Strategy
“ “It’s a rare moment in which the stars align in the skies of our country. In the world today, Italy is where to invest”
Guido Maria Brera
“ “It’s a rare moment in which the stars align in the skies of our country. In the world today, Italy is where to invest”
Guido Maria Brera
investment thesis
FOCUS ON B2B
We deploy agile capital for product-led companies, offering new solutions to the enterprise world, that is innovations with an emerging market validation, obsessively iterated and improved by their creators.
We will seek rough diamonds in categories not covered by incumbents vendors, i.e. machine learning and productivity tools, business automation, e-commerce enablers.
SaaS and PaaS will be the distribution and pricing models which we will favour.
The 20+ strong pool of industry expert and advisors at our side allow us to delve into innovations across multiple sectors – such as fintech, proptech, insurtech and martech – and to be comfortably sector agnostic.
DEFENDABLE TECHNOLOGY ASSETS
We will only invest in startups which have tech/coding talent and product management at their core.
6 digital platforms are on our radar: AI, Analytics, IOT, Security, 5G, Cloud.
PROUDLY EARLY STAGE
Our “sweet spot” is Seed, where Italian Angels today are making up for the loss in focus of domestic VC funds and for the lack of international exposure. Occasionally, we may also join Series A rounds.
We believe we have the know-how to successfully interact with founders in this phase and contribute to the next stage of business and geographical expansion.
ITALY
We will focus on startups committed to Italy, as the starting base or as a key milestone in their business journey.
A special attention will be given to Italy’s Southern regions, where we believe we can find unexploited talent pools and insightful projects.
OUR NETWORK
The Techshop is an ecosystem player, able to catalyse inputs from 4 clusters:
The Techshop Team has already signed collaboration agreements with Angel Networks, Family Offices, Accelerators and Universities. Techshop Primo, our first fund, has been invested by some prominent family offices, entrepreneurs and high profile executives, who will reinforce our competency pool and fertilize the Techshop ecosystem.
Our domain experts panel with the help of our investors support Techshop team in every key step, from BP assessment to technology/IP diligence. The Techshop ecosystem is able to enhance the portfolio development and the value creation towards the exit stage.
Our global links will help catalyse our companies’ business expansion and M&A opportunities on overseas markets.