Scientists, engineers and builders.

Giulio Coluccia is the CEO and co-founder of ToothPic. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2009. After the PhD, he worked as a PostDoc researcher within the Image Processing and Learning group, being involved in several flagship research projects funded by the European Commission, like the ERC StG “CRISP” and the PoC “ToothPic”. During the latter, he worked on the Technology Transfer process that led to the foundation of the startup ToothPic, where now he works full-time as CEO since 2018.

Enrico Magli is a Full Professor at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of Politecnico di Torino, and the President of ToothPic. He leads the IPL (Image Processing and Learning) group, performing research in the fields of machine learning, forensics and security, image and video processing and compression. He has been the Principal Investigator of the “CRISP” ERC Starting Grant project and the “ToothPic” ERC Proof-of-Concept project, with combined funding exceeding 1.5 M Euros; the ERC assigns grants to top-level scientists for frontier research projects. During his career, he has published more than 230 articles on international high-reputation journals, international conference papers, books or chapters of books, receiving more than 5000 citations. He is an IEEE Fellow and has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has received several journal and conference best paper awards.

Diego Comina is an Executive Leader with over 20 years of experience driving P&L results, digital transformation, and B2B tech growth. Having served as Chief Product & Growth Officer and Advisory Board Member at ToothPic, he led product repositioning, GTM strategy, operations, and fundraising to scale the cybersecurity start-up from early stage to commercial growth. His background spans launching multi-million-dollar AI products at General Electric to scaling deep-tech ventures and securing strategic corporate partnerships. Currently, he serves as Founder & CEO of Ilumina and Venture Partner at Obloo VC, applying his expertise in AI commercialization and product governance to accelerate high-impact technologies.

Tiziano Bianchi is a co-founder of ToothPic and currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received the Ph.D. degree in information and telecommunication engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in 2005. After working as a Research Assistant at the University of Florence, he joined Politecnico di Torino in 2012, as an Assistant Professor. His research has led to over 100 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings in the field of multimedia security technologies and multimedia forensics.

Diego Valsesia is a co-founder of ToothPic and currently an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research activities focus on artificial intelligence, including deep learning techniques for computer vision and remote sensing. During his PhD he worked on making Photo Response Non-Uniformity fingerprints usable on large scales and in real-time applications thanks to efficient compression and processing algorithms.

Cristiano Palazzi is a full-stack developer and software engineer at ToothPic. He got the MSc. from Politecnico di Torino in 2019 and the BSc from the University of Sannio in 2015. He joined ToothPic in October, 2018, where he works mainly (but not only) to develop ToothPic’s algorithms on mobile platforms.

Roberto Della Marina is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Venture Factory srl, and sits in the Board of ToothPic. Previously he has been Head of AlAdInn Ventures Fund of Friulia Veneto Sviluppo SGR SpA as well as Deputy Chairman of AREA Science Park – an Italian National Research body – and of Innovation Factory, its first mile company incubator. After one decade of experience in Switzerland where he managed several Business, in 2003 he accepted the position of VP Business Development and Director of Technology Innovation of Olivetti I-Jet SpA (Ivrea, TO). In 2007 he became General Manager of the Cluster in Molecular Biomedicine of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a public-private initiative focused on linking together research centers, companies, institutions and financing bodies in the field of personalized medicine. He holds a Laurea cum laude in Physics from the University of Trieste and a Ph.D. in Physics from ETH Zürich (CH). In 2015 has been awarded with the AIFI-EY “Claudio Dematté Award – Private Equity of the Year” in the category Early-Stage for the Vivabiocell exit. He serves as Board Member in several companies and foundations.

Rajesh Sharma provides invaluable strategic guidance for our international expansion. He is an early-stage investor in Deeptech startups through Telsun (2016-Present), focusing on climate risk mitigation, cybersecurity, IoT, and AI. He serves on the advisory boards of Airth and ToothPic, both disruptive technology companies. Earlier in his career, he successfully led a turnaround for a Euronext-listed telecom software company, achieving significant revenue and market cap growth. In addition, Rajesh led successful international business initiatives and managed 400M$ business in Europe, Middle East and Africa.