| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.12.2021 | 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, and the most updated estim... |
| 18.03.2021 | 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 a rate of +70% YoY (wh... |
| 06.03.2021 | 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 became two “serial exiters”…
Antonio Perini: After my... |
| 24.12.2020 | 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 level is of ... |
| - | AI and blockchain are the only means to revive business and the economy | Artificial intelligence and blockchain will soon be two essential elements of business models. They will apply to almost every industry, but only if companies will be able to integrate technology within their strategy with the aim to suppor... |
| - | Startups that simplify your summer | In Italy the digital tourism market is worth 9.5 billion Euros, which is one-fifth of total domestic transactions. From travel planning to small concerns about what we take with us on vacation, there are many startups that have decided to c... |
| - | The future of computing | “After a glorious 50 years, Moore’s law — which states that computer power doubles every two years at the same cost — is running out of steam”, has recently been published in The Economist. After five decades, the end of Moore’s law is in s... |
| - | Farewell oil, hello tech: the world’s five most valuable companies in 2006 and 2016 | From smartphones and social media, to virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the tech-oriented world we live in today looks very different to how things were just 10 years ago. In 2006, oil giant Exxon Mobil headed the list of the wor... |
| - | Startup: DOs and DON’Ts When Asking Venture Capital Funding | With just one day left to New Year’s Eve, good intentions abound. Some people throw themselves on diets, others on new loves or work. If your purpose is to change your life and pursue your business idea, then it could be useful to know how ... |
| - | 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 behind Milkman. M... |
| - | How to boost Italian Venture Capital? Streamline bureaucracy | “The Italian venture capital has been suffering from a structural delay and hence it has fallen behind both on a dimensional and on a regulatory level. But, at least on the former, we are catching up. As for the latter, something is moving,... |
| - | P101 Ventures at the Tech Tour: Giuseppe Donvito tells that “Italy is attractive for venture capital. But we need more funding” | Increasing the scale of Italian venture capital funds and encouraging the encounter between venture capitalists and innovators who want to translate their out-of-the-box ideas into business. These are the two pillars on which the growth of ... |
| - | The rise of the experiential traveller and what it means for the travel market | As modern life has become globalised and significantly homogenized due to the widespread adoption of new technologies, the expectations and desires of travellers have changed. Through mobile devices, tablets and computers, travellers are mo... |
| - | Cognitive business: when computers become human and revolutionize the economy | Each of us generates nearly a gigabyte of data per day. This huge volume of data contains an incredible amount of information that we are able to read and organize thanks to cognitive computing.
Cognitive computing comes from a mashup of c... |
| - | Mobility, Health, Real Estate, Finance: VC is looking at these increasingly tech industries | 2018: record year for VC investments in the world
2018 was a record year for the venture capital market not just in Italy but globally. According to Kpmg, VC investments have reached 254 billion dollars worldwide – a sharp increase when co... |
| - | Fashion industry: when brick and mortar boosts online business | The relevance of online fashion shopping is increasingly supported by research. Online fashion is a serious business, especially in Italy, since – as shown by the eCommerce B2c Observatory of the Milan Politecnico University – it is worth o... |
| - | The French startup model, an inspiration for Italy and Europe | Blablacar, Sigfox, Withings? They are Unicorns and they are French. Around Paris, innovation is pushed to the levels of London and Berlin. This was noted, at least since 2015, by the EY Venture Capital Barometer in France. The latest update... |
| - | P101 makes its debut in PropTech investing 2 million euros in the startup Projects Co-Living | PropTech has raised $6 billion from VC globally and is aiming at raising $20 billion by 2020, according to Kpmg
P101 debuts into PropTech. It does so through tits Programma 102 fund, launched in May with a collection target of €120 million... |
| - | PIR 2.0: the Italian individual savings plans are under attack even before starting | The latest clarifications about the new Italian long-term savings plans (PIR) were provided by the Italian Income Revenue Authority in mid-July. But the new PIR – which were formalized in May by means of an official publication – are in fac... |
| - | VIDEO: Venture Capital in Italy: Luigi Tommasini of the Italian Investment Fund (Fondo Italiano d’Investimento) explains his vision to Andrea di Camillo of P101 | “Innovation has entered the political agenda only in recent times. However, already in the year 2012 the Fondo Italiano had started wondering what could be done in this regard. Venture Capital […] was one of the main solutions we had though... |
| - | P101 at LendIt, where the future of banking is told | P101 and BorsadelCredito.it represented Italy during the major European Fintech event. Where the next trends have been traced: open banking, Baas and challenger banks
LendIt Fintech Europe 2018, the biggest European conference in the innov... |
| - | The silent revolution of the retail chain | The value of e-commerce in the retail market was, in 2016, close to $2 billion, that is, 8.7% of the entire industry. And if the overall growth of retail sales is slowing down, digital retail continues to increase very rapidly, with a growt... |
| - | Mymenu: “Here’s how, focusing on quality and giving value to drivers, we have become the largest Italian food delivery company” | Here’s the story of Mymenu, which is growing and innovating, focusing on senior and business customers, in a global food delivery industry that is still far from break-even and that represents an open bet for venture capital.
