You Can Group

You Can Group

You Can Group operates from Bologna as the for-profit investment entity tightly coupled with the Future Food Institute, the nonprofit education and research platform Roversi founded. The group's structure is deliberately hybrid: it backs commercial ventures while sharing programming, facilities, and partnership relationships — including a formal joint program with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization — with the Institute. Founders Roversi and Andrea Magelli built the group alongside a circle of Italian entrepreneurs that includes Wish Days and Impactscool co-founders Andrea Dusi and Cristina Pozzi. The group directs capital toward seed and early-stage ventures across three interdependent themes. Agri-food-tech is the core, encompassing alternative proteins, precision agriculture, and supply-chain digitization. Climate resilience investments follow the food-water-energy nexus. Education ventures scale the Institute's curricula in schools and corporate training through technology platforms. The portfolio is assembled through direct startup equity and venture-fund commitments, with an emphasis on Italian and Southern European founders who leverage the Future Food network for distribution and validation. You Can Group maintains commercial offices in Bologna and Milan plus a land project in Albiano, Italy, suggesting an interest in regenerative agriculture and physical test sites. The exact deployment scale remains undisclosed. The firm draws on the Future Food Ecosystem, a professional network spanning food innovators and researchers across multiple continents, for proprietary deal flow and technical due diligence. The group's structural differentiator is its circular sourcing model. The nonprofit Future Food Institute generates deal flow, provides domain expertise, and validates technologies through pilot programs; You Can Group invests in the most promising graduates of this pipeline and captures the commercial upside. No other Italian food-tech investor operates with a comparable embedded-research architecture, and few globally combine policy partnerships, educational programming, and venture investing within a single founder-controlled structure.