E winning UniCredit
Start Lab competition.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
2PAY IMEL Srl
WEB SITE
www.2pay.it
REGION
Veneto
04/09/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Instant payment system for smart-phone without transaction fees, not linked
to the bank system or credit card system, useful to be alternative than
standard systems.User friendly, easy spreading, provided with high security
devices, linked to social networks where sharing their buying experiences and
advertisement services for the users plus loyalty systems for the shops (cash
back and social cashback).
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Our team consists of group of industry veterans with extensive experience in
finance/banking industry, financial regulatory/compliance, operators of ethical
finance, enterprise/mobile IT system development, web marketing and
communication experts.
YOUR VISION
Every time we exchange our money, every time we re-use an object, every
time we respond with a smile, every time we download an application on our
smartphone, every moment that we live, we are determining what will be
after. 2Pay is going to cause a different social model of payment processing.
YOUR MISSION
Create, after 3000 years of history, a truly cashless society through an equal
system focusing on turning high fee into reward. Users will see their
purchasing power increase through lower transaction cost and cashback upon
purchase; merchant will benefit from marketing services offered to attract
even more customers.Create an alternative payment system that make the
smart-phone an alternative to a current account.
YOUR PROJECT
2Pay looks at WhatsApp as strategic plan. WhatsApp offers the messaging
service for free, paid until then.In his strategic plan 2Pay has decided to link
his services to relevant institutional partners, with a significant distribution net,
able to accelerate the product diffusion. The particular product nature and
his appropriateness to avoid the expensive international found transfer costs,
give to 2pay an international vocation, so we figure that in a 3-5 years we’ll be
able to diffuse the product first in the EURO area, then in United States, Russia,
India, China where 2pay has just applied for admission.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
2Pay IMEL Srl is the financial intermediary of 2Pay group. The holding company
is an innovative start up.2Pay is owner of the patent n. 0001413463 dated
06/09/2012 and of copyrights granted by SIAE on the related implementation
softwares.The intellectual property rights refers to:- creation of an electronic
money transfer system which is an alternative to the bank systems. Our system
allows the transfer of money from a smart-phone to another smart-phone
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instantaneously and without transaction fees;- use of the mobile phone
number as IBAN of the prepaid card and identification code of the payment
account.
COPYRIGHT
Copyrights regards a free application which, after downloaded to smart-phone,
creates an IBAN of a prepaid card issued by 2Pay IMEL S.r.l. Its account number
coincides the mobile phone number. Thanks to this innovation, the smartphone
is set to transfer and receive money with immediate value date immediate and
no transaction fees. In a similar way as whatsapp it allows you to send and
receive messages.
200 MLD dollars per year
YOUR COMPETITORS
WOW, UBIpay, Satispay, ApplePay, GooglePay and mobile payment systems.
None of them, however, has the requirements and characteristics of 2Pay.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 2Pay system removes the intermediaries from the financial transactions, which
enables the virtually instantaneous transfer of funds and dramatically lower the
fee charged for financial transactions. The mobile phone number is the IBAN of
the prepaid card. The use of the mobile phone number as our prepaid card
allow the initial payment to be made to anyone with a smart-phone.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 3 mln
FROM WHOM?
Business Angels
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Antecs s.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.antecs.it
REGION
Lombardia
23/09/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
TPIS : Trustable Product Information Services•
Anticounterfeting•
Safety&Quality•
e-Pedegree•
Consumer-awareness
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
•
Founder with more than 30 years of ICT and Consulting Firms experience in
major US International Companies (Digital, IBM, Earnst & Young, Arthur D.
Little). Role: Strategic Advisor.•
Co-Founder with 30 years in ICT, System
Integration and Consulting companies (Unisys, KPMG Consulting). Role:
CEO•
Partner with more than 30 years of experience in Finance (major italian
Banks)•
Partner with 15 years of experience ICT and GS1 Laboratories
(Director of RFiD Labs). Role: Senior Consultant.•
Team of Business and
Application Consultant•
Software Analyst and Developers Team•
Customer
Caring Team
YOUR VISION
The maturity of Internet of Things paradigm enables the next revolutionary
step in governing the Extended Supply Chain on a Global scale. Market and
Public Institutions will reach new economic and social objectives based on
control, transparency, cooperation along the Global Supply Chain. Market
needs new operators supporting this evolution.
YOUR MISSION
Our mission is becoming a leader Operator which enables e-Collaboration
among Global Supply Chain participants providing business applications thru an
integrated service platform. Leveraging the Global GS1 Standard we serve all
companies (sector and size) on a Global scale.
YOUR PROJECT
TPIS : from the prototype to a start of art operating system•
Platform
development completion that allows to use it in most industrial sectors,
starting from Food and Healthcare secotors.•
Implementing a reference
Traceability System for Food Safety and Quality in accordance with emerging
norms using EPCIS standard.•
Implementing Serialization and Traceability
Systems for Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices in accordance with the new
regulations that are being imposed in many countries and have a strong lever
for the adoption of new standards.•
Consolidate the organizational aspects
to become a reliable Outsoucer•
Identifying and developing the Partnership
to leverage for completing the Traceability objectives: Certification companies
(for Good Manufacturing Practice), Universities and Research Institutions (for
scientific coverage), network and computing service providers (covering Could
Services).
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
PATENTS
Null
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COPYRIGHT
Null
200 Billion€
YOUR COMPETITORS
GS1 Germany (incomplete, EPCIS only)Axway (USA) (EPCIS only)
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our TPIS platform integrates all features and function in a single architecture,
including: EDI, Trade Document Exchange, EPCIS, Mobile Services (eCommerce
document, data, event-capturing, mobile APPs for Consumer).Gartner Group
nominated us CoolVendor 2015 for Supply Chain Services.Recognize the
importance of Business Process Service Integration implemented in a single
platform.
FROM WHOM?
Private (personal) investor Mid-term loan from bank
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
ARMNet SRL
WEB SITE
www.armnet.co
REGION
Sardegna
28/05/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
See the problem, solve the problem.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
We're an international team; one of the cofounders and current CTO is from
Iran and the other one, the current CEO, is Italian. Our backgrounds are quite
diverse. Simone Demelas (the CEO) is a Marine Biologist with a master in
satellite remote sensing and GIS, Reza Paya (the CTO) is currently a student in
software Engineer in Rome.
YOUR VISION
Our vision is to become an all in one application for the management of
assistance tickets for any kind of service company (TELCOs, Energy and
similar). This will become a reality because of the core of our software which is
easily customizable for any request.
YOUR MISSION
To help our customers satisfy their customers by providing them with better
service. This is possible because our product is a great help to field operators
by giving better assistance in less time, reducing cost, and increasing the
efficiency of the company.
YOUR PROJECT
ARMNet is a software as a service that allows, thanks to an augmented reality
engine:- to see which elements of the network are around the field
operators;- to see where the problem is (when an assistance ticket is open)to reach the problem in the shortest time- to know in advance all the info
needed to solve it
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We don't have any patents at the moment
COPYRIGHT
We don't have any copyrights
YOUR COMPETITORS
1.000.000.000
10% of the European market share
AUGVIEW is the only direct competitor - it is a New Zealand Startup that
produces a mobile GIS connected to an augmented reality engine.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our product is directed at field operators and is focused on reducing the
assistance time. It differs from AUGVIEW because AUGVIEW is targeted at
Engineers and their projects. We differ from them because we're very easy to
use, we don't need a long training time, and we don't need a proprietary device
(just a normal commercial smartphone or tablet).
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HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 115.000,00
FROM WHOM?
We received a 25K € from TIM#WCAP, and 90K € from TIM Ventures, we are
currently in the TIM VENTURES portfolio
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Bad Seed SRL
WEB SITE
http://www.badseed.it/
REGION
Lombardia
14/01/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Video games aimed at gameplay and artistic innovation
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Bad Seed is a brand new start-up formed by a strong team of game industry
veterans. After several years working on popular console titles at Ubisoft,
Jacopo, Roberto and Clara left the Studios to build up a talented team of
developers. The team has 4 coders, 2 designers and 3 artists with years of
experience in the field. The perfect mix to create console quality video games
for mobile.
YOUR VISION
We create enriching, meaningful and unique game experiences, across various
platforms.
YOUR MISSION
We aim to establish a worldwide recognizable brand, based on the creation of
enriching, meaningful and unique game experiences, across various platforms.
YOUR PROJECT
Worlds is a video game adventure about fairy tales and the power of words. In
Worlds, the words of a story are literally the world in which it will take place.
As each level starts, a zoom-in effect will bring the player from the view of a
classic book page to a three dimensional environment. During this transition
each word, each letter, transforms itself to become an active gameplay
element, be that an alluring landscape, an odd building or a fearsome creature.
This change is not only a graphic device aimed at creating a dreamy
atmopshere, but a key gameplay feature, since the player will be able to
interact with the transmogrified letters and words. He could burn them, twist
them or recreate them anew. In this way he will change not only the game
world but the game story, since its words would be different. While the game
is, at is core, an adventure, the gameplay will shift accordingly to the story and
touch different genres, such as platformer or hack’n’slash. However, there
won’t be any pause in the action and the full experience will be perceived as a
whole, single and fluid adventure.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
.
COPYRIGHT
Sheep Up!Sleep AttackThe Beggar's RideWorlds
40 Billions
YOUR COMPETITORS
Our major competitors right now on mobile are console quality paid games like:
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Leo's Fortune, Limbo, Monument Valley and the various Double Fine's
adventures.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We have years of experience in the videogames world. In fact the core team
worked for year at Ubisoft on AAA console titles. We have been in the first
wave of developers bringing console quality games to the mobile space, we
created a strong fan base and a good relationship with the major mobile stores.
Once established with our titles in the mobile space, we aim to enlarge our
target market to new platform. In this way we aim to create a cross platform
brand based on the creation of enriching, meaningful and unique game
experiences.
FROM WHOM?
United Ventures - One of the most relevant Italian Venture CapitalistFaceIt One of the most growing e-sports startup worldwideMindTheBridge - US
investor bringing European startups in the Silicon ValleyGameFounders - First
European accelerator program for gaming startup
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Advertisement
COMPANY NAME
Buzzoole
WEB SITE
www.buzzoole.com
REGION
Lombardia
02/09/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
the vertical tool to generate qualified, easy and fast WOM.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
The founders all have impressive backgrounds. Fabrizio Perrone, the CEO, is
among the first in Italy to deal with the world of Buzz Marketing. He sold his
first startup in 2013. Gennaro Varriale, our CTO Senior Web Developer, Hacker,
is the first Italian to develop a Facebook app. Luca Pignataro, Art Director,
worked since 1998 in web & graphic design and Luca Camillo, Developer/
Programmer and systems engineer has more than 10 years of experience.
YOUR VISION
become the google adwords of buzz marketing
YOUR MISSION
simplify digital PR world, by unifying the power of word of mouth and the
easiness of displAY adv purchasing.
YOUR PROJECT
Buzzoole is the vertical tool to create and manage digital PR campaigns and
generate fast, easy and high-quality word of mouth. Our technology saves
up to 70% of the budget compared to traditional digital PR campaigns and our
model is totally based on the performance. We just launched our beta
version and started collaborating with over 150 international brands such as
Danone, Redbull, Ferrero and Ford. In addition, thanks to Buzzoole Finder,
we allow brands and agencies to search and find influencers by topic and
location from over 2 billion of web profiles. We have been regarded by SAP
as the most innovative startup in the domain of Big Data, Real Time and
Predictive Analysis, and we were also rewarded by Intel for the ICT category at
the European level. We just returned from San Francisco where we were
selected among the eight best startups worldwide in ICT, IOT and Social
innovation by Intel.here our video presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7d97pYzSeo
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
PATENTS
no
COPYRIGHT
no
34B
YOUR COMPETITORS
mylikesadminglekloutinstabrand
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE positioning.Buzzoole has 3 types of competitors:1. Digital PR agencies, for
example buzzparadise or Be On which are focused on a manual process
involving only top influencers.2. Brands like Klout and Peerindex who have a
comparable technology but a completely different business model based on
consultancy approach and focus on matching top brands with top
influencers.3. Brands like Mylkes who have a similar business model, but have
no technology to choose specific publishers and also have a more aggressive
approach as they pay cash to their influencers. Buzzoole is the unique
product to have self-service model, targeting influencer technology and a
friendly approach for agencies all together. The union of these factors gives us a
unique position to break into the market. we want to create efficient buzz
marketing campaign to be comparable with the traditional media perfomance
and make buzz a recurrent investment
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 1,2M
FROM WHOM?
r301 capitaldigital magicsexpert systemangel investors
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
CATAPUSH SRL
WEB SITE
WWW.CATAPUSH.COM
REGION
Lombardia
18/03/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
Simple reliable delivery API for transactional push notifications for
websites/applications
YOUR TEAM
PROTOTYPE
CATAPUSH™ management team includes:- Stefano Quintarelli - Shareholder
and Advisory Board MemberMember of Italian Parliament, President of the
Steering Committee of Italy Digital Agency, Founder of i.Net led to IPO and sold
to BT.- Luigi Orsi Carbone – President & CEOCofounder and former CEO of
Skebby, Board member Italia Startup and previously of Mind the Bridge,
Founder and CEO of Retelit led to IPO, Mckinsey Manager. - Davide
Marrone – Vice President & CTOCofounder and former CTO of Skebby,
Software architect & developer, IT security expert. MS in computer
science.Catapush team launched Skebby SMS applications recently sold to
Mobyt for €5M/20x ROI
YOUR VISION
YOUR MISSION
CATAPUSH™ messaging aims to empower developers and companies, who
already have a mobile app and active subscriber base, to send reliable,
traceable and cost effective transactional push notifications adding important
features to Android/iOS native push and scaling from one to millions of
messages without changing a line of code.
