Our Programs
VentureOut Explore One-Week Market Exploration Programs
PLUG YOURSELF TO THE NY TECH ECOSYSTEM
Meet 20 thought leaders, decision-makers and investors in NYC in 3 days. This program enables startup founders to build an actionable network of investors, mentors and advisors that they can leverage for years to come.
VentureOut Execute 3-MONTH ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
LAUNCH YOUR STARTUP IN THE U.S.
Open an office in NYC, gain sales traction in the U.S., and prepare to raise funds from U.S. investors. This 3-month accelerator program is designed to help the most promising foreign startups establish their business in the U.S.
Italy Partners
Italian Business & Investment Initiative
The Italian Business & Investment Initiative ® (IB&II) is focused on mobilizing Italian leaders in business and government to improve the Italian economy through vital investments in potential growth industries, such as high-tech sector.
http://italianbusiness.orgInvitalia
Invitalia is the National Agency for inward investment and economic development, owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy. This boosts the country’s economic growth, focusing on strategic sectors for development and employment; it is committed to reviving crisis areas and operates mainly in the South of Italy.
http://www.invitalia.it/site/eng/home.htmlNYCEDC
New York City Economic Development Corporation is a non-profit corporation the promotes economic growth across NYC's five boroughs. A discussion with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to learn about how they are supporting the New York technology community, the programs for international startups, can help you in your expansion into NYC.
http://www.nycedc.com
Italian Trade Agency
ITA - Italian Trade Agency is the Governmental agency that supports the business development of Italian companies abroad and promotes the attraction of foreign investment in Italy.
With a motivated and modern organization and a widespread network of overseas offices, ITA provides information, assistance, consulting, promotion and training to Italian small and medium-sized businesses. Using the most modern multi-channel promotion and communication tools, it acts to assert the excellence of Made in Italy in the world.
www.ice.it/enTestimonials
Alberto Pepe
Authorea
“VentureOut didn’t just introduce us to a half dozen of NYC’s most influential tech investors, but 3 of them invested in our seed round a few months after the program!”
Lorenzo Cardelli
My Genomics
"I would recommend international entrepreneurs to get in touch with VentureOut as they know where to go, which doors to knock on."
Michele Aquila
Tweetbook
"Because it's an intense program, it goes straight to the point, it's great for networking and very useful to have a glance on how things work in NYC."
Italy Alumni
Hairdressr
Hairdressr is for all people with a busy job that want to get their hair cut but they don't have time to find where to go and then call around. Hairdressr makes it easy to find that stylist so they’re more likely to keep coming back. On the professional side, Hairdressr gives a complete booking system with client retention, marketing, and online booking so venues have more time with clients. Professionals have a web page, with professional photos and marketing promotions. Hairdressr has now closed.
www.hairdres.srVolumeet
Volumeet allows performers, record labels, festivals to offer exclusive and unpublished content to their fans, thanks to an innovative fan base management platform. A brand new way to get closer to their most valuable fans. Fans subscribe to their favorite artist/s in order to be provided with unique experience and receive special gadgets and exclusive merchandising through a privileged channel.
www.volumeet.comSmart Innovation
Smart Innovation has been established in Lamezia Terme - Italy in 2015 by Raffaele Talarico, Carmine Sirianni and Vincenzo de Fazio. Smart Innovation is a Mechatronics Engineering Studio able to develop, produce, patent and commercialize high added value mechanical and electromechanical proof of concept and prototype, especially for Health/Medical and Energy sectors.
http://www.smartinnovationsrl.itTripMedic
TripMedic is a multilingual medical service providing in-language assistance for the 275 million travelers, expats, and immigrants who need it around the world each year. We bring comfort to people who get sick away from home. All it takes is a few clicks to book a consultation and our live concierge service will immediately set you at ease. Where coverage is difficult, we provide video consultations and medical translation capabilities to ensure better outcomes.
tripmedic.comPikkart
Pikkart is one of the few companies in the world and first in Italy to have created its own AR development package (Pikkart-AR SDK) from scratch, to which pikkart-AR Logo technology was added, a software that allows you to associate up to a billion or different content to as many copies of the same image.
