Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Italy in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Italy in December 2024
Investor | Agriculture (agtech) Italy investments |
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UniCredit | 4 |
CDP Venture Capital | 4 |
CDP Venture Capital | 4 |
CRiF | 3 |
CRiF | 3 |
Matteo Fago | 2 |
Lazio Innova | 2 |
Indico Capital Partners | 2 |
TAN Food | 2 |
Guala Closures Group | 2 |
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino | 2 |
Giovanni Onesti | 2 |
Lazio Innova | 2 |
Progress Tech Transfer Fund | 2 |
SVG Ventures | 2 |
Intesa Sanpaolo | 2 |
Crédit Agricole Italia | 2 |
TAN Food | 2 |
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino | 2 |
Giovanni Onesti | 2 |
Fulvio Basili | 2 |
SVG Ventures | 2 |
Matteo Fago | 2 |
Fulvio Basili | 2 |
Guala Closures Group | 2 |
Progress Tech Transfer Fund | 2 |
United Ventures | 1 |
Club degli Investitori | 1 |
UniCredit Group | 1 |
Fondazione Golinelli | 1 |
Claudio Rossi | 1 |
Draper B1 | 1 |
SIREF | 1 |
Open Venture | 1 |
Intesa Sanpaolo | 1 |
Open Venture | 1 |
Banca del Mezzogiorno - MedioCredito Centrale | 1 |
dsm-firmenich | 1 |
Farming Future | 1 |
Draper B1 | 1 |
ESA - GRANT | 1 |
SIREF | 1 |
Banco BPM | 1 |
Andrea Febbraio | 1 |
Claudio Rossi | 1 |
InnoVaventures | 1 |
SVG Ventures | 1 |
ESA - GRANT | 1 |
Farming Future | 1 |
Levante Capital | 1 |
UniCredit (formerly UniCredito) is an Italian global banking and financial services company. Its network spanning 50 markets in 20 countries, with more than 9,000 branches and over 148,000 employees. Its strategic position in Western and Eastern Europe gives the group one of the region's highest market shares.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Italy, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- La Doria — La Doria is a producer and sells tomato derivatives, ready sauces, preserved legumes, fruit juices, and beverage products. They offer products that include boiled legumes, baked beans, red kidney beans, carrots, ready-made soups and stews, and canned pasta in tomato sauce.
- Unifiber — Unifiber is a broadband service company that focuses on the creation of passive access fiber optic networks.
- ambrogio transporti — ambrogio transporti is a intermodal transportation company.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sestre — Sestre is an online store that offers nutraceutical supplements, nutrition, Mediterranean diet, healthy, and wellness products.
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Waxy — Waxy is an innovative startup that operates in the domain of designing, building, and distributing technologies for the sanitization of liquids and food products.
- Tau Group — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
- Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.
CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
- Agrobit — Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed.
- Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
- Agrobit — Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed.
- Latitudo40 — DATA FROM SPACE FOR A WORLD OF INFORMATION. Latitudo 40 has created the easiest and fastest platform to turn satellite imagery into geospatial information to support everyday decisions.For the first time in one platform all the features to automatically search, process and elaborate the images produced by Earth observation satellites and transformthem into information to simplify business processes with powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.
Matteo Fago
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Investment focus
- Travel, Farming, Big Data
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
- Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
- IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
Indico Capital Partners is the leading independent Venture Capital firm in Portugal investing in global technology companies. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico werepreviously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs.Headed by the two most senior former Caixa Capital VC Team members, supported by a successful and experienced entrepreneur and a strong group of advisors, top entrepreneurs, they raised our first fund (authorized by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission - CMVM) from a cornerstone institutional investor (EIF) and international family/multi-family offices from Europe, US, and Australia. In addition to Silicon Valley, London, and Berlin, cities like Lisbon have emerging startup ecosystems. Portugal went through a difficult macro environment years ago which led to a growth in the entrepreneurship culture and investment. We have excellent tech graduates and a global mindset.Highly innovative companies like luxury eCommerce platform Farfetch, YC graduate machine learning translation platform Unbabel or the leading student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces have a strong Portuguese DNA and went to raise international rounds in the UK and the US - we want to back the next success stories of the ecosystem.
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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
- Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
- Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.
TAN Food is a privately funded investment company based in Milan.
We invest in companies with high growth potential operating in the food & beverage and food-tech sector.
