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Simone Massaro's projects

A connected ecosystem of companies
translating technological progress
into real-world outcomes
for society and the environment.

What are Simone
Massaro's projects?

My entrepreneurial journey spans technology, energy, gaming, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Today, I am focused on Eternal Tech, founded in 2024 to develop AI infrastructures around memory, knowledge and digital continuity. Before that came Free Mind Foundry and IntelliSync, founded in 2017, alongside WiSNAM and Rimlight Studios, ventures that explored industrial technology, energy, digital innovation and gaming.
Earlier in my journey, I founded BaxEnergy, in 2011, developing technology for monitoring and controlling large-scale renewable energy assets.

Across very different sectors, the common thread has always been the same: building technology that can move beyond the idea stage and create tangible, long-term impact. Some of these ventures have since evolved through acquisitions or integration into larger groups, while each has contributed to shaping the path that led to what I am building today.

Eternal Tech
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Eternal Tech

Founded by Simone Massaro, Eternal Tech is a company building governed AI infrastructure for digital identity, persistent memory, and intelligent agents. Rather than offering a single output-generating tool, it provides an infrastructure that transforms identity, knowledge, and memory into systems that are structured, queryable, and controllable over time.

Free Mind Foundry
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Free Mind Foundry

Founded by Simone Massaro in 2017, Free Mind Foundry is an international cooperation hub in Acireale, Sicily. It connects companies, startups, universities, and research centers, combining coworking, education, and tech experimentation with a human-centric approach.
Forwad Invest
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Forwad Invest

Founded by Simone Massaro, Forward Invest is an investment holding that provides capital and operational support to founder-led technology companies, and acquires small and mid-sized businesses in software, AI and cybersecurity. Rather than offering capital alone, it puts a team that has built, run and sold technology companies next to each founder, so that what they built keeps its name, its team and its customers.
Rimlight Studios

Rimlight Studios

Co-founded by Simone Massaro in 2014, Rimlight Studios is an independent video game studio based in Catania, Sicily, developing action titles for console and PC. Its debut game, ZHEROS, launched on Xbox One through Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program and reached over one million distributed copies across Xbox and PlayStation.
BaxEnergy
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BaxEnergy

BaxEnergy is a global provider of digital solutions for the energy industry, specializing in software for the visualization, analysis, and optimization of large-scale renewable energy power plants. Founded by Simone Massaro in 2010 and acquired by Yokogawa in 2024, the company now operates as part of a broader group that also includes Intellisync and WiSNAM, integrated under the BaxEnergy brand.

IntelliSync
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IntelliSync

Founded by Simone Massaro in 2017, IntelliSync helped industrial organizations turn digital transformation into a strategic advantage by building secure, connected, and intelligent ecosystems. In 2025, IntelliSync joined the Yokogawa Group.
WiSNAM
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WiSNAM

Acquired and transformed by Simone Massaro in 2017, WiSNAM redefined the performance of modern energy infrastructure by integrating photovoltaic, wind, storage, and hybrid systems into unified, grid-ready architectures. In 2025, WiSNAM joined the Yokogawa Group.

Frequently asked questions
about Simone Massaro's projects

Which companies has Simone Massaro founded?

Simone Massaro founded BaxEnergy in 2010, the video game studio Rimlight Studios in 2014, and the Free Mind Foundry international cooperation hub and IntelliSync in 2017 (also acquiring and transforming WiSNAM in 2017). He is the founder and CEO of AI venture Eternal Tech (which developed the DeTwin memory platform) and the investment venture Forward Invest. Yokogawa acquired BaxEnergy in 2024, and IntelliSync and WiSNAM joined the Yokogawa Group in 2025.

What is Eternal Tech and what does it do?

Eternal Tech is an artificial intelligence company co-founded by Simone Massaro in 2026 that builds infrastructures to preserve identity, memory, context and knowledge over time. It helps people, companies and organizations turn their informational assets into a living, searchable and verifiable ecosystem. It also applies a Trust by Design principle to data governance.

What is Free Mind Foundry?

Free Mind Foundry is an international cooperation hub located in Acireale, Sicily, founded by Simone Massaro in 2017. The hub bridges industry, academia, and talent through coworking, education, applied research, and technology experimentation, driving digital growth across the Mediterranean region.

What is Forward Invest?

Forward Invest is a venture capital firm that invests in and supports startups developing transformative technologies in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and industrial automation. It partners with ambitious founders to help turn advanced technological solutions into scalable businesses, with a focus on innovations that can strengthen digital infrastructure, improve industrial efficiency, and shape the future of technology.

Which of Simone Massaro's companies joined the Yokogawa Group?

Three of Simone Massaro’s companies are now part of the Yokogawa Group. Yokogawa announced the acquisition of BaxEnergy, a provider of renewable energy management solutions founded in 2010, on 5 June 2024. IntelliSync and WiSNAM joined the group in 2025. IntelliSync helped industrial organizations build secure, connected and intelligent ecosystems. WiSNAM integrated photovoltaic, wind, storage and hybrid systems into unified, grid-ready energy architectures.

