Dynamo Lab

Developing growth strategies and plans
Managing and retaining relationships with existing clients
Increasing client base
Having an in-depth knowledge of business products and value proposition
Writing business proposals
Identifying and mapping business strengths and customer needs
Researching business opportunities and viable income streams
Following industry trends locally and internationally
Drafting and reviewing contracts
Reporting on successes and areas needing improvements

Founder & Business Development Manager

CrossFund

CrossFund is an invitation-only, professional venture collective that empowers founders to raise early-stage capital and connect with accredited investors & mentors experienced in building cross-border, early-stage tech companies in Asia. I'm advisor in charge of marketing for fundraising campaigns. Would you like to invest in reserved Crossfund campaigns? Keep in touch with me!

Senior Marketing Strategist

IED Istituto Europeo di Design

Lecturer

Seed

I'm in charge to communicate with journalists, writing press releases and spreading the brand all over the web and on magazines.

Marketing and PR Specialist

CleanBnB

I'm in charge to communicate with journalists, writing press releases and spread the brand all over the  web and on magazines.

Startup-news.it

Founder and Director

Zefiro Comunicazione

Gestione clienti, studio progetti editoriali, formazione per aziende

Founding partner

Co Founder

Editorial Director

BNI Italia

President at 7Bello Online Chapter

ECIPA NORDEST

Docente per un percorso di formazione sul Crowdfunding

MorphCast

Marketing Specialist

Business development manager, teacher, journalist, specialist in startups, crowdfunding, marketing, brand journalism. Digital communication consultant for companies and startups. Food, technology, startups and music are my passions. Skills: Digital marketing, business development, crowdfunding.

Salvatore Viola

Tenity

Founded as a spin-off of the Swiss stock exchange (SIX), Tenity, formerly known as F10, now is a leading independent global open innovation ecosystem and early-stage investor mainly focused on #FinTech, #InsurTech, #RegTech, and #DeepTech. Through the 2023 acquisition of Hackquarters by Tenity, a well-established London- and Istanbul-based accelerator with a strong presence in #corporate innovation, Tenity now boasts 6 #hubs across Europe and Asia, nearly 70 corporate partners, 150+ startup programs delivered, 1100+ #alumni startups with $1 #billion in combined funding, 230+ facilitated #collaborations, and a 1000+ strong global #mentor network.

Related to Spanish,Portuguese and Italian markets:

- Visa Innovation Program Europe: overseeing and execution of the Spanigh/Portogues and Italian startup batches
- Program Management: Oversee program deliverables, schedules, and logistics to ensure timely completion and quality. Facilitate workshops, mentorship sessions, and demo days to foster participant engagement. Coordinate communication and cultivate strong relationships with all stakeholders, including mentors and investors, to guarantee program alignment and effectiveness.
- Ecosystem Building: Strengthening the startup ecosystem by hosting networking events, facilitating collaborations, and fostering online engagement. This connects startups with industry experts, mentors, investors, and potential partners.
- Partner Relationship Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with corporate partners. Understanding their objectives and ensuring their satisfaction. Serving as the primary point of contact for partners, managing inquiries and providing regular progress updates.
- Value Delivery & Program Development: Designing and implementing an open innovation program. Developing and refining content and strategies that align with industry trends and stakeholder needs. Tracking program performance and making data-driven recommendations for improvement.

Senior Program Manager

Innovasia

The Mission of InnovAsia is to propose a connection scenario between the individual realities analyzed, acting as a gateway and source of timely information through the daily analysis of insights coming directly from the APAC world. 

We will travel between the different perspectives of the various markets, development trends, new technologies, analysis of development trajectories, policies that support innovation in the region and an in-depth overview that no one tells you. 

The goal is to create a dense network of interconnections that make it possible to understand the technological background through an accurate analysis of the landscape of stakeholders operating in this huge technological cluster; the content will be enriched with ideas related to the most varied areas of innovation, with more than 20 verticals placed under a specifically dedicated magnifying glass.

IG: Innov.asia

Founder

AWRobotics

A startup that offers a Warehouse as a service (WaaS) for E-Commerce.

