Italian SME's and startups presented at the IB&II Fall Symposium 2012
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The document details the agenda for the Italian Business & Investment Initiative's Fall Symposium held on November 28, 2012, in New York City, featuring pitches from various Italian startups across multiple sectors. It discusses the initiative's mission to connect investors with Italian SMEs and highlights the success in securing investments of nearly $12 million for these companies. The event promotes networking opportunities, showcases innovative companies, and acknowledges sponsors supporting the event.
Italian SME's and startups presented at the IB&II Fall Symposium 2012
- 3. TODAY'SAGENDA FallSymposium 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:15pm WelcomeReceptionandNetworking OpeningRemarks Joe Daniels – Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP Fernando Napolitano - President and CEO, Italian Business & Investment Initiative Masimiliano Cattozzi, Head Intesa San Paolo USA & South America CompanyPitches - Stereomood - HyperTV - Beintoo - RealmadeinItaly(RMI) - ArtistFan - AdmantX - Timbuktu - Blomming - Mosaicoon - +Plugg - +ICoolhunt - Homply Each presnters has 4 min pitch, followed a Q&A session (3 min) 8:45pm ClosingRemarksandReception
- 5. BENVENUTO! FallSymposium DearGuest, Welcome to the Italian Business & Investment Initiative's Fall 2012 Italian Startup Pitch Event, in cooperation with Loeb & Loeb. Just over a year and a half ago, IB&II hosted its first event in New York, showcasing the investment opportunities at a select group of Italy's small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-up companies. Over the last 18 months, we have been able to help further the international growth aspirations of nearly 50 Italian SMEs in sectors ranging from biotech and aeronautics - to green tech and energy. These companies represent the best of Italian innovation, and the way forward for the country's troubled economy. A central part of IB&II's mission is to provide a physical forum to con- nect the supply and demand of capital between the United States and Italy, and to attract new foreign direct investments by promoting Italy's SMEs as exciting and viable investment opportunities. IB&II's partners and I are happy to report that as a result of these efforts, we have been able to help secure close to $12 million in investment capital for these growing companies…anditdoesn'tstopthere!OnApril13,IB&IIbrought its message straight to Italy's political sphere at a special event in Rome titled, "A Call for Action, Changing a Generation." We gathered together government representatives, CEOs, and ambitious entrepreneurial Italians to raise capital and opportunity for aspiring tech-focused startups. Today we are joined by twelve SMEs from a diverse range of sectors including software technology, social media, communications and fash- ion. These companies have been selected because of their global aspira- tions and the attractive investment opportunities they present. You will have a chance to interact directly with the talented management teams from all nine companies during formal Q&A following their presenta- tions and a networking session at the end of today's event. Finally, I want to thank all of our generous sponsors for their kind sup- port of today's event - without their backing, we would not be here today. Distinti saluti, Fernando Napolitano PresidentandCEO Italian Business & Investment Initiative fnapolitano@italianbusiness.org
- 8. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Daniele Novaga – daniele@stereomood.com www.stereomood.com Stereomood is a platform for listening to music online. The music, however, is segmented nontraditionally - according to your mood. The company has a community of 400.000 registered users that contribute to such segmentation and focuses on independent labels. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: MusicDiscovery CEO: Daniele Novaga* 2012Revenue: $ 650K Founded: 2010 CTO: MaurizioPratici 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Rome,Italy Creative Director: EleonoraViviani 2013(forecast): $ 4.5M Employees: Eight 2013EBITDA(forecast): $ 1.9 bn PreviousCapital: Seed Funding from Innogest
