# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## CDP Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 20 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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. ## Primo Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology 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. ## United Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology. ## Italian Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software Unlocking Italy's Next Founders ## UniCredit - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. ## Vento - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS We want to empower the next generation of exceptional Italian founders by investing in and building new companies. ## Club degli Investitori - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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. ## LIFTT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital. ## The Techshop - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups. ## Intesa Sanpaolo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note - Focus: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy 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. ## Vertis - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Computer, E-Commerce 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. ## Cassa Depositi e Prestiti - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed - Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech The CDP Group is a joint-stock company that supports economic development through financing and investment. It provides funding for public infrastructure, businesses, and strategic projects in key sectors such as energy, transportation, and digital innovation. CDP also invests in venture capital, private equity, and sustainable initiatives tofoster long-term growth. The institution works with governments, financial entities, and enterprises to promote economic stability and innovation. ## GELLIFY - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## NovaCapital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Paolo Barberis - Type: Angel - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca. ## CRiF - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle. ## 40Jemz Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Generative AI 40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Robin Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Robin Capital focuses on software and technology solutions that address meaningful problems but am vertical agnostic. ## Simon Fiduciaria - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Simon Fiduciaria nasce nel 1986 per prestare servizi fiduciari a importanti gruppi familiari, imprenditori e professionisti, a livello nazionale ed estero. ## Eden Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Developer Tools We are the garden of Eden of pre-seed startups allowing founders to let their talents flourish. Backed by IAG. ## Lightspeed Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends. ## CRV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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 ## Synergo Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software 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. ## Entourage - Type: VC Fund - Location: Belgium, Wisconsin, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Marketing Entourage is a venture Studio and early stage VC that invests in early-stage B2B and SaaS sectors. ## Gianluca Cocco - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Mobile Gianluca achieved two successful exits before founding his new fintech. The first exit occurred in 2018 in Italy when he served as the MD of the Italian branch of Delivery Hero. The second exit happened in 2022 in Spain when he sold Factory14, of which he was a co-founder. From 2011, he spent four years as one of the early managers at Amazon Italy,following the start of his career in strategic consulting at Roland Berger. He is angel investing in Fintech, SaaS and AI at pre-seed stage. ## 360 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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. ## B Heroes - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS 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 ## Scientifica Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms. ## Joe Zadeh - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Personal Health Joe Zadeh ## Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Social, Hardware, Software Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. ## Azimut Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Blockchain 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. ## EUREKA! Venture SGR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical Device Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments ## Atlante Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Hardware Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group. ## Invitalia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Grant, Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Travel 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. ## Exor Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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 ## GianFilippo Cuneo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: SaaS, Software, Marketing GianFilippo Cuneo ## Green Arrow Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing 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. ## Wolsey Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Genoa, Liguria, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Legal, Fashion 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. ## Healthware Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Personal Health, PaaS Healthware Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Healthware Group ## BlackSheep Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Advertising, SaaS, Marketing BlackSheep Ventures is a dedicated European AI VC fund backing outlier founders in Vertical AI, domain-specific AI, and Sovereign AI. Regulated AIFM. Two funds. 12 portfolio companies. Based in Milan. ## Emblem - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Advanced Materials, Financial Services Emblem operates as a venture capital firm partnering at pre-seed stage with entrepreneurs in France, Denmark and Sweden. ## Founders Future - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet 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. ## Metes - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance Metes operate as an investment firm. ## Cysero - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Internet, Robotics 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. ## Fresco Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, SaaS Investing at the intersection of people and technology. ## Pi Campus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Biotechnology Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth. ## ING Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Corporate site of ING, a global financial institution of Dutch origin, providing news, investor relations and general information ## Francesco Starace - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing 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.