CDP Venture Capital’s FoF VenturItaly II, the new fund of funds that invests in national venture capital managers, to help consolidate the financial infrastructure of the Italian venture capital market is now active.
Fof VentureItaly II, with a funding target of €500 million and a maximum size set at €700 million, will focus its action on funds dedicated to investing in companies with a high rate of innovation in all technological sectors, including those of strategic national interest such as, for example, energy transition, aerospace, health and agritech.
The first closing was signed by the anchor investors Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (Mimit, previously MISE) for an amount of 375 million, through the fund established by interministerial decree of 26 July 2022 which regulates the investment methods of the resources allocated by Decree-Law 121 of 2021 on support for venture capital, and CDP Equity (CDP Group) for a further €100 million, for total funding of €475 million.
Thanks to these resources, the operation of the FoF VenturItaly II begins, which CDP Venture Capital promotes in continuity with its predecessor FoF VenturItaly, the first fund-of-funds initiative launched in 2020 that has successfully completed the allocation activity on 19 Italian venture capital funds, more than half of which are managed by new generation teams. The leverage effect generated on the market is significant, equal to 3x the resources subscribed by CDP Venture Capital in the subscribed funds, as these target funds have managed to attract a broad base of investors.
The new FoF VenturItaly II will be managed by the two heads of the Fund, Simona Corno and Roberto Parrella, within the investment team that deals with fund-of-funds activities in CDP Venture Capital, led by senior partner Cristina Bini.
“The solidity of the financial infrastructure of venture capital passes above all through the presence of a plurality of managers who can guarantee long-term vision to new innovative companies and from the creation of national champions at an international level. In this sector, the intervention of CDP Venture Capital has so far generated a virtuous process on the market, with FoF VenturItaly creating additionality between public and private resources available to national managers and at the same time also stimulating the intervention of foreign operators alongside Italians in the financing of tech companies, through the action of FoF International – Agostino Scornajenchi, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of CDP Venture Capital, commented in a note – In continuity with this strategy, we have oriented part of the objectives of the 2024-2028 Business Plan, allocating 3.3 billion euros to indirect investments, to support third-party venture capital funds generated by the creation of new Venture Capital operators and to support existing ones”.
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