Dig Ventures

The Founder's Odyssey: Leaving, Learning, and Launching Again was the title of this panel at the Italian Tech Week. Two years ago, I was announcing my departure from exec roles at Scalapay, a company I still have in my heart and support to the best of my ability. A period of uncertainty followed. I had to take some time off to reflect and learn from my journey. It hasn’t been easy. Finally, a few days ago we unveiled what we’ve been developing at Desia with Alessandro, Mehmet and a stellar team. We've benefited from the backing of Dig Ventures led by Ross who’s been my sparring partner on stage and in everyday life. A special thanks to Scott who’s been making it possible behind the scenes. This is going to be my last post for a while. Exciting times ahead for AI. Heads down building.

We're thrilled to announce that Dig Ventures led the $3.3 million pre-seed funding round for Desia, a system of intelligence that leverages advanced AI for automation, analytics, and productivity in financial services. About Desia: Founded by Raffaele Terrone, co-founder of Italy's first unicorn, Scalapay, alongside former Advent International executive Alessandro Amaro and Mehmet Öner Yalçin, Desia aims to revolutionize how investment professionals interact with data. Why It Matters: The manual sorting of vast amounts of often unstructured data is costly and time-consuming for investment professionals. Desia’s AI-driven approach not only streamlines these processes but also drives a transformative shift towards more informed and effective investment strategies. Their approach is focused and will change the way professionals discover, collate, analyse and present data. This is an important step for human-ai collaboration. Plus I'm super excited to be working with Raffaele and his team. A big shout-out to our co-investors 2100 Ventures, Vento by Exor Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Foreword Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures, and LaunchBay Capital, and to the visionary angel investors who joined this round. Sifted: https://lnkd.in/emgtDme7 PR: https://lnkd.in/eXq6dsaT #VentureCapital #ArtificialIntelligence #FinancialServices #Innovation #StartUpFunding

Congratulations to the team at Talsec! Coming in the footsteps of Avast, Jetbrains and others, Talsec is emerging as the next high potential community-centric startup from the Czech Republic, already providing mission critical protection to thousands of applications globally. We at Dig Ventures are thrilled to back this great team, and excited for our 3rd investment in the country following Deepnote and Rossum 🇨🇿 📱 ❤️ Excited to be working with Michal Ciffra at DEPO Ventures on this investment and grateful to our friends at Presto Ventures who put us all in the same room a while back!

We hosted our first Annual General Meeting for Dig Ventures . It's been a tough year for everybody to raise capital, so this was a nice reminder that we are doing something good here. Big thanks to our portfolio founders: Yann Sarfati @ Userled, Matthaus Krzykowski @ dltHub, Sebastian Jorna @ Tidalflow, Mirko Novakovic @ Dash0, Jake Dreyfuss @ PolyAPI, Otto Hilska @ Swarmia, who told their stories, to our investors for believing in the team and, of course, to the Dig team; Melissa, Scott, Rytis & Ruth. cc: Darko Vukovic Coen Stevens Marcin Rudolf Spencer Crawley Julie Kainz Danny Hadar