# Top 15 CleanTech Startup Investors in Italy in June 2026

## Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## CDP Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## NextEnergy Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, GreenTech, Recycling

NextEnergy Capital is an investment management business founded in 2007, Their head office are in London, United Kingdom. NextEnergy Capital focus on the renewable energy sector with a presence in Italy and South Africa. NextEnergy Capital believes in the sustainable energy investment opportunity and plans to selectively add on other businesses.

## Azimut Libera Impresa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage

Azimut Libera Impresa is an investment company for both retail and institutional investors.

## Primo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Alberto Baban
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence

Alberto Baban is the President of Fondazione Nord Est.

## EUREKA! Venture SGR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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

## Stefano Mezzadri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, Battery, CleanTech

Stefano Mezzadri

## Novum Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Energy, CleanTech, Smart Cities

Novum Capital Partners is a Swiss multi-family office.

## LIFTT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Club degli Investitori
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Key Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Android

We are a venture incubator that wants to exploit the extraordinary human capital of the new digital entrepreneurship. From design to ready-to-market, up looking for new partners and capital, we create value along the entire continuum of mentoring: direct investment , skills qualified and specialized network support the growth of new businesses oftomorrow. With our deal flow , we are able to select innovative ideas with high potential with a business model that minimizes the investment risk and guarantee the success on the market.

## A11 Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lucca, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical Device, E-Commerce

A11-Venture investe nel capitale di startup innovative nei settori della robotica, automazione, meccatronica, cleantech, web e IT. Facilita la nascita e lo sviluppo di business innovativi globali per il futuro dell'economia locale. Contribuisce a costruire aziende, lavoro qualificato, brevetti, innovazione capaci di rilanciare e riportareinvestimenti e risorse sul territorio. I soci di A11 Venture credono fermamente nell’innovazione grazie a ciò è possibile crescere per linee esterne diversificando i propri investimenti, grazie ad un portafoglio di imprese, con una forte risk mitigation derivante dalla gestione professionale di tutti processi:
scouting, team building, investimenti, management degli investimenti, accelerazione e disinvestimento.

## Lazio Innova
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

## NextSteps Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Big Data, Analytics, CleanTech

NextSteps Capital
