On this episode, we meet up with Diyala D’Aveni, Head of Vento, an Italian enterprise capital agency backed by Exor Ventures that focuses on discovering distinctive founders with the ambition to construct nice corporations and supporting them from pre-seed to pre-IPO. So far, they’ve invested over €480 million in 76 startups globally.
Diyala can also be the organizer of Italian Tech Week, Italy’s main tech convention, which has drawn a few of the greatest names in tech, together with Brian Chesky, Sam Altman, Doug Leone, Sarah Guo, Mike Volpi, and plenty of others.
On this dialog, Diyala shares her journey within the startup world, providing insights into private development, the mission of Vento, and the way forward for Italy’s startup ecosystem. She additionally highlights the significance of group, the challenges founders face, and the neglected traits within the Italian tech scene. Diyala displays on her experiences from Italian Tech Week, offers a glimpse into what it takes to draw tech legends to Turin, and rather more!
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Key takeaways:
- The EU should foster sustainable innovation to stay aggressive.
- Don’t let your inner biases cease you from fulfilling your full potential.
- It’s all about investing in individuals first reasonably than the expertise or the concept.
- Having a worldwide ambition from day one is essential for founders.
- The Italian startup ecosystem wants deep structural adjustments to have the ability to meet up with different European nations.
- Too many extremely proficient individuals in Italy are leaving the nation and on the lookout for alternatives elsewhere.
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