About Giovanni
I have 5 years of experience in corporate innovation, having led more than 10 open innovation, startup scouting, acceleration and venture building projects for multinational companies. Furthermore, I gained experience as a startup mentor for early stage startups.
I co-founded BLDRS, a holding company focused on lifestyle innovation. We ideate, operate and scale our own ventures, and we work with corporates to design their innovation strategy. Services we offer include: venture building, open innovation, startup scouting, ecosystem mapping, innovation maturity audit, innovation hub set up, acceleration management.
Relevant experience:
- Managed an open innovation project for British American Tobacco focused on agritech solutions to digitalise farm management and optimize crop yield;
- Managed FuturED, an edtech startup accelerator sponsored by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, taking care of startup scouting and mentoring, investment contracts, and corporate pilots;
- Managed an open innovation project for a leading home appliance company focused on finding sustainable alternatives to plastic.
Italian
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Luxembourg (up to 50km), Brussels (up to 10km), Frankfurt am Main (up to 50km)
Experience
- BLDRSCo-founder and DirectorJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)Luxembourg, LuxembourgBLDRS is a lifestyle venture studio and innovation agency based in Luxembourg. We build our own ventures and we work with corporates to launch ventures together or set up their innovation strategy.
- PwC LuxembourgSenior Venture ArchitectOctober 2023 - January 2025 (1 year and 3 months)• Ideation, validation and launch of internal ventures;• Startup scouting (focus on fintech and insurtech);• Project and team management;• Development and application of innovation methodologies.
- MAIZE | H-FARM InnovationSenior Innovation ConsultantJuly 2021 - October 2023 (2 years and 3 months)• Project management of FuturED, the first edtech accelerator in Italy (sponsored by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti)• Startup scouting, evaluation and selection;• Startup mentorship;• Events organization;• Management of investment contracts and relationship with the investor;• PoC Management.• Product Owner of the company's e-learning platform;• Project manager of open innovation and business design projects:• Management of internal and client communication flows;• Workshop facilitation;• Presentation of proposals to C-Suite;• Financial analysis of project performance;• Mentorship to H-FARM College students on business design and lean startup methodologies.
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Education
- Master's Degree in Market Relationship and Customer EngagementLUISS Guido Carli2021Master's Degree in Market Relationship and Customer Engagement
- Bachelor of EconomicsUniversity of Padova2019Bachelor Degree in Economics
Certifications
- GMATGMAC2019