Simone Maggi

Ogni volta che mi arriva un DM via Linkedin da un imprenditore con un'idea è una piccola emozione. Un mondo di opportunità che bussa alla porta. Ho 2 templates di risposta pronti: (1) the "sorry not interesed, good luck" se il settore/progetto non e' nelle mie corde. (2) manda il deck e torno da te a breve. Ecco il template della seconda fattiscpecie.  --- Thank you for sharing your project with me. I truly appreciate your interest. To streamline the process, please fill out this 2-minutes form: https://lnkd.in/e6PkTyk6 Before proceeding, please note that I exclusively invest in: - European companies - Pre-seed and seed stages - Full digital projects (ideally with short feedback loops) I invite you to review my investment thesis for more details: https://lnkd.in/evaMNbtS You can find my full portfolio at www.cimminelli.com. Thank you for taking the time to fill out the form. If you decide not to proceed, I wish you the best of luck with your venture. I appreciate your understanding as we both strive to be mindful of each other's time. Best regards, Simone p.s. If interested in my angel investor journey check www.angelinvesting.it - I like to share what I am learning while angel investing.

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💡 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 💡 𝘞𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (𝘊𝘌𝘌), 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 (𝘚𝘌𝘌), 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥! 🌎 🚀 Founders! Join us in Italy🇮🇹 for 3 months, a market with almost 60m inhabitants and more than 6m companies! Test and refine your value proposition to find product-market fit faster, learn how to fundraise, take advantage of the global Techstars network and get unfair access to the Italian ecosystem via our corporate partners Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center to boost your startup to the next level! 🙏 You'll have access to Torino City Lab, and its 100 partners, e.g. universities, research centres and leading international companies like Intel Corporation, Gruppo Iren, TIM, Cisco, and many more! This is a unique opportunity across Europe, giving you immediate access from day one to large corporates eager to engage with innovative ideas and support you in refining your solution - and to become your partners! Our companies that have raised more than $100 million after the program can't be wrong! They validated their assumptions during the program, found their first customers, and hired local talent before expanding into much more competitive markets like the #US🇺🇸, #Germany🇩🇪 or the #UK🇬🇧. We have invested in many amazing founders from #CEE already (INPUT SOFT, Volteum, GO TO-U, Lawyerd, VisionAnchor, eTEU, Kedeon, NRGI.ai, Sheeva.AI, Sirius, WeGlad, Plain | Techstars '24, Voovo) and I'd love to see more founders from CEE this year and in the future! 🚀 ⭐️ You'll be supported by an amazing team: Sheila, Virginia, Emanuele, Nicola and myself, hundreds of amazing mentors, associates, VCs, founders and many others! 🙏 Your network is your net worth and it explodes from day 1 in the program and will only grow in the future! Get your unfair advantage by joining Techstars Transformative World Torino! So, if you're building in #Ukraine, #Poland, #Slovakia, #Czechia, #Romania, #Bulgaria, #Croatia, #Albania, #Slovenia or any other CEE country, make sure to check out our thesis and past success stories - you also find the link to apply here: https://lnkd.in/eiYEphBT #CEE #Italy #EmergingEurope #startups

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I'm incredibly proud to see the impact that tax-free shopping is having on Italy's economy from our article with Il Sole 24 Ore. The recent surge in tourism and tax-free purchases is a testament to the country's enduring appeal and the effectiveness of this program. 📈 But we can't stop there. At utu, we believe that tax-free shopping has the potential to be a transformative force for tourism. The current VAT refund industry has been limited to being efficient processors of refunds, an administrative service. We envision a future where VAT refunds are kept within the Italian economy, creating a virtuous cycle of spending that benefits everyone – tourists, businesses, and the country as a whole. 🔄 Imagine a future where tourists are incentivized to spend their refunds at local shops and restaurants, discovering hidden gems and supporting businesses. This not only enhances the visitor experience but also injects vital funds into the economy, creating jobs and fostering growth. 🌱 We're already seeing this vision come to life through our partnerships with innovative brands like Coccinelle. Together, we're reimagining the tax-free shopping experience and unlocking its full potential. 🤝 Let's continue to push the boundaries and make Italy a global leader in tax-free shopping. The future is bright, and together, we can make it even brighter! ✨ #TaxFreeShopping #Italy #Tourism #TravelTech #Innovation #utu #TravelFintech #Coccinelle #ShopLocal #EconomicGrowth