A dedicated team, with solid financial and operational background in the F&B industry, actively supports the startups in our portfolio in both strategic and operationaldecisions.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Soul-K — Food-tech company B2B, la prima industria alimentare 4.0 ad applicare lean-production e Just-In-Time. Abilita i professionisti a risparmiare tempo e denaro, riducendo manodopera e spreco di cibo.
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Guala Closures operates in more than 100 Countries producing high-quality closure solutions for spirits, wine, edible oil, water and a wide range of other beverages.
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Giovanni Onesti
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
Investment fund specialized in sustainable technologies from universities and public research organizations, start-ups, spin-offs, and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Water, Eyewear, Farming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
- Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.
- HT Materials Science — HT Materials Science provides nanofluid science in thermal systems for commercial and industrial infrastructure.
We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
- Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.
Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- La Doria — La Doria is a producer and sells tomato derivatives, ready sauces, preserved legumes, fruit juices, and beverage products. They offer products that include boiled legumes, baked beans, red kidney beans, carrots, ready-made soups and stews, and canned pasta in tomato sauce.
- MODIFI — Explore digital trade finance and B2B payment solutions that empower your business to grow globally.
- Maire Tecnimont — We are enablers of innovation, working alongside businesses to develop sustainable technologies and design integrated solutions that inspire energy transition.
Crédit Agricole Italia is a bank that offers loans and financial services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Water
- Debt Financing, Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Italcer Group — Italcer Group is a manufacturer of indoor and outdoor ceramic products.
- Clessidra — Clessidra Private Equity is an investment firm that invests in the Italian upper-middle markets. Clessidra Private Equity was founded in 2003 and was headquartered in Milan, Italy.
- Generalfinance — Generalfinance is a financial management agency that provides flexible services designed to address the company's debt issues.
TAN Food is a privately funded investment company based in Milan.
We invest in companies with high growth potential operating in the food & beverage and food-tech sector.
A dedicated team, with solid financial and operational background in the F&B industry, actively supports the startups in our portfolio in both strategic and operationaldecisions.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Soul-K — Food-tech company B2B, la prima industria alimentare 4.0 ad applicare lean-production e Just-In-Time. Abilita i professionisti a risparmiare tempo e denaro, riducendo manodopera e spreco di cibo.
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Giovanni Onesti
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Fulvio Basili is a Private Investor at WallFarm and also the CEO and Founder of Ecosafey.
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
- Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.
Matteo Fago
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Investment focus
- Travel, Farming, Big Data
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
- Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
- IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Fulvio Basili is a Private Investor at WallFarm and also the CEO and Founder of Ecosafey.
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Guala Closures operates in more than 100 Countries producing high-quality closure solutions for spirits, wine, edible oil, water and a wide range of other beverages.
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Investment fund specialized in sustainable technologies from universities and public research organizations, start-ups, spin-offs, and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Water, Eyewear, Farming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
- WembraneX — WembraneX's goal is to make wastewater treatment facilities more cost-effective by introducing a new class of anti-fouling and anti-biofouling membranes.
- Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
- Avaneidi — Discover Avaneidi's enterprise storage solutions. Designed in Italy with a 'security by design' approach for unparalleled security and reliability.
- IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Ephos — Manufacturing high-fidelity photonic chips that power the most advanced modular quantum architectures
- Glaut — Glaut is an AI-native customer survey platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews with customers at scale.
- ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
UniCredit Group is an Italian global banking and financial services company. Its network spanning 50 markets in 20 countries, with more than 9,000 branches and over 148,000 employees. Its strategic position in Western and Eastern Europe gives the group one of the region's highest market shares.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Banking
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- Italy, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Ecopol — The Ecopol's PVA water-soluble film technology is the world leading solution in packaging applications, such as detergents, agrochemicals, etc.
- Edison Spa — Edison S.p.A is an energy company in the field of electricity and natural gas.
- Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
Fondazione Golinelli was born in Bologna in 1988 by the will of the entrepreneur and philanthropist Marino Golinelli with the aim to promote education and training, to promote the culture, to foster intellectual growth and ethics of young people, the citizens of tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Biorfarm — Adotta il tuo Albero, crea il tuo Campo Digitale e ricevi a domicilio la tua frutta biologica. Solo con Biorfarm puoi seguire la crescita dei tuoi frutti!
