Built by operators, for operators.
We're not a fund. We're not a lab. We're a small, senior team that builds companies from inside real markets — and we stay involved long after the product ships.
We started as a Google Ads agency. We ended up building eight companies.
Eikonos Group began as a performance marketing practice — the kind of work that puts you inside the operational reality of dozens of businesses at once. Running campaigns for SMBs across Italy and Ireland, we kept seeing the same patterns: the same inefficiencies, the same untapped opportunities, the same problems that nobody had built a clean product for yet.
So we started building them ourselves. First as internal tools, then as standalone products, then as independent companies. That process — living inside a market before presuming to build something for it — became the core of how Eikonos Group works.
Today we operate across three arms: a consulting practice (Festina Lente AI) that embeds AI directly into SMB operations, a performance marketing agency (KonvTrack) that generates the revenue to keep the studio self-funded, and a venture arm that spins out validated products into their own companies. No external funding. No VC dependency. Just a flywheel we keep turning.
Founded in Dublin
Eikonos LTD was incorporated in Ireland under the 12.5% corporation tax regime, structured from day one to support R&D-intensive, equity-retained venture building.
Active ventures
Across performance marketing, AI consulting, SaaS, financial comparison, mold remediation lead gen, and Irish tax — each one spun out of real client work.
External funding raised
Every company in the portfolio is bootstrapped. Agency revenue funds R&D. Client engagements fund the next spin-off. The model compounds without dilution.
Live in the market first
We don't build from whiteboards. Every company we've created started with firsthand operational experience in the market it serves. We believe that's the only real unfair advantage in venture building.
Festina Lente — make haste slowly
Our name comes from the Roman maxim: move fast, but with deliberate rigour. We ship quickly, but we don't ship carelessly. Speed without structure destroys more value than it creates.
Self-funding as a discipline
Bootstrapping isn't a constraint — it's a filter. If a business needs external capital to survive its first year, the business model isn't proven. We find market fit before we scale, not after.
Operators, not advisors
We don't sit on boards and offer opinions. When we build a company, we run it — until it's ready to run itself. The team stays involved through hiring, product, and first revenue milestones.
AI as infrastructure
We treat AI as a core layer in every product and process we build — not a feature to add later. Every venture in the portfolio is either AI-native or AI-augmented from day one.
Built in Dublin, built for Europe
Ireland's 12.5% corporate rate, R&D tax credit, and KDB regime aren't just tax benefits — they're structural advantages that make it easier to run a capital-efficient, R&D-heavy portfolio.
Senior operators with skin in the game.
Every person on the Eikonos Group team holds equity in the ventures they help build. We don't separate incentives from execution.
Federico Dalpozzo
Ex-Google. Forbes Under 30. Federico leads strategy, venture development, and commercial partnerships across the portfolio. He runs client relationships at KonvTrack and owns the studio's venture pipeline — from identifying patterns in client work to spinning out new companies.
Vincenzo Favara
Vincenzo leads all technical development across the Eikonos Group portfolio — from MCP-based AI integrations and automation pipelines to production SaaS products. He owns the R&D practice at Festina Lente AI and drives technical architecture decisions across every venture.
Luca Romano
Luca runs operations across the studio — managing project delivery, client accounts at KonvTrack, and the day-to-day execution that keeps the portfolio moving. He co-manages key agency clients alongside Federico.
On building companies
The best companies we've seen — including the ones inside this portfolio — weren't planned from a deck. They were noticed. A recurring problem in a client's operation. A gap in a comparison market. A tax process that nobody had simplified for a specific audience.
We run our own businesses, which means we're constantly inside real markets, not theorising about them. The pattern recognition that surfaces new venture ideas is a direct output of the consulting and agency work we do every day.
On AI
We've been building with AI since before it became a pitch deck slide. At Festina Lente AI, we implement production-grade AI systems for SMBs — not demos, not chatbots, but workflows that replace real labour and measurably reduce cost.
Every product in the Eikonos Group portfolio is either AI-native or AI-augmented — built with AI as infrastructure from day one.
On bootstrapping
We've never raised external funding and don't plan to. Our agency and consulting revenue covers studio operating costs. Our R&D is partially funded through Ireland's Section 766C R&D Tax Credit, claimed through Festina Lente AI LTD.
This structure forces discipline. Every product has to earn its place in the portfolio by generating real revenue, not by attracting capital. We keep full equity in every venture until we choose to share it — selectively, with partners who add more than money.
On Ireland
Dublin is our base and our structural advantage. The 12.5% corporate rate, R&D Credit, Knowledge Development Box, and Participation Exemption make Ireland one of the most efficient jurisdictions for running an equity-heavy, IP-generating portfolio. We help Italian founders navigate this through Twelve.Five Tax — because we built the same structure for ourselves first.