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2021

Football, circle of life

Football, circle of life

This weekend, in Rome, Euro21 kicks off. It’s the first time a major tournament has been hosted in the Bel Pease since the iconic Italia90.  Big tournaments, the big games, are marker poles for most guys. Like the classic albums. The soundtrack of our lives. A...

F1 – Mission Winnow and the elephant in the room

F1 – Mission Winnow and the elephant in the room

Many think that Philip Morris International’s (PMI) Mission Winnow initiative in Formula 1 is a fuzzy corporate exercise, designed to hide the elephant in the room: the American Group’s controversial end-products. Is it really like that? Or is this rather a simplistic...

Soccer’s Siren Song

Soccer’s Siren Song

Never before have we seen big finance and PE work so hard to invest in sport, which in Europe is dominated by soccer. Everything else just makes up the summer months every second year. 😉 The reasons are many, but let's just list a few: Arbitrage in the valuations of...

The Sportech Goldrush Redux: Three Years on!

The Sportech Goldrush Redux: Three Years on!

Back in 2018, I wrote a piece about the upcoming boom in early stage sportstech investments. It got a bit of attention and, in many ways, signposted what I and Albachiara were going to do in this sector since then. Both as an accelerator, and as advisors. That article...