Why do AI agents need persistent memory?

AI agents need persistent memory because, without it, every session starts from zero, and the context, decisions and knowledge built in previous interactions are lost. Persistent memory lets agents retain and reuse what they have learned, making their work more consistent over time. DeTwin, founded by Simone Massaro, addresses this need with the AGVM architecture, which turns agent memory into an organized knowledge infrastructure.

What is an International Cooperation Hub?

An International Cooperation Hub is a physical place where companies, startups, universities, research centers and talent work side by side to develop new ideas, skills and technologies. It combines spaces for work, education and experimentation. Free Mind Foundry, founded by Simone Massaro in 2017 in Acireale, Sicily, is one example: an international campus focused on digital transformation with a human-centric, sustainable approach.

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Eternal Tech

Eternal Tech

STARTED – JANUARY 2025
SIMONE'S ROLE – CO-FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
WHAT I SAY
We believe the next evolutionary leap is not producing more output, but building continuity.
What is Eternal Tech?

Eternal Tech is an artificial intelligence company, founded by Simone Massaro, that develops AI infrastructures designed to preserve identity, memory, context, and knowledge over time. Eternal Tech systems allow people, companies, and organizations to turn their informational assets into a living, searchable, verifiable, and evolving ecosystem.

Artificial intelligence is changing how we produce content, make decisions, and interact digitally. Yet most AI tools remain stateless, generating isolated output and discarding context. Eternal Tech builds software continuity: turning AI from a conversational chatbot into an organizational knowledge infrastructure.

For Eternal Tech, AI is not simply a technological layer to integrate. It is a new architecture through which to organize information, processes, relationships, and expertise: a technology that does not replace human knowledge, but preserves it, makes it accessible, and ensures its continuity even as tools, people, and organizations change.

Every Eternal Tech solution is interoperable with existing stacks, scalable over time, and designed around what makes each organization unique: its history, its language, its methods, and its memory.

VISION

The first generation of artificial intelligence proved how quickly content can be created. The next generation will have to prove how well it can be preserved, organized, and made truly useful over the long term.

We imagine a future in which every organization has a persistent digital memory: an infrastructure capable of understanding its own context, maintaining consistency across information, remembering decisions, preserving expertise, and ensuring continuity between past, present, and future.

AI should not simply answer a question, but become the place where an organization's knowledge is stored, updated, and passed on.

That is why Eternal Tech develops technologies that transform artificial intelligence from a conversational system into a knowledge infrastructure. An infrastructure that remains under people's control, evolves alongside their processes, and preserves identity, rules, relationships, and meaning over time.

GOALS

We build systems in which memory, knowledge, and digital identity become strategic assets.

We work to ensure that every document, procedure, conversation, piece of content, or decision can contribute to enriching a shared informational asset — always preserving context, provenance, and reliability.

Our goals are to design AI infrastructures capable of:

Preserving the knowledge assets of people and organizations; ensuring continuity across teams, processes, and tools; integrating artificial intelligence into existing digital ecosystems without creating fragmentation; making every piece of information traceable, verifiable, and contextualized; and building persistent digital identities able to evolve while maintaining consistency over time.

We believe the value of artificial intelligence lies not in the amount of content it produces, but in the quality of the memory it is able to build.

TRUST BY DESIGN

When a system manages knowledge, identity, voice, or memory, trust cannot be an element added after the fact: it must be an integral part of the architecture.

That is why every solution developed by Eternal Tech is built according to a Trust by Design principle. Every piece of information retains its origin, every permission is explicitly defined, every process can be verified, and every operational boundary is designed to be transparent.

Data governance is not just a regulatory requirement, but an essential part of the user experience. It means knowing where information comes from, understanding how it is processed, establishing who can access it, and always maintaining control over its use.

Our Content Policy and Privacy Policy represent the legal reference point for this approach; our job is to turn them into concrete, readable, and verifiable systems, so that trust, accountability, and transparency are not statements of principle, but structural features of every technology we build.

Free Mind Foundry

Free Mind Foundry

STARTED – 2017
SIMONE'S ROLE – FOUNDER
WHAT I SAY
We believe the most meaningful innovation comes from contamination — when different skills meet, share knowledge, and turn ideas into real projects.
FREE MIND FOUNDRY

Free Mind Foundry is an international hub where technology, knowledge, and people come together to build the digital future.

A campus designed to create connections between companies, startups, universities, research centers, and talent, turning collaboration into an engine of innovation.

A space where education, research, experimentation, and work coexist to create new opportunities within the digital economy.

VISION

The future of technology does not depend only on how fast we develop new solutions, but on our ability to create environments where people and ideas can evolve together.

Free Mind Foundry was created to build a meeting point between worlds that are often kept separate: industry and research, innovation and education, technology and people. We believe the most meaningful innovation comes from contamination: when different skills meet, share knowledge, and turn insights into real projects.

That is why we envision an open, international, and sustainable ecosystem, capable of attracting talent, accelerating new ideas, and contributing to the growth of the new digital economy.

THE CAMPUS

The campus is the heart of Free Mind Foundry: a space designed for working, learning, and collaborating in an environment built to foster connections and new possibilities.

