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Kakashi Venture Accelerator — First AI Native Venture Studio in Italy

Empowering the next generation of intelligent enterprises through human-centric artificial intelligence and radical innovation.

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Inside KVA

What we do.

We work at the intersection of AI research & development, technology investments and venture building — turning deep-tech insight into companies that scale.

Deep tech

Technology

RAG & hybrid retrieval, model training, agentic systems and applied research — the deep-tech core.

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What we build

Ventures

We design, build and back deep-tech AI ventures — research-validated, then commercially tested.

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Research

AI research applied to real-world problems — papers, open datasets and live challenges.

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Lost in the Middle

AI, ventures and field notes — every Saturday. Signal pulled from the noise, straight to your inbox.

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NLPAICS 2026

Research

Bloc-Conditional Event States

Our method for measuring cross-coverage divergence in threat intelligence — accepted at NLPAICS 2026.

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Funding

Venture

OIDA — funding round opening July 2026

Epistemic AI infrastructure that makes organisational knowledge computable. Talk to us before the round.

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Product

See TsunAI in action

Map how your teams think, decide and work together — the people-cognition framework.

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For companies

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Bring AI into your company

Department-as-a-Service: strategy, build and adoption, run by our team.

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Whether you need an AI strategy, a venture co-founder, or a research partner — start here.

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Press & Events

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Art & TechnologyFebruary 2026

Arte contemporanea tra cultura tech e AI, la visione pop di Federico Bottino

Il Giornale dell'Arte

AI StrategyFebruary 2026

KVA entra in Excellence: serve un piano sull'AI che sostenga i giovani

La Stampa

AI & InformationJanuary 2026

Torino, la startup che studia le fake news dall'Iran con l'AI

Corriere della Sera — Torino

AI EthicsDecember 2025

La clessidra e l'algoritmo: Federico Bottino e la sfida etica dell'AI

Gli Stati Generali

M&ANovember 2025

Il Gruppo Excellence acquisisce KVA – Kakashi Venture Accelerator

Financecommunity

Corporate StrategyNovember 2025

Il Gruppo Excellence acquisisce KVA – Kakashi Venture Accelerator

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Latest Exhibition

Amnesia — Maca Cerquera

Feb 20–22, 2026

KVA Dojo, Turin

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