SAP Acquired Askdata to Build the Next-Generation Lightweight Analytics Experience
21 July 2022
SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, acquired Askdata, a startup we funded in 2019.
Rounds, announcements, and new initiatives
SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, acquired Askdata, a startup we funded in 2019.
Pi Campus took part in a seed round participated also by Y Combinator, FoundersX Ventures, Harvard Management Company, Imagination Capital, Soma Capital, Zillionize, and Mercury Fund.
Pi Campus invested in Seachange, a startup reinventin ocean transit with electric hydrofoiling ferries for cars and passengers.
Carlo Gualandri, Soldo CEO and one of the father of the Internet in Italy, shares his lessons learned by starting up companies in markets where the digital revolution is disrupting the status quo
Interview with Soldo’s founder Carlo
Find out the 5 elements investors look for in an early-stage startup pitch.
Find out the 5 key component of a successful application.
We are happy to share that Cambridge Cancer Genomics has been acquired by Dante Labs, a leading genomics and diagnostics company born in L’Aquila and now based in Cambridge, with offices in L’Aquila, New York, Dubai, and Wolverhampton. CCG.ai is a startup leader in machine learning for clinical oncology: the acquisition will allow Dante Labs to create a single platform with unparalleled capabilities in genomics and oncology data analysis. CCG.ai was founded in 2016 by John Cassidy, Harry Clifford, and Nirmesh Patel to ensure that
The round has been led by Ardian, the largest European investment house.
Pi Campus took part in a round to help Allelica secure its
PRS implementation in the US and commercialize a suite of cardiovascular disease prevention tools.
Translated is sailing the world on a 50+-year-old boat without any modern technology aboard and is looking for visionaries who want to join the crew.
An interview with Askdata CEO Simone Di Somma, who talks about the technologies his team uses to translate natural language into database queries.
An interview with InSilicoTrials tech lead Alberto Palazzin, who talks about the technologies used by the startup.
Interview with Filo co-founder Stefania De Roberto about her lessons learned working in a startup that controls all the code from production to customer care.
An interview with Paolo Di Domenico, Allelica CTO, on what it means to develop with cutting edge technology in the field of genetic sciences.
We are super happy to share that Boom Supersonic has recently closed a $50 million investment from WRVI Capital at a valuation of more than $1 billion. Founded in 2014 by Blake Sholl, Joe Wilding, and Joshua Krall, the startup has raised a total of $210 million in funding. We are proud to be among the first investors of the company. Boom Supersonic is redefining commercial air travel by bringing sustainable, supersonic flight to the skies. The team intends to make London – New York
Pi Campus has just closed an investment in Vena Vitals, a recently graduated YC startup that has developed the first real-time non-invasive tool to continuously monitor blood pressure.
Translated signs a contract to provide EU Parliament with a prototype for real-time speech translation AI. Debates will be transcribed and translated by a new state-of-the-art MT system that keeps humans in the loop.
Pi Campus has closed an investment in InSilicoTrials, an Italian startup that allows pharma and medical devices companies to significantly decrease R&D costs (from 40% to 60%) and reduce regulatory approval times (from months to hours) thanks to its cloud-based platform for modeling and simulation
Pi Campus has invested in Hyris Round A. Hyris, a company started by a group of Italian guys, represents the mobile version of genomics.
LybraTech, a startup we invested in less than a year ago, has been acquired by a leading European group for the sale of software solutions.
Interview with the co-founder and CTO of Wanderio, a startup that develops a technology to help users compare and book trains, buses, flights and transfers.
Let’s meet some of the mentors and jurors who will help developers during the upcoming Pi Day’s HackParty. Let’s start with Davide Caroselli, the first-ever winner of a Pi Day’s HackParty, who is now the VP Product of ModernMT, a company that offers a more human translation, powered by AI.
