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Lack of funds forcing businesses to abandon Italy's startup hub

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Published Wed, Jan 27, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Rome

H-FARM'S idyllic startup campus looking out from a hilltop towards Venice has everything its 500-plus entrepreneurs need to thrive. Except capital.

Michelangelo Ravagnan runs his Uber-style website for yacht captains, Antlos, from the hub but he's reluctantly preparing to join the exodus of Italy's most promising businesses as he seeks funds to expand the company.

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