Fabio Di Gioia

🚀 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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𝐏𝐄 𝐯𝐬. 𝐕𝐂 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞: 𝐀 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 Our latest data at Gain.pro highlights how PE and VC firms invest across Europe: ▪ PE-backed businesses are widely spread across the continent ▪ VC-owned assets are clustered in cities 📊 Sector focus drives this: – VC assets = 47% TMT (vs. 17% for PE) → drawn to innovation hubs – PE = 24% Services + 22% Industrials (vs. 13% & 7% for VC) → broader geographic reach beyond capitals 🌍 Top destinations: – Both: London & Paris lead – VC: 25% of assets in 11 cities (Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam next) – PE: 25% spread across 22 cities (Stockholm, Milan, Madrid stand out) ➡️ Same continent. Very different maps.

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In June, at Aldea Ventures’s AGM, I argued one simple thesis: Europe can lead the next tech cycle — if public capital stops being an afterthought and venture capital takes the risk in risk capital and bets on wicked founders and future tech. Quick summary: 1️⃣ The last cycle favoured software. The next one looks different - physical tech, deep-tech and AI-driven engineering are the front-runners. 2️⃣ Europe already has policy instruments and grant capital that can absorb front-loaded technical risk - that matters. Where we fail is follow-on private capital, scale-up craft and exit markets. 3️⃣ That’s an opportunity: more founders, more mission-driven micro-VCs, and smarter public-private playbooks can flip the script - as long as policy walks the talk on their ambitious plans. Why this matters: winners will be defined by who captures value in hardware + platform adjacencies - and Europe has a measurable shot if we back the boldest builders on the continent and leverage public capital smartly. I’ve challenged public funding repeatedly for speed & efficiency — but I’ve also seen deep-tech teams achieve ~1.5–3× public leverage on small pre-seed tickets, using grants to hyper-efficiently de-risk early technical milestones. DM for a deeper discussion, or comment your PoV.

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