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Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Italy in April 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Community startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Italy in April 2025

Investor Community Italy investments
Italian Angels for Growth 10
Club Italia Investimenti 2 6
Club degli Investitori 6
CDP Venture Capital 5
Rancilio Cube 5
3LB Seed Capital Srl 4
Pi Campus 4
Primo Capital 4
United Ventures 4
360 Capital 4
LIFTT 3
Principia SGR 3
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis 3
U-Start 3
Growth Engine 3
Andera Partners 2
Nico Rosberg 2
EXOR N.V. 2
Giorgio Chiellini 2
Giovanni Gardelli 2
PranaVentures 2
Vertis 2
Massimiliano Magrini 2
DVR Capital 2
Boost Heroes 2
OurCrowd 2
Stefano Lisi 1
Synergo Capital 1
Matteo Carbone 1
Tamburi Investment Partners 1
Endeavor Catalyst 1
Nicola Volpi 1
Azimut Digitech Fund 1
Embed Capital 1
Milano Investment Partners SGR 1
VAM Investments 1
Khaled Helioui 1
Fabio Zecchini 1
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti 1
Opes Italia 1
Alberto Grignolo 1
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman 1
UniCredit Group 1
Club Digitale 1
Jenny Lefcourt 1
Davide Cecchini 1
FocusFuturo 1
SmartCapital 1
CDP Equity 1
Lazio Innova 1
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Italian Angels for Growth VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
  • 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.
Club Italia Investimenti 2 VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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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!
Club degli Investitori VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.
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Investment focus
  • 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
  • Lymphatica Medtech — Lymphatica Medtech is a medical device development company developing a minimally invasive solution for chronic lymphedema.Lymphedema is the chronic swelling that generally occurs in the arms or the legs.Lymphedema is most commonly caused by the removal of or the damage to the lymph nodes as a part of cancer treatment. It results from ablockage in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system. The blockage prevents the lymphatic system from draining excess fluids, and the fluid buildup leads to swelling, infections, and pain.Unfortunately, there is no cure for lymphedema. It can be managed with early diagnosis and diligent care of the affected limb, through daily compression, bandages, and manual drainage sessions. From the moment of the diagnosis, the life of lymphedema patients changes forever.Cancer and cancer-related interventions (i.e. surgery, radiotherapy) are frequent causes of lymphedema occurring both in the upper and lower limbs. Breast cancer survivors are at high risk for developing lymphedema, as well as patients treated for melanoma, pelvic and head and neck cancer or other cancer treatments that require lymph node dissection. Physical trauma can also result in lymphedema, a major cause of lymphatic disease among wounded veterans.Lymphedema is associated with significantly impaired quality of life, skin changes, increased risk of infection and in rare cases lymphedema itself may undergo malignant transformation.Lymphatica offers a permanent solution that will allow patients to regain their normal lifestyle.
CDP Venture Capital VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
  • Postura Ergonomics — Postura transform workers videos into ergonomic risk assessments for manufacturing companies. Our AI delivers quick, accurate, and scalable analyses, cutting costs and compliance time. ergonomia lavoro ufficio
  • Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.
Rancilio Cube VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from brokers across the nation.
  • FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.
3LB Seed Capital Srl VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy
3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
  • Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
  • Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.
Pi Campus VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
  • Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
  • Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.
Primo Capital VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Krill Design — Krill Design is a design studio that creates circular economy projects to convert organic waste into material resources. It is a patented process that intercepts resources from the food supply chain to create zero-impact eco-designed 3D printed products.
  • Stellar — At Stellar we bring perfect internet on the move to vehicles and passengers, leveraging the combined strength of cellular, wi-fi, and satellite networks, through AI and fully integrated solutions. We offer SaaS, data plans, and all-inclusive options for enterprise connectivity needs on the move.
  • Pangea Aerospace — SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL MISSION In a very conservative sector, European space engineers and business experts have gathered to unlock the untapped potential of new technologies that will drastically reduce the cost of launch
United Ventures VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Akamas — Akamas autonomous AI safely optimizes application workloads for maximum performance, service quality, resilience and cost savings.
  • Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
  • Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
360 Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 13 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Oxyle — Destroy PFAS to below detection limits - permanently, sustainably and at scale. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
  • Soource — Automate B2B sourcing with Soource AI: find and compare new suppliers, and maintain an updated database optimizing your procurement processes.
  • Movo — Movo is a circular packaging solution made for e-commerce folks. They offer reusable packaging solutions and circular economy systems to eliminate single-use packaging.
LIFTT VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 7 investments in the past 12 months
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
  • MicroLub — MicroLub produces a fat replacement for lower-calorie plant-based diets. It is cutting-edge innovation to the next generation of protein technology, creating exclusive ingredient solutions that significantly minimize molecular friction.
  • Composite Research — CoRe Research is an start-up, aimed at the study of new product and process solutions in the field of composite materials.
Principia SGR VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
  • ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
  • 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.
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Italy, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
  • HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
  • Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
U-Start VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
  • Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
Growth Engine VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Growth Engine is a holding company that invests in startups and scaleups with high growth potential founded by Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, Andrea Marangione, Michele Appendino and Marco Ariello, Venture Capital professionals with an excellent track record. Growth Engine invests in Italian startups at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Mexico, 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.
  • TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
  • TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.
Andera Partners VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Andera Partners, formerly known as Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) As heir to the traditions and values that have ensured the success of the Rothschild family for 250 years, the Edmond de Rothschild Group has established itself over time as a leading player in European finance. Its activities are grouped around two major areas:Private Banking and Asset Management. The Group offers wealthy families, entrepreneurs, and large institutions a full range of solutions combining a culture of tailored solutions, stability, performance, and innovation. The Edmond de Rothschild Group’s offering is characterised by strong convictions, with the desire to guarantee to each of its customers: A unique, close relationship, underpinned by the know-how and the variety of expertise of a large international group; Autonomous, experienced teams, who anticipate economic trends and innovate to establish long-term performance; The recognised stability, strength, and independence of a family-owned financial group. Founded by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1953, the Group has been chaired by his son, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, since 1997.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Private Equity, Funding Round
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • FIRE1 — FIRE1 and is based in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on developing novel therapeutic devices.
  • Evommune — Evommune is taking a tissue-based approach to advance insights and accelerate the development of transformative medicines in inflammatory diseases.
  • Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
Nico Rosberg Angel · Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fyxer — Technology focused Virtual assistance service
  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
  • Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.
EXOR N.V. VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in the past 12 months
EXOR is a holding company based in the Netherlands that the Agnelli family controls. The company has a diverse portfolio of investments in various industries, including automotive, real estate, and finance. The company is known for taking a long-term approach to its assets and has a reputation for being a patient and value-oriented investor. Thecompany's primary focus is on creating long-term value for its shareholders by actively managing and growing its portfolio of investments.EXOR's core mission is to cultivate exceptional enterprises, simultaneously nurturing opportunities for its talented workforce to flourish, make meaningful societal contributions, and yield outstanding returns for its valued investors.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Service Industry
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
  • Lupa Pets — AI Powered Pet Care.
  • Backed Finance — Backed is a bridge between stocks, ETFs and the emerging DeFi ecosystem.
Giorgio Chiellini Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy
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Investment focus
  • Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Vedrai — Vedrai develops online platforms based on AL.
  • Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.
Giovanni Gardelli Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
  • Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
  • Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
PranaVentures VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • 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).
  • BeSafe Group — BeSafe: la Suite di Tool e Strumenti che semplifica la Gestione della tua Struttura e migliora le tue Strategie di Revenue Alberghiero.
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
Vertis VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
  • Focoos AI — Focoos reshapes computer vision with ultra-efficient models that drive down costs, automate hardware integration, and ensure peak performance on any device, while promoting sustainability.
  • TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.
Massimiliano Magrini Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Network Security, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Akamas — Akamas autonomous AI safely optimizes application workloads for maximum performance, service quality, resilience and cost savings.
