Italian Founders House: the Program for Future Entrepreneurs | H-FARM

Italian Founders House: a Free, All-Inclusive Program for BuildersItaly has so much talent. What’s often missing are the places where that talent can actually meet. For the entire month of July 2026, our campus near Venice becomes Italian Founders House: 20 aspiring entrepreneurs, creatives, developers, creators, and startup founders will share projects, challenges, failures, unfiltered feedback, and community life.We provide everything: housing, meals, workspaces, sports, events, meetings with international guests, and a final Demo Day.JOIN THE Italian Founders House We’ll share everything that happens inside IFH on our social channels: we want to show everyone how new generations are building companies in Italy.Italian Founders House was created to bring together people with the same energy and the same drive to grow Italy’s innovation ecosystem.The FormatWho’s In: 20 Startuppers and Creators You Should KnowMatteo LaiCEO and co-founder of Empatica, an MIT spin-off that builds medical wearables to continuously and non-invasively monitor patients with neurological conditions. He has a long-standing connection with us: in 2009, he founded one of the first startups incubated on our campus, Shicon, a crowdsourcing platform for design and creativity.Giacomo BarilariProduct manager at Glaut, an AI market research platform that closed a $1.4 million pre-seed round. A self-taught developer since he was 17, he founded his first startup at 18.Andrea MaramponH-FARM College alum and founder of Unito Tech, a media project covering the future, startups, and technology. He has built a community with nearly 150,000 followers on Instagram and millions of views on YouTube.Ahmed Abdel Rahman (Ahmed Barkhia)Health-tech entrepreneur. He became well-known through the #UnBacinoPerAhmed campaign, raising €75,000 for a bionic pelvis implant: that is where his entrepreneurial journey began.Mattia OlivaFounder of TeenVentures, the national competition dedicated to under-20 startups, backed by Vento, the venture capital fund financed by Exor Ventures (the Agnelli family's holding company).Valentina TodeschiCEO of Kirke, a marketplace for creatives and non-AI-generated artwork: a contrarian stance right in the middle of the artificial intelligence hype.Alberto TrevisanatoContent creator covering startups with Unlinear Media, collaborates with the Italian Founders Fund, and serves as an ambassador for the Silicon Valley Fellowship.Alessandro BindiFounder of Qontica, an AI-powered financial planning platform. Outside the office, he is an Italian, European, and World Karate Champion. Edoardo PisanuCEO of Propertize and co-founder of Dott. House, the first Italian management control and financial analysis software using AI for property managers and hotels.Patricio Baez SaltosFormerly at Amazon and PwC, he founded Aesthetica.ai, an AI that helps companies find new leads.Federico CostaFounder of VibeDojo, an Italian platform for learning vibe coding with AI and no-code, partnered with the famous creator Riccardo Zanetti. He is also the Lead of Venture Stack at nAItive, the program for AI-native entrepreneurs that we co-founded with tech entrepreneur and RTP Global founder Leonid Boguslavsky.Filippo Casellato and Sebastiano FelicettiH-FARM College alums and founders of Etrash, the startup developing MIDA, an AI-powered smart bin for waste sorting.Flavio BernoniCo-founder of Restry, an AI tool to automate video pre-editing, and winner of the first edition of TeenVentures.