<aside> 📌 The Italian Founders Office Hours is an initiative aimed at helping Italian founders and startups over their initial and development phases, leveraging on the expertise and knowledge of a bunch of worldwide investors.
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Program Period: Winter - Spring 2022
🙋♀️ 550+ startup applications received
💸 50+ participating investors from international VCs
🤝 125 startups selected and matched with investors (Ongoing $$ conversation 👀)
<aside> ⚠️ Our first edition of the Italian Founders Office Hours has come to a close. Now more than ever, we want to continue helping the Italian ecosystem with more projects and initiatives coming soon. Check out our Notion page that we created with many valuable resources for founders
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We set up this initiative earlier this year because we wanted (& still want) to tackle some of the problems and opportunities for our 🇮🇹:
❗️Lack of network for many early-stage Italian founders with international VCs
❗️Amazing talent that is sometimes undervalued because of the nascent ecosystem compared to the rest of Europe
❗️Limited education of how VCs think and work
❗️Only 1 Italian 🦄 to date