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Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Italy

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

Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Italy

Investor Consumer Italy investments
Club degli Investitori 12
Italian Angels for Growth 8
Primo Ventures 8
Club Italia Investimenti 2 8
CDP Venture Capital 7
Innogest Capital 7
P101 6
Invitalia Ventures 6
LIFTT 6
UniCredit 5
Milano Investment Partners SGR 5
Giovanni Gardelli 5
Vertis SGR S.p.A. 4
Pi Campus 4
Doorway Capital 3
Rancilio Cube 3
HATCHER+ 3
Moffu Labs 3
035 Investimenti 3
Alberto Birolini 3
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis 3
Boost Heroes 3
Invitalia 3
Trentino Sviluppo 2
Eleven Ventures 2
Eureka Venture 2
Luiss Alumni 4 Growth 2
Embed Capital 2
GELLIFY 2
Francesco Starace 2
Luca Ferrante Carrante 2
Angel Capital Management 2
Growth Engine 2
Banco BPM 2
Azimut Digitech Fund 2
Intesa Sanpaolo 2
TA Ventures 2
Neva SGR 2
Synergo Capital 2
Ligurcapital SpA 2
Kairos Partners 1
Oltre Impact 1
Davide Cecchini 1
Angelo Italiano 1
B Holding 1
Lazzaroni 1
Stefano Lisi 1
VAM Investments 1
RCS MediaGroup 1
Principia SGR 1
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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
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
  • CarpeCarbon — CarpeCarbon is a company that develops technologies for Direct Air Capture (DAC) to extract CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Based in Italy, with a Global vision, the company is made of young researchers (Physics, Chemistry, Astrophysics, Biology, Complex Systems, Engineering) and economists.
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
Italian Angels for Growth VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 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.
  • Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
  • Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
Primo Ventures VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 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
  • qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
  • Data Masters — Datamasters designs and develops Machine Learning solutions. They provide artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science skills. They acquire skills in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning
  • Sidereus Space Dynamics — As an intern, you'll work alongside our talented team of engineers and professionals, gaining valuable experience and insight into the world of space vehicle design and manufacturing.
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!
CDP Venture Capital VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 18 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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
  • Voidless — VOIDLESS is the new generation of box-on-demand packaging. An innovative system that bets everything on reliability and integrability.
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
Innogest Capital VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Italy, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • GreenBone Ortho — GreenBone Ortho was founded in Faenzato offer advanced and innovative solutions in the field of orthopaedics and bone regeneration, using the Rattan wood.
  • Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
  • BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Technologies engage in the research and offers anticancer products.
P101 VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.
  • Aptus.AI — Aptus.AI exploits AI to make regulations machine readable, toward a new digital format to change the way humans and machines interact with textual documents
  • DataKrypto — The Cloud Encryption Company DataKrypto -
Invitalia Ventures VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation. Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it
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Investment focus
  • Software, Medical, Health Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
  • BigProfiles — A deep understanding of customers let a company tailor marketing campaigns and CRM strategies, but companies have only basic data about customers (e.g. gender or age). External data sources like Social Networks, Public Registries and Socio-Demographic data contain rich information about billions of people, like job titles, levels of education,interests and habits.BigProfiles is a Customer Intelligence SAAS that leverages external information about persons to enrich customer profiling: it can profile a company's customers with previously unknown information about them. Thanks to its Identity Resolution algorithm (the result of a PHD), it identifies a person’s information scattered among external sources.Through this technology, BigProfiles provides customer base analytics and behavior predictions: using Artificial Intelligence on enriched profiles allows to predict churn, fraud and willingness to buy.
  • 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.
LIFTT VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 14 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
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
  • SteerLight — SteerLight is a startup that develops LiDAR-based optical sensors, also known as laser-based optical systems, to aid with mobility.
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
UniCredit VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 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
  • 3Sun — Our photovoltaic solutions drive change towards a sustainable future, setting new standards of excellence for solar energy applications.
  • Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
  • Enel Green Power — Enel Green Power is the company that deals with renewable energy from every perspective: from direct sales through PPA, to commitment at the forefront with its plants worldwide.
Milano Investment Partners SGR VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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, Food and Beverage
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Italy, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
  • VitroLabs — The world's oldest material made new. VitroLabs Inc is a startup developing lab grown leather, through tissue engineering, as a solution to help fight climate change. All, while completely avoiding animal slaughter.
  • 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.
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 offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.
