Fundraising
Founder salary: how much to pay yourself after you raise
What founders pay themselves at seed and Series A, what investors expect, how an Italian SRL can pay you, what…
Insights
Data and guides for better decisions.
Fundraising, public funding and new markets: analysis and practical guides for founders, SMEs and investors.
Fundraising
Anti-dilution: full ratchet vs weighted average, with an example
What an anti-dilution clause does in a down round, how full ratchet and weighted average compare on the same numbers,…
Cross-border growth
Export to Brazil from Italy: duties, rules and first steps
What Italy sells to Brazil, the duties and taxes your buyer pays at the border, what the EU–Mercosur agreement cuts…
Fundraising
Use of funds: how to show investors where the money goes
How to build the use of funds slide from the milestone backwards: a month-by-month hiring plan at Italian employer costs,…
Public funding
Startup grants in Italy: what’s open in autumn 2026
Eleven public funding measures for Italian startups, checked on their official pages on 8 October 2026: who each one is…
Fundraising
How to send your pitch deck to investors: email, PDF, follow-up
Which deck to send before the first meeting, PDF or DocSend link, a six-line email with an example, what VCs…
Fundraising
Investor readiness checklist: 20 things to fix before you raise
Twenty yes/no questions in five areas, from a cap table that matches the visura to code the company really owns,…
Fundraising
Questions investors ask in a first meeting, and how to answer
The questions you'll hear in a first meeting with a VC or a business angel, grouped by theme, what a…
Fundraising
TAM SAM SOM: how to size your market for a pitch deck
What TAM, SAM and SOM mean, why investors trust bottom-up maths, a worked example on Italian hotels built from ISTAT…
Fundraising
Startup one-pager: what to send investors before the deck
What a startup one-pager is and how it differs from a teaser, an executive summary and a deck. The nine…
Adaxit Brief
Every two weeks, the capital markets in a five-minute read.