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Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Italy in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Edtech startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Italy in September 2025

Investor	EdTech Italy investments
CDP Venture Capital	9
Club degli Investitori	6
United Ventures	4
Club Italia Investimenti 2	3
LIFTT	3
Matteo de Brabant	3
P101	3
Lazio Innova	2
TIM Ventures	2
Club Digitale	2
Massimiliano Magrini	2
Matthew Lunelli	2
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano	2
40Jemz Ventures	2
Wayra	2
Equiter	2
Fabio Cannavale	2
Mamacrowd	2
Boost Heroes	2
Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.	2
Opes Impact Fund	2
Embed Capital	2
Exor Ventures	1
Eisenhower Fellowships	1
Endeavor Catalyst	1
Attilio Mazzilli	1
Techaround VC	1
Microsoft	1
Luca Valerio Camerano	1
Cairo Communication	1
Enrico Drago	1
Federico Leproux	1
StartupItalia	1
Exor Ventures	1
Doorway	1
MPM Capital	1
Azimut Digitech Fund	1
Ashoka	1
Tamburi Investment Partners	1
Vertis	1
Impact Ventures Hungary	1
Marco Caradonna	1
Synergo Capital	1
Index Ventures	1
Banca Patrimoni Sella & C.	1
Oltre Impact	1
Loris Gay	1
Lorenzo Lagorio	1
Marco Fassone	1
Oscar Farinetti	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
lit — Con lit puoi monitorare, quando e dove vuoi, i tuoi consumi energetici, riducendoli fino al 22%, avendo informazioni in real time sui tuoi elettrodomestici.
Tulum Energy — Discover how Tulum Energy harnesses methane pyrolysis technology to transform machinery and produce substantial volumes of clean hydrogen, driving innovation and sustainability in the energy sector.

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.

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
Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

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!

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

QSensAto — QSensAto is a quantum sensing company specializing in the development and research of integrated vapor cells and quantum atomic sensors.
Agate Sensors — Agate Sensors offers equipment manufacturers advanced sensors that detect, identify, and classify people, vital signs, objects, and more. Their sensors come in a range of sizes, from single pixel devices to full matrix devices, and are produced using standard CMOS production processes, making them both cost-effective and efficient.
Sparrow Quantum — Sparrow Quantum, a global leader in quantum photonic chip technology. Explore innovative solutions driving advancements in quantum computing, communication, and beyond. Stay ahead with cutting-edge technologies shaping the future.

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

Investment focus

News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
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

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Toduba — Toduba is a digitalization company that provides shopping vouchers, food stamps, gift cards, and travel expense management.
Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.

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.

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

TIM Ventures prefers to invest in the internet, digital life, mobile evolution, e-learning, and green technology sectors. The company provides startups with consulting services and support. It selects companies that exploit disruptive technologies, with particular attention to enterprise applications, digital life, and telecommunications.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Webidoo — Forniamo soluzioni all inclusive di digital marketing per le PMI: siti web, gestione social media, export digital pensati per il tuo settore.
Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
SonoBee Ultrasound — Looking for a reliable ultrasound scan center in Malaysia? Our center offers a range of ultrasound services, from pregnancy scans to abdominal and pelvic scans. Our experienced professionals provide accurate and timely results. Contact us today to schedule your appointment

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.

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Network Security, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Series B
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
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.

Matthew Lunelli

Investment focus

EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Advice, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

PREFE — PREFE is a real-time BI platform for FMCG, delivering instant insights on pricing, distribution, and promotions to boost profitability.
Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
Forte! — Automate mix prep and bounce. Maximize your flow on Pro Tools and Logic Pro. 15-day FREE trial. No credit card needed. Pay-once or subscriptions.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kunzapp — Kunzapp, ayuda a las empresas a maximizar su presupuesto, eficiencia y seguridad, eliminando gastos innecesarios, haciendo visibles los “Shadow IT”, y consiguiendo ahorro de miles de dólares al año.
Remuner — Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Remuner is the sales compensation software that automate your commissions and drive performance.
Openlayer — Test, monitor, and govern AI systems from ML to LLMs. Openlayer's enterprise platform brings unified AI evaluation, observability, and governance to every stage of the AI lifecycle.

Equiter seleziona, realizza e gestisce investimenti infrastrutturali in capitale di rischio finalizzati allo sviluppo socio-economico del territorio.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Medics — 3D anatomical modeling per la pianificazione pre-operatoria e il supporto intra-operatorio delle chirurgie complesse.
BionIT Labs — We apply IT to Bionics in order to Turn disabilities into New Possibilities

Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Properly is a visual checklist tool that lets property owners share turnover instructions with cleaning pros effortlessly.Properly's mission is to have hosts and property managers get the same streamlined results during every guest turnover cleaning, and for professional cleaners to understand their clients' expectations and getrecognized for stellar work.
Contents — Generative AI Platform to Support Businesses in Creating High-performing, Original & SEO-optimized Content 10X Faster.
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Mamacrowd is the equity crowdfunding platform authorized by Consob that allows you to invest in innovative Italian projects: startups, innovative SMEs or clubs, ie companies that invest mainly in startups and innovative SMEs.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Lifeed — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
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.
Marshmallow Games — Marshmallow Games crea app educative per bambini per offrire divertenti e innovative esperienze di gioco. I bambini imparano e si divertono.

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

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!

