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Helpling, the most widely-available online platform for on-demand home services, has secured US$ 17M in Series A funding. The group of investors includes among others Mangrove Capital Partners, Phenomen Ventures, as well as Point Nine Capital and Lukasz Gadowski.   The investment follows the company’s rapid expansion throughout Europe and beyond. Helpling first started its […]

  Milanese e affamato. Alberto Cartasegna, classe 1989, bicocchiano e bocconiano, esperienze all’estero, formazione tutta focalizzata in business administration, poi “scuola startup” Rocket Internet a Berlino. Dove si unisce al team di Helpling, startup powered by Rocket Internet, che ha da qualche giorno annunciato un cospicuo primo round d’investimenti da 13.5 milioni di euro. Che […]

I due fondatori di Horus Technology, startup che sta sviluppando un dispositivo wearable per non vedenti e ipovedenti, ci raccontano da dove son partiti e a che punto sono. Luca Nardelli e Saverio Murgia, i due founder di Horus sono ingegneri biomedici, con diverse specializzazioni, e finora sono andati avanti grazie a qualche grant. Nel […]

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

  “BDLAccelerate in Beirut has been one of the most outstanding experience of my last working life. I appreciate its reach from many points of view: on the one hand I lived in first person a groundbreaking business matching targeted on innovation; on the other hand I was able to compare an international startup environment […]

The Green Innovation and Investment Forum– a new pitching and training event for founders and start-ups – is looking for your business ideas with high market potential. You are a founder or start-up currently looking for financing and support? Apply now and find your partners for (start-up) financing, development or licensing of your technologies or […]

Due amici milanesi accomunati dalla passione per la vela e il digitale. Simone Marini, manager e imprenditore, già fondatore di Netpeople, venduta poi a una multinazionale dell’IT e dell’Outsourcing. E Riccardo Boatti, manager della comunicazione digitale e fotografo, ha lavorato per Zivago, Netpeople e poi in Connexia, dove ha ricoperto il ruolo di Creative Director. […]

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