Lorenzo Franchini

Chairman of the Board

2024 - Current

Corporate Venture Builder focalized on developing new ventures for the digitalization and innovation of SME in the maritime sector with the collaboration of industrial partners like Fincantieri and PSA, financial partners like Intesa San Paolo, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Friulia, venture building experts like Bridgemaker and Cariplo Factory, promoted by CDP Venture Capital, Boost Innovation Fund.

Chairman of the Board

2022

Additive manufacturing marketplace. Venture developed by the Boost Innovation Fund in partnership with Punch Torino & Mimete (Fomas Group).

Board Member

2022

Training content marketplace for the upskilling & reskilling of SME. Venture developed by the Boost Innovation Fund in partnership with BPER Banca.

Senior Partner - Co-Responsabile Fondo Evoluzione

2021

Senior Partner - Responsabile Fondo Boost Innovation

2020

Founder

2015

Founding Partner till October 2020. ScaleIT Capital is an advisory firm specialized in connecting top scaleups from Italy and Southeast Europe with international VCs and corporates. The first initiative is the ScaleIT Showcase which gives visibility to international investors of the Italian & Southeast European scaleup market. ScaleIT also offers highly focused and time efficient platform services and a growing number of corporate advisory products in the open innovation field.

Organizer

2015 - 2020

ScaleIT is a Scaleup program & Showcase that selects, prepare and promote the best performing scaleups from Italy and Southeast Europe to raise 3-30 mil € from international VC funds and scale internationally. The fifth edition of the showcase has taken place in Milan on October 23-24, 2019. 68 scaleups have participated to the 5 editions of the program, raising €1B+ after the showcase. More info about the showcase program, partners and speakers on Scaleit.biz.

Co-founder

2007

Managing Director since inception till February 2014. IAG is one of the top european angel investors groups with over 200 members coinvesting in early stage innovative companies in Italy and abroad. More than 25 mil € invested in more than 40 companies in the following sectors: internet/new media, IT/ICT, medtech, cleantech and biotech. We look for highly innovative and high potential startups with great teams.

Founder & shareholder

2006

Managing Director till October 2020. Angel Venture is an investment vehicle in early stage tech companies. 25+ investments done to date in Italy, France, UK, Spain, US and Israel in the following sectors: internet/new media, IT/ICT, medtech, cleantech and biotech. Between them Agroils, Angiodroid, Artemest, Biogenera, Gipstech. 4 profitable exits (Voxnest sold to iHeartRadio, Musement, sold to TUI Group, Senseor, sold to Wika AG, Win Medical sold to AB Medica).

Shareholder

1999

Board member from 1999 to 2012. Entertainment company specialized in the management of horse tracks and related activities i.e. betting, gaming and other recreational activities.

Senior Advisor

2015 - 2020

Supporting later stage portfolio companies on the way to exits, by accelerating their growth and scale through business development, internationalization, funding and M&A. LVenture Group is a listed holding investment company that does early stage venture investments in digital and sw startups and owns the venture accelerator LuissEnlabs based in Rome.

Mentor

2018 - 2019