- EvenFi — Criptalia uses blockchain technology to connect businesses that have projects to be funded with people and organizations who are looking for high-yield investments. We offer an online platform where companies publish their innovative ideas and industrial improvement projects. Investors, people, and institutions can fund these projects by lendingmoney in exchange for a higher interest rate.
- Latitudo40 — DATA FROM SPACE FOR A WORLD OF INFORMATION. Latitudo 40 has created the easiest and fastest platform to turn satellite imagery into geospatial information to support everyday decisions.For the first time in one platform all the features to automatically search, process and elaborate the images produced by Earth observation satellites and transformthem into information to simplify business processes with powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.
Claudio Rossi - Advisor @ GoSherpy
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Investment focus
- Farming, Internet, Agriculture
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Elaisian — Elaisian is a precision farming service that focuses on the preservation of olive trees. By a system of algorithms based on a database of agronomic studies, the company is able to prevent diseases and to optimize cultivation processes such as irrigation and fertilization. The goal is to improve olive tree's life and the producer's work.
- Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
- FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.
We invest in you. Our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship is your best ally to expand your business. Find out how we can boost your project!
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- CubicUp — CubicUp is the person of confidence that accompanies you in your project of Reform from Begin to Finish.
- Modular DS — Modular DS enables WordPress professionals and businesses to save time managing their websites.
- Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.
Società fiduciaria di revisione
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- Farming, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Italy
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- 3Bee — 3Bee develops technologies in the field of hive monitoring, prevention, and care.
Open Venture’s objective is to accompany early stage B2B start-ups with a high innovation content on their growth path. Its goal is to generate a positive impact on society, the economy and the environment.
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- AgTech, Software, Geospatial
- Seed
- Italy
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- Latitudo40 — DATA FROM SPACE FOR A WORLD OF INFORMATION. Latitudo 40 has created the easiest and fastest platform to turn satellite imagery into geospatial information to support everyday decisions.For the first time in one platform all the features to automatically search, process and elaborate the images produced by Earth observation satellites and transformthem into information to simplify business processes with powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.
Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
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- Involve Space — Involve Space provides solutions for space-based activities via a customizable and cost-effective stratospheric pseudo satellite.
- El Corte Ingles — El Corte Inglés is a business group with more than 80 years of history, upholding the same values as always. Our steadfast principles of ethical and responsible conduct allow us to evolve towards an omnichannel model more aligned with digitalisation, diversification and sustainability. This has meant a progress in the transformation of El CorteInglés from a retailer to a unique ecosystem. Without ever taking our eyes off the product and service quality, expertise, curated selections, guarantees and innovation we offer with the ultimate goal of making people's lives easier.
- Toscana Aeroporti — Toscana Aeroporti provides low cost carriers, cargo flights, and the development of intercontinental flights. They also offer economic development, service providers, and traffic management for tourists. They provide aviation and non-aviation. The aviation industry offers services for landing and taking off as well as ground handling for travelersand aircraft.
Open Venture’s objective is to accompany early stage B2B start-ups with a high innovation content on their growth path. Its goal is to generate a positive impact on society, the economy and the environment.
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- AgTech, Software, Geospatial
- Seed
- Italy
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- Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
Banca del Mezzogiorno - MedioCredito Centrale is an Italian bank that specializes in medium-term loans to companies.
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- Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Chemical Engineering
- Post-IPO Debt
- Italy
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- B. For PET — B. For PET is a recycling company that specializes in the production of renewable and recycled plastic materials.
- Silvateam — World leader in plant based extracts
- Maire Tecnimont — We are enablers of innovation, working alongside businesses to develop sustainable technologies and design integrated solutions that inspire energy transition.
Innovators in nutrition, health, and beauty. Together, we bring progress to life by combining the essential, the desirable, and the sustainable.
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- AgTech, Hardware, Livestock
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
Farming Future is the national technology transfer hub founded on the initiative of CDP venture capital in partnership with toseed and partners.
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- AgTech, Hardware, Livestock
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
We invest in you. Our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship is your best ally to expand your business. Find out how we can boost your project!
