Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Italy in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Blockchain startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Italy in January 2025
Investor | Blockchain Italy investments |
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CDP Venture Capital | 3 |
EIT Urban Mobility | 3 |
United Ventures | 3 |
Pietro Invernizzi | 2 |
Rosario Bifulco | 2 |
Luca Ascani | 2 |
CRiF | 2 |
Max Ciociola | 2 |
Eterna Capital | 1 |
MetaVenture Holding | 1 |
Banca Sella Group | 1 |
OKX Ventures | 1 |
Calvin Liu | 1 |
FoolFarm | 1 |
Stakez Capital | 1 |
SuiN.sui | 1 |
Trinityventures | 1 |
Unreal Capital | 1 |
Hack VC | 1 |
Skybridge 20 Ventures | 1 |
SOVO | 1 |
Moon Capital | 1 |
Selini Capital | 1 |
Danu Ventures | 1 |
Absoluta Digital | 1 |
Algorand Ventures | 1 |
Black Alpha Capital | 1 |
BlackDragon | 1 |
Coinvision Research | 1 |
Cryptosociety | 1 |
Dewhales Capital | 1 |
Roham Gharegozlou | 1 |
DEXT Force Ventures | 1 |
DIB Ventures | 1 |
HC Capital | 1 |
Majinx Capital | 1 |
Mapleblock Capital | 1 |
Offbeat Ventures | 1 |
Karatage | 1 |
Woori Technology Investment | 1 |
Crédit Agricole Italia | 1 |
Polymorphic Capital | 1 |
Sygnum | 1 |
Middlegame Ventures | 1 |
LDA Capital | 1 |
Climate-KIC | 1 |
Wintermute | 1 |
Valar Ventures | 1 |
Fondazione Golinelli | 1 |
ParaFi Capital | 1 |
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, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ekore — Miglioriamo la gestione degli edifici ottimizzando i consumi e la gestione delle manutenzioni tramite il concetto di Digital Twin.
- 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.
EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Spain, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
- Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
- Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!
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
- xFarm Technologies — The agricultural business is becoming more and more complex due to legal requirements and product certification. On the other hand, technologies evolve and create opportunity. xFarm is a startup that aims at the digitization of agriculture, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and food supply chain's stakeholders in themanagement of their companies. Created by farmers and tailored to the agricultural sector, its main focus is on ease of use, intuitiveness and complete adaptability to agricultural realities. The digital ecosystem includes a free agricultural application, available on both mobile and desktop and integrated with advanced premium modules, a dashboard Analytics dedicated to professionals and a line of IoT sensors selected, optimized and connected by xFarm.
- Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
- Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Typedream — Use AI to help you plan, visualize, and build your website. Generate wireframes & copywriting for marketing websites in minutes with Typedream's AI Website Builder, then edit, customize, and publish your site with our powerful website editor
- Dimension — Dimension is an all-in-one ecosystem for product development built for a better developer experience, enabling developers to plan, build, and deploy their project in one place.
Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A.
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Investment focus
- Art, Medical, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- I-VASC — I-VASC has developed the VELEX device using new technology to treat CVI and varicose veins.
- Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
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.
Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable businesses in the mobile and media space with broad experience in product, business, and content development for the digital space.
Max is founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the World's Largest Lyrics Catalog and MusicAI Company with +70 Mln of users in the world.
Musixmatch uses Deep Learning and AI techniques to provide lyrics and language data to most of music digital streaming companies.
As first mover in the mobile space Max started in early 1998 with Wireless Solutions, a multi media mobile gateway platform for delivering contents in more than 100 countries over 300 mobile carriers. He then sold his company to Dada, an italian media company, and he spent 7 years with Dada first as CEO Dada Iberia & Latam e then as EVP Mobile Services, leading a team of +100 people and +80 mln yearly turnover.
Max is the co founder of AI Labs, an R&D AI Lab in Italy active on Technology Transfer on AI.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
Eterna Capital is a blockchain investment firm - We back innovative entrepreneurs who harness blockchain technology
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
- Bluesky — Bluesky is a new social media platform.
- Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.
MetaVenture Holding is an investment company.
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Investment focus
- Art, Blockchain
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.
The Banca Sella Group boasts a history that is now more than a century old, followed by the common thread of the principles and values inspired directly by its founders.
In this section we outline the Group profile and its main stages.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MrCall — Un assistente digitale dedicato al tuo business, che risponde quando non puoi, raccoglie i messaggi e li trascrive in una mail, un SMS o un messaggio Whatsapp.Configurabile e attivo sul telefono in due passaggi. Senza cambiare operatore, senza installare nuovi software, senza nuovi centralini.Nessun investimento o costo di attivazionerichiesto.
- Tot — Meglio di un conto corrente aziendale: scopri Tot, il conto aziendale online per imprese che semplifica la tua gestione amministrativa. Aprilo ora online.
- Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Pi Squared — Pi Squared (Proof of Proof) enables trustless remote computing, AI, and interoperable smart contracts for any blockchain or dApp.
- Valhalla — Valhalla is a decentralized exchange platform provider that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets without relying on intermediaries.
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
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Investment focus
- Software, Biometrics, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- IIO — IIO is the open B2B2C VaaS (Voice-as-a-Service) platform that enables and improves the dialogue between people and devices through voice.It offers the possibility to create new applications through APIs and SDKs and allows to build new verticals in ecosystems that require a personal, close and secure experience.IIO Marketplace, will enablecollective intelligence to develop and share new “low / no-code” modular applications based on Voice (“VERSA”).Tech IP: Adaptive Conversational Engine (“A.C.E.”) allows you to adapt to the channel, emotions and discussion by managing exceptions with fall back logic;Conversational Editor, voice editing that will allow every developer to build and compose conversational applications: VERSAs.Secure Voice based on FoolFarm data “pulverization” patent, guarantees security and privacy of data, making users the owners of their information.A unique voice for your products and services: Proactive and dynamic It recognizes the speaker and intervenes only when necessaryIntuitive and empathetic Recognize emotions in words for personalized responsesContextual Always brings the flow back to the main topicMultichannel and Interoperable Manages handover on different channels and devices by integrating third-party services.Open and collaborative Expand the knowledge base thanks to the involvement of a Collective Intelligence.Low / No code Creation, modification, publication and use of new voice CX.
- VoiceMe — SaaS solution of Voice Customer Authentication - a platform allowing electronic payments, single-sign-on and secured digital signing.
Stakez Capital: A premier Web3 firm driving innovation in blockchain, GameFi, and fintech. Partnering with groundbreaking startups, we offer expert guidance to shape the future of decentralized technology. Join us at Stakez Capital and empower your vision.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Forward Protocol — Create Blockchains, Subnets, and dApps with A No-Code Interface Wordpress for Web 3.0 Cross-Chain Compatible Industry Agnostic Adoption-Focused Deploy Your dApp Now Join the Community Featured In Deploy and go live in a few minutes. No programming skills required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07z8cQPQGI&ab_channel=ForwardProtocol Lowest Barrier to Entry Easy to use Open Source Drag and drop Complete control Set
- Enjinstarter — Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
SUIN is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Trinityventures is a venture studio firm looks for breakthrough ideas and tech startups.
Start-Up Services and Consulting.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Unreal Capital is an international fund focusing on investments in innovative and promising crypto projects.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed
Portfolio highlights
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
- Graviton Zero — Graviton Zero multi-Chain Play to Earn NFT Game - In a Universe ravaged by War
Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Spicenet — Spicenet is the permissionless shared liquidity layer for unstoppable trading applications, delivering high performance, capital-efficiency and deep liquidity
- Exabits AI — Exabits' network of GPUs ranges from consumer-grade to H100s, offering the most cost-effective compute because we are obsessed with innovating performance.
