About Cafelido
Cafelido Development is a boutique project developer and holding firm based in Berlin and Toronto, but with a love for Lugano. It engages in technology, media and pro-planet businesses. It does not take on new projects.

The Cafelido Name
A lido is a public beach set up for stylish, Italy-inspired Summer enjoyment with changing facilities, showers and, yes, also a café. You can find a lido on the Mediterranean, but also at a lake. One classic lido, and for our family a nostalgic favourite, is in the Italian part of Switzerland, in Lugano. "The Lido," however, is in Venice.

The name Cafelido was inspired by a long defunct Italian restaurant in the tiny financial district of Munich in the late nineties. Here, an early generation of Germany's venture capitalists met for cosy lunches. This is where everything started, also for us. Munich, by the way, is gaga about Italy. And that is perfectly understandable.

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