YOUR PROJECT
CATAPUSH™ is a simple, reliable and scalable delivery API for transactional
push notifications for websites and applications. Ideal for corporation sending
data-driven transactional notifications including targeted e-commerce and
personalized one-to-one messages. Thanks to delivery confirmation and real
time status tracking of each message sent it is possible to build intelligent
messaging logic in your app Since companies demand reliable and traceable
push notifications to support transactions, services and business processes
from their mobile apps, CATAPUSH™ allow any company to send reliable,
traceable but also cost-effective instant messages via the internet to its target
recipients i.e. the company’s app subscribers. Company can programmatically
send and track push notifications in real time, building intelligent messaging
logic in their mobile applications over the internet from one API.CATAPUSH™
overcomes the current state of the art of already existing push notifications
systems. Basic push notifications (Apple APNs and Android GCM) do not work
for reliable communication running a business process from a mobile app. IP
network does not automatically support message queuing to ensure delivering
even in dead zone. Catapush mobile platform push notifications even with
mobile connection dropouts ensuring delivery of important messages and
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receipts
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
CATAPUSH™ has not yet filed any patent application, but it has conducted a
thorough prior art search, with the double purpose to exclude risks of
infringement on the relevant market(s) and to identify so called “white-space
opportunities” to eventually apply for one or more patents on its specific
technology, once the architecture of the system is ultimately defined.
COPYRIGHT
At the current stage of development, CATAPUSH™’s core technology is based
on libraries and software codes, whose main form of protection is represented
by secrecy. The original code has been acquired by CATAPUSH™ based on a fully
paid-up asset purchase agreement between Mobile Solution s.r.l. and
CATAPUSH™ s.r.l. on April 7, 2015. With the same agreement, CATAPUSH™ has
acquired the communitarian “CATAPUSH™” trademark (logo and name) for
classes 9, 38, and 42 of the Nice Classification.In addition Catapush controls
the following domain names: CATAPUSH.com, CATAPUSH.net, CATAPUSH.org,
CATAPUSH.eu, CATAPUSH.it, CATAPUSH.ca, CATAPUSH.co.uk, CATAPUSH.de,
CATAPUSH.es, CATAPUSH.in, CATAPUSH.fr, CATAPUSH.ru, CATAPUSH.cn.
YOUR COMPETITORS
US $ 1BN
0,5%
Urban Airship, Parse, Infobip
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Catapush is the only system that provides guaranteed and timely delivery of
important push messages and delivery confirmation with real time status for
each message sent. The existing push messaging platforms, built on basic push
services provided by iOS/Android operating system are primarily designed for
marketing/promotional purposes and do not work for reliable communication
running a business process from a mobile app.
FROM WHOM?
Garden Ventures 2 Srl holding owed by Quintarelli
http://stefanoquintarelli.tumblr.com/chi-sono
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Advertisement
COMPANY NAME
CheckBonus
WEB SITE
www.checkbonus.it
REGION
Lombardia
01/07/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
The CheckBonus product (and project) is an app that allows to engage
consumers instore thanks to the ibeacon technology and create a new
interaction between the retail store and the end user.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
A small and very cohesive team that works very well together always combining
hard work and passion in the hope of seeing the company grow well and fast.
YOUR VISION
Innovate and create a new marketing tool for the store to transform the
shopping experience for the consumer.
YOUR MISSION
Grow and become the biggest app in the Italian retail world both for the
company chains and for the end user.
YOUR PROJECT
The CheckBonus product (and project) is an app that allows to engage
consumers instore thanks to the ibeacon technology and create a new
interaction between the retail store and the end user.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
CheckBonus is a mobile reward program that rewards users while they shop in
partners stores. Thanks to the ibeacon technology, CheckBonus is able to
connect the user to the store and increase the instore communication. Various
companies and brands are already working with CheckBonus.
COPYRIGHT
There are no copyrights.
YOUR COMPETITORS
2 bilions euro (Italy)
0,05
T-frutta, Doveconviene.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE First in Italy to use the ibeacon technology.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 750 k euro
FROM WHOM?
Serial Business Angels with extensive experience in retail and digital market.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
EveryRide Srl
WEB SITE
www.everyride.it
REGION
Lombardia
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT N77.11
06/10/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
eVeryride is the aggregator of all carsharing, bikesharing, scootersharing
services.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
LORENZO POLENTES - CEOItalian Management Engineer, he gives all of
himself working for what he believes in and, as he claims, "eVeryride is the
future."NICCOLO' SEMENZATO - Ideas Generator & Responsible for VASItaloAmerican out of the box idea and solution generator but analytical at the same
time, flexible and spontaneous.GIANNI REKHOPF - Designer & Brand
ManagerItalo-German, creative, diligent and precise at the same
time.MATTEO VISIN - CTOItalian Computer Engineer , he's been developing
since he was 13 years old and won several awards in competitions between
startups.
YOUR VISION
Cities where private cars are not allowed to transit; cities where public
transport, taxi and ridesharing solutions are so well integrated together to
benefit citizens of a huge flexibility, without lacking in efficiency; cities
populated by smart citizens, actively contributing to a sustainable living, for a
better world.
YOUR MISSION
Our mission is to favourite it, creating a unique aggregator of all ridesharing
services worldwide: a tool that’s fast, simple-to-use and with a consolidated
user experience that allows users to estimate costs and time and give the
opportunity of sharing rides with others, wherever they are.
YOUR PROJECT
In the last few years major European countries have seen the introduction of
carsharing, bikesharing and scootersharing services. Some of the most
important effects are the decrease in CO2 emissions, traffic and parking
optimization... On the other hand, while big cities like Milan are seeing the
birth of new services by the day, there is a lack of a centralized coordinated
tool that could help citizens to fully benefit from the synergies that could be
created among service users. eVeryride is a multiplatform application for
iOS, Android and WP; it permits users to quickly check all available sharing
mode vehicles in a city of interest, compare all available alternatives and
directly book them. The application is also provided with a lot of different
additional services such as pop up notifications that tell the user when the first
available car parks in an area of interest, or cost and time to destination
estimation. At the same time, eVeryride also offers the opportunity of booking
a taxi directly from the application. In the near future eVeryride will expand
internationally and will be upgraded with a series of innovative services that
will enhance user’s experience and will make urban travel even more efficient.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
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TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
There are no patents. Only 2 registered trademarks: -the text “EVERYRIDE”;eVeryride’s logo
COPYRIGHT
There are no patents. Only 2 registered trademarks: -the text “EVERYRIDE”;eVeryride’s logo
YOUR COMPETITORS
During the last 12 months, the Italian carsharing market
alone generated 2 million euro in revenues. Estimated
size by 2020 will be of 300 million euro (with a total of
1.5 million users and 15.000 vehicles). The same figures
at a global level are estimated to reach 6.2 billion euro,
with more than 12 million users: all this without taking
peer2peer carsharing services into account.
Currently covering only Italy and Germany, the complete
picture would see eVeryride as the unique worldwide
ridesharing aggregator app. This would be possible thanks
to international agreements between eVeryride and the
service providers that would let users subscribe to all (or
specific bundles of) services at the same time, paying a
specific fee, but with a single click instead of N subscription
modules. With a single consolidated customer experience,
eVeryride’s users would be able to book any vehicle
wherever they are. We are defining agreements with
Spanish, French and Portuguese operators already. For this
reason, in one year from now eVeryride will be covering all
ridesharing services active in Italy, Germany, Spain, France,
Portugal, Great Britain, Canada, USA.
Users today are forced to use N different applications to use N different
services, don’t know most of the times all the alternative solutions, have no
way of easily comparing the costs of those solutions and cannot share rides
with other random users. eVeryride brings all services on the same platform,
provides users with user-friendly tools to estimate costs and time and will in the
near future give the opportunity of sharing rides with other users to split costs
(for short distances).Similar solutions are offered by Carsh and Batsharing in
Italy (which unlike eVeryride have no relationship with the ridesharing
companies), and by Carjump and Mobility Map in Germany (both could expand
to Italy). Trip planner apps may consider entering within the ridesharing
market to complete their propositions: Allryder, Transit, City Mapper, and
Moovit are potential competitors in this sense. Uber, Lyft, Google and Apple
could also enter the market with unpredictable impacts. For what concerns
the single sharing services, we don’t see them as harmful competitors (even
considering Moovel future strategy). In each case, it is fundamental to build and
maintain strong collaboration relationships with the ridesharing providers in
order to reduce the risk tied to the dependency on their services (to limit their
power as providers of eVeryride), while constructing revenue models that do
not only depend on the relationship with the providers (to limit their role as
customers of eVeryride). This is what we are aiming at, and that is what
mostly differentiates eVeryride from the competitors: while in good terms with
all ridesharing service providers in Italy, in fact, we already have agreements
with most of them, even of exclusivity (which we are going to enforce in
September ‘15, making eVeryride the unique Italian carsharing aggregator
presenting all services).
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our competitive advantage is precisely related to the relations we have with
the providers, strong enough to give us the capability to receive even signed-up
exclusivity contracts.
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FROM WHOM?
There are no external investors involved at the moment.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
GaiaG
WEB SITE
www.gaiagsat.eu; www.eumetfast.eu; www.vintage-project.eu
REGION
Lombardia
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT J-62.01
28/11/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
real time web Decision Support system by remote sensed sensors.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Compiled language and open source approach for image understanding,
artificial intelligence, three-dimensional structures analysis, machine learning
algorithms, non linear clustering for satellite image processing and
encoding/transcoding satellite raw data. The company skill is the production
of software able to facilitate the management of satellite data, improve it’s
utilization in the precision agriculture, environmental monitoring and security
sectors, introduce the exploitation of satellite data in news sectors integrating
them in complex Decision Support System of Systems (DSSS) and Decision
Making System of Systems (DMSS).
YOUR VISION
Gaiag’s aim is the diffusion of remote sensing culture and the extension of
utilisation and exploitation to stakeholders with any satellite know how, in
order to enable them to reach the future opportunities due to the more and
more quantity, higher and higher quality and accessibility of satellite data
given by ESA (European Space Agency) and EUMETSAT (European Organisation
for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites).
YOUR MISSION
Gaiag wants to be at the frontier of remote sensing sector developing fully
automated applications able to facilitate spaceborne, airborne and ground
sensors technologies exploitation in different ground sector in order to enable
any kind of end-users to take more effective decisions in real time.
YOUR PROJECT
2012-2015: 5 European research centers are funded with 2.3 Meuro by Europe
FP7 pre-industrial research project to bring to market decision support system
for precision viticulture VINTAGE conceive by GaiaG. After 3 years, in February
2015, the project ends and GaiaG become the sole owner of the system.20112015: while the 5 research centers working on VINTAGE, GaiaG develops web
services World Watch to process in near real-time ESA and NASA
environmental satellite data.2015: GaiaG combines the foreground of three
years of VINTAGE R&D with his 5 years background in remote sensing
application, than finalize on the market two web services without direct
competitors in the world: VINTAGE and World Watch.VINTAGE: system for
daily monitoring of the field accessible via web interface initialized by satellite
data (ESA and NASA) and ground sensors data. Integrates artificial intelligence,
advanced agro-weather modeling, adaptable to the interventions of the field
by farmes (field book) and provided with mobile version to insert ACTION in
the system.http://www.vintage-project.eu/World Watch: monitoring
system from the interest of the customer in real-time of more than 50
environmental variables. Fully automatic and based on satellite data ESA and
NASA.
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
0
COPYRIGHT
0
YOUR COMPETITORS
3.000.000
10%
no direct competitors indirect competitors:- provider of precision farming
services- European Space Agency
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE easy accessibility of servicesperformanceuniqueness of the web services and
products
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 2.700.000
FROM WHOM?
not external investors but public funding (European commission - 2.3 Meuro,
national and regional funding)
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
GROWISH S.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.growish.com
REGION
Lombardia
27/12/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Collect money from friends and family for anything you wish of doing
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Claudio Cubito (47), CEO & Co-FounderMBA | Ex-MD multinational chemical
company, Music editor & journalistFounder EMP Italia, E-commerce rock
€7,5m+ , 150k+ customers.NLP Coach and & Senior trainer Scotwork
Negotiating SkillsDomingo Sarmiento Lupo (27), Co-founder, CTOEngineer,
software developer & system analyst. Expert in digital management and R&D.
Born in Venezuela.Lorenzo Colombini (Back-end Dev)Simone Stanco (Frontend Dev)Caterina Pancotti (Sales & ListaNozze resp.)Miriam Bastia (Digital
Marketing strategist)
YOUR VISION
To be the leading collective payment service in Italy and in Europe for
collecting money from friends and family for anything you wish of doing or
receiving.Online / Offline integration. Can get money collected online on your
bank account or spend it with a network of online / offline partners.
YOUR MISSION
To make collective payment easy and safe. No more hassle in collecting money.
Get the money from friend and family for any thing you wish of doing.
YOUR PROJECT
Growish is the first Italian collective payment service allowing people to
collect money from friends and family for anything you wish of doingFriends,
relatives and colleagues living in different areas are now able to share the cost
of anything by contributing with others in any occasion (Christmas, birthdays,
weddings, graduations, newborns, anniversaries, travels, and so on). Thanks to
its innovative group payment system, collecting money with Growish is fast,
easy and safe.Start collecting, invite other participants via e-mail or Facebook,
monitor your collection. Then you can transfer the money collected to your
bank account or choose a gift from more than 100 giftcards of major
brands.Partnership are developing with several e-commerce websites to add
the button “Pay with Growish” bottom and to add a gift list service on their
website, to allow customers to buy by group.Recently, Growish launched
ListaNozzeOnline.com, a collective payment service for wedding, to allow bride
and groom to collect the value of the gifts to financially support their wedding.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
No patent
COPYRIGHT
No copyright
1BILLION EURO TRANSACTIONS in Italy
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YOUR COMPETITORS
20MIL EURO
From France, but not in Italy: www.Leetchi.comFrom Spain, but in Italy:
www.zankyou.comFrom USA, but not In Europe: www.paybygroup.comFrom
France: www.Buybox.comMinor in Italy: www.giftsitter.com,
www.given2.com. www.squeezol.com
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE First mover in ItalyPartnership networkMedia & partner relations thanks to
Digital Magics
FROM WHOM?