Pi School has a new CEO: Jamshid Alamuti is taking a new function as an advisory board member of Pi School while handing his CEO role to Pi Campus co-founder Isabelle Andrieu.
Pi Campus invested in Lybra Tech, a startup that developed a revenue management system to provide hoteliers with actionable data in real time.
Pi Campus is a sponsor of the Rome Startup Week 2019, an innovation festival with more than 40 events gathering people from 20 countries.
We are extremely pleased to celebrate the launch of our CEO Marco Trombetti’s first book The New Prince – Why and How to Startup. It’s a collection of 12 short essays on the counterintuitive reasons and strategies that led the new generations of entrepreneurs to success.
Pi Campus invested in MIOAssicuratore in a €1.5 million round led by Innogest Capital. MIOAssicuratore is an insurtech startup founded by Giorgio Campagnano (CEO) and Carlo Martini (CTO). This is a follow-on investment, since we already invested in MIOAssicuratore in 2016.
Pi Campus is pleased to announce we invested in Grin, an e-scooter startup which aims to bring the e-scooter revolution to Latin America.
Pi School will be running an invite-only one day workshop during which business angels and wannabe investors will learn from top investors the fundamentals of investing, the legal basis of this business, evaluating startups and managing deal flows.
Pi School and the ADCE are launching a unique learning program dedicated to the top creative minds of the industry with the goal of shaping the future models of advertising agencies
DemoDay app is an online tool that generates web apps. With it, every accelerator can set up a demo day app by filling in a few details such as event logo, name, when and where the event will take place, and who is organizing it.
We are excited to announce the opening of the sixth villa at Pi Campus. It is even the home of Pi School, which aims to promote the two elements that we strongly believe will shape the future: machine intelligence and human creativity.
On May 18th and 19th, we’ll be hosting The Creative Express Rome, an event organized by the Art Directors Club of Europe, a non-profit organization founded to foster excellence in graphic design and advertising creativity on a European scale. Pi Campus is sponsoring the event as part of our strategy to go a step forward in defining how art, design, and lifestyle will power the upcoming technologies and invest in startups co-founded by designers.
Pi Campus is glad to announce it invested in MIOAssicuratore, one of the first online insurance broker founded in 2015 by Giorgio Campagnano, the last of five generations of insurers, and Carlo Martini, a developer with previous experiences in Italy and abroad, both 27 years old.
Last week our founder Marco Trombetti gave a final keynote speech at the ADCE’s European Creativity Festival in Barcelona, where we met European top designers and creatives. We were invited to talk about the upcoming tech scenario and the role of design in it. We even organized an hackathon with designers and engineers.
Pi Campus is supporting the 2016 Italian edition of Tech Tour, an event that will showcase Italy’s fast-growing entrepreneurial hub bringing together over 100 international investors, venture capitalists and corporates in Turin and Rome, who are actively seeking to invest in hi-tech Italian SMEs.
We are glad to announce that on October 15th, 2016 we’ll be hosting a special hackathon in Barcelona with designers and engineers at the European Creativity Festival, organized by the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE).
Memopal, one of Pi Campus’ founding companies, has been acquired by Defenx, a fast-growing and profitable security software company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
We are delighted to welcome Le Cicogne to Pi Campus. The startup, whose aim is to help parents quickly and easily find a trusted babysitter while supporting sitters in their search for work, recently raised a €355k funding round via SiamoSoci.com.
Wanderio, a startup which joined Pi Campus in 2014, has just raised a Series A investment from Europcar Group, the European leader in vehicle rental services and a key player in the mobility market. We are thrilled to welcome Europcar Group as an investor in Wanderio.
Pi Campus founding company Translated has been selected as one of the 50 fastest growing European technology firms by Tech Tour, a platform which brings together investors, corporate strategic partners, and high-tech entrepreneurs.
In this post Lorenzo Thione, founder of Powerset (now Bing), explains why successful entrepreneurs are great storytellers and offers a model, the Gaman Entrepreneur, built around confidence in the universe. “Gaman captures much of the strength needed to continue this crazy journey.”
