2000

• TIP is founded to invest in high-growth companies eager to capitalize on new technologies.
• It initially planned to raise 15 billion Italian lire from fewer than 10 shareholders, but it immediately generated significant interest, and commitments exceeded 100 billion Italian lire.
• Investment activities begin with a capital of approximately 65 billion Italian lire (€33 million), contributed by about 70 shareholders, almost all of whom were entrepreneurs.
• It adopts a prudent investment policy, avoids pure start-up operations, and focuses mainly on the services sector.

2002

• TIP begins its activity of investing in companies listed on the Stock Exchange.

2003

• TIP increases its share capital, raising new resources of approximately €44 million and broadening its shareholder base with over 30 new investors.
• It integrates Tamburi & Associati (T&A), a company dedicated to advisory activity. From that moment on, TIP can offer itself to the medium-sized business market as both an “equity provider” (minority investor for development) and a “corporate finance service provider” (advisor for extraordinary finance operations), consolidating expertise, financial resources, and network within a single corporate structure.
• It progressively shifts the investment focus towards larger companies and listed companies.
• In doing so, it creates an independent investment-merchant bank model unique in Italy, characterized by: i) a large but homogeneous shareholder base; ii) specialization in “excellent” medium-sized companies; iii) very peculiar competencies, experiences, knowledge, and network; iv) significant financial resources. The goal is to be listed on the Stock Exchange within 2-3 years.

2005

• On November 9, 2005, TIP is listed on the MTA market (formerly Expandi).

2010

• Since December 2010, Borsa Italiana S.p.A. has admitted TIP shares and warrants to trading on the STAR segment.

2014

• TIP diversifies its investment activity by launching a project dedicated to medium-sized companies that aspire to an Stock Exchange listing in the medium term.
• A specific vehicle is created to which primary family offices adhere, in addition to TIP, with a total endowment of €140 million. TIP Pre-IPO (“TIPO”) focuses on investments in companies with a turnover of up to €200 million and with an investment target between €20 and €50 million per transaction.

2016

• Investment activity expands through the creation of the “Asset Italia” investment project, dedicated to companies with a turnover exceeding €200 million and with a single investment greater than €30 million.
• Asset Italia saw the participation of approximately 30 important “family offices,” with a total endowment of €550 million.
• The project’s unique feature is the faculty left to the shareholders to evaluate, on a case-by-case basis, the possibility of participating in a new investment, always through the “club deal” format.

2017

• TIP consolidates its investment project in the innovation and start-up segment—which has long been of interest—by creating “StarTIP,” a true hub for digital and technological innovation “made in Italy,” into which the existing stakes in Digital Magics (the main Italian start-up incubator) and Talent Garden (the first European coworking network for digital start-ups) are transferred.
• With a total endowment of €100 million and access to its network, StarTIP aims to support the accelerated development of innovative Italian companies.