Manifesto

The Techshop was born out of the desire to harness Italy’s plentiful seed investment opportunities while amplifying our contribution to the Italian Tech Ecosystem.

We see a bulge forthcoming of more than Eur 16 bn per annum in extra software expenditures by PMI and large firms throughout the next years, also fuelled by the PNRR expansive programme.

A good part of this demand cannot be satisfied by established software vendors, providing oftentimes monolithic and expensive product platforms, also too dependent on old-style commercial offerings, but it will rather be available for newcomers, offering both on-premise and SAAS-cloud value propositions. These are the up and coming digital companies, that will spearhead innovation throughout the major economies. The hit or the failure of this creative destruction depends on the presence of knowledgeable early-stage investors. The Techshop aims to be one of those.

Our recipe starts from a meticulous screening of talented teams, to whom we will provide patient capital and our “tech workshop tools”: mentorship, managerial support, and access to a wider network of expertise.

We also think the Italian cultural heritage, far from being out-of-date, may become an asset in the current economic world. Just like the “bottegas” of the renaissance era, true innovation hotbeds but also constant status-quo challengers, we will bet on product excellence and knowledge dissemination, keeping a steadfast focus on sales expansion and sustainability of the companies we will invest into.

A tenacious founding team is a key to success in a digital startup: the team is the product. We aim to develop the founders’ full potential, challenging them to raise the bar and to think on a global scale. For this, we have developed a human capital evaluation framework that is thorough and “fact-based”, just like any other due diligence area.