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Riccardo Maria Monti at Global South Innovation 2025

Riccardo Maria Monti speaking at Global South Innovation 2025 on innovation, capital flows and the markets writing the next decade of growth.

Riccardo Maria Monti
Riccardo Maria Monti at Global South Innovation 2025

Riccardo Maria Monti, Chairman & Venture Partner at Forty.5, executive chairman of Triboo Group, and former president of ICE, the Italian Trade Agency, spoke at Global South Innovation 2025 on how innovation and capital are redistributing toward markets that were, until recently, treated as peripheral.

It is a thesis that maps directly onto how we invest: talent and demand are global, capital is not yet, and the arbitrage between the two is where the next generation of category-defining companies is being built.

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