BeBeez will be the media partner of Milan fourth edition of Zero One Hundred International Conference, an European leading event for the private capital sector that will take place in on 27 – 29 October, to , at Palazzo Castiglioni (press release). BeBeez acted as media partner for the first event of 2023 in Rome, the second and the third edition in Milan (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
Zero One Hundred Conferences organised the event once again in collaboration with Milan Municipality Council of Economic Development and Milano&Partners, the agency for the city’s promotion.
On 16 September, Wednesday, Zero One Hundred Conferences, Milan Municipality and Milano & Partners held a conference at Milan’s Palazzo Marino for presenting the event (press release).
Alessia Cappello, Milan City Councillor for Economic Development and Labour Policy, said: “We are expecting impressive figures for the third edition of Zero One Hundred as well. We reached the end of a journey which, over the past three years, has seen Milan grow, placing it at the centre of international attention amongst the capitals supporting the growth of innovative initiatives. Moments like this are invaluable because they have the power to change the direction of investment and, therefore, potentially the future of so many start-ups and scale-ups that, for now, still must look beyond national borders for growing”.
Layla Pavone, the Milan City Council’s coordinator of the Board for Technological Innovation and Digital Transformation, added: “Bringing international private equity and venture capital to Milan does not simply mean hosting an event in the city; it means creating, for two days, a genuine temporary infrastructure of relationships, capital, knowledge and opportunities that Milan makes available to the entire ecosystem. Milan is increasingly becoming Italy’s capital of innovation: a place where finance, technology, research, entrepreneurship and creativity converge – and this combination is crucial because innovation does not arise in isolation. Opportunities such as this are important not only because they channel global capital flows, but also because they confirm Milan’s role as a hub: few other cities can boast such a diverse concentration of assets. Universities, centres of research excellence, private equity firms, start-ups, scale-ups, accelerators, incubators, businesses and financial institutions. But Milan’s greatest competitive advantage lies in the density of connections between all these worlds, in which – as an institution too – we must invest ever more heavily.”
Milan is attracting top private capital firms, 0100 noted. In May 2026, NYSE-listed KKR opened an office in the city after having invested above 10 billion euros in Italy since 2005 (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In November 2025, Paris-listed Tikehau Capital appointed as Italy’s co-head and closed its first real estate credit deal in the country (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In May 2025, Paris-listed Eurazeo expanded its presence in Milan with the aim of allocating 500 million in Italy (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In 2024, Dublin’s Seroba Life Sciences opened a bureau in Milan after Paris and attracted 123 million euros from anchor investor CDP Venture Capital and others (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
In 2024, venture capital giant Sequoia carried on its first investment in Italy while Localglobe, ETF Partners and Durable Capital set a foothold in the country. In 2023, Partech opened a bureau in Milan and appointed a manager for handling the Italian deal flow while closing its new fund that attracted the resources of CDP Venture Capital and others (press release).
Ropes & Gray, Fieldfisher, Bird & Bird, Greenberg Traurig, and 16 of top 100 US global Law Firms are also expanding their presence.
The conference will bring together GPs, LPs, private credit managers, secondary market operators, infrastructure investors and advisers active in the Italian and European private markets ecosystem. Key topics on the agenda include: the structural rise of private credit and its gradual replacement of bank financing in M&A transactions; the wave of liquidity in the secondary market and GP-led transactions; capital for the energy transition and infrastructure investments; the democratisation of private markets for high-net-worth clients; and Italy’s emergence as the fastest-growing European market for PE and VC.
