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KEY CAPITAL JOINS THE NIMAI GROUP

The Company Nimai, which has signed a wide range of digital campaigns of great success in the latest years, enhances its portfolio with the venture incubator Key Capital.

Milan, 8th of November 2016 – A new operation for Key Capital, the venture Incubator specialized in digital environment: the company founded by Giorgio Di Stefano, becomes part of the portfolio of Nimai Group.
The Nimai Group, founded in Bologna in 2013 and leaded by the CEO&Founder Davide Maggi, is a company qualified in the development of digital marketing strategies (Brand analysis, benchmarking, graphic projects, cross-media contents architecture, visual story-telling) both for SME and big organizations, with a portfolio of clients like Unipol Banca, Telecom Italia, Eridania, Cantine Ferrari, Tetrapak, Sab Miller Peroni, Caviro, William Hill Gruppo Cremonini, Aeroporti di Napoli which has allowed to gain different awards: from NC Digital Awards for the Campaign #Milionidipassioni and for the project MyUNipol to DTT awards as the best international campaign about tourism together with Bologna Welcome. The Nimai Group also includes Widely, specialized in visual storytelling and Cesarine.it, a network which gathers about 300 housewives/chef on national territory, which open their place to guests interested in trying traditional regional cuisines.
Giorgio Di Stefano, CEO & Founder of Key Capital says: “I am enthusiast of this agreement. Our mission for long is to enhance the acknowledgement of the startups, about their potential, supporting them to catch the best opportunities. It is important to nourish the business environment with business innovative projects, in order to be competitive in the global market. As investment company we need to focus on both economy and increase of digital marketing (thanks to Nimai), supporting the startups in the steps of acceleration, growth and development, with an international viewpoint”.
“Technology permeates each sector of the society and currently supports creative and innovative people” says Davide Maggi, CEO and Founder of Nimai Group “ We chose as the right partner Key Capital, since we share the same passion in promoting open innovation to stimulate the transformation and realization of a simple idea into business, with a positive impact for the startups which are on their first stages. The operation is doubly worthy: on one side Nimai supports the growth of the digital affiliates of Key Capital, on the other side Key Capital is committed to advise the growth of Nimai and its affiliates Widely and www.cesarine.it”.
As Key Capital, Nimai provides with formation and information Business tools, in order to improve communication and to support the companies step by step in the main sectors of Italian economy, not only in their process of digital and innovation transformation, but also in their growth and success.
A perfect sinergy which draws a strategic partnership in the digital ecosystem.

Premio Gaetano Marzotto 2016. Swascan among the finalists

Swascan reaches the final for the GALA LAB and CISCO Awards
Milan, 4th of October 2016 – Swascan celebrates the beginning of the autumn season with new goals. The business project Swascan, is born from the idea of Raoul Chiesa, IT Security International expert, later developed by the milanese software house Business Competence and supported by the Venture Incubator Key Capital after the launch in February 2016.
Swascan is the first all-in-one Clud Security Platform, a brand new suite of tools which identify, analize, monitor and verify the vulnerabilites and quality of the network and the source code both for web and its applications. The platform provides avant-garde tools and customized subscriptions according to the number of target: Web App Scan, Network Scan, and the feather in your cap, the Code Review, which allows to test and verify the level of security of the source code of the mobile apps Ios and Android and the webb applications. All-in-one, with a competitive pricing policy.
The best premises to attend the Premio Gaetano Marzotto, the prestigious award at its 6th edition, which recruits new entrepreneurs able to skilfully combine innovation, business and people.
After having applied for the Business Award (Premio per l’impresa), Swascan has become onne of the finalists selected by the panel of the Special Awards GALA LAB and CISCO. The event will take place on the 5th of October at Villa Trissino Marzotto in Vicenza. An important occasion which combines Italian innovation and business.

Key Capital in the pool of investors of the space software Italian startup Leaf Space

Leaf Space, a Milan, Italy-based software platform that aims to facilitate access to space data to microsatellite operators, raised €1m in venture capital funding.

The round was led by RedSeed Ventures with participation from Como Venture, Key Capital, PoliHub, among others.

The company intends to use the funds to launch its first solution, Leaf Line, and other dedicated services.

Co-founded in 2014 by Jonata Puglia, Michele Messina, Giovanni Pandolfi, Matteo Boiocchi and Caterina Siclari, Leaf Space is advancing Leaf Line, a TLC service exclusively dedicated to allowing private microsatellite operators to access space data for such applications as marine traffic tracking, deforestation control, precison agriculture, natural disasters, air pollution, illegal spills, sea search and rescue.
The company was accelerated within Turin-based I3P in 2015.

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Key Capital announces the investment in Swascan, the All-in-one Cloud Security Suite Platform

Key Capital, a Milan-based digital start-up Venture Incubator led by Giorgio Di Stefano, takes a 20% stake in Swascan, the first all-in-one Cloud Security Platform currently round at a three million euros valuation.

Swascan manages digital services to monitor and test website and web application reliability and the satefy of users’ own networks and app code source quality.
Launched in February 2016, Swascan is a 100% Made in Italy project, conceived by Raoul Chiesa, President of Security Brokers and developed by the Milan-based software house Business Competence, partner of Key Capital, which has already been awarded in 2015 by ConfCommercio Premio Innovazione and winner of New York Webby Awards 2015.
Efficiency, and pure innovation with an international echo: Swascan was among the semi-finalists attending the Vator event in Los Angeles. It provides experienced and advanced ICT Security services for government, corporate and industrial organizations, but also for ICT Security freelance users.
Sara Colnago, CEO & co-Founder Business Competence “Web APP Scan, Network Scan and Code Review are peculiarities which fulfil the demanding Italian and international market and place Swascan among the players of a field mostly handed by Americans”.
Giorgio Di Stefano, CEO & Founder Key Capital “The goal of Key Capital is to provide seed funding to fuel new ventures and the strategic investment in Swascan, proves our constant effort to create synergies, through worldwide research, know-how and digital innovation.
Key Capital, Business Competence and Swascan: the perfect combination of 100% Made in Italy expertise, which still confirms the goal on right investment opportunities to promote Italy abroad.

Swascan in the line-up of the official speakers at ABI event 2016

Milan, May 26th 2016 – Swascan, the first IT Security Platform 100% Made in Italy with an international echo, officially confirmed the attendance to the ABI Event 2016 about Security in the financial sector.
The Congress “Banche e Sicurezza 2016”, will take place in Milan, on 26th-27th of May at Centro Congressi Palace ABI. The event of the Associazione Bancaria Italiana, is an annual appointment on its XIII edition, reserved for ICT experts and bank managers.
Key Capital, Venture Incubator of innovative digital startups which has recently announced the investment in Swascan, which is currently evaluated 3 mln euro, will attend the Swascan speech that will be on May 27th.
The speech of Swascan deals with development and implementation of a complex but essential stage in the field of IT Security: the process of Code Review, which aims to monitorize web vulnerability, peculiar asset of the suite of digital services offered by Swascan. Innovation and vanguard just one click away