Stefano Bernardi

About Stefano Bernardi

An Italian in San Francisco who loves internet products.

I recently moved to California to work at Betable, where I currently oversee our developer evangelism efforts and work on the platform product. Back in Italy, I worked at dPixel, a seed stage venture capital firm, giving the opportunity to entrepreneurs to build kick ass web businesses.

In my spare time, I hack away with Ruby, mentor and invest in cool startups, mountain bike, brew beer and spend time with my lovely fiancé.

My latest weekend hack is SaveMyInbox, a small app that automatically saves your Gmail attachments to Dropbox. SMI is now profitable.

Recently, I founded both Italian Startup Scene, a Facebook group with more than 4000 people, and HackItaly, a hackaton-event for the top italian developers.

Previously, I blogged about the european startup scene at theStartup.eu, where I focused on technology companies, web applications, social media, growth entrepreneurship and venture capital. I also occasionally contributed to TechCrunch Europe, covering the italian startup scene, sit on the Board of Directors of Startup Commons and was the Italian Ambassador for Startup School and Sandbox, the closed network of under-30 overachievers. I’ve also been working on Equeety, a simple dealflow tracking and portfolio management webapp. When I was in Europe I was a referrer for HackFwd, an amazing new pre-seed investment program for european tech geeks.

I hold a BSc in Computer and Software Engineering from Roma Tre University, where I founded Roma3.net, the biggest online student community for any italian university.

Other things I’m glad I did are: worked as a DJ in the most important clubs in Rome, lead a political organization at my university, worked in a summer vacation village, played semi-pro sports, studied one year abroad and traveled to more than 230 cities in 40 countries and 4 continents.
You can talk to me in English, French, Spanish and Italian.

I regularly speak at events around Europe regarding entrepreneurship, startups, web products, networking and venture capital. I was featured in many publications including Wired Italy and “Il Mondo”.

In 2010, I won Startup Weekend Venice with GoWar, a location based game, that went on to raise some funding. I now serve as an advisor for Business Development and Product.