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The recent reform of Italy's startup law marks a significant leap forward for the country's innovation ecosystem! 🚀 Key highlights:  - A 65% tax deduction for investments in startups within their first three years—an increase from the previous 50%, aligning with the UK's SEIS/EIS models.  - SAFE instruments now qualify for tax incentives, providing greater flexibility for early-stage funding.  - Investors retain their tax benefits even if the startup fails, reducing risks and fostering confidence in high-potential ventures.  - Startups achieving specific milestones can stay on the innovative startup registry for up to 9 years, an extended timeline crucial for deep-tech developments.  - Tax breaks are now extended to incubators and accelerators, recognizing their pivotal role in nurturing startups.  - Italian pension funds must allocate a portion to venture capital focused on Italy, ensuring more funds are channelled into growing the local ecosystem. These changes position Italy as a more competitive and appealing hub for innovation. With the increased focus on early-stage support and long-term growth, this reform could be a game-changer for both founders and investors. 👏  Wake up everybody! Italy is becoming the right place ate the right moment to be! Welcome foreign investors to the Garden of Europe! Wake up Italian investors and would-be investors! Thank you Gianmarco Carnovale! What are your thoughts on these updates? Let’s discuss! 🌍 #startups #innovation #investment #businessangels #venture #venturecapital #finance #tech 

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Are we entering a digital assets Renaissance in Europe? 👇 Here are the major progress milestones in 3 different EU countries: 1️⃣ Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo issued a 10M EUR tokenized commercial paper using Banca d'Italia's TIP Hashlink. 2️⃣ Netherlands: ABN AMRO Bank N.V. completed its first reverse repo using its own tokenized commercial paper using wholesale CBDC from Banque de France 3️⃣ Spain: CaixaBank is said to plan to launch crypto products for its 15M customers from Jan 2025, a move that could shift the landscape for millions. With an unified EU chain in discussion and MiCA regulations coming online in 2025, more financial institutions will have the regulatory comfort and confidence to enter the market. Who will be the biggest winners in the region's new financial market land grab and attract the mindshare of both institutional and retail investors? Stay tuned. I will be unpacking it all at Tokenization Insight. ✅ Want to stay ahead of the tokenization adoption trends? Join 5,000+ readers at Tokenization Insight Weekly Research to stay ahead with deep dives into tokenization trends, research, and GTM strategy insights here https://lnkd.in/eJeppskj #digitalassets #tokenization #financialservices

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Italy levelling up their startup game. One government, one country at a time the understanding develops and action is taken. To build strong, multi-generational #ecosystems for #innovation, #entrepreneurship, #investment, #jobcreation and the #sustainability transformation, these key stakeholders need to collaborate towards a unified vision. If you ask me, ideally for a better future for people and planet 🌱🌊🌞 Startups: 🤠 innovative, brave, agile, at the forefront of new developments. Running on Ramen and Coffee. Corporates: 🏢 In need of solutions to remain relevant and thrive. Have clients, resources, reach, talent, infrastructure, capital. Investors: 🤑 Good investors have the expertise, network and capital to make success happen. Fuel the ventures. Is performance metric and benchmarking tool. Important to measure non-monetary impact of the business activity as well! Academia & research: 🤓 Develop brave, smart, curious and energetic talent to work with the latest of what humanity develops in scientific research. Politics: Super-networked people operating on systems level. Slowish due to democratic processes. Important to be brave and put policies and infrastructure in place with transformative and long-term benefits for society and our natural environment we live in, and depend on! Like STATION F in Paris Media: With the power, reach and responsibility to show-case positive solutions, positive rolemodels, the people and vision behind big and small ideas which improve how we live and work every day. We're building our future today. Every day. One day at a time. 🌱🌞 It's important to show what we're doing, to provide hope, perspective and motivate everyone to contribute to the solution. Let's build #EoTs - Ecosystems of Transformation. Let's build them together. Share in the comments what you need to thrive in your mission, or how you create positive impact people need to know about! Cambridge Judge Business School Stanford LEAD ETH Zurich, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering digitalswitzerland World Economic Forum Hugo Rauch Michael Jackson Tech Barcelona Oliver Bussmann Nicolas Bürer

