META Group

Andrea Di Anselmo is president and co-founder of META Group, a European research accelerator with offices in Italy, Slovenia, and Brussels. He previously served as president of INSME, the International Network for SMEs, and serves on the board of EBN, the European Business and Innovation Centre Network. His professional background includes civil engineering and materials science research, with focus on commercializing research and supporting knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs.

Luigi Amati is founder of META Group and chairman emeritus of Business Angels Europe. He co-founded Italian Angels for Growth, one of Europe's largest angel clubs, and invests primarily in life science and creative companies. His background includes research in computational mechanics software at an Imperial College spin-off and degrees from the University of La Sapienza in Rome and Imperial College London.

Attorney-at-law and partner at law firm Kromann Reumert, specializing in M&A, capital markets regulation, company law and commercial law. He chairs the Association of Danish Law Firms and is active in the International Bar Association.

Managing Partner at APER Ventures who has closed over 30 investments including The Batteries, Talent Alpha, Coolomat and Norsa Pharma. He founded APER Angels, serves on the board of Business Angels Europe, and previously held roles at BMW Group, Enterprise Investors and Simon Kucher and Partners. Graduate of IESE Business School and Singularity University.

Leads partnerships, consortium building and access-to-finance.

Partner at Aper Ventures, Meta Ventures and Aper Seed, responsible for transaction structuring, negotiations and investor relations. He has closed over 30 investments and previously worked at Meta Ventures, BBI Seed Fund and PARP. Holds a PhD from Warsaw School of Economics.

Works on go-to-market and access-to-finance.

Anna Amati is a partner and board member at EUREKA! Venture SGR, an Italian venture capital firm specializing in deep tech and technology transfer investments. She co-founded the firm in 2019 and serves on the Investment Committee of Eureka! Fund I, which is backed by ITAtech and supported by the European Investment Fund and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. With over 25 years of experience in innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer, Amati has worked with universities, research centers, founders, and institutional investors, and currently leads the launch and fundraising of a new deep tech fund targeting Italian startups with proprietary technologies and industrial applications.