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Portfolio Companies
The current Innogest Capital portfolio includes the following investments:
- Silicon Biosystems S.p.A.
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- Intelligence Focus S.r.l.
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Silicon Biosystems – Prenatal diagnosis
Based in Bologna, Silicon Biosystems has developed a set of proprietary solutions in the field of lab-on-a-chip technologies targeted at miniaturized single-cell-biology testing, fully exploiting the high potential of microelectronics.
The diagnostic approach patented by Silicon Biosystems has led to an unprecedented technology platform able to perform complex protocols and offering the unique possibility of controlling individual cells and micro-particles inside a micro-chamber. Silicon Biosystems technology individually manages more than 100,000 cells on a single microelectronic chip, using software control and incorporating sensors to detect the results of complex procedures.
Easier recovery of rare fetal cells from maternal blood in prenatal diagnosis can become a routine and non-invasive prenatal procedure, effectively replacing amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling currently adopted for this purpose.
Further applications include the isolation of tumour stem cells, which can be studied in order to define their molecular profiles, detect pre-malignant lesions and target new therapies.
Giuseppe Giorgini, appointed Chairman and CEO of Silicon Biosystems in January 2006, since 1979 has covered several roles in marketing and general management, working for leading domestic and international pharmaceutical companies.
In recent years he has started up the Italian subsidiaries for Amgen and Fournier. Giuseppe was Managing Director at Amgen Italy until December 2005. He is currently serving as Vice President of Assobiotech, the Italian association of biotech companies. For more than 12 years he was active within the pharmaceutical trade association (Farmindustria) where he was a member of the Council and Chairman of the Biotech Group until December 2005.
For further information: www.siliconbiosystems.com Back to top
TheBlogTV - Professional Video Production from User-Generated Content
TheBlogTV aims to exploit the newest business opportunities in the world of media through the development of the first international media network based on User Generated Contents.
TheBlogTV’s unique selling proposition is the creation of a virtuous cycle based on:
- selection and involvement of each country’s best video bloggers to create user-generated content and programs
- multi-platform distribution of content, both on own channels and third-party channels
- direct collection of advertising revenues leveraging on a cumulated audience
- viewer involvement through interactive reward mechanisms.
The company is based in Milan and Rome and has initiated international expansion in western European countries.
Bruno Pellegrini, CEO and Founder of TheBlogTV, has covered several managing roles in Procter & Gamble, Bain & Co. and a number of media companies. In recent years he has founded and managed as CEO an Italian satellite channel. Bruno holds a masters degree in economics from the Bocconi University in Milan and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.
For further information: www.theblogtv.it Back to top
H.T. - Security Software
Based in Milan and founded in 2003, HT focuses exclusively on computer security.
The company offer includes two different product lines. The first is a traditional (or “defensive”) security line for corporate clients such as banks, insurance companies, financial holdings and the most important manufacturing firms. With HT’s products clients are able to extensively improve the reliability level of existing IT infrastructures thus reducing risks and maintenance costs and protecting, in a more effective way, intellectual property assets, employees and customers.
The second, and most innovative, product line is a non-traditional (or “proactive”) security line, which includes products for law enforcement and security agencies in Europe and around the world. Products in this line are not focused on protecting information but instead on effectively opposing international terrorism activities, international criminal organizations, paedophilia, and white-collar crimes, which are more and more characterized by the use of IT devices and infrastructures.
The proactive security approach represents the new frontier in IT security.
David Vincenzetti and Valeriano Bedeschi, are the key managers leading HT. Both David and Valeriano have a strong reputation in the security sector at international level. David Vincenzetti is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded three security companies in a twenty-year period of working experience in the computer security sector.
For further information: www.hackingteam.it Back to top
Intelligence Focus – Web intelligence and Security
Founded in 2004 in Turin, Intelligence Focus is a fast-growing company operating in the field of web intelligence and security. It has recently opened new international subsidiaries in the United States and commercial offices in Europe.
