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Leasys, a long term car rental firm that Stellantis is close to sell to Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance, signed an agreement with Stip, a startup that LVenture Group and Berkeley SkyDeck aceelerated (See here a previous post by BeBeez). Leasys Rent use the AI systems of Stip for its customer service unit. Stip is born in 2017 and belongs to Fabrizio Aiello (29.51%), Amir Salama (29.51%), Edoardo Vallebella (29.51%), Patrizia Alfiero (9.84%), and Alessandro Cerrone (1.65%). Leasys has embarked on a project to rebrand its operations, culminating in the creation of the Drivalia brand Alchimia, an Italian venture capital fund that Paolo Barletta and Lorenzo Castelli founded in 2018, is mulling for an IPO on Milan market (See here a previous