FocusFuturo

is an innovative investment platform that finances Italian start-ups and companies in high-tech/advanced technology and with strong growth potential.

FocusFuturo

overcomes the complexities and problems that venture capital funds create for entrepreneurs with complex governance structures and tight investment timings, but also for the investors who are usually asked for annual management fees relating to the invested sum rather than the actual results obtained by the investments.

We believe in Italy:

It is a country with an enormous potential and lots of talent within a European market, which is one of the largest developed markets in the world, and which offers the most opportunity coming from the current boom it is experiencing.

For Investors

FocusFuturo co-invests with its investors, offering a scouting service that has come from years of experience and contacts built up within the Italian financial environment.

Investments are structured in a transparent and straight- forward way, eliminating potential exposure to risks that are outside of the identified (and agreed upon) risk profile. FocusFuturo makes a profit only when the investments generate a positive return/achieve a positive performance: this is the best guarantee for an investor that wants to diversify his own investment portfolio.

For Companies

FocusFuturo supports the managers of the initiatives it invests in by accompanying the company in the most efficient way possible towards a sustainable growth path through:

1. consultancy in strategic decisions;
2. creation of business development opportunities;
3. collaboration in drafting the business plan and presentations;
4. support in the negotiation phases for strategic alliances, entry of new members and the sale of company shares;
5. consultancy in the creation of the most efficient corporate and fiscal structures;
6. Involvement of the appropriate investors depending on the life cycle of the funded company.

Paolo Vacchino

Paolo Vacchino graduated in Business Administration from the Bocconi, Milan, in 1990. He then worked as an analyst at Comit, Investor Associates and Bain & Company, before going on to complete an MBA at Insead Fontainebleu in 1996.
When he returned to Milan, he worked in strategic consulting at A.T. Kearney, the final stepping- stone before transitioning to entrepreneurship. Since 2001 he has played a key role in the raising of funds and the management of two private equity initiatives focused on investment in Italian PMIs.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis and economic downturn, starting from 2009 he began personally investing venture capital in selected start-up opportunities, with a view that there would be significant growth in innovation-driven entrepreneurial initiatives.

Antonio Assereto

Antonio graduated in Engineering Management at Milan Polytechnic. He started off his career at Bain & Company, where he worked with corporate restructuring projects, debt restructuring and M&A.
He then joined Jupiter Finance, an investment fund of the CIR Group, as Investment Director, overseeing more than 100 deals in distressed bank debt and bankruptcy restructuring for a total enterprise value of more than €2bn.

In 2014, Antonio set up the financial holding company, Proximity Capital, specializing in start-ups and PMIs with a strong growth potential investing in fin tech and big data management.

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