Leonardo Daniele

Running the EIT Food Accelerator Network for the Catania Hub focusing on Water-Smart Agrifood Systems Providing structured acceleration enabling startups to: Validate their technology Strengthen their market and investment readiness Advance their product development Refine their pitches and business model

Managing the start of several pre-incubation, incubation and acceleration programs across several domains, aiming to generate a positive social impact in the South of Italy and the Mediterranean area

 Co-running Impact Deal: A 6-month acceleration program for European, data-driven, impact Startups  Understanding the context and the economic feasibility of the IXPs (Internet Exchange Points) Federation while helping create the picture from a business perspective  Supporting as an external consultant on different entrepreneurial and EU-funded projects

 Co-managing Impact Deal: A 6-month acceleration program for European, data-driven, impact Startups

Data-driven acceleration program for Impact Startups, managed by TOP-IX, financed by Fondazione CRT and hosted by OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni  Startup scouting and evaluation  Acceleration program PMO  Startup business mentorship  Business Development for the Data Club partners  Investor Relations

External collaboration as Sharing Mobility Expert working with Prof. Lucia Rotaris and her research group within the project “Micro and peer-to-peer shared mobility for Urban Sustainability and Accessibility (MUSA)” (CUP: J53D23009440006) PRIN2022 - Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU.

 Fashion-Tech Startup Scouting  Open Innovation Consulting for luxury fashion brands  PMO activities  Co-organization of workshops and luxury innovation events

External collaboration as Peer-to-Peer Carsharing platform expert working with Prof. Lucia Rotaris and her research group within the project ‘Micro and peer-to-peer shared mobility for Urban Sustainability and Accessibility (MUSA)’ (CUP: J53D23009440006) - PRIN2022 - Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU.

 Scouting over a thousand of Deep Tech Startups worldwide from pre-seed to late Serie A across the 10 different tracks of the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge  Evaluating hundreds of Deep Tech Startups in Advanced Computing & Electronics, Industry 4.0 & Autonomous Machines, and Environment and Energy tracks  Managing the Deep Tech Exhibition, a space where 73 Deep Tech Startups showcased their solutions and technologies during the Hello Tomorrow Global Summit event

Ex MyMicroInvest - Belgian Equity Crowdfunding platform  Scouting Belgian, Dutch, and French, pre-seed and seed Startups across different sectors  Lead generation and acquisition  Startups Due Diligence

As part of the PREMIUM University’s Honours programme at Maastricht University, I worked for five months as an external consultant in a group with four other students following these project tasks:  Understanding whether there is a gap between how the company markets itself compared to how it is actually experienced by members, both past and present.  Understanding how to improve the value proposition to attract new members while making INATBA membership more rewarding for existing members.

Deep specialisation on topics related to: Entrepreneurship, business innovation and data for business Master thesis: New, alternative funding for startups: equity-centralized vs token-decentralized crowdfunding, an exploratory study from the entrepreneurs’ perspective

This course takes on the perspective of a decision-maker on the business side of a platform project and will enable students to initiate, plan and manage a platform development project. Participants will gain a fundamental understanding of the platform economy and its basic building block – the digital platform. In particular, they will learn how to set up their own platform strategy and which steps to take on the way to a deployable platform. Furthermore, they will learn to go beyond the launch of their platform and maintain a digital innovation pipeline for their digital product.

Here I grew good-level knowledge about economics, finance, marketing, law and all the business-related subjects from a particular angle of internationalization