Mymenu is not... |
| - | M&As can accelerate the change brought on by FinTech | Something is deeply changing in the relationship between banks and FinTech. Banks started to see FinTech startups as a threat only in 2010, but it wasn’t until five years later that they understood a simple truth: that instead of fighting t... |
| - | Our Bet on Italy | Our challenge for the year 2016 is to fulfill the promise we made in 2015 – that is, that companies in which we have invested will grow and become big employers and important economic realities of 2016, 2017 and all the years to come. Italy... |
| - | Innovation ecosystem: do Italian entrepreneurs do their part? | “Together with financial resources, another important ingredient of a thriving start-up ecosystem are entrepreneurs who are ready to engage in new projects,” stated Oecd in an assessment report of the Italian Startup Act, the policy includi... |
| - | Time for Fintech and Banks to start a Beautiful Friendship | So much has been written and said in recent months about Fintech, i.e. the technology that is dramatically changing the world of finance and banking. Banks are starting to question the future sustainability of their business model, which – ... |
| - | Artificial intelligence: the game changer in financial services | Notes from London by Giuseppe Donvito, Partner of P101
In 2017 investors poured in over $15.2B in funding to AI startups across industries. It was a 141% jump in funding from 2016. This monster figure will decrease when machine learning be... |
| - | VC Party: the value of networking | On February 27th and for the second year, the German JOIN Capital and the Italian P101 organized the VC Party, within the framework of the SuperVenture conference. This conference is the “sister” of SuperReturn International – the famous pr... |
| - | There are more than 10,000 innovative startups in Italy | Italy counts more than 10,000 innovative startups. This is good news for the Venture Capital market, since it means that VC funds can pick and choose from a wider basket, thus increasing their portfolio quality. The growing number of start-... |
| - | Amazon Prime lands in Milan. But are we sure that “faster” delivery is better than “more punctual” or “to the right place”? | In the USA they have a saying: “don’t drink and Prime” that has by now replaced the more traditional admonition “don’t drink and drive” with reference to the habit of driving after having a few too many drinks. Indeed, online shopping can b... |
| - | Value Creation in Venture Capital | Talent scouting and coaching, here’s how VC funds help companies and investors grow their assets
The subject of value creation of an asset class such as VC has become more and more important to the Italian system, which is growing fast. In... |
| - | Confessions of a Peer to Peer Lender | Or innovation explained over a coffee
On the other side of the phone Alessio is listening carefully while I tell him that he might have found the solution he was looking for. He asks questions, replies “seems fair,” “fine,” “it’s what I wa... |
| - | VC Hub Italia is the “permanent forum” for the Italian venture capital market. Its goals are to contribute to a culture of innovation and to bring the development of the Italian ecosystem to a new pha... | It’s a think tank that aims to promote a further development of Italian venture capital market, which is almost ready to compete on the international ground. It is called VC Hub Italia and is a “permanent forum” created by the managers of t... |
| - | PropTech: the digital transformation that will change our way of living in houses and cities | Mipim, the real estate convention par excellence, discovers the new frontiers of technological innovation and disruption
The new frontier of real estate – and of Fintech too – is called PropTech. It’s tech disrupting a hyper-conventional i... |
| - | Start Act: the draft law that can boost the world of Italian startups | From the Startup Act to the Start Act. A new regulatory framework (just a draft, at the moment) that should give a ‘shock to the Italian startup ecosystem’ – in the words of its petitioner, MP Mattia Mor. This proposal follows the 6-years-o... |
| - | The five VC trends of the new decade | Europe is leading
A new decade has started for global VC. A decade that begins with some news: the Asian market is slowing down while the European one is showing a strong dynamism and is growing. The quality of European start-ups is gettin... |
| - | Southern Europe, the new cradle for innovation | When talking about start-ups and innovation in Europe, our thought immediately goes to cities like London and Berlin. Sometimes Amsterdam, or Paris.