Pikkart's research and development are geared towards augmented intelligence, deep learning and Computer Vision, as well as the design of innovative products using AR.
http://www.pikkart.comThemechat
Theme Chat is a messenger by topic, a service that is as organized as email, and as accessible as popular messaging apps.
Theme Chat enables multiple chats between two people or groups, organized by subject and easily searchable.
Scooterino
Scooterino is the first community in Europe for sharing travel and expenses on scooters.
We connect people who want to get around the city quickly by using a simple app for iPhones and Android devices.
Kanito
Kanito is a dual-sided online marketplace that connects pet owners to pet care providers. Since 2012 Kanito S.r.l. provides turn-key digitalization services for the pet care industry: website development, social media presence, and customer acquisition solutions through our branded online pet care services marketplace Kanito.it
www.kanito.itRaixe
The philosophy behind Raixe is taking the customer back in time, where functionality and durability were a necessity, not a luxury. Raixe is a sustainable brand built around quality and affordability. Our identity is rooted in the region of Veneto (Italy), an area with centuries of history in craftsmanship and tradition. Our aesthetic translates into minimal, simple and timeless. We use simple construction techniques that make our products collectibles as much as conversation starters.
http://www.raixe.comAuthorea
Authorea is the category leader in making research collaboration more efficient. We make it easy to write up scientific research and technical documents with your collaborators and produce more accurate research faster. Tens of thousands of researchers at prestigious scholarly institutions are using Authorea to prepare their manuscripts together. We are backed by some of New York City’s leading venture capital firms.
www.authorea.comLOVETHESIGN
LOVEThESIGN is the leading online eCommerce for Italian home design. It sells more than 6,000 products from the top-notch brand to the most unknown artisan production, providing a wide marketing and distribution coverage to all the best Italian designs.
http://lovethesign.comMy Genomics
We offer the genome sequencing service and data interpretation in order to discover diseases' susceptibility and customize a personalized treatment through physicians.
http://www.mygenomics.euMysmark
MySmark is an interactive marketing service for business leaders. It is relevant to CRM and marketing vendors, brands, agencies, and retailers. It is used to listen-engage-measure-publish-advertise and creates value along the consumer journey. MySmark allows marketers to monitor the consumer experience, amplify the voice of the brand fostering communities and lead sales with targeted deals and offers. MySmark human-centric design brings a cutting-edge approach to Ad-tech, sentiment analysis, market research & consumer insights, marketing automation.
http://home.mysmark.com/enAtooma
Atooma is a cloud intelligence hub to provide mobile users a context-aware experience through the connection between software sensors and physical world's hard sensors like wearable devices, smart tv, connected cars, and potentially many other devices. Atooma is available on desktop and Android, with a strong community that every day creates smart actions without any tech skill, and more than 140k users take advantage of this collective intelligence to run smart actions.
http://atooma.comJobyourLife
Jobyourlife is the first web-based tool that uses the geographical location of the professional curricula, along with a completely cloud-based solution dedicated to Companies, for the management of the Online Recruiting, thus ensuring the optimization of the entire process of selection through a single platform integrated. The goal is to help Companies to find the ideal candidates, wherever they want, as quickly as possible, providing a service that allows them to manage the recruiting process at 360°.
http://jobyourlife.comKuldat Inc
Kuldat is a user-friendly web platform that helps B2B companies find relevant prospective clients, send outbound sales emails and monitor results. Kuldat is an all-in-one outbound sales automation tool. We are a global team of tenacious individuals from several parts of the world; combining decades of experience in programming, business development, and mathematics.
http://kuldat.comPedius
Pedius is a communication system helping hearing-impaired people making normal phone calls, using voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies. Through our Mobile Application, a user can start a call towards any desired phone number. Pedius is free to download, users get free calls every month, and can purchase credit for extra calls.
http://pedius.orgFreeppie
Freeppie is the social travel network that allows social users to travel for free as they share their travel experience in real-time
http://freeppie.comSexyDeal
SexyDeal is the first Coupon site dedicated to the world of adult entertainment.