- 10. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Claudio Vaccarella: clavac@vejopark.com www.hypertvx.com Second Screen technology presents a new way of engaging audiences, promoting channel and program loyalty, extend- ing the advertising market and creating new revenue streams. HTV has developed an advanced online cross-device multimedia platform software that offers enhanced second screen usage. It's fully customizable white-label open- technology with a wide range of interactive widgets allows easy integration and creates a rich multi-layered online experience. This has led HTV to become the world leader in providing the most hours of Second Screen technology content. HTV has installed a total of 7 platforms throughout Europe and plans to launch in the US market in 2012. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: MobileEntertainment CEO: Claudio Vaccarella* 2012Revenue: $1.8 M Founded: 2011 CTO: PatrizioMunzi 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Employees: Rome,Italy Eight 2013Revenue(forecast): 2013EBITDA(forecast): PreviousCapital: Not Available Not Available $1.9M
- 12. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Antonio Tomarchio: atomarchio@beintoo.com www.beintoo.com Beintoo is a gamification platform and web advertising and mobile, leverages the reward concept sent to the user based on his/her gaming or app usage results. The company is creating a proprietary loyalty program based on virtual currency named bedollar. This platform is going global and able to pin in contact advertiser with 200 million users and more 50 million of active users. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: MobileEntertainment CEO: Antonio Tomarchio 20112Revenue: Averaging $200K/month Founded: 2011 CTO: Fillippo Privitera* 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Mlan,Italy 2013Revenue(forecast): Not Available Employees: Twenty-Five 2013EBITDA(forecast): Not Available PreviousCapital: $7.5M from Innogestand TLcom CapitalPartners
- 14. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Gian Luca Innocenzi – gl.innocenzi@yahoo.com RMI is a New Media, Life-Style project dedicated to the Italian way of living; a style and uniqueness known and appreciated world wide. Food & Wine, with a touch of history, tourism and art. In addition, fashion and design. The RMI project represents the ultimate innovation in Italian Life-Style, content available specifically for Connected TV, Smartphones and Tablets. Key partners include: Food & Wine, Eataly Fashion & Tourism, Class Editori Group. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: LifestyleMedia CEO: Lorenzo Fragola 20112Revenue: Not Available Founded: 2012 CTO: Andrea De Paoli 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Turin,Italy Marketing: Gian Luca Innocenzi 2015Revenue(forecast): $15M Employees: Five Legal&Finance:TizianaDappiani 2015EBITDA(forecast): $ 4.7M Business Devel.: Greta Torricelli PreviousCapital: Not Available
- 16. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Fabrizio Sotti – fsotti@artistfan.com ArtistFan is the only interactive online music network that provides music artists with a FREE, easy to use platform to promote and distribute their music, videos, merchandise, live performances and live streaming (to be launched Jan 2013). OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: MusicDistribution Founder, CEO: Fabrizio Sotti 20112Revenue: Not Available Founded: 2011 President, co-founder: Joseph Anthony 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: NewYork,NY 2015Revenue(forecast): Not Available Employees: One 2015EBITDA(forecast): Not Available PreviousCapital: $1.5 M
- 18. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: AntonioLinari–info@admantx.com www.admantx.com Contextualization data for cookieless ad targeting like never before. At ADmantX, we not only match ads to brand-safe appropriate content, we take it a step further and assure that the underlying emotional response to the content matches the action desired by the advertiser. Semantic technology and dynamic categorization come together to match ads with the right consumers in the right frame of mind with the right message. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: OnlineAdvertising CEO: GiovanniStrocchi 20112Revenue: Not Available Founded: 2010 CMO: J.Brooke Aker 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: WestHartford,CT CTO: Antonio Linari 2015Revenue(forecast): Not Available Employees: Nine Business Devel.: Damon Francis 2015EBITDA(forecast): Not Available Partnerships: Greg Shaw PreviousCapital: $2.8M from Atlante Ventures