  • 20lines — 20lines is a website and a mobile app where users write, read and share short stories.Their goal is to connect writers and readers around the concept of free short stories. They aim at becoming the “Instagram” for short stories. On 20lines everyone can easily share their stories, from the teenagers writing their daily journal for theirfriends to the important authors who want to share the preview of their next book with their audience.
  • AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
DVR Capital VC Fund · Lombard, Illinois, United States
DVR Capital offers M&A advisory and private equity as well as equity services for businesses, financial investors, and multinationals
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Investment focus
  • Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources
  • Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.
Boost Heroes VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
  • Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
OurCrowd VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Israel, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
  • Kando — Kando is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
  • Blue Tree Technologies Ltd. — Blue Tree’s mission is to develop a sugar reduction platform for industrial applications in the drinks industry.
Stefano Lisi Angel
Stefano Lisi
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Social Impact, Sustainability
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Piantando — Piantando sells plants connected to initiatives for the preservation of the planet engaged in the following areas: land, water, climate, biodiversity and local communities. Each plant is equivalent to a transparent and unique contribution, destined to an initiative certified by our Value Chain. Everyone become ambassadors of a new way of livinggreen and understanding their commitment to the planet.
Synergo Capital VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, Spain, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • hlpy — hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks.
  • 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.
Matteo Carbone Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Matteo Carbone, who is currently ranked as #1 influencer by insurtechnews is Founder and Director of the Connected Insurance Observatory and a global insurtech thought leader. He is an author and public speaker who is internationally recognized as an insurance industry strategist with a specialization on innovation. Matteo has advised manyinternational insurance companies and has wide experience that includes set up of industrial and commercial plans, growth strategy definition and support in the start-up of new initiatives, digital strategy development, insurance products development, channel strategy and commercial model definition, startups mentorship and M&A advisory. Before creating the Connected Insurance Observatory, he spent 11 years in Bain & Co.’s Financial Service practice.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Neosurance — Neosurance is an insurtech company that provides insurers with customer insight and a profiling platform. Its platform enables the sale of instant micro-policies through push notifications. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
Tamburi Investment Partners VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
TIP is an investment-merchant bank focused on medium-sized Italian companies.
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Investment focus
  • Pharmaceutical, Fashion, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Limonta — Limonta | 1893 is a group focuses on passion, creativity and innovation, with skills in the clothing, leather goods, footwear, furnishings, sports and automotive sectors.
  • Apoteca Natura — Apoteca Natura is a pharmaceutical company that develops and innovates medicines that helps in treatment and prevention of diseases.
  • Bending Spoons — We own and operate leading digital products, including Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, and WeTransfer. And we develop the technology to power them.
Endeavor Catalyst VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
  • ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.
  • Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
Nicola Volpi Angel
Nicola Volpi (born in 1961 in Milan) is an Italian entrepreneur and manager with a deep knowledge of financial matters and more than 25 years of experience in Private Equity. He has been Member of the Board of Directors of several companies. After graduating in Business Administration at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, he earned a Master inFinance at SDA Bocconi. His professional career started as a Financial Analyst at Sefimeta S.p.A. (Financial Services Department of Montedison Group). In 1987 he joined Sanpaolo Finance, the Investment Bank of San Paolo Group (now Banca Intesa). As Head of Leverage Finance until 1995, he structured the first buyouts ever in Italy. In 1997, Nicola Volpi was a founding Partner of Permira– one of the leading and most successful Private Equity firm in Europe and worldwide with over 40 billion euros under management. In 2005 he was appointed CEO of the Italian branch, Permira Associati SpA, and then Member of Permira Executive Committee which run operations worldwide. Under his leadership, Permira successfully executed several acquisitions and disposals of Italian sector-leading companies, such as Ferretti Yacht, Marazzi, Valentino, Sisal, TFL, and Veneta Cucine. His professional experience at Permira lasted until 2013, when he joined the luxury sports cars manufacturer Pagani Automobili Group as a direct Investor and Member of the Board, a position he is currently holding. In 2014 he was appointed by Erick Thohir, the President of FC Internazionale S.p.A., as Member of the Board of Directors: Nicola Volpi held this position until 2018, with a focus in the area of finance and strategic planning.