SexyDeal offers experiences, trips, and products with a bold, sensual, playful and emotional component at a discounted price of up to 90%. SexyDeal differs from the rest of the operators present in the market for the particularity and uniqueness of the offers offered.
http://sexydeal.it
Tweetbook
Your Twitter Stories in a Book! On Tweetbook you can publish ebooks based on Twitter conversations. Currently, Tweetbook is in private beta if you are interested in testing it request an invite on www.trytweetbook.com
http://trytweetbook.comTonki
Tonki is a cool & eco-friendly frame. It's made of one single sheet of cardboard die cut with a unique design. We print your pictures directly on Tonki's 1 sq. foot front side and then ship it to your home. Just like Tonki itself, the packaging is eco-friendly cardboard with colorful instructions for an easy assembly - the funniest part of it all! You can hang Tonki on a wall or lay it around.
www.tonki.com/it/enBoutique on click
Boutique on click is an online shopping center, an elegant and very highly-curated market place of hand-selected Italian retailers and designers, presenting to a savvy consumer who’s looking for unique Made in Italy products. Boutique on click provides a turn-key e-commerce and marketing vehicle for specialty shops and designers who do not have their own e-commerce and also to those that do. We give the chance to emerging Italian designers and small fashion and design companies to have their e-commerce at low costs. Despite to excitement from the community, Boutique on click has unfortunately closed.
http://boutiqueonclick.comSavesquared
Giving businesses a competitive edge by solving a real problem that affects millions. Smartphones have grown to take the biggest share in the mobile phone industry (in EU and N. America) and global smartphone users are expected to touch 1.75 billion this year. These energy-intensive devices are causing too much frustration to users who wish to continually use their phones during the day, leaving them with the problem of “energy management”. Savesquared solves this problem in a new and smart way.
http://www.savesquared.comZucano Technologies
Zucano Technologies is the worldwide leader in the Social Travel industry. At Zucano we develop IT services for Airlines, Railways, and other industry operators to make travelers enjoy the social experience when traveling based on proprietary technology. People can use Zucano to share travel information on social networks, to gather other friends or contacts trip details and to decide to travel with them. Zucano provides best in class social seating feature for those operators that provide seat allocation in the booking process. Zucano Technologies has now closed.
http://zucano.comDesign-Apart
Design-Apart delivers bespoke Italian design around the world. Its artisan team transforms urban apartments into living showrooms furnished by Italy’s most talented designers and manufacturers who integrate advanced technologies with ancient traditions, producing furniture, fixtures, and objects of uncommon beauty and utility.
http://design-apart.comFhoster
Fhoster is a technology venture founded in 2008 expressly to develop an innovative, low-cost cloud-computing platform allowing to create and manage business applications directly in the cloud, ten times faster than existing platforms.
The platform started beta operations (with paying customers) in January 2011, it completed the beta testing in 2012. The company has constantly grown since then, more than doubling its revenues every year between 2013 and 2015. In the 2013 Gartner’s report on PaaS, Fhoster was the only Italian companies (and one of the few European companies) mentioned for the Application PaaS market segment.
http://fhoster.comFannabee
Fannabee is the new way to catalog, trade & showcase your record collections of CDs, Vinyls & Memorabilia via web and mobile. Think of this web application as a digital box full of user’s physical collection. Here’s how it works: the user starts typing the name of its favorite artist, we return a complete list of existing items divided into 6 categories: Album, single, memorabilia, video, movie, book. User can select the items he owns with just 1 click and that’s it, the collection is made.
