DIGITAL MAGICS BECOMES PART OF THE STARTUP ‘TWO HUNDRED CAPITAL SHARE’, AN EQUITY CROWDFUNDING PORTAL, WHICH HAS BECOME A STRATEGIC ASSET SUPPORTING ITALIAN INNOVATION
The first collaborative campaign between the Startup FinTech and the incubator, listed on the Stock Exchange is WeBeers, e-commerce for craft beers, which has reached the first goal, collecting entries for 250,000 Eur
TWO HUNDRED has recently closed an investment round of 300,000 Euros and
since the end of 2015 it has raised over 1.5 million Euros with its campaigns on the platform
Milan, December 20 2017 – Digital Magics, business incubator listed on the AIM Italia market of the Italian Stock Exchange (symbol: DM), enters the share capital of the innovative Startup TWO HUNDRED: equity crowdfunding portal, authorized by Consob, which enables anyone to invest easily in private companies not listed.
Rather than simply supporting the founders with its incubation services for the growth of the company, Digital Magics through TWO HUNDRED provides an additional strategic asset to favour financing and development of Italian digital Startups and SMEs. The first collaboration takes the form of the campaign ran by the Digital Magics’ Startup ‘WeBeers’, using e-commerce to discover the best craft beers, which has in turn collected subscriptions amounting to 250,000 euros reaching the minimum target of fundraising, which will continue until December 31:
https://200crowd.com/V2/IT/Campaign/details/webeers
Founded in 2013 by Matteo Masserdotti (CEO) and Carlo Saccone (CTO) as a Tip Venture, the Startup FinTech recently finished its rebranding to ‘200 Crowd’, and closed an investment round of 300,000 Euros, in which important business angels, private investors and the certified Digital Magics incubator participated.
Since the end of 2015, TWO HUNDRED has raised over 1.5 million Euros from its campaigns – including those of BIOGENERA, an innovative SME operating in the pharmaceutical biotechnological sector, and of Glassup, a Startup specialized in manufacturing smart glasses for augmented reality. In 2017 TWO HUNDRED registered +300% of the number of registered users and +350% of active investors.
The equity crowdfunding portal www.200crowd.com promotes the meeting of professional, qualified retailers, business angels, and venture capital investors with unlisted companies. Also included are Startups and innovative SMEs or small and medium-sized businesses, guaranteeing maximum transparency and rapidity thanks to an algorithm; qualitative and quantitative that is owned by the company, which provides a preliminary assessment of business, managerial and financial information of the companies applying for the search of capital on TWO HUNDRED.
TWO HUNDRED’s goal is to build structured investment rounds, offering investors the opportunity to co-invest in Italian innovation, diversifying its portfolio, fostering the emergence and growth of digital start-ups.
Equity crowdfunding – an alternative tool to finance the growth of a company through online fundraising campaigns, with a setduration and a goal – in Italy reached over €18 million in risk capital raised since the onset of the 2013 legislation, with a 60% campaign success rate and a recorded 152% growth in 2017 compared to 2016 (Source: Crowdinvesting Observatory of the Milan Polytechnic, November 2017).
Matteo Masserdotti, Founder and CEO of TWO HUNDRED, said: “Equity crowdfunding in Italy is giving excellent results, but we must work together to ensure maximum professionalism for investors, who have less experience today in evaluating and following these companies. We know that the risk capital investment market in Italy is only beginning and we are also aware that this type of investment is increasingly accessible to everyone and interest in it is increasing. Thanks to the strategic partnership with Digital Magics we can work to create a more professional and liquid market for everyone “.
Gabriele Ronchini, Founder and CEO of Digital Magics, declares: “After launching MAGIC WAND, the first FinTech and InsurTech accelerator in Italy, together with 10 major players in the market, we continue to invest in the finance sector, which is evolving worldwide thanks to digital. We are even more pleased to welcome Matteo, Carlo and their team into our team and start this collaboration achieving our first fundraising target for our investee WeBeers. TWO HUNDRED is not just one of our subsidiaries, but becomes a real partner for our portfolio and for Italian innovation “.
This press release is online in the section Investors/Press Releases at www.digitalmagics.com
TWO HUNDRED is a company that manages an equity crowdfunding portal, created to allow investors to easily finance unlisted private companies, both Startups and innovative SMEs. The TWO HUNDRED business model provides a unique and professional approach selecting companies to launch on its portal. The TWO HUNDRED team consists of specialists from the private equity, investment banking, corporate law and digital management sectors.
Digital Magics, listed on AIM Italia (symbol: DM), is a business incubator of digital projects that provides consulting services and acceleration services to Startups and enterprises, to facilitate the development of new technological businesses. Digital Magics, Talent Garden and Tamburi Investment Partners, have created the most important national hub for innovation for DIGITAL MADE IN ITALY, by providing support to innovative Startups to create successful projects, from conception to IPO. Digital Magics has always been a partner of excellent enterprises, with its Open Innovation services, thus creating a synergetic bridge between companies and digital startups. The incubation and acceleration services offered by Digital Magics are active in the TAG co-working campuses present throughout Italy. Complementary services include investment activities, which have produced over the years a portfolio of 70 investments in digital startups, scaleups and spinoffs with high growth rates. Accelerated companies are flanked by Digital Magics’ team, a partner of enormous business and digital experience, and benefit not only from the large network of private and institutional investors that support them through “club dealsâ€, but also from the many partner companies that support them on an industrial scale.
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For further information:
TWO HUNDRED
Matteo Masserdotti – Funder and CEO
Mail: matteo@200crowd.com
Mob. 339 42616400
Digital Magics – Press Office
Giorgio Bocchieri – Mail: giorgio.bocchieri@digitalmagics.com
Tel. 02 52505202 – Mob. 334 6853078
IR Top – Investor Relations
Floriana Vitale – Mail: f.vitale@irtop.com
Tel. 02 45473883/4
Banca Akros – Nomad
Mail: ecm@bancaakros.it
Tel. 02 434441