Digital Magics Venture IncubatorsR301 InvestmentNader Sabbaghian, CEO
BravoSolution (+100M), McKinseyAlessandro Rivetti, Serial digital
entrepreneur & angel Founder, Bakeka.itAnna Maria Siccardi, Bakeka.it
shareholder and founder of Retedeldono.it
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
GV Mobile Partners Ltd
WEB SITE
http://www.gvmobilepartners.com
REGION
Lombardia
26/09/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Hi-code, the Speaking QR-code
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
CEO & CTO: Gianluca Vitali, MBA, 18 years of experience as software developer
and project manager in software & mobile marketsCFO: Ruben Bergonzi: 18
years of experience as financial manager in international companies CMO:
Lisanna Oddone: 14 years of experience in marketing and sales manager in IT
companies
YOUR VISION
In the digital world there are millions of web sites and billion of products
browsed every day. Advertise your web site is not enough for reaching new
customers today so Hi-Code, based on a large analysis of users behavior, built
and delivered a new platform for mobile marketing campaigns.
YOUR MISSION
Hi-Code gives the opportunity to create internet advertisements with no
special technical knowledge and without having to deal with large investments.
Hi-Code wants to allow any person to understand advertising contents by the
naked eyes and to allow them get only the information they are really
interested in.
YOUR PROJECT
Here a brief video presentation: http://youtu.be/yPgunLRIGCsHi-code can
contain Pictures, Text, Videos and 3D Objects. It can be printed on any physical
material (paper, plastic, metal, cloth, ...) and on any virtual support (internet
web site, television, multimedia advertising billboard, ...). Hi-code is an
image that can be scanned with a smartphone camera in order to get any kind
of information. Users who scanned hi-codes can be recontacted via push
notification by companies and information can be personalized for each single
user.Hi-code can be scanned with the Free Hi-code App or with any third
party APP by integrating the Hi-code reader.Hi-code can be used in any
sector and any kind of information can be provided to the user. Hi-code can
be used for:- Showing a web site, a video, a promotion, a coupon ... Different
information can be displayed according to geographical area, timeframe and
user's language- Showing product's information and buying it just scanning
it- Making a payment, a donation or a voting- Providing product
anticounterfeit and traceability- Involving the user in an instant win contest,
in a competition with a prize draw- Any other custom action …
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Graphical Code PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) filed to WIPO
organization.Current status: Worldwide Patent Pending.
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COPYRIGHT
Hi-code, the Speaking QR-code
YOUR COMPETITORS
€23.9 Billion
0,01%
QR-code is the main competitor. Companies currently working with QR-codes
may become our customers as soon as they will understand that Hi-code is an
evolution of the current technology it can generate revenues for them too.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Hi-code is a cool innovation, it’s attractive and it stimulates customers’
curiosity. Hi-code is not an idea but a product. We own its intellectual property:
Hi-code is Worldwide Patent Pending and the Trademark is registered as well.
FROM WHOM?
Matteo Pepe, entrepreneurGiovanni Tulipano, entrepreneur
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
INDIEGALA s.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.indiegala.com
REGION
Lazio
02/12/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
solid and affordable digital distribution platform
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
highly motivated and competent staff
YOUR VISION
Our aim is to make outstanding PC games available at prices that every gamer
can afford. At same time we aim to develop solid and profitable PC and
console games.
YOUR MISSION
Expand and become the leader in PC digital distribution european market as
long as one of the leading independend game developent studio
YOUR PROJECT
- widening of consumer userbase- strengthening of the distribution networkincrease the number of commercial games in development
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
PATENTS
0
COPYRIGHT
BLOCKSTORM TM - MULTIPLAYER PC VIDEOGAME
YOUR COMPETITORS
100.000.000
5%
-VALVE CORPORATION-GREENMANGAMING.COM-HUMBLEBUNDLE.COMBUNDLESTARS.COM
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE -Proprietary e.commerce software;-more services for users;-lower
production costs;
FROM WHOM?
-
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
INVENTIA SRL
WEB SITE
WWW.INVENTIA.BIZ
REGION
Lombardia
02/07/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Our product is an advanced video communication system
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Inventia team is composed of 18 people. the hearth of Inventia is Inventia
factory, the team dedicated to the software and hardware development and is
composed of designers, engineers an software developments. In addition
there is a commercial team made of four people and two administrative
resources.
YOUR VISION
Inventia is a B2B company, the vision is to give clients the possibility of
manage a coherent customer experience in any digital channel, available to
manage with the same level of service any request from the final customer,
(e.g. opening a bank account)
YOUR MISSION
Provide a complete set of touch point solutions for any client (websites widget,
mobile app sdk, and kiosk and video station to increase the number of touch
point of any company.
YOUR PROJECT
Our project, based on an advanced video communication system makes an
human interaction available on any touch point in order to incrase the number
of touch point availabe, the customer experience, the conversions and the
number of services deliverable in a digital channel.Any process can be
implemented in a cross channel way, meaning an operations can be started in
a touch point and can be ended in a different end point in a different moment
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
PATENTS
NONE
COPYRIGHT
INVENTIA.CONNECT-V.2.0.1.4SIAE NUM 009704 DEL 04 JUNE 2015
4 bn euro
YOUR COMPETITORS
Digital Signage Ecosystem,Video Communication and Telepresence
Solutions,Video Assistance SW,ATM/KIOSK Manufacturer,
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Inventia is the only omnichannel video customer engagement solution, able to
recreate a real human to human interaction in any digital touch point and
dedicated Kiosk or Video Station.Any company involved in service retail can
take advantage of Inventia Solution to expand the services deliverable in digital
channel and to improve conversions in already available services.
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HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 750.000 (eur)
FROM WHOM?
IAG, Itailian Angel for Growth
(http://www.italianangels.net/2015/04/02/inventia/) and other private
investors
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Jusp S.P.A.
WEB SITE
www.jusp.com
REGION
Sardegna
11/09/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
Innovative end-to-end mobile payment solution and VAS for Mid and Large
Companies.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Jusp Team is composed of young and talented executives and technologists.
The founder, Jacopo Vanetti is expert in software development and data
encryption. Jacopo is complemented by a strong group of managers and angel
investors with experience in financial services and payment processing, telco
distribution and have an extensive network of business contacts in Italy and
other EU countries. The CEO is Stefano Calderano, who has over 20 years of
experience in the retail banking industry having held senior positions at
Mckinsey & Co., BancoPosta, Banca Intesa and BNL-BNP Paribas. The JUSP team
also includes Bruno Spadoni, former CEO of Setefi S.p.A. which provides
electronic payments services, card issuing s and acquiring. JUSP CFO Paolo
Martinelli was previously with KPMG and Societe Generale. Marcello Base is a
JUSP board member and advises on corporate strategy, Marcello was formerly
at Procter & Gamble.
YOUR VISION
Jusp wants to become a leading mobile commerce service provider helping
mid and large companies to maximize revenues and reduce costs increasing
their overall satisfactions connected to card payments. Jusp focus is on the
user experience during the payment acceptance, it must become frictionless
and ubiquitous.
YOUR MISSION
Jusp has realised a complete solution to allow merchants of all sizes to improve
their mobile commerce effectiveness creating value added services around
payment transactions and collected data.
YOUR PROJECT
JUSP main project has been built around the concept to be and independent
Payment Service Provider that controls all the key elements from hardware
(mPOS terminal) and software point of view and it is expected to become a
Payment Institution authorized by Banca d’Italia by 2016.JUSP has designed,
developed and engineered its own mPOS device (JUSP J101).JUSP mPOS J101
device is unique on the market. Today is the world's smallest mPOS device that
handles the Chip & PIN secure payments with a PIN pad and a screen entirely
developed and produced by JUSP.JUSP mPOS J101 is the only device on the
market that enables acceptance of electronic payments using the Chip & PIN
functionality via the audio jack channel. This extends its compatibility with any
portable device (e.g. smartphone, tablet, PC) and, potentially, any Operating
System.JUSP mPOS devices are managed by JUSP Terminal Management
System, which implement also POS gateway functionality toward Acquirer’s
existing infrastructure. JUSP payment application is available for any kind of
device (smartphone, tablet, PC) and is the only one in the world to also
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connects with Pcs. All the operating systems (Android, iOS, Windows Phone
and for PC Windows 8, 7 and others) are covered for full compatibility and
maximum flexibility.JUSP offering include a Marketing Analytics Portal
providing:•
Web Merchant Onboarding •
Web Merchant (Self-care)
Portal•
Payments Data management•
Value-Added Services management
JUSP MAP is an infrastructure that enables clients to increase commercial
effectiveness by combining historical payment transaction data and marketing
tools for campaign management via SMS or email to final users that already
purchased merchant’s product and also loyalty program management. JUSP
MAP includes product catalogue creation tools, enabling small business to have
in few steps a Point of Sale Software for her activity.All the services can be
accessed via Web from merchants or corporate administrators. The core part
of JUSP service engine is also open via web services via JUSP back-end
API.APIs are available not only for all Mobile Operating Systems, but also for
Web Browser and Windows native applications, which were instrumental in
gaining important large corporate customers (e.g. Axa, Groupama, Ergo
insurance, ITAS insurance, Ariston Thermo, IBL Banca among them) for several
thousands devices to be deployed to their remote people.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
One International patent. The object of the patent is a method of
communication for managing credit or debit EMV chip cards payments through
audio channel between a mobile POS terminal and a smartphone/tablet.For
the method of communication, the patent covers the following:Communication management between mobile POS terminal and a
smartphone/tablet via audio channel;-transaction amount entering via card
reader keypad and displaying it on card reader display-PIN code entering via
card reader keypad-Transaction data management, including transaction
amount and PIN code using data packets transmitted with FSK (Frequency-shift
keying) frequency modulation scheme.Concerning the mobile POS card
reader the patent covers:-EMV chip cards reader module-User interface
module for entering PIN code and transaction amount, -Displaying of
transaction amount-Transaction data management module to transmit
transaction amount and PIN code using data packets using FSK (Frequency-shift
keying) frequency modulation scheme via audio channel.-Processor Unit
module, located in tamper proof zone, to handle the above transaction data
and to manage communication over secure connection to a centralized
system-Encryption module for transaction data encoding/decoding.
COPYRIGHT
JUSP is evaluating to protect its IP on own SW product and documentation
generated by company.
YOUR COMPETITORS
30 Billion €
We expect to reach about 0,5% of the number od POS
devices in Italy in 2015, a small but significant share. Since
the business model works on the subscription paid by
clients every month, there is a cumulative effect that
drives very important growth in the first years. In 2016 this
number could grow to around 3%
Competitors in mobile commerce arena can be split in two main groups, but in
many cases the business model and the market segments are different than
JUSP ones.New startup players in Europe: Payleven, Sumup, iZettle. They all
focus only on micromerchants and not on mid and large
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companies.Incumbents leveraging traditional POS business: commercial banks,
especially Intesa Sanpaolo, also focusing on micromerchants to avoid
cannibalisation.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Depending on the segment.•
Large corporate: our key competitive advantage
is the proprietary API to integrate all kind of applications, not only based on
mobile operating systems (iOS, Android and Windows Phone), but also with
Web Browser applications and Windows native applications, which are still the
majority in the large corporate world.•
Mid retailers: our key competitive
advantage ist he Value added services we provide to our merchants through our
portal M.A.P. (Marketing Analytics Portal), in particular the marketing suite to
reach current customers through transaction data.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 4.0 M Euro
FROM WHOM?
Principia SGR (Venture Capital)Vertis SGR (Venture Capital)They are two
Italian VC funds.Several Angel Investor, between them Stefano Calderano (also
CEO) and Giulio Valiante (Buongiorno, Jobrapido)
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
JUST FUNNY GAMES S.R.L.
WEB SITE
www.justfunnygames.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
13/10/2009
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
“Captain Kirk Simulator” in Virtual Reality featuring a movie's length!
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
The core team is composed by veterans in the gaming industry with almost 15
years of experience and is composed by management, product manager,
developers, game designers, graphical artists and sound designers. We can
cover all the possible stages of game development. We work in synergy with
several professional figures and studios located in Italy and in Europe. We are
capable of easily scale up and complete even the most ambitious tasks. We
built a consolidated network of professional experiences in Videogame industry
and we love to share our creativity, flair and "Italian Passion" to bring a value
added in all our products.
YOUR VISION
Scale up to finance the production of our major IPs in order to increase our
presence in the B2C market. Our vision for the company is to produce 3 major
titles in 2 years for the worldwide Gaming Market and up to 5 minor titles.
YOUR MISSION
To create an entertainment experience that involves the whole world, no
matter where users play, it matters how satisfied they are! Our Mission is to
produce an original videogame saga that can target a large market niche and
scale up the market as owners of very profitable IPs.
YOUR PROJECT
We have worked with 2 business models in the first years, B2B professional
services and B2C production of our own IPs. Working for some major
customers on B2B, allowed us to consolidate the team experience and to study
the Mobile and Console markets. Now we think that is the time to make a step
to grow on the B2C market and we have designed our IPs to cover the major
part of the Gaming market niches. On top of this vision there is a special
product made for Virtual Reality Devices. The Product name is "Commander",
and it is a story driven videogame that puts you on the captain’s seat of a
space battleship. We specially designed Commander for the VR, very scalable
with a huge potential in terms of user base and early adopters for VR
technology. The product can be available both for PC (Oculus) and Sony
Playstation 4 (Project Morpheus). To summarize, our project for the Company
is to use the funds at our disposal to scale up the team and produce our major
IPs starting from Commander that can be released in one year of development.
