Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026

Investor	Artificial intelligence Italy investments
CDP Venture Capital	12
Club degli Investitori	7
LIFTT	6
UniCredit	6
United Ventures	6
Italian Founders Fund	6
Intesa Sanpaolo	5
Vertis	5
Primo Capital	5
Vento	5
NovaCapital	4
40Jemz Ventures	4
CRiF	4
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti	4
Paolo Barberis	4
GELLIFY	4
360 Capital	3
B Heroes	3
Joe Zadeh	3
Scientifica Venture Capital	3
Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer	3
Azimut Holding	3
EUREKA! Venture SGR	3
Atlante Ventures	3
Invitalia	3
Synergo Capital	3
Italian Angels for Growth	3
ING Group	2
The Techshop	2
Robin Capital	2
Emblem	2
Founders Future	2
CRV	2
GianFilippo Cuneo	2
Francesco Starace	2
Exor Ventures	2
Green Arrow Capital	2
Padda Health	2
P101	2
Club Italia Investimenti 2	2
Innogest Capital	2
Francesco Beraldi	2
Healthware Ventures	2
Geminea	2
Metes	2
Cysero	2
Wolsey Ventures	2
Fresco Capital	2
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore	2
14Peaks Capital	2

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
Dog Heroes — Dog Heroes delivers home recipes of fresh food, perfectly portioned to every dog's need. Only high-quality local ingredients are used in tailor-made portions that are ready to serve. Customers will find 55% meat of exclusively Italian origin in the company's recipes, balanced with vegetables, vitamins, and mineral salts. Dog Heroes doesnot use any chemical additives or preservatives.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

QSensAto — QSensAto is a quantum sensing company specializing in the development and research of integrated vapor cells and quantum atomic sensors.
Agate Sensors — Agate Sensors offers equipment manufacturers advanced sensors that detect, identify, and classify people, vital signs, objects, and more. Their sensors come in a range of sizes, from single pixel devices to full matrix devices, and are produced using standard CMOS production processes, making them both cost-effective and efficient.
Sparrow Quantum — Sparrow Quantum, a global leader in quantum photonic chip technology. Explore innovative solutions driving advancements in quantum computing, communication, and beyond. Stay ahead with cutting-edge technologies shaping the future.

UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Italy, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Noiet — Noiet is a biotechnology firm whose mission is to develop clean, natural, and fermented proteins that serve as multifunctional alternatives.
Peelpack — Peelpack is a packaging company that specializes in biodegradable and compostable biopolymer punnets, aiming to replace plastic packaging.
Alma Serum — Alma Serum is a cosmetic and biotech company that turns dairy industry into advanced cosmetic and biomedical materials.

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

Unlocking Italy's Next Founders

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
compri — Automate all your Procurement activities with AI
Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.

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. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Currenta — Industrial analytics for chemistry, life science, polymers. CURRENTA offers the full range of analytical services with competence and experience.
Stormind Games — Stormind Games is the video game studio specialized in the development of intense stories for PC and consoles.
Ital Gas Storage — Ital Gas Storage is a gas storage company that offers storage services.

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Computer
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.
Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
Live Story Inc. — Forget about code and templates: with our freehand designable editor, you can quickly create layouts and publish them online in no time.

Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
Blubrake — blubrake is a leading company that develops and produces advanced mechatronic systems focused on braking and sensing applications for bicycles, in particular e-bikes. The company developed the only ABS (anti-lock braking system) for e-bikes that can be fully integrated inside the frame and that can drastically increase safety on every kind ofe-bikes, from city to mountain, from trekking to cargo. A light and invisible technology that can assure a safer and more enjoyable cycling experience.
Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.

