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Entrepreneur · Investor · Advisor · Student

An entrepreneur by passion. A student for life. Smiling.

Economics, finance, technology: the rest of the day.

Nicola Giunchi
8+
Companies launched
20+
Years as an entrepreneur
1
Degree, at 43*
* in under two years. Yes, I'm bragging a little.
100k€+
Invested in learning
Mistakes lived first-hand
Ventures

my other children

My story

I didn't follow a plan. I followed the fire.

2002

First jobs

Customer care, B2B sales. I learned that knowing how to sell is everything.

2005

Cars & first venture

New-car salesman, then a computer shop. My first entrepreneurial scar.

2012

Cambiomarcia

From zero to exit. 3 pivots, capital raised, Unipol Group.

2020

Corporate, but entrepreneur

CEO of an Unipol Group company. Launched Autostimo, Cambiobike, TenutaBene.

2024

Free again

MenthorQ, UEEL, Red Consulting. And university at 41.

2026

Graduate, advisor & venture builder

Bachelor's done in under 2 years. Senior Advisor at Roland Berger on AI, Digital and Scale-up. With Running Dolphins my venture-builder path begins.

Writing

I write about startups, finance and lessons from the field

All articles
Conceptual illustration on a deep teal ground: a pale slide breaking apart along its right edge into geometric shards that reassemble into a ring of connected nodes, the shift from the slide to the decision room.
tech

GPT-6 Astra ships, and in the demo it builds a PowerPoint. What a letdown.

The most capable model ever released, and the showcase use case is a deck consistent with your corporate template. I spent three years in a corporate watching meetings where the deck existed so nobody had to decide: the problem isn't making better PowerPoints.

September 4, 2026 · Read →

Let's cut to the chase.

If you have a project worth my time, write me. If I can help, I'll answer. If I can't, I'll tell you.

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