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QuoIntelligence is a finalist for Startup of the Year of November 2024 from the Frankfurt Forward Awards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why don’t you briefly introduce yourself and your startupQuoIntelligence to our readers?  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m Marco Riccardi and I have been in the intelligence and cybersercurity field for almost 20 years. I started my career by voluntarily joining the Italian military and serving in the PSYOP Army Regiment and I have since worked for multiple private and government bodies including some of the most influential financial institutions in Germany and Spain. My roles spanned from working as e-Crime Analyst, eCrime R&D, SOC analyst, Incident Responder, Digital Forensic investigator and finally as Cyber Threat Intelligence analyst where I finally found my perfect landing zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020 I founded QuoIntelligence, to inform decision-makers of current and potential cyber and geopolitical threats by providing them with customized Finished Intelligence reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you decide to found QuoIntelligence? <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I grew up in a family running a small family-business, I always knew that sooner or later I\u2019d have created something mine in the tech space. After years operating in the market and seeing only a limited amount of non-EU players who just catered to large enterprises, I met someone (my first investor Ari Bizimis from Mercurius PE) who understood this market opportunity and invested in my idea. It wasn\u2019t really a \u201cdecision\u201d, it was kind of natural process to be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the vision behind QuoIntelligence?  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Our vision is to become Europe\u2019s Threat Intelligence company, democratizing the benefits of threat intelligence by making it accessible also to hundreds of medium sized companies in the EU and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the idea to the launch, what have been the biggest challenges so far and how have you financed yourself?  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

 We are extremely grateful to have had the backing of Ari Bizimis (Mercurius Private Equity) since day 1. Ari is a former entrepreneur himself, with a large network in the Rhein Main area and beyond, who understands our challenges and believes in our mission. We founded the company in January 2020, so you might guess what our first big challenge was: covid and all its implications. Creating and operating a full-remote and cross-national startup is not an easy thing to start with, but we were able to make it an advantage versus our competition. Other challenges are the same faced by other startups in our stage: growing & scaling in this \u201cnew\u201d market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is the target group of QuoIntelligence? <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We segment the market based on company maturity in terms of Cyber Security and their size, and we have a specific offering for each segment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally speaking, the following are normally our \u201centry criterias\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n