Official side event of WAVE by Vento · Organised by InnovUp
The first time in Turin. Some of the sharpest voices in venture building worldwide, the Italian startup studios and venture builders, and the new Venture Studio Report data, in one room.
International sessions in English. 80 seats, registration required.
Friday 9 October 2026
Founder · Keynote
Enhance Ventures, Dubai
Founder of Enhance Ventures, the pioneer venture studio in the MENAT region, building ventures independently and with large corporations (Infrascan, TRBNS, Pai, Faida, Pamir). Previously founded Foodonclick.com, acquired by Delivery Hero in 2015. Advisory boards: Global Studio Network, Hashed Health, DIFC Innovation Panel. Leads the GSN Venture Studio Bootcamp and co-founded Fintech Tuesdays.
Founder
Summit Studio Capital
Pioneer of the venture studio business since 2011. Summit Studio Capital is one of the first professional investors focused exclusively on venture studios and their captive funds, backing proven studios at their growth inflection point.
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Builders Studio, Rotterdam
Builders is a Rotterdam-based enterprise AI venture studio that co-founds AI companies with technical founders from day zero. Three pillars: the Studio (founder batches), the Network (CTO Network of 2,400+ technical leaders) and Capital.
Founder and Managing Director
Builders Studio, Rotterdam
Active since 2013, has led Builders from agency to venture studio and built the operating playbook that came out of it: the same transition many Italian agencies are weighing today.
Founder & CEO
Mamazen
Founder and CEO of Mamazen, Italian startup studio. Moderates the international sessions.
Founder
Djungle Holding
Founder of Djungle Holding. Member of the InnovUp board, where he represents startup studios and venture builders.
Head of Ventures
Mamazen
Serial entrepreneur with an engineering background and experience in Product, Marketing and fundraising. Founded Out of View Ventures and PawSquad, the UK's largest veterinary telemedicine platform, and has worked with Unilever and Citi Group on new business models. At Mamazen, he leads the creation and development of new startups as Head of Ventures.
Partner, Boost Innovation Fund · Chairman of Maritime Ventures and Novagria Ventures
CDP Venture Capital
Partner of CDP Venture Capital's Boost Innovation Fund, dedicated to venture builders. Chairman of the venture studios Maritime Ventures and Novagria Ventures.
Professor
Politecnico di Torino · Social Innovation Monitor
Leads the Social Innovation Monitor research team, author of the Venture Studio Report, the yearly observatory on Italian startup studios and venture builders promoted with InnovUp.
Associate Professor
University of Turin
Associate Professor of Business Management and co-author of the Venture Studio Report, the yearly observatory on Italian startup studios and venture builders promoted with InnovUp.
Moderator, Italian venture studios panel
Supernovae Group
Leads Supernovae Group and moderates the panel with the Italian startup studios and venture builders.
More than 50 startup studios and venture builders operate in Italy, with co-foundations growing strongly year on year. A recognised institutional identity is still missing.
International investors specialised in venture studios, Italian studios and research teams from Politecnico di Torino and the University of Turin.
Second edition of the Venture Studio Report 2026 by the Social Innovation Monitor (SIM) of Politecnico di Torino, presented for the first time.
Program subject to change, times are indicative.
Alessandro Nasi, Djungle Holding, opens the Summit with a 5-minute pitch on the Italian venture studio ecosystem · Welcome from InnovUp, Politecnico di Torino and i3P
Three 15-minute talks plus 5 minutes of Q&A, in English. Moderated by Farhad Alessandro Mohammadi, Mamazen.
Keynote: "Building an ecosystem from zero: the Dubai case"
Alper Celen, Enhance Ventures
The dedicated venture studio law, the role of family offices, government as ecosystem sponsor.
"Investing in venture studios: the capital side"
Denis Kovalevich, Summit Studio Capital
Venture capital faces a liquidity crisis, with trillions trapped in illiquid unicorns. Venture building creates liquidity opportunities that traditional VC funds cannot access: studios can make liquidity part of their operating and investment architecture, not just the outcome of mega-exits.
"The venture studio as an operating platform"
Sharon Klaver and Michael van Lier, Builders Studio
Why build your own studio infrastructure (validation, reporting, portfolio) and what it means for scale.
Farhad Alessandro Mohammadi, Mamazen · Francesco Cardoletti, Mamazen
The operators' view, with the international speakers comparing notes.
Prof. Paolo Landoni, Politecnico di Torino · Prof. Gabriele Santoro, University of Turin
Presented jointly.
Moderated by Carlo Giugovaz, Supernovae Group
Andrea Resmini · Italian startup studios · international speakers.
In collaboration with InnovUp's Venture Studio Working Group.
Sala Agorà · i3P, Incubatore del Politecnico di Torino
Corso Castelfidardo 30/A, 10129 Torino
Open in Google MapsWAVE by Vento, formerly Italian Tech Week, is Vento's tech conference: 7 to 9 October 2026 at OGR Torino, with over 200 speakers and 90 side events across the city. The Venture Studio Summit is one of the official side events.
wavebyvento.comRegistration is managed on Luma, within the WAVE side events calendar. 80 seats.
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