Category: Ecosystem

Rancilio Cube, the family office of the Rancilio family, created Cube3, a new Italian vehicle for international venture capital investments. Rancilio Cube was established by Luca Rancilio, his sister Silvia and his mother Adele in 2013, with the proceeds received from the...

On January 1st, 2016, Italy became the first European country and the second country in the world – after the US – to create a new legal status called “Società Benefit” (Benefit Corporation). With the Law n. 208/2015, the Italian Government introduced...

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...

The Decree Law No. 34, issued on 30 April 2019 (“Decreto Crescita”), introduced the regulation governing the Simple Investment Company (“Società di Investimento Semplice” or “SIS”), a new structure to support the development of Italian start-ups and SMEs. In particular, the Simple...

In this article you find a brief analysis of the current status of the Italian start-up and innovation ecosystem. It is a synthetic analysis of the key elements that mostly describe an ecosystem. For more information please contact me. Background Italy is...