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Game changing decisions taken by Italy's Government that reforms the startup law! Finally governments in EU are making big changes for startups. I wonder who will be next ... - Italian pension funds are now required to allocate a % in venture capital - Italian version of the UK's SEIS/EIS Investor incentive increases the previous 50% tax deduction up to 65% if in first 3 years from incorporation. - SAFEs now admitted in the incentive. - Maintenance of the incentive if the invested startup fails. - Startups accomplishing certain milestones can stay in the privileged startup registry up to 9 years, which is great for deeptech! - Tax incentives extended to incubators and accelerators. Well done Italy! #28regime #EUinc #EUstartup #ESN #ROTSA

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My dog just ate the piece of paper on which I saved my seed phrase 🐶📄 Guess it's time to rethink how we secure our Bitcoin, huh? No worries, I got your back 🔒 Thrilled to announce I'll be speaking at the @Lugano's Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano this October, where I'll deep dive into the concept of Bitcoin's keyless future 🍊 Spoiler alert: We're about to make seed phrases as outdated as floppy disks. (Remember those?) Join me to explore: 1️⃣ Why your grandma's authentication methods just won't cut it anymore 2️⃣ How we're keeping and pushing Bitcoin to be non-custodial 3️⃣ The magic of on-demand key generation (it's like Uber, but for security!) See you in Lugano, where we'll unlock the secrets to a simpler orange pilled world (like my face)! 🗝️💥

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Residential P2P Energy Trading What does Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) have to do with Distributed Energy Resources (DER)? Let's leave the technical stuff aside and focus on the practical day-to-day benefits... SunContract is a Slovenian Operator that is pioneering the use of cryptotechnology in a simplified way, enabling individuals to buy, sell and trade renewable energy in Slovenia. It allows anyone digitally buy solar panels and consume the energy they produce, without having to install a single screw. You can also sell your surplus energy to your neighbors directly. Whether this business model constitutes a truly disruptive service depends on various factors, including the platform's ability to scale, regulatory considerations and market adoption. However, if SunContract can successfully leverage NFTs to democratize ownership of renewable energy assets, create transparent markets for renewable energy certificates, and incentivize energy efficiency, it could indeed disrupt the traditional energy sector and accelerate the shift towards decentralized, sustainable energy systems. But meanwhile, let’s keep an eye on them!

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CVC is passive as much as Venture Building is active What feed the Corporate Venture Builder? Intrapreneurship and R&D are the main ingredients How to structure? - Dedicated resources (15+ ppl) running technical assessment and biz dev - Capital allocation ($M+) - A separate entity Great insights during Snam S.p.A. Innovation Day during the panel with Giorgio Veronesi, Laura D'Angelo Alexander Bussian moderated by Riccardo Bassetto. Below a snapshot of the closing by Claudio Farina #cvc #ventureclient #startups Mind the Bridge Eugenia Di Somma Salvatore Emilio Bonaccorso Francesca Cavanna Narmina Barukhova

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A few weeks ago I pitched my new company for the first time. We received amazing feedback on the pitch (both in person and under Vento's video here on LinkedIn - thanks!), but before getting into what’s next, let me tell you how I got to pitch in front of hundreds of amazing investors a 3 minutes pitch that I loved. It’s quite simple, actually. I went through 13 versions of the pitch in 1 month. Condensing months worth of work and aspirations for the next decades in 3 minutes is absolutely not an easy task. You want it to be simple, but you also want to convey the message that a lot of work went into your venture so far, and a lot more will be needed to reach future milestones. The first version of my pitch was a Notion page with the most basic questions you should be able to answer: here’s what we do, here’s why it’s hard, here’s why it’s needed, here are the people who will need it, here’s why we’re the ones to build it, here’s how it works, here’s how big the market can be. The smartest thing my co-founder and I have done is building a data room early on: context, articles, explanations of the problem, users interview, info about ourselves, financials, and much more in a single place. This made it incredibly easy to package straight to the point answers to those questions (Notion Q&A, thank you for saving my life). After pitching my Notion page to a couple of investors, I understood what points needed extra information to de-risk the deal for investors, and what points were almost trivial and didn’t need an explanation. 13 iterations later, an infinte number of toggles, callouts, AI support in making the pitch shorter, simpler, bolder, and we got to the version we pitched last month. If you are in the process right now, trust me: write down everything you’ve collected so far in a digestible way, ask yourself those questions, pitch to everyone you know and continuously iterate. And keep track of every version! Something tells me those comments will never cease to be useful 🙂 I if you're an entrepreneur looking for a tool to replicate the process use my link to get 6 months for free + unlimited AI (value worth up to 6,000$) with Notion! Submit an application using my custom link: https://lnkd.in/d-JtWdJU and select Michela Andreolli on the partner list. Don't forget to Include my key: STARTUP4110P54770.