Vertis SGR S.p.A. VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 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, E-Commerce, Computer
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • NEWTWEN — We develop software that generates real-time embedded digital twin solutions for model predictive control and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, enhancing performance, longevity, and reliability. In essence, our toolchain creates a precise digital replica of a physical device, such as an electric motor or generator, in order to accuratelymodel the electrodynamic and thermodynamic behavior of the system across a wide range of operating conditions. We then apply our proprietary mathematical approach to exponentially reduce the computational complexity of this model—so much so, in fact, that our digital twin can be integrated into the device itself to compute in real-time, “on-chip,” as part of an amazingly fast and accurate firmware solution. By accurately predicting temperatures and other critical system parameters thousands of times per second, our Digital Twin On-Chip solutions not only provide unprecedented insight for real-time control techniques to enhance system performance, but also pave the way for data-as-a-service capabilities such as predictive maintenance, monitoring of component aging, and anomaly detection.
  • Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
  • Sibylla Biotech — Sibylla Biotech developed small molecule folding interfering degraders (FIDs) that can address a range of therapeutic areas.
Pi Campus VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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
  • 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.
  • Turion Space — Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite.
  • Sixfold Bioscience — Sixfold Bioscience engineers programmable oligonucleotide delivery systems are able to deliver RNA exclusively to diseased cells. It is based in London.
Doorway Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Doorway Capital is an independent provider of risk capital to law firms. It offers facilities of between £50,000 and £20 million to firms authorized by the SRA to practice law in England and Wales. These facilities can be used to fund disbursements, acquisitions, lock-up, tax liabilities, or anything else. It also purchases paid disbursements fromlaw firms for up to 80% of their face value. These means capital earning little or no return can be redeployed into more profitable activities of the firm or returned to its partners.Doorway Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
  • 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!
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 loads from shippers and 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 companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.
HATCHER+ VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Italy, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Jenesys AI — Jack is an AI financial co-pilot that employees use inside Slack or Teams to make purchase and approval requests for spending or managing company money. Jack issues one-time use payment card details for supplier purchases, automates reconciliation and reduces invoice fraud by enforcing budgets, regulations, and internal policies at the point ofspend. Jack ensures compliance by acting as an internal auditor on every purchase transaction. Additionally, Jack helps finance leaders manage cash flow and cuts the time to report numbers by 63% each month.
  • Odne — Curing with light
  • Particula — At Particula, we're at the forefront of the digital asset ecosystem. We've launched the first rating and data platform for tokenized real-world assets, focusing on alternative investments.
Moffu Labs VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Gamindo — Customized Video Games for Engagement, Education, Lead Generation, CSR and Training.
  • Restworld | Horeca — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
  • Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.
035 Investimenti VC Fund · Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy
035 Investimenti
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Investment focus
  • Electronics, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
  • Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
Alberto Birolini Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Alberto Birolini
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Investment focus
  • Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
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.
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!
Invitalia VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy
Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • MinervaS — La soluzione context-aware per ridurre consumi ed emissioni del trasporto su gomma.
  • Socialbeat — Socialbeat is a SaaS platform that aggregates millions of news, social posts and videos, monitoring in real time the success on the main social platforms and giving to customer the opportunity to stay up to date using a single web page.Moreover, Socialbeat has developed AI algorithms to support media company to automate the production of socialposts on their pages (Instagram, Facebook and Twitter) and to personalize their content distribution based on the user.
  • Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
Trentino Sviluppo VC Fund
Trentino Sviluppo is the agency set up by the Autonomous Province of Trento to foster the sustainable development of the Trentino system.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Fashion
  • Seed, Grant
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Leevia — Leevia is a digital marketing product suite designed to allow brands and media agencies to easily create online contests in a few minutes. Leevia’s products are fully integrated with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in order to allow the best results in terms of lead generation and social engagement.
  • Unyli — Unyli, set up by entrepreneurs Valentina Fabbri and Vanessa Fiore with the collaboration of industry expert Franceso De Paolo, transforms the underwear supply chain, creating a win-win system for brands, stores and consumers. Thanks to a proprietary management software specific for underwear, which optimizes the management of the assortments, Unyliaggregates traditional stores into a purchasing group and integrates with primary underwear brands. The affiliated stores also become the "territorial hubs" to which the orders collected through Unyli e-commerce site are diverted. Unyli's mission is to lead the underwear supply chain into a new world, both physical and digital, combining both the values ​​of tradition with flexibility, simplicity and the typical efficiency of digitization. In less than 2 years of activity, and despite the pandemic, Unyli has already been able to aggregate 15 stores and integrate 20 primary producers.
  • Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
Eleven Ventures VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 6 investments in the past 12 months
We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • NOLD — NOLD provides a platform that users may locate an exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an outfit with a past that can tell a new tale and take them on a trip. The company was based in Bulgaria.
  • Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
  • Cognitiwe — Our AI for retail and manufacturing products offers solutions in stock management, retail shrinkage, quality and health & safety monitoring.
