Who we are
ITALINVEST SA is a Boutique Firm made up of senior executives and professionals with complementary backgrounds, coming from 25 years of experience in diverse sectors, industries and countries.
Our expertise is divided into investment portfolio management, strategic consulting, conception and launch of new products or services, digital transformation and technological innovation. We rely on a robust ecosystem of partners, consolidated over years of professional relationships and concrete results achieved.
Our focus is the Made in Italy as an iconic brand witnessing the excellence and exclusivity of traditional products and services, combined with innovation. We aim at offering a distinctive tailored approach to unlock the best opportunities.
OUR VISION & MISSION
The Made in Italy is one of the greatest expressions of creativity and human genius. Over the centuries, Italians have demonstrated a native ability to invent, create new business opportunities and make the entire world dreaming with products and services by excellence that everyone admires.
By leveraging on our robust Italian and international network, we are able to identify special opportunities such as new innovative ventures, scale-up or already mature companies with a great potential, which are going through a critical phase, due to the current uncertain context or simply because they have come to a turning point, or a generational change and do not have the internal means enabling the desired evolution.
Our mission is to bridge our investors with those opportunities, generating value by leveraging on our expertise and managerial skills to unlock their full potential with a medium-long term horizon.
The Founders
GIULIO ACRI
FOUNDER & CEO
Giulio is a serial entrepreneur with +20 years’ experience in digital ventures and business development of innovative concepts and digital solutions deployed across different European countries.
Having grew up in the “most beautiful country in the world”, he is genuinely passionate about the Made in Italy as an iconic brand witnessing the excellence and exclusivity of traditional products and services, combined with innovation. With this vision and mission in mind he has founded Italinvest SA in 2020.
Giulio holds a master’s degree in Economics & Management, and lives between Rome, Milan and Geneva.
the team
SENIOR ADVISOR
ALESSANDRA AIRO’
COMMUNICATION & PR
Alessandra is a Communication and PR expert. In 2010 she launched “Little Snob Thing” and during her career she built strong partnerships with primary editorial groups, such as Condé Nast and Mondadori.
Represented by NextModel, in 2019 she established 1984/PR, an agency focused on DigitalPR and events, specifically dealing with brands engaged into luxury and lifestyle.
Alessandra holds a master’s degree in Law and graduated afterwards at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She lives in Milan.
FEDERICO COPERCINI
RE PARTNER & SENIOR ADVISOR
Federico has over 10 years experience in commercial real estate and consulting. He has held various senior positions in Swiss consulting companies and is specialized in commercial real estate, acquisition, sale, asset financing, advising and sourcing of commercial properties in Switzerland and Europe. During his career he has completed transactions of approximately CHF 1 billion.
ANTONIO RAGUSA
SENIOR ADVISOR
Antonio leads the Retail Hub’s sales, with responsibility for business in Europe (focus on Italy market). He also oversees the company’s ongoing expansion efforts into Retail market. In his previous role with Martha’s Cottage, he served as Sales Director. Ragusa was responsible for the company’s increasing development and expansion efforts into high-growth.
Before joining Martha’s Cottage, Ragusa served as Chief Commercial Officer for Retail Institute, an important retailer Association, where he was instrumental in growing portfolio of associates, over 200 associates, more than 50% during a four-year period. While at MagNews, served as Chief Development Officer, an important Digital Company.
He also held senior position at Fiera Milano Media and most recently was teacher of Talent Garden. Ragusa holds a degree in economic and business administration from Libera Università degli Studi di Urbino of Economia Aziendale.
Our Target
- The target companies are mostly Italian capital-based and expression of the Made in Italy as a sign of tradition and innovation.
- We focus predominantly on those 4 sectors:
Real Estate
Fashion & Apparel
Food & beverage
Leisure, Consumer & Retail
Technology, Fintech & Insuretech
Our typical targets include but are not limited to:
- companies in financial crisis and/or undercapitalized which need fresh investments and new perspectives;
- well established local companies which could aspire to internationalize their business by opening up to new markets;
- high-potential companies eager to launch new business segments along with new product or service lines;
- traditional businesses willing to embrace the digital transformation to improve efficiency and re-engineer flows and processes by seizing new business opportunities, opening, for example, new market places with their existing products or developing new ones;
- family businesses that are facing a next-generation transition challenge and seek for new equity and management skills to renew and perpetuate their tradition;
- exclusive real estate opportunities in the residential and commercial sectors (both offices and hotels) located in two of the most iconic and well-known Italian urban centers in the world: Milan and Rome;
Our Investors
By relying on our robust network of long-lasting relationships built in more than 25 years’ international experience, 15 of which in Switzerland, we have access to the most wide-ranging ecosystem of Partners. For every single investment opportunity, we know the right contact, ranging from the Ultra High Net Worth Individual (UHNWI) who bets on the strong potential of a dynamic entrepreneurial reality or the Family Office that wishes to diversify its investment portfolio.
The average investment ticket ranges from 500,000 CHF to 15,000,000 CHF.