8 settembre 2025

Pre-Acceleration Program — Batch XII

There are ideas you keep to yourself. And then there are the ones you can’t keep quiet about.The ones you sketch on receipts. The ones you bring up in every dinner conversation. The ones that might sound a little too early - or a little too ambitious - but still make you think: "What if?"

Every six months, we meet a group of people who didn’t ignore that question. This is what happens when they choose to explore it, together.

Welcome to B4i’s Pre-Acceleration Program, now in its twelfth edition. This is our space for early ideas, unpolished prototypes, and unexpected sparks. A three-month journey to validate, iterate, and maybe even surprise yourself. The teams bring their ideas, we offer questions, mentors, feedback, and a community to challenge their assumptions.

Welcome, batch XII!

Meet the teams!

What if… you could map customer behavior like a GPS, and use AI to turn every click into a next step? CJM – Customer Journey Manager is an AI-powered marketing platform that unifies data, scores users, and automates real-time actions to optimize advertising and sales performance.

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👉 Founding Team: Alex Valenti, Elena Franzese, Lorenzo Marcolli.

What if… we could detect calcium deficiency in dairy cows with a simple, portable test kit? CalCow is a point-of-care kit to help vets and farmers manage calcium deficiency in cows.

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👉 Founding Team: Lorenzo Tricella, Lavpreet Singh, Davide Ciuffreda, Cosmina Ursache

What if… dance schools had a single platform to manage teachers, students, events and payments? DAM! – Dance App Manager is the first all-in-one management platform with AI built for dance schools — it automates admin, boosts revenue, and keeps students and teachers engaged.

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👉 Founding Team: Nicholas Jay Cugge, Andrea Candura.

What if… cybersecurity could become embedded, intuitive, and AI-native? Dodo Defence delivers AI-powered cybersecurity solutions for hybrid threats and critical infrastructure protection.

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👉 Founding Team: Cosimo Melella, Luca Montelisciani, Pietro Paolo Melella, Matteo Merulli, Francesco Ferazza.

What if… pharma and biotech companies could use molecular evolution to predict genetic risks and guide clinical practice? EvoClin is developing an AI-driven platform to help pharma and biotech companies use molecular evolution in clinical practice.

👉 Founding Team: Ivan Civettini, Federico Cultrera di Montesano, Alex Graudenzi, Daniele Ramazzotti.

What if… companies and non-profits together could exponentially increase their impact on all the communities and territories? Helpiness is the all-in-one platform that connects companies and non-profit organizations in a smart, transparent and effective way for both monetary and material donations.

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👉 Founding Team: Luca Bonauguri, Stefano Casini, Leonardo Gennaioli, Matteo Romanetti.

What if… living with another generation made rent cheaper and life less lonely? INCO is a digital solution designed to scale intergenerational cohabitation, addressing housing unaffordability and social isolation.

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👉 Founding Team: Nicola Ruggiu, Alessandro Murru, Karina Karlechuk.

What if… neurorehab could continue at home, not just in clinics? ITERA NeuroRehab is a digital neurorehabilitation platform that is transforming home care for Parkinson’ s patients through AI-powered therapy and continuous physiotherapist support.

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👉 Founding Team: Andrea Slaviero, Giuseppe Vozzolo, Lucia Cortiana, Lucia Zenere.

What if… reading could turn into an interactive game? Ludlooms is an interactive storytelling platform that turns reading into a game and empowers users to create, explore, and share immersive narrative experiences.

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👉 Founding Team: Lorenzo Quaglia, Gerardo Sozio, Giuseppe Guarciariello.

What if… tax advisors can save 90% of their time by automatizing benchmarking exercise with AI ? Matthaeus.ai is AI-powered platform that automates transfer pricing benchmarks for tax advisory and professional services firms.

👉 Founding Team: Riccardo Donatelli, Giovanni Maria Miani, Mattia Abregal, Davide Piva.

What if… parking in cities could be easier, faster, and fully digital? ParkPass is an in-car device that automates parking payments for drivers and business fleets.

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👉 Founding Team: Francesco Lazzarelli, Edoardo Croci, Edoardo Martinelli.

What if… customers asked AI directly what to buy, and your brand was always among the top recommendations? Refinea is a Generative Engine Optimization SaaS that monitors your presence in ChatGPT/Perplecity/Gemini and optimizes content to climb LLM suggestions.From SEO to GEO: more visibility in AI recommendations, more leads, ahead of the curve.

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👉 Founding Team: Alessandro Ferraiolo, Giorgio Monaco, Vito Guglielmino.

What if… career orientation and recruiting for young professionals could finally be reimagined? Renasce is a digital platform redefining the experience of career orientation and recruiting for young professionals and companies.

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👉 Founding Team: Alessio Pizziol, Matteo Bonassi, Nicola Rossi Manganelli.

What if… AI could detect epileptic seizures in advance — and save lives? Seizury is an AI-powered platform for epilepsy prevention that develops a predictive model to detect in advance epileptic seizures, exploiting data from smartwatches.

👉 Founding Team: Matteo Panzera, Andrea Menga, Pietro Saveri, Ilinca Barbulescu.

What if... stories could be managed like products — from the first spark to global distribution? Storia is the first B2B SaaS platform designed for the publishing and entertainment industries, leveraging advanced technologies to support the entire lifecycle of stories: from discovery to development, all the way to full monetization.

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👉 Founding Team: Federico Baldino, Cristina Leali.

What if… sustainability projects could be managed with clarity, speed, and AI support? Sustamate is the smarter way for sustainability consultants to manage projects, powered by AI.

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👉 Founding Team: Alessandro Marchesin, Roberta Mongillo, Carmela Mansi.

What if… high schools could deliver personalized career and university orientation to every student? Youniverse is a data-driven B2B platform that empowers high schools to deliver smarter, personalized university and career orientation for every student.

👉 Founding Team: Filippo Rigobon, Tommaso Giancaterino.