We build AI-native companies — from the South, for the world.
The Model
The Mezzogiorno — Italy's South — spent decades exporting its best minds. Distributed work, mobile capital, and AI-native building make that pattern reversible. We back the people who stayed — and welcome back those who left. Capital and counsel from us; domain depth from the founder; a working VC network on tap.
No fixed cohort, no annual quota. If the founder and the idea are right, we move.
The founder holds the majority. Our stake is the alignment of interest — capital that co-invests on round terms.
We lead or co-lead your round, drawing on years of LP, fund and bank relationships across Europe.
Agent rails, evals, ETL — reusable across the portfolio, compounding with every company we back.
Why Southern Italy
Italian engineers and operators across London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich and Dublin. Regime Impatriati makes the math work — a 50% income-tax exemption, for five years.
350,000 under-35 graduates left the South for the Centre-North between 2002 and 2024. Federico II, Salerno and Politecnico di Bari produce thousands of engineers a year. Most leave. Most would return if a credible path existed.
2022–2024: the South's GDP rose 8.6%, the Centre-North 5.6%. PNRR is doing real work on the ground.
Studio born in Salerno province. Remote-first by design. Hub one here; hubs two and three wherever our best people land.
In Contact
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