We want to empower the next generation of exceptional Italian founders by investing in and building new companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Italy, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
Perpethua — Perpetua is an Italian fintech company specializing in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (PMIs) through the critical phase of generational transition, especially when there is no clear successor within the business operates primarily as a digital platform that automates the M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) process for SMEs,connecting entrepreneurs without successors with qualified investors interested in ensuring business continuity and growth.
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

NovaCapital invests in the union between entrepreneurs and innovation. It offers international and managerial experience, to transform innovative start-ups and already established companies into structured companies, with managerial skills and an international network.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Austria

Portfolio highlights

EarlySight — EarlySight start-up company is founded in order to accelerate the development and to bring the technology to clinics.
BeDimensional — New Material Solution
Magentiq Eye Ltd — AI assisted colonoscopy by MAGENTIQ EYE set a new standard of , recognized by the gastroenterology community for its superior performance.

40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Advice, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

PREFE — PREFE is a real-time BI platform for FMCG, delivering instant insights on pricing, distribution, and promotions to boost profitability.
Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
Forte! — Automate mix prep and bounce. Maximize your flow on Pro Tools and Logic Pro. 15-day FREE trial. No credit card needed. Pay-once or subscriptions.

CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.

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.

The Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group is the national promotional institution that has supported the Italian economy since 1850

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, CleanTech
Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
Italy, Spain

Portfolio highlights

BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
NextChem — NextChem is the green chemistry subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont, an Italian multinational company specializing in engineering, technology, and energy. NextChem focuses on the energy transition by developing and deploying innovative solutions for sustainable industrial processes. It aims to accelerate decarbonization and promote the circular economythrough advanced technologies.
TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 2000 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.

As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

GEVI — GEVI develops high-tech and high-performance wind turbines with active blade pitch and artificial intelligence software self-specializing in multiple places and wind conditions, to maximise energy production and increase operational life.
PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.

B Heroes is a VC firm investing in Italian Founders around the globe at the pre-seed and seed stages with a sector-agnostic approach. We leverage a community of 30+ successful founders and platform initiatives to source, screen and support founders

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Italy, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
WithLess — Apps multiply, costs grow, admin spirals. We get it. The tools your team needs WithLess time, money, and admin.
Normo — Normo is a SAAS platform that provides personalized GPT assistance for accounting firms and entrepreneurs.

Joe Zadeh

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Personal Health
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.

Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Sustainability, Product Research
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

PlantBit — PlantBit is a producer of sensors and services for smart farming.
LOTO Biotech — LOTO Biotech is a biotechnology platform focused on supporting the development of treatments for rare diseases, particularly those caused by dominant negative genetic mutations.
LayerLogic AB — Reliable and instantaneous bacteria detection

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy.

Investment focus

Social, Hardware, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
ToothPic — ToothPic provides solutions on technologies for the recognition of photographic devices.ToothPic’s mission is turning every smartphone into a secure and user-friendly key for user authentication. ToothPic is an official university spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, a major engineering school in Italy and Europe, and is incubated in the universityincubator I3P, recently recognized by UBI Global as the best public incubator worldwide. ToothPic was founded by a team of 4 researchers and professors from Politecnico di Torino, and in 2018 received a seed from VV3TT, an Italian Venture Capital fund dedicated to Technology Transfer from public research. ToothPic technology is protected by 4 patents, and won several prizes in competitions dedicated to startups and twice the Seal of Excellence issued by the European Commission. ToothPic’s target is the market of authentication systems. Its technology recognizes the unique pattern of invisible imperfections that characterize smartphone cameras to protect cryptographic keys stored on devices, that are commonly used for user authentication, digital signature, blockchain related applications. The additional layer of security represented by this random unclonable feature can be obtained with no additional hardware and related costs. A Software Development Kit has been developed for Android and iOS. It can be integrated into existing third-party apps and authentication systems, allowing the device possession verification by (de)obfuscating asymmetric cryptographic keys. Users’ credentials are not stored in a centralized service provider server - representing a single point of failure exploitable by an attacker, but they are distributed on users’ devices. Hence, an adversary willing to violate those credentials should target each single user device, facilitating for service providers the migration from an on premises architecture to the cloud, because they don’t need to manage sensitive users credentials, but only their public key.
IntendiMe — IntendiMe proposes to improve the life of deaf persons and of those with hearing issues, making them feel more independent, free, and safe. All this is possible thanks to an innovative system that allows to detect any sound in real time and to receive a warning for them directly on your own wrist, through the dedicated smartwatch.