This time window will be particularly good to become a best seller for the VR
platforms; we truly believe that!
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
PATENTS
NONE
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COPYRIGHT
We own 10 Intellectual Properties: 3 published games, 1 PC game in
development, 6 prototypes IPs for several gaming platforms.
YOUR COMPETITORS
80 Billion EUR
750.000 EUR
B2B: Small independent studios that provide professional services for gaming
and app development. B2C: Small Game Developing Independent studios.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Ability to scale from Mobile projects to Console projects, both in terms of
technology (Java, Objective-C to C ++) both in terms of production capacity
through a networks of companies already consolidated. Among the competitive
advantages should be mentioned the creativity and the relationship that is in
development with Sony for the virtual reality project: “Commander” designed
for Morpheus hardware. To date JFG is one of the few Italian companies having
planned and invested in immersive mobile games (SBK15 on Samsung Gear VR)
and console, liaising directly with the manufacturers.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 0 EUR
FROM WHOM?
NONE
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Keganzo S.r.l.
WEB SITE
http://www.keganzo.com
REGION
Lazio
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 62.01 - produzione di software non connesso all'edizione
30/03/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
SHADO protects your privacy when you share messages and files.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Our core team (Perla Pugi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/perlapugi], Giuliano
Pistolesi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/giulianopistolesi], Mario Paolucci
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariopaolucci], Massimiliano Basciano
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimilianobasciano] e Alessandra Lucanto
[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/alessandra-lucanto/5a/875/959]) is very small
and our members cover multiple roles simultaneously thanks to their
multidisciplinary background. The strange mix of gaming, cognitive and AI
systems development and artistic skills make our team able to redefine
conceptual design of mobile applications, as it is quite evident in the instant
messaging Android app SHADO
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keganzo.shado.client.app&
hl=en], our first product, very representative of the visually catching mix of
technology and design we are able to create.
YOUR VISION
We aim at creating kickass apps for the Android users.
YOUR MISSION
We are really mad about Android and we are always in quest of intriguing ideas
to make them real by bits and bitmaps.
YOUR PROJECT
Following recent scandals about foreign government agencies wiretapping
internet users’ communications or social networks with a very light or no
privacy protection of users data, most of the today’s instant messaging users
are strongly demanding for privacy and confidentiality of their personal data
and conversations.SHADO by Keganzo is a new free secure instant messaging
app for the Android market that protects both conversations and the users’
privacy. The app strongly encrypts messages and files sent over Internet
through a new open perfect forward secrecy protocol
(http://www.keganzo.com/shado-encryption-protocol.html). Moreover,
messages and files can be destroyed after a timeout established by the user.
SHADO provides protection and confidentiality better than similar apps like
Telegram and Whatsapp. First, it does not read a user phone book and allows
users to customize a big set of security settings for their messaging and file
sharing. Further, files are not stored in smartphones’ public directories
protecting the user against malicious third-party apps that steal personal data.
Finally, if the smartphone wakes up from stand-by, the screen is encrypted so
that only authorized users can read messages and files shared. Thus a user can
share confidential information without risks to be wiretapped.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
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TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
Multi-platform, client-server distributed system for multi-player videogame,
and method of simulation of lifelike virtual character for videogame usable
with such system (Italian Patent n. 1379011 released on 14/02/2007).The
invention concerns the implementation of a cloud gaming technology for
sharing virtual worlds among thousands of players connected by different
devices. Those worlds are inhabited by characters whose AI make them able to
engage players in the real world for virtual challenges. Players can influence
the evolution of those virtual worlds by taking actions in the real one. Those
pervasive features makes massive multiplayer online gaming more engaging
for players.
COPYRIGHT
Our cutting-edge brand-new SHADO encryption protocol for instant messaging
is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
International License.
€ 1,25 billion
Mobile instant messaging apps are the fastest-growing app
category worlwide and the estimated revenue worlwide
will peak at about $ 240 billion by 2015 (surce: Portio
Research). Instant messaging apps both will account for
75% of the total traffic and will generate 2% of the entire
revenue, at just over $ 3 billion, for mobile messaging
market by 2018 (source: Juniper Research). Despite this
growth, privacy management is a big issue: 66% of mobile
apps disclose to third-party personal data of their users
(source: HP).Since age under 25 accounts for about 30%
instant messaging app users on average since 2013
(source: Informate Mobile Intelligence, GlobalWebIndex,
IPG Media Lab), it is quite evident that young people are
the most exposed and interested protect against privacy
and security threats (source: IPG Media Lab).Within this
market frame, Android remain the leader for mobile OSs
market share in 2015 (78% on smartphones and 52% on
tablets; source: mobiForge) yet the less secure (4x annual
increasing of malware and malicious apps; source: IBM,
McAfee). Avast predicts mobile threats will reach the same
magnitude as PC malware by 2018.Our TAM is Android
apps, worthing about $ 7 billion (source: New York
Times).Our SAM is Android instant messaging apps,
whose market share is about $ 1,4 billion (20% of
TAM).Our SOM is Android instant messaging apps,
targeting young users (25 yrs and under) who need strong
privacy protection when talking and sharing confidential
information.To estimate reasonable numbers for our
SOM we will take a look at some of our competitors 2014
figures (source: Forbes, GlobalWebIndex, Whatsapp,
Tencent):(1) Whatsapp gained 616 million users in 2014
(29% under age 25) and reported $ 13,5 million with a tryand- buy business model;(2) WeChat gained 468 million
users (33% under age 25) and reported revenues for more
than $ 400 million with a freemium model;(3) Line gained
400 million users (30% under age 25) and reported
revenues for $ 656 million with a freemium model;(4)
KakaoTalk gained about 140 million users (30% under age
25) and made revenues for $ 203 million with a freemium
model.These data could be read as an advantage of the
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freemium model over the try-and-buy but it depends a lot
on features offered by respective apps.To recap our
benchmarking results, Whatsapp SOM is worth $ 3,92
million (0,3% of SAM), WeChat SOM is worth $ 132 million
(9,4% of SAM), Line SOM is worth $ 196,8 million (14% of
SAM) and KakaoTalk SOM is worth $ 60,9 million (4,4% of
SAM).However, despite the crowded and competitive
market segment, 63% of mobile user are usual to use more
than 1 instant messaging app weekly (source: Deloitte).
Then, respective SOM estimation are not mutually
exclusive, and whereas it is difficult to estimate our SOM
with these figures, the good news is that there are chance
for market penetration from new instant messaging apps
like SHADO.Realistically, with a very significative
investment in marketing in countries not yet conquered by
competitors, we believe we could gain a SOM of $ 0,98
million (0,07% of SAM) one year from now.
YOUR COMPETITORS
Our main competitors are:WHATSAPPLaunched in 2009, is the #1 of instant
messaging apps in more than 140 countries worlwide. It gained about 700
million users until now but is strongly criticized for poor privacy and security
concerns.Strenghts:(1) brand name;(2) cross-platform;(3) financial
resources.Weaknesses:(1) poor privacy protection;(2) vulnerability to
eavesdropping and third-party apps (http://www.myce.com/news/usersshouldnt-trust-on-whatsapps-end-to-end-encryption-75939/);(3) limits on file
sharing.TELEGRAMLaunched in 2013, is the #1 of secure instant messaging
apps, with more than 10 million users. It is the commonly the first alternative
choice for users annoyed by privacy and security concerns with other instant
messaging apps.Strenghts:(1) brand name;(2) cross-platform;(3) financial
resources.Weaknesses:(1) poor privacy protection;(2) vulnerability to manin-the-middle and malicious third-party apps
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Security_concerns);(3)
unreliable file sharing.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The SHADO USP is "talk freely, protect your privacy".We take privacy very
seriously and our encryption protocol, which is based on well-known secure
models and techniques, is invulnerable to eavesdropping and
MitM.Strenghts:(1) strong privacy protection;(2) lot of security settings
available to users;(3) invulnerability to eavesdropping, MitM and malicious
third-party apps.Weaknesses:(1) competitive market;(2) little marketing
resources;(3) limited file-sharing options.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 184,403
FROM WHOM?
€ 89.965 from ESF EU funds for the Keganzo start-up stage, as a consequence of
winning a public regional competition for innovative start-up projects in 2012
(more info, in Italian, available on
http://www.opencoesione.gov.it/progetti/1lala1000034666/).€ 45.000 from
Family & Friends, for the seed stage.€ 49.438 as contribution in kind for the
cloud gaming patent from new partners.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Kopjra Srl
WEB SITE
kopjra.com
REGION
Veneto
11/07/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Kopjra Anti-Piracy: first detection, takedown and forensic copyright protection
SaaS.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Emanuele Casadio: 25, first class MEng in Informatics, back-end developer at
KsyTech digital strategy boutique (2010 - 2013), teaming with Tommaso
Grotto. Activist fo Wikimedia Foundation and voluteer translator for
Valve.Tommaso Grotto: 26, graduating in Business Informatics, co-founder
and front-end developer at KsyTech (2007 - 2013). Author for Borsa Italiana and
IG on algorithmic trading. Volunteer mentor for Lean Startup Machine and
Startup Weekend.Luca Trevisan: 25, MSc in Economics and Finance and
Galileian School of Higher Education Diploma in Humanities. Internt at Banca
IMI SpA, Value Management Desk. President of GURi cultural and recreative
association.
YOUR VISION
Internet has been left in anarchy by law-makers and companies which are
gaining from Intellectual Property and privacy infringement. Citizens must be
empowered with new tools to effectively protect and enforce their own rights
online.
YOUR MISSION
Kopjra will provide citizens with those tools. Starting with copyright protection,
we are going to build an environment of services for online Law protection and
enforcement. We will become Italian leader in our industry by 2016 and one of
the most important European actor by the following year.
YOUR PROJECT
Kopjra is a startup involved in the protection of the Intellectual Property and of
the privacy, supported by TIM #WCAP accelerator and by the University of
Bologna.In 2014, it was selected by TIM, the biggest Italian telco, for the TIM
#WCAP accelaration program and grant. In 2015 Kopjra has begun to
collaborate, as a coached company, with the European business network EIT
Digital.In May Kopjra organized Legal Tech Forum 2015, first Italian
conference on legal technologies. Important actors of this fast-growing sector
were involved, such as AGCOM, Mediaset Group, Baker & McKenzie.Kopjra
Anti-piracy SaaS is the first product Kopjra launched aiming at customers of any
size. It enables the users to detect the online copyright infringements and to
send takedown notifications to the subjects involved in the unlawful acts, in
order to command the removal of the right infringing content and to obtain
damage refunding.Kopjra's proposal goes beyond the sole content removal top service offered by competitors -with the forensic digital evidence
acquisition procedures. These have been designed according to main
international standards, in particular ISO 27037-2012 and it will apply for PCT
by the end of 2015.
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
We have filed no patent up to present moment.
COPYRIGHT
Kopjra has copyrighted the first version of the product according to Italian law
through deposit at SIAE.
145B
YOUR COMPETITORS
Few specialized players dominate the industry. They are divided into two
categories: those offering usual detection and takedown solutions
(MarkMonitor Antipiracy, Digimarc e Vobile), and those involved in specific
activities that may be related to piracy (Semetrics, Excipio). Another distinction
may be applied between those providing clients with a SaaS (MUSO.com) and
those selling consulting activities performed thanks to an internal software
(In.Co.Pro, Arvato Entertainment's mBargo). Most of our competitors have 20
to 50 employees, with few bigger outliers.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Kopjra's competitors' massive fault is the neglecting of all those innovative
aspects of anti-piracy activity that have been considered in our vision: the
forensic digital evidence acquisition and the suffered damage evaluation
offered as a service to a wide mass of potential users, thanks to the SaaS form.
Kopjra's services are both innovative and scalable, making our advantage
defensible with regard to our competitors.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 191K
FROM WHOM?
Alfa13: Business Angel Network of local Vicenza enterpreneurs and
professionals associated with Custodi di Successo.TIM Ventures: Corporate VC
fund of the biggest Italian Telco.CII2: self-defined accelerator enhancer, fix
amount seed investors.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
LD-brane SRLS
WEB SITE
www.speedyplan.com
REGION
Lombardia
04/04/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Cloud-based solution for the optimization of transport and logistics.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Dario Zamboni: CEO: master degree in computer science achieved at the
University of Milano. Previous Professional Experience as Project Manager in an
Incubator with focus on Cloud and WEB projects. CEO of WayOut srlSandro
Gianoli: graduated in Economics from Bocconi University. has a long and deep
experience in the ICT market matured in Arthur Andersen, SAP as Italian
Direttore Generale, Telecom Italia Finsiel as Enterprise Business Unit Director, G
–group as President, Comdata as Business Development Manager, Realtech as
Italian Executive Vice PresidentLuca Gamberale CTO: PHD in physics achieved
at the University of Milano. Specialties: finding innovative solutions to technical
or theoretical problems. Modeling and simulation of complex problems. Code
developer.
YOUR VISION
THE LOGISTICS OF THE FUTUREA new way to manage deliveries for your
company
YOUR MISSION
Be the most powerfull cloud optimization platform in the market.
YOUR PROJECT
SpeedyPlan.comis a native Cloud-based solution accessible via web browser,
for the optimization of transport logistics of goods, providing significant cost
savings both in terms of route optimization and employee resources. This
platform, unique in the market, has proven effective in tests carried out so far.
