E23
Headquarters: Rome, Italy
CEO: Alessandro Lo Piano
Website: E23
Founding date: December 2023
Investment: Bootstrapped to date
E23 is a platform for profiling traveler behavior patterns and real-time location flow data on airport and railway stations worldwide. Doing this today is nearly impossible or has huge costs of hardware sensors installation, making this an impossible challenge at scale. E23 has solved this problem delivering the most-innovative, scalable and cost-effective technical solution available today in the market.
Below, we asked E23 founder Alessandro Lo Piano to share strategic goals for 2026 and lessons learned since founding.
Strategic goals for 2026
By 2026, our system will redefine airline information processing by delivering real-time insights and accurately predicting product usage, booking patterns and traveler behaviors across railways, airports, lounges and in-flight. Powered by algorithmic super-intelligence, it tracks detailed behaviors, integrates traveler profiling and real-time flow location data with major digital out-of-home media channels, effectively driving both long-term brand awareness and immediate performance results for travel advertising.
Lessons learned since founding
Personally, the first lesson I have learnt is that the real point is not chasing success but to learn how to survive. The second lesson I have learnt is not to chase money and spreadsheets, but to build the character that money can fully trust. I discovered that the key to creating lasting generational value lies in diligent stewardship rather than ownership, and making every opportunity, customer and talent count. This is something I omit to speak about in public, not because I want to keep it secret but because there’s no shortcut, book or coaching course that can teach people how to master this.
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