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Investment focus
  • Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment
  • Angel
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • The Hundred — The Hundred is an holding company which invests in entertainers.
Azimut Digitech Fund VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Computer
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Subbyx — Subbyx provides long-term subscriptions for technology products and small home appliances.
  • 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 1500 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
  • Kleecks — Kleecks is an innovative SaaS platform that optimises performance marketing activities, improves website health and speed in real-time, and has a significant impact on businesses by increasing revenues, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-market
Embed Capital VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Embed Capital directly invests in startups, established or in the process of creation.Embed is mainly focused on innovative companies that:- Are active in the so-called “real economy” sectors: industrials, technology, environment, services, retail or social;- Are characterized by simple and intuitive business models and valuepropositions, and operate in markets or market segments featuring high growth potential;- Present a clear competitive advantage and high barriers-to-entry;- Are cash-generative in the medium term.Given that Embed Capital is not a closed-end fund, it doesn’t have specific time-constrains and it can assess on a project-by-project basis to determine the best time to sell a participation, and sign customized agreements with the entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Piantando — Piantando sells plants connected to initiatives for the preservation of the planet engaged in the following areas: land, water, climate, biodiversity and local communities. Each plant is equivalent to a transparent and unique contribution, destined to an initiative certified by our Value Chain. Everyone become ambassadors of a new way of livinggreen and understanding their commitment to the planet.
  • FrescoFrigo - Healthy food close to you — FrescoFRIGO is a smart fridge with fresh and quality products designed for the needs of worker. Improve everyday lifestyle, through automated proximity selling of good, fresh and healthy product, innovating technology and user experience.
  • The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the Metaverse for the mass market: virtual worlds, adventures, gaming Play & Earn and amazing experiences.
Milano Investment Partners SGR VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Italy, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
  • Jellatech — Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin.
  • Poke House — Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Poke House specializes in bowl food that often includes marinated fish that’s cubed and layered up with sticky rice, pickles, noodles, etc.
VAM Investments VC Fund · Esch-sur-alzette, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Siamo una partnership di imprenditori, manager e professionisti di Private Equity che investono
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Music, Dental
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Slam — Slam is the nautical clothing brand that has revolutionized the sailing world. In Slam, History and Avant-Garde come together in a perfect union.
  • Soundreef — Soundreef ltd is an Independent Management Entity (EU Directive 2014/26/EU) listed in the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom and can operate throughout Europe including Spain. Soundreef was founded to offer a viable alternative to the traditional Collective Management Organisation by combining innovative technology withpersonal customer service. Soundreef manages the rights of over 25,000 authors and publishers worldwide rewarding them with the fair, transparent and quick payment they deserve for the use of their musical works. Business users such as radio and tv broadcasters, digital service providers, live event organisers, theatres and cinemas, business establishments and music labels can obtain a mandatory license for the use of musical works managed by Soundreef.Soundreef ltd is incorporated in U.K. and owned by Soundreef S.p.A. , a company incorporated in Italy. Soundreef S.p.A. is the company that develops the technology and the content management platform used by Soundreef ltd to audit, collect and maximize royalties for Soundreef authors and publishers. The company process billions of transactions with a focus to improve data security and efficiency in the music industry.Soundreef S.p.A. controls also 100% of Soundreef publishing srl and 100% of Soundreef Media Services srl.
  • Supermoney — Supermoney is an online broker which helps to compare costs of electricity and gas.
Khaled Helioui Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Khaled Helioui is a Partner at Plural, an early stage investment firm founded & led by entrepreneurs. We invest serious time & early stage venture capital to back the next generation of iconic founders. Plural lead investors have the scar tissue & reach to best support founders & tilt the odds for them to build legendary companiesthat can have a GDP-level impact in Europe, tackle systemic risks & address opportunity gap.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
  • Cardless — Cardless is a credit card company. They help brands launch custom cobrand credit card products. They handle the program creation, card underwriting, lending, issuance, and top-notch customer service, while brands focus on delivering rewards truly valuable to their superfan cardholders.Cardless was founded in February 2019 by Michael Spelfogel andScott Kazmierowicz (ex-Stanford CS / Data Science, ex-Lyft, ex-Visa, ex-Goldman) and is backed by top VCs including Accomplice, Greycroft, Clocktower Ventures, as well as founders of Plastiq, SeatGeek, Flatiron Health, and FiveStars
  • Numerade — Discover Numerade, your go-to homework helper for expert solutions in Science, Math, and Economics. Get step-by-step guidance from top educators.