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
Skybridge 20 Ventures is a crypto investment firm specialising in providing unique, exclusive and influential support to established block-chain companies and emerging Web3 start-ups.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Finance
- Seed
- Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- GameDAO — The DAO for video games, esports and creatives. We connect gamers, creators, publishers and investors for better video games with the power of web3, dao, defi and nft.
- EclipseFi — EclipseFi is a Cosmos modular multi-chain token issuance platform that seeks to tackle Launchpad's cross-chain user experience and sustainability challenges with features like smart accounts and cross-chain design.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
SOVO is a dynamic and multifaceted organisation with a focus on spearheading innovation, supporting entrepreneurs, and driving growth in the business landscape.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Moon Capital invests all its energy in researching new projects to detect their potential for success, thus giving the community the opportunity to invest in them. The team firmly believes in collective growth and progress as the basis for healthy investment.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Selini Capital is a multi-strategy trading firm and liquidity provider specializing in crypto assets. With roots in traditional finance and a passion for technology, we strive to bring leadership to this dynamic space.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Taiwan, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Heurist — Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources.
- DeFi.app — DeFi.app helps to make DeFi trading easier while keeping full ownership of crypto assets. It also helps to manage CEFI and DEFI more effectively.
- Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
DANU VENTURES provides comprehensive advisory support: attraction of investments, audit, listing, market making, strategic planning etc.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Absoluta Digital is a strategic advisory and investment firm focus on supporting blockchain startups.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Algorand Ventures is the new program dedicated to providing funding and launch support to the best builders and investors in the algorand ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services
- Funding Round
- Afghanistan
Portfolio highlights
- HesabPay — Experience a revolutionary shift in digital payments with HesabPay, enabling effortless money transfers, bill payments, and gift cards.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Black Alpha Capital Embracing the decentralized future of cryptocurrency and its boundless potential, recognize the tremendous opportunities within the crypto market, followed by its inherent high volatility.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
BlackDragon is a decentralized blockchain-native fundraising group with dedicated in-house marketing, development, and research teams. We support the projects we invest in by providing invaluable resources in marketing, advisory, community growth, and access to our expansive, yet exclusive industry network.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, Singapore, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Zizle — Zizle wants to use the Solana blockchain to transform social networking: better data privacy, decentralized governance, and more efficient revenue streams for consumers and producers. the platform's goal is to make social networking a more entertaining, healthy, and profitable environment.
- GPU.Net — GPUNet offers a scalable, blockchain-based solution for decentralized GPU computing. Access or rent out GPU resources for AI, data analysis, and scientific research.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Coinvision Research provides tech reviews, news with technical and fundamental analysis of the cryptocurrency market.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Cryptosociety actively supports the project through strategy, marketing, design, launchpad introductions, strategic relationship introductions, and active participation on social media. Therefore, it was only a logical step for us to become advisors on some initiatives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Dewhales is a disruptive crypto-native fund focused on early-stage protocols and fueled by OGs, founders, and key investors.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed
- Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- Hana Network — Hana Network is a software development company that develops and manages cryptocurrency and blockchain transactions.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
- Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
The investment arm of DEXTools.io, DEXT FORCE VENTURES helps projects from incubation stage to public listing and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Bondex — Find jobs in Web3 and monetize your network through referral bounties. Gain access to the talent network to hire faster and cheaper.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
- Honeypot Finance — Honeypot Finance is a community-run DeFi hub that includes a novel AMM approach to unify a community-led launchpad (Dreampad) and DEX (HenloDex).
DIB Ventures is a blockchain advisory and investment firm, helping blockchain startups integrate into the crypto landscape and accelerate their growth and industry.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
HC Capital invests in and supports defi, web3, and metaverse businesses.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, PC Games, Casual Games
- Seed
- Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Yuliverse — Yuliverse is a Web3 metaverse game platform where players can meet other players and connect with like-minded individuals in the same city.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Majinx Capital is an investment fund focused on companies in DeFi, infrastructure, dApps,and other Web3 areas. The firm focuses on (pre-)seed and strategic investment rounds.The main goal of the fund is to find the most promising and ambitious projects, ensure their successful fundraising and boost their growth by using a well-developed innernetwork of connections: + 250 VCs, key opinion leaders from 12 countries and access to crypto communities in 8 countries. The fund scale projects with solid teams with exceptional mindsets, well-developed roadmaps and business strategies that are looking for a financial boost to thrive.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
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- Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Estonia
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- MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
- Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Offbeat Ventures' advantages include access to markets, mentors, advisors, and consultants. and unquestionably facilitate and serve as catalysts that offer comprehensive solutions for both aspiring and seasoned business owners.