Azimut Holding is an independent financial company that offers investment solutions to develop excellent levels of experience. The company's business model is based on the vertical integration between asset management and distribution. It has portfolio managers and analysts based in major hubs around the world and a network of client-facingfinancial advisors operating to deliver quality advice to clients.Azimut Holding was founded on 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, China, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.
RedCarbon — RedCarbon is a cyber automation company that supports security using AI and NLP. RedCarbon was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.
Colossus — Technical provider in institutional blockchain infrastructure, bridging the gap between Asset Holders and yield generation. We empower financial institutions to manage assets while maintaining the highest standards of security and transparency.

Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments

Investment focus

Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Medical Device
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Caracol — Lead the future of manufacturing thanks to Caracol's 3D printing technologies. Discover our solutions for industrial, Large Format Additive Manufacturing.
FLEEPtech — FLEEP Technologies designs and develops printed electronics solutions for the biomedical and smart packaging sectors. The company, spin-off of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, was founded in May 2019.FLEEPtech developed a proprietary process for the fabrication of polymer-based integrated circuits based on Organic Thin-Film Transistors, creatingthe intelligent core for electronics systems that are mechanically flexible, printed like magazines and recyclable. FLEEPtech is the missing link in the printed electronics industry between a great number of flexible and printed products (i.e. sensors, actuators and energy supplies) that find little space in being integrated with standard non-flexible electronics. For such reasons, the company's mission revolves around the realization of a general purpose platform for the manufacturing of fully-printed integrated systems, composed by printed sensors, printed actuators, printed energy supplies and harvesters and, of course, printed integrated circuits.
INTA Systems — Nanotech and artificial intelligence for biomolecular analysis

Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Hardware
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

treet — Treet helps brands launch fully-branded recommerce sites where customers can buy & sell items from each other.
Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
Italy, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Tutornow — Ripetizioni online in matematica, fisica, inglese e oltre 150 materie. Ripetizioni per DSA e BES con tutor certificati. Lezioni online individuali da 60 minuti.
BILLD — Billd is a cleantech firm that offers the first digital receipt service to capture huge data from the offline market using AI.
Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.

Diamo sostegno operativo e finanziario alle PMI italiane che vogliono crescere negli USA. Investiamo a fianco di imprenditori ambiziosi per aumentare significativamente il valore delle loro aziende. Non siamo un partner solo finanziario, ma anche operativo e strategico. Mettiamo a disposizione la nostra esperienza nel costruire aziende di successo.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio is a biotech startup developing next-generation T cell therapies that target ALK-positive cancers. By reprogramming the immune system, the company aims to overcome resistance and deliver more effective, lasting treatments for solid tumors.
Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.

ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. They serve more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. They draw on our experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service andtheir global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Akaysha Energy — Discover innovative and sustainable renewable energy solutions with Akaysha Energy. Powering Australia's future with clean, reliable energy.
WiseTech Global — WiseTech Global is changing the world of logistics through world-leading software solutions. Find out how you can make an impact by joining our team.

The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GenomeUp — GenomeUp is an AI platform (SaaS) to enabling doctors and clinical institutions to diagnose and treat rare genetic diseases in less than 24h. GenomeUp is involved in international research projects and clinical trials in partnership with universities and research centers.
ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

Robin Capital focuses on software and technology solutions that address meaningful problems but am vertical agnostic.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
Pactos — Pactos streamlines and digitizes processes to enable large and medium-sized businesses to effectively and centrally procure and manage their contingent labor.
GoodFit — Implement & scale any GTM strategy. Commercial Leaders use GoodFit to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice

Emblem operates as a venture capital firm partnering at pre-seed stage with entrepreneurs in France, Denmark and Sweden.

