Giancarlo Vergine

Over Ventures

- VC Advisory: providing strategic support, investment strategies, company evaluations, and fundraising 
   management.
- Crowdfunding Studio: Managing and optimizing equity crowdfunding campaigns across Europe.
- Post-Funding Development: Supporting portfolio companies in business development and 
   international expansion.
- Venture Scouting: Identifying and evaluating promising startups for investment opportunities.

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Empowering Startups and Entrepreneurs raise capital | Equity Crowdfunding | Community Funding | Angel Investing | Venture Scouting |

Empowering entrepreneurs and tech founders to grow and exit

🚀 About Me:
I am the founder and managing partner at Over Ventures, where I focus on providing strategic support and equity crowdfunding expertise to entrepreneurs. With over 175 crowdfunding campaigns managed and other fundraising rounds, I've helped startups and SMEs raise more than €90 million.

🌍 Professional Journey:
At Over Ventures, we support early-stage companies from seed to Series C, providing tailored strategies through our VC Advisory Services and the European Crowdfunding Studio. My experience includes advisory roles with platforms, corporates and venture operators as well as partnerships with platforms like Crowdcube, Seedrs, Mamacrowd, Crowdfundme, Finnexta, and Doorway.

💡 Passion:
My commitment is to the venture capital ecosystem, empowering entrepreneurs across Europe with practical advice and innovative funding solutions. I actively participate in industry events, sharing insights and fostering connections within the startup community. Additionally, I invest as an angel investor and crowdinvestor in several companies.

🔗 Let's Connect:
If you're an entrepreneur seeking guidance or an investor exploring new opportunities, let's connect. Together, we can transform potential into success.

My 3rd Slush in a row and the magic just gets stronger!

If you work in #tech or #venturecapital, Helsinki during #Slush is the place to be.
A global conference with world-class speakers, thousands of innovators, and an atmosphere that hits you like a wave the moment you land.

This year, the energy started even earlier,
my early-morning flight was already full of Italian founders, operators and investors heading north. You could feel the buzz at 7 AM.

As always, I flew to Helsinki to get fully immersed in the Slush vibes the electricity in the air, the speed of conversations, the density of talent.

A few highlights from this edition:

The panel by InnovUp on global scaling a pleasure to share the stage with friends and top operators like Andrea Gennarini (2100 Ventures), Alessandra Mazzilli (Earlybird Venture Capital) and Salvatore Modeo (The Qube Incubator). Great insights, great energy and a bite of Puglia’s diaspora! Of course I’ve contributed giving the #communitycapital perspective!

The legendary side events hosted by VC funds, associations and corporates (the BACKED VC one is unmissable). The real dealflow happens there.

Dinners, lunches, coffees… always side-by-side with friends like Francesco Cerruti  from Italian Tech Alliance, Nicklas Pavoncelli, Alessandro La Rosa, Vittorio Palma, Leopoldo Angelini, Alex Roggero⚡️ and so many brilliant Italian founders who keep leveling up year after year.

A Hollywood-style main stage, with conversations that set the tone for where Europe is going… Alexandre Prot (Qonto — and yes, community funding!)

The founders of Lovable, ElevenLabs, and others shaping the next decade.

Pepe Agell (Pear VC) giving a masterclass on early-stage venture dynamics.

The Blast Club + baby vc session bringing fresh perspective and young fire into the mix.

Great meetings with Camille Bonvicini of Sowefund and many more players driving Europe’s community capital wave.

There’s a lot more to unpack — and I’ll share deeper thoughts in the next issue of The Snowball Effect.

Slush never disappoints.
If you want to understand where global tech is heading, this is where you need to be.

Founding Partner @ Over Ventures | +€100m capital raised by clients | Angel Investor +25 companies | European Equity Crowdfunding Advocate +200 campaigns

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Il mercato venture capital italiano sta cambiando pelle! E questa volta, davvero.

Negli ultimi mesi si sta verificando una dinamica che chi lavora nell’ecosistema da anni aspettava da tempo: fondi esteri che guardano attentamente all’Italia, round più maturi, operazioni più ambiziose, founder più preparati e finalmente la sensazione di un mercato che vuole crescere, non solo “sopravvivere”.

Ma c’è un punto che (troppo) pochi dicono chiaramente:

Non è solo una questione di capitali!
È una questione di qualità.

Qualità dei pitch,
Qualità delle narrative,
Qualità dell’esecuzione,
E qualità della collaborazione tra VC, angels, corporate e sì, community capital!

Nel mio nuovo articolo per Agenda Digitale - Nextwork360 provo a fotografare questa evoluzione:
	•	perché i fondi internazionali stanno arrivando più intenzionati che mai
	•	cosa sta funzionando (e cosa no) nelle nostre strategie di fundraising
	•	come si stanno muovendo le scaleup italiane sui round late-stage
	•	perché serve una “financial supply chain” più matura
	•	e come la componente retail/comunitaria può diventare una leva strategica anche nei round più complessi

La verità è semplice:
l’Italia non è più (solo) un mercato early-stage “di prossimità”. Stiamo entrando in una fase in cui le nostre migliori #startup possono e devono giocare la partita europea e globale.

E quando il capitale internazionale arriva, è perché qualcosa sta iniziando a funzionare sul serio!

Nel primo commento trovi il link all’articolo completo.

Buona lettura! e continuiamo la conversazione, perché questa è una fase cruciale per il nostro ecosistema!

Sometimes dreams come true!
This time it’s not a casuality… more than 10 years of sweat and blood!

Congrats Gianmarco Carnovale for the market launch of Scuter in Milano!

As most of you already know, I’m a strong believer and supporter of #community backed #companies.

That’s why I’m 2x proud of this launch.. in fact in the early days #Scuter was financed by a crowdfunding round in Mamacrowd!

If there is a #crowdbacked brand in a specific offering I would always choice it!

I’m now a big user of Scuter and I love move in the city riding Mark IV!

Kudos Scuter’s team!

Last night in Milan we tested something simple and very “Silicon Valley” for the European ecosystem....And it worked!

The first Community Funding Showcase brought together 50+ #founders, #angels, #operators and curious innovators for an informal, relaxed, high-signal evening:

3 live pitches, zero noise, real conversations, pizza, beer and #CommunityCapital at the center of it all!

We hosted 3 companies currently raising on 3of the main Italian #platforms:

Deep Learning Italia raising on Mamacrowd
Nova Ventures raising on CrowdFundMe
Powandgo raising on Opstart - Crowdfunding Fintech Hub

Different founders, different sectors, same goal... use Community Capital as a strategic layer to validate, accelerate and expand!

Events like this remind me why Europe is moving fast... Not because we copy Silicon Valley but because we’re finally building our own culture of openness, collaboration and community-driven venture building and developing!

Thanks to everyone who joined, asked sharp questions, challenged assumptions and contributed to the energy in the room.

More cities soon! More showcases! More community!

If you want to join the next one, link in the first comment.

Community Capital in Europe has only just started. Let’s keep pushing!

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