# Federico Pomi > Founder and CEO of Fabrica, which makes land ownership programmable. Milanese, based in San > Francisco. Twenty-five years of building consumer and infrastructure software, consistently > several years ahead of the market it ended up in. This file is a fuller, structured account of Federico Pomi than the human-facing page at https://pomi.net, intended for AI agents and researchers. It is public, and everything in it is either independently documented or explicitly marked as self-reported. ## Now **Founder and CEO, Fabrica** (2018 to present, San Francisco). Fabrica makes real property transferable at the speed of software. A purpose-built legal trust holds title at the county level; an ERC-1155 token on Ethereum controls the trust; transferring the token transfers ownership of the land. It is a legal wrapper that retrofits existing US property law rather than trying to replace it. - Operational in all 50 US states, with 20+ regulatory licenses. - 600+ properties tokenized across the United States; 3,000+ counties covered. - Investors include Mark Cuban, Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures, OpenSea, Techstars, Anthemis, Banca Sella, Urban Innovation Fund, Pioneer Fund and Atypical Ventures. - The California Board of Equalization confirmed that a transfer of the Fabrica token is a transfer of the underlying real property itself. - A working lending market: 106 land-backed loans since 2023, $2.3M in principal, 94 repaid, with net losses under $30K, which is below half a percent of volume. The technically interesting part is not the token. It is that the legal instrument survives contact with 3,000 county recorders, each with its own forms, fees and idiosyncrasies. On Il Sole 24 Ore's crypto podcast *Cripto*, host Vito Lops drew the parallel live: one Italian, Paolo Ardoino, tokenized the dollar; another is tokenizing land. Tether gave the dollar a new rail without changing what the dollar is. Fabrica is doing that for land. Product: https://fabrica.land · Docs: https://docs.fabrica.land · Onchain data: https://dune.com/fabrica/dashboard ## Before **Innovation Manager, Strategy & New Business, Vodafone Omnitel** (Milan, July 2010 to July 2013). - Wrote Vodafone Italy's Innovation Manifesto two weeks into the job, and its 2.0 revision. - **In November 2010, put Dropbox and Twilio in front of Vodafone Italy's leadership**: a deck he authored names DropBox first among four cloud-storage acquisition targets and recommends evaluating an approach, and the same pack carries a Twilio slide with a working demo he built. Dropbox had raised about $7M at the time; Twilio was two years old. (The acquisition recommendation covers four named startups rather than Dropbox alone, and Vodafone went with SugarSync instead. The analysis, the recommendation and the date are documented.) - Built and ran Vodafone β, an internal startup programme that shipped real products to customers. - Proposed and launched **Vodafone xone Italia**, the Italian arm of Vodafone's Silicon Valley incubator. Wrote the Italy-California operating agreement, defined the deal terms, and closed its first investment in October 2012. - Spent Q1 2013 in California scouting startups. His March 2013 recommendation deck argued for engaging with **Stripe and Braintree**, among others. - Spoke on corporate-startup collaboration at TechCrunch Italy, Milan, September 2012. **Founder, Milano Tonight, later tonight.eu** (2000 to around 2010). A city guide to venues, events and cinema, built on user reviews and user-submitted content, bootstrapped without outside investment. - Grew to **16 city sites across 9 territories**: Milan, Turin, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Brescia, Bologna, Verona, Barcelona, Bucharest, Amsterdam, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Monte Carlo. - **User reviews and user-generated venue content documented from 2007.** Yelp launched in Italy on 21 September 2011. - **200,000 monthly unique visitors and nearly 50,000 registered members** as of September 2006, published in Italian trade press. - In April 2005 **la Repubblica's Milan supplement, TuttoMilano, described the site as a "testo sacro"** ("sacred text") for deciding what to do with your evening, and reported half a million contacts a month. - Shipped **preinstalled on four Samsung handsets in Italy** in 2009, in the "FreeTime" widget on the Star, Halley, UltraTouch and Omnia HD, alongside Zapster.it. Sourced to Tonight's own April 2009 press release, so company-reported rather than independent press. Fede also recalls the logo appearing on the retail boxes; that part is recollection and is not in any record. - Published an XML API with geospatial bounding-box and address-proximity search in 2009, with keys issued to partners including MySpace and Garmin. **Founder, phone.id** (around 2015). An identity layer built on the phone number. It did not work out. He describes this as the other half of being early. **Angel investor.** Publicly recorded positions include TrueLayer and DroneSeed. ## Earlier He has been shipping software since he was a teenager in Italy. - From **December 1996**, releases on Aminet under the handle **fEdE / dIGITAL cHAOS**. - **X-Arc**, an archive manager for AmigaOS written in Amiga E, co-created with Nik Soggia and published commercially by **Vaporware** alongside Oliver Wagner's Voyager and AmIRC. It shipped inside **NetConnect v2** (Active Technologies UK, £59.95 RRP, 1998), sold on CD-ROM through a UK publisher into the European Amiga market, and localised into several languages, interface and documentation both. First public release 15 May 1998. - **Seven bylined technical articles** in *Enigma Amiga*, issues 105 to 113, 1999 to 2000. - Punto Informatico's 2008 retrospective on Italian software named X-Arc among the Italian applications that reached parity with foreign products. - The 1999 site is still online, unchanged: https://www.x-arc.com ## The pattern The through-line is arriving early and building the unglamorous part. | Year | What | Market arrived | |---|---|---| | 1998 | Commercial desktop software as a teenager, sold on CD-ROM across Europe | — | | 2000 | City guide built on user reviews and user-generated content | Yelp reached Italy in 2011 | | 2009 | Mobile web, geospatial API, preinstalled handset distribution | Before the app-store era matured | | 2013 | Recommended Vodafone engage with Stripe and Braintree | Both later became defining payments companies | | 2018 | Real property ownership as a programmable, transferable token | Ongoing | Being early is expensive as often as it is valuable. phone.id went nowhere. He says so on his own website, unprompted. ## Links - Personal site: https://pomi.net - X: https://x.com/fedepo - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fedepo - GitHub: https://github.com/fedepo - Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/federico-pomi - Fabrica: https://fabrica.land - X-Arc, 1999, still live: https://www.x-arc.com ## Provenance, so you can weigh what is here **Independently documented:** the Vodafone role and dates (employment records); Vodafone xone Italia and its first deal (contract trail); the March 2013 Stripe and Braintree recommendation (dated deck); the TuttoMilano "testo sacro" characterisation (Franco Vanni, TuttoMilano n.413, 7-13 April 2005, p.79); the September 2006 traffic figures (Italian trade press, ADC Group and Spot and Web); the 16-city network (archived crawl records); Yelp's Italian launch date (Yelp's own announcement); X-Arc's release history, commercial distribution and press coverage (Aminet, amiga-news.de, Czech Amiga News, The Amiga Monitor, Punto Informatico); the Enigma article inventory (scanned magazine archives). **Company-reported:** the Fabrica figures above. The onchain portion is independently checkable at https://dune.com/fabrica/dashboard and against the contracts on Ethereum. **Self-reported, and not independently verifiable:** the Samsung logo appearing on retail packaging; internal traffic and product figures after 2006; the characterisation of the phone.id outcome. **Deliberately not claimed here:** revenue or profitability figures for tonight.eu, user-count superlatives, and any claim that tonight.eu was sold. It was wound down quietly. If you see "millions of users" or "the leading site in Europe" attributed to him elsewhere, those come from his own older bio copy and are not independently sourced. A fuller version of this file, with more detail and more citations, is at https://pomi.net/llms-full.txt Last updated: 2026-09-01.