TechCrafters

November 2025 – TechCrafters is an IoT SME specializing in advanced Internet of Things solutions, especially in the area of sensor design and production.
The company offers custom sensors with an approach “from design to production” with a team with over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience in bringing new products to market.

TechCrafters (Italy) develops a wide variety of IoT-sensing solutions and custom sensors for industrial, chemical, medical, cosmetic, agricultural and other sectors.

Value Proposition:
• The company combines scientific/engineering expertise (chemistry + electronics + microelectronics + embedded systems) with sensor/IoT design, representing a specialized market niche.
• TechCrafters emphasizes offering scalable, production-ready technology.
• This specialist also emphasizes cost optimization while creating accessible, high-quality products.
• If you are considering a custom sensor or IoT hardware project, especially in the industrial or medical sectors, TechCrafters could be a valuable partner in this niche.

Their strengths that make them unique:
• Scientific expertise + IoT innovation
TechCrafters combines a scientific/industrial background (in their case, industrial chemistry) with engineering, electronics, and IT skills.
This means they do not just offer standard sensors, but are also able to design customized solutions, even for complex contexts (chemistry, environment, fluid analysis, etc.).
• Comprehensive and integrated approach: from research to the final product
They do not just sell: they manage all phases in-house—analysis, design, prototyping, testing, production—with rigorous quality control.
This makes them reliable and capable of creating turnkey solutions, even in regulated or particularly demanding sectors.
• Flexibility and customization tailored to various sectors
Their IoT solutions are adapted to many fields: industry, chemicals, cosmetics, food, medical, agriculture, logistics, energy... in short, a very broad range.

Sensor types for advanced IoT solutions:
•    ISFET Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistor
•    MEMS Microelectromechanical systems
•    NDIR Non-Dispersive Infrared
•    PT1000 Resistance Temperature Detectors RTDs
•    VEML3328 RGBCIR Ambient light sensor for red, green, blue, clear, and infrared (IR)
•    NXP pressure sensors
•    LVDT Linear variable differential transformer
•    PIR passive infrared motion detection sensors
•    Temperature, pressure, humidity sensors 
•    pH sensors
•    TDS total dissolved solids sensors
•    ORP redox potential sensors
•    Brix refractometers

Paciolo

January 2022 – Paciolo Srl is a start-up which intends to disrupt the Italian in-cloud administrative-area of professionals and SMEs; it includes business services such as: electronic invoicing, accountancy, the payment schedule, the notice board, etc.
The software operates partly as a Freemium and extra services are offered with a monthly subscription. 

The problem the start-up aims to solve: all management software on the market offers standard, non-integrated solutions. This means that entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals are often forced to juggle multiple tools, risking not completing all tasks effectively and meeting deadlines.

The solution: Paciolo is the management software that challenges the current big players, with a highly innovative product that combines unique features with ease of use and customization for every need. It is proprietary software that the company that designed and developed by itself. 

The cloud management software offers countless features, most of which are free and unlimited, such as electronic invoicing, the journal, the payroll, the noticeboard, and more.

Paciolo brings together all the tools you need on a daily basis to manage your business, your activity, and your work, and it also offers many truly revolutionary innovative tools!

The main products and services are:

• Electronic invoicing

• Warehouse

• Payroll

• Document management

• Mailing lists

• Data analysis

• Intelligent drive (storage)

FlexTax

December 2020 - Flex Company Srl is a start-up which intends to disrupt the Italian administrative-fiscal area of companies; it includes accounting services, tax consultants and labor consultants.

In 2018 FlexTax was created, the cloud software e-service, with the aim of helping professionals with VAT numbers and small and micro enterprises in managing their accounting.
With the use of professional consultants and special artificial intelligence support tools.

Through the flextax.it website, FlexTax proposes itself as a specialist with scalable technology in AI and a reference point for traders, professionals and artisans looking for consulting, administration and finance services. 

GardenStuff

Garden Innovation & IOT.

January 2017 - GardenStuff is founded. A startup operating in the garden sector, windowsills, patio's, terraces and balconies with clever and safe solutions.

A very interesting young company that has been able to innovate, in a substantial way, and patent-protected, in an "ancient" field such as gardening and decoration.
And in fact, most competitors go along working, as they always did, with products which are always the same. Or just with an incremental product innovation.

But obviously so old the sector is not, ... at all! > If someone can start an innovative startup in Italy, working on the clever decoration of our windowsills and balconies. Adding intelligence and new functionality with IOT.
Safety first, any solution needs to be decorative and safe.

GardenStuff innovates by combining highly decorative products with the utmost security, and intelligence. And is proposing this on its websites and by ecommerce.

Gardenstuff was founded by Francesco Tirinnanzi and his team and is present in the best Italian gardenstores, in the large specialized DIY and garden superstores and also online with dedicated and specialized websites.

A short video explains (in Italian) what the company does and the sector in which it operates, here.

September 2017 - The startup is at Gafa/Spoga in Cologne to launch the first self contained vertical garden. A functional and clever solution to grow plants on the outside and the inside of the home.

April 2018 - Gardenstuff closes a private round of financing.

January 2019 - Gardenstuff starts its first round of equity crowdfunding with a campaign on the Italian platform Opstart < LINK. This round was closed in overfunding at €140.262,00 in May 2019 

February 2022 - Gardenstuff launches a campaign for its vertical garden on Kickstarter. 142 backers pledged €35,742 to help make this project a reality.

