Author: Anna Perozzi

Post your steps during the day, collect points and win medical services!

Are you out with your four-legged friend? Are you shopping through the streets of the city centre? Or are you a marathon runner training? Walking is a daily gesture that can help maintain our health, but we are often unaware of it.

This is why, with the Mauriziano Hospital in Turin, we are creating an app to help people with cardiovascular problems, based on the simple act of walking.

Collaborate with us on the project to help us win the “La prevenzione scorre” (“prevention runs”) contest.

Only by winning the contest will we be able to create the app!

How to help us

Post on Facebook a photo of the km/miles covered during the day (for example with a screenshot of the Health app) and remember to insert the tag of the initiative @la prevenzione scorre, the hashtag #scorre18 and the movement mode: #bike or #foot

The project

Walking is an activity that is good for cardiovascular health and it is less practiced by those who need it most. An American study on 30,000 subjects indicates the activity of walking is less practiced among those with risk factors (obesity, diabetes / dyslipidaemia, hypertension) or suffering from cardiovascular disease.

To encourage people to change their lifestyle, we have devised a strategy that is based on rewarding the steps taken during the day. The steps are calculated by a free App, “MindStep”, which updates the results in real time, shows the history of your progress, creates a ranking of the most active “walkers” and converts the amount of steps collected into points that you can spend in health bonuses.

A simple walk can, for instance, give access to a cardiological and nutritional counselling aimed at prevention, or athletic and osteopathic therapy to correct and prevent activity-limiting disorders, or a workshop in breathing techniques and autonomous training.

Thanks to the App, people can have the increased perception that even a simple daily gesture like walking translates into a real gain in health and savings for medical examinations, as well as an effective method of prevention.

We want to promote interactive, new and informed health education. In this way, the health programme becomes an extended educational tool that provides handy examples, testimonials, and reminders of virtuous behaviour through push notifications, verification of the strategic detail of one’s lifestyle and video-recordings of the breathing techniques taught during the autonomous training day. Combined with the game-like functionality of the App and sharing on social networks, this supports those who start to change their lifestyle and rewards those who are already active, encouraging them to do well and feel better.

The Barcellona Trading Conference: for Young Platform an opportunity to learn about the latest developments of the technology and to network with internetional experts.

On the 10th and the 11th of July, the Crypto-Industry leaders will gather inside the CCIB in Barcelona for the Barcelona Trading Conference (BTC).

Key players from every branch of the industry are going to attend: innovators, opinion leaders, brokers, exchanges, digital tech companies, but also banks and institutions. The event aims, in fact, to allow the adoption of crypto-assets by the institutions, and the attendance of the main representatives of the Catalan government (one of the top sponsors) is a guarantee of this. The crypto world doesn’t intend to remain a niche-sector, instead, it is opening up and interacting with the “old world”, and someone out there seems to be listening.

Among the numerous international participants, you’re going to find also Young Platform, represented on site by Diego D’Aquilio, CMO at Young Platform, who will have the chance to network with other experts and professionals in the field, to attend workshops about the latest developments of the technology and discussions on the hottest topics.

The conference promotes the exchange of visions between people coming from a vast range of career backgrounds and cultures, consequently stimulating the progress and expansion of the industry.

The goal is to find new ways for crypto-assets to interlock with the economical and financial systems in force, in a way that may benefit both parties, multiplying the chances and resources at all levels of business, from SMEs to state policies.

Young Platform looks at the international community: in London in one of the most important FinTech networks.

Young Platform opens up its third office in London at the launch of the equity crowdfunding on Seedrs, the English fundraising platform specialised in startups.

Since the 17^th of June, investors have had access to the Public phase of the Young Platform fundraising campaign, which achieved the target of €500,000 in only 36 hours. The campaign is now overfunding with over 450 investors.

As a conclusion to this round, and with a view to internationalisation and market expansion, Young Platform has chosen Level 39.

Located in the middle of one of the world’s most important financial districts and the iconic One Canada Square, Level 39 is Europe’s largest FinTech incubator, which is home to many companies such as Revolut.

“Level 39 is an opportunity for Young to build a solid network of FinTech partners within the international market,” explains Diego D’Aquilio, CMO of Young Platform, “this will make the company’s growth faster and more effective.”

We are deeply convinced that the world of cryptocurrencies represents a form of financial freedom and everyone should be able to access it. With this goal in mind, our Operations Team is constantly working on international expansion, also by hiring international professionals to complete and consolidate the team.

Owned wholly by the Canary Wharf Group, Level 39 launched in March 2013. Since then, Level 39 has grown from a simple idea into a three-floor, 80,000 square foot community space occupying the 39th, 24th and 42nd floors of One Canada Square.

Today Level 39 is a community of 1,250 people, which are part of 220 companies from 48 nations, leaders in Cybersecurity,  FinTech and Retail Tech, a community that is shaping the future of finance and technology. In 2017 the members of Level39 have raised £100 million in investment.

“We are trying to make the world of cryptocurrency accessible to everyone” concludes Diego D’Aquilio CMO of Young Platform, “and we’re proud to be part of an ecosystem like Level 39, a place that reflects our values and goals.