Lorenzo Marini is a communications and product-focused founder with nine years of experience building fact-checking and civic tech initiatives from Barcelona. As cofounder and Director of Strategy at Verificat and an Ashoka Fellow, he blends newsroom rigor, policy-minded research and hands-on web development to fight misinformation and teach critical media skills. He previously founded Precept, winning Google DNI funding to develop AI tools for disinformation detection, and has a background in front-end, Rails and analytics from roles at ECFR and the European Commission. Trained across UCL, Pompeu Fabra and Ironhack, he pairs academic grounding in democracy and communication with practical full‑stack chops—an uncommon bridge between social impact strategy and product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Erasmus Exchange, Contemporary History, Psichology, Erasmus Exchange, Contemporary History, Psichology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Full-stack Web Development Bootcamp, Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster, Full-stack web developer, Full-stack Web Development Bootcamp, Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster, Full-stack web developer at Ironhack
Bachelor, Communications Sciences, Bachelor, Communications Sciences at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Msc, Advanced studies in Social Communication, Msc, Advanced studies in Social Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Curso Técnico Superior en Google Analytics, Web Analytics / Google Analyitics, Own Diploma, Curso Técnico Superior en Google Analytics, Web Analytics / Google Analyitics, Own Diploma at Instituto Internacional de Marketing. IIMN
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Lorenzo Marini - Cofounder And Director Of Strategy