Fabio Zecchini Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Fabio has strong passion for data, technology and free ride skiing. He previous worked at PwC and iProspect/Aegis Media and has a degree in Information Engineering from the University of Padova.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Pet, Retail
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • JAMPY — JAMPY produce integratori premium per il benessere del tuo cane. Solo ingredienti funzionali, sviluppati da veterinari.
  • Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 14 investments in the past 12 months
The Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group is the national promotional institution that has supported the Italian economy since 1850
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Manufacturing, CleanTech
  • Pre-Seed, Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing
  • Italy, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Arxax — Arxax is a cleantech company paving the way towards a more sustainable future by revolutionizing refueling in road transport.Through our passion for a cleaner, greener world we have developed a smart network of green refueling stations powered by our proprietary suite of connected technology solutions. Our suite of products uses data signalsfrom existing IoT hardware devices such as truck telematics, sensors, Outdoor Payment Terminals and smartphones to bring access to low and zero carbon fuels at optimally located refuelling stations, competitive pricing and full refuelling visibility to our customers.
  • 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.
  • TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.
Opes Italia VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Opes Italia Sicaf Euveca is an impact investing Venture Capital fund. Our aim is to invest in companies based in Italy, or with prevalent activity in the country, and that propose solutions that generate a strong social impact and create positive externalities for the community and the territory.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Leisure, Tourism
  • Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
Alberto Grignolo Angel
Alberto Grignolo - COO @ Yoox Net-a-Porter Group
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Women's, Shopping
  • Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • 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!
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
  • United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
  • Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
  • Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.
UniCredit Group VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 12 investments in the past 12 months
UniCredit Group is an Italian global banking and financial services company. Its network spanning 50 markets in 20 countries, with more than 9,000 branches and over 148,000 employees. Its strategic position in Western and Eastern Europe gives the group one of the region's highest market shares.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Software, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Italy, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Edison Spa — Edison is Europe's oldest energy company, and one of the industry leaders in Italy and Europe. Discover all the activities we ar
  • Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
  • Casalasco Società Agricola — Casalasco Società Agricola is the supply network for the cultivation and processing of industrial tomatoes.
Club Digitale VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • WeSchool — Unlock the transformative power of Education with WeSchool: we craft innovative programmes that connect teachers, students and partners.
  • WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
  • 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!
Jenny Lefcourt Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Idiomatic — Idiomatic's powerful AI-driven customer intelligence platform turns all of your customer feedback into a complete, data-driven voice of customer picture.
  • Inspectiv — Identify complex security vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposures to reduce risk of security incidents and provide assurance to your customers.
  • Change — CHANGE is a platform that powers the giving economy. Brands add a button to checkout, and we do the rest. With CHANGE, brands eliminate the time and resources spent on connecting, vetting, and integrating with nonprofits. The platform streamlines corporate giving, provides real-time analytics, and actively engages the most coveted demographic withshareable content.
Davide Cecchini Angel
Davide Cecchini is Managing Director & CFO at EXE Engineering, and Partner at the early-stage VC program IKIGAIPreviously, he was Managing Director at IKIGAI from 2022 to 2024, backing 60+ seed companies in 36 months with its acceleration programs. Until 2022, he was in charge of Business Development at Club degli Investitori, one of the mainangel investment groups in Italy (250+ business angel with €30M+ invested); previously, he worked at Intesa Sanpaolo from 2015 to 2018, one of the major banking group in Italy, working at its Innovation Center. In 2013, he has also been Chapter Director for Startup Grind, a global network of startup communities, sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs.He holds an M.A. in Philosphy at University of Pisa and a post-grad Master in Innovation Management at Scuola Sant’Anna.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Food and Beverage, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Grant, Convertible Note
  • Italy, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Runtheons — Runtheons is the Peak Performance Company specializing in creating cutting-edge solutions to improve sports performance. Our team of sports performance experts offers customized services for professional and amateur athletes. Find out how our technology and strategies can help you achieve your sports goals.
