As part of the ICE Global Startup Program, in 2024, Audioboost presented the results of its Italian pilot project.

In an exclusive location in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, at the Plug & Play accelerator, Audioboost will have the opportunity to showcase its project and the innovative Speakup-Article™: the first audio-focused system integrator software designed for digital publishers. The experience gained in Italy and the 2024-2025 roadmap will be presented to an audience of investors, business angels, and other accelerators led by Italians. This institutional meeting, strongly supported by ICE and the international team organizing the Global Startup Program in the USA, serves as an occasion for networking and discussing the significant results achieved in Italy through partnerships with over 50 premium publishers.

“The Global Startup Program has been a great opportunity for us to explore and understand a vast and competitive market like the American one,” says Cristina Pianura, who moved to Los Angeles for two months to attend the acceleration program. “Engaging with a mindset and investment logic that are decidedly different in approach and timing from those used in Italy projects us towards a new way of developing our company and opens us to new markets. It allows for on-the-ground comparison, and all this can only benefit our ambitions to improve the product, particularly for our capital-raising objectives, having opened a pre-seed to be concluded as soon as possible.”

The on-the-ground experience in the USA has enabled market research and some beta-tester projects to collect valuable feedback and information regarding the expansion of the product and advertising offering in a rapidly growing digital podcasting market.