About us
a new model
to build companies
We believe that entrepreneurs are the driving force of change for mankind and that
the artificial intelligence and blockchain are the engine for improve our life.
what we are
a STARTUP FACTORY
Foolfarm is a european Startup Studio founded by Andrea Cinelli in Milan (Italy) aimed to improve people's lives through the Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain innovation. We have three business units: The Lab, The Garage, The Spark. We leverage proprietary Venture Building processes to build market-leading startups from scratch.
our home
the HUB
Our home is based in the heart of post-industrial Milan (Italy) where dreams are planted and become realities: a unique 500+ square meters innovation hub, conceived as a factory, a place to create, build and transform dreams into great realities. The life in our Hub are continuous hackathons, fun coding sessions, throughout the day (and night) we are here with our teams exploring ideas and building prototypes.
WHAT WE DO
A STARTUPS GENERATOR
We are a Startup Studio, a “startups' generator” which builds new enterprises in series following a “parallel entrepreneurship” approach. We do thanks to our validated venture builder method, designed to turn any business idea into a successful business within a 36 months cycle . An all-in-one recipe designed by experts in business modeling, engineering and communication.
WHY DIFFERENT
A venture builder
We are founders, investors and serial entrepreneurs, we are passionate about open innovation, fanatic about lean startup, experts in AI & Blockchain technology, user experience and digital marketing. Our approach is different from incubators and accelerators: we do not limit ourselves to supporting already formed startups, but we are co-founders of all our initiatives. When we invest, co-found or incubate a company it will have the opportunity to benefit from our experience and proven ability to build startups.
We provide a centralized mix of services to all our venture-backed startups, from software development to go-to-market and mentorships from our Corporate Community. Our strength lies in the experience of its core team and the skillset of its professional network. These enable us to actively support the development of our startups in all foundational areas, so we can successfully accompany every new project.
We have a 100+ Angel Investors community called Foolfarm Community. Thanks to it our collective network and reach is massive to connect any Startups with the right Customers, Partners and Investors at the right time.
We support our Startups in the Hr recruiting process.We help match our startups with the needed talent making some of the difficult hiring processes easy.
We rely on a proprietary Venture Building process for the construction of a Startup called BeFOOL, with predefined times and steps aimed for maximum and fast success rate. Our team of founders and subject matter experts follows our validated Venture Building method to create unique, scalable and exquisitely winning solutions.
OUR VALUES
THE Startup STudio model differences
Compared to a “classic” startup creation or to standard startup incubation or acceleration models, a startup studio approach aims at gaining two key advantages:
- Lowering and mitigating a startup’s risk of failure
- Enhancing the quality
Such advantages allow:
- Investors to approach the startup world with a new type of investment and diversification strategy, going beyond the classic diversification tactics.
- Enterprises to become industry partners of the studio, nurturing a hub of new startups. Those can be acquired at favourable conditions and be more easily integrated in a company’s technical and business processes.
- Wannabe founders to build an enterprise in a “controlled environment”, learning on the job how to be a successful entrepreneur.
WHY US
IMPRESSIVE SUCCESS RATES
+70% success rate
Our Startups have less chance of failing than traditional ones (which fail 9 times out of 10)
FASTER EXIT TIME 4,3Y vrs 8Y
The zero-to-exit time is around 4.3 years instead of 8 years of traditional ones.
FASTER EXIT RATE 16% vrs 8%
The exit rate is around 16% (with a range from 9% to 30%), for VC is around 8%.
HIGHER IRR 53% vrs 21%
The average internal rate of return for a Studio is 53%, for a traditional startup 21.3%.
HIGHER EVALUATIONS €74M vrs €50M
The average valuation is estimated at 74 million dollars against the 50 million of traditional ones.
OUR COMMITMENT
ENSURING THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF SUCCESS
We are a Venture Builder made up of successful ex-founders and we have created a range of services that allow our co-founders and startup teams to focus on their core business and software development, knowing they can count on tangible and measurable support along all project phases. Working as co-founders together with co-founders we create entrepreneurs without the need for courses or masters, but working side by side every day and facing all the concrete challenges together!
the foolfarm
STELLAR team
FoolFarm’s team includes serial entrepreneurs, developers, growth hackers, designers: all you need to pack & launch a market-blowing startup. A stellar team!
JOIN US
Joining our team is difficult. We are selective and aim only for the best.
Only those with talent and fire in their eyes are invited to join our table.
An operational team of unique talented people, driven by a passion for the future, work around the clock, because we don’t work for ourselves but rather to change our world.
We just can not stop. If you want to be part of our team apply in our careers page!