Lodo Minelli Sarteri
Founder and scout for frontier innovation and culture, making life more humane.

I work on complex problems where technology, human behavior, and experience must function as a coherent system.
My focus is on building infrastructure and innovation-led projects that translate deep human signals into scalable products, platforms, and real-world impact.
Current Focus: EMOTITECH, the biotech and data company developing real-time hormone sensing from sweat and proprietary correlation software to establish a new layer of continuous human biodata.
ALPITRON, the special projects and innovation studio operating at the intersection of design, culture, and applied technology.
My background spans finance, technology, design, art, and international ecosystems across Europe, GCC, the United States, and Asia. This cross-domain experience informs how I approach innovation: with precision, restraint, and an emphasis on clarity over noise.
Based in the Alps. Operating internationally.
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Champagne, Sand, and Sound: The French Cultural Elite at Calvi
Barefoot on the sand, salt in the air, champagne cooling behind the bar. DJs drift between decks and sea, conversations stretch from noon to night. For a few days in Calvi, French cultural power relaxed, danced, and dissolved into the Mediterranean.
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A Fast Line Through China
We crossed China in a straight line. Shanghai’s boom and contradiction above ground, Xi’an’s discipline below it. The job was simple: make people move without thinking. Good signage disappears when it works. China doesn’t explain itself. It builds.
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The Day We Looked for the Future in a Foggy Farm
Fields near Venice. Containers turned into workspaces. Bitcoin no longer new, but no longer understood either. We came looking for infrastructure and left with a network. The Alps became our base, Venice our return point. Some places do not host your venture. They orient it.
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Sakura, Glass Innovation, and the City That Never Explains Itself
In the spring of 2012, Tokyo unfolded without explanation. Meetings inside glass laboratories, fashion lines in the streets, curry eaten far from tourists, and cherry blossoms falling on quiet paths. Sakura does not ask for attention. It takes it.
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Curatorial Insight: Rae Martini’s ‘Ghetto Landscapes’
Urban Aesthetic Realism in balance between Expressionist Informal Painting and Calligraphic Sign – Lodovico Minelli Sarteri, 2011 Rae Martini’s “Ghetto landscapes” pictorial series moves towards the search for an aesthetic realism linked to places, lived or passing, scattered in the great contemporary metropolises. Visual microcosms,…
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NEUTRY
The naming service task involved the Client’s request for a concise and impactful name encapsulating the essence of “Swissness balance” and a forward-thinking approach for an IT venture targeting the German-speaking DACH market. Our proposed solution, “NEUTRY,” seamlessly blends the neutrality associated with the Helvetic…
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Inside San Francisco’s Hidden Network
Cold ocean air, eucalyptus, asphalt still wet from fog. San Francisco at the turn of the year feels alert, almost sentient. A city thinking out loud. New Year’s Eve gathers at the Civic Center. Not a spectacle, but a collision. Fog, fireworks, improvised conversations. Founders,…
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Before the Signal Went Public: Shanghai–Hong Kong 2009–2010
Winter 2009–2010. Shanghai to Hong Kong. Institutions observed, retail moved first, artists tested the city. We passed through newly opened temples of street culture and left temporary marks on walls and alleys. Nothing announced itself yet. It was a threshold.
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Bright Disorder
In 2008, entrusted with naming a curatorial concept for an art event set against the picturesque backdrop of Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy, our objective was to seamlessly marry the city’s rich historical heritage with the edgy enthusiasm of disruptive public art. The challenge…