The southern area of the old continent has so far been a little acclaimed and silent playe... |
| - | Travel: the 6 industry trends for 2017 according to Waynaut | The travel industry is changing at a very fast pace: the combination of mobile devices, big data and artificial intelligence is bound to transform the whole market. A new world is developing, driven by consumer expectations, and it is affec... |
| - | Innovation, a Mediterranean formula | Forget Silicon Valley: Europe is more and more often in the spotlight when it comes to start-ups. The latest news is that Facebook, along with the businessman Xavier Niel, will open the world’s largest company incubator in Paris. It will be... |
| - | A good day starts in the morning | All over the world, Italy is appreciated for its historic cities, its welcoming culture and its delicious food. Recently, though, Italy’s fame has not come from art or history, rather – believe it or not! – from its vibrant start-up scene. ... |
| - | Advanced Analytics – or how to use big data to innovate your business | The amount of data and their importance to business is growing constantly. There follows the need to study, classify, and especially use them in the right away. To this end, advanced analyitics are gaining significant space and role: they a... |
| - | VIDEO: The Italian start-up scenario explained by Councillor for Innovation Paolo Barberis | “I’m analyzing this world [of Italian start-ups, ed] from my experience as an entrepreneur and also with the desire to make the digital world of innovation and technological development more and more vigorous.”
These are the words with whi... |
| - | Online vs offline? Different strategies, but shared goals | We have been among the first Italian advocates of the message that digital technologies, new ideas and new businesses are essential to Italy’s economic fabric. They can bring innovation even to already brilliant entrepreneurship which is so... |
| - | The survival of banks in the digital age | VC-backed Fintech companies raised $12.7B across 836 deals in 2016. Europe Fintech deal activity reached five-year high, rising 11% compared to 2015 and 124% compared to 2011’s total. Indeed, European VC-backed companies raised $1.2B across... |
| - | “This is the story of the Italian venture capital. And this is why it has not taken off yet.” P101 interviews Elserino Piol | “We choose to inaugurate the new course of our website and of this blog with an interview to Elserino Mario Piol. Those who deal with innovation or venture capital have surely heard about him: Piol is without a doubt the first Italian ventu... |
| - | The wind of innovation blows from the Mediterranean | Madrid, Lisbon, Milan, Athens: here are the next VC capitals. The startup ecosystem of Southern Europe is worth as much as the Northern one and is attracting increasingly more investments.
