Funding for Italian web entrepreneurs
We are the advisor to Digital Investments Sca Sicar - Seed Compartment, focused on helping talented entrepreneurs build remarkable companies and not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies, often providing a company's first outside capital. We believe our insight and expertise are far more valuable than our capital -- and we look for entrepreneurs who feel the same.
Venture Capital in Italy
We are a team of entrepreneurs and managers that have an extensive international experience in the industry. Each of our partners has hands-on experience in operating and managing companies. We know that success is rarely a straight line. Our approach is honest and committed. And our energy, connections and perseverance help make things happen for our entrepreneurs and executives.
Our team has created, participated to and worked for companies such as Vitaminic, Yahoo!, Lycos Bertelsmann, Kelkoo, IBM, Italia Online, Euromobiliare, Value Team, H3G, Vita Samory Fabbri, Cisco, Accenture and Pino Partecipazioni.
Gianluca Dettori - Partner
Franco Gonella - Partner
Antonio Concolino - Partner
Michaela Carboni - Partner
Alessio Rocchi - Partner
Antonello Bartiromo - Partner
Ron Guerriero - Advisor
Lisa di Sevo - Associate
Loris Lanzellotti - Associate
Niccolò Sanarico - Associate
Giovanna Perrone - Office Manager
Companies we advised
Eco4Cloud offers a novel and self-organizing solution to modernize the data centers and exploit the potentialities of Cloud Computing, in order to acquire higher efficiency, to guarantee high quality of service for the applications executed in the data centers, and to obtain significant energy savings.
Sardex.net is the first and largest business to business trade exchange network in Sardinia. Its objective is to increase the overall resilience and stability of local economies. Thanks to a digital complementary currency it addresses the need for peer to peer credit among local businesses in a manner that is sustainable, counter cyclical and fosters social cohesion. Sardex.net is currently developing its new software platform to reach new markets and continue contributing to social and economic well being.
The Viamente Route Planner is a web-based Routing Optimization Software designed to support the decisions of Fleet and Team Managers in the Transport and Field Service industries. Given a list of Locations where a number of Drivers are expected to provide a service, the Viamente Route Planner calculates the optimal Route Plan, suggesting the smartest Assignments and Scheduled Stop Sequences and turn-by-turn Driving Directions that minimize the overall Operating Expenditures while maximizing the Service Level and complying with all the Logistic Constraints. The intuitive User Interface and the underlying API for integration make the Viamente Route Planner an ideal solution for Small and Medium Businesses.
Crowdengineering: the company, incorporated in Delaware, USA and expected to have its HQ in San Francisco, CA, is developing an enterprise level crowdsourcing platform. The project has been developed by a highly skilled solid technology team, which had the opportunity to field test their approach in a live large-scale enterprise implementation. Through its IP-protected technology, the company is developing a new approach to crowdsourcing, bringing some of the most powerful tools normally used in best effort scenarios (e.g. Wikipedia) within the corporate environment. Customers will be able to setup and manage outsourced services within the requirements of an enterprise level application such as: quality of service, task delivery times, and cost.
Charta provides the ticketing systems to 200 major cultural institutions in Italy and sells their ticket inventory. It was acquired through a leveraged buyout in 2004 from Banca Intesa. Its re-launch has been focused on building a significant retail business. Today most of Charta's business is about selling tickets through remote channels and Vivaticket, it's consumer brand launched in 2006, is now the second largest ticketing site in Italy in terms of sales and is driving organic growth in Charta’s business.
Founded in 2004, profitable since then, Kiver is today a leading independent digital music aggregator in Italy. Kiver has two lines of business: it markets and sells digital music through web and mobile channels, and it develops digital music marketing campaigns for leading consumer brands and record labels. In 2007 the Kiver management developed a new initiative: Downlovers (www.downlovers.it), a free/legal music download site funded with advertising (in joint-venture with Itscool, an Italian media company).
The easiest way to create your professional web TV Glomera is your fully customizable and interactive web TV that broadcasts from your site. Embed the TV platform on your site, Make money by allowing your users to create and manage their own custom WebTv on your site. Broadcast live, scheduled and on demand videos and publish your webtv on your site. Customize your user experience by designing the style and layout of your webtv. Optimize your internet TV strategy by tracking real time stats. Increase your visibility by embedding your TV channel in as many sites as you want.
Mangatar is a gaming factory specialized in the social games development. Dengen Chronicles, the first title from Mangatar, is collectible card game set in the world of Japanese Manga. Play your saga, customizing your own cards in a extremely detailed way and fighting epic battles against other real players.
CicerOOs is an innovative "smart" tool to search for and discover touristic places, powered by a proprietary semantic search technology.
Cortilia is an online marketplace for genuine and fresh food from local farmers. We select the best farmers and connect them directly with consumer through our website and home delivery service. Our products are always seasonal, genuine and coming directly from the nearest producers in order to build a suistainable mobility of goods.
Every website and mobile app in the world have to comply with a boring legal requirement: the privacy policy. Iubenda solves this hassle once and for all by allowing anyone to generate a privacy policy. Three simple steps and some buttons to press hide all the legal complexity, making iubenda a must have for web and mobile developers.
Ibrii allows users to snip every type of content found on the internet no matter if it is simple text, a photo, a video or even an embedded object, like streaming audio. What makes Ibrii unique is that it gives the possibility to share distinct elements of web pages and not links to entire pages as do numerous other services present on the internet. Ibrii allows users to mix videos, text or photos from different pages into a single note and later share that note with friends. Ibrii gives users the possibility to decide how to share the contents. Facebook,Twitter and Google Buzz are the primary sharing channels, but users can also create a personalized permalink to the contents and share that permalink through instant messaging and other social networks. Ibrii also gives the possibility to create a RSS feed for one’s personal blog.
SmartRM, incorporated in Delaware, USA, is developing an open source interoperable DRM (digital rights management) platform based on the MPEG-21 standard. The DRM market still is a small software market ($800 million in 2007 expected to grow to little more than $1 billion in 3 years), we consider that an open source interoperable platform has the opportunity to breach in current small, proprietary, market thus allowing anyone to “DRMize” its digital content.
Seolab develops and sells search engine optimization (SEO) services and social media marketing campaigns. Currently Seolab provides two types of services: web site SEO and keyword planning services. This start-up is a spin-off of the SEO team of Bakeca, a leading local classified website in Italy.
Sounday is a global digital music label. Its objective is to develop a large and rich talent pool to market and sell through digital channels both on web and mobile. Started as a spin-off of Kiver catalogue assets, Sounday is currently developing its artist roaster, product offering and technology platform.
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