Testimonials from Italian Tech Tour 2016 & 2017
Testimonials 2017
The Italian Tech Tour event was an impressive two days meeting full of insights on the Italian Venture Capital industry, great networking opportunities with investors and LPs and interesting presentation by start-ups. Panel discussions were very interesting too as most of the panels had a quite mixed composition of panellist and moderators.
Luca Morandi, Quadrivio Capital SGR.
A very well organised event and a good curation of companies. This event is a great way for an investor to cover the Italian tech scene efficiently.
Asheque Shams, Eight Roads Ventures
The insights and market knowledge gained from attending the Italian Tech Tour were invaluable.
Shawn Atkinson, Orrick
“It’s been a pleasure for me attending the Italian Tech Tour, where startups can meet venture capitalists and large companies as Enel. I believe this event is a useful tool for Open Innovation, the level was very high, and I met many people really wanting to change the world with their ideas!”
Ernesto Ciorra, Enel
As known, Italy is still lagging behind compared with peer countries like France and Germany in terms of total venture capitalists investments and ability to turn scientific research into great technology transfer opportunities, despite the high quality of Universities and education system. This scenario highlights several key opportunities to close such gap where CDP, the National Promotional Institution, is active to support the creation of an Italian tech ecosystem in favour to the young generation of entrepreneurs.
Furthermore, it is playing a fundamental role to develop a VC Industry, with a specific focus on Innovation, Research, Start-ups and small enterprises.
Events like the Italian Tech Tour represent an unparalleled opportunity to bring the focus of all market operators, from investors to corporates and start-ups to accelerate the aggregation of an innovation community in the country, and "explore new paths" in such a vibrant and favourable context.
Fabio Gallia, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP)
A great event, a great group of promising startups and a great network of entrepreneurs and investors.
Augusto Coppola, LVenture Group
I really enjoyed the Italian Tech Tour because I saw a strong involvement both from the Italian startup and the International tech investors. The Italian Tech Tour is a definitely a very helpful meeting platform to connect startups with foreign capitals. Organizing this event on a yearly basis in Italy is good news for the Italian ecosystem.
Philippe Tandeau de Marsac, Invitalia Ventures Sgr
The Italian TechTour is an amazing event that gathers together fast growing startups and qualified Italian and international investors. For Wineowine was the second time we had the chance to attend the event and each time we had a chance of fundraising and the possibility to partner with other startups that became our suppliers or customers. Hope I'll have the change to come also next year!
Federico De Cerchio, Wineowine
Tech Tour is a leading international event that brought together top tier international investors, the main players of the Italian Innovation ecosystem and the most promising Italian startups. With 20+ startups ready for investments pitching in front of the top Italian players as well as many international investors, the event has been a great success showing the level of quality the startup ecosystem in Italy can deliver evidencing a fantastic growth trajectory for the whole Innovation market in Italy.
Enrico Noseda, GrowITup
One of the best events in Italy for Italian startups to meet an international audience of investors.
Simone Marini, Sailsquare
Tech Tour, with its international scope and network is a great opportunity to go beyond our borders and bridge international connections.
Giovanni M. Vecchio, Euronext
Testimonials 2016
Until you don’t have the chance to meet investors, capable ones, to listen to your pitch and give you feedback and money (which it’s the principal purpose :D ) your startup is just in your mind. This is what Tech Tour is about: converge great people in the same event, competent investors and capacious startupper to create connections and agreements.
Monica Archibugi, Le Cicogne
Italian Tech Tour is one of the best moment during the year to meet entrepreneurs, expand the network and more over to meet the right investors. We are at moment launching our next Series A and it was amazing keep in touch with many VCs in one shot.
Giorgio Sadoldo, Filo
The Italian Tech Tour was astounding. The quality of the companies presenting, their clear ideas regarding attractive markets and their business plan to attack them, were of a veryhigh quality level. We were pleased to be selected to present and have come away with many new relationships among potential investors and advisors for our company.
Jeff Lyons, Media Lario Technologies
Excellentorganization . Italy needs more of such events to foster collaboration in technology and create fruitful networking opportunities.
Ugo Parodi Giusino, Mosaicoon
The Italian Tech Tour has been a great initiative with veryhigh quality start-ups, outstanding technologies, and inspired and hard working entrepreneurs. I loved the atmosphere and we have already started to follow up with some of the contacts and opportunities that we got in touch with during the event.
Alvise Bonivento, Intesa Sanpaolo
Few events in Europe are put together as passionately as Tech Tour. The number ofhigh quality deep tech Italian companies surprised me, and this was down to Tech Tour's curation of both the best entrepreneurs and investors.
Scott Sage, Crane Venture Partners
Amazing event! It was useful, interesting, and varied in terms of companies involved, topicsdiscussed, and approaches to technology.
Ernesto Ciorra, Enel
Tech Tour was a fantastic opportunity to meet key stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem looking for opportunities in Italy!
Enrico Mercadante, Cisco
I loved the impressive selection of startups, investors and potential partners! Extremely well organised!
Nic Gorini, Spin Ventures
A unique opportunity to discover the Italian innovation landscape's latest trends and start-ups in a pleasant setting, well represented by the Italian VC community.
Fabio Mondini, EIF
The Italian Tech Tour has been great…again (the first one I participated in was in 2003). It has brought together some of the highest potential Italian companies with investors, professionals and more mature companies to create more deals. I think thatthis events further demonstrates how far the Italian technology and innovation ecosystem has come with companies and investors of international standing.
Pietro Strada, Silverpeak
Very well managed organization and the quality of its content and attendees was superb!
Luigi Conti, Expert System
The Italian Tech Tour 2016 has been an outstanding showcase of the growing Italian tech ecosystem.
Giuseppe Donvito, P101
The Italian Tech Tour was an excellent combination of Italian Entrepreneurs and investors from all over Europe. The agenda allowed for significant interaction between participants and an opportunity to see several newtechnical and business concepts. Well worth the time for anyone interested in emerging technology.
Robert Horstmeyer, GrowthPoint Technology Partners
Despite the relative dearth of corporate & financial investors currently targeting Italian companies, the level of local innovation & commercialisation remains buoyant. With growing numbers of leading Italian entrepreneurs looking to scale globally like never before, the Italian Tech Tour is set to become a focal point in the investment calendar.
Eoghan Hickey, Jolt Capital
As the Italiannational Agency for business development actively engaged in the start-up scene in Italy, we were delighted to host the Italian Tech Tour in Rome. I was very impressed with the high quality of the participants and with how well the event was organized . The Italian start-up and VC ecosystem is developing fast and I think that the Tech Tour contributed to make this fact known to a wider international audience. I look forward to see the fruits of the intense networking that took place during the three days of the event.
Domenico Arcuri, Invitalia
