Entrepreneur in Residence

About Maritime Ventures

Maritime Ventures is a venture builder supported by CDP Venture Capital, together with leading industrial, financial, and innovation players from Italy and Germany. Our mission is to launch 10 high-impact startups to drive the digital and sustainable transformation of the maritime industry.

Backed by key partners like Fincantieri, PSA Italy and Intesa Sanpaolo, among others, we provide a unique ecosystem where experienced founders, technologists, and operators collaborate to turn bold ideas into scalable companies.

About TRACIUM

Tracium is building an AI-powered data management platform designed to help industrial suppliers structure, govern, and leverage their material and product data.

The platform addresses a critical bottleneck across industrial supply chains: fragmented, unstructured material information spread across PDFs, Excel files, emails, and legacy systems. Tracium enables companies to centralize material data, standardize it at the source, and make it reusable across operational, technical, and reporting workflows.

Starting from the maritime and heavy-industry supply chain, Tracium supports suppliers in managing technical documentation, material attributes, and product data in a structured and scalable way. This foundation allows companies to reduce manual work, improve data reliability, and progressively unlock advanced use cases such as automated reporting, cross-customer data sharing, and regulatory-ready outputs as new requirements emerge.

Tracium is developed within a venture-building environment and is backed by strong industrial insight, with the ambition to scale cross-industry as a core data infrastructure layer for material-intensive sectors.

As Entrepreneur in Residence & CEO, you will:

• Drive the venture from early-stage product development to successful go-to-market execution
• Validate the business model and lead the first customer acquisition efforts
• Build and lead a high-performing founding team
• Manage relationships with shipyards, owners, and tech/service partners
• Collaborate with venture building experts to develop financial models, pitch decks, and fundraising strategies
• Raise the remaining part of the seed round (50% already committed)
• Represent the company to investors and key ecosystem stakeholders

• Strong entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on attitude
• Experience in early-stage start-ups, ideally as a founder or first hire
• Proven ability to raise funds from angel investors and VCs, and to craft compelling, investor-ready narratives
• 10+ years of professional experience
• Deep domain exposure to maritime and/or heavy industry
• Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making skills
• Fluency in English and Italian
• Willingness to re-locate to Italy and work on-site (optional Genova or Trieste)

• Founder-level equity in a validated, high-potential venture
• Access to Maritime Ventures' entire ecosystem of strategic partners, industry mentors, and investors
• The opportunity to lead a start-up that is transforming one of the world's oldest industries with cutting-edge technology
• Hands-on venture building support from Bridgemaker and Cariplo Factory
• Direct collaboration with CDP Venture Capital and major maritime industry players
• A chance to shape the future of intelligent boating and lifecycle management

If you are ready to launch and lead a venture that could redefine digital operations in the maritime world, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now and let's build TRACIUM together.