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, Italy
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- Splight — Splight is an Artificial Intelligence Company, that creates Artificial Energy, the greenest energy ever made. Artificial Energy is energy that would have not been generated but for the application of digital solutions to existing power infrastructure. Running over a proprietary, powerful and transparent digital platform, Artificial Energyproduction leverages the unutilized capacity of the grid to generate energy combining big data capture and processing with state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing. We create expanded pools of benefits for our clients by increasing revenues, reducing operating and maintenance costs, eliminating or delaying capital expenditures, lowering the cost of capital, and ultimately increasing profitability while directly contributing to the full decarbonization of the energy industry.
- Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
- Acai Travel — An all-in-one solution to enable your agents be twice as efficient, to optimize your call centers, and gain your customers' trust
ESA provide grants for space project
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- Farming, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Italy
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- 3Bee — 3Bee develops technologies in the field of hive monitoring, prevention, and care.
Società fiduciaria di revisione
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- Farming, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Italy
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- 3Bee — 3Bee develops technologies in the field of hive monitoring, prevention, and care.
Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese.
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- Manufacturing, Product Design, Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, Spain
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- Maire Tecnimont — We are enablers of innovation, working alongside businesses to develop sustainable technologies and design integrated solutions that inspire energy transition.
- Enel Green Power — Enel Green Power is the company that deals with renewable energy from every perspective: from direct sales through PPA, to commitment at the forefront with its plants worldwide.
- Garofalo Health Care — Garofalo Health Care SpA is a major group in Italy in the authorized private healthcare sector and the only Italian firm listed on the Star division of the Italian Stock Exchange in the healthcare industry.
Venture Capitalist, Investor, Internet entrepreneur, International Speaker and Book Author.+15 years of experience in AdTech & Digital Advertising : I love to start-up international digital business, scale it and make them grow till the exit.Co-founder of Ebuzzing (now Teads) from 0 to 100M$ Revenues in 4 YearsFounder of PromoDigital// Sold It After 2 Years for 4x RevenuesCo-Author of the book "Viral Video: Content is King Distribution is Queen" & Co-Author of the Book "Buzz Marketing nei Social Media" Partner at Ariadne CapitalPro Speaker at London Speaker Bureauhttp://mariafranzoni.com/business-management/4471-andrea-febbraio// I LOVE TO MENTOR AWESOME TEAMS //Speaker at Major Digital Advertising events: Royal Institution of Great Britain, IAB Forum Milan, iStrategy London, iStrategy Amsterdam, Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, Dmexco Cologne, Inspirational Festival Madrid.Advisor http://www.luissenlabs.com/ Angel Portfolio: AdEspresso, Chupamobile, Beintoo, FiloVenture Portfolio: Money Dashboard, Oxygen, Bit X , Quill, Taggstar, SoundOut, Made Television, Orson & Co , Bloomy Days, Norwood SystemSenior Lecturer at :SDA Bocconi, LUISS Business School, Business School Il Sole 24 Ore, IED, NaBA, Master IAB Università Cattolica, Gambero Rosso
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- Internet, Farming, Fitness
- Seed
- Italy
Claudio Rossi - Advisor @ GoSherpy
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- Farming, Internet, Agriculture
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy
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- Elaisian — Elaisian is a precision farming service that focuses on the preservation of olive trees. By a system of algorithms based on a database of agronomic studies, the company is able to prevent diseases and to optimize cultivation processes such as irrigation and fertilization. The goal is to improve olive tree's life and the producer's work.
- Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
- FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.
innova.ventures is a globally active management consulting firm.
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- AgTech, Sensor, Farming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- Wetacoo — Il miglior servizio di trasloco e magazzino con ritiro e riconsegna. Per traslochi, deposito, archivi, ristrutturazioni, o per fare spazio a casa e in ufficio.
- Elaisian — Elaisian is a precision farming service that focuses on the preservation of olive trees. By a system of algorithms based on a database of agronomic studies, the company is able to prevent diseases and to optimize cultivation processes such as irrigation and fertilization. The goal is to improve olive tree's life and the producer's work.
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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- AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
- Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
- Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.
ESA provide grants for space project
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- Farming, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Italy
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- 3Bee — 3Bee develops technologies in the field of hive monitoring, prevention, and care.
Farming Future is the national technology transfer hub founded on the initiative of CDP venture capital in partnership with toseed and partners.
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- AgTech, Hardware, Livestock
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
European Technologies, Asian Horizons
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- AgTech, Hardware, Livestock
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- Cynomys — Soluzioni IOT di monitoraggio ambientale per allevamenti e aziende
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