Federico Smanio
16 Feb 2026Giorgio Chiellini joins us LIVE at the Juventus Stadium
31:179 min
Federico Smanio: Backing Italian Founders & Italian Tech Week
Federico Smanio joins for an impromptu chat about an Exor-backed fund that only invests when there is at least one Italian founder, with 160 portfolio companies since 2022 on a Kima Ventures-style, sector-agnostic pre-seed model. He describes kick-starting Italy's startup flywheel, organizing Italian Tech Week — with Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among recent speakers — and plans for around 85 deals in 2026 while visiting founders in Zurich, New York, San Francisco, Paris and London.