In Southern Europe you can breathe the fresh air o... |
| - | Food: the lessons learned by Daniele Biffoli, founder of Gourmant.com | After nearly three years from its birth, Gourmant.com – the startup that connects food and wine lovers with local Italian producers – is now a competitive reality in the world of high quality food and wine e-commerce, with its 100 thousand ... |
| - | All pension funds investing in PE and VC | Bayerische Versorgungskammer, Erafp, Railways Pension Scheme, CalPERS e CalSTRS. From 200 million euros allocated by the French fund, to 500 million of the German one, up to billions in the UK
In 2014, Bayerische Versorgungskammer, the lar... |
| - | Start-up: Italy’s great opportunity |
$89 billion: that’s the value of innovation in the USA. That’s because 83% of the total value of US research & development ($108 billion) comes from companies born and bred thanks to venture capital investment. But that’s not all. The... |
| - | The digital revolution of healthcare | Global funding to private digital health start-ups grew for the 7th straight year in 2016, hitting a high of $6.1 billion. 2017 has so far already seen its first billion dollar exit with CoverMyMeds being acquired by Mckesson. The market of... |
| - | The Italian venture capital market is ready to double in 2019 | In the first 6 months of 2019, 397 million Euros were invested in Italian start-ups and start-ups that have been founded by Italian entrepreneurs – as pointed out in a recent analysis by StartupItalia!. The Italian Venture capital market co... |
| - | Web Summit 2016, from Lisbon the new European innovation network | 53,000 participants, 15,000 companies from 166 countries, 7,000 CEOs, 21 conferences, an expected turnover of about 250 million euros. This is Web Summit 2016, that is taking place in Lisbon these days. The Web Summit is the most important ... |
| - | Carried interest becomes capital income, another step in the Italian government’s opening to venture capital | Carried interest will be taxed as capital income and no longer as income from work. This is just the latest of many regulatory innovations introduced in venture capital over the last year. Indeed, since the Industry 4.0 plan of 2016, govern... |
| - | Cassa Forense invests 175M euros in EIF’s fund of funds AMUF, to finance PE and VC | Cibati: “1% of our assets is in this asset class”
German fund Bayerische Versorgungskammer has invested 500M euros in PE, the French Erafp has invested 200M, not to speak of the astonishing numbers of UK and USA funds: over 2B in private e... |
| - | State action in favour of startups? Yes, if well balanced | In the US, jobs come from start-ups. This was stated, among others, in a recent report by the Kauffman Foundation. It’s a trend that the OECD has been monitoring for about 20 years: big corporates are firing employees, while innovative SMEs... |
| - | A year of surprises for logistics | In the past the world of last-mile delivery, that is the last part of the delivery route of items that are shopped online, had to adapt to the needs of couriers, but is now experiencing a momentous focal shift: today, the centre of everythi... |
| - | Record year for the Italian venture capital, which aims to invest 500 million euros in start-ups | The 31 deals that were closed in June, for a total funding of € 250M, raise hopes that 2018 could mark a turning point for the start-up market – which is the engine of the country’s growth
2018 is marking a change of pace for Italian ventu... |
| - | Logistics, or the coexistence of man and robot at the time of e-commerce | “The world of warehouses, forklifts, and brown overalls, that back-room, blokey, almost forgotten world has been changed forever and thrust into the strategic limelight.” This excerpt from Sean Fleming’s last editorial for eDelivery underli... |
| - | Investors Meeting, 2018: P101 development and general future trends | On April 19th, on the terrace of P101 headquarters in the heart of Milan, our Investors Meeting took place. It’s our annual event in which we look back on last year’s achievements as well as taking a look at the future. A digital and hyper-... |
| - | “We need to find capital to prevent Italian start-uppers from fleeing.” Enrico Noseda, partner of growITup, tells P101 about the platform that connects corporations and start-ups, wanted by Microsoft... | A fertile humus of ideas – 6,000 active start-ups – and incubators – over 100 – with a venture capital value of just 170 million euros. This is Italy, a land of saints, poets and sailors who, however, as in ancient times, often need to leav... |
| - | Venture capital: the policy changes that will make it fly in 2018 | In the Finance Bill, a more generous deduction of 30%. But the real opportunity will be the European EuVeca reform, in March
The big news that was so long awaited for by the world of Italian Venture capital? In the end it was not even disc... |
| - | The Italian venture capital market is coming of age, and with the boost of the new Budget Law it can grow even faster | The new Budget Law comprehends several innovative measures that, if well directed by the Implementation Decrees that should see the light at the end of March, will give new impetus to the Italian market of Venture Capital.
These measures a... |
| - | 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 at the door of Bezos’ store: “shoppi... |
| - | Notes from Las Vegas, city of sin, but also of digital and connected devices – thanks to CES 2019, the excellent fair of consumer electronics | Foldable monitors, technology’s “pink quotas” and beautifully crafted Made-in-Italy products that can gain their space in a China-dominated world
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the most important and long-living (since 1967) consumer... |
| - | Food: the lessons learned by Marco Porcaro, founder of cortilia.it | Conversation with Marco Porcaro, founder of Cortilia, the first online agricultural market that puts consumers in touch with local farmers, allowing them to shop directly from the farmland.