PhotoSpotLand
PhotoSpotLand allows people to be in touch and even meet in real life, suggesting great places on how, when and where to photograph and create a better shooting experience. A community-oriented to travel and passionate photographers, whether amateurs, professionals, or blind photographers and travelers. It works also without a data connection (patent pending, no roaming costs). In 2013, PhotoSpotLand acquired Museumland.
http://photospotland.comCookRadar
Cookradar is a social marketplace where users can buy and sell homemade food to their peers. Users will be able to invite also people to their places, make a food request and rate their peers. Cookradar retains a fee on the transactions.
http://cookradar.comSlowd
Slowd is an Italy-based company founded to offer innovative solutions at the intersection of manufacturing and design, with the mission of developing sustainable supply chains and products from both an environmental and social perspective. We are a distributed and multidisciplinary team that, moving from the manufacturing ecosystem, has been able to implement design-driven innovation support capabilities of customers and institutions in different sectors (from social to technological products).
http://slowd.itK'IT Design
K’IT design was founded in 2012 in Italy by a former MIT researcher, by an architect and a project manager, sharing their passion in design and technology. K’IT vision is that the introduction of new technologies, such as smartphones, created new needs and new forms of awareness, for example to the health of their users.
http://sloan.mit.eduGreen Prefab
Green Prefab is the founder of a digital platform enabling a new generation of zero-energy buildings at affordable production costs. We are exploring supercomputers, cloud-computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and 3D building information modeling to connect design to industrial production.
http://greenprefab.comMilkyWay Bikes
On MilkyWayShop.com all fans can purchase technical equipment from the best brands and products to high value technological MilkyWay trademark owner. MilkyWayTribe.com is a platform where, for free, every rider can register, declare the position and upload their own spot - ie the places where sports. MilkyWay continually hears your feedback and suggestions from the community every day and we facilitate the aggregation of fans and practitioners of extreme sports thanks to a completely new social experience that rewards the rider who play sports in real life.
http://smartlandlife.comSHADE
SHADE, is an evolutionary video rendering ToolBox, which can enhance any type of pre-existing 3D environment and/or game.
We provide an improved graphical simulation through advanced effects management, additionally offering several optional methods of performance optimizations. All while using far fewer system resources than the standard modern graphics engine.
Archon
Archon is launching a product that will allow the deployment of persistent autonomous operations with fleets of automated flying drones in a legal, reliable way. We aim for the disruption of the video-surveillance business by providing a network of landing/recharging stations and drones connected to the existing control rooms of security service providers.
http://archondrones.comExperenti
Experenti is a magical laboratory with a high technological component.
We combine multiple ingredients to develop the most advanced mixed reality solutions - AR and VR - with the aim of improving the life and work of each one of us. We are constantly testing new ways to create exalting and useful experiences. Therefore, our customers are companies that look for innovative products in order to be more and more competitive.
In short, we don’t just make simple apps, but we’re creating a world so advanced it’s almost magical.
http://experenti.comSMALLFISH
As communication channels multiply and become more expensive to manage, the need for quality yet low-cost content grows. We provide companies with a scalable and sustainable branded video crowd production system, allowing anywhere from feeding their social media all-year-long to building an in-house medium! We believe companies should become publishers. Even when it comes to video...and the budget shouldn't be an obstacle!
http://smallfish.comKopjra Srl
Kopjra offers an all-encompassing solution featuring ensuing functions.
Detection: search, analysis and auditing of copyright infringements on the internet and in particular on peer-to-peer networks and deep web.
Enforcement: automatic acquisition of forensic evidence and takedown techniques to prevent illegal downloads of copyrighted content.
Intelligence: supply of metrics about the unauthorized diffusion of contents for a deeper understanding of the online piracy market and the social and cultural mass phenomenon behind it.
Kopjra supports clients from the awareness of piracy to the compensation lawsuit.
http://kopjra.comWaynaut
We aggregate transport data with our proprietary data acquisition platform, from carpooling, to buses, to trains. We cover 30 million people in Italy with at least one means of transport, the goal is to have full coverage by November 2014. We offer a multimodal routing service through our API, which we sell to OTAs and websites/apps on a price per call basis. We also offer easy to integrate widgets on a monthly subscription.
http://youmove.meHyperTV
HyperTV is a cloud-hosted platform used by TV content creators, ad agencies and brands to deliver hyper-relevant content to their audiences on every screen.