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- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy
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- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Karatage
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- Payments, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, The Netherlands
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- BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
- TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
- Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Italy
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- Nodit — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
- Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
- Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.
Crédit Agricole Italia is a bank that offers loans and financial services.
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- Financial Services, Finance, Water
- Debt Financing, Seed
- Italy
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- 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.
It is a venture capital firm that selectively invests in extraordinary teams and emerging paradigms in blockchain and fintech globally.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar
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- Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
- Fair Math — Fair Math is a research company with an open-source oriented approach, dedicated to addressing privacy challenges in the modern world.
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
Sygnum is a digital asset bank, founded on Swiss and Singapore heritage, operating globally.Rooted in two of the world’s leading financial hubs, Switzerland and Singapore, they empower institutional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks, and other financial institutions to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.Sygnum was founded by an experienced and interdisciplinary team of banking, investment, DLT, and regulatory experts, and is backed by a distinguished group of individuals and institutions. Together, they share a clear vision of how to transform the financial industry in the coming years through DLT banking innovation.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Canada, Singapore
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- Ledn — Ledn offers a suite of credit and savings products for you to make the most of your digital assets.
- Chainstack — Chainstack is a leading blockchain infrastructure providing company. Build, run and scale blockchain applications using Chainstack nodes.
- Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
Middlegame Ventures is a fintech venture capital firm investing in early-stage growth businesses focused on Financial Innovation. The firm is seeking great entrepreneurial teams who are focusing on rearchitecting financial services infrastructure.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy
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- Linq.gg — Fintech solution tailored for mobile game developers to create, publish, and scale real-money games.
- Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
- Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
LDA Capital is an alternative investment group focused on investing in the global private and public markets. Their firm provides capital solutions to companies seeking financing in underserved markets and in complex conditions on a global basis. Our team has executed over $5 billion in transactions across 42 countries over the last 10 years.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
- Singapore, Italy, Turkey
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- Jada Ai — Jada Ai develops human-level artificial intelligence technology for collaboration between humans and machines.
- Seedify — Seedify is a blockchain gaming-focused incubator and launchpad ecosystem empowering innovators and project developers through access to funding, community, and partnership building, and a full support system to help drive the future of gaming and blockchain. It is an investor in the blockchain games, NFTs, and metaverses
- Gameness — Gameness is a Web3 platform that enhances the esports experience through cryptocurrency and NFTs. Users can engage in tournaments and events, leveraging blockchain technology to create a more interactive and rewarding environment for gamers. This platform aims to combine competitive gaming with the benefits of decentralization, allowing players toearn rewards and showcase their achievements in a vibrant community.
EIT Climate-KIC is a European knowledge and innovation community, working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, we identify and support innovation that helps society mitigate and adapt to climate change. They believe that a decarbonised, sustainable economy is notonly necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, but presents a wealth of opportunities for business and society.
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- Sustainability, CleanTech, Energy
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Everimpact — We help cities, businesses and industries measure, reduce, and monetise their GHG emissions (CO2 and methane). We measure GHG emissions accurately and in real time with satellite imagery, big data and sensors and certify the data.
- 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.
- WindCapture Technologies — WindCapture Technologies utilises the scale of wind turbines to provide affordable and scalable direct air capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
- Raven — Raven is a proprietary high-frequency algorithmic trading firm specializing in CeFi market making and DeFi liquidity provision.
- Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
- Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.
- Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- 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 — 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.
ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.
- Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
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