Through use of this application one of our customers realized savings of up to
25% of the monthly costs of transport.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
New algorithm for optimization
COPYRIGHT
speedyplan.com
YOUR COMPETITORS
100.000.000
0,003
Since the market is embryonic, there are not strong competitors, with our
innovative solution.There are some software to manage logistics and
transportation, and few solution for optimization but till now none are
developed in a cloud environment.Our direct competitors are listed
below:AntOptimaPTV – IntertourRoadnet Transportation Suite
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE - Cloud-based solution accessible via web browser, for the optimization of
transport and logistics.- the use of Cloud Computing allows you to abandon
the old corporate IT infrastructure- simple and intuitive user interfaceReporting and management of deliveries- Dataflow integration with legacy
ERP- optimized transport planning- waybill preparation is done in a few
minutes- the software can be customized to the specific needs of the
business- Save delivery costs- Save employers costs- Save number of trucks
and related social impacts
FROM WHOM?
public funding
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Lucian S.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.openmove.com
REGION
Trentino Alto Adige
11/11/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
OpenMove is an innovative mobile ticketing solution featuring proximity
marketing.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
• Lorenzo Modena, CEO. Serial entrepreneur, 2 companies founded: Yoodeal
(worldwide aggregator of online deals, partner with the major italian online
newspapers, 3.5M$ valuation), Lisport (innovative hardware and software
solutions for sport, partner with top level sport teams and federations in Italy,
www.lisport.com). He leads the team.• Marco Stenico, CTO. Wide experience
in document-oriented databases and APIs implementation; active member of
MeteorJS community and contributor to several open source projects. He takes
care of the architecture of OpenMove.• Alessandro Sosi, COO. Mechatronic
engineer, 3 years of experience as researcher and project manager. He
organises daily operations.
YOUR VISION
Unlike Facebook for social networks, iTunes for music, Google for search
engines, etc., there are no big players in mobile ticketing. We want to be the
reference platform able to catalyse the market, becoming the de facto
standard solution.
YOUR MISSION
The mission is to scale globally, iterating this very simple go-to-market
strategy: B2G partnerships with mobility providers (which guarantees us a huge
organic user base), B2C engagement towards users and B2B geolocalised
advertising to create added value for all the players involved.
YOUR PROJECT
OpenMove is a comprehensive solution for mobile ticketing with three
different software solutions towards final users, transport companies and local
merchants.• Final users use a mobile app to plan their trip and pay for all
transport services such as bus, train, subway, carsharing and parking.
Particularly tourists benefit of OpenMove as a simple point of access to find
trip information and to pay without currency or language issues.• Transport
companies have available a web platform (to organise mobility, elaborate
statistics and manage accountancy), an API layer for integration with existing
informative systems and an app for ticket and plate inspection. It has no
implementation costs and has a super fast deployment (in hours, while
competitors take months). Thanks to OpenMove providers experience +18%
tickets sold (since users are encouraged to pay in a simple way) and 13% fewer
costs, due to reduced maintenance of ticket machines, savings on personnel
costs, and accountancy costs cut.• Merchants use a campaign manager to
organise location-based advertising campaigns. They engage profiled and
geolocalized users to convey them within their shops in a cost-effective way
with metrics available in real-time. Our target are local merchants which
features goods, services and events.
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
-
COPYRIGHT
Lucian S.r.l. owns the project and brand OpenMove.
100B
25% in Italy
YOUR COMPETITORS
Market is extremely fragmented in local and proprietary apps with a lot of
mobile ticketing solutions verticalised on specific towns and certain means of
transport, especially for parking. We deeply analysed the market, particularly in
Europe. There are proprietary apps (such as the ones provided by bus
companies in Bergamo, Firenze, Udine, just to give example in Italy) and other
vertical mobile ticketing solutions (for example Sostafacile, Easypark, Telepark,
Mycicero): no one has a dominant position on the market since they are partial,
with fees for users and providers and deployment takes from 2 to 3 months.
Worldwide, major competitors are Masabi and Paybyphone. Masabi offers its
service for public transport in 16 (sic!) cities among UK and US (and they show
extremely significant case studies, e.g. www.masabi.com/work-view/bostonmbta-mobile-ticketing/) whilst Paybyphone focuses exclusively on parking and
tolling and is available in US, UK and France, covering about 150 cities. If we
take into account informative systems for mobility, the most known example is
Moovit, which got funded with more than 80M$, without getting any revenue.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Compared with other mobile ticketing solutions, OpenMove features both
technical and operational innovations. It is the only: • Open and available for
every mobility service (bus, train, subway, parking, etc.). This is crucial to reach
critical mass of users and being acknowledged as the reference app for payment
of transport tickets. • Completely free solution for users and transport
companies as well. Solutions provided by competitors come with fees to be
paid by final users and setup costs by providers. Particularly in this recession
period, it is important for Public Administrations to count on a free ready-to-use
solution they may adopt to offer a valuable service to their citizens. • Involving
local merchants, which can promote their products, allowing users to benefit
from deals and gain credit to park and travel for free. Merchants have a costeffective solution to advertise offers to targeted and geolocalised users. Users
have the important chance to gain credit which they may use to travel and park,
resulting in a win-win situation. • With a super fast deployment: while other
solutions take months of work, the implementation of OpenMove takes literally
just minutes, thanks to the standardisation – in technical and operational terms
– promoted by the open data movement.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 118K€
FROM WHOM?
OpenMove won several prizes and awards:• FI-WARE/EIT ICT Lab Challenge
(winner + 15K€) for best application using FiWare• Trentino Open Data
Challenge (winner + 8K€) for best app making use of open data• Finodex
(winner + 50K€), european call for apps with a business model on open data•
Millennium Award (winner + 45K€), as best startup in Italy
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Advertisement
COMPANY NAME
Onetray
WEB SITE
www.onetray.it
REGION
Lombardia
26/01/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
The first ad-hoc designed airport security trays entirely sustainable and fully
customizable for brands that want to have a memorable impact.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Our team is formed by four members with complementary competencies and a
long-standing friendship.- Federico Kluzer, project manager, has a background
in management consulting and investment banking, he takes care of the
business development and commercial side of the business.- Alessandro
Pedote, Operations and production manager, background in a startup
incubator, manages the production process and all the suppliers’ relations.Giovanni Scolari, Product designer, he’s the mastermind behind Onetray
products.- Nicolò de Brabant, Media & Communication, he’s the support to
our clients in crafting effective advertising campaigns.
YOUR VISION
Onetray mission is to become in 3 years the market leader in the airport
specific trays provision and to create a global network of airports under its
direct/indirect control that offers its clients guaranteed brand visibility to a
highly qualified and profiled target (airports passengers).
YOUR MISSION
Onetray mission is to provide airports with ad-hoc designed security trays
aimed at enhancing the traveller experience while offering, at the same time, a
unique advertising opportunity to brands by gaining 100% target access to high
value consumers, in an unconventional and memorable way.
YOUR PROJECT
Onetray was born with the idea to innovate the trays commonly in use at
airport security checkpoints by creating a one-fits-all solution that could be
used through airports. We realized that this couldn’t be possible due to big
differences in airports security infrastructures.After months of intense work
in prototyping and on field tests, we identified the appropriate shape format
and attached service to quickly provide trays designed ad hoc for airports
specific security infrastructures and, at the same time, fully customized
according to a brand’s preferences.For instance, we acknowledged the huge
importance that comes from having travellers passing through a mandatory
passage with high visibility and guaranteed exposure time when attention is at
its maximum.This, led us to think of our business model in a way that would
leverage such advertising potential so to offer the product for free to airports.
In this way we have been able to cut airport’s costs, increase non-aviation
revenues and improve the passenger experience through security. Such model
allowed us to quickly penetrate the airports market both nationally and
internationally.We are currently live at Milan’s airports, Rome Fiumicino and
Turin airports. We’ve reached agreements with the airports of Bergamo,
Venice, Treviso, Verona, Olbia & Ciampino. Up to now our clients are: Sisal,
MasterCard and Telecom Italia.
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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
PATENTS
0
COPYRIGHT
Onetray registered its trademark and the designs of the products currently in
use at Rome, Milan and Turin airports.
YOUR COMPETITORS
€36mn
Market segment breakdown:- Europe: €15mn- Middle
East/Africa: €3mn- Asia: €15mn- South America: €3mnTotal estimate: €36mn (range: €30-45mn per
year)Market share: 10-15% c.ca of the available market
globally (no USA) → €3-5mn per year
Our single pure competitor is Security Point Media, a US-based company that
operates only in the US market where they have a network of 40+ airports. On
the commercial side, they cooperate with JCDecaux North America. On the
airport side they have an exclusivity agreement with TSA (Transportation
Security Administration). Such agreement is their entry barrier.We actually
differ from their value proposition since our products come tailored-made for
airport-specific security infrastructures and for the fact that the degree of
advertising customization of the trays is way higher with our product than a
mere sticker placed at the bottom of a rectangular white plastic-made tray.
Morover we are developing the product in terms of new materials and
innovative production methodologies to be more sustainable than plastic,
better performing in terms of technical properties (impact and abrasion) and
hence more impactful. Such know how is one of our barriers to entry. This is all
to appropriately adapt to the needs of our stakeholders that we had the
opportunity to analyze and structure after 12 months on the market and a
subsequent strategic positioning analysis.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our competitive advantage (and build-up of barriers to entry) lies on 4 main
factors:1- Niche sector historically characterized by low margins due to: high
production cost involved and squeezed selling prices. This is because the
security trays have always been perceived as a weak mean of communication
due to the limited customization available and quick wear out (result: trays
highly undervalued as a mean of communication). We have been able to work
on these 2 factors by repositioning the medium (increasing its customization
and reducing the wear out by creating a new shape and by giving wider
customization options thanks to new production technologies). Currently we
are now investing in R&D to: a) significantly squeeze the cost basis b)
increase the exposure frequency (reduce the minimum on air period). This will
lead to better margins and higher entry barriers.2- Highly fragmented niche
sector: de-structured segment, badly managed, no centralized player (a part for
the USA where the success case is: SPM)3- Necessary to have high-volumes
(in a niche and “under-the-radar” market): being the airport operators clustered
–on average- on a country basis, this means that a critical “appealing” mass of
tray advertising becomes meaningful only if centralized on a continent-size
level. Hence, on a country level, tray advertising is of little “appeal” to
potentially risky players (e.g. JC Decaux and Clear Channel).4- Technical knowhow: we are the first company ever to vertically focus on the study and
development of new solutions specifically thought for airports security systems.
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FROM WHOM?
none
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Pikkart Srl
WEB SITE
http://www.pikkart.com
REGION
Emilia Romagna
19/05/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
Augmented Reality APP and framework for mobile and wearable devices.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Lorenzo Canali: CEO & Co-Founder, entrepreneur with 16 years of
experience.Giovanni Zuffolini: Project Manager & Co-Founder, Project &
Delivery Manager with 10 years of experience.Davide Baltieri, PhD: R&D
Manager & Co-Founder, Senior Researcher with 5 years of experience.Mattia
Baroni: CFO, Finance & Controlling Manager with 4 years of experience.
YOUR VISION
Bring augmented reality on every device, to give every person new eyes to see
the world.
YOUR MISSION
Pikkart, by Integrating digital contents into real life, turns traditional view of
the world into immersive and customized digital experiences, able to engage
consumers and to increase company’s sales.
YOUR PROJECT
Pikkart is a start-up founded in 2014 that wants to provide companies of all
sizes and sectors augmented reality apps to enhance the sales and users
experience. Pikkart creates, thanks to our proprietary AR framework, tailor
made apps that meet customer needs, with a focus on marketing, advertising
and publishing. Pikkart’s augmented reality apps blurs the line between what’s
real and what isn’t. It makes possible to overlay useful digital contents over any
type of printed materials or just by geo-locating POIs around the users. These
digital information are displayed on the screen of a smartphone, a tablet or a
wearable device. Pikkart’s AR Apps, for a widespread diffusion, are available on
a wide range of mobile devices using iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
None, Software algorithms are not patentable in the EU
COPYRIGHT
Pikkart AR, our new augmented reality SDK, is registered at the SIAE Public
Register of Software (Rome).
YOUR COMPETITORS
€ 400.000.000
0,05
Experenti: experiential marketing platform based on augmented reality,
geolocation and proximity marketing.Seac02: digital craft house that provides
companies augmented reality softwares & solutionsG-Maps: augmented
reality farm that provides augmented reality services on mobile devices
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Entirely developed internally at Pikkart, our augmented reality SDK contains
some of the best and fastest computer vision algorithms, ensuring a reliable,
interactive augmented reality experience in a variety of environments.Unlike
the competition, we do not rely on third-party augmented reality (AR)
frameworks like Qualcomm Vuforia™, Metario™ or Blippar™. It’s a fully
customizable augmented reality framework (down to source code level) that we
can tailor to specific customer request. Our augmented reality SDK is available
on a vast range of mobile devices, from smartphone and tablets using Android,
iOS and Windows Phone.
FROM WHOM?
Pikkart has obtained € 300k thanks to Smart&Start Italia, the new call for
innovative startups managed by Invitalia.Soon, Pikkart will receive (through
UniCredit) a € 100k loan guarantee (80%) from Central Guarantee Fund (CGF).
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
QUANTEYE srl
WEB SITE
www.quanteye.com
REGION
Lombardia
17/03/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
financial advisory and wealth management services designed to satisfy retail
investors needs
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
Our team is mainly formed by skilled financial professionals with
comprehensive experience in the global alternative investment environment,
offering a rare blend of operational, business development and technological
expertise.Fabrizio Mobrici, Quanteye's founder- 20+ years’ experience in
developing and implementing financial investment processes / risk budgeting
frameworks- Solid development skills in the design of investment and risk
management processesLorenzo Ricca, co-founder-20+ years’ experience in
developing and implementing financial investment processes / risk budgeting
frameworks-Solid development skills in the design of IT frameworks
supporting investment processesVeronica Delle'Era, Chief Marketing
Officier-7+ years’ experience in developing marketing plan
YOUR VISION
Many important changes in the Asset Management and Financial Advisory
context are taking place.Regulatory interventions make the institutions to
innovate and make their financial services more efficient.Digital natives
expect to interact with financial services with the same simplicity and
interaction with which they deal with other online services.
