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The past two days at Bolzano Slush’D were 🔥 The first-ever Italian chapter of Slush brought together founders and investors in the stunning NOI Techpark, right at the heart of the Dolomites. Seeing our portfolio stars WeRoad, Casavo, FlyingBasket, and SiriusGame light up the event was amazing. Huge shoutout to the organizers Cristian Frigo, Serena Galli and Stefano Ceravolo for pulling off such a vibrant and inspiring event. 🙌 Can’t wait for the next chapter! 🚀 #SlushdBolzano #StartupEcosystem #Networking #Innovation #Startup

#MonthlyRoundUp | July Wow, July was absolutely hectic! With big acquisitions and key partnerships, it’s been a whirlwind for B Heroes portcos. Check out the highlights below. 💻📱 Bending Spoons continues its exponential growth. In the last month, it has defined two major acquisitions: the first, Issuu, a digital publishing company, and the second, WeTransfer, a digital file-sharing giant. The latter is the Milan-based unicorn’s biggest acquisition. 💳 💲 Through a new partnership signed with Mesh, the fintech startup Conio has announced that they will start the first open banking for Bitcoin in Europe. 📈📝 Contents has defined two important strategic acquisitions in the field of AI-supported content creation. It acquires Zulla by Contents implementing its copywriting tools and also acquires 4W Marketplace, enabling it to expand its capabilities in the distribution and effectiveness of advertising space. 📚🧑💻 EPICODE is among the top 20 technology education companies globally, the only one in Italy in the STEAM cluster within HolonIQ’s new Global Education Outlook 2023 report. 🧊🍎 FrescoFrigo, after years of R&D investments into its technology, has registered a patent. It’s the only company in Europe with a registered patent. 🗂️📊 The Berlin-based startup sykell has been honored by the German Packaging Institute with the German Packaging Award 2024 for its SaaS solution CIRCULAR ERP, as the winner in the Digitalization category. 📝📉 TailorTask has launched its first demo, an A.I. solution for automating mundane tasks effortlessly and empowering non-technical users to brief an AI, improve a workflow plan, provide feedback, and maintain control. Here is the link for the demo ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dSSDuebY Super! Luca Ferrari Christian Miccoli Vincenzo Di Nicola Massimiliano Squillace Ivan Ranza Elena Costa Enrico Pandian Davide Mazzanti Michael A. Kappler Vittorio Banfi – #startup #bheroes #venturecapital #innovation #monthlyroundup

It's truly a special moment when we see the value and impact created by one of our portfolio companies being acknowledged. We are thrilled to share that 5 of our portfolio companies have been featured in the Sifted 50: Southern Europe Leaderboard report. From the remarkable achievements of Bending Spoons and Contents, making waves with recent funding rounds and significant acquisitions. To the growing players that are gaining momentum like WeRoad, Jobtech, and Babaco Market, recognized as part of the top 50 high-growth startups in Southern Europe based on revenue expansion. A big shoutout to all the founders and teams who have earned these significant accolades. 🙏🏻 Special thanks to Ruggero Di Spigna and the Sifted team for the amazing work! Dive into the report ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ddSc8bcq

Remember when we kicked off Spotlight last month? Our monthly appointment where we share the insights that caught the Investment Team's eye? Over the recent weeks, we have initiated an exploration of various subjects, ranging from procurement for small and medium-sized enterprises to the intricate realm of AI models. Take a brief overview and tell us if you ever heard about it. 🗂️ According to the Istat 2023 analysis, high costs, dated user experiences, and software inflexibility are sources of great dissatisfaction and fear in ERP implementation for Italian SMEs. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dxnqnhWX 🖥️ As reported by Retool, one-third of internal enterprise dev time is spent on developing internal tools that are secondary but instrumental to the core business. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dassxuvZ 🧠 The debate around LLMs and SLMs is on. Do you want the power of a generalist LLMs or the agility of SLMs models? The jury is out on which of the two approaches is best to adopt. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gNxtRrxt So, what’s the future of ERP? What should tech teams do to improve their time management? Power of LLMs or verticality of SLMs? Drop us a comment below about the insight that triggered you the most! Thanks to all the #BHFC founders who have joined us in analyzing the arguments above 🤝🏻 #startup #innovation #venturecapital #insights #spotlight #ai #digitaltransformation

