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Finanz
Finanz
Innovis VC
Innovis VC
Bocconi
Bocconi
McCombs
McCombs
YC Startup School
YC Startup School
USC 2026 · Scoutor
Bocconi AI Hackathon · Luigi
HackItaly final · Brambilla CRM

I'm Renato, 20, based in Milan. I build software that makes people faster at their actual work. The background is operations: I sit inside the business, see where things break, and ship the fix. Not just the spec.

now

  • Finanz: Operations & AI Lead. Working directly with the founder to build internal automation and agentic pipelines, rethink workflows, and rethink how human capital is deployed for better execution. Pre-seed fintech, 150k+ users, and live in Spain since September 2026, our first market outside Italy.
  • Bocconi → Texas McCombs: Exchange year coming up. Finance and strategy as the formal foundation, but most of my time goes to building things.
  • Innovis VC: Trainee analyst covering early-stage B2B SaaS and AI infra in Southern Europe. Built my own sourcing pipeline on the side: scraped startup registries, auto-scored 100+ companies against a custom rubric, had conversations with 10+ founders. Not affiliated with Innovis officially, just scratching my own itch.
  • YC Startup School: One of a few hundred builders picked across Europe for Y Combinator's Paris edition at Station F, July 2026. Went for the talks, left because of the hallways.

shipped

  • Scoutor: AI grant-discovery engine for EU founders. Won Most Meritorious Project at USC 2026 out of roughly 200 teams.
  • Luigi: Spatial AI assistant powered by GPT-5 that lives inside a 3D Mapbox GL world instead of a chat window. The map itself is the interface, so you interact with it spatially rather than typing into a text box. Placed 2nd of around 150 at the Bocconi AI Hackathon, sponsored by OpenAI.
  • Brambilla CRM: HubSpot-API-compatible CRM with an Italian chat assistant and an MCP server. Built at the final of HackItaly, the Italian Hackathon League, at Wave by Vento in Turin (October 2026). The Bocconi AI Hackathon result is what got us there.
  • Sourcing pipeline: Auto-scores startups against a custom rubric and manages outreach pipelines. Built on Next.js, SQLite, and the Anthropic API. 100+ companies sourced, 10+ founder conversations initiated.
  • Outreach Intelligence: Self-hosted LinkedIn outreach tool. Maps target pipelines, finds intro paths through your network, and drafts messages automatically via Unipile. Built because the off-the-shelf tools were either too expensive or too dumb.
  • PredicArb: Polymarket trading bot. Computes edge vs CME Fed Funds futures as benchmark, places limit orders on the CLOB when edge clears a threshold, and tracks positions live across a terminal and browser dashboard. Paper trading and live execution both supported.
  • FlashRead: Speed-reading tool with AI-generated comprehension layers. Built in a weekend.

what I believe

Most software is still built for the median user, at median speed, by teams too large to move fast. AI changes the math on that. I've seen it from inside: at Finanz, working directly with one founder, we've shipped workflows that would have taken a back-office team months. At Ducati, I was recording invoices by hand before I wrote a tool that made it take seconds. Same pattern, different scale.

One person with the right context can now do what used to require five. I want to keep being that person, and eventually build the tools that make it possible for others too.

Building something interesting? Let's talk.