YOUR MISSION
Financial crisis and scandals, that has been following one another during last
years, made appear a strong need of investors to receive a quality and
transparent advisory service.Our mission is to supply a high quality and
focused towards the user service able to satisfy the need of financial planning
of the retail investors.
YOUR PROJECT
The Project consist in developing a web based platform (hereafter Platform)
functional to the proposition of financial advisory, risk management and
wealth management services created to fulfill retail investors needs regarding
financial planning and saving management (B2C context).As said before,
Quanteye competitive advantage lies in algorithms and processed developed
throughout the years and the Platform is the instrument through which is
possible to deliver the offer of innovative high values services that enable users
to be guided and taken care of in the process of management and controlling
of their investments in full compliance of the expected risk.Considering the
target, the Platform needs to be designed in a way to grant an efficient,
effective and satisfying user experience. For this reason, prior to the technical
specs definition, we want to make an accurate market and users study in order
to reach a better placement of the expected service.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
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TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
The set of processes and algorithms developed by Quanteye srl are protected
by trade secret.
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algorithms functional to the supporting of decision making processes in the
following fields: asset management, risk management, financial advisory.
YOUR COMPETITORS
100.000.000.000
We think that the company won’t be still active in the B2C
market within one year because:- the reference market,
asset management and financial advisory context, is
characterized by a high regulation level and the entrance
on the market is subject to the possibility to get licenses
required by the surveillance institutes (FSA, BankIt, FINMA,
etc..).- The web platform, through which we want to
deliver our services, has a high level of complexity in terms
of integration with third party systems (banks, brokers,
etc…) and also of its inner characteristics of the service
model
Betterment (USA)Nutmeg (UK)FutureAdvisor (USA)Motif Investing
(USA)Money Farm (Italy)justETF (Germany)SigFig (USA)
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Current Quanteye core business has focused on offering services for advisory
and algorithmic development in B2B field for the exploitation, as last resort, by
financial institutions or related entities.The set of developed processes and
algorithms are in fact Quanteye competitive advantage and also a barrier to
competition too.The exploitation of those assets, gave the possibility to main
financial institutions, which leadership is recognized on an international level, to
innovate their services and products reaching a complete satisfaction of the
client.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 3.000.000 USD
FROM WHOM?
The main italian bank institute, Unicredit, presented Quanteye srl as one of the
four winner startups of their acceleration program FinTech StartLab where
Quanteye is still involved.Quanteye has now finalized the development of its
assets (processes and algorithms) investing its revenues from the B2B business.
Up to now the value of those assets capitalization is higher than 3.000.000 USD.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
RetAPPs Srl
WEB SITE
www.retapps.com
REGION
Lombardia
31/01/2012
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
SmartBip, the digital mobile engagement platform for the retail sector.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
- Alessandro Tiretta, Founder and CEO, with 20+ years experience in retail and
technology, former CTO of the Leroy Merlin group in Italy- Alessandro Carano,
Sales Manager with 20+ years experience in tech solutions for the retail sector,
former sales rep for Datalogic for self scanning- Marco Gasparetto, CTO, with
10+ years experience in digital solutions and mobile developments, leading a
team of 5 developers- Managerial, administrative and organizational support
from Superpartes, incubator and co-founder.
YOUR VISION
The pervasive use of Smartphones has created the conditions for a major
revolution in retail shopping, both in-store and out-of-store.Smartphoneenabled commerce (“Smart-Commerce”) is going to be a fundamental piece of
the retail value chain and a sizeable business opportunity for focused players.
YOUR MISSION
To envision and develop cutting-edge solutions that enable the retail sector to
implement "drive-to-store" strategies through the Digital Mobile Channel
YOUR PROJECT
A cloud-based platform solution for delivering digital engagement through
multi-channel end-to-end applications fitting into the customer preferred
shopping patterns as well as into the retailer/store business processes. A set
of integrated functions for implementing customer-facing services such as
Digital Promotions, Digital Couponing, Proximity Marketing, Wish Lists, Mobile
Self Scanning, Select & Collect, Loyalty, Mobile Payment.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
No patents
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SmartBip - the leading platform solution for digital mobile engagement in the
retail sector in Italy
> 50M (ITA ONLY)
RetAPPs currently holds a very large market share in Italy
for advanced engagement services, but absolute numbers
are still very small (less than 100 stores in Italy, out of
25.000 in the LOD sector, offer engagement services, 80+
of which use RetAPPs solutions). Our goal is to maintain
our competitive advantage and keep a sizeable market
share as retailers expenditure grows.
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YOUR COMPETITORS
- Main competitors in Italy for RetAPPs' entire platform are NCR/Retalix and
IBM/Konvergence. - Competitors in Italy for individual services are specialized
solution providers, e.g. Datalogic for Mobile Self Scanning or local digital
marketing solution providers.- Looking at expansion in Europe, main
competitors for the entire platform may include Revision (Dutch company with
business in several European Countries) and Datema (Swedish with strong
presence in Scandinavia).
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE RetAPPs' cloud platform is currently the most comprehensive solution for
mobile engagement in the food&beverage segment in Italy. RetAPPs has been
the first to install in real-life scenarios services such as Smartphone-based self
scanning, mobile payment, mobile couponing, select & collect and has the
largest installed base for such services in over 80 stores with reputable
customers such as Auchan, Coop, Conad, Despar. In addition, RetAPPs is
currently the only provider in Europe of cloud services seamlessly accessible
from both Zebra/Motorola MC18 devices and Smartphones.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? Eur 700.000
FROM WHOM?
RetAPPs received two tranches of 350.000 Euro each in August 2013 and
August 2014 from:- Andena Holding: personal investments of Mr. Gianluca
Andena, former director of the Permira Investment Fund. - Bincot: personal
investments of Mr. Guido Paolo Gamucci, former director of the Permira
Investment Fund Vela Imprese: personal investments of Mr. Marco Pittini and
Mr.Guido Carissimo.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Advertisement
COMPANY NAME
ROIALTY SRL
WEB SITE
www.roialty.com
REGION
Lombardia
18/12/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
ROIALTY combine semantic web and social mining, real-time intelligence and
omni-channel gamification to boost digital loyaty
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
ROIALTY at this point in time employs about 16 people + 4 external :6
members board team including CEO, COO, VP product strategy, VP product
innovation, CTO and Service Innovation Manager 6 sw engineering & QA
team supported by 2 external developers dedicated to front-end apps ( web &
mobile ) 4 consulting + 2 external staff (content creation and social
media marketing ) dedicated to the presales and configuration support on
partners’ projects The CEO has in charge the sales and marketing activities
with a priority in developing alliances with global partners The COO is
managing F&A and all the operation & delivery issue.
YOUR VISION
UNLEASH SOCIAL INTERACTIONSunderstand and map interests, passions and
behaviours of your audience and get higher conversions, stronger
engagement, better retentionCombine semantic web and social mining, realtime intelligenceand omni-channel gamification to enable your ROI
YOUR MISSION
Combine semantic web and social mining, real-time intelligenceand omnichannel gamification to improve the ROI of digital innovative marketing
programs
YOUR PROJECT
ROIALTY introduces an objective knowledge of audience’s interests and social
behaviours and offer tools to enable real time profile-driven and behaviourdriven actions.Reaching the right people, with the right content, via the right
channels, motivates customers to engage in high-value activities that lead to
brand loyalty and greater lifetime value.Semantic engine for web and social
miningRich marketing personas to boost conversionsLearn from the market
and position yourselfIncentive to social sign-ins and profile completion to
improve customer relationshipPersonalized gamification will keep customers
interacting with youHappy users will share their interactions and their
rewards on their social profilesEasily manipulate customer sales, social and
demographic data to build customer segments and use them for marketing
strategyIdentify high-return events and set the system in order to execute a
specific task when they happenProspect from audiences that look like your
high value customersa unique, SaaS platform with fully fledged APIMain
clients include Artsana Group (Chicco brand), Banco Santander, Benelli Beretta,
Jaguar Land Rover, Philips Morris International, Stone Island, UnipolSAI and
others
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
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TURNOVER (EUR)
from 250.000 to 500.000
PATENTS
None
COPYRIGHT
ROIALTY Trademark and software licence
YOUR COMPETITORS
$2.22 Billion in 2014 (social CRM source
MarketsandMarkets)
Our main goal is to be recognized as emerging solutions in
our main market segments in EMEA countries.Our plan is
to have a 1.5M euro turnover in the next fiscal year - it
means achieving a 2-3% of the EMEA market share.
Main competitors are CrowdTwist, Lithium, Jive, Salesforce
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We differentiate because we strongly rely on our capability to collect, analyze
and aggregate social data at massive scale. Our technology has been developed
and tested to run in real time on billions of records and tens of billions of
attributes. Our personalization engine, the Profile Driven Engagement engine,
can identify the most effective call to action for the specific individual in that
specific context.Competitive advantage is having both social data analysis
capabilities and engagement in one platform.
FROM WHOM?
Banca Popolare di Milano with Mediocredito loan guarantee dedicated to
innovative start-upsWe have been selected as eligible project to be financed
by the Smart&Start innovative start-up program for 447.000 euros - contract is
under definition
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Spotlime
WEB SITE
www.spotlimeapp.com
REGION
Lombardia
02/07/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Booking app for last-minute top events.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
CEO - Francesco RieppiExperience:Associate at MAS Angel Fund (Germany),
Associate at The Boston Consulting Group (Italy)Education:MSc Economics
cum laude from Bocconi (Italy), MGIMO (Russia), Barcelona GSE (Spain)CTO Francesco De LivaExperience:Software engineer at Amadeus
(France)Education:MSc Computer Engineering cum laude from Politecnico di
Milano (Italy), University of Illinois (US)CMO - Fabrizio
Dell'AcquaExperience:Cofounder HousingExchange.it (Italy, sold in
2012)Education:PhD Business Economics from London Business School (UK);
MSc Economics from Bocconi (Italy)General Counsel - Luigi Selva
VerzicaExperience:Lawyer and Of Counsel at SVSLex (Italy)Education:PhD Law
from Padua University (Italy); MSc Law from Bocconi (Italy)
YOUR VISION
Help to live one's passion in his/her free time, wherever he/she is in the world.
Make every day a surprising day.
YOUR MISSION
Help to discover the best entertainment in town and suggest to live new
exciting experiences. Every day. Fully tailored to one's needs. Making it
possible to book them in the blink of an eye.
YOUR PROJECT
Within the global entertainment market, top event organizers do not have a
tool to decrease prices for a certain type of clients, as airlines and hotels do;
consequently, they are systematically unable to maximize their profits. Event
seekers find it difficult to collect information and book last minute, as this is
not always possible online in a quick way. Spotlime is an app showing every
day the 15 top events for concerts, sport, theatres and nightlife last-minute
(24-48 before the beginning of the event). It allows to book a spot in just two
taps, offering exclusive advantages to its users (VIP entry, free bottle of
champagne, entry discount). Venues and event planners can use the app in
order to promote their activities with an advantage for the user, without
cannibalizing their main sales channel. Users can buy a ticket or reserve a spot
in two taps and receive a benefit. Revenues come from a commission on every
ticket sold/reservation made through the app.Spotlime started to monetize
in January 2015, reaching the following results:•
190+ partner venues•
2
cities, Milan and Rome•
100,000+ download•€9,000 in monthly sales (Jul
2015)•
20% monthly revenues growth since January 2015
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
The company doesn't own any patent as of today
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Trademark on Spotlime at European level
35 billion
YOUR COMPETITORS
Spotlime has three major international competitors:●
Fever is a Spanish
discovery event app for iPhone and Android, founded in 2012. It is present in 7
cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Malaga, London, New York) and
reached 1M downloads. It has raised $11M. It allows to buy tickets for concerts,
theaters and food and drink events, but not to reserve them.●
YPlan is a UK
discovery event app for iPhone and Android, founded in 2012. It is present in 3
cities (London, New York, San Francisco) and reached 1.5M downloads. It has
raised $38M. It also allows to buy tickets concerts, theaters, cinemas and food
and drink events, but not to reserve them.●
Sosh is a US discovery event
website and app for iPhone, founded in 2010. It is present in 5 cities (Chicago,
New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington) and has an undisclosed number
of downloads. It has raised $16M. As the other competitors, it allows to buy
tickets for concerts, theaters and food and drink events, but not to reserve
them .European countries different from Spain and UK currently do not
present significant competitors. Considering in particular the Italian market,
there are no mobile applications that offer a curated selection of events and
last-minute booking or reservations via app.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Spotlime differs from its main competitors, being the only player allowing event
seekers to also reserve a spot and pay at the venue. Spotlime’s clients, before
the event, purchase credits that will give them the right to have access to the
platform, paying in advance for the service. Once the presence at the venue of
the person who booked the event has been verified via geolocation, a certain
amount of credits is deducted from the total amount that the venue
purchased.The possibility to monetize users that are not willing or cannot use
the credit card is particularly relevant to target the 18-25 years old group,
represented by users not keen to use credit cards, and to address the €9 billion
global nightclub industry, not keen to use prepaid tickets. This allows Spotlime
to more than double the potential market compared to competitors, focused
only on the range 27-35. As of today, 75% of the revenues of Spotlime are
generated by reservations without credit cards.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? 590k
FROM WHOM?