150,000 subscribers, more than 50 producers and t... |
| - | Italy is the new start-up country, the Financial Times says | Italy represents a great opportunity for those who want to build a start-up or invest in one of them. In one of our first posts on NewsFromThePlatform, we analysed why the Italian venture capital scene is for now little known but prospectiv... |
| - | Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers Internet Trends are our future: here’s why entrepreneurs cannot ignore them | The highly anticipated Mary Meeker and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers data were finally published two weeks ago. Every year in this season, Mary Meeker and the KPCB fund draw the numbers and trends of the global technological and digital ma... |
| - | 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 well-established businesses to embrace digitiza... |
| - | E-commerce and traditional retail, a new friendship | The Italian digital market is taking off: the number of customers has increased to 21 million, and purchase frequency and average amount have increased too. 2017 could be the year that sees the highest e-commerce growth since 2010, reaching... |
| - | Fashion luxury: omnichannel retailing is no longer optional | Omnichannel and fashion luxury: 2016 promises to be a critical year. As millennials grow up, the fashion luxury target becomes more varied and unpredictable and customers begin to ask for higher service personalization and new engagement mo... |
| - | What could encourage innovation in Italy? More freedom for institutional investors | As frequently highlighted by researchers and the industry, the importance of looking beyond traditional investment tools, as well as recognizing the potential difficulties associated with alternative investments (such as illiquid asset clas... |
| - | Italy’s National Innovation Fund gets underway: the first milestone in the building of a “Smart Nation Italy” | Italy as a Smart Nation? The time may have come. The first steps, at least, have been taken, even in the midst of a political crisis that creates uncertainty about the coming months. And there are some important news – starting from the ver... |
| - | The not-so-hidden charm of logistics | “Logistics is not sexy”: we hear this all the time.
“You don’t sell evening gowns or futuristic gadgets, you do home deliveries,” goes the saying that we know by heart.
Immediately, images of shabby vans and unshaved drivers dumping packa... |
| - | E–grocery: smart logistics is the key | As Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma have very well understood, digital and physical networks are increasingly interconnected. We order online, confirm by email, but then we receive our goods thanks to a courier that delivers them to our door or to co... |
| - | 10 hot technology trends for 2017 | The ten key technologies of 2017, according to Gartner, the American research and advisory firm providing IT-related insight, revolve around what is called intelligent digital mesh. This mesh is a mix of people, things and services enabled ... |
| - | Venture capital: the alternative investment that boosts your portfolio value | High yields, decorrelation, tax advantages and support to real economy
In search of alpha types, the road leads to venture capital. Particularly suited to pension and institutional funds, the start-up business can be a booster of portfolio... |
| - | If you think we are miles away from multimodal travel solutions, think again! | The business of digital tourism is worth around 10 billion euros, or in other terms, 20% of the entire tourism industry. Transport, with its 72% turnover, has by now earned the role of main protagonist in this scene (data by the Observatory... |
| - | Insurtech: the new face of insurance | 974 companies in 53 countries for 16.5 billion dollars investment. It is the insurtech industry, which in recent years has undergone a real boom. In the first half of 2016 the number of transactions has almost doubled compared to the same p... |
| - | Introducing NewsFromThePlatform: P101 Official Blog | We have created NewsFromThePlatform to tell what happens on our roof terrace, which is the place where our ideas circulate, mix and merge, and where we are continuously stimulated by the smart, innovative people who work with us.
What is... |
| - | Marketplace lending: what we can learn from the UK | The trends for the future of marketplace lending are outlined in London, where it was born 10 years ago
It is worth about 85% of the European market, it keeps growing (+ 99% in 2015, when it moved 1,490 billion pounds) and, on the occasion... |
| - | How much innovation is there in the Italian retail industry? | Not much, but rapidly growing – according to the Observatory for Digital Innovation in Retail, promoted by the Politecnico School of Management in Milan.