Investment focus

FinTech, Advanced Materials, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Opper AI — Opper AI is a task completion API for AI. Reliably complete tasks with AI models. Ship AI assistants, agents and backend features that really work. Access 100+ models, built in quality process, observability and more.
altrove AI — Altrove - Sustainable Alternatives to Critical Materials
Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.

Founders Future is a transatlantic investment group dedicated to Tech. Founded in 2018 by tech entrepreneur Marc Menasé and backed by a collective of entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the firm sees entrepreneurship as the most powerful driver to tackle the key challenges of tomorrow. Founders Future supportsambitious founders at every stage of their journey, combining capital, strategic networks, and operational expertise to help them scale—and to build bridges between Europe and the U.S. With over 110 companies and 350 founders in its portfolio, the investment group ranks among Europe’s most active early-stage funds, backing tech champions like Databricks, Function Health, Waterdrop, Conduktor, Yuka, Alma, Taster, Veesion. Our investment strategy is built around key verticals: Applied AI, SaaS, Fintech, Climate Tech, and Medtech.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.
Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Scribd — Scribd is the unlimited reading subscription that offers access to the best books, audiobooks, news and magazine articles, documents and more. Scribd's e-book subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers. Scribd brings together the best books, audiobooks,and journalism to help readers become their best selves. The company offers unlimited access to the best books, audiobooks, articles, documents, and more, all in one app.
Zip — Zip is the new concierge for procurement. Increase employee adoption and get spend and risk under control.
Vergo — Vergo is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Blue Ridge Bank, N.A.; Member FDIC.

GianFilippo Cuneo

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Marketing
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

THRON — Siamo THRON. Quelli della piattaforma unica per governare insieme asset digitali e dati di prodotto, distribuendoli su tutti i tuoi canali di comunicazione.

Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.

Investment focus

Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.

Green Arrow Capital is an independent financial group specializing in alternative investments across Europe. They represent a one-of-a-kind platform, capable of connecting the financial system with the real economy through the management of private equity, private debt, infrastructure, and special credit situation funds as well as thematic fundssuch as microfinance and funds of funds that are currently under management. Their team has a successful track record in asset management, investment banking, industry sectors, technology startups, management consulting, renewable energy, and has government and regulatory experience. Their group is mainly composed of investment, asset management, and financial advisory companies. Their aim is to create a solid financial platform to launch and manage investment funds dedicated to alternatives and to the real economy.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Directa Plus — Directa Plus is a nanotechnology company, manufactures nanoparticles.
Maticmind S.p.A — Maticmind S.p.A is a company that provides ICT and system integration solutions to telecommunications operators.
Glomeria Therapeutics — Glomeria Therapeutics researches, develops, and markets new medical devices for the treatment of serious diseases in the nephrological area. It offers DesmoPD, peritoneal dialysis connection system; SmartPD, an automated management device for peritoneal dialysis solutions to be instilled in peritoneum; and solutions for peritoneal dialysis.Andrea Zanella founded Glomeria Therapeutics in 2010. Its headquarters is in Chieti in Italy.

Siamo partner di private equity con una struttura family office. Selezioniamo start-up tech-driven con idee innovative e voglia di emergere.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

GenomeUp — GenomeUp is an AI platform (SaaS) to enabling doctors and clinical institutions to diagnose and treat rare genetic diseases in less than 24h. GenomeUp is involved in international research projects and clinical trials in partnership with universities and research centers.
TeiaCare — TeiaCare is an Italian start-up born in 2018 with the aim of transferring technology and innovation knowledge to care homes.Our first solution, Ancelia, is an AI-powered operating system designed to increase transparency in the care and assistance processes, both inside the care home and towards residents' families.TeiaCare, based inMilan, operates in Italy and Spain, has a team of 15 people and is supported by international investors.
VoiceMed — Track respiratory health using voiceWe bring deep-tech innovation into your smartphone. With vocal biomarkers and artificial intelligence, we track the evolution of respiratory diseases.