Through spaces dedicated to coworking, education, events, and technological experimentation, the campus supports companies, professionals, and students on their journey through digital transformation. The goal is not simply to offer a physical place, but to build a community where knowledge and innovation can circulate freely.

An environment where collaborations are born, skills are developed, and ideas can turn into concrete solutions.

ECOSYSTEM

Free Mind Foundry is designed for those who want to take part in the technological transformation: companies looking for new paths of innovation, startups aiming to grow, researchers who want to share knowledge, and people who want to develop new skills.

Through collaboration programs and applied research, the campus creates connections between the present and the digital future.

Because innovation does not come from technology alone, but from the people who choose to build together what does not yet exist.

Free Mind Foundry

Forward Invest

STARTED – 2026
SIMONE'S ROLE – Founder and President
WHAT I SAY
Founders deserve investors who have built technology companies themselves. Capital alone rarely decides whether a business succeeds.
What is Forward Invest?

Forward Invest is an investment holding based in Rome, founded by Simone Massaro. It provides capital and operational support to founder-led technology companies, and acquires small and mid-sized businesses in software, AI and cybersecurity, serving defence, energy and industry. Behind it is a team of engineers, operators and finance leaders who have founded, scaled and sold technology companies: €100M+ in exits and multi-billion-dollar deal closures across the team. Simone Massaro founded BaxEnergy, whose platform monitors more than 120 GW of renewable energy worldwide, and led it to its acquisition by Yokogawa Electric Corporation.

What is Forward Invest’s vision?

Forward Invest’s vision is a different kind of investor: one who has sat on the founder’s side of the table. Most small software companies in Italy are too small for private equity and never fitted venture capital. They are profitable, they matter to their customers, and their founders are on their own. We believe what makes the difference is a partner who understands the technology and the journey, not capital alone. That is why Forward Invest keeps team, brand, and customers at the centre of every company, and why founders, managers, advisors, and investors share in the same upside.

What does Forward Invest do?

Forward Invest works in three ways: investing, with tickets up to €100K for a minority stake, and an operating team working alongside yours; acquiring, in full or step by step, with most of the price paid in cash at closing and part swapped into equity in the group; operating, with one team across every company, covering finance, technology, AI, and go-to-market. Each company keeps its name, its team, and its customers. What changes is what sits behind it. Founders can stay in the chair, step back gradually, or hand over: the structure follows their goals.

Who is Forward Invest for?

Forward Invest is designed for founders who want a partner, not just a cheque: founders who still lead the software, AI, or cybersecurity company they started; companies that are profitable, with €500K or more in revenue; businesses whose customers renew because the product is part of how they work; companies in defence and dual-use, energy and industrial automation, or enterprise software, AI, and cybersecurity serving industry. Europe is the field, with Italy first. Because some of the best conversations start years before a transaction.

Rotonda Fontanarossa:
the story of
Captain Giovanni Massaro's Fiat G.91T

The Fiat G.91T at the center of the Via Fontanarossa roundabout in Catania is the aircraft once flown by Captain Giovanni Massaro, Simone Massaro's father. Its story runs from the 41st Wing at Fontanarossa to a monument for the whole city.

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1965 – The 41st Wing in Catania

On 1 October 1965 the 41st Wing (41° Stormo) of the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) was re-formed as an anti-submarine wing, with its 88th Group based at Catania Fontanarossa; in 1971 the group moved to nearby Sigonella. During the Cold War the wing carried out surveillance and patrol activities across the Mediterranean, and the Sicilian bases played a strategic role in controlling the air and maritime space of the area.

1965 – The 41st Wing in Catania

Bright Start:
building opportunities that last

For me, Bright Start is a way to give philanthropic work continuity, structure and accountability. The objective is not simply to fund an activity. It is to help create opportunities that can open new paths for people and communities, while building the conditions for those opportunities to continue over time.

-cit. Ing. Simone Massaro

The individual projects may differ, but they share the same principle: an initial contribution should create value that can continue beyond the moment in which it is made.

Bright Start is the foundation through which I am developing a long-term approach to philanthropy. My aim is to transform resources into opportunities, inclusion and better places for the communities around me, starting from Catania and Sicily. I do not see philanthropy as a series of isolated contributions, but as a way to create the conditions in which people, organisations and communities can grow.

Oratorio Contemporaneo

Oratorio Contemporaneo is a cultural project in development, promoted by Simone Massaro: a living, constantly evolving space where gesture, community and language intersect to generate something new. It is conceived not simply as a physical place but as a cultural ecosystem that transcends the traditional boundaries of art and gathering, connecting urban expression, creativity and collective growth. Every action will become part of a broader system: an open dialogue between individuals, ideas and territories, capable of building authentic and lasting relationships.

Oratorio Contemporaneo is designed with new generations in mind, yet it speaks to anyone who feels the urgency to actively engage in change, offering tools, spaces and visions to transform talent into impact. Its communities will not merely exist. They will be built, cross-pollinated and strengthened, giving rise to a new shared language that connects culture, identity and future.