If the absolute numbers of the Italian retail industry’s investment in technology are... |
| - | Enterprise EMEA 2017: when software attracts investment | Enterprise Emea is the event that brings together CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs of European, Middle Eastern and African leader companies in the enterprise software industry. The objective of the conference, organized in London by Widebridge Group, i... |
| - | VIDEO: Azimut’s Chairman and CEO Pietro Giuliani tells Andrea Di Camillo why Italy should invest in innovation | “In Italy, we are somehow backwards both in the sense of investing in new projects, and generally in promoting the emergence of innovative or disruptive companies. But if we don’t invest in this direction, before long we will be doomed to s... |
| - | 3D printing, Robotics, Pharmaceuticals. Federico Parietti, Co-Founder and CEO at Multiply Labs, tells the lessons the startup has learned | Multiply Labs is a tech startup at the intersection between robotics and pharmaceuticals. We build and operate robots that can 3D print customized capsules, able to release the exact schedule of medications and supplements required by a cus... |
| - | Board metamorphosis in High-Tech companies | Starting up a company is really hard work: it can be an on-off game where a single mistake can compromise everything. But what happens when a company grows moving away from the “start-up” phase and going into the “scale-up” territory? It is... |
| - | Billions-worth start-ups and increasingly powerful VCs: innovation speaks Mandarin | China beats USA. In the second quarter of 2018, for the first time, Chinese start-ups collected more money than North American ones: exactly 47% of total financing by VCs versus 35%. This numbers, revealed by Crunchbase, are just some of th... |
| - | In Italy corporates are finally showing interest in start-ups | Musement, Octorate and Bauzaar: three of our subsidiaries have been recently acquired by big corporates. On the basis of the French model, in Italy large companies have started looking at VC funds as engine of innovation. This can make a di... |
| - | Noah Berlin: where the future of European innovation is written | They write Noah Berlin, we read “the future of innovation”. It’s one of the main European early-stage and late-stage VC conferences: it took place in mid-June, gathering 5,000 participants, 1,500 start-ups and 700 investors. It’s where the ... |
| - | Logistics will be crucial for the future of Amazon, Uber and e-commerce itself | It’s clear, by now, that the world of online retail has disrupted the way we shop. This is so true that even in our very neighbourhoods we happen to see small and medium-sized businesses surrendering to the hegemony of digital shopping. Set... |
| - | The fintech revolution of P2P lending: product innovation, secondary loan market, re-bundled banking by the end of 2018. Forecasts from LendIT 2017 | The next 15 months will see a strong acceleration and profound changes in the world of P2P lending
LendIt Europe ends in London with this this great promise. Two days were entirely devoted to the world of marketplace lending, an industry t... |
| - | 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 Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager pronounced these wo... |
| - | Italian start-up funding is higher than expected: almost 600 million euros at the end of November | Halfway through the year, we stated that the market of investments into Italian start-up companies would reach half a billion euros by the end of 2018. It seemed like an unusual size for Italy, whose market has always been around 100 millio... |
| - | What the SwiftKey deal with Microsoft means for personal computing | Microsoft’s acquisition of AI company SwiftKey has surely been the most rumoured deal of the past week, not just due to its financial order of magnitude, but for what this step might mean for the tech giant.
SwiftKey launched in 2010, brin... |
| - | The future of Italian venture capital: notes from Made in Italy 2020 | Explore the opportunities and challenges of the Italian venture capital in Europe, enhance and promote Italian digital excellence in the world: these were the objectives of the second edition of Made in Italy 2020, the event held in the Wes... |
| - | “She’s got a ticket to ride” | As The Beatles used to sing a few years ago… and if, back then, the streets were lit up by light poles, today the light comes from smartphones and tablets, where you can look for inspiration, book journeys, hotels, dinners or concerts. You ... |
| - | Exit growth: a changing geography | Exit, the “magic word” when it comes to start-up investment, does no longer frighten Europe. According to the European Tech Exits Report by Tech.eu, in 2015, in the tech industry only, European exits have been 594 – 65% more than in 2014. B... |
| - | Venture capital funds? In the long term, they’ll beat the market | What are the returns on VC? On average, a diversified portfolio today makes about twice the funding provided to grow a business. And, surprisingly, first time funds’ performance is close to that of historical funds, which frees the field fr... |
| - | Waynaut: the Lessons We Have Learnt in the Last Five Years | Five years history, two rounds funding, and a gradual refinement of the business model. Hundreds of hours spent in meetings and brainstorming, thousands of hours for programming and development, sometimes even at night, more than 200 presen... |
| - | Farewell unicorns, now VCs work as portfolio managers | P101 Ventures creates its funds through a process that resembles asset allocation. Thus it can double long-term capital
Venture capital as investible asset? It cannot be based on power law. The golden rule that in a VC portfolio there is o... |