Main investors are:- IBAN (Italian Business Angel Network)- Guido Garrone co-founder of Fastweb- Franco Gianera - co-founder of Amazon BuyVIPNicolò Bellorini - Senior Executive Telecom Italia- seedfeed GmbH - German
investment company- FDI Holding - Italian investment holding
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
THINKINSIDE SRL
WEB SITE
http://www.thinkinsi.de/
REGION
Trentino Alto Adige
29/05/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
Cloud big data analytics for indoor positioning and IoT applications.
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
High qualified and experienced team. The management has been a mix of
researcher with more than 10 years of experience
YOUR VISION
The become the main EU player in the field of real-time locating system and
one of the main 5 companies at the global level.
YOUR MISSION
Making easier and as much as useful the big data analytics technology for all
the kind of user.
YOUR PROJECT
The coverage of a vast array of use cases, from retail to oil & gas with one-stop
platform of indoor positioning and big data analytics, which is able to monitor,
track and deliver added value services for people, such as engagement or
indoor coupons. With the same platform we can cover retail as well as
healthcare markets.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
1 patent under submission.Our patent is based on the management of indoor
location, managing check-in check-out over unstructured indoor area.
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Proprietary technology, 100% developed internally.Both the Hardware and the
Source Code have been developed internally.
YOUR COMPETITORS
EUR 4.46 Bn.
0,2% at the global level
RetailNextEuclid AnalyticsShopperTrackZebra TechnologiesLocatible
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Having one platform available to cover more than one market: e.g. retail,
healthcare, safety, supply chain
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? EUR 250.000
FROM WHOM?
Internal investment.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Tweppy srls
WEB SITE
www.tweppy.com
REGION
Trentino Alto Adige
29/05/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
Collaborative webmail: a venture opportunity for tomorrow’s web needs
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Tweppy is a project that started back in 2011 from a team that already
succeeded in founding and growing a startup company that develops and
integrates in numerous companies CRM solutions. The partners are: ⁃ Marco
Bettin, CEO, engineer, MBA. Marco has been working in the past years with
management consulting and has been appointed temporary manager in various
companies, Founder of MIA CRM, project developer and CEO, Monti Antonio
Spa. ⁃ Alessandro Rossetto, CTO, System Designer and IT expert. Developer of
ASIA CRM. ⁃ Ivan Gatti, founder and CEO of TopRacing, entrepreneur with
expertise in ecommerce.
YOUR VISION
The Vision behind the product is being able to provide an innovative tool that
can reorganize the business workflow in no time by only introducing a new
approach to the email communication.It becomes something like a special
notebook where you can add comments, chat with colleagues, add tasks etc
YOUR MISSION
“Rethink your workflow from a simple email”: Tweppy is studied for small
businesses, traveling agencies, insurance agencies, banks…Everyone has
experienced how emails tend to pile up when working in a team. Tweppy
finally ends this mess and lets you manage professionally your emails with little
costs and huge benefits.
YOUR PROJECT
Tweppy is the only mail platforms that provides a contextual chat for each
message and adds CRM function to a client emailEach allowed user can either
view the message, check if the college has opened it, deleted it, or tagged an
assignment.Other than being a useful collaborative tool, Tweppy integrates
manyorganizational aspects such as managing the activities, professional CRM
agenda, multiple group email and email tracking. A user friendly interface
which is both professional and intuitive, associates with an intelligent assistant
that constantly monitors the user performance and suggests strategic
commands once it detects a non optimized interaction.Moreover to each
tenant is associated an intelligent engine that requires 3 simple information: ⁃
USERS who are the team members ⁃ EMAIL BOXES that Tweppy has to
monitor (even from differentservers) ⁃ RULES which apply to the incoming
message, the allowed users etc.The rules that are assigned by the account
manager are specific and individual for each tenant and can be optimized
according with the necessity of the single company. This innovations can apply
a revolution into the team workflow and add a new value to the
communication inside the company.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
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TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
International Patent Application N.PCT/IB2014/065694 filed on October 2014
"A management system for the exchange of messages": Tweppy is the only
mail client in the market that combines contextual chat to each e-mail
message. For each viewer inside the message, there is the opportunity to
understand if the colleague has read, deleted or made assignments on the
message itself. Furthermore to the collaborative aspect, tweppy integrates
many organizational aspects: it allows to manage tasks, a professional style
CRM index book, send email to groups of recipients, track if a recipient has
read the message or clicked on a link contained.
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none
YOUR COMPETITORS
20000€ - 4mln €
The revenues estimate is based on hypothesis regarding
the segmentation of Tweppy’s users. The scenarios are
divided into the free version, the full version and the
CRM.The goal in the mid term is to reach, from the
current 100 to 40.000 tenants, a number that is
compatible with the market scenario pictured in our
analysis and that requires an investment both on technical
and commercial side.
Microsoft with Outlook Exchange, Google with Gmail and IBM with Lotus Notes
offer similar solutions with email management.Slack and Contatta have similar
services with collaborative teamwork.Tweppy puts itslef in the middle,
reaching customer’s different necessities with a completely new perspective on
team workflow.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Tweppy is an innovative cloud business mail / collaborative mail tool that brings
great advantages for the business client regarding company efficiency and team
workflow. It offers professional contact management, information with the
email tracking and the possibility of team management by assigning tasks, tags,
appointments etc.Thanks to these characteristics, Tweppy becomes a
necessary tool in order to compete with more complex organizations.The
commercial strategy is based upon trying to set Tweppy aside from the
competitors’ competition and to put it in the middle between what is already in
the market, like the big cloud email providers, and the new collaborative apps
like Slack and Contatta.What Tweppy is trying to achieve with the “white
label” strategy is the possibility to become an integrated tool of more complex
CRM softwareand with the B2C strategy to become a popular web solution for
those SMBs who want to work more efficiently.The point is to avoid
compeating directly but build aside a complex platform that covers a different
necessities that integrates both the collaborative/mail management and the
CRM specifications.
FROM WHOM?
The business model consists in 3 different target clients: B2C via web, B2B via
hardware/software retailers, B2B via software house.The B2C channel will be
managed with dedicated newsletters, an internal developed marketing
campaign will focus on the possibility to minimize useless email and reduce up
to 40% of the emails per day.Another campaign will be structured with the
collaborative aspects that will be introduced to specific target clients.Finally
the CRM application will be the core argument for another specific marketing
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campaign with another business target.The B2B marketing strategy with IT
resellers will be elaborated thanks to the experience matured during the last
years as CRM developers. This has built a business network that is necessary to
push anew product inside this kind of competitive environment.The trust
that the team was able to earn in the past years, is the engine behind this direct
marketing strategy that will be taken face to face with the interested
partners.The marketing approach to the software houses will be focused on
the direct contact with the commercial offices in order to develop a
collaboration using the “white label” supply. The team managementwill
engage this task and will directly discuss this business opportunity with the
principle players in the Italian market.
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
ViDiTrust
WEB SITE
www.viditrust.eu
REGION
Toscana
13/07/2010
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
ViSeQR® is a cloud/app complete service for anticounterfeiting, tracing and
promotion of products verifiable through smartphones
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Giacomo Cancelli, PhD in IT engineering, CEO Marco Cappellini, electronic
engineer, President, background in Internet software and company
management and developmentFabio Gennari, mechanical engineer, senior
business fellow, background in management of the design of complex high tech
systems President of the scientific committee: Mauro Barni, Professor at
University of Siena
YOUR VISION
Our technology can be in any physical product and with our service we can
create a secure link between products and consumers through smartphones
YOUR MISSION
To provide an effective, secure and low cost service to companies that want to
protect, monitor and promote their products globally.
YOUR PROJECT
Enlarge the number of certified smartphones (nowadays iPhone 4s, 5, 5s, 6 and
Samsung S3, S4, S5)Improve reporting services in the cloud
applicationImprove usability of the appCreate a network of Value Added
Resellers globallyCreate awareness in producers and consumers of the
potentiality of our product
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
1 patent: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANTIFORGERY MARKING OF PRINTED
DOCUMENTSMethod for antiforgery marking and authentication of printed
products, includes the following steps: printing sample prints with a given
printer of an image that is to be associated to a product (P); digitally acquiring
the prints, to obtain digital images; processing the images acquired for
extracting therefrom one or more intrinsic characteristics identifying the
printer used; and incorporating in the printed product (P) an identification
marking containing information associated to the printed product and to the
characteristics identifying the printer and a print of the image.
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ViSeQR®, based on ViDiTrust patent, is a cloud/app complete service for
anticounterfeiting, tracing and promotion of products.
YOUR COMPETITORS
1 Bln $
0,01
AlpVision http://www.alpvision.com/ One ot the most active anti-counterfeiting
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solutions provider. Their solution are based on fingerprint, cryptoglyph. They
mention the possibility to verify products with smartphone, only limted to iOS
devices. Certilogo http://certilogo.com They are active in fashion, wines,
cosmetics. Their technology is based on a 12 digits code the system recognizes
as authentic at its first verification, and as “already verified” afterward.
Subsequently, Certilogo system can not work on the same product more then
one time, and is prone to malicious users who can easily “burn” authentic
products.SixTrue http://www.sixtrue.com They claim to be active in anticounterfeiting with a solution composed by a QRcode and special
material/pigments that are unique. Apparently similar to ViSeQR® their solution
needs special material/pigments that means great difficulty in adoption of the
technology by third parties (thypograpies).
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE ViSeQR® technology seems more robust and/or less expensive in respect to
actual or future competitors so that we can expect to be able o beat
competition with a proper marketing and distribution strategy.
FROM WHOM?
180.000 Euro from Italian Ministry of Research for a winning spin-off
proposal50.000 Euro from a business angel90.000 Euro from family&friends
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Visual Engines
WEB SITE
www.visualengines.com
REGION
Toscana
ACTIVITY CODE - Codice AT 62.01 - produzione di software non connesso all'edizione
19/02/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
VeMIR recognizes objects by using the camera of smartphone/tablet
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Visual Engines (VE) is a company founded by the researchers of the Information
Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the National Research Council (CNR)
in Pisa, together with Inera Ltd.Visual Engines researchers are: Fausto Rabitti
(VE strategic choices supervisor in the technologies of products and projects),
Giuseppe Amato (VE technical-scientific manager), Claudio Gennaro, Franca
Debole, Fabrizio Falchi and Paolo Bolettieri.Inera is a software company
(computer technologies and services), founded in 2001, whose sectors are
Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Media and online Publishing Industry.The
dedicated team is composed of Andrea Pini (General Manager), David Pini
(mobile programmer), Martina Buccafusca (market development).
YOUR VISION
The technologies of visual recognition have recently reached a maturity that
allows exploitation on wide scale in applications of daily use. The combination
between the real world and the digital information opens the way to
numerous fields of application and of extreme interest for an unexpected
target of user.
YOUR MISSION
Visual Engines has the skills and technologies to State of the art in the context
of the automatic analysis and elaboration of images, therefore our mission is
that to devise and to realize new products/services that use these technologies
by applying them in order to satisfy in an innovative way old and new needs of
the mobile user.
YOUR PROJECT
Visual Engines currently offers two products: VePAIR
(vepair.visualengines.com) a visual retrieval engine to be used on large visual
archives and VeMIR (vemir.visualengines.com) a SDK to build mobile
applications. Moreover, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology in
the daily use, and to propose new services, we are developing/developed
various mobile apps:•
For augmented contents and advertising: “Tirreno
Social” recognizes the pages of newspaper “Il Tirreno” and links social
contents, “Fashion+” recognizes images on magazines, commercials and
physical items and trigger different options like taking you to the e-store,
watching videos concerning the ad, finding the nearest stores, ... (watch our
explanatory video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_Csz8WW2hfE)•
To smart
access to cultural heritage and museums: “MMG-Museum Mobile Guide” an
application smartphone for museums and temporary exhibitions, “The
Treasures of Pisa” a scavenger hunt app that uses the visual recognition for
hunting of images of the city (marker) and the totem poles like stages in order
to place questions on the event or the city.At the moment the greater effort
is of commercial type with the main target to acquire new customers,
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especially for VeMIR SDK, our most innovative product. We are also looking for
international partners and resellers.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
The company doesn't currently have a patent, but the know-how that the
partners acquired is a form of protection against emulations and competitors
trying to access Visual Engines markets with a similar offer. Furthermore, the
fact that all the holders of specific knowledge about the technology are the
partners of the company guarantees the commitment of all the proponents to
a goal in common.
COPYRIGHT
Visual Engines proposes products and services based on technologies developed
in-house, so they don't depend on others' copyright.
100000000
YOUR COMPETITORS
The competitors for the big image archives are: Ideè, ImageRights International,
GiniPic (Picitup), PicScout. The main competitors offering tools for the
development of mobile applications based on visual recognition are:
Aurasma/Autonomy, Metaio, Wikitude, Layar.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Visual Engines visual recognition technologies are based on research results
achieved in the last 10 years in the NeMIS lab of ISTI-CNR in Pisa and have an
effectiveness (precision in the answers) and efficiency (velocity in the answers)
comparable to the best competitors, and they have a better scalability than the
competitors.
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? We didn't raise any capital
FROM WHOM?
We didn't raise any capital
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
VMS ME
WEB SITE
http://vms.me/
REGION
Lazio
25/07/2014
YOUR PRODUCT
EARLY STAGE
VMSme, the fastest messaging technology for mobile, TV and pc.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
- Simone Giacco, Chief Technology OfficerSerial entrepreneuer, in the Olympus
of the top 3% developers worldwide, with startup experience and clients in the
5 continents.- Luigi Fidelio, Chief Marketing OfficerMulti-awarded
startupper, degrees in Political Science and International Relations at LUISS
University in Rome, solid experience in Corporate Press Offices, study and work
experience in Italy, Argentina, USA and Russian Federation.- Francesco
Cosentino, DeveloperExcellent coding skills, Master degree in Computer
Engineering in Turin.
