Italy's first privacy-respecting early-warning system for child digital safety. We analyze patterns, not content.
Adults disguise themselves as peers. Average grooming period: 3 weeks before parents notice.
1 in 3 EU children have been bullied online. Most never tell a parent.
62% of teens use devices past midnight. Linked to anxiety, depression, and academic decline.
Current tools either read private messages (illegal in the EU) or do nothing. NovaGuardian solves this.
Metadata only. No message reading. No screenshots. Compliant with GDPR and the EU Children's Code.
Tracks usage patterns — time, frequency, app context — never content.
Rules + ML model flags anomalies: late-night spikes, unusual contact patterns.
Clean mobile app. Safety score, alerts, trend graphs. Actionable, not alarming.
Safeguarding leads see aggregated risk signals across the whole student body.
Lightweight app on the child's device. Shows it's active. No hidden spying.
“We monitor patterns, not content. Parents see risk signals, not private conversations.”
How NovaGuardian compares to the leading parental-monitoring tools on the market today.
| Feature | NovaGuardian | Bark (US) | Helmit (EU) | Qustodio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy-first (metadata only) | ✓ | ✗ | Partial | ✗ |
| No message reading | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| School dashboard | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| EU GDPR / AADC compliant | ✓ | ✗ | Partial | Partial |
| Italian / EU market focus | ✓ | ✗ | Partial | ✗ |
We're starting with children aged 8 to 18, expanding to young adults, and eventually integrating hardware devices for home and school networks. NovaGuardian is designed to become a national infrastructure for child protection — ready to grow in Italy and across Europe.
500 families onboarded, app stores live.
€18M SOM in 18 months — once funded, we move fast.
Deepening government partnerships across the EU.
Hardware safety layer launches.
Expansion toward young-adult digital wellbeing.
Metadata only. No message reading. No screenshots. Designed around GDPR and the EU Children's Code.
Data-minimization architecture from day one — we collect metadata, never message content.
Designed around Age-Appropriate Design Code principles for under-18 users.
Legal research underway, guided by Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) requirements.
No message reading, no screenshots, no stored conversations — by architecture, not policy.
Our pre-seed strategy is grants-first: we prioritize non-dilutive funding through Italian and EU programs — PoliHub, innovation grants — to build and validate before raising further capital. Equity is a tool we use deliberately, not by default.
Investor and incubator introductions are welcomed and appreciated.
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