SUPPORTING INNOVATION LEVERAGING VALUE IN ADVANCE S.R.L.

The economics of startup investing have historically created a profound asymmetry. The investors who back the most promising companies at the earliest and most valuable stages — before public awareness, before traction is proven, before valuations have been driven up by subsequent funding rounds — have been a small and relatively closed group of professional investors, venture capital funds, and well-networked business angels. Everyone else has had to wait for later-stage investment opportunities, by which point much of the potential return has already been captured by those who moved first. SILVIA — Supporting Innovation Leveraging Value In Advance — is a platform designed to fundamentally restructure this access dynamic. The platform enables retail investors to back promising startups before their public launch — at the stage when the investment case is most compelling and the potential return is greatest, but also when the risks are highest and the information available to evaluate those risks requires the most care and expertise. SILVIA's role in curating the startups available on its platform is therefore not incidental but central: investors are trusting that the companies presented to them represent genuine quality and realistic potential, not just interesting stories. For startups, the platform addresses the fundamental difficulty of managing fundraising while simultaneously building a company. SILVIA offers a simple, transparent subscription-based model that covers the end-to-end infrastructure of a fundraising round — legal documentation, investor onboarding and KYC processes, payment processing, regulatory compliance, and ongoing investor communication. This comprehensive support frees founders from the administrative complexity that consumes disproportionate time and energy during fundraising periods, allowing them to keep their primary focus on building product, developing commercial relationships, and growing the team. The security and scalability of the platform are non-negotiable requirements for a service handling investment transactions, and SILVIA has built these properties in from the ground up through partnerships with specialist providers: Paradigma for legal infrastructure, Scytale for security, Okio and PixLex for additional technical and compliance capabilities. Each partnership brings depth in a specific domain that strengthens the overall platform rather than creating fragility through single-team responsibility for everything. SILVIA's growth strategy is built on partnership and ecosystem development, expanding both the supply of high-quality investable startups and the community of investors engaged with the platform — creating a network effect that makes SILVIA progressively more valuable as both sides of the marketplace grow and the match quality between founders and investors improves over time.