April 2023 - Gardenstuff launches a project-related crowdfunding campaign specifically for the ELIoT project. This was closed successfully in overfunding at €56.850,00 in August of the same year.

Creative Thinking Ventures is founding investor in Gardenstuff.

WORLDZ

Share Purchases, Be Cool

Be Social, Pay Less

November 2015 - Worldz is founded. A disruptive tool for ecommerce, it monetizes the social popularity of each of us. A true innovation on the web. It uses the theory of WOMM (word of mouth marketing, Wikipedia) to increase e-commerce impact and conversions.

On one hand Worldz provides a network for e-commerce based businesses, which allows companies to increase their commercial impact and sales conversions. On the other hand, it also deals with customers individually, rewarding popularity, and assuring a deeper customer loyalty towards these web based businesses.

To explain how it works for ecommerce and vendors, the startup has made a B2B website, with the latest features available, press button here.

Worldz is a community of advisors and a tool/plugin specifically designed for e-commerce. Through an algorithm, it understands users popularity and impact on Facebook and it gives them an economic value. This value is then used as a discount for their purchases with e-commerce partners. The start up's original slogan “Share Purchases, Be Cool” and the new one "Be social, Pay Less" reflect the underlying social innovation, if you want to know more about the impact that Worldz is making, read this article (in Italian) in StartupItalia!

Worldz is live! now, the plugin is available for Woocommerce, Prestashop and Magento.

The team is being completed with senior professionals and is 100% on the project. Worldz is guided by a visionary and creative leader, fully equipped to bring the talent of the team to disrupt the current paradigm in online commerce. If you would like to be part of Worldz as an Angel Investor / Business Angel in W4E and investing ‎€, or if you would like to participate in the next fundraising round, please contact us here: contact info@creativethinking.ventures

Follow this link to the LinkedIN profile of Worldz, regular posts and updates on FaceBook and Worldz is an active tweeter on Twitter. Information in video format, in this Youtube video, featuring Joshua Priore, the founder of Worldz.

April 2016 - Worldz closes a private round of financing.

February 2017 - Worldz closes a private round of financing.

February 2018 - Worldz starts its first round of equity crowdfunding with a campaign on the Italian platform Opstart < LINK This round was closed at €160k and 6% overfunding on April, 14, 2018.

May 2018 - Invitalia the Italian National Agency for inward investment of the Ministry of Economy agrees to finance Worldz for an amount of €400k.

December 2018 - Worldz closes a second round of equity crowdfunding on the Italian platform Opstart < LINK This round was closed at €130k and 48% overfunding on December 17, 2018.

Creative Thinking Ventures is founding investor in Worldz, and has invested, pre-seed, at the birth of the company.

SHAREWOOD

Travel smarter. Meet amazing people. Save money.

July 2015 - Sharewood is a vertical community of sports and outdoor enthusiasts.  And a marketplace as well, though the sharing economy between users is definitely prominent.

A community of people with a common interest for outdoor activity, and a marketplace for renting the equipment that goes with it. Sharewood has thousands of users who share the common interest for an active and sporty lifestyle.

The startup is managed by a young and dynamic team of founders and developers, who are 100% on the project, to develop Sharewood in Europe. And the results are clearly visible in the metrics and traction.

This team is a perfect fit with their community.

March 2017 - Sharewood closes a crowdfunding round, raising €247k from 180 investors, with a 300% overfunding.

February 2019 - Sharewood increases the capital base with existing investors for an undisclosed sum.

June 2020 - Sharewood closes a bridge round of funding with external private investors raising €170k.

Website Sharewood

Creative Thinking Ventures is founding investor in Sharewood, and has invested, pre-seed, at the birth of the company.

AllPolyGlot

November 2014 - Allpolyglot is a new concept in foreign language learning. Meet our Manager-Teachers and learn Business English with our innovative digital tools and face to face teaching methodology.

Learn foreign languages, with a revolutionary and proven method that allows people to learn at a much faster pace. Meet new and interesting business people in the city where they are living.

This is the natural evolution in the App world of the language marketplace Allpolyglot.org

On the Allpolyglot website you can search the language you want to learn, scroll between lesson types and contact your new smart teacher by setting a call, by chatting, or by meeting in a business setting.

Thanks to Allpolyglot you will:

• Learn languages by speaking

• Meet new and amazing people

• Discover new places and cultures in your city

Nobody has to pay to search and look for a teacher profile. We don’t require to login either, although we recommend it.

If you find someone interesting and you want to contact him/her you can choose between different options on our website.

What problem do we solve?

>>> To be really fluent in a foreign language you must speak with natives and not just be studying grammar.

Talk with natives and try to express yourself in a foreign language is the best school to improve and increase your languages skills.

For that reason Allpolyglot allows you to meet people in your city on the basis of the type of English language that you want to learn. Thanks to Allpolyglot you can look for the teacher you like and propose to chat, talk by phone or meet him/her in person.

Talk and chat with natives is better than spending a lot of time studying grammar.

>>> Meet someone interesting is not easy and a lot of companies are proposing dating apps, like Meetic does.

But, breaking the ice with someone that we don’t know is not for everybody.

We think that languages are a huge vehicle to start an interesting conversation and break the ice. For this reason through Allpolyglot we propose an approach based on the needs to learn languages that can naturally and gradually lead, after chat or call with the person, to an interesting meeting.

Find someone interesting is easier if we use the vehicle of foreign languages.

Allpolyglot is managed by a team of experienced international professionals who have “lived” the cultural shock of living abroad.