BlackSheep is a European venture capital fund managed by EUREKA! Venture SGR Spa. It invests in the marketing and advertising technology industry, focusing on European tech companies that aim to transform the marketing industry through Big Data, AI, and Robotic Processes Automation technologies.

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BlackSheep is the first European venture capital fund with an entrepreneurial background that invests in high-potential technology-based companies focused on AI, Big Data, Automation, and its b2b applications for the Marketing & Advertising industry, from Seed to Round B. 

We are witnessing a big discontinuity: the marketing & communication services market is one of the biggest and less automated industries in the world. In the next 10 years, it will be completely rewritten both by the explosion of artificial intelligence, big data, business process automation technologies, and the continuous changes in privacy laws. 

We have a clear vision about: marketing agencies, consulting firms and tech players are converging in the same competitive arena, but despite the efforts the final result for marketers is too expensive, too complicated, too slow and privacy unfit.

We believe the marketing provider of the future is a software: automated, intelligent, easy. Made by humans, and led by humans.
 
We have the mission to invest in companies based on AI, Big Data, and RPA (namely robotic process automation) which are developing next-generation SaaS solutions that enable brands to plan, orchestrate, and optimize personalized marketing actions, in an explicit consumer’s consent framework. 
Europe is our playground.

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It is a pleasure to share the great achievement reached by Nexoya and its team at the 2024 I-COM Global Awards. A well-deserved recognition for those who have been committed for years to developing and marketing ethical and especially high-performing #AI in the field of #marketing and #advertising.

Congratulations to Marco Hochstrasser and his fantastic team.

Interesting perspective from Umberto Bottesini on the entry into force of the new European regulation on AI.

#AI #AiAct #VC #venturecapital #innovation

Bootstrapping Italian Artificial Intelligence at the AI Festival in #Milan

Like it or not, #AI is going to have a profound and irreversible impact on our lives, economy and society. This new #industrial #revolution is literally shuttling us to a #technological #singularity.

The Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale is looking at the #governance of AI in the various international fora (such as United Nations OECD - OCDE European Union and #G7) and as an essential tool all #italian #companies (primarily our #SMEs) need to adopt and harness to keep pace with international competition.

Furthermore, we feel it is imperative to help the international growth of our #tech companies that develop #AI #models, #systems and #applications, which represent the higher end of the #AI lifecycle…particularly our extraordinary #StartUps.

#Italy hosts a vast pool of #AI #talents #capacities and #knowhow that are still unserved in terms of deployable capital. That’s why international #VC #investors should become more aware of the great opportunities offered by the Italian #AI #ecosystem.

Many thanks to WMF - We Make Future for organising this first important AI Festival in Milan (14 and 15 February). A special thanks to co-panelists Lucia Chierchia of GELLIFY Stefano Molino of CDP Venture Capital SGR Giovanni Strocchi of BlackSheep MadTech Fund Gabriele Ronchini of Digital Magics and Niccolò Sanarico of Primo Ventures for sharing with me their insigths on the main stage. 

A special thanks to Cosmano Lombardo of WMF - We Make Future and his fantastic team..and looking forward to next year’s event.

Mauro Battocchi Fabrizio Lobasso Innovit - Italian Innovation and Culture Hub Sergio Strozzi Alberto Acito Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Entopan Innovation Jacopo Naidi Manuelita Mancini Fabio Sgaragli  Francesca A.  ITA - Invest in Italy ITA - Italian Trade Agency   #technology #startup #VentureCapital #GenerativeAI #DeepTech

iGenius, società appartenente al portfolio delle partecipate di BlackSheep Fund  raccoglie un round che consolida il proprio posizionamento di campione nazionale nel campo della #GenerativeAI e si propone come nuovo #unicorno italiano.

Still buzzing from yesterday’s meeting that kicked off the “Privacy In Advertising” joint project with the AOP Association of Online Publishers, Publicis Groupe and Anonymised. 🤩 It was amazing to be in the room with many of the most brilliant UK publishers and advertisers, building a shared vision for the future of programmatic advertising. 

Thanks for your presence and contribution Alex Kirby Alex Newberry Alistair Smith Andy Evans Archie Keylock Bayazid Hussain Becca Monahan Callan Smith Chloe Lambert 🦸🏼‍♀️ Chris Walsh Cian Jordan Clare Willetts Daniel Chambers David Lerpiniere Dee Frew Elliott Sargent Ian Dowds Jonathan Westbrook Jenny Kirby Catherine L. Layla Zghari Luke Pay Mareen Anthonipillai Nino Stylianou Kate Barry Paul Davison Richard Reeves Rob Brett Roger Newland Shane Agnew Spencer White @Stephen Jones William Miller 🙏  I look forward to working with you

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Oggi abbiamo partecipato all’AI Festival, l'evento internazionale dedicato al mondo dell'intelligenza artificiale, organizzato da WMF - We Make Future, per esplorare la rivoluzione dell'#AI in atto insieme a professionisti, aziende, startup e stakeholder da tutto il mondo.
 
Stefano Molino, Responsabile del Fondo Acceleratori di CDP Venture Capital, è intervenuto al panel “Investing in AI” per parlare dell’impatto dei maggiori trend di investimento in fase pre-seed, in particolare di quanto siano centrali le tecnologie di frontiera e del modello di investimento della Rete Acceleratori di CDP Venture Capital. 

Insieme a lui hanno preso parte al dibattito, moderato da Lucia Chierchia Chief of Open Innovation Ecosystems GELLIFY, Niccolò Sanarico Partner Primo Digital  CTO Primo Ventures, Giovanni Strocchi Co-founder & Venture Partner BlackSheep MadTech Fund, Gabriele Ronchini Founder and CEO - Portfolio Development Digital Magics, massimo carnelos Head of Technological Innovation and Startup Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale.

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