Intelligence Focus core technology, known as Dynamic Intelligence Management System (DIMS®), allows the user to record live, structured and unstructured network flows and analyze them in real time, adding unprecedented layers of immediately usable intelligence to virtually any online operation. In particular, DIMS® is a powerful technology for contrasting Asymmetric Threats such as Hidden Web, Phishing and distributed fraud, stealth cyber communities and grey markets.
Intelligence Focus has developed a wide product portfolio, exploiting the huge analytical potential of the DIMS® technology platform:
- Domodomain™ is a powerful software product for lead generation from the analysis of corporate website contacts; it is currently promoted in partnership with Saleforce.com and Google Adwords.
- Community Watchdog™ is a software solution for content compliance analysis, able to pinpoint any potential infringement of on-line community behavioural policies;
- Digiprobe™ is a dedicated appliance for the analysis of outbound and inbound data flows which can be fully integrated with existing IT infrastructures; its proprietary DIMS® architecture makes it an effective tool for enforcing data confidentiality within the company IT system.
Large international corporations and several governments are using this innovative technology to address today's most pressing business and social issues.
Maurizio Attisani, the company Founder and CEO, has worked for years in security consulting for government agencies and private companies. He has strong experience in research, design, development and deployment of intelligence-driven solutions.
For further information: www.intelligencefocus.com Back to top
Singular ID - Anti-counterfeiting solutions
Based in Singapore and Padua, Singular ID is a nanotechnology spin-off company that was founded in 2005 to market magnetic tagging technology.
Singular ID aims at being the leading solution provider for tracing and authenticating items of value.
The main product of Singular ID, known under the commercial name Enxure, is a complete and integrated anti-counterfeiting solution including:
- secure barcode labels (copy-proof, pre-registered, customized formats);
- production line and database integration;
- brand security software and secure hosting;
- portable scanners for authentication by inspectors (desktop scanners for vendors / EPOS).
Singular ID also offers a consultancy service to evaluate the options of adopting nanotechnology solutions as anti-counterfeiting and brand protection instruments and to create a roadmap for their implementation.
Singular ID is headed by the CEO Adrian Burden.
For further information: www.singular-id.com Back to top
TwoF – DNA microarrays
TwoF is a company incorporated in 2006 in order to develop a new process for large- scale production of DNA microarrays, based on an innovative technology patented by Prof. Francesco Stellacci at MIT. The company operates in Lodi and Trento.
SuNS (Supramolecular NanoStamping) is the technology platform that provides an advantage over currently established manufacturing methods of producing probe arrays: It dramatically reduces the number of production steps, thus increasing quality, lowering costs and allowing for smaller geometries and higher information density. Some of these benefits provide straightforward competitive advantages, such as cost reduction, quality improvement and the use of standard scanners, while others could result in a radical departure from existing practices.
The MIT has licensed SuNS technology exclusively to TwoF and is a shareholder. TwoF has created an Italian subsidiary, Molecular Stamping srl (MS), which is in charge of all the operational activities that will turn SuNS into an industrial production process. Shares in Molecular Stamping are held by two major regional science parks in northern Italy, each bringing complementary competencies needed in order to reach the company goal:
- IRST – Kessler Foundation (based in Trento) is the main microelectronic research lab in Italy. IRST hosts Molecular Stamping and is to develop the process technology.
- Parco Tecnologico Padano (based in Lodi) is the main Italian agro-bio research lab. PTP provides skilled personnel, services and materials and works in order to develop initial SuNS applications in the field of agro-biology.
For further information: www.molecularstamping.com Back to top
Mobango - User Generated Contents for mobile phones.
Mobango Ltd is a young company based in Milan. It has developed an on-line community dedicated to the free sharing of consumer generated contents for mobile phones. Mobango has created a disruptive service that allows anyone to share with other users content they have created or downloaded from elsewhere.
