Brunello Pianca

Brightnode founder¦ XTribe shareholder; Zentilleon Director

📍 Ticino, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2020
VC🌍 Switzerland
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Founding Board Member
Jun 2020
The association aims to promote the dissemination of knowledge, to facilitate networking between private sector and academia boosting innovation and go to market solutions in Switzerland and internationally. The main task of the association is to promote and transfer Blockchain technologies knowledge to different market segments (life sciences/health, smart cities, industries, finance and others ..). We encourage individual bilateral projects as well as boost cooperation in heterogeneous and interdisciplinary innovation teams. We facilitate the access to academic research at the highest level in its areas of expertise, thus ensuring a leading role nationally, in Europe, and worldwide.
Founding Board Member
Sep 2018
Our mission is to develop Quadrans infrastructure, support research, and spread blockchain technology around the world. Anyone can contribute make Quadrans a global tool for reliable communication, governance, and business. Our key activity is to deploy resources to entities and initiatives that will help to ensure the long-term success of Quadrans. Discover more about Quadrans Foundation Grant Program https://quadrans.foundation/grant
Shareholder
Jan 2014
Xtribe is a personal, pocket-sized Geomarketplace, always at hand, which change the way we understand e-commerce. With Xtribe you can sell, buy, rent and trade, products and services, with peole who are really close to you. Our Mission is to make the purchase through mobile devices simple, safe and fast and unlike most of the applications devoted to this particular service, Xtribe has no intermediation: if you sell products or services, the proceeds are yours. Xtribe is the ideal tool for private individuals, who can access and fully benefit from the service completely free. But it is also a tool aimed at retailers and freelancers who can then use the ease of use of our application. Xtribe is a "neighborhood" Ecommerce that renews and distorts the policy of the physical store, transforming it, in all respects, into a digital store but with the unique prerogative of bringing people into the store in real time. Over 4,000 local businesses have already chosen Xtribe for their business. With Xtribe the store is discovered again, in its most interactive and powerful form! Over 500,000 downloads who every day contact, chat and move between the various offers of the our application looking for what you want most. Our community has therefore discovered that the product of dreams is not always on the other side of the ocean, but in the trust store or in the mall near the house. For this reasons it is very active and dynamic. A demonstration that the immediacy of geolocalized ads, near home, are an opportunity to entice potential customers to enter the store to complete the purchase. Join our community, download Xtribe and discover a deal close to you! Founded by Mattia Sistigu (C.O.O.) and Enrico Dal Monte (C.E.O.).
Experience · 8 entries
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2021
Co-Founder
Feb 2021
Revolutionize the legal management of Over-the-Counter (OTC) Derivatives by harnessing the positive elements of Blockchain technology. Smartivative executes International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Agreements by using smart contracts on Blockchain to increase accuracy and transparency, efficiency in automation and ensure less misinterpretation. This is accomplished through a translation of legal requirements and compliance needs into software code and invoked by oracles on blockchain. Smartivative as a tool for OTC Management. Smartivative simplifies monitoring portfolios of derivatives allowing an aggregate view of risks and exposures. Smartivative BOT discerns the rights and duties between the parties. Smartivative can help in reducing the impact of events of default, termination events, managing also cross default, specified transactions and force majeure events. Smartivative implements smart contracts on Blockchain technology to guarantee a trustless and transparent execution of transactions: - Ready for future market standards. - Scalable on distributed architecture by definition. - Can operates on public or private Blockchains. ISDA Agreements and Confirmations are digitalized and collected into a smart contract deployed with all the legal logic and financial parametrization into the Blockchain. Smartivative manages the complete lifecycle, from a financial and legal point of view. Smartivative BOT. The BOT knows the parties’ rights and duties. Smartivative BOT works as a moderator that dynamically manages the parties’ actions. Everything is stored in the Blockchain. For each event it knows the rights and the duties of the parties and shares legal references through notifications. This improves derivatives management's transparency and it can prevent litigation. Smartivative has been awarded multiple grants for innovation. Smartivative is a software by Superflat SA, a Swiss company operating in the field of FinTech / RegTech.
2020
Founding Board Member
Jun 2020
The association aims to promote the dissemination of knowledge, to facilitate networking between private sector and academia boosting innovation and go to market solutions in Switzerland and internationally. The main task of the association is to promote and transfer Blockchain technologies knowledge to different market segments (life sciences/health, smart cities, industries, finance and others ..). We encourage individual bilateral projects as well as boost cooperation in heterogeneous and interdisciplinary innovation teams. We facilitate the access to academic research at the highest level in its areas of expertise, thus ensuring a leading role nationally, in Europe, and worldwide.
2018
Founding Board Member
Sep 2018
Our mission is to develop Quadrans infrastructure, support research, and spread blockchain technology around the world. Anyone can contribute make Quadrans a global tool for reliable communication, governance, and business. Our key activity is to deploy resources to entities and initiatives that will help to ensure the long-term success of Quadrans. Discover more about Quadrans Foundation Grant Program https://quadrans.foundation/grant
Swiss Association of Crypto Investors
President
Jul 2018
Co-Founder
May 2018
BrightNode is a professional business consulting firm based in Switzerland, leader in Web3 and Blockchain consulting. We are industry experts with an extensive experience in: - Web3 Strategic Advice - Consulting on Token Economics - Marketing Strategy for the Crypto Community. In particular we provide: - Tokenomics design: GameFi, SocialFi, NFTs, Metaverse & Land, DAO, Ecosystem. - NFTs consulting + token creation and sale - Whitepaper and Litepaper for crypto projects. - Tokenization services (company equity, security tokens, real assets, etc.) - Token sale consulting (Private sale, IDO/IGO, Liquidity pools, Launchpads, IEO, etc.). BrightNode has more than 30 years of experience in the financial and tech industry.
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