Qreative

Umberto Bottesini, as Founder and CEO, leads Qreative. He co-founded Blacksheep Ventures with business partners Marco Caradonna, Sandro Moretti, and Giovanni Strocchi, indicating investment decisions are made through this tight-knit group rather than a broad committee.

Bottesini’s role as a contract professor of Digital Communication at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore provides a direct pipeline to academic and student-originated startups. Additionally, the firm’s deep ties to Blacksheep Ventures co-founders and co-investors like Roberto Nicastro extend its reach into the Italian entrepreneurial and banking communities.

Qreative is not a family office. It functions as an asset manager and accelerator, deploying capital from its founders and syndicate partners rather than a single family’s wealth. The firm’s structure — operating through the Blacksheep Ventures syndicate — aligns it more with a collective investment vehicle than a traditional institutional venture capital firm.

All disclosed activity points to direct early-stage investments. Qreative and its Blacksheep Ventures partners have participated in seed rounds for companies such as GoVolt and Simple Agency, with no evidence of fund-of-funds commitments or LP positions in external vehicles.

Qreative actively co-invests. It has deployed capital alongside Roberto Nicastro, the founder of Banca AideXa, in at least one seed round. The Blacksheep Ventures syndicate itself is a co-investment structure pooling resources from its four co-founders, and it routinely brings in external operators like Nicastro.