Eureka Venture VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments
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Investment focus
  • Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Planckian — Charging the future by powering energy with science We explore frontiers of energy science by developing quantum...
  • INTA Systems — INTA Systems is a developer of lab-on-a-chip for biomolecular analysis through the combination of nanotech and artificial intelligence.
  • BeDimensional — We produce graphene and others two-dimensional materials (2D) with few atomic layers. Find out more.
Luiss Alumni 4 Growth VC Fund
Investment Club Luiss Guido Carli University
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Retail Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Gamindo — Customized Video Games for Engagement, Education, Lead Generation, CSR and Training.
  • Lampoo — Consign your luxury items and earn up to 80% of the sale! Shop authenticated designer brands at second hand prices! Fast deliveries and easy returns!
  • This Unique — Customize your own period with a unique assortment to fit your needs that's sustainable and committed.
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.
GELLIFY VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
  • CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.
Francesco Starace Angel
Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries such asUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987). In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).In 2014, Francesco Starace was appointed General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
  • Seed, Angel
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
Luca Ferrante Carrante Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group
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Investment focus
  • Shoes, Retail, Travel
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WeRoad — We organise group tours on the road to more than 150 destinations around the world. We leave all year round, in similar groups of age and travel mood.
  • Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
  • CharityStars — The groundbreaking fundraising platform offering one destination for all. Together we stand strong, dream big and create greater change for causes worldwide.
Angel Capital Management VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Founded by Angelo Moratti, Angel Capital Management (formerly Angel Lab) is a leading private investment firm providing growth equity to companies in various stages of development. The Direct Investments Practice mainly focuses on fast growing Consumer&Lifesyle companies. ACM offers its portfolio companies a comprehensive platform for growthacting as i) a partner for the international expansion of Italian companies ii) and a gateway to the Italian and South European market for foreign companies.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Crea — CREA is the leading digital commerce enabler providing end to end solution for brands to reach the booming, digital savvy millennial and Generation Z consumers in Southeast Asia.
  • AGORA — Discover what we are known best for, our AGORA Edits!
  • ZAGO Milano — La tua skincare e skin-prep Made in Italy con Amore!
Growth Engine VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Fashion
  • Secondary Market, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.
  • Holifya — Holifya is a platform for digital health and wellness with a personalized and scientific approach, based on your genetic profile, biomarkers, habits, and goals. They leverage technology and advanced data analysis methods (such as machine learning) to support the doctor or nutritionist in the creation of an increasingly personalized, 360-degree foodand health and wellness plan.
  • TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
Banco BPM VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Software
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 3Sun — Our photovoltaic solutions drive change towards a sustainable future, setting new standards of excellence for solar energy applications.
  • Enel Green Power — Enel Green Power is the company that deals with renewable energy from every perspective: from direct sales through PPA, to commitment at the forefront with its plants worldwide.
  • Recupero Etico Sostenibile — RES specializes in waste management, environmental protection, and recycling services.
Azimut Digitech Fund VC Fund
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Computer, Events
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, San Marino
Portfolio highlights
  • Kampaay — The digital platform for organizing corporate events, in person, virtual or hybrid, in just a few clicks!
  • 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.
  • Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
Intesa Sanpaolo VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Soplaya — Ordina in un click e ricevi nel tuo ristorante in 12/48h, migliaia di ingredienti direttamente dal produttore. Consegna sempre gratuita
  • Sendabox — Sendabox.it is the first online express courier rate comparison. With sendabox.it compare and ship at unbeatable prices without leaving home. Thanks to the innovative private platform, SMEs, e-commerce and freelancers can save money by simplifying processes and optimizing their business.
  • Vena Energy — Vena Energy is a leading Independent Power Producer (IPP) and an integrated pure-renewable energy company in the Asia-Pacific region.
TA Ventures VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months
TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
  • HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.
  • Stepwell Care — Stepwell Care provides a path to sustainable recovery, based on evidence and tailored to you.
Neva SGR VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Neva SGR, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and wholly owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, plans and manages investment funds for professional investors interested in seizing diversification and high-yield opportunities offered by Venture Capital investments. Neva SGR can count on Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s and Intesa SanpaoloGroup’s strength, financial resources, know-how and network of relationships, a unique source of value on the market. Neva SGR is the perfect blend of strength, reputation and stability of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and the best practices of international venture capital firms. Neva SGR aims to boost the Italian economy through new technologies and to be market maker of the VC asset class of venture capital in Italy.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Italy, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
  • Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
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.
