RENAISSANCE BY DESIGN

We Turn European
Heritage Into
Global Leadership

Europe-focused Transformation and Development Studio.
Building tomorrow's household brands.

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About Altars

Ancient Wisdom.
Future Execution.

We stand at a cultural inflection point. While Silicon Valley chases exits and disruption, Europe's industrial and cultural icons are being systematically dismantled. We refuse to watch Europe's industrial soul get commoditized.

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The Problem

Legacy businesses lack fast, outcome-driven transformation partners who understand European market dynamics and cultural heritage. Traditional consultancies optimize for global templates, not regional competitive advantages.

02

The Opportunity

€300B+ in European funding flows toward reshoring, climate goals, digitalization, and cultural IP preservation. Gen-Z is turning away from corporate monoculture, yearning for authenticity and ancestral roots.

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Our Solution

We fuse artisanal craftsmanship with rapid execution. AI made execution at scale readily achievable, but knowing what to build and how is the real advantage. Taste and distribution are the only moats left.

10-30
Day Transformation Sprints
€2-5B
Addressable Market
500+
European Family Offices
15%+
Annual Market Growth
Our Studio

Our Studio

Headquartered in Turin, with two collaborative hubs in Paris and Oslo. We sit at the center of a vast network of designers, developers, product strategists, marketers, and various field experts. Ready to serve your needs.

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Our Founder

Our Founder

Altars Studio is born from the vision of its founder Marcus Robilotta. After a decade as a designer and startup founder, working for clients across Europe and North America in media, entertainment, venture capital and consumer products, he applies his experience to the studio’s clients to deliver unmatched results.

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Our Services

Equity-Led. Design-Driven.

We deliver measurable outcomes through our transformation offerings, each designed to turn European businesses into global champions while preserving their cultural DNA. We don't bill hours. We take stakes. Every project includes 1-15% equity participation because we believe in aligned incentives. When you win, we win.

Creative Services

Creative Services

Brand Renaissance through identity development, market positioning strategy, and design operations. We revive heritage brands through bold repositioning that reconnects with modern audiences while preserving authenticity.

Product Development

Product Development

Rapid prototyping, MVP positioning, and go-to-market strategies. Full product strategy for industrial B2B, consumer, and cultural products. EU funding integration for sustainable scaling.

Strategic Communications

Strategic Communications

Narrative architecture and cultural positioning that captures preference before categories re-price around provenance. Crisis playbooks and cross-industry intelligence for competitive advantage.

Portfolio

Transformations That
Define Categories

Each project represents a fusion of European identity with cutting-edge execution. We express founders' vision by crafting brands that resonate, and by resurrecting stagnant properties. Translating heritage into contemporary programs and products that resonate, mobilize stakeholders and generate real impact.

Modern Luxury

Castelmarino Watches

A new Italian watch brand with an identity that reflects Italy’s timeless elegance incorporating luxury, maritime history, and effortless style.

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Sustainable Tech

Radix

Sustainable architecture and materials science company committed to creating innovative biophilic designs that root our structures in nature while branching into the future of sustainable living.

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Electric Transportation

Dulcis Auto

Joint venture micro-brand between European automotive design experts and Chinese manufacturers, to offer beautiful carmaking style and usability at affordable prices.

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Cultural Tech

UpStage

A membership-first platform designed to convert superfans into predictable revenue and active co-creators.

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Our Philosophy

The European
Industrial Renaissance

We aere architecting a movement that reclaims European excellence from the grips of global commoditization.

Against Extraction

We avoid foreign buyouts and the dissolution of European legacy. We keep talent, intellectual property, and industrial capacity at home. Every project strengthens European sovereignty.

Beyond Silicon Valley

We reject growth-at-all-costs culture in favor of sustainable, heritage-based business models. We build for decades, not exits. Longevity over liquidity.

Cultural Authority

Gen-Z yearns for authenticity and ancestral roots. We convert cultural hunger into premium ventures. Capture preference before categories re-price around provenance.

Why Altars Wins

The Unfair
Advantages

While consultants bill hours and VCs wait for exits, we're building Europe's first operational transformation machine. Here's why we'll dominate the next decade.

We Take Risk

Every engagement includes equity participation. We guarantee results or return fees. No other European studio has this level of skin in the game. Your success literally determines our wealth.

We Access Capital

Direct relationships with EU funding bodies, national innovation agencies, and industrial consortiums. We've helped deploy millions in transformation capital. Most studios can't even spell "Horizon Europe."

We Understand Culture

Gen-Z are turning away from the corporate, globalist and liberal monoculture of the past 25 years. They are the most historically conscious cohort yet, yearning for authenticity and moral clarity.

Venture Lab

Building Tomorrow's
Heritage Brands

Beyond transformation, we incubate and accelerate ventures that embody European excellence. From concept to scale, we build companies that last centuries, not quarters.

Venture Creation

We identify market gaps where European excellence meets unmet global demand. From ideation to MVP in 30 days, we launch and validate fast, with optional operator capital to scale winners.

Portfolio Acceleration

For VCs and family offices: Transform your portfolio's offerings through our Product Development process. Custom product ideation and development. Preferred vendor partnerships with guaranteed slots and outcomes.

Strategic Intelligence

Our expertise spans culture, tech, media and manufacturing to create uncommon insights and strategies. We identify trend inflection points and partnership opportunities months before they surface to competitors.

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Industrial Renaissance

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