FinScience is the Investment Artificial Intelligence Lab

FinScience is a data-driven fintech company founded in 2017 by Google’s former senior managers and Alternative Data experts, who have combined their digital and financial expertise. FinScience, thus, originates from this merger of the world of Finance and the world of Data Science.

FinScience leverages 3rdPLACE’s experiences concerning Data Intelligence, Data Modeling and Data Governance solutions. These are further enriched through the tech role in the european consortium SSIX (Horizon 2020 program) focused on the building of a Social Sentiment for financial purposes.

With us in FinScience there are:
· data scientists
· data analysts
· data designers
· data engineers
· quant analysts
· software developers
· asset specialists
· account managers
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What we do

With the use of Artificial Intelligence, we synthesize the molecule of Alternative Data to enhance Asset Management, Financial Advisory, Investor Relations, Marketing & Sales and ESG actions.

We gather digital contents from social and e-commerce platforms, blogs, maps, etc. (in English and in Italian).

We then analyze, filter, interpret and weigh them. We turn them into figures and time series with our proprietary Machine Learning algorithms (e.g. topic modeling, entity recognition, influencer clustering-and-evaluation algorithms).

Hence, the Alternative Data present in our data lake – treated as mentioned above – becomes the raw material for supplying our clients with two types of solutions:

Information solutions, consisting of indexes and monitoring systems, “alternative” signals and scorings which may refer to individual enterprises, top management, products and/or even to specific topics (e.g. Brexit, spread, ESG)
Operational solutions, comprising investment models, strategies and portfolios that result from the combination of both Alternative Data and traditional data (e.g. Stock Exchange data, financial reports and quarterly balance sheet, open data).

Our technological infrastructure is thoroughly cloud-based; this makes it all extremely flexible and readily scalable.

Extract strong and weak signals, both regarding companies and specific topics enhancing financial decisions (long term alpha generation).

Build Alternative Investment Indexes from a Smart Beta perspective, redefining traditional taxonomy.

Elaborate Portfolio Management models and Investment Strategies on different financial assets, leveraging both alternative and financial data.

Management

The data-driven finTech company founded by former Top Managers of Google Italy and Alternative Data experts

Co-Fondatore & CEO
Fabrizio Milano d'Aragona
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Former Top Manager at Google Italy, where he participated in the start-up and success of the Italian office, managing, amongst other things, team enlargement and building trade relations, finally becoming responsible for the Retail, Fashion and Local sectors.

Co-Fondatore & Direttore Generale
Alessandro Arrigo
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In 3rdPlace from the beginning as Project Manager, later Head of Technology aiming to develop innovative technological projects in the context of the most complex web marketing activities.

Co-Fondatore & Chief Operations Officer
Mauro Arte
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MBA holder at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, he worked as a digital consultant at Ernst&Young before becoming a manager at Google where he was responsible for the development of the Media and Entertainment sector, later becoming also Head of YouTube Italia.

Co-Fondatore & Chief Sales Officer
Claudio Zamboni
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Former Top Manager of Google Italy, where he took part in the start-up and held the position of Industry Leader for the Entertainment and Telco sectors.

Head of Strategic Planning
Ugo Pastori
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Managing Partner at Weisstor S.A. and Business Angel for digital Start-ups which operates in different industries such as fintech, cybersecurity and blockchain applications for financial services. Ten years of experience to deal with some Hedge Funds such as Thalìa of which he used to be the CEO.

Chief Marketing Officer
Marco Belmondo
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He started his career in Marketing Communication at Saatchi & Saatchi. He served as Head of Communication and Customer Service
at TradingLab (UniCredit Group). Then he moved to Retail Banking as Communication and e-Banking Director at UniCredit Banca and
as Customer Care Area Director at Banca di Roma (Capitalia Group). In 2006 he reverted to Investment Banking as Marketing Director
of Private Investor Products Italy at ABN AMRO and RBS. Then he work as Business Development & Marketing Director at Epic SIM
(Private Investment Community).

FinScience has aroused the interest of investors with remarkable financial backgrounds and longterm experiences with big data, who are ready to bolster its international growth.