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In November 2020 they registered the idea, concentrated their team and began to rotate through 150 investment funds.

Giulia Acchioni

, a 23-year-old Italian-Spanish, and

Irina Gheorghiu,

a 24-year-old Hispanic-Romanian, brought the embryo of the

startup

that sells phone cards to those who had the money to develop it.

Both lower the average age of the sector, occupied by yuppies, programmers or engineers in their forties.

They are the youngest in the ecosystem in the city.

"It was the perfect time for us.

We have time and the right age to get on this roller coaster »

, intervenes Irina.

"We call their attention," adds Giulia.

"We got funding from four funds."

They met in Brussels, at school.

Later, «we went to England to study.

We always kept in touch.

And we arrived in Madrid to undertake.

It has opened many doors for us.

In this city, things are made easy for entrepreneurs.

It's all the atmosphere here

,' says Giulia, who studied economics at the University of Kent and a master's degree in environmental management at the University of Hong Kong.

Now, she has an MBA from the EAE business school.

«Many friends ask us why we chose Madrid and not Valencia.

Honestly, they have the best incubators.

Growth occurs in Madrid," explains Irina, who studied a double degree in Politics and Economics at the University of Bath and a master's degree in Digital Transformation and Leadership at the ESCP business school.

During a trip to a faraway destination, they were fed up with waiting their turn to buy a new phone card.

“You do 14-hour trips.

Afterwards, you must queue at 40 degrees to buy the SIM and change it on the mobile.

It is not practical.

We thought that with the amount of technological advances it was impossible that there was not a solution.

We did not investigate it.

And we realized that the technology existed "that allows combining several mobile plans in the same terminal and" it was not being used.

iPhone without card

"The next iPhone will not have a SIM card," they advance.

Their app, Zim Connections, "is not connected to any carrier.

You can combine up to five different plans.

Right now I have an English contract and a Spanish contract on the same smartphone”, says Giulia.

She and Irina decided to focus the idea on tourism.

“We have agreements with local operators in each country.

You can hire their service in advance and activate it the day you arrive in the other country.

We are working with eSIM technology.

Basically, with our application we will offer digital plans to tourists from all over the world.”

They are sheltered in Demium, "the best startup incubator in southern Europe", and are negotiating with Vodafone to implement the idea.

“We see a very good response.

We can act as intermediaries to sell a product from which they also do not make much profit»

.

The target audience is “pretty young.

They grew up with these technologies.

The older population will have time to adapt”, basically because there will be no other option.

Telecommuting has widened Zim's potential circle of clients.

“We want to give connectivity to the nomadic public that changes countries while working.

In less than a week we will have the application ready for Android and in three for iOS.

We focus on the moment of planning the trip.

What do you need?

Can you use the mobile?

Our application offers different options that you can contract weeks before, for example, landing.

The two pioneering little women raised in a liquid world, covered in screens and online, understood that the most interesting things in life still happen in person.

Analog wins again: “We introduced ourselves through LinkedIn.

We had many digital meetings.

But the big deals, where money was talked about, we close in person.

Physical contact is important.

It's still important."

DNA

They have obtained financing from four investment funds l They take advantage of a technology available since 2016 l They are the youngest in the sector l They met in Brussels

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