CASSANDRA S.R.L.

๐Ÿ“‚ Software Enterprise๐Ÿ“ Milano๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Founded: 2023

Marketing measurement platform integrating marketing mix modelling, incrementality testing, and always-on measurement to optimise media spend allocation.

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About CASSANDRA S.R.L.

Marketing investment decisions have long been complicated by a fundamental measurement problem: in a world where customers encounter a brand through dozens of different channels โ€” paid search, social media, television, out-of-home, email, influencer content, organic search โ€” how do you know which part of your marketing is actually driving results? The attribution models that have dominated digital marketing measurement for years are built on simplified assumptions about customer journeys that frequently misrepresent reality, allocating credit to the last click or the most recent touchpoint rather than to the full sequence of influences that actually drove a conversion. Cassandra was built to replace those oversimplifications with something genuinely rigorous. The platform integrates three complementary approaches to marketing measurement into a single environment: marketing mix modelling, incrementality testing, and always-on incrementality measurement. Each addresses a different dimension of the measurement challenge, and together they provide a comprehensive, scientifically defensible picture of how marketing investment is actually creating business outcomes. Marketing mix modelling provides a statistical decomposition of how different channels and tactics have contributed to business outcomes over time, accounting for the many non-marketing factors โ€” seasonality, pricing changes, competitive activity, macroeconomic conditions โ€” that affect sales and making it possible to isolate the specific contribution of each marketing input. This retrospective view allows marketers to understand the relative effectiveness of their past investment decisions and to model how future budget allocation changes would affect overall performance. Incrementality testing establishes through controlled experiments what the causal impact of specific marketing interventions actually has been โ€” the genuine lift attributable to a campaign or channel, measured against a comparable control group rather than inferred through attribution modelling. This causal rigour is what separates meaningful measurement from the correlation-based analysis that has historically been sold as attribution. Always-on incrementality extends this experimental approach to a continuous monitoring capability, giving marketing teams an ongoing read of what is and is not working without waiting for a quarterly modelling cycle or commissioning a one-off experiment. The result is a measurement infrastructure that operates at the speed of marketing decision-making rather than lagging behind it. Cassandra is designed for the leading marketing teams across every sector that makes substantial data-informed media investments. The platform is built to deliver rigorous measurement capability without requiring the intensive technical expertise that previous implementations of marketing mix modelling have demanded. The growth strategy is built on partnerships and ecosystem development, making scientific marketing measurement accessible to the organisations that need it most.

The Story

Founded by Gabriele Franco and Cristian Nozzi in 2023, Cassandra.app replaces outdated attribution models with AI-powered Marketing Mix Modelling and Incrementality Testing, analyzing over โ‚ฌ500 million in ad spend across 60+ global clients. Founded in 2023, Cassandra.app has achieved โ‚ฌ1 million ARR in 16 ... What is Cassandra.app? Cassandra.app was founded in 2023 and is led by co-founder and CEO Gabriele Franco.

How CASSANDRA S.R.L. works

Business Model

B2B model based on services and customized solutions for businesses.

Revenue Model

Revenue from the sale of products or services online.

Products & Services

Key Products

  • soluzioni sul mercato che richiedono competenze tecniche intensive per essere sfruttate

Market & Clients

Key Customers

Chosen by leading marketing teams, designed for every data-driven sector.

Geographic Presence

ITCH

How CASSANDRA S.R.L. competes

Competitive Advantages

  • Ability to customize the offering based on customer needs.
  • Declared technological differentiation on the product.

How CASSANDRA S.R.L. grows

Growth Strategy

The growth strategy appears to be linked to partnerships and ecosystem development.

Distribution Model

Digital distribution through the website and online channels.

Moat (Defensibility)

The defendable advantage seems to rely on proprietary technology or know-how.

Funding & Investors

Funding Rounds

  • 2023 - Seed: โ‚ฌ2M
  • - Seed: EUR 2 m
  • 2023 - Seed: โ‚ฌ2M
  • 2023 - Other: 2 m
  • 2023 - Seed: โ‚ฌ2 M

Key Investors

Italian Founders FundPitchDriveWebrankingItalian Founders Fund. InvestorsBelgium

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