Franco Di Cicco

Business Advisor, Board Member, NED and Angel Investor

📍 Milan, Lombardy, Italy🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2015
Angel investor🌍 Italy
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Angel Investor and Board Member
Dec 2014
Highflyers is a specialist online recruitment platform that helps top employers hire passive talent worldwide.
Board Member
Jan 2009
Digid fornisce ed eroga servizi ICT indirizzati sia alla Pubblica Amministrazione sia a grandi Clienti Privati. Il gruppo vanta un’esperienza pluriennale nella progettazione, realizzazione e gestione di sistemi informativi complessi che ha portato a collaborazioni con clienti come Poste Italiane, Enel, Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Lombardia Informatica o Roma Capitale ed a stringere partnership con aziende del calibro di Microsoft ed Oracle. I punti di forza di Digid Group sono: • Capacità di fornire consulenza per la progettazione, l’implementazione, il test e il collaudo di software, il supporto tecnico per la manutenzione applicativa, il change management, il program management, la formazione, l’analisi dei processi e ogni altra fase necessaria al ciclo di vita dello sviluppo applicativo. • Copertura dell’intero scenario tecnologico open source e proprietario delle più importanti e diffuse architetture web, client server, mainframe presenti sul mercato; impiego nei gruppi di lavoro di risorse certificate (PMI, ITIL, ISTQB, TOGAF, SOA, Java, Microsoft .net/ALM, ORACLE, PostgreSQL, Teradata, Cisco, Vmware, ecc.) e propri Centri di Competenza aziendali, ai quali contribuiscono anche docenti e ricercatori universitari, particolarmente esperti nelle tematiche riguardanti la PA come SPC e CAD. • Esperienza pluriennale nella progettazione, realizzazione e gestione di sistemi informativi complessi, sia in ambito pubblico che privato; il gruppo ha acquisito esperienza nel governo di progetti complessi e nell’erogazione di servizi professionali per Pubbliche Amministrazioni e Privati. • Comprovata esperienza e competenza nell’erogare Servizi IT in ambienti multidisciplinari con una forte attenzione verso tecnologie innovative.
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2020
Business Partner
Jan 2020
WAVENURE is an AI Fintech, founded by experienced professionals in investments and artificial intelligence, which opens a new generation of innovative features and higher performances in investment management. Combining state-of-the-art methods and advanced technologies in unique solutions where everything is engineered to analyze deeper, understand broader, and invest better, WAVENURE offers Predictive AI solutions for asset management and high-performing trading, and data-driven services to support decision-making, enhance funds' performances, and enrich wealth management services. With a value-generating ecosystem of predictive models based on a rich blend of AI and Deep Learning, Quant Algos and Financial Analysis, big data, and business domains, WAVENURE’s solutions are modular, flexible, and highly adaptive to asset classes, investment profiles, and market phases. Invest in Intelligence with WAVENURE.
2018
Denodo Business Partner
Dec 2018
Denodo is a leader in data management – transforming data into trustworthy insights and outcomes for all, including both AI and end users – providing unmatched performance, unified access to the broadest range of enterprise, big data, cloud and unstructured sources, and the most agile data services provisioning and governance – at less than half the cost of traditional data integration. Denodo’s customers have gained significant business agility and ROI by creating a unified virtual data layer that serves strategic enterprise-wide information needs for agile BI, big data analytics, web and cloud integration, single-view applications, and SOA data services across every major industry. Denodo Platform offers the broadest access to structured and unstructured data residing in enterprise, big data, and cloud sources, in both batch and real-time, exceeding the performance needs of data-intensive organizations for both analytical and operational use cases, delivered in a much shorter timeframe than traditional data integration tools. The Denodo Platform drives agility, faster time to market, increased customer engagement from single view of customer and operational efficiencies from real-time business intelligence and self-serviceability. Founded in 1999, Denodo is privately held, with headquarters in Palo Alto and 25 offices in 20 countries across NA, EMEA and APAC. - For more information visit www.denodo.com. -Follow Denodo via X: @denodo; or via Instagram; @denodo_inc. - Contact us to request an evaluation copy at info@denodo.com.
2015
Executive Partner
Nov 2015
We deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights. Our expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities. Our unrivaled combination of business and technology insights steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that matter most. As a $6.5 billion company, with over 20,000 associates, and a member of the S&P 500, we are an objective partner with 13,000+ client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories — across every major function, geography, industry and market sector — and boast 45+ years of experience providing insights and expert guidance to client enterprises worldwide. To learn more about how we guide the leaders who shape the world, visit gartner.com. Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) Community guidelines: https://gtnr.it/3tceMrU Hot Topics Across the C-Suite LinkedIn Newsletter: https://gtnr.it/4c56S97
Board Member
Apr 2015
General Computer Italia nasce nel 1993 come fornitore indipendente di servizi di manutenzione in ambito data center e nel corso degli anni diversifica la propria attività anticipando le esigenze del mercato. GCI è specializzata nell’offrire servizi di manutenzione post warranty multi-brand per le infrastrutture critiche presenti nei data center aziendali. La sua offerta è completata dai servizi di spostamento di data center, monitoraggio dei parametri da remoto e attività di manutenzione self-service su richiesta. L’expertise, le best practice e l’elevato know-how propri di GCI si sintetizzano nell'ampia fabbrica dei servizi, che garantisce una copertura unica delle necessità di settore del canale ICT. GCI, oltre a operare sull'intero territorio italiano, è in grado di erogare i propri servizi nelle sedi estere del cliente.
2014
Angel Investor and Board Member
Dec 2014
Highflyers is a specialist online recruitment platform that helps top employers hire passive talent worldwide.
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