Vento

Sometimes all it takes is a first step into the unknown (and the right framework to give structure to your entrepreneurial dream). We can provide you the latter through our Venture Building program, with funding, a support team, the chance to meet top-tier professionals and VCs, find your co-founders, and pitch your startup on the ITW stage. At Italian Tech Week we bumped into Melissa (Lester) Klinger, Partner at DIG Ventures, and she left a message for all the talented aspiring founders out there. What’s up to you is to take the leap of faith, believe in your talent, and apply to Season 5 of Vento. Applications are still open, but not for too long 🚀 > https://lnkd.in/dj6m6xWQ

You’re smart, stubborn, and ready to take real risks? You spend your nights - and we’re quoting one of the Season 4 founders - thinking about quitting everything to finally build something you’re proud of - something truly yours? Then this post is for you. Why do we run Italian Tech Week? Because impact needs a home and the talent needs a stage. That’s why, starting this year, we brought Investor Day, the final, culminating moment of our Venture Building program, onto Italy’s biggest tech event. The ecosystem needs founders like the ones we see every year in the program: people who are not afraid to take risks and aim higher. If you think you could be one of the groundbreaking founders of tomorrow, read how this year’s Investor Day went, picture yourself on that stage, and apply to Season 5 of Vento’s Venture Building. Applications are open. > https://lnkd.in/dj6m6xWQ

If you spend your nights thinking about quitting everything to finally build something you’re proud of - something truly yours - stop overthinking and apply to our venture building program. Find your team, a problem worth solving, develop your startup, get funded, pitch on Italian Tech Week stage next year. It sounds like a dream, but it’s just the Current. Join now, three days left. Apply here > https://lnkd.in/dj6m6xWQ

We care about the space between academia and venture, because that’s where new builders and talents emerge. This spring we had partner with Innovis VC, Europe’s largest VC student association, for a hands-on project on Agentic AI and their ever evolving landscape. By June, they delivered a comprehensive and thoughtful report of the landscape back then, the result of sharp research and solid execution. Many thanks to the team members for their excellent work: Adriano Michieli Julius Scholl Weronika Gorecka David Mkhitaryan Andrea Alivernini Leo Maximilian Block Curious about their findings? Get the full report here > https://lnkd.in/dHmS5wVN

You could see it on their faces. You could sense it in the focus of those in the audience. You could feel it in the air. Investor Day isn’t just another day. It’s an important milestone in the journey: the chance to present to international VCs the solution you’ve spent months finding, validating, shaping, and giving traction to, turning weeks of research, mistakes, and flashes of genius into a three-minute pitch. Those three minutes may have changed the lives of the teams from Season 4 as they’re saying goodbye to the program, now, and embarking on their real adventure, outside the protected harbor which is our venture building program. For you, it could take even less. Applications for Season 5 of our Venture Building program are open and few days are left to apply. Bring your talent, bring your ambition: you don’t need a team or even an idea. Just yourself, and the drive to join a Current that will take you far. So, what are you waiting for? Take the leap. > https://lnkd.in/dj6m6xWQ

Vento isn’t just a portfolio, a venture building program, or an event. It’s more than the sum of its parts. In one word: it’s a force. On day one of Italian Tech Week, Mike Volpi, General Partner at Hanabi Capital and member of the investment committee of our second €75M fund, shared his view on the European and Italian tech landscape. What’s missing? First, the right infrastructure: a way to connect successful startups, emerging founders, and the resources to support them both. That’s the role we built Vento to play. Second, talent willing to take risks and bold enough to create the next game-changing startup. Are you one of them? Good news: applications for Season 5 of our Venture Building program are about to close. Give your talent a real shot. Join the Current. > https://lnkd.in/dj6m6xWQ

AI developing new scientific theories, validate them and publish them fully autonomously. Seems bold? Well, that’s the vision behind ScienceMachine, one of the startups in our portfolio. Founded by Lorenzo Sani and Benjamin Tenmann, ScienceMachine is building AI agents that help biotech and pharmaceutical scientists find insights in complex biomedical data, without needing to code or rely on overstretched data science teams. Keep up with the great work ScienceMachine

five.degrees is coming to Italy 🇮🇹 Meet the founders shaping Italy’s next global success stories. At five.degrees, we’re building Europe’s most selective talent pool of future founders and operators. Next stop: Milan. Our vision: an Entrepreneurial Talent Flywheel where today’s ambitious talents join breakout startups, learn from the best founders, build companies, and bring up the next generation. To power this flywheel, we’ve built the fastest way to connect with Europe’s most exciting early-stage teams. For the first time, five.degrees Italy brings together a curated group of 50 commercial and technical talents to meet exceptional Italian founders who are hiring. We’ve joined forces with our friends at Eurazeo and Vento to bring you the very best teams. The first batch kicks off live in Milan on November 5th, co-hosted by Futura. Application link in comments. cc Olivia Hupfeld, zoran kokolanski

Pushing for entrepreneurialism pt2 & pt3. Our Venture Building is just one part of the equation to make waves in the ecosystem. That’s why we’ve decided to support, as Vento, two great initiatives for those who don’t feel ready yet to take the leap: ♥️ Lovable Hackathon with our friends at Yellow Tech and our founders at Pillar, Veliu, and Volta Software.  If you want to have a taste of the founder experience and see what it takes to build a product that matters in a span of a day, this one is for you ✋🏻 “Meet the founders night” with our friends at five.degrees in collaboration with Eurazeo and our portco Futura. If you want to join as an early employee one of the top startups in Italy and learn how the craft is done before launching your stuff in the future, that’s the place to be. All the links to apply in the comment below 👇 Antonio, Gabriel, Gianmaria, Mario, Alberto, Olivia, zoran, Giulia, Remko