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OpenAI sold you out. Literally. I'm cancelling my subscription. And the 2 are not even related. This week I hosted an event at the Italian Tech Week, where Sam Altman joined a fireside chat with Exor's John Elkan. Serendipitously, I also read a grat chronological account by Vox on how Sam Altman has single-handedly turned a (sort of) social enterprise into a possible global security and climate risk. And a possible money scam too. What I find worrying is not that a company or its leader seeks to make profit. I'm a venture CAPITALIST myself. And the founder of my own firm. Making money is how I make my living. But OpenAI took advantage of a (semi)non-profit status to advance technology (open sourced by others btw -i.e. Google) only to shift its agenda without any accountability for the consequences. Theses days OpenAI is reportedly pitching for 1 Trillion investment from oil money (Saudis etc) to bankroll a technology that's already accounting for a significant chunk of the global energy consumption. Folks on LinkedIn laugh about the EU wanting to regulate AI. But now even Americans and their publications are worrying. Even Musk, who's normally for extreme versions of capitalism. I now think it's a justified worry. When OpenAI was cofounded in 2015 the budding research lab introduced itself to the world with these words: "OpenAI is a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." OpenAI was a nonprofit controlled not by its CEO or by its shareholders, but by a board with a single mission: keep humanity safe. But! By 2023, the nonprofit board had grown so suspicious of the leadership that it tried to oust it's CEO. That didn't work. Earlier this year, OpenAI’s safety team imploded and quit the company. Now OpenAI will no longer be controlled by the nonprofit board. And Sam Altman is now getting equity worth billions. How could this be legal? If OpenAI does away with the profit cap, it would be redirecting a huge amount of money — prospective billions of dollars in the future — from the nonprofit to investors. Because the nonprofit is there to represent the public, this would effectively mean shifting billions away from the public. As magazine Vox notes: "it feels a lot like theft." And if somehow now OpenAI starts to onboard investors with dubious climate agenda and disregard for AI safety regulations, I wonder where all this will lead. Oh well, in the meantime maybe we should smile that their features and UX are losing pretty much against all their competitors: Claude is better for coding. Perplexity better for searching. Mistral for open sourcing and agent creation. So yes after all it's not consumer worries that are pushing me to unsubscribe from the premium OpenAI. It's just that they are falling behind despite all the money manoeuvres. Thoughts?

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🌍 Live Now: Opening Panel on PE & VC Environment in Europe and the Mediterranean | Milan Our opening panel in Milan is underway, bringing together top investors and fund managers to discuss the current state and future perspectives of Private Equity and Venture Capital in Europe and the Mediterranean. Panel Highlights: • Market Insights: Analyzing key trends, sector shifts, and unique challenges facing PE & VC across the region. • Strategic Opportunities: Exploring high-potential areas, from tech advancements in Southern Europe to sustainable projects across the Mediterranean. • Future Outlook: Insightful discussion on how macroeconomic changes, regulatory shifts, and investor priorities will shape the next decade. Stay tuned as experts provide valuable insights into the forces driving this diverse and dynamic investment landscape. This session is a must for those invested in the future of PE & VC across Europe and beyond! 📍 Location: Palazzo Mezzanotte, Milan, Italy #LiveEvent #PEVC #Investment

