Risparmio Super raises 400k

Catania, October 3, 2011 - Reality of award-winning Italian start-ups that hold high the banner of creativity on the web of our country, Super Saver (www.risparmiosuper.it) today announced the acquisition of a loan of 400 thousand euros, which will launch a further phase of its growth and expansion on foreign markets.
This funding, announced today in Catania during a press conference held by President of the Province Giuseppe Castiglione, who believed in the project shows the thirty-five Messina Barbara Labate entrepreneur and expert web Italo-Israeli Zion Nahum are the local institutions. The funds will enable the company to start expanding abroad in fact come from Zernike Meta Ventures, Italian-Dutch joint venture that manages the fund dedicated to Ingenium Province of Catania's most innovative companies in the province, and LVenture, venture capitalists manager EnLabs incubator.
And so can now look to Super Savings States, retracing in reverse the path that led from Barbara Masters at Columbia University - during which the need to save time and money on everyday spending has led it to be Super Savings first idea - to return to Italy, meeting with Zion and the launch of their web company, which compares the prices of hypermarkets and supermarkets in Italy to help save up to 1000 per year on spending.
Super Saver - which is based in Milan and Catania - Italian is now the only site that analyzes and compares 45 of retail brands in a widespread manner, by monitoring more than 10,000 stores and comparing prices of daily food, hygiene products, consumer electronics and appliances. The idea is a winner and was rewarded by the consumers to whom it provides a valuable service: the site's members grew from 30 thousand www.risparmiosuper.it to over 100 thousand over the past two months. These numbers make Super Savings on the domestic market the absolute leader of online comparison of food.
Thanks to their creativity and initiative, Barbara and Zion had already made international attention, winning the Plug & Play 2011 International Expo in Silicon Valley, an international event dedicated to the best start-ups, is among the winners Mind the Bridge 2010, which honors the Italian companies with the most promising and innovative business plans.
"Our goal is to identify companies able to add value to the ecosystem Italian industry, which in the long term, have the ability to transform into sustainable innovation for our country. Certainly the growth potential of Super Saver is very high, because in a simple and innovative answers to the practical need for savings that affects a very wide audience: a real service to the consumer which can be given the opportunity to move with intelligence and awareness in mare magnum of promotional offers, "said Luigi Capello, founder of LVenture.
Building on the success obtained in Italy, the company is now looking to expand internationally; Barbara and Zion have very clear what are their strategies for the future: "This funding will allow us to offer our users an even more complete and accurate: between our goals is also to increase the outlets monitored, to ensure a more widespread presence on Italian territory, "said Barbara Labate, founder and Head of Business Development at Super Savings. "Moreover, within the first quarter of 2012, we plan to land on the international market with the launch of the portal in Europe and the U.S.," said Zion Nahum, Founder and Chief Marketing Super Savings.