AwRobotics supports product e-commerce companies with the goal of optimizing their logistics costs, increasing efficiency, and saving time by taking over their products and fulfilling their orders by leveraging robotics and AI.

Angel Investor

LVenture Group

Ranked as one of the most active venture capital operators in Southern Europe, confirming a constant growth trend, already demonstrated by the inclusion in FT 1000, the annual report of the Financial Times on the 1000 European companies with the highest turnover growth in the three years 2015-2018, and in “Leader della Crescita 2021", the ranking of Il Sole 24 Ore which rewards the Italian companies with the greatest increase in revenues in the last three years.

-Corporate Entrepreneurship: supporting corporates in the setup of internal innovation activities such as entrepreneurial workshops, and supporting them during the process of creating a new ventures/spin-offs through a Corporate Venture Building program.
-Corporate Venturing: supporting corporates in scouting and evaluating the most innovative startups in order to invest through their CVC fund and/or create industrial synergies through the setup of Corporate Accelerators.
-Deal origination: sourcing, initial outreach, valuation of investment opportunities, market studies, and Lead/support transactions from inception through closing.
-Acceleration: overseeing startup selection, providing mentorship and growth support, and organizing investor and demo days to showcase their products and solutions.

Innovation & Corporate Venturing Consultant

Università Europea di Roma - UER

Fintech Entrepreneurship Course in the Master's degree in Innovation Economics and Management (finance major)


The course was focused on:

- Fintech Startup Ecosystem: What are the different models and subsectors. How do fintech startups ecosystem emerge?
- Venture Capital and Fintech: the role of VC in financial and strategic support to FinTech Startups.
- Case Studies: state of Fintech market and its growth in next years, analysis of real Fintech startups.
- Project Work: A group work (3/4 students) where students imagined creating a Fintech startup based on the knowledge gained during the course and real cases analyzed. The evaluation was based on the value proposition, market potential, business model feasibility, and investment opportunity. Students were expected to generate an idea, conduct market research, develop a comprehensive business plan, and create a 15-20 slide pitch deck that was presented at the exam.

Guest Lecturer 

Aggiornamenti Quotidiani dalla Terza Repubblica (AQTR)

AQTR is an association present on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram and provides a free and non-profit virtual place for reflection and discussion relating to current political events or not.

Advisor

CrossFund is an invitation-only, professional venture network that gives angels & mentors broad access to cross-border investments, early-stage tech companies in Asia and Europe.
CrossFund is actively partnering with local incubators and accelerators across key Asian & European markets.

#2 as Southeast Asia's Best Financing Platform.

- Deal origination: sourcing, initial outreach, valuation of investment opportunities, market studies, and Lead/support transactions from inception through closing. 
- Conducting an interdisciplinary evaluation of new investment opportunities, including business model analysis, competitor research, and market trends. 
- Providing ongoing portfolio reporting: monitoring and evaluation of investment performance against key targets, including the management and reporting of potential business/investment risks as they arise to investors. 
-Community: Leading the expansion of the Crossfund community in Europe, overseeing the onboarding process and fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among entrepreneurs, angels, mentors, and industry experts, while ensuring adherence to initial KYC requirements and alignment with their investment thesis.

Investment Manager & Ambassador (Europe)

Almacube

Almacube the certified incubator and innovation hub of the University of Bologna and Confindustria Emilia Area Centro (General Confederation of Italian Industry) committed to fostering innovation as a national catalyst for innovation by bridging the industrial world and the research world through open innovation activities for corporates and SMEs and acceleration programs for innovative startups and university spin-offs, so playing a key role in the technology transfer.



- Implementing and managing collaborative projects between companies, Almacube’s stakeholders, and startups such as organizing activities, including networking and training events, providing advisory support to entrepreneurs on proposal writing, pitch deck, business development, fundraising as well as relevant linkages to established companies for business opportunities. 
- Supporting startups in fundraising activities through collaboration with investment funds, business angels, and subsidized finance partners
- Carrying out scouting operations to identify the most promising startups (national and international) for Venture Clienting and Acceleration programs.
- Project Manager of "Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs 2022".