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🌟 Your Path to Forex Investing Starts Here! 🌟 At Emira Capital, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to grow their wealth. That’s why the Vega Fund is designed for suitable investors who want to gain experience of the forex market even if you are just starting out. 💡 Why Choose Vega? ✔️ Start with as little as £500 – no large lump sums needed! ✔️ Build your portfolio steadily from just £100 per month through our Regular Investment Plan. ✔️ Tap into the potential of global currency markets with professional management and expert insights. 💼 Whether you're an experienced investor or just exploring your options, Vega makes it easier than ever to take control of your financial future. 🔗 Start today and let your money work for you! Visit www.emiracapital.co.uk to learn more. *Capital at risk. CFD's are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. At least 75.3% of retail investors lose money when trading CFD's. You should consider whether you understand how CFD's work, and whether you can afford to take the risk of losing your funds. CFD’s are not suitable for pension savings." #ForexInvesting #WealthBuilding #InvestSmart #VegaForexFund #EmiraCapital

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Bunch: Streamlining Private Market Investments bunch (founded in 2021, in Berlin) is a comprehensive platform designed to simplify the complex operations of venture capital and private equity firms. By centralizing data, automating workflows, and providing essential tools, Bunch aims to enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and improve overall fund management. Founders: Levent Altunel, and Enrico Ohnemüller The platform addresses the pain points of manual data entry and management prevalent in the industry, replacing traditional methods like Excel spreadsheets with a streamlined digital solution. This allows fund managers to focus on core investment activities rather than time-consuming administrative tasks. Bunch currently oversees €2 billion in assets under management. With a recent $15.5 million Series A funding round backed by investors such as Cherry Ventures, Motive Ventures, Broadhaven Ventures, and TinyVC, Bunch is poised to expand its platform and solidify its position in the market. While competing with established players like Apax, Vistra, IQEQ, and Carta, Bunch differentiates itself by offering a more focused solution tailored to the specific needs of venture capital and private equity firms. By automating complex workflows and integrating pre- and post-close services, Bunch effectively creates an operating system for funds, enabling them to scale efficiently and build stronger relationships with limited partners. Key Points: - Bunch is a platform designed to automate and streamline operations for VC and PE firms. - The platform addresses the industry's reliance on manual processes and reduces operational overhead. - With a recent funding round, Bunch is well-positioned for growth and expansion. The company competes with established players but offers a more specialized solution. #privatemarkets #venturecapital #softbank #aviato #tracxn #crunchbase #eqt #fundraising #somacapital #investmentmanagement #databases #tools #vctools

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Now this is why #blockchain was invented! Onchain lending and borrowing, fast secure, no gatekeeper, no intermediary. I am pretty sure GenZ and GenAlpha will use these kind of tools to earn a few bucks or to borrow some with the capital they will be inheriting in the next decade. Let's read this post again in 5 years, very curious how it will age.

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FINMA has introduced new regulatory guidelines that significantly impact the issuance of stablecoins in Switzerland. Here’s a few details that I want to emphasize: 1. Banking License or Guarantee: Stablecoin issuers are now required to either obtain a banking license or secure a guarantee from the bank. This represents a huge barrier for many startups and innovators in the crypto space, potentially stopping new projects in early stages. 2. Mandatory Identification: All stablecoin holders must be identified, which goes against the core principles of decentralized finance (DeFi). This move towards centralization challenges the anonymity and decentralization that are foundational to the crypto industry. 3. Highlighted Risks: FINMA emphasizes the increased risks of money laundering and the potential reputational damage to the financial sector as reasons for these more strict actions. While the intention behind these regulations might be to protect the financial system and ensure transparency, the approach seems to be too restrictive. The crypto industry thrives on innovation and flexibility, and such heavy-handed regulations could drive entrepreneurs and innovators to more crypto-friendly regions like Abu Dhabi or Dubai, which are rapidly becoming new hubs for blockchain growth. Switzerland was perceived as a "crypto paradise," but with these new regulations, it risks becoming a regulatory nightmare. We must strive for balanced regulations that protect without stifling innovation. As a long term believer in crypto industry, I think it’s crucial to find a middle ground that safeguards the financial system while fostering innovation and growth. What are your thoughts on these new regulations? Let's discuss! 💬 #Crypto #FinTech #Blockchain #Regulation #Innovation #Switzerland #FINMA