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My comments (translated below) were included in this Il Sole 24 Ore article: In the first half of 2024, Chinese brands reached a market share of 63.3%, followed by the Germans with 15%…As Bill Russo, CEO of Automobility Ltd (consultancy firm for businesses, startups, and investors, headquartered in Shanghai), states, "Thanks to their dominant position in the battery supply chain and in basic electronics, Chinese companies are able to offer electric vehicles at much more competitive prices than their foreign rivals. In addition, they offer increasingly digitized interiors, because Chinese consumers want the car to reflect their connected lifestyle." Aesthetics also play an important role. Many Chinese manufacturers have involved leading designers such as Wolfgang Egger (formerly of Ferrari and Audi, now at BYD), creating elegant and modern models. "China," Russo continues, "has the largest digital economy in the world, and many companies know how to integrate digital features that improve the ergonomics of interiors. It is a transformation that has been going on for over ten years and sees collaboration with Italian design centers such as Italdesign and Pininfarina." https://lnkd.in/gY3tXPzW

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Italy's VC scene: Booming early-stage & attracting global players 📈 The venture capital scene in Italy is evolving, offering a promising future for early-stage startups. With over 100 VC firms, the ecosystem is maturing. Key Trends: ◾ Early-Stage Focus: Emphasis on pre-seed and seed funding. ◾ Larger Funds: 71% increase in average fund size in 2023. ◾ Global Reach: Growing presence of European and North American investors. ◾ ESG Importance: Rise in Environmental, Social, and Governance investments. ◾ Tech Boom: AI and deep tech sectors attract significant interest. ◾ Diversity Priority: VCs favor startups promoting diversity. ⏭ Unveiling the Power Players: We've featured some of the top VCs driving this growth in our latest article. Learn more about the "Top 10 Early Stage Venture Capital Firms in Italy: Fueling Innovation and Growth" - https://lnkd.in/gN998xXu Vento | Growth Engine, | Delirus Capital | Zanichelli Venture | 40Jemz Ventures | NextSTEP | The Techshop SGR | Lumen Ventures | Sensible Capital | Opes Italia Sicaf About Zefyron : Our platform offers a comprehensive database of 2M startups and 350K investors, streamlining connections and networking. Design impactful pitch decks, Valuate your business, manage portfolios, gain insights, host events, and track industry trends- all in one platform. 🔗 Explore Zefyron: bit.ly/Zefyron 🔗 Sign up for FREE: bit.ly/ZefyronFree #VC #Startups #investors #Italy #Innovation #Zefyron

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The Zero One Hundred Mediterranean Conference. The #Mediterranean Zero One Hundred Conferences held under the patronage of Comune di Milano and Milano & Partners and hosted at Palazzo Mezzanotte in #Milan today and yesterday was a coming of age initiative to gather #international #PrivateEquity and #VentureCapital fund investors (#LPs) and fund managers (#GPs) from #Europe, #MENA, and #North America interested in the #Mediterranean. With the presence of over 700 #industryleaders, 500 LPs and GPs, 130 #speakers from 50 different #nationalities, #Italy’s opportunities as a #destination for #investments and for #fund #domiciles were top on the list. I had the pleasure to share the main stage in a highly motivating panel on “Why Choosing the Right #Jurisdictions Matters for Setting up a VC or PE Fund” with Stephanie Fabri Paolo Magni Eric Chinchon, brilliantly moderated by Tülin Tokatli, CFA Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale Mauro Battocchi Fabrizio Lobasso INNOVIT - Italian Innovation and Culture Hub Sergio Strozzi Alberto Acito Fiorenza Lipparini Giuseppe Donvito P101 Luigi Tommasini FONDO ITALIANO D INVESTIMENTO SGR SPA Marco Natoli European Investment Fund (EIF) Luca Rancilio Massimiliano Magrini Luca Mannucci Diego Alaimo Paolo Guida Chiara Orlandini, PhD Barbara Carfagna Gessyca Golia Simona Corno CDP Venture Capital SGR Alessandra Bechi AIFI - Associazione Italiana Private Equity, Venture Capital e Private Debt Stefano Onofri Medea Nocentini Ana Hernández del Castillo Alice Mariotti LIFTT Mauro Marconi VenCap International plc #InnovationDiplomacy #GrowthDiplomacy #Startups #innovation #digital #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #finance #investments