Innovation Broker

Nodes Advisors

A Zurich based Corporate advisory & finance firm that focuses on breakthrough and novel technologies. Through our advice and network, we help bold entrepreneurs to raise cross-border capital from institutional investors, funds, VCs, Family Offices, and strategic Corporates. 

As Corporate & Investment Associate I'm responsible for helping Nodes Advisors to identify promising new ventures and investors in the Life Sciences & Biotech sector to present to our investor syndicate.

-Deal Flow: Scouting, Screening, Due Diligence, Market Segmentation, and Business Analysis process.
-Advising institutional investors with the best investment thesis selecting tailored startups already
evaluated.
-Forge new commercial opportunities with early-stage Next Gen Biotech ventures across several thematics and sectors such as Life sciences, cloud biology, programmable medicine, synthetic biology, digital therapeutics, and others.
- Build relationships that expand the Nodes Advisors' referral network.
-Communicate opportunity and risk assessments to stakeholders.
- Monitor Life Sciences & Biotech trends, and providing insight for internal reporting
-Business Development and Project Management.

Corporate & Investment Associate 

Sinofy Studio

Sinofy Group is a cross-border firm focusing on AI/ML, Gaming, IT, Software, Hardware, Blockchain, FinTech, Internet, AR/VR, Robotics, Cybersecurity.

Sinofy Group delivers end-to-end tailored PR, JV, BD, and Fundraising/M&A solutions based on tech companies' goals in China.

- Manage the development company's overall strategic presence across Europe's innovation ecosystem.
- Use existing & acquired networks to help European Tech companies to access the Chinese market.
- Showcasing & telling China Tech and PR stories to interested stakeholders & parties.
-Sourcing of prominent tech startups looking for fundraising or M&A in China
- Track and analyze Industry and Market Trends, and providing insight for internal reporting
- Drafting proposals and presentation decks to support the sales/fundraising efforts, liaise with Legal/Compliance to submit materials for review and approval
-Advising institutional investors with the best investment thesis selecting tailored startups already
vetted.
-Build and Manage relationships with key stakeholders in the market

Investor Relations & Strategic Partnerships 

- Founder of InnovAsia: "Your Bridge to Asia"
- Senior Program Manager (Spain/Portugal/Italy) at Tenity


6+ years of international work experience between APAC and Europe in the innovation ecosystem through roles within early-stage startups, as a founder, advisory firms, and investment funds. Determined and fascinated by innovation and internationality, particularly geopolitics and global technology trends.

Former:
- Innovation & Corporate Venturing Consultant at Lventure Group
- Guest lecturer of the Fintech Entrepreneurship course in the Master's degree in Innovation Economics and Management (Finance major)
- Part of the WAIC 2021 (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) organization, the Biggest AI conference in the world
- Jury Member of the Startup Pitch Competition at the Web Marketing Festival 2022 
-Corporate & Investment Associate at Nodes Advisors (Europe and APAC)
-Fintech Sales and Business Analyst at MEDICI Global (Europe and APAC)
-Impact Investment Strategist (Asia Pacific) at Impakter.com
-Innovation Broker at Almacube
-Investment Manager & Ambassador (Europe & APAC) at Crossfund
-Panelist at the European Technology Chamber (EUTECH) on emerging tech trends in Southeast Asia 



Executive Master in Open Innovation & Intellectual Property at LUISS Business School
(Scholarship funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) - as a deserving candidate):
-Interuniversity program with SAA - School of Management (Turin)
-Executive Summer Intensive Program on Artificial Intelligence and Business Opportunities
-Executive Program on Negotiation
-Report: Beijing Fintech Hub
-International Summer School at lKEDGE Business School on Disruptive Technologies & Modern Management: Business Analytics and Intelligence
-Intensive Leadership Programme at Luiss Business School Amsterdam Hub


Master’s degree in International Science (Economics and Politics) with a Focus on China at the University of Turin:
-1-year experience in China at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (广外) studying International Business
-"China-Mediterranean Business Program", an Advanced Business & Management training program in partnership between ESCP Europe, the University of Torino & the Torino World Affairs Institute, and hosted by Peking University (北大).
-Research project abroad: Master's Degree Thesis - Innovation and Foreign Capital: the transformation of Guangzhou.


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