Ligurcapital SpA VC Fund · Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Ligurcapital is a public and private joint venture that offers equity financing to companies in Liguria, Italy.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Internet, Fitness
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
  • Drexcode — Drexcode.com is the first web-boutique that provides a unique fashion experience, trendy and convenient, giving the opportunity to rent dresses and accessories from the latest collections.By working directly with the most prestigious Italian and foreign designers, we select the outfits seen at the fashion shows, with particular regards to thosesuitable for special occasions. Our clients have the exclusive opportunity to rent in-season outfits that make dreaming every women.
  • greenchic — A pioneer of the circular economy, greenchic is the number 1 fashion-logistics startup in Southern Europe. Send us what you wish to swap, and immediately start buying with our reward points system. Thanks to this effortless service model, greenchic offers the fastest DTC way to regain value from no longer used clothing. Through greenchic, memberscan exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and sustainable way. With 99% of the products sold, reused, upcycled, or donated to charities within 6 months, greenchic is set to become a European leader in circular fashion. With its growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in fashion recommerce, a 4.5-star TrustPilot rating, the platform offers to its highly engaged community a collection of more than 240.000 items. Thanks to a semi-automated logistic warehouse, an event-driven serverless digital platform, and its own digital token, the startup is experiencing a 2X growth pattern and is supported by some of the best investors from the Italian fashion & social impact scene.greenchic is now operating in Italy and France.Find out more by visiting greenchic.com and following @greenchic on socials.
Kairos Partners VC Fund · Milan, Michigan, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Kairos Partners SGR was founded in 1999 as the first independent Italian asset management company.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
  • Hercle — Hercle is a FinTech company that develops low-latency technology that offers end-to-end prime-brokerage solutions and trading algorithms to institutional investors who are interested in gaining exposure to crypto-assets.
  • Underscore District — Underscore District unlocks the potential of Made in Italy fashion brands through the power of technology and data analytics.
Oltre Impact VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
We shape impact investing for people and planet
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Investment focus
  • Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
  • FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
  • Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency
Davide Cecchini Angel
Davide Cecchini is the Managing Director at Ikigai, the entrepreneurship acceleration program by Fondazione MPS.Previously, he was in charge of Business Development at Club degli Investitori, one of the main angel investment groups in Italy (250+ business angel with €30M+ invested) and worked at Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the major banking group inItaly, working at its Innovation Center. 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, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Grant, Convertible Note
  • Italy, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Menumal — SaaS per la digitalizzazione e gestione flessibile del menù, senza compromessi di stile
  • Shazarch — AI-driven Cultural Innovation
  • 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.
Angelo Italiano Angel
Angelo Italiano
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Sports, Fitness
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Desmotec — Desmotec - Home - Riabilitazione, Prevenzione & Performance. I dispositivi Desmotec sono attrezzature innovative adatte per fisioterpisti e allenatori.
  • MedSniper — medSniper is the synthesis of a faster, more secure approach to video laryngoscope procedures.
  • Ermes - Cyber Security S.p.A. — We believe in empowering people. Just like you. Discover our approach and enable your employees to navigate the web worry-free. Browser: your safe workspace. In a world where the web plays a key role in our daily work routines, our dynamic browser-protection solutions makes the difference, by assesing every web pages as soon as it goes live, providing
B Holding VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
B Holding is an industrial holding that wants to establish itself as a reference player for innovation in Italy, investing and supporting the best business projects.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, E-Commerce, Grocery
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Abiby — Abiby is the italian leading platform that offers subscription services to discover and try new beauty brand and products.
  • 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!
  • Barberino's - Benessere Italiano — We are an Italian independent men's grooming company. We operates a classic though stylish barber shop chain with an Italian soul in Milan, Rome, Padova and Brescia. Our award-winning Barber Shops recreates places where the gestures, the rituals and the habits behind men's grooming are honored while updated with modern attitude. Ourbarbers are top skilled and carefully trained. We focus on high quality haircuts, beard trims and hot towel wet shave with the mission to offer a relaxing grooming experience. We use and sell exclusively our own products, entirely designed, developed and packaged in Italy by an expert group of artisans, chemists and designers that represent the ultimate Italian excellence. Our product line is the result of our years of on-the-ground experience and hundred of thousands of haircuts and bear trims. We know not only what our customers need but also what our customers wants. The cosmetics are characterized by high performance formulas enriched with the most advanced active ingredients (such as plant stem cells) that are extracted from natural sources. The accessories are entirely handmade using the most precious natural materials, such as horn or wengé wood, according to the most elegant Italian design principles. We offer a 360° customer experience which starts in our store with our barbers and which continue at home with our products!
Lazzaroni VC Fund
Lazzaroni operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
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.
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.
RCS MediaGroup VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Retail, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
  • MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
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.
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