Atlas PMI Destinazione Futuro Fund Invests in Opstart Lending Crowdfunding and Minibonds

The crowdfunding platform Opstart has signed a partnership with Atlas SGR , through the FIA ​​Atlas PMI Destinazione Futuro to support small and medium-sized enterprises in raising capital through crowdinvesting tools, available within the Opstart fintech hub in the debt area.

The Opstart-Atlas SGR partnership

The agreement involves Crowdlender and Crowdbond, Opstart’s verticals dedicated to lending and debt crowdfunding respectively.

These are two debt instruments that allow private and institutional investors to invest in the real economy, directly supporting SMEs in their growth projects, in exchange for a predefined interest rate. Atlas thus becomes part of the group of investors that the fintech hub makes available to SMEs in funding.

Thanks to the agreement, in fact, the alternative investment fund Atlas PMI Destinazione Futuro participates in crowdfunding campaigns, with a focus on ESG initiatives or advance public contributions, investing up to 50% of the collection for a maximum of 500,000.00 euros per individual company.

The campaigns proposed by the Opstart hub are selected by an internal team of analysts, among projects that concern different sectors, such as sustainability and bridge financing operations linked to subsidized finance instruments.

Loans based on the provision of subsidized finance

The latter are part of the Opstart Crowdbridge product , used mainly following the victory of a tender, which allows the company to quickly raise part of the capital already foreseen by the subsidized finance measure obtained.

At the same time, it ensures that investors earn interest and are reimbursed for their capital as soon as the funding from the call is disbursed.

Lending crowdfunding

On the lending crowdfunding side, Atlas PMI Destinazione Futuro joins an already long list of institutional investors ready to bet on Minibonds placed by Opstart on behalf of SMEs.

“We are proud of the trust that Atlas PMI Destinazione Futuro has given us, and to be able to offer this opportunity to SMEs in lending and debt crowdfunding on the portal. At the moment, 98% of the proposed campaigns have reimbursed or are reimbursed what was due within the established times, a number that makes us very satisfied with the companies and investors who have relied on the portal. Thanks to the partnership with Atlas, we expect to continue this positive trend ,” explains Giovanpaolo Arioldi, CEO & Co-Founder of Opstart.

Atlas SGR Profile

Authorized by the Bank of Italy on September 20, 2022, Atlas SGR is an independent platform focused on the Italian alternative investment market (FIA) dedicated to the real economy and, in particular, to Small and Medium Enterprises, startups, companies with social responsibility profiles.

The shareholding and governance of Atlas SGR benefit from the presence of professionals with a solid reputation and reliability, gathered in the holding company Aurum Srl and from the participation in the capital and Board of Directors of IBL Banca, parent company of the banking group of the same name.

Atlas PMI Destinazione Futuro has a two-year collection target of 100 million euros and has been operational since last July.

Giuseppe Andrea Tateo, General Partner and Head of Management of the Atlas PMI Destinazione Futuro Fund, comments: “The partnership with Opstart represents a further and significant step in its development path. Thanks to the signed collaboration, we are anchor investors on all types of financing offered by the Opstart platform, with a specific focus on projects related to the energy transition and minibonds.”

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