Vento

Two or three years is how most founders plan.

Lucrezia Lucotti, Partner at .vc, says that’s not a plan; it’s a starting point.

The average founder in their portfolio is around 30. And precisely because they’re young, precisely because venture capital is a generational game, the question worth obsessing over isn’t where you’ll be at the end of the runway. It’s what you’re actually building toward in ten years.

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Most co-founding teams are built on complementarity: one person who moves fast, one who builds the scaffolding.

The friction between them is real, and it’s constant.

Fernanda Ferreira, founder in residence at Reef, talks about what happens when you stop fighting that tension and start using it: action and structure in the right balance turns a founding team into a machine.

Getting there isn’t easy. But it’s the whole game.

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Today, Reef begins.

40 aspiring founders are walking into , Turin, not with startups, but with ambition, craft, and the willingness to build from zero.

You might notice something new: we’re no longer calling it the “Venture Building Program”. We felt that something changed over the years and we wanted to capture it, because what we’re building isn’t just a program, it’s an environment.

A reef starts quietly, almost unseen: small layers that, over time, become a structure strong enough to host life,, and help it grow through connection. Not one hero, not one hand, but a system made of diverse elements working together.

That’s our idea of venture building: a place where talent meets talent, teams form, and early ideas take root, until they become companies ready for open water.

They enter as individuals, and some of them leave as founders, carrying what they build from Italy to Europe and beyond.

That’s why we say that Reef is the natural habitat for radical founders.