Thounds

Thounds is a music collaboration social network born in 2009.

The service is free and simple, registered users can record their music inspiration and share with friends.

Thounds gives way to inspiration, by cutting the recording process to a simple action.
Users can record and share their music ideas very easily because third applications or soundcards are not required, hence people will record live instead of uploading audio files.

Francesco Fraioli
Founder / Product Manager

Was born in 1983 and grew up studying art in Venice and drawing comics.

His biggest passion is music. Francesco studied visual communication and multimedia at the Department of Art and Design at the Iuav University of Venice, focusing his interests on courses of Interaction Design, held by Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor, where he realized the potential of the computer, especially

He graduated in April 2008 with a thesis project which involved the design and implementation of a social network to enable music collaboration over the web. In June of that year, Francesco presented his thesis in H-Farm: here begins the collaboration that gave birth to Thounds.

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Davide Bartolucci
H-Farm venture partner

Davide Bartolucci is an H-Farm venture partner, branding and entertainment specialist, he has always worked on communication, internet and digital media projects.

He is now founder and CEO for SHADO (an internet TV company) and has brought his valuable experience to Thounds, by outlining the strategy and the business model for the start up stage.

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Gian Maria Girardi
Content Manager

Born in Bologna and raised in Treviso, he got a degree in Statistics and Information Technology at the University of Venice in 1998.

His career begins in the mid Nineties as a teenage tour manager, then web developer, later he has been a founder and project manager for Kubera (first Italian Internet Café network with 300 affiliates the first year), again project manager for a couple of financial portals, chief editor and communication manager for MUG a fashion magazine, Mathematics teacher and international DJ.

He never formed a band and he loves Fawlty Towers.

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Massimo Casagrande
Interaction Designer

Was born in 1980, he has always been passionate for technology since the advent of PC, through the Internet years and to the mobile device with a particular focus on making user experience easy.

He earned a B.Tech. in ICT followed by a degree in Visual Communication and Multimedia at IUAV University of Venice.

Constantly fed by hundreds blog posts, tweets and notifications he is always up to date with the most recent (and probably future as well) news about web 2.0 services and new technologies.

Being a vinyls collector and a DJ, he also loves to take his family on Vespa trips. However living in a digital era, he shows a true passion for all things vintage.