Our technology enables brands to build and manage dynamic stories to reach the user on all digital channels, analyze the attribution, and identify the most effective content-path to conversion for each individual member of their target audience.
http://hypertvx.comMemeoirs
Memeoirs is a web app which allows people to effortlessly create a gorgeous book containing their e-mails, in a mostly automatic fashion. All the user needs to do is to decide on a time period, and on which contacts to include. Of course, they also get to have fun customizing their book.
http://memeoirs.comOkkam
OKKAM builds entity-centric solutions for its customers. The main product lines are: DATALINKS: through its innovative data linkage service, based on its core technology called Entity Name System and its entity matching methods, OKKAM helps people and companies to add value to the information they have about relevant business entities (customers, suppliers, locations, products, events, etc.) and on top to develop value-added services like: answering complex queries, big data analytics, browsing; OBJECTLINKS: through its new platform for linking data and services to different types of tags (QR codes, RFID tags, etc.), OKKAM helps customers to stick value-added services to physical objects in different business domains (public transport, tourism, news and media, food & drinks, etc.).
http://okkam.itShoozy
Shoozy is a mobile app that enables users to check in real time what shoes and bags are on sale at the shops near them or in any area of interest. Shoozy also creates a social network between stores, users, fashion bloggers & brands where users can share photos of what they like when they are around for shopping and interacts with other thousands of followers and fashion bloggers.
shoozy.itViralize
Viralize is the online distribution platform for videos. Our mission is to deliver the right video to the perfect audience everywhere in the world and on every known media platform. We want brands to connect with their clients and we want the publisher to be able to choose between the best videos available. But most importantly, we want people to enjoy the show.
http://viralize.comWib Machines
Our main mission is to make people happy allowing them to experience a more convenient and exciting customer journey. We make this possible by improving the world of physical automation and seamlessly integrating with the digital universe.
Throughout history, automation and digitalization have improved every single aspect of our lives and we are convinced that the Internet of Things will exponentially contribute to this progress.
http://www.wibmachines.comTripsnote
Create a profile and start your journey! You can geo-tag your itinerary, photos, videos and notes on the map. Follow the profiles of other travelers or just a single trip you are really interested in. If you need any advice about your next trip just ask the community Remember that sharing the passion for travel is Tripsnote’s philosophy! Unfortunately, Tripsnote has closed.
tripsnote.comGrip
Grip is the first and most advanced AI-powered event networking solution on the planet. We empower professionals with quality interactions and the event industry with full-cycle support and valuable insights. At its core, our proprietary technology drives intelligent recommendations through Grip’s self-learning matchmaking engine.
http://getgrip.ioHaamble
Haamble has born from the brainchild of its founder, Massimo Ciaglia, to develop an innovative social network, www.haamble.com, based on the idea to put in touch through chat profiled users, registered in the places they frequent, categorizing and mapping all the places in the platform since the bootstrap, thus enabling to search profiles of people using innovative and active search criteria .
http://haamble.comFoodies Trip
FoodiesTrip is based on the belief that the shared experiences of large numbers of users are inherently more accurate than the opinions of a few critics. FoodiesTrip patented a check-in and questionnaires able to protect your web reputation. Protect yourself from fake or decontextualized reviews becoming the manager of your business page.
www.foodiestrip.com/enLikeInItaly
Likeinitaly offers a free consultation and online booking of restaurants and Italians abroad. We offer our members services such as the "social eating"; we give the possibility to people who love to cook Italian (Host) to create and publish events or dinners based on Italian food and invite members of the community. For all lovers of Italian cuisine, we have created a section of the portal dedicated to local products, wines, and Italian recipes. LikeinItaly is no longer in opperation
likeinitaly.comEZ Lab
EZ Lab is an innovative startup specialized in advanced software and digital solutions in the Smart Agri-food sector. AgriOpenData is the first software-platform that support farmers in the traceability and in the certification of agricultural products by using the Blockchain technology and Smart Contracts.
