No. 05 Technology & Innovation · Entrepreneurial Journey
A small revolution that began at the door of a room.
Sometimes the most significant innovations come from the desire to simplify something everyone considers inevitable.
In hospitality, a guest’s arrival was long accompanied by procedures, documents, waiting and manual steps.
An everyday moment in which Richard Sasson saw the chance to imagine a different model.
From this intuition came Vikey, a startup co-founded to digitalise and simplify check-in and access processes for hotels and short-stay properties.
A technology that brings together guest identification, document management, payments, additional services and smartphone access to properties.
The venture grew in the hospitality technology market, attracting institutional investors including CDP Venture Capital.
In 2025, Vikey joined the Zucchetti Group through a majority acquisition, marking a new phase in the company’s industrial development.
Vikey shows how first-hand knowledge of a sector can become a technological solution and, in time, an entrepreneurial project of growing importance.
An idea born to open a door. A journey that opened new horizons.