Users can browse around the website, discovering mobile content such as games, software utilities, ringtones, videos and images to personalise their mobile phones. They can download files to their PC and transfer to their phone via cable / Bluetooth connection, or they can download them directly to their phone. Users can also sign up directly through the mobile phone using a WAP or Web connection and then select and download their preferred contents.
The Founder and CEO of Mobango, Fabio Pezzotti, is a serial entrepreneur, with an excellent track record in building successful Web businesses and brands. Among his previous experiences, in 2000 he started the online community site Webnext and later sold it to a subsidiary of Telecom Italia.
For further information: www.mobango.com Back to top
Adriacell – Anti-tumour therapeutics
Adriacell s.r.l is a biotech company focused in innovative oncology pharmaceuticals founded in Basovizza (Trieste) in March 2004 by Prof. Christian Kuehne, an Austrian citizen.
The company is leveraging its efforts and scientific expertise to successfully solve important worldwide health problems; in particular, it has been striving to develop a new class of anti-tumour therapeutics and to create a series of powerful diagnostics for the early detection of cancer progression. The company is also developing new and highly powerful delivery solutions through small molecules as the basis for a new class of anti-infective drugs.
AdriaCell owns a patented system that can be used for the study of events subsequent to DNA double strand breaks, a very important issue for cancer research and diagnostics. Adriacell is currently evaluating a new class of therapeutics for cancer; its main lead compound is about to enter the pharmacokinetic and toxicology phases.
Adriacell Vision is to become a leader biotech drug development company concentrated in the development of solutions (treatment and diagnostics) for tumours characterized by low probability of survival for patients and of anti infective agents. Thanks to future developments in research and test activities Adriacell solutions will hopefully become useful in a wider range of pathologies.
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Igea – Electrochemotherapy for surface and deep cancer treatment
Igea is a company founded in Carpi (Modena) in 1980 by Dott. Ruggero Cadossi as a spin-off of the University of Modena. The company is focusing its efforts in biomedical product development, in particular striving to expand the employment of non-ionizing physical energy in the medical field.
Thanks to an extensive international collaboration, the company is now focusing on the oncology sector which is expected to be the most important driver to accelerate the growth of the company. In particular Igea, thanks to two proprietary technologies and its strong know-how, has developed and produced an innovative electronic systems (called "Cliniporator") for the treatment of surface cancer. The technologies on which the system is based are called Electrochemotherapy (ECT) and Electroporation (EP), based on the application of electrical pulses directly to the tumour area. These technologies are aimed to increase the anti-tumoural effectiveness of low permeant drugs possessing a high intrinsic cyto-toxicity (ECT) or to destroy the tumour cells. The ECT treatment is based on the conjoint subministration of electrical pulses and antitumor drugs while in the case of Irreversible EP no drugs are used.
Thanks to future developments in research and test activities Igea solutions are positioned to become useful in a wider range of pathologies and in particular in deep cancers.
The company’s CRO is Dott. Ruggero Cadossi, Italian citizen with a strong research background in the application of physical energy for medical treatments, founder of the company
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Authix Tecnologies – Check product authenticity through your mobile
Authix Tecnologies is a Torino based start-up supplying a comprehensive authentication solution to major brands. The solution allows product authentication through the use of standard mobile phones.
Currently, consumers of medications and branded consumer items have no way to check the product authenticity of the item they wish to purchase. Authix solution will provide consumers with a reliable and easy-to-use method of checking that the product they are about to purchase is original and genuine or to discover a fake.
Authix is designing a small unique tag that will be inserted in each package or within the item to be purchased. At time of purchase, the consumer communicates through the cell phone with that tag, and receives a message on the phone display indicating whether the product is genuine or counterfeit.
Brand manufacturers are expected to the tags and the authentication services as follows: (I) Manufacturers buy the brand tags from Authix, (II) Authix maintain an authentication server which is accessed 24/7 by Internet, SMS or Instant Messaging, (III) the manufacturers pay Authix for the Service.
