Oimmei was born in Livorno from an idea of its 4 founding partners and IT professionals: Luca Finocchiaro, Simone Figlié, Andrea Fastame and Ephraim Pepe. It was born out of friendship and a mutual appreciation that begun in school and university, the essential ingredient for the creation of such a strong and cohesive team. It is born from 4 professionals with different backgrounds who, after the long economic crisis of 2008, started talking about their dissatisfaction with the present and the potential of the future.
We couldn’t even afford a garage where we could work together, so we begun working from our kitchen tables.
Then, in winter of 2014, we rented a 2 by 3 room in the suburbs. A small, big change.
That year was decisive for the creation of our company. In fact, with the project “Europeana Beacon” we won the Hackaton organized by the Polo Tecnologico of Navacchio with Europeana, a foundation promoting the collaboration of museums, archives, collections of media and libraries across Europe.
Thanks to this victory we had the opportunity to participate to the Future Everything Festival, an event hosting debates and conferences about the future of technology that takes place every year in Manchester, where the Europeana Beacon project got its chance to shine. All of that contributed to highlighting the potential of the group, both online and on the main local media; from this we got the first contact with important local organizations and also with international players.
These international and European level successes were an important acknowledgement of our work and gave us the push we needed to take a defining step: Oimmei became more than a brand and turned into a real company, officially constituted in February 2015 with € 2,50 of capital from each of us. A date that marked a significant milestone for all our team members but that, at the same time, was the starting point for a new professional experience.
And now we owe you an answer to the question everyone asks: why “Oimmei”? It’s a typical interjection from Livorno expressing a particular emotional state – impatience, effort, lamentation – in a very concise way. A name that evidently does not follow the naming rules of standard communication. But for us the name signifies redemption, a break from and an intolerance towards a certain way of seeing the digital world and software development, and in a way it’s our Livornese version of Yahoo!
From that moment on every day has been a challenge: we were born as a creative study, we were acknowledged as a Startup and were incubated until 2019 by the Polo Tecnologico, of which, once finished our acceleration program, we became partners.
From a Startup, we consolidated ourselves as a small digital boutique until we became a company capable of offering services of consultancy, development and support to the growth of a company for the most vital digital aspects.
There was a lot of work and just as much satisfaction and success. Among them we like to remember our victory of the provincial and then regional selection of the Premio Cambiamenti CNA which led us to present one of our projects in the national finals, where we were chosen with 19 other Italian Startups among the 859 participating companies to demonstrate the innovation of our solutions.
From Oimmei, in 2023 is born Oimmei Digital Consulting Srl, a highly innovative industrial reality. Change doesn’t scare us, throughout our history we have increased the workforce of our team and changed 4 headquarters, but we feel like we’ve only just began walking a bigger path.A highly innovative industrial reality