The road to building Raze, the startup behind GPKingdom and GPK Games, has been long and perhaps a little unconventional. Thatโs why we want to share it: to tell our story and, above all, inspire those who, like us, truly want to give it a shot.
2022
In the classrooms of the Istituto Tecnico A. Badoni in Lecco, the first seed of what is today Raze was planted. There, we took part in an entrepreneurial education program for high school students, where an app was born โ our mini project โ which would catch the attention ofโฆ Intel.
Yes, a company with nearly $100 billion in revenue reached out to us unexpectedly to represent Italy at the AI Global Impact Festival 2022. It was a decisive moment, where we understood that what we were doing was what we were truly passionate about: from there, alongside university, we began building our entrepreneurial path.
2023
The app we were developing โ a travel social network โ was put on hold. It was a difficult decision, but at 19 itโs hard to compete with the big players without significant investment. We decided to take an intermediate step: a new app was born, the GPKingdom app, a small brand with fewer than 4,000 followers.
GPKingdom
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What seemed like a step backward turned out to be a new beginning: GPKingdom grew rapidly, to the point of building a small internal editorial team โ what is today the GPK Team.
2024
We explored new projects, but after various attempts it became clear: we needed to listen to our community. Their request was simple: a Fantasy motorsport gameโฆ and it would turn out to be the best decision we ever made.
During a trip between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the foundations of GPK Games were laid โ what would officially become our second application on the market.
2025
GPK Games
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The launch of GPK Games was a success: 1st place in the charts and over 50,000 players on the app within the first month alone. Numbers that changed everything: the small project born almost by chance was nowโฆ a real job.
On 23 April 2025 we took the decisive step โ a leap into the unknown that at 22 comes with fears, risks and great responsibilities: Raze S.R.L. was officially founded, our startup.
Our motto, โRaze Your Limitsโ, is both a motivational slogan and a commitment: to face every challenge and find a way to push beyond it.
In June 2025, just a few months after its founding, Raze was among the Italian companies invited to Apple Park in Cupertino for WWDC25.
In August we launched PitchPulse, a new project dedicated to the world of football, with the goal of replicating in this sector what we had already achieved in motorsport.
PitchPulse
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2026
The year is off to a great start: GPK Games was, for an entire month, the most downloaded sports game in Italy, surpassing 100,000 players.
In March we kicked off collaborations with several Italian and European universities, launching internship programs and involving students in our current and future projects.
2026 will be another year full of challenges and opportunities, which we canโt wait to experience with you โ those who have been supporting us for years now.
If this story can be useful to someone, itโs to show that determination, consistency and daily improvement can turn an idea born at school into a real career, even starting from a high school desk and a simple class project.
Our journey is still very long, and as we always say to each otherโฆ this is just the beginning!