One of the company founders and current CEO is Meir Zucker: he was involved as General Manager or Business Development Manager in several hi-tech companies currently listed at NASDAQ such as Fundtech Ltd. (NASDAQ: FNDT), Verint Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) o Teradyne Inc. (NASDAQ: TER).
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Erydel – Drug delivery solutions
EryDel was founded in the early 2007 and it’s based in Urbino. The company has developed a patented technology for drug delivery of pharmacological agents through erythrocytes (red blood cells). This process allow to easily load red blood cells with drugs, proteins, contrasting agents for diagnostic purposes, nanoparticles etc.. that can be progressively released into the patient body thus allowing a increased efficacy of the therapy and a reduction of collateral effects.
The benefit is extremely significant particularly for chronic pathologies that requires continuous daily treatments for patients and that can be substituted by monthly transfusion of blood loaded with specific therapeutic agents.
Currently the solution has been tested by several patients for the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs) such as ulcer colitis and Chron disease. The company can provide a complete support for the drug delivery process including a specific device for the erythrocytes loading ("Red Cell Loader"), and disposable kits. /p>
The Company’s founder is Prof. Mauro Magnani, Head of the Centre of Biotechnology, Urbino, Italy and pro-Rector of Urbino’s University.
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Graphvine – New generation content recommendation engine
Graphvine Srl aim is to develop a web information discovery and dissemination platform, based on a social recommendation engine that is able to discover and recommend information routed and filtered thorough a network of participants. Users are presented with personal feeds that receive relevant content items contributed by other like-minded users and filtered through the social graph. Users can also post typed messages (e.g. questions) that get automatically propagated to recipients likely interested in the topic. At the heart of Graphvine is a recommendation engine that processes messages and user profiles harvested from social networks.
Nowadays, the Web has evolved from a repository of hyperlinked documents to a conversational medium where people share knowledge, data and views. Accordingly, the social web is reshaping how information is found online. The company mission is to develop an effective discovery platform able to automate information discovery and propagation.
The company founder, Erik Lumer, has been previously CEO of the Pioneer Internet web company Babelgum, and before he has been managing director of ICT consulting company Between. He owns a MD in Engineering from Brussels University and a Ph.D from Stanford University.
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noodls – The global press release aggregator
noodls' mission is to deliver a web 2.0 framework for secure and reliable communication between organizations, the media and their stakeholders.With its unique coverage of 20.000 leading organizations from 133 countries noodls is the only full-coverage, real-time, global press release newswire available in the market today and also the first professional networking platform designed to meet the specific needs of the media and public relations industry.noodls' long-term strategic goal is to gain a leading position in the press release and company announcements distribution network becoming the default connector between organizations and their audiences. Founder and current CEO of the company is Giacomo Cambiaso. After a 10 years long experience as a journalist at major Italian newspapers ("La Repubblica" and "Il Giornale"), he started its entrepreneurial experience in the media relations industry in the '90s as founder of an innovative, successfully exited start-up.
For further information: www.noodls.com
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BeeTV – Your Personal Content Channel
BeeTV offers the operator’s TV subscribers their own “Personal Content Channel™ [PCC™], which resides in their set top box (whether IPTV, cable, satellite, mobile, or DTT), their mobile phones and their PC. The PCC™ identifies the subscriber, searches all the content sources, including Broadcast TV, subscription TV, VOD, SVOD, PPV and PVR/Catch-up and pushes the relevant content to the subscriber. The company has developed a proprietary, contextual matching algorithm that pushes to the user relevant content through an entertaining, personalized "channel", while automatically anticipating viewing needs and desires, taking into account context, schedule, behavior and even mood.
The Company has been founded in 2006 by leading media and technology veterans Rodolfo Hecht Lucari (Chairman)former founder and President of Media Partners, one of the most dynamic players in Europe in the field of Sports Rights Management, Yoram Granit (CEO), co-founder of InLive, an international TV mass-participation company and Yaniv Solnik (CTO), a veteran technologist that has worked in technological startups since 1999.
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