Gianluca "Gi" Boccadifuoco / Lisbon
I help founders and companies turn ambitious, ambiguous ideas into clear strategies, aligned teams, and ventures that can move.
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4ventures founded
€3.5Mraised across early-stage ventures
1 exitMuro acquired by Sedition Art
7 to 55+team scaled at Keyko
Creative enough to see another way. Operational enough to make it real.
I move between idea, people, product, capital, and execution until the pieces form a venture others can understand and support.
An artist in a business jacket.
Where I’m useful
I am most useful at the beginning and at inflection points: when an idea needs a company around it, a team needs alignment, or an innovation program needs a clearer reason to exist.
Ongoing / founder to founder
Useful whenThe idea has promise, but the decisions around product, team, capital, or direction are getting heavier.
What changesClear calls, honest challenge, and a second operating brain when the founder should not think alone.
Project / defined mandate
Useful whenA company sees an opportunity, but internal assumptions and competing agendas are slowing it down.
What changesA sharper opportunity, aligned stakeholders, and a practical path from exploration to investment.
Zero to one / with Digital Kitchen
Useful whenThe opportunity is worth more than a report. It needs a product, a narrative, and founder-level ownership.
What changesA venture designed, validated, and built with the product and engineering team at Digital Kitchen.
What I bring
to the room
The work is part strategy, part pattern recognition, and part empathy. I listen for what the product, the people, and the numbers are saying when they do not yet agree.
I move between the detail and the whole until the real constraint becomes visible.
A shared product strategy is often more valuable than another month of disconnected execution.
I turn the decision into a roadmap, a team, a first version, and a reason for others to believe.
Selected chapters
From a prototype and screens sourced in China to 1,600+ displays, four continents, and an acquisition.
↗BAn advisory engagement that turned competing leadership views into one product strategy and roadmap.
↗CBuilding the operations, team, safeguards, and internal incubator around a fast-growing product company.
↗DNinety-five artists brought together in Lisbon to make an emerging technology legible through culture.
↗Selected
operating history
Co-founder / venture direction
Building AI products and new ventures with Christian Vismara.
Solutions partner
Technology, neuroscience, digital art, and immersive experiences.
Founder and CEO
Built the digital art platform from prototype to acquisition.
Investor relations
Led investor relations through the company’s €3M seed round.
Head of Operations
Scaled the team from 7 to 55+ and ran the product incubator.
Head of Innovation
Built the accelerator and advised teams across its venture portfolio.
Co-founder and COO
Built a ten-person team and launched a decentralized social product.
Field notes
Palermo taught me to make things happen with what I had. Ljubljana showed me how much creativity people leave unused. Berlin taught me how companies are built. Lisbon helped me decide what I wanted that work to make possible.
Read the personal story
A six-minute operator’s read
Six quick questions that show what is working, what is slowing the idea down, and the most useful move for the next seven days.
Read your ventureWhen the answer needs building
I run the studio with Christian Vismara. I lead venture direction, strategy, and the business around the product. Christian leads engineering. The personal site is where you hire my judgment. Digital Kitchen is where we build together.
Build with Digital Kitchen ↗Start with the rough version
No polished deck required. Bring the opportunity, the tension, or the decision your team cannot settle.
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