Company Overview

SpazioDati is an innovative start-up company, founded in February 2012, specialized in Big Data and the Semantic Web technologies. It currently employs about 30 people, most of them having a master's degree or Ph.D., and has two offices located in Trento (main) and Pisa. The company shareholders are six founding members (natural persons) and a industrial partner (Cerved Group SpA), which currently owns 42.65% of the company shares.

Business Overview
By leveraging Big Data & Semantic Web technologies SpazioDati is building a high-quality knowledge-graph, accessible via simple APIs, which its products and services are based on.
Currently the main product is a new "sales intelligence" product (named Atoka.io) will be launched. The product is based on both semantic technologies and knowledge graph data, the latter collected from open and proprietary sources (eg. Cerved Group Spa), and from web and social media. Its main goal is B2B's lead generation and news & social monitoring: this new web tool let the user quickly and easily create prospective customers lists, dramatically reducing time required using tools that are currently available. Atoka is designed for marketing and sales managers to make easier finding new clients. Atoka has been launched first in Italy and then, in early 2016, in some other European countries.
Spaziodati also provide a text analytics service, Dandelion.eu, suitable for software houses and developers interested in using a semantic analysis to develop their own applications. The service is available via simple REST API according to a freemium pay-peruse model. Dandelion targets both Italian and foreign market, and it's already used in many countries around the world, supporting now up to five languages and more to come.

Description of the product / technology

The main SpazioDati's differentiation is big data and semantic technology assets, and the ability to put them together to create new, innovative products and services.
SpazioDati’s text analytics and data mining algorithms are based on its knowledge graph, built over the state of the art Big Data technologies. This offers several advantages:

• Spaziodati's text analytic engine is based on data, and not natural language processing, like other competitors. The result is that it is faster and can be effectively used in challenging scenarios like real-time analysis of large amount of text (eg. Million of tweets per minute) and that it is accurate even the text are fragmented or poorly composed.
• Continuous improvement of the semantic search engine together with the growth of the knowledge graph, that, in the medium to long term, will increase the competitive advantage over market newcomers.
• The amount and variety of data collected makes SpazioDati knowledge graph a unique asset in Europe.

The result offered by any combination of these factors.

Management Team

Michele Barbera, CEO - 15 years experience in ICT. Founder of 3 internet startups. Pioneer in Open Data & Linked Open Data. Coordinated >4M international projects. Long collaboration track with all the rest of the team. Background in both Computer Science and Business Administration.
Gabriele Antonelli, Chairman of the board & CMO - Background in management consultancy with a focus on corporate data and B2B customer management, Gabriele has a Master Degree in Innovation Management from the Scuola Superiore S.Anna. Prior to co-founding SpazioDati, he launched a consulting firm specialized in helping early-stage startups. He has also served as Member of the Board of a large consulting company.
Luca Pieraccini, CFO - 15 years of experience as CEO & CFO in data intensive IT company committed in Cultural Heritage & Environment monitoring. Founder of 2 startups.

Profili d’interesse:

• Marketing manager
• Sales manager
• Talent hero (recruit and retain top talent people)

Stage e posizioni aperte:

• Marketing manager
• Sales manager
• Talent hero

 Progetti/Programmi speciali da illustrare: Atoka.io