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 became the Italian Founders House: dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs, creatives, developers, creators, and startup founders shared projects, challenges, failures, unfiltered feedback, and community life.Italian Founders House was created to bring together people with the same energy and the same drive to grow Italy’s innovation ecosystem.We provided everything: housing, meals, workspaces, sports, events, meetings with international guests, and a final Demo Day.follow THE Italian Founders House 

Who’s In: 20 Startuppers and Creators You Should KnowMatteo ZampieriCreator known as @themattvision, he teaches people to build real apps and tools with AI, even with zero coding background. Off camera he develops CRMs, web and mobile platforms for companies.Breccia (Riccardo Cambò)Freelance designer and YouTuber known as Breccia, where he redesigns everyday objects and products, plus co-founder of the Caffè Design podcast. He was a guest at the H-FARM CLUB “Design Your Experience” event we hosted with Audi.Matteo LaiScientist working at the intersection of AI & healthcare. He built AI that generates realistic but fake medical images to work without touching real patient data, and released an open-source tool to measure how good those images are.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 Marampon H-FARM COLLEGEFormer H-FARM College student 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 TrevisanatoCreator covering startups with Unlinear Media, he 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, a 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 Leonid Boguslavsky.Filippo Casellato and Sebastiano Felicetti H-FARM COLLEGEFormer H-FARM College students 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.Giacomo ChinellatoCo-founder and CEO of Climbo, a white-label review management platform for agencies. More than 1,000 agencies use it, over half of them in the US, ahead of American competitors that had years of head start.Aurora Tasca H-FARM COLLEGEFounder and CEO of Razor Padel, a brand of technical apparel, rackets, and gear for padel she started in 2022. She won an edition of our Storming Pizza pitch battle and is now studying at H-FARM College.Guido FrigieriCo-founder of Kosuke, an AI dev tool that lets PMs, designers, and marketers ship small code changes while engineers keep control. Arianna FossatiCo-founder of Aliseo, which uses satellite imagery and AI to predict semiconductor shortages weeks before they hit production lines. An aerospace electronics engineer, she spent years working on satellites before turning that lens on the chip supply chain.Gabriele De Candido and Tobias VieiderFounders of Vinoteqa, a digital wine cellar for restaurants and hotels that turns a messy list into one database of over 1.3 million labels. It started when Gabriele’s father asked him to sort out his own cellar.