Summary
Matteo Flora is a Milan-based founder, board director and serial entrepreneur with 15+ years building businesses at the intersection of digital reputation, legal tech and AI. He founded The Fool—Italy’s leading firm for social media intelligence, IP protection and reputation strategy—and co-founded legal-tech, influencer marketing and crisis-communications ventures while running an investment holding that backs security and media startups. An experienced adjunct professor across top Italian universities, he teaches AI safety, cybercrime, OSINT and reputation, and consults for European institutions on de-radicalisation, IP litigation and content moderation. Recognised by the U.S. IVLP as a “Future Leader,” he combines courtroom-grade forensics with strategic storytelling and novel economic methodologies for reputational damage assessment. He also leads a nonprofit fighting revenge porn and pioneers public-facing AI discourse through media projects and a policymaker-focused vlog. Notably, his background blends hands-on forensics and crawling/monitoring engineering with high-level AI safety and crisis advisory work—a rare mix that informs both product innovation and public policy.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
High School, High School at Liceo Scientifico Ettore Majorana - Rho (MI)
Collegio S.Antonio Busnago
TechVenture, TechVenture at Kauffman FastTrac
Italian, English