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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🚀 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.

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

A lot of people ask me where community capital is really going in Europe…

So let me answer it in a very concrete way!

In 2026, Over Ventures will work to help companies raise more than €20M through community-based fundraising (trying to over double the 2025 result).

Not as a slogan… As the sum of many well-designed, well-timed operations!

After 2025, one thing is clear:
this is no longer an “alternative” channel or a nice add-on for marketing. It has become a structural part of how early and growth-stage companies raise capital.

What we’re seeing on the ground is interesting:

– Founders use the community to validate, accelerate and de-risk rounds.
– VCs increasingly accept and sometimes expect a retail or community leg.
– Platforms are evolving from marketplaces into real fintech infrastructure.

And most importantly, the crowd is no longer just capital… It’s signal.

Signal on pricing
Signal on traction
Signal on market credibility

That’s why this year isn’t about chasing volume. It’s about proving again that community capital can be:
	•	repeatable
	•	scalable
	•	and compatible with institutional capital

I’m sharing this objective publicly because I believe in building in the open. Numbers force clarity. Clarity forces discipline.

If you’re a founder planning a serious round and wondering where and when to activate your #community within a broader #fundraising strategy, that’s exactly the conversation we like to have.

2026 will be less noise.
More structure.
More substance.

Let’s see where this takes us!

#communitycapital #crowdfundingstudio

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

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In Over Ventures stiamo avviando una fase di beta testing di un nuovo servizio dedicato alla validazione e al feedback strutturato per #startup early-stage che stanno valutando una raccolta di capitale.

Stiamo selezionando un numero limitato di profili esperti interessati a contribuire alla fase di test, mettendo a disposizione la propria esperienza come operatori, investitori o advisor, attraverso la revisione di pitch e modelli di business.

L’accesso è su invito e soggetto a selezione. In questa fase raccoglieremo un massimo di 20 profili.

Chi è interessato può candidarsi compilando il modulo nel link al primo commento.

I profili selezionati verranno contattati direttamente con maggiori dettagli sul funzionamento del servizio e sulle modalità di partecipazione.

Stay Tuned

#communitycapital #venturecapital

Negli ultimi anni, lavorando su oltre 200 operazioni tra #startup, #investitori e corporate e grazie al punto di vista del mio amico Carlo Trolli, ho osservato un elemento ricorrente nel settore #automotive. 

L’innovazione esiste, ma spesso fatica a trasformarsi in adozione industriale concreta.

Da questa consapevolezza nasce Automotive Next, un programma di accelerazione creato da Over Ventures insieme ad alcuni dei principali player europei dei servizi al mercato automotive.

Automotive Next non è un acceleratore teorico. È un percorso pensato per aiutare startup e scaleup automotive e mobility a validare soluzioni sul mercato reale, connettersi con partner industriali e clienti, accedere a capitale e competenze operative, e scalare in modo concreto in Europa.

Il programma si concentra su software, servizi e piattaforme che rendono più efficiente l’ecosistema automotive. Rientrano in questo ambito la ricarica EV, il fleet management, il digital retail, la manutenzione predittiva, l’energia, l’aftermarket e i mobility services.

Se sei una startup, un investitore o un operatore del settore automotive interessato a trasformare l’innovazione in risultati tangibili, puoi trovare maggiori informazioni nel link nel primo commento.

Il futuro dell’automotive sarà definito dalla capacità di integrare tecnologia, industria e capitale in modo efficace.

#AutomotiveNext #AutomotiveInnovation #Mobility #Startup #Acceleration #Industry #OverVentures

Vuoi aiutare Over Ventures e Italian Tech Alliance a capire come founder, investitori e operatori dell'ecosistema italiano percepiscono e utilizzano il community capital?

Rispondi a questo piccolo questionario (anonimo)della durata di 5 minuti!

I risultati verranno discussi alla presentazione dell’European Community Capital Landscape 2025, il 19 febbraio a Milano presso il Milano LUISS Hub (link all’evento nel primo commento)

Qui invece il link al questionario: https://lnkd.in/dH9_V_Dc

New website is finally online!!!

Ready to scale Community Capital in Europe

See you on the other side

Link in the first comment

Most startups still do the same thing when they raise capital…

They plan and try to allocate equity just to #VC investors and Angels.

Rarely they plan allocate equity to the people who actually use, love, and validate their product every day.

That model worked… of course!
But it’s no longer the only one that makes sense.

There’s a growing middle ground that more #founders are starting to explore:
keep the institutional round intact, but intentionally carve out a small allocation for the #community.

Not instead of VCs but alongside them.

Because a 5-10% community allocation doesn’t weaken a round. In many cases, it strengthens it.

It turns customers into long-term believers.
It creates alignment instead of pure consumption. It adds distribution, advocacy, and resilience that doesn’t show up in a term sheet but absolutely shows up in execution.

From what I see across Europe and the US, this isn’t about “democratising” for ideology’s sake. It’s about building stronger companies.

VCs bring capital, structure, and governance.
Communities bring signal, adoption, and trust.

When those two things work together, companies don’t just raise money faster
they scale with more conviction.

The question for founders is no longer “VC or crowd?” It’s “where does the community fit in the round?”

And that’s a much more interesting question to ask in 2026!

Over Ventures is the best partner to embrace that!

——

Thanks Jonny Price for the inspiration of this post!

Last week European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its Market Report “Crowdfunding in the EU 2025”.

For those less familiar with it, ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) is the EU authority responsible for supervising and monitoring financial markets, including #crowdfunding platforms operating under the ECSPR regulation.

Important clarification on the data:
Despite the “2025” title, the report is entirely based on 2024 market data, collected from national regulators across the EU.

Some key takeaways from ESMA:
	•	€4.25bn raised via regulated crowdfunding in the EU in 2024
	•	Market still largely loan-based, not equity-driven
	•	Retail investors dominate (≈88%)
	•	Strong geographic concentration: 5 countries = 80%+ of volumes
	•	Limited cross-border capital flows

It’s a solid, institutional snapshot of where EU crowdfunding stands today.

That said, this is where the perspective differs from what we do at Over Ventures.

📌 ESMA looks at crowdfunding as a regulated market segment.
📌 ECCL our report (European Community Capital Landscape) looks at community capital as an evolving capital formation ecosystem.

ECCL goes beyond:
	•	equity crowdfunding only
	•	regulated platforms only
	•	no real estate and renewables 

It includes:
	•	hybrid models (club deals, co-investments, secondary transactions)
	•	exits, write-offs, and real liquidity signals
	•	founder, investor, and platform behavior
	•	forward-looking trends, not just backward-looking reporting

The European Community Capital Landscape 2025 (ECCL) will be officially presented on 19 February 2026 in Milan, together with Italian Tech Alliance and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini as the starting point of the ECCL European Roadshow.

I’ll share the link to the event in the first comment!

See you there

In sintesi:
Gli altri mi vedono come una persona di mezza età che ha fondato una startup alquanto stramba, appassionato della vita e del proprio lavoro, ogni tanto sopra le righe e decisamente portato a provarci anche quando le possibilità non sono molto favorevoli.

Io pure

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