Author: Ilaria Cavalleri

xFarm is a start-up that aims to digitalise the agricultural industry, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and food supply chain’s stakeholders in the management of their companies. Matteo Vanotti, co-founder of the company, tells us more about xFarm and his personal...

With the Decree-Law 179/2012 (the “Startup Act”), the Italian Government introduced tax benefits to incentivised the use of stock options and work for equity schemes by innovative start-ups, with the aim of helping Italian start-ups’ to attract, motivate and retain employees and...

Nico Valenti Gatto is the Operating Director at Bocconi for Innovation (B4i), the Bocconi University’s division that supports entrepreneurship for students, alumni and beyond. Previously, Nico worked at Partech, a global venture capital fund, carrying out investment, fundraising, and corporate and start-up...

According to the 2019 report of the Open Innovation and Corporate Venture Capital Observatory, the Italian Corporate Venture Capital was valued € 489 million in 2018. The Observatory analysed the shareholding structures of 10.546 innovative start-ups, and identified 6.298 shareholders in the...

Giorgio Pautrie is the founder and CEO at Dante Medical Solutions, the Italian start-up that created MindTheGum, the nutritional supplement that optimises mental performance in the form of chewing gum (mindthegum.com). Dante Medical Solutions was founded by Giorgio and his brother Carlo...