You are welcome to join the first 18 stableford holes (shotgun start) game of Business Angel Golf Association for which BeBeez is media partner at the Golf Club Monticello on 26 May, Tuesday.
The second game (9 holes) will take place on 4 June, Thursday, at Golf Club L’Albenza (Bergamo).
The event is exclusively open to supporters, partners and selected guests that are part of Italy’s innovation ecosystem. Please email info@baga.golf for further information and sign up for the competition.
TODUBA and ArlatiGhislandi are the main sponsors of the event for which ComoNExT, Startacrowd, Ventive, and Letzfair also provided their support. After the game will take place a pre-dinner drinks reception featuring an awards ceremony and networking, and a dinner during which a group of selected start-ups will present in a speed-dating format (10 minutes) at the tables where business angels, venture capital funds, entrepreneurs, crowd-investing platform managers, accelerators and incubators will sit. Baga will publish on its web homepage (www.baga.golf) the pitch decks of the start-ups one week before the event and allow attendees to review the documents prior to the dinner. The activities of BAGAstarted in 2022. Since then over 100 start-ups made their pitch to an audience of more than 500 members and supporters. In 2025, the association allowed 21 start-ups to network with potential investors.
Italian fintech Pillar, a company that Gabriel Guinea Montalvo, Paolo Tarsia Incuria and Lorenzo Demaio founded in 2025, secured a seed round of 12 million euros that Earlybird Venture Capital and Base10 Partners led (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company also attracted the resources of Italian Founders Fund. Such resources will support Pillar’s expansion in Italy and abroad and the updating of the proprietary technology. Orrick assisted Pillar which raised a total of 15.2 million since its birth. Earlybird and Italian Founders Fund retained Chiomenti. Emblem, Pareto, Plug and Play, Kima Ventures, B Heroes, Vento, Eden Ventures, IAG, Paola Bonomo, Ignazio Rocco Da Torrepadula, and Enrico Pandian previously invested in Pillar. Paul Klem is a partner of Earlybird Venture Capital. Caroline Broder is a partner of Base10.
Cosmico secured a 12 million euros equity and debt round that P101’s Programma 103, Azimut ELTIF Venture Capital P103 and Programma 103R Digital led and acquired the whole creator agency Flatmates, a firm that Michele Pagani and Marcello Ascani founded in 2021, of which it already had 55% (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company also attracted the resources of Prana Ventures. Cosmico retained Bird & Bird and Growth Capital and will invest the raised proceeds in its organic growth and M&A deals in Italy and Spain. In 2020, Francesco Marino, Matteo Roversi and Simone Tornabene founded the firm which previously received the support of Roberto Marsella, Fabio Troiani, 40Jemz, Intesa Sanpaolo, Bonsai Ventures, Growth Engine, Duccio Vitali, Valerio Fonseca, Marco di Pietro, and Giordano Martinelli. Stefano Guidotti is a partner of P101. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Cosmico and its investors. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager
