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16/11/2021

Italy, we have a problem and an opportunity: the late stage

In Italy we have excellent start-uppers who have already created companies with solid business models and with the power to disrupt consolidated sectors. We are beginning to have companies with unicorn potential, which are also...

07/04/2021

Giuseppe Donvito

Fintech will be bank, bank will be fintech

Around the corner there will be many open challenges and surprises, in the post-Covid time that still needs to be imagined. According to McKinsey & Company, in 2020 European economies shrank by 11% on average,...

18/03/2021

The competitive advantage of European technology lies in its purpose

“Some say the Chinese have all the data and the Americans have all the money. But when I see what we have going for us here in Europe, I see that we have purpose”. European...

05/03/2021

Mymenu joins Pellegrini Group: you don’t need to be a unicorn to create value and start changing the shape of Italian entrepreneurship

In recent years, very few industries have grown as much as that of food delivery. As stated in the B2C eCommerce Observatory by Politecnico di Milano University and Netcomm, in 2020 Food&Grocery e-commerce grew at...

11/02/2021

Andrea Di Camillo

Ten years, two start-ups and two “exits”: Andrea Di Camillo (P101) and Antonio Perini (Milkman) tell us how it all happened – Part 2

Let’s go back for a moment: Milkman was born in 2016 and Di Camillo and Perini were both part of it. On May 21st, Poste Italiane entered the capital of this start-up, and you officially...

23/12/2020

Lock-down, Christmas and e-commerce: is Europe really destined to become Amazon’s warehouse worker?

The strict lockdown that Italy experienced in the spring was Aamzon’s “picklock” to reach the countries and homes where it had not yet arrived. In fact, people who had never shopped online began to knock...

30/11/2020

N26, Doctolib, Vinted: the European unicorns are coming. Now we need actions that will harmonize the regulations

The ecosystem of European start-ups is running fast, however, Europe still needs a united political action to close the gap with the USA and record-breaking Asia. Above all, greater harmonization of regulations at the European...

11/11/2020

Ten years, two start-ups and two “exits”: Andrea Di Camillo (P101) and Antonio Perini (Milkman) tell us how it all happened – Part 1

Vision, velocity, coldness, a pinch of good luck. These features are common to the two happy-ending entrepreneurial stories of Andrea Di Camillo, founder and CEO of P101, and Antonio Perini, serial start-upper and the mind...

08/10/2020

Five steps to create value and innovate the economy and society through Venture Capital

VC creates value and can act as a driving force for Italy’s recovery. We have always said so, but during the Covid-19 emergency evidence was there for all to see, since the emergency urged all...

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13/07/2022

Newsletter #1. Italian innovation: € 5 billion in 5 years. 3 of which in 2021

Read on Substack Startups and scaleups with an Italian DNA (Italian founders based in Italy or abroad) have raised over 5 billion euros in the last 5 years: of these, 2.9 billion were raised by Italian companies based in Italy and 2.2...

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27/07/2022

Musixmatch Announces Significant Strategic Investment from TPG

Partnership Strengthens Musixmatch’s Position in Growing Market and Drives Creator-Centric Expansion Opportunities in New Geographies and Verticals Bologna, Italy; San Francisco, CA – July 27, 2022 – Musixmatch, a leading global music data platform, today announced...

19/07/2022

Casavo, la piattaforma di nuova generazione per vendere e comprare casa in Europa, raccoglie 400 milioni di euro

Casavo raccoglie 100 milioni di euro nel round di investimento Serie D guidato da Exor, si tratta del più grande finanziamento di sempre nel settore PropTech in Europa La società si è inoltre assicurata ulteriori...

10/03/2022

Civitfun Hospitality closes a 2,000,000€ investment round led by Italian venture capital fund P101 SGR

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, March 10, 2022. - The online check-in software for hotels and hotel chains, Civitfun Hospitality, has closed a €2,000,000 investment round led by P101 SGR, the Italian venture capital firm that...

09/02/2022

Mundimoto, the Spanish online motorcycle buying and selling start-up, raises 20 million euros for its international expansion

The digital company already leads the industry in Europe and in just two years has experienced a 15-fold increase in its turnover: from €1M in 2019 to profits of €15M in 2021 This capital injection,...

08/02/2022

Venture Capital: nuovo round d’investimento da $15M per il marketplace 1000Farmacie, guidato da P101 SGR e HBM Healthcare Investments

Il round da 15 milioni di dollari è stato guidato da P101 SGR attraverso il suo secondo veicolo d’investimento P102 e ITALIA 500 (Gruppo Azimut) e dalla società di investimento svizzera HBM Healthcare Investments. Giuseppe...

17/11/2021

Sift Acquires Passwordless Authentication Pioneer Keyless to Provide Regulated Businesses and Online Merchants with Secure, Frictionless Authentication

Biometric authentication innovator eliminates password-based account takeover and enables PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication while preserving user privacy SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sift, the leader in Digital Trust & Safety, today announced that...

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