http://www.ezlab.itPinkTrotters
Our vision is to help modern women always on the move like us, to build meaningful experiences all around the globe and to see the planet through local lenses. Since 2013, our network has grown a lot and on the web platform & mobile app, you can find other travelers women, events, trips, privileges and also physical products like the Pinktrotters Box.
http://www.pinktrotters.comSounday Music
Sounday Music is a Digital Music Ecosystem which is a web-mobile platform offering advanced solutions and services to people active in the music world. Our platform is easily accessible and usable, all within a single online destination.
http://www.soundaymusic.comWARDA
WARDA offers fashion and luxury companies a complete framework for digital transformation, bringing innovation and a competitive edge much needed in this saturated market. WARDA is the worlds most advanced Digital Asset Governance platform. It was created to streamline the digital contents management and collaboration process specifically for multinational companies in fashion, design, luxury & retail.
http://www.warda.itMellon
Mellon is an app that helps people who want sell, rent, buy, even give away their pre-loved stuff in a trustworthy community made only by real friends (phone contacts and Facebook friends), and their friends.
http://www.mellonapp.com/enROIALTY
Roialty is cutting-edge marketing technology providing a deeper understanding and clearer insights on your customers.
We help our clients collect valuable customer info that drives business success. We do that by leveraging social media data to enable real-time profiling of individuals based on their behaviors on social networks. Roialty allows pushing further your customer profiling capabilities thanks to its progressive profiling and digital loyalty tools.
http://www.roialty.comGIPStech
GiPStech has developed a proprietary indoor localization technological solution consisting of a smart integration of geomagnetic and inertial algorithms that is able to reach extraordinary precision (on average 1m / 3ft) employing as guiding signal the anomalies to the geomagnetic field “naturally” present in any indoor setting: a signal that is free, stable and reliable.
http://www.gipstech.comFlazio
Flazio is a powerful and versatile web engine for creating new websites.
Flazio allows users to design a website in an easy way with no need for technical knowledge of programming languages. After a quick registration, users can begin designing- every element on the page is created visually, the user can decide which components to add and size and drag them to the desired location on the page without ever having to use the keyboard.
http://www.flazio.comLet.Life
let.life is an application that enables its users to store and manage information, schedules, and images. They are no longer opperating
http://let.life/#homeLineBoy
LineBoy is the weapon that makes us, harmless and exasperated people stuck in an office somewhere in the Globe, warriors of the waiting lines. Finally, we can live our lives while others are waiting and magically come back just when it’s our turn.
http://www.lineboy.comPromoQui
Promoqui operates a search engine that allows shoppers in Italy to access promotional offers, flyers, and discount coupons on goods online. It offers its services as a Website and as a downloadable application for iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone, and windows phone.
Promoqui began operation on August 2, 2011. Its headquarters is in Naples in Italy.
www.promoqui.itYoubiquo
We design, develop and produce devices for enterprises who want to benefit from Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence wearable electronics in Industry 4.0 environment.
Youbiquo – a company working in the Smart Glasses market- made “Talens” Smart Glasses, a wearable computer equipped with Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence features.
http://www.youbiquo.euMorpheos
Morpheos apply robotics to common interior design objects and artificial intelligence at web sites as contribution to research and innovation that can be self-sustaining and bring people closer to technology.
http://www.morpheos.euShareMyBag
ShareMyBag allows anyone to share their fashion items the the community in their local city. With a focus on accessories, bags, shoes and wedding dresses, ShareMyBag will allow people to transform lost value of their closet into purchasing power for their next trendy "purchase".
http://www.isharemybag.comSpazioDati
We're building a Business Knowledge Graph that contains hundreds of millions of facts about companies and businesses worldwide sourced from official company registries, partners and the Web. On top of it it sits a semantic engine API that reads any kind of document (including short ones like tweets), finds mentions of companies and persons and links it to the graph, from which the user can get additional data about them. Both the graph and the semantic engine are accessible as freemium SaaS APIs.
http://spaziodati.euZinbox
Zinbox is an email tool which can convert any inbox into a productive and enjoyable application. Zinbos is smart -- it has a highly visual intuitive user interface and can extract data from emails; understanding texts
http://zinbox.it