Filippo Satolli

🚀 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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LegacyCo firms buy every innovation. NewCo needs just one: coherence. LegacyCo acquires hundreds of digital companies. Invests billions in AI. But the bigger they grow, the less coherent they become. The very act of becoming everything makes it impossible to be anything with excellence. Talent flows to returns, not bureaucracy. And returns increasingly flow to coherence. The Coherence Premium Each acquisition adds another translation layer. Each platform requires another governance committee. Their data exposes the truth: massive AI adoption, minimal usage. When Zhang Ruimin eliminated 12,000 managers at Haier and replaced them with 4,000 autonomous micro-enterprises, revenue doubled from $20B to $40B. Not because he added capabilities. Because he removed friction. The Accountability Arbitrage LegacyCo celebrates carrying billions in indemnity insurance. But this "absolution as a service" model amplifies their fundamental weakness. When you sell accountability arbitrage, you attract clients who want to outsource responsibility, not build capability. The very clients who need transformation most seek protection from it. NewCo doesn't need billion-dollar coverage because they're not in the absolution business. Judgment as Architecture Distributed judgment isn't about empowerment. It's about velocity. NewCo: Teams own P&Ls. Engineers deploy without approval chains. Authority follows expertise, not org charts. LegacyCo: Information flows up. Decisions flow down. By the time judgment reaches information, the moment has passed. Coherence rewards high-variance contributors; those whose impact scales with autonomy. Their talent doesn't leave for better titles. They leave for the ability to act on what they know. The Depth Advantage Markets increasingly reward depth over breadth. LegacyCo builds broader moats. NewCo builds deeper ones. LegacyCo's advantages global scale, regulatory expertise matter less when clients need answers in hours, not weeks. NewCo doesn't try to out-LegacyCo LegacyCo. They change what strategic value means. Not better video stores but streaming. Not faster consulting but continuous intelligence. Speed beats scale. Coherence beats capability. Markets move faster than managers. Always. LegacyCo will keep acquiring. Keep growing. NewCo needs only one advantage: coherence. The market has already started deciding. (Full post sent to newsletter subscribers)

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🥇Here is DigitalFoodLab's European AgriFoodTech Top 50. Each year, we gather all the data that we have at DigitalFoodLab on FoodTech startups and elaborate a list of the 50 startups that we think have the biggest potential for growth, a significant exit, or to leverage innovation to improve the agrifood value chain in the year ahead. 📆 This edition was more challenging than previous years: startups raise money and have fewer successes to report, making it harder to evaluate where they are. Behind the scenes, and even in the absence of deals (or maybe due to that), the AgriFood innovation ecosystem is undergoing significant changes; that’s why we made numerous adjustments to the mapping, removing more than 50% of last year’s startups. 🧑‍🌾 AgTech: We have chosen to remove insect farming startups as their potential seems to be decreasing with each year. On the contrary, we now have four startups focused on bioinputs and two (Agreena and Klim) focused on carbon credits and supporting farmers on their transition towards regenerative practices. 📦 Supply Chain: by adding Brainr (which recently raised €11M), we reflect the growing wave of innovation to support efficiency gains in the food supply chain through digitisation. 🛵 Delivery: most of these startups have revenues in the multiple hundreds of millions. it confirms that this ecosystem is increasingly mature. 👨‍🍳 Foodservice: we have added a couple of players (Nory, Teby) leveraging artificial intelligence to help improve restaurant management. Foodservice is one of the areas where AI makes the most sense in the short-term in AgriFoodTech. 📱Consumer Tech: we observe the growth of players like Yazen with great interest. Focused on weight loss or supporting people with diabetes, this new generation of food coaching platforms is attracting a great number of consumers by leveraging AI and image recognition. 👨‍🔬Food Science: this category is increasingly more divided between a large number of brands (which are slightly underrepresented in this mapping) and startups at the intersection of FoodTech and Biotech. This is notably the case of players like Cradle and Basecamp research, two protein discovery/design startups. 👉 Click here to find the full list with the description of the activity of the 50 startups: https://lnkd.in/e_h3ckXh #AgTech #FoodTech #innovation

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🚀 Thrilled to share that Maisa has raised $25M in seed funding led by Creandum, with participation from Forgepoint Capital International via its European JV with Banco Santander, NFX, and Village Global! While 95% of generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable impact (MIT NANDA), we're proving there's a better way forward. We've built trustworthy Agentic AI that actually works in mission-critical operations. Digital workers that explain their logic and document every step. The mission has always been clear: make AI accountable. In a world where businesses need to trust their AI systems as much as they trust their best employees, accountability is essential. Every decision, every action, every outcome must be traceable and explainable. This approach is fundamentally different, and that's exactly why world-class investors are backing us. They see what we see: the future of enterprise AI is about accountable systems that deliver real results. With this investment, we're scaling our teams in AI R&D, engineering, and customer success across Europe and North America to help more enterprises deploy AI they can actually trust. To my co-founder Manuel Romero, our incredible team, and our early customers who believed in our vision: this is just the beginning. Check out the TechCrunch article for the full story on how we're transforming enterprise AI.

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