Alessandro Ravanetti

🚀 Excited to back Leo Acciarri, Francesco Paolo Defendi, and Mattia Zarrelli - three founders combining strong engineering, platform building and software development skills - who are tackling the big workforce shift of our times: the rise of skilled blue collar workers. They are building Gyver, an enterprise workforce infrastructure company to shape the careers of 1 in 5 skilled blue collars in EU. As a first step, Gyver built an AI-powered recruitment platform, rethinking how millions of technicians and electricians find jobs by recreating trusted word-of-mouth recommendations on WhatsApp. Workers apply with one click, while employers finally gain access to talent that is otherwise out of reach. Why now? 📊 40%+ of European employers face skilled trade shortages, blocking progress in the energy transition and reindustrialization. ⚡ Gyver has already built Italy’s largest community of electricians (21,000+ strong), who now use WhatsApp to discover jobs, apply instantly, and stay engaged through conversational AI. 🏗️ Top employers in the electrical sector are already hiring through the platform (the likes of Enpal, Schneider Electric, ...) Really fast-moving, hands-on founding team solving a real-economy problem that truly matters. Thrilled to welcome you to the portfolio, team!

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FemWealth Issue 227 highlights 💌 In the Spotlight 💸 Co-founded and led by Bianca Cefalo, Space DOTS® helps space tech manufacturers and operators to detect, interpret, and attribute natural and human-originated threats in orbit. The London-based company announced a $1.5M Seed round led by Female Founders Fund. Startup News: - Co-founded by Haya Odeh, Replit, a San Francisco-based agentic software creation platform, secured $250M at a $3B valuation - Co-founded by Sylvie Menezo, SCINTIL Photonics, a France-based company that develops light-based components to enable AI chips to connect better and faster in data centres, raised a $58M Series B - Led by Dr Daniela Marino, CUTISS AG, a Swiss clinical-stage biotech developing personalised, scalable skin tissue therapy, raised €57.9M in Series C - Led by Kate Condliffe, Diana Health (We're Hiring!), a New York City-based network of women’s health practices, closed $55M in Series C  - Founded and led by Alyx van der Vorm, Clyx, a US social platform that helps users find community events to join, closed a $14M Series A - Co-founded by Ioana Hreninciuc, Runware, a San Francisco startup providing a unified platform that delivers the latest AI models, raised a $13M Seed round  - Co-founded by Marianne Tikkanen, Puro.earth, a Helsinki-based company that brings together suppliers of carbon net-negative technologies and companies seeking to reduce or offset their carbon footprints, raised $12.8M in Series B - Co-founded and led by Avencia Sanchez-Mejias PhD, IntegraTherapeutics, a Barcelona startup that develops next-gen gene writing tools, raised $12.6M - Founded and led by Michelle Lee, Medra , a San Francisco startup developing AI-powered robotics for labs, raised $11M in Pre-Seed and Seed - Co-founded and led by Michal Lupu, Blocks, an Israeli AI-native platform that lets organizations build intelligent work tools and AI agents through simple conversation, raised $10M in Seed  - Co-founded and led by Noel Pugh, Lōvu Health, a California-based digital maternal health platform, raised $8M in Series A - Co-founded and led by Doris Messina,Tot, an Italy-based business platform for administrative and financial management, raised €7M in Pre-Series A - Co-founded by Hanah-Marie Darley, Geordie AI, a London startup building security tools for enterprises adopting AI agents, raised a $6.5M Seed   - Co-founded by Dr Jackie Matthew, Fraiya Ultrasound, a UK startup providing AI-powered pregnancy ultrasound technology, raised £3.5M in Pre-Seed - Co-founded by Tara O'Driscoll, PhD, Dr. Sioned Fôn Jones, and Lydia Mapstone, PhD, BoobyBiome, a London company developing a device universally compatible with breast milk storage bottles that absorbs oxygen to maintain microbiome viability, raised £2.5M in Seed  - Co-founded by Tanja Danner and Professor Aasa Feragen, Prenaital, a Danish startup providing AI-powered prenatal screening tech, secured $1.57M Read more and subscribe [link in comments section]

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