YOUR VISION
People will use use TLC techonologies to exchange istantaneous and contentanchored communications
YOUR MISSION
To provide time-saving and easy-to-use communications technologies to
people worldwide
YOUR PROJECT
VMSme redefines voice messaging: it is the instant messaging technology that
allows people to exchange voice messages in just one tap, on mobile, TV and
pc.3 exclusive competitive advantages:1) One-tap user experience (PCT
application) to send voice messages in just one tap.2) Speech-to-text preview
of every voice message.3) Ubiquity, to reach any recipient, including landlines
and older generation mobiles.VMSme offers API, SDK and infrastructure to
integrate the best voice messaging technlogy on TV and Broadcasters'
apps.The project aims to provide time-saving and easy-to-use
communications technologies to people worldwide.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
PCT application on the one-tap procedure to send voice messages in a single
tap.
COPYRIGHT
Telecommunications, mobile apps, TV apps, worldwide
YOUR COMPETITORS
Instant messaging apps
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 3 competitive advantages:1) One-tap user experience (PCT application) to
send voice messages in just one tap.2) Speech-to-text preview of every voice
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message.3) Ubiquity, to reach any recipient, including landlines and older
generation mobiles.
FROM WHOM?
London-based, SEIS regulated fund
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
WaterView s.r.l.
WEB SITE
www.waterview.it
REGION
Piemonte
18/02/2015
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
SmartRAIN measures rain intensity from images taken in rainy conditions
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
We are friends, we are the inventors of the SmartRain technique and we
strongly believe in its potential, we have complementary skills and
backgrounds, we are accustomed to rigorous team work. We are:- Paola
Allamano, Environmental Engineer and PhD in Hydraulic Engineering. CEO and
R&D Manager at WaterView. - Paolo Cavagnero, Building Engineer and PhD in
Water Management Engineering. IT Manager at WaterView.- Alberto Croci,
Civil Engineer and PhD student in Environmental Engineering. Technical
Manager at WaterView.
YOUR VISION
We see the rain as no one has ever seen it before
YOUR MISSION
We have developed the innovative SmartRAIN technique and the related
products for providing people everywhere in the world with real-time, reliable
and detailed information about rain intensity at a truly competitive cost.
YOUR PROJECT
The SmartRain technique is conceived for monitoring rainfall at a very high
spatial and temporal detail. SmartRain will be the core of a cloud-based service
for connecting imaging devices and creating reliable and low-cost rain gauging
networks, able to support decisions in the presence of extreme weather events
for security/civil protection purposes. SmartRain can also be exploited to
create customized private monitoring networks for e.g., agricultural or
amateur purposes.We'll offer, above all, a service of remote image processing
and rain intensity calculation for pictures coming from clients' own hardware.
Moreover, for clients without proprietary hardware, we'll also sell a webcam
bundled with a pre-processing software. The service will be accessible via a
web application; depending on the client, it will return instant rain intensities
as well as historical records or integrations with third party weather
data. SmartRAIN is suitable to be exported to mobile devices for involving
citizens in rainfall monitoring activities. By fostering inclusion and participation,
we’ll contribute to strengthen public awareness and risk perception among the
population potentially exposed to natural hazards, in particular in developing
countries, where standard measuring networks are extremely sparse, and
smartphone penetration is increasing at very high rates.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
A patent application (n. TO2015A000029) has been presented to the Italian
Patent Office on 13/01/2015 for a "Method for measuring an intensity of a
meteorological precipitation, and device thereof". The patent is still pending.
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COPYRIGHT
Politecnico di Torino (copyright owner)Paola Allamano, Alberto Croci,
Francesco Laio (inventors)WaterView (esclusive licensee)
YOUR COMPETITORS
25000000
0,01
The global market size for at ground rain gauging systems is of about 200 M€
(per year), deriving from the installation and maintenance of about 1 million
rain gauges in the world. The main producers of meteorological instruments
worldwide are: Vaisala, Campbell Scientific, OTT, Davis. Other possible
competitors for WaterView come from the “smart sensing community”. Smart
solutions for monitoring air and weather conditions (e.g. wind, humidity,
pollution) have already been proposed and commercialized. However none of
these sensors is conceived for rain rate.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our product is unique worldwide, being the outcome of an innovative idea
conceived by the founders of WaterView. No industry exists that
commercializes rain gauging products based on image processing techniques.
SmartRain hence stands as a candidate for entering the market of at-ground
rain gauging systems as the only low- cost, reliable alternative to tipping bucket
rain gauges.
FROM WHOM?
From Regione Piemonte, as a grant for social and innovative startups and spinoff from public research
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
Welikecrm srl
WEB SITE
www.welikecrm.com
REGION
Lombardia
20/02/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
LATE STAGE
Chorally: integrated Platform for Listening, Social Intelligence, Engagement and
Advocacy
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
Fabio Castronuovo: CEO of Welikecrm has several years of experience in project
management with extensive expertise implementing complex projects from
both organizational and technical sides.Maurizio Mesenzani: Administrator of
Welikecrm, Client Leader and PM in Strategic Management Projects, SocialCRM,
Sales and Service Management and Organisational Development
projects.Andrea Ferri: Stongly skilled in E-commerce, SEO, Online Advertising,
Traffic and customer acquisition, Affiliation, Co-marketing, Web Marketing
strategies, Online communities, Social Media, Digital PR.Kristian Vanberg is
marketing consultant working with software vendors in order t to get product,
strategy and messaging right. Services include R&D, market education and
product-market strategy.
YOUR VISION
Our approach is tightly integrated with CRM, which we see not simply as a
matter of customer operations, rather as a combined sinergetic vision
incorporating Marketing, Sales and Assistance to produce a Customer
Experience of excellence
YOUR MISSION
The main services are web listening and monitoring, web reputation analysis
development and delivery of the Chorally platform as an integrated solution
for social CRM management, digital channel management and e-mail
interactions management.
YOUR PROJECT
The WLC offering is based on Chorally, a product developed during all the short
life of the company. Chorally is an engagement platform for employees and
customers/citizens that works across different channels, integrating and
leveraging big data. Our software platform allows any employee of any entity
to effectively engage with any customer/citizen across any channel: social
media, chat, email or mobile applications through one unified solution able to
manage historical data and make those available for further reuse. Using
machine learning Chorally makes sense of big data, simplifying, accelerating
and automating processes where possible, and providing relevant information
where relevant.Moving beyond marketing and customer service, our data
engine engages customers as well as employees in sharing relevant ideas,
solutions and stories, creating a real community among customers and citizens,
companies and government agencies. Most companies also suffer from tools
fragmentation: many functions and business areas use different tools to
manage and/or to integrate the same data, so our goal is to build a unified
integration hub. With the Chorally platform we developed a language and
device independent data and information management solution.The Chorally
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platform is available in SaaS (Software As A Service) mode.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
none
COPYRIGHT
none
500
YOUR COMPETITORS
ConversocialDimeloSprinklrAmplifinityDecisyonEptica
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Chorally is an engagement platform for employees and customers/citizens that
works across different channels, integrating and leveraging big data. Chorally
has the capability to integrate the following features:Listener – Listening from
social channels (official and not official) and discussions on
web/forums:Scoring - questions/users Classification (language independent),
Sources/Questions/users Ranking, Expert Ranking, Influencers
DetectionWorkflow & Collaboration – Management of users, state of
questions, rules, knowledge base, alerting and communicationsEngagement –
system for question forwarding on social channels.Reporting – for the
reporting management on users, discussions, crossing burden and
timingCampaign Manager – for the campaign management based on the
generated list by the Scoring component.Advocacy and Gamification – for the
management of customer and employees advocacy programs and business
gamesChorally has the capability to be deployed in two - three weeks and it
has Api’s to be integrated with legacy systems already in place and in public and
private company.
FROM WHOM?
nobody
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
wiman s.r.l.
WEB SITE
http://wiman.me
REGION
Emilia Romagna
12/12/2011
YOUR PRODUCT
EXPANSION
A mobile App reliant on the world's largest wifi crowdsourced database
PRODUCT
YOUR TEAM
the team consists of 13 people with heterogeneous skills and common interests
working together with passion for the same goal.
YOUR VISION
We are building the world’s largest Wi-Fi community, made of users who
share their own wifi networks with the wiman community in order to get
access to the other shared wifi. Moreover, users can share their experience
about wifi networks they connected to, making wiman the most accurate
crowdsourced wifi database.
YOUR MISSION
Simplify Wi-Fi access worldwide by helping people easily find and connect to all
open Wi-Fi networks all around the world.
YOUR PROJECT
wiMAN was founded in 2012 with the aim of simplifying Wi-Fi access in public
places, making it “social” by removing lengthy registration forms: users can
easily connect to Wi-Fi using their Facebook or Google profiles and navigate for
free. This service takes place through a pre-configured router supplied to small
businesses who want to provide free Wi-Fi to their customers in a safe
way.We are now developing some interesting projects in partnership with
Telecom Italia.In 2013 we launched a mobile App to further simplify Wi-Fi
access, allowing users to get automatically connected to wiMAN networks.
After the excellent results, on March 2015, we decided to release a new
version which lets users share their own Wi-Fi networks with the wiMAN
community without the wiman router and get auto-connected to every open
wifi worldwide.wiMAN was awarded by Google as one of the 18 most
beautiful Apps of 2015 and it was included in the “Best-In-Class Android
Design” section. It has reached 2 Million downloads in just 4 months.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
11 to 25
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
PATENTS
no patents so far
COPYRIGHT
Our social wifi login process protocol has been registered at SIAE in 2014.
14.8 Billion
YOUR COMPETITORS
wifi.com (wifi master key)instabridge.comhttp://opensignal.com/ (wifi
mapper)
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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The app comes pre-loaded with a database of about 30 Million WiFi - also
available for offline browsing - tested and rated by the wiMAN community (2M
users so far).
HOW MUCH CAPITAL (EUR) DID YOU RAISE TO DATE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES? $1M
FROM WHOM?
Angel: Matteo Riffeser Monti Nana Bianca:
http://nanabianca.it/?lang=enTim Venture:
http://www.timventures.tim.it/P101: http://www.p101.it/Cii2:
http://www.cii2.com/
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Macro-sector
Software
Sector
Software
COMPANY NAME
WINA SRL
WEB SITE
http://www.wina.it
REGION
Lombardia
08/05/2013
YOUR PRODUCT
SEED
WINA brakes actual paradigms for blind people overcoming present limits.
PROTOTYPE
YOUR TEAM
- ROMANO GIOVANNINI (biomedical engineer) - PROJECT MANAGERTelemetry
experience in Formula 1 (Sauber and Toyota) and expertise developing and
programming smart home / building automation technologies.- GIUSEPPE
PINNA (software architect) - expertise with database and smart home / building
automation protocol and smartphone human interfaces.- STEFANO MILICI
(Biomedical Engineer) - expertise with software protocol development and
design, prototyping and test antennas.- AMBRA ESPOSITO (Biomedical
Engineer) - expertise in firmware development and electronic circuit design.GIACOMO DOLFI (designer architect) - expertise in ergonomic shapes for
devices and innovative materials.
YOUR VISION
Realize innovative, powerful and useful systems for help people with disease
(and elderly people) to be even more involved in social life, increase the selfesteem and become more independent at home or, in general, in any other
known or unknown public areas.
YOUR MISSION
Help disease and elderly people to be more autonomous during their daily life:
at home (well known environment) and in public areas (unknown
environment), finding path ways, preferred objects, services available, avoid
obstacles or in general, to help them to understand how and what the world
offers around them, everywhere.
YOUR PROJECT
WINA (Wireless Indoor Navigation Aid) is an innovative, dynamic and powerful
(hardware and software) solution for help visual impaired and elderly people
to find objects (like chairs, doors, windows, curtains, stores, home keys, etc.),
people available around them and get the real-time information about the best
way to reach them autonomously, avoiding obstacles.When the user enter
inside an area covered by the WINA system (WINA Area), he could easily ask
what he needs, using his WINA PAD device or his mobile phone, through the
WINA APP installed on his smartphone.Each WINA Area has many electronic
active WINA tags, from a few tens to a some hundred, to identify the objects
available for the users, including their status (open/close, out of order,
etc.)These WINA Areas could be heterogeneous: from train/metro station, to
airports, restaurants, etc.) crossing Countries.Based on user preferences, the
WINA system dialogs with the users using voice recognition, voice speaking,
pressing buttons, with buzzer sound or vibrations.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
up to 10
TURNOVER (EUR)
up to 250.000
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PATENTS
- nr. 1 italian patent pending "SISTEMA DI AUSILIO PER IPOVEDENTI O NON
VEDENTI"- nr. 1 PCT patent pending for the "BLIND PEOPLE AND LOW VISION
PEOPLE AID SYSTEM"It is an innovative system aid for help blind and visual
impaired people to be more autonomous during daily life.
COPYRIGHT
WINA name and logo European trademark registration done
YOUR COMPETITORS
900M€
1% (onepercent) of the market.
- Other startups using different approach to solve the problem;- Universities
using different approach to solve the problem;- Companies already in the
market are using RFID and or WIFI system to solve the problem.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WINA is a breakthrough technology:1) the environment map is part of services
(not pre-charged), calculated and communicate in real-time to the user, when
requested;2) the precision, in range of centimeters;3) the z-axis information,
in range of centimeters.
FROM WHOM?
- nr. 1 private business angels (share 10%);- nr. 1 private business angels (share
10%);- nr. 1 VENTURE CAPITAL Company (share 10%);- winner of the contest
"dall´IDEA all´IMPRESA", from COMO NEXT and COMO Commercial Chamber
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