Fundraising
How to find investors for a startup: build your target list
How to build a target list by stage, ticket size, sector and place, where Italian founders can look, how to…
Insights
Data and guides for better decisions.
Fundraising, public funding and new markets: analysis and practical guides for founders, SMEs and investors.
Cross-border growth
Open a company in Italy as a foreigner: steps and costs 2026
What a foreign founder needs to open a company in Italy: the tax code, the permit question, SRL or SRLS,…
Cross-border growth
Italia Startup Visa: who can apply and how it works in 2026
Who can apply for the Italia Startup Visa, how much money you need, the steps from the ministry's committee to…
Fundraising
Innovative startup Italy: requirements and benefits in 2026
What it takes to be an innovative startup in Italy in 2026, how long the status lasts, what you get…
Startup basics
When to quit your job to start a business: signals and runway
The signals that say it's time, a simple formula for your personal runway, what a 2014 study says about keeping…
Startup basics
Successful Italian startups that started small: 6 true stories
Satispay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Yoox, Translated and Docebo: how six successful Italian startups began, what their first money looked like…
Fundraising
Co-founder equity split: data, vesting and a worked example
Equal or unequal? Carta's latest data on founder splits, five factors worth weighing, how vesting and the cliff work, a…
Startup basics
Startup glossary: 50 words you’ll hear in your first year
Fifty startup terms in plain English, grouped by what you're doing: raising money, sharing ownership, reading the numbers, pitching. Each…
Fundraising
Cold email to investors: how to write one that gets read
What to put in the first email to an investor who doesn't know you: fit, subject line, five sentences, attachments,…
Fundraising
Employee option pool: how big it should be and who pays for it
Carta puts the median seed-stage pool at 11.8%. How to size yours, why a pool inside the pre-money comes out…
Adaxit Brief
Every two weeks, the capital markets in a five-minute read.