Matteo Penzo

Better learning, less time | CEO @ zick learn | former frog exec, Talent Garden co-founder

📍 Italy🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2020
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Dec 2020
We are a diverse team of tech lovers, mentors, experts, and founders ourselves bound together by our passion to support founders on their entrepreneurial journey. We help to solve key challenges at every stage Dare to dream global. We’re a startup accelerator like no other, our optimized approach puts early stage startups on the map and catapults them into worldwide success. Startup Wise Guy’s origins began in Europe’s tech-savvy startup capital, Estonia. Since 2012, we have used our carefully curated expertise, skills and funding to skyrocket hundreds of emerging early stage startups into upwards growth. This is not our first rodeo… we are the most experienced accelerator fund in the region with over 35+ programs, an international community of founders from over 60 countries and an established market in CEE and CIS countries.
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2023
Advisor
Sep 2023
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development of Irish enterprises in world markets. We help Irish businesses to start, grow, innovate and win export sales through our international network. In this way, our organisation supports employment, regional development and sustainable economic growth.
2021
Co-Founder and CEO
Nov 2021
The future of learning is just a text away. We make enterprise learning simple, fast and efficient. Zick learn is a b2b digital platform to create and distribute microlearning, text-based trainings to any corporate chat client on the market.
2020
Investor
Dec 2020
We are a diverse team of tech lovers, mentors, experts, and founders ourselves bound together by our passion to support founders on their entrepreneurial journey. We help to solve key challenges at every stage Dare to dream global. We’re a startup accelerator like no other, our optimized approach puts early stage startups on the map and catapults them into worldwide success. Startup Wise Guy’s origins began in Europe’s tech-savvy startup capital, Estonia. Since 2012, we have used our carefully curated expertise, skills and funding to skyrocket hundreds of emerging early stage startups into upwards growth. This is not our first rodeo… we are the most experienced accelerator fund in the region with over 35+ programs, an international community of founders from over 60 countries and an established market in CEE and CIS countries.
2012
co-founder (exit 2018)
Dec 2012
Talent Garden is Europes leading digital skills academy and founding partner of a global EdTech group, that provides individuals and organisations with the knowledge, spaces and resources needed to transform and thrive within the innovation ecosystem. They offer diverse learning experiences with online, offline and hybrid courses, corporate programs and events and a network of coworking campuses that hosts a vibrant community of digital and tech professionals. Founded in Italy in 2011, Talent Garden’s mission is to empower people and organisations to drive digital transformation through life-changing learning and networking experiences. With an unparalleled vision to combine work life and learning. Talent Garden has already significantly impacted and uplifted professionals and corporations by closing the digital skills gap, training over 25,000 professionals in digital design, marketing, data and hard skills, human resources, business innovation, product management, and cyber security. As one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe, Talent Garden also develops tailored corporate education programs leveraging their expertise in digital transformation and a network of partners such as Google, Procter & Gamble, Cisco, Unilever, leading European banks, institutions and other companies in the Fortune 500 ranking. These transformative experiences go beyond the classroom, with the company enabling powerful connections within the digital and tech ecosystem. Thanks to a network of coworking campuses in 13 countries (Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, North USA, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) that hosts not only students but over 45,000 innovators from startups, agencies, corporate labs, freelancers, and SMEs, who are all united by a like-minded vision for digital innovation. Open 24 hours a day, these campuses are designed to encourage collaborations and provide professionals with a physical base to succeed and scale.
early stageHigher Education
2005
Co-Founder
Jun 2005
From seasoned keynoters to the talents of tomorrow, Frontiers has always been renowned for our capabilities of scouting what’s next. Understanding how the future will be in two years is key to decide how to spend your next budget. From a 1920 unfinished aquarium in Rome to a rooftop in San Francisco. From an ancient Renaissance palace in Florence to an ultramodern theatre in Milan. From a luxurious ballroom in Dubai to the former HQ of the Eastern Germany national radio in Berlin (and the generator room of an early 1900 electric plant or the masterpiece of archistar Frank Ghery in front of the Brandburg Thor). Our venues have always been a core part of the Frontiers experience. Our conferences are famous for their super energetic openings, superbly orchestrated by our artists Korinami and Joe Ferrari. And also the level of detail curation we put in the food and beverage experience. The level of interactivity and hands-on learnings at our masterclasses. The chance to network with entrepreneurs, managers, researchers and scientists, investors and experienced business men during our renowned mingling sessions. It’s all part of the Frontiers experience. It’s the reason why great things happen at Frontiers.
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