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This tokenized EUR just arrived with a bang! While the tokenized USD space is a battlefield of gladiators, Societe Generale - FORGE is quietly but powerfully igniting the tokenized EUR revolution. 🔥 Today, under the leadership of Jean-Marc Stenger (CEO) and Guillaume Chatain (Head of Sales), SG Forge unleashed its fully MICA-compliant EURO stablecoin, EURCV, onto the blazing Solana blockchain—one of the hottest ecosystems in crypto right now. 🌍💶 ➡ This is a major move. Until today, EURCV was only available on Bitstamp, with a limited user base. Now? Solana, home to millions of active wallets transacting with USDT and USDC every month, and a thriving DeFi scene with hundreds of dApps, is EURCV’s new scale-up springboard. 🚀 ➡ While PayPal is dishing out $1M weekly to push PYUSD in the overcrowded USD stablecoin market, SG Forge has virtually zero competition in the EUR stablecoin space. The question is: Will EURCV be the leader in Europe’s emerging stablecoin market? Here’s what I’m keeping my eyes on 👀: 1️⃣ Liquidity – Can EURCV build up volume on secondary markets? 2️⃣ Real-World Use Cases – Will businesses and users actually adopt it? 3️⃣ Marketing Magic – Can they create real buzz and reach the masses? The EUR stablecoin market is about to get serious. Stay tuned, because this is just the beginning. 💥 I imagine Lily Liu, Nick Ducoff and Amelia Daly from the Solana side will play a key role in this. If you want to learn more about the recent tokenized USD cash goldrush, read this. https://lnkd.in/ePmstVYa I dive deep into the tokenization space through my research and GTM advisory work. Want to stay ahead of the curve? ♻ Repost and share 💡 Join 4,200+ readers at The Crypto Adoption Curve newsletter ✉ Get in touch with your questions 🤝 Save hours of research AND get exclusive insights by Subscribing at https://lnkd.in/gTxp8uWM #tokenization #digitalassets #financialservices

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Alephium’s price today is US$2.10, with a 24-hour trading volume of $2.73 M. ALPH is +0.20% in the last 24 hours. It is currently -1.30% from its 7-day all-time high of $2.13, and 28.77% from its 7-day all-time low of $1.63. ALPH has a circulating supply of 86.49 M ALPH and a max supply of 1 B ALPH. while we has some alph miners at good price today, do you consider it? For any inquiries or to place an order, contact me at Whatsapp: +86 181 2632 0969 #asicminersarah #ASICMiner #CryptoMining #BitcoinMining #MiningHardware #MiningPool #Antminer #Bitmain #MiningFarm #Cryptocurrency #EthereumMining #bitcoin #kaspa #bitmain #antminer #antminerks5 #antminers21 #asicminer #asicmining #crypto #cryptominer #cryptomining #cryptominingfarm #Cryptocurrency #Blockchain

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Time is more relevant than money. Mentioned Andrea Di Camillo, Founding Partner at P101. Building a leading tech company involves many moving parts: 👉 developing products 👉 adapting to markets 👉 scaling internationally 👉 establishing governance This doesn’t happen overnight. Italy might not be the next Silicon Valley just yet. BUT, with the right direction and time, the future looks bright. Tune in for the full story on EUVC & your favorite streaming platforms. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dXSsg2fd #EUVCpodcast #venturecapital #angelinvesting #startupfunding #europe

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Federico Cristoforoni and his team really impressed me with this latest report. 🌍 The 2024 State of Climate Tech! Over 130 pages of actionable insights. What’s Inside? 📊 Global Climate Tech Funding Trends: An in-depth analysis of 43K+ deals, 16K+ organizations, and private venture market trends, broken down by: • Regions 🌎 • Stages 🚀 • Funding instruments 💰 • Product categories 🌱 🗣 The Voice of the Ecosystem: Findings from 300+ survey responses from innovators, investors, corporations, and other key players shaping Climate Tech. This report is designed to empower Climate Tech innovators, investors, and ecosystem players with transparency and clarity. 💬 What’s your take? Which trends will define Climate Tech in 2025?

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