📊 Which are the topics to consider when transitioning from a founder-led to a management-led company? A couple of weeks ago we gathered some of our portfolio companies for the third session of our #PortfolioMeetup focusing on the management of resources during the growth of a startup. Guest of this session was the B Heroes Foundes Club member Alessandro Petazzi, co-founder and former CEO of Musement who shared his experience about the transition from early-stage to growth. Ale provided us with many insights to bring home whose common point is to avoid inefficiencies due to loss of information among the management. Among these, the 3 main takeaways that we and our portcos bring home are the importance of introducing a figure like the Chief People Officer, the ability to translate information to align the team, and introducing from the beginning the dual-career path. Of fundamental support to the discussions and to whom a big thank you goes are Paolo Andreozzi of Jobtech, Paolo Facchetti of Dove.it, and Pasquale Emanuele Scopelliti of Snowit. #bheroes #venturecapital #innovation

#MonthlyRoundUp | June As June and summer began, B Heroes portfolio companies did not stop and continued to be a source of news and updates. Below is a sneak peek of the last few weeks: 📡🖥️  Babylon Cloud, thanks to Babylon Stream and the collaboration with Minerva Pictures, introduces Smart Vision TV, a new free streaming platform that is redefining the way people watch movies and TV series that guarantees a catalog of more than 500 titles with impeccable resolution. 💇🏻♂️✂️ Barberino's launches a new app that increases service personalization and introduces gamification, a new booking experience, and a digital wallet within the app. 📈📝 Contents, the innovative generative artificial intelligence platform, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on the Crowdcube platform. 📙💼  Jobtech has been included in the top 10 of ChooseMyCompany's #HappyIndexAtWork. ♻️👩🏻🌾 Planet Farms, agritech company in hashtag vertical farming, wins a 6.9 million euro EU-funded PNRR call for proposals. Aim: to develop the logistics system of the new plant in Cirimido. 🎓📚 Talent Garden Italia, announces the introduction of a new CEO, Giuseppe Mayer, who will have a specific focus on the Italian market, the group's first market. 🌎📃 Workfully has been recognized among the most innovative HR tech companies transforming the industry being mentioned among the “Startup to watch in 2024” by Sifted. 🧑🏻🏫💻 zick learn was included inside the 8 startups among 250 to participate in the H-FARM acceleration program, FutureED. In addition, zick learn was mentioned for the second year in a row inside HolonIQ Europe EdTech 200 list. Super! Alessandro De Losa Michele Callegari Niccolò Bencini Massimiliano Squillace Paolo Andreozzi Angelo Sergio Zamboni Luca Travaglini Daniele Benatoff Giuseppe Mayer Davide Dattoli Zhang Valerio Rossi Stefano Tacconi Matteo Penzo – #startup #bheroes #venturecapital #innovation #monthlyroundup

🚀 New portfolio company alert! Vaire Computing has announced the closing of its $ 4.5 Mio seed round entering our portfolio! We’re excited to support Rodolfo Rosini and Hannah E.’s in their journey to build the most energy-efficient chip.  The AI-infra stack is ripe for innovation as Moore’s Law is ending while the computational capacity demanded is skyrocketing, opening the space for new chip architectures. Congrats again to Rodolfo and Hannah and looking forward to what comes next! #startup #ai #venturecapital #seed #chip ---- More on the round in comment 👇👇

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⏰ 2 days to Drink&Deal! Everything is set and ready 📢 Drop off pitches, data rooms, and demos at the office. Take on an informal mood and get ready to break through the conventional networking barrier. From 19.00 to 23.30 at Secci Gallery, in Milano with our great partners Qonto Mamacrowd and Contents.com. Tasty food, elegant cocktails, and outstanding people. Few spots are available and soon we’ll close the waiting list.  So join us at this link ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d4KcKBvw and don’t regret it later 🫣 #DrinkandDeal #BHeroes

Every month we receive dozens of pitch decks with insightful factors to dive in. We’ve the pleasure of meeting many entrepreneurs with captivating and challenging visions and it is always fascinating to see which trigger enables the creation of a new entrepreneurial path. We have decided to bring these insights to the surface and put them in the best light so that they can be enhanced, deepened, and made known. For this reason, we created “B Heroes Spotlight”, a monthly format where we share 3 cues that particularly intrigued us during the past month, especially during the monthly meeting with our Founders Club. Let’s start with the 3 insights of May: 🏥 AI integration in the healthcare scenario has several obstacles, data privacy is one of these  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dWB-i88k 📊 Due to an overwhelming amount of data needed, reps spend less than 30% of their time selling  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gX_WX2Gc 👨🏻💻 The mismatch between supply and demand for engineering talents makes 53% of companies struggle to recruit engineers  ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dfNeivmB Thanks to our #BHFC founders who supported us in exploring the mentioned above key points. Alberto Mazzetti Veronica Mariani Marco Porcaro Filippo Satolli Alessandro Sbicego Mariano Spalletti Which is the insight that triggered you the most? Do you know someone working in the space that we should know? Drop us a message or leave a comment below! #bheroes #venturecapital #startup #innovation #ai #data #talent