  • Appennino Cycling — Abbigliamento sportivo per ciclismo, trekking, hiking e lifestyle casual. Made in Italy sostenibile, a impatto zero dalla produzione al packaging.
  • WAMI - Water with a Mission — Our mission is to provide clean water to people in need and give to everyone the possibility to solve the problem of water in the world, by transforming an ordinary act in something extraordinary. Why water? Water is the most important resource we have, but still today 700 million people do not have access to clean water. Most of these people livein rural and isolated areas and have to walk long hours to get the water necessary for the survival of their family. Lack of drinkable water not only endangers people's health, but also takes away a lot of valuable time from women and children who usually take care of the supply. What can we do? With every WAMI bottle, you donate 100 litres of clean water. Thanks to a simple act, you help us build water projects in villages in need and change the world one bottle at a time. Our water flows down the Italian Alps at 1600 metres above the sea level, from an oligo-mineral source known for its organoleptic properties. By choosing this brand, everyday-water-consumers have the possibility to make the change in the world in an ethical and responsible way. In addition of giving access to drinkable water to villages in need, WAMI is also committed to sustainability. The packaging is 100% recyclable and made with 50% recycled r-PET plastic, the maximum allowed in Italy. Moreover, in order to minimize the environmental impact and to contribute to the reabsorption of CO2, the start-up plants trees in Italy in collaboration with Rete Clima.
FocusFuturo VC Fund
FocustFuturo co-invests with its investors by offering a scouting service resulting from years of experience and established contacts Italian financial environment.The investment structure is transparent, simple and free of risks other than those related to the selected target. FocusFuturo makes a profit only when investments realize the positiveperformance: this is the best guarantee for an investor who wants to diversify its investment portfolio.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Children, Software
  • Angel, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Mukako — MUtable is the first multi-activity play table for kids with infinite games and accessories. Toddlers and children up to 8 can play with Lego towers, puzzles, playhouses, drawing boards and many other toys. MUtable is made of wood in a sustainable way, and its sleek Italian design can fit any home.
  • Insoore — Insoore is a platform that helps insurance companies to improve the claims management process, thanks to on-demand photographic inspections and damage estimates provided by a community of experts.
SmartCapital VC Fund · Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain
Smart Capital form a group of entrepreneurs and managers with over 10 years experience in this sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Events, Mobile, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • KNOBS — KNOBS is a Tech Advisory Firm & Software House specializing in Blockchain development. We are the perfect partner to make your business fly into the future.Founded in 2014, KNOBS deals with the design, prototyping and implementation of complex IT systems. Using the most modern hardware and software engineering technologies, the mostinnovative programming languages ​​and the most reliable frameworks, our team of young professionals is able to offer optimal, customized and cutting-edge solutions.
  • Cusa Tea — Using only hand-selected, premium tea and coffee, and real fruit, spices and herbs, Cusa Tea & Coffee makes delicious and convenient beverages that are ready to drink, hot or iced, in seconds.
  • TMP Group — TMP Group performance marketing function supports and supports digital strategies management, organization, qualification, and reporting of social ADS campaigns on major search engines or digital stores. They apply their design, creative, technical, and technical skills to the realization of events, products, promotions, collaborations, pressoffices, and public relations services.
CDP Equity VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Elder Care, Small and Medium Businesses
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Soplaya — Ordina in un click e ricevi nel tuo ristorante in 12/48h, migliaia di ingredienti direttamente dal produttore. Consegna sempre gratuita
  • Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
  • Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
Lazio Innova VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Joinrs — We developed an artificial intelligence model able to read job offers for you and show you the ones that best match your profile.
  • Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
  • Ticketoo — Ticketoo: compra e vendi biglietti fan-to-fan in modo sicuro
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