Luca Bocchio

🚀 Big news from FirstPartyCapital Today we are proud to announce the launch of FirstPartyFinance, our new solution to help founders access the flexible, non-dilutive capital they need to scale. For too long, innovation in our sector has been held back by slow payment terms and a lack of understanding by traditional financial institutions. FirstPartyFinance aims to change that by connecting ad tech and digital media companies with debt solutions that increase cash flow, fuel growth, and allow founders to maintain more control and ownership of their companies. This marks the third pillar of our support model for adtech businesses: • FirstPartyCapital: direct investment in high-growth companies • FirstPartyStudio: strategic incubation and operational support • FirstPartyFinance: debt financing Delighted to be working with my former FastPay colleague, James Ryall, to launch this new business unit! FirstPartyFinance will serve companies both inside and outside the FPC equity portfolio, and seeks to provide global coverage including the US, UK, Europe, APAC, and Brazil. The goal is simple: Adtech vendors and publishers the liquidity they need to compete and innovate at a time of huge change in the industry. 👉 If you are building in adtech or digital media and want to explore how this can support your growth, we’d love to talk. #AdTech #VC #Innovation #FirstPartyFinance #FirstPartyCapital #FirstPartyStudio #lending #debtfinance

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🚀 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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"I could be the Lionel Messi of mining, but ..." Hg's Nic Humphries shares advice for young and old people about what to learn or study in the age of AI. Watch the entire conversation on Alt Goes Mainstream here: https://lnkd.in/erQGkAMK

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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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