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Valeria

About us

We're building ValerIA, the AI shopping assistant for e-commerce.

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A small team of AI engineers with years of production AI behind us, now focused on turning catalog decisions into incremental margin for online stores.

Learn more about how we work, and who's behind it.

What we're building

A strategic layer for e-commerce.

ValerIA sits under your e-commerce and steers catalog decisions toward incremental margin per session. Not a chatbot, not a dashboard. A strategic layer that works across verticals and is designed to be turned on or off without rebuilding the storefront behind it.

The engineering discipline behind ValerIA comes from years shipping production AI across banking, manufacturing and retail. The same capability is still available as engineering services for teams that need to take their own AI from prototype to operation.

Founders

The ValerIA team.
The ValerIA team.

Co-founder & CEO

Riccardo Castagno

Management engineer trained at LIUC Castellanza with a data-science focus and exchange studies in Hong Kong. Background includes COO at MedTech startup Robota, where he led a €1.3M seed round, plus business-development and consulting roles across AI, energy, and industrial robotics at MYWAI, Ikigai Capital, and KUKA.

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Co-founder & CAIO

Marco Sanguineti

Mechanical engineer (MSc, University of Genoa, cum laude with distinction) and AI engineer with five-plus years shipping production ML systems. Background includes designing RAG and multi-agent platforms at Fineco Bank and leading AI engineering at MYWAI and Deeplabs.

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Co-founder & CTO

Klajdi Beqiraj

Electronic engineer (MSc, University of Genoa, cum laude) specialised in real-time AI systems for industrial applications, from edge inference to cloud deployment. Background includes AI engineering at MYWAI, Deeplabs, and Tenova, with published research on ML-driven aerodynamic optimisation.

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