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"Italian Fintech Map 2024", interesting report published now in October 2024 by Fintech District, Politecnico di Milano & Osservatori Digital Innovation. 👇 This report provides an overview of Italy's #Fintech and #Insurtech ecosystem in 2023, highlighting 622 #startups, with 109 focused on #Insurtech. The document details the steady growth of the Fintech District Community, now representing 300 #companies, 30% of which are international, showcasing insights from a collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano. Link: https://lnkd.in/dUVJHpVe #web4 #web5 #fintech #digitalera #defi #cryptocurrency #digitalcurrency #virtualassets #digitalassets #virtualcurrency #digitaltransformation #blockchain #dlt #stablecoins #cryptoassets #web3 #tokenization #RWAs #NFTs #DAOs #RWAs #staking #mining #ZKPs #tokenomics #gamefi #lending #CEXs #DEXs #DePIN #LSTs 

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#preseed #seed #seriesA #businessplan As i said many times at preseed and seed a #businessplan make no sense!

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[BNPL for Business] 💎💎 - According to a study by Allianz Trade in Italia, 73% of companies in the B2B sector still manage customer payments using traditional methods, despite many using platforms like CRM. However, there is a strong trend towards digitalization: 60% of businesses that already use a comprehensive digital platform, including payments, plan to invest in improving or replacing existing solutions. Meanwhile, 42% of current non-users are considering investing in more comprehensive technologies, indicating a potential increase in future adoption. https://lnkd.in/d37hmbWc #buynowpaylater #bnpl #b2b #ecommerce #openbanking #psd2  #fintech #future #credito #cashflow #Allianztrade #money #startups #innovation  #InnovazioneAziendale #PagamentiFlessibili #BusinessIntelligence #InStore #PayLink #Allianztradeitalia 

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This is a call from Fintech & Insurtech Observatory - Milano Politecnico Read below and share your project!👇 #hackathon

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💥 Yesterday we announced a significant milestone with the launch of the Italian Founders Fund. We've gathered a community of over 100 founders and entrepreneurs who have come together to support the next generation of founders with a €50m fund. It's really exciting to see how much support there is for the next generation. Since I started to cover the 🇮🇹 Italian market with Global Founders Capital 3 years ago, I've witnessed so much development.I've met many talented individuals and ambitious new founders who are building the next generation of tech companies, and Italians across the VC landscape (Italians in VC). The pay-it-forward model from experienced founders towards the new generation has been essential in many ecosystems, and we aim to deliver it in Italy with significant impact. Founders are at the heart of what we're building in IFF. We look forward to collaborating with many angels, local investors and supporting the increasing interest from foreign investors. We also aim to support Italian founders abroad and foreign ventures looking to enter the Italian market. More details on our website and press in comments below. Italian Founders Fund Ascanio Orombelli Alessandra Santi Sonia Maciuszewicz Giorgio Valaguzza Davide Dattoli Zhang Andrea Colombo Matteo de Brabant Francesco Fumagalli Koinos Capital SGR Paolo De Nadai

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ItalAI - Italian Ingenuity in Artificial Intelligence 🌐 Our mission is to advance AI innovation and, thanks to our talented team, everything is possible.  From experienced AI researchers and industry professionals to promising young innovators, PhD and University students, our team combines deep expertise with fresh perspectives. Together, we're driving advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and natual language processing to tackle real-world challenges. We want you to know us better, so stay tuned for an upcoming series on our team members and their path in ItalAI ! #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #TechStartup #AI