- 20. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Elena Favilli – elenafavilli@gmail.com www.timbuktu.me Timbuktu works at the intersections of design, education and technology. We help parents discover the world with their kids. Timbuktu is an iPad magazine that brings you only the best content and activities for you and your kids. Play games, read the news, discover the most beautiful pictures from all over the world. We do the research, so you don't have to. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: MobileEntertainment CEO: Elena Favilli 20112Revenue: Not Available Founded: 2011 Creative Director: Francesca Cavallo 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Milan,Italy 2013Revenue(forecast): Not Available Employees: Six 2013EBITDA(forecast): Not Available PreviousCapital: $ 500K
- 22. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Matteo Cascinari – matteo@blomming.com www.blomming.com Blomming is one of the first European DIY e-commerce solutions for blogs, social media and soon mobile devices. The platform allows users to insert a complete, embeddable online shop anywhere on the Web. Features include multilingual support (English, Spanish and Italian) for worldwide coverage and reach. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: E-Commerce CEO: Matteo Cascinari 20112Revenue: None Founded: 2010 CTO: Nicola Junior Vitto 2012EBITDA: -$ 350K Headquarters: Italy CMO: Alberto D’Ottavi 2013Revenue(forecast): Not Available Employees: Nine 2013EBITDA(forecast): Not Available PreviousCapital: $1.7M from VertisVenture
- 24. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Ugo Parodi Giusino – ugo@mosaicoon.com www.mosaicoon.com OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: OnlineAdvertising CEO: Ugo ParodiGiusino 20112Revenue: $ 2M Founded: 2009 Client Director: Pietro Sorce 2012EBITDA: $ 250K Headquarters: Palermo,Italy R&D Manager: Giuseppe Costanza 2013Revenue(forecast): $ 4.2M Employees: Twenty-Five Head of Seeding: Marco Imperato 2013EBITDA(forecast): $ 1M PreviousCapital: $ 800K from VertisVenture Mosaicoon is an online marketing and engagement agency with a network reaching over 80M users worldwide. Mosaicoon has developed novel seeding approaches to improve the success rates of viral campaigns. Currently active in Italy and UK, Mosaicoon is looking to expand its global footprint.
- 26. FallSymposium COMPANYSNAPSHOT CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Franco Bondi – franco.bondi@plusplugg.com Intelligent tools that work connected to the most common smartphones (IOS, Android and Windows Mobile). +Plugg reinvents everyday objects and provide them with new intelligence (software), connectivity (mobile connection) and power when connected to smartphones. It is the world of internet of things: weather stations change the alarm clock in case of traffic or rain, thermometers alert the office and family members in case of fever and show a map of areas with epidemics, etc. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: ConsumerElectronics President: Andrea Mastalli 20112Revenue: $ 1M Founded: 2011 CEO: Franco Bondi 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Cagliari, Italy 2013Revenue(forecast): $ 16M Employees: Eleven 2013EBITDA(forecast): $ 4.4M PreviousCapital: $ 3M from VertisVenture
- 28. FallSymposium COMPANYSNAPSHOT CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Luca Morena – luca@icoolhunt.com www.icoolhunt.com ICoolHunt is he first location-‐based social networking game in the intriguing world of coolhunting, available both as a Web application and as an iPhone application. iCoolhunt is not only a social game and photo-‐sharing service but also an unprecedented tool in market research. It is a game-‐with-‐a-‐purpose (GWAP) designed with the intent of capturing the wisdom of the crowds on trends. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: SocialMedia CEO: Alessio Morena 20112Revenue: Not Available Founded: 2012 CEO: Luca Morena 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Cagliari, Italy 2013Revenue(forecast): $ 1.8M Employees: Two 2013EBITDA(forecast): $ 590K PreviousCapital: Seed funding from Atlante Venture
- 30. COMPANYSNAPSHOT FallSymposium CONTACTTHISCOMPANY: Alessandro Santo – ale@homply.com www.mosaicoon.com Homply is a real estate focused “Evernote” that aggregates the “demand for house” and profit from superior lead generation capabilities disrupting an old market the same way AdWords impacted on advertising. OVERVIEW: KEYPEOPLE: FINANCIALINFORMATION: Sector: RealEstate CEO: AlessandroSanto 20112Revenue: Not Available Founded: 2012 CEO: Pietro Montelatici 2012EBITDA: Not Available Headquarters: Milan, Italy CMO: Massimo Montagnana 2013Revenue(forecast): Not Available Employees: Three 2013EBITDA(forecast): Not Available PreviousCapital: $ 100K
- 31. Homply