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📢 Just over a month to go until #ITW2024, the event that gathers the brightest minds and key players in the tech world in the spectacular OGR venue. Don't miss any updates and discover all the exciting events by following @italiantechweek. 🗓️ September 25-26-27, 2024 📍 OGR Torino Secure your free ticket 🚀 https://lnkd.in/dyVKSmgN

Even though our August will be all about #ITW2024 (the most exciting tech event is just around the corner, make sure to get your ticket through the link in bio or at @italiatechweek), we’ve decided to share a special edition of our reading recommendations featuring the books we'll be taking to the OGR beach. Take a look! 🦒 “What I Learned About Investing from Darwin” by Pulak Prasad How can bumblebees’ survival strategies help us accept that we might miss out on Tesla? It sounds like a bizarre question, but in Pulak Prasad’s pages, the investment profession and evolutionary biology find a brilliant intersection. If you’ve been looking for an enlightening alternative tool to navigate the market, here it is! 🤖 “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI” by Ethan Mollick AI is everywhere. Every new startup, as well as established companies and multinationals, are integrating it into their services and relying on it. Does this mean AI will become the universal, sole worker as many fear? Not quite. In fact, it will not only enhance what we do but also who we are, according to Ethan Mollick and his virtuous coexistence with AI. 🏎️ “The Formula” by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg The doors to the world’s most exciting Circus open wide for two Wall Street Journal reporters who sought to understand how F1 has become the world’s fastest-growing sport. If you’re in the mood for a book that combines excellent business analysis with compelling storytelling, look no further: “The Formula” is your perfect beach read/supercar.

Hey founders and friends of Vento! 🚀 The latest issue of our newsletter just dropped, and we hope it finds you relaxing on the beach or exploring new trails and cities! This month, we covered all the milestones achieved so far (and most importantly those still to come). As always, the newsletter it's packed too with wisdom pills, reading recommendations, and exciting opportunities. What are you waiting for? Go check it out, and if you haven't subscribed yet, do it 👇 https://lnkd.in/dzb3bM6i

🌟 It’s been almost two months since our Investor Day, and we’re feeling a bit nostalgic for those days when OGR was filled with the energy of aspiring founders entering the Venture Building program. Fortunately, applications for the new season of Vento open next month! We can't wait to meet and select the next exceptional talents for the upcoming batch! Stay tuned for all the info! 📅

🚀 Trying to grow your early-stage startup? When testing new features, do it quickly, and even faster, decide whether to keep them or kill them. Because as Andrea Chirolli, founder and CEO of Futura, told the founders of Vento’s previous batch during one of the first Beer Tuesdays of the year, the point isn’t to act quickly when things work, but when they don’t go as hoped. Listen to all the advice in the new video and keep following us for more news from the Vento world! 🍻

✨ More than asking what you can do with Sibill as an SME, you should ask what you can't do. Sibill is one of the startups in our Investments portfolio, created by Mattia Montepara, Lorenzo Liguori, and Dario Prencipe and it acts like a "Swiss Army knife" for companies to seamlessly, quickly, and automatically manage their financial operations. To give you a better introduction to Sibill, we gave Mattia a call, and here’s what he had to say! 📞

They are CyLock; they solve problems 😎 CyLock, a cybersecurity startup in our portfolio, has successfully raised €500,000 in a funding round led by Scientifica Venture Capital, with participation from us, CDP Venture Capital, and Startup Wise Guys. "We don't want to provide just another dashboard for security specialists; we've radically changed the perspective, shifting from a vulnerability management dashboard to a tool that offers concrete solutions to stop hacker attacks," said 🍀 Diego Padovan CEO of CyLock. Since its inception, CyLock has tackled the challenge of a global cybersecurity talent shortage, which leaves organizations vulnerable to cyberattacks costing an estimated $6 trillion annually. EVA, their innovative SaaS solution, self-configures and simulates thousands of attacks with precision, eliminating the need for advanced configuration skills and drastically reducing pentesting time by over 80%. Once again, congratulations to the CyLock team on this incredible achievement! 🚀🔒

Are you stocking up on reading or viewing recommendations to pass the time during your vacation? Here we have selected a few things that we really liked lately. Take a look 👀 🚀 “What’s Next for Quantum Computing” by Michael Brooks - MIT Technology Review Curious to discover how quantum computers can talk to each other? Or do you want to find out how advancements in quantum computing are shaping a new era for technology and entrepreneurship? Whatever the case, Michael Brooks has written the perfect article for you. Discover more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dAtdDUZS 📈 “IPOs and More Late Stage Funding: The State of the Market, in Data” by Sarah Drumm - Sifted We know 2023 was tough for startups as funding dried up and valuations fell, BUT, as Sarah Drumm reports in her article, things have gotten a lot better during the first quarters of 2024, according to data. From AI, and Climate Tech to the increased availability of late-stage funding in Europe, take a closer look at the state of the startup market. Discover more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUNE2w9T 🚫 “The E.U. Goes Too Far” by Ben Thompson - Stratechery While the European Commission just announced concrete steps towards a European network of VCs to accelerate growth, it continues its battle with tech giants with sanctions over privacy and data collection issues. This stance is having consequences that could affect the spread of new technologies on the continent. Ben Thompson discusses it in detail. Discover more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g5QsNe_Y Let us know your thoughts in the comments and keep following us for more recommendations and news from the Vento world.

Did you know that fundraising and the “soul” of your venture are tightly linked? At the beginning of Vento’s last batch, we met Davide Dattoli Zhang, Founder and Executive Chairman of Talent Garden Board Member, and Angel Investor, during one of our recurring appointments with successful entrepreneurs and VCs called “Beer Tuesday”. That evening, Davide gave our founders a lot of useful advice, some of which was about one of the most delicate moments for an entrepreneur: fundraising. Watch the full video and let us know what you think in the comments below ⏬

Hey founders and friends of Vento!  July has arrived, and so has the new issue of our newsletter! Discover the latest updates, wisdom pills, opportunities, and reading recommendations we have selected for you by checking your inbox. And if you haven't subscribed yet, check the link in our bio!