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One of the most interesting ideas emerging recently is e/acc, effective accelerationism. I'll have a live conversation about it with Giulio Prisco on May 7 at 3pm CET (in Italian). Join us! https://lnkd.in/dVe8KfUy Giulio Prisco is a renowned futurist, cosmist and advocate of effective accelerationism (e/acc). Discover the interesting intersection between technology, philosophy and the future in this in-depth study of the concepts and principles of e/acc. From great cosmist aspirations to the practical applications of accelerating progress, this conversation is a stimulating exploration of human potential and the role of technology in shaping our future. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn from one of the brightest minds in the field of Futurist thinking. Can you briefly explain the fundamental principles of effective accelerationism (e/acc) and how it differs from other Futurist philosophies? How do you see e/acc as a continuation or evolution of the ideas of cosmism and extropia? In your opinion, what are the most significant challenges facing humanity today, and how can e/acc help solve these challenges? Can you delve deeper into the concept of "out-of-balance thermodynamics" and its relevance to the objectives of e/acc? What is the role you see for artificial intelligence in movement and/acc, and how do you imagine the development and integration of AI with human society? How do you respond to criticism that e/acc could lead to greater inequality or loss of control over technologies? What is your vision for the future of humanity and the universe in the context of e/acc? How do you see the relationship between e/acc and other emerging technologies, such as space exploration, biotechnology and nanotechnology? How can people and society help achieve e/acc goals and accelerate progress towards a better future? What are your thoughts on the ethical considerations surrounding e/acc, and how can we ensure that technology is used responsibly and for the good of all?

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Ilya Sutskever, ex Chief Scientist di OpenAI, ha dato a John Carmack una lista di 27 paper dicendogli👇🏽 ‘Se impari veramente tutto questo, saprai il 90% di ciò che conta oggi nell’AI.’ Ecco la lista: 1. The Annotated Transformer 2. The First Law of Complexodynamics 3. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs 4. Understanding LSTM Networks 5. Recurrent Neural Network Regularization 6. Keeping Neural Networks Simple by Minimizing the Description Length of the Weights 7. Pointer Networks 8. ImageNet Classification with Deep CNNs 9. Order Matters: Sequence to sequence for sets 10. GPipe: Efficient Training of Giant Neural Networks using Pipeline Parallelism 11. Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition 12. Multi-Scale Context Aggregation by Dilated Convolutions 13. Neural Quantum Chemistry 14. Attention Is All You Need 15. Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate 16. Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks 17. A Simple NN Module for Relational Reasoning 18. Variational Lossy Autoencoder 19. Relational RNNs 20. Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton 21. Neural Turing Machines 22. Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin 23. Scaling Laws for Neural LMs 24. A Tutorial Introduction to the Minimum Description Length Principle 25. Machine Super Intelligence Dissertation 26. Kolmogorov Complexity 27. CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition Puoi trovare tutto in questa cartella: https://lnkd.in/drD_-tMk #ai #education #openai

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What are the Best International Startup Accelerators Outside of Italy? Beyond NAStartUp? Check out my post here https://lnkd.in/dJVURyrZ with all the links to the official websites ;) #startups #accelerators #tips #killermedia

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💭 Until a few years ago I had no idea what a #startup was, today I work for one of the most prominent Italian #VC. 🍀 Coming from a completely different background I was unaware of how the #innovation ecosystem worked - back then baby vc had not yet landed in Italy - and my story was mostly driven by luck. ‼ Outside of this VC bubble, most people have no idea of what we do, and those who are curious find it hard to get answers. 💡 I am no investor (and love to work on the platform side of VC - another mystery for most), but I strongly believe that if you want to be one, you should be able to become one. 💥 So, let's all work to make this VC world a little more #accessible and #inclusive! Everyone should have agency on their future. (check out baby vc's mission https://www.babyvc.co/) 🔋 If you are a stakeholder of the innovation ecosystem and wants to collaborate, don't hesitate to reach out! The second Italian bootcamp is coming...

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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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