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Toduba — Toduba is a digitalization company that provides shopping vouchers, food stamps, gift cards, and travel expense management.
Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Italy, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

GreenBone Ortho — GreenBone Ortho was founded in Faenzato offer advanced and innovative solutions in the field of orthopaedics and bone regeneration, using the Rattan wood.
Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Therapeutics is a life sciences company that delivers radiotherapy from within. Introducing Yntradose, our proprietary product.

Francesco Beraldi

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia

Healthware Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Healthware Group

Investment focus

Health Care, Personal Health, PaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

PatchAi — Improve patient engagement and experience in clinical trials and standard care. Discover Patchai solution.
1000Farmacie — 1000Farmacie is the leading Pharmacy Marketplace in Italy. Though a network of independent Pharmacies we deliver faster!
YourCoach Health — Health and Wellness coach practice management solution enabling coaches to holistically lead their clients, connecting mind, body and soul through behavior modification and accountability tools towards outcomes

Geminea assists entrepreneurs and businesses that want to grow and change the world by developing Artificial Intelligence.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.

Metes operate as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.

Cysero is a venture capital fund focused on the robotics and cybersecurity sectors. The fund was established in October 2020 and managed by AVM Gestioni SGR S.p.A. Manager EuVECA Società Benefit and jointly promoted with Kilometro Rosso, Bergamo's science and technology park.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Robotics
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Octostar — Octostar objective is to empower investigators by offering the advanced and adaptable intelligence platform.
TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
Next Generation Robotics — Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.

We lead, co-lead and at times just partecipate and invest anywhere in all pre-venture and series A rounds, helping organizations become enduring businesses.Yet entrepreneurs and investors aspire to learn from each other and remain inspired.Our mission at Wolsey Ventures consists in technology startups.We believe adoption of smart, digital andhigh technologies will continue to rise in 2016 and beyond,to meet demands from consumers and pressure from the competition to perform and adapt.This demand creates many opportunities for fast-growing companies to start up and reach a global scale.

Investment focus

Health Care, Legal, Fashion
Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SurgiQ — SurgiQ strives to make surgical pathways more effective, less invasive and easier on surgeons, patients, and their families. We help healthcare providers being more efficient and deliver timely care by providing an innovative audit and planning platform supported by AI algorithms.
Tossed — Healthy eating doesn't have to be boring with our delicious hot pots, house salads, power bowls & rainbow wraps made with fresh vegetables, lean protein & low GI carbs.
AirHelp — AirHelp is an online legal service that helps air passengers get compensation from airlines when their flight gets canceled, delayed, or overbooked. Passengers can access the service via its official Facebook page or its mobile app available for iOS and Android devices.AirHelp takes care of all the paperwork and legal communications with theairline on behalf of the passengers and claims 25% of the compensation obtained as its service fee. The compensation amount varies between $170 to $650 based on the distance flown by the flight and the duration of the delay experienced by the passenger at the final destination.AirHelp was launched in 2013 by Greg Roodt, Henrik Zillmer, and Nicolas Michaelsen.

Investing at the intersection of people and technology.

Investment focus

Software, Education, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, China

Portfolio highlights

Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Tangia — Tangia is an all in one platform that allows content creators to supercharge their viewer engagement, boost income, and unleash viewer creativity

FSVGDA aims at the promotion of the impact investing culture, in order to facilitate social innovation.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

C.NEXT — C.NEXT develops innovation projects for businesses and organizations by supporting the economy and territorial regeneration.
Way Experience — Way Experience operates in all the entertainment B2C sectors, using augmented and virtual reality technology. They also work in the B2B area by applying their technologies for customized consultancy projects in the following sectors: design, fashion, medical, events, and training.
Istituto De Filippi — L'Istituto Alberghiero De Filippi a Varese propone due diverse offerte formative: la Scuola Superiore e i percorsi di Alta Specializzazione.

Partnering With Founders To Reach New Summits.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FlowFi — FlowFi is a first-class finance team and platform that delivers accurate books and actionable financial intelligence.
Tune Insight — Tune Insight has created a federated health data space to facilitate access to knowledge with a unique feature: your data is not centralized or shared.
Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.