You can make an app for Android or iPhone even if you are not a coder. The most promising startup at Pi Campus, Chupamobile, will bring your app idea to life in no time. By looking at their almost-infinite catalog of app and game templates you’ll have a better idea of what we are talking about: they have more than 1,500 iOS and Android products listed.
Here’s how the guys of Wanderio fixed the problem each traveller has before taking a decision on a trip, resulting visiting on average more than 22 websites and make more than 12 search sessions.
ClickMeter found the easiest way to optimize content creation according to customer acquisition: a WordPress plugin that measure how many visits, conversions and value every single post produced for the company.
We are super happy to share that Boom Supersonic has recently closed a $50 million investment from WRVI Capital at a valuation of more than
The round has been led by Ardian, the largest European investment house.
Join us to hear the true story of Translated 9’s journey in the face of adversity. Our CEO Marco Trombetti will be interviewed by journalist and innovator Riccardo Luna, editor-in-chief of Italian Tech, who will ask Marco for details on the execution of the repair and help us understand how we can be inspired to apply startup culture in other different situations.
Learn from Petar Veličković, author of “Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI”, how machines empower researchers conjecturing new approaches to long-standing open problems.
Learn two new techniques to address the main problems of high memory use and low performance on long sequences that limited the use of some Transformers till now.
A chat with Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel about the 5 most important things a startup must include in its application form and the common mistakes to avoid.
A web conf to talk about advancements in end-to-end speech translation, such as spoken audio translation, and what these mean for the future of NLP and #AI. Special Guest: Marco Turchi from FBK.
A webinar with Marco Trombetti, serial entrepreneur and founder of Pi Campus venture firm.
Learn a proven product-market fit method that aims to deliver the required balance of creativity and discipline, a fast and pre-approved way to go back and fix errors, and incorporates two common elements of successful products: vision and psychology.
Learn how to properly pitch to find investors, to attract great co-founders, to recruit the best employees, and ultimately to fine-tune your idea.
An interview with Google Director of Product Trond Wuellner about the intersection between AI and design.
Fireside chat with Ariel Poler, serial entrepreneur, mentor and investor. Ariel is also the founder of Human Augmentation Syndicate.
Fireside chat with InReach founder Roberto Bonanzinga on how to scout the best opportunity when investing in startups and what to look for when you talk with a young founder about the company they are building.
Interview with Soldo’s founder Carlo Gualandri about what he learned during his journey in founding startups in markets disrupted by the digital revolution.
Have a look at Pi 6, home to our new school, which aims to promote the two elements that we strongly believe the future belongs to: machine intelligence and human creativity.
A chat between our CEO Marco Trombetti and former Pi School CEO Jamshid Alamuti about the merge of creativity and technology at Wired Next Fest 2017.
A panel with top AI and Design experts featuring Alex Waibel (AI Professor), Hassan Sawaf (former AWS AI Director), Axel Quack (Head of Service Design in Munich).
Pi School co-founder and CEO Jamshid Alamuti introducing our new project.
A talk by Jobrapido former founder Vito Lomele about his lessons learned in building one of the most important exits on the Italian startup market.
A talk by Innovaction Lab co-founder Paolo Merialdo about Roma Tre University’s project to extract data from the Pope’s secret archives.
At Pi Campus we are focused on developing the best working environment for talented people, with the aim of incorporating quality, arts, design, and lifestyle into the products of the future.
Marco Trombetti, Pi Campus co-founder, introducing the first event of the Singularity University Rome Chapter SingularityU, with Luca La Mesa, SingularityU Rome Chapter Ambassador; Federico
Luca La Mesa, SingularityU Rome Chapter Ambassador and SU alumnus, introducing the Singularity University Rome Chapter during the first event of SingularityU at Pi Campus. In this video, Luca speaks about exponential technologies.
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