Sport Tech Investment Company

Investment focus

Apps, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
PunchLab — Download PunchLab Choose among martial arts & combat sports workouts designed for boxing, MMA, karate and kickboxing training. Track any punching and kicking combination you throw at the punching bag USING ONLY YOUR PHONE! Follow audio workouts while you hit the punching bag or shadowbox.

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Communities, Agriculture, Service Industry
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Kenya, India

Portfolio highlights

Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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.

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 playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.

Eisenhower Fellowships identifies, empowers and links outstanding leaders from around the world helping them to achieve consequential outcomes across sectors and borders. EF provides a transformational experience leading to a lifetime engagement in a global network, where dialogue and collaboration make the world more prosperous, just and peaceful.

Investment focus

Wellness, Education, Health Care
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Fight The Stroke — Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. (ENG) Fightthestroke.org sta dalla parte dei piccoli sopravvissuti all'Ictus. (ITA) Description Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. First therapy step has been our storytelling @TED Global in June 2013. #fightt

Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
Thndr — Investing in U.S. stocks made easy with thndr global
Tarjama — Revolutionizes Language Solutions with Technology

Attilio Mazzilli is Corporate Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a global law firm where he also serves as Co-Head of Italian offices, Head of the Italian Tech Group and Member of the International Technology Companies Group. He specializes in private equity and venture capital, with specific skills in both domestic and cross-borderM&A transactions.Attilio Mazzilli graduated in Law from the University of Milan (dissertation on “The insurance contracts in private international law”). In 2003 he was admitted to the Italian Bar Association. In those years, he started working as Associate for “Pavia e Ansaldo” law firm in Milan. In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained a Master of Laws in Business&Corporate Law from the University of Southern California. The following year he came back to Milan to join “Chiomenti” law firm as Senior Associate. After this working experience, he moved to “Carnelutti” law firm, where he served as Partner and Head of International Development (2011-2015). Subsequently, his career continued at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he currently works as Corporate Partner and Head of the Italian Tech Group. He is also Member of the International Technology Companies Group. In 2023 he was also appointed Co-Head of Italian offices. He focuses on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, while advising startups and venture capital firms in areas including financing, corporate law, M&A, and listings. Furthermore, he works as consultant for leading tech companies, supporting their founders at all stages of their life-cycle. Attilio Mazzilli was awarded “Lawyer of the Year for Venture Capital” in the 2020 Legalcommunity Awards. His commitment contributed to several awards received by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: among these are “Law Firm of the Year 2021 for Venture Capital”, “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for M&A Small Cap” (BeBeez and PBV) and “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for Fintech” (TopLegal Industry Awards). During the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy, he collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Innovation, the Finance Commission and VC Hub in drafting urgent measures to provide financial support to tech and innovative companies in Italy. In the same period, his client Bending Spoons developed Immuni, the app chosen by the Italian Ministry of Health to track the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Over more than 22 years of professional experience, Attilio Mazzilli has taken part in many significant transactions and assisted companies the likes of Gruppo Intesa San Paolo, Cattolica Assicurazioni, Teko Telecom, Octo Telematics, and Prima Assicurazioni. He also assisted Banca Sella Holding and Fabrick (joint venture agreement with illimity Bank concerning Hype), Cerba HealthCare (acquisition of Lifebrain from Investindustrial) and Scalapay (Series B financing round led by Tencent and Series A financing round led by Tiger Global).

Investment focus

News, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
Futura — Futura provides personalized learning using data driven approach and modular classes that adapt to student's Individual needs.

Techaround VC is an investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Generative AI, Corporate Training
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Syllog AI — Syllog AI provides solutions that use the most latest generative artificial intelligence technology to revolutionize way firms approach employee retention and growth.

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment license Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C other segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments licenses server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial other segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online. Microsoft Corporation was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1974. It is based in Redmond, Washington.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Bellame — Bellame is a style beauty company that is expanding daily. The company currently has 4 products cleanser, serum, eye cream, and moisture. They are on a transformational mission because beauty is more than skin-deep.
Builder.ai — Turn any idea into tailor-made apps, websites or wearables with our easy software builder. No code? No problem. Start building your app today!
Open Source Security Foundation — Consolidating industry efforts to improve the security of open source software.

Luca Valerio Camerano was born in Rome in 1963. He graduated in Economics from LUISS (Rome) and He attended INSEAD Advanced Management Programme (Fontainebleau). He is currently Managing Director at Algebris Investments where he leads a new business unit dedicated to the environment and sustainability. He is also Indipendent Member of the COIMA ESGCity Impact Fund, Business Angel for startup, and Professor at LUISS. In addition, he has the role of Senior Advisor for infrastructure, energy transition, circular economy and smart city. He has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of A2A S.p.A., Italy’s largest multi-utility company with more than 13,000 employees, a turnover of around 6 billion euros in 2017 and a Gross Operating Profit of more than 1 billion euros. During his mandate, A2A doubled its capitalization end tripled its net income. Currently, Luca Valerio Camerano is a member of the Executive Council and the Energy Advisory Committee of Utilitalia and also a member of the Council and Vice Chairman of the Assolombarda Energy Group. In the past, he developed his professional path working as CEO of GDF SUEZ Energie, Managing Director at Enel Gas, Managing Director at Camuzzi, Chief Executive Officer of Plenia and Managing Director in the Corporate Banking of Citibank.

Investment focus

EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

Cairo Communication is a company that carries activities in the communication sector as a publisher - television & books & a concessionaire.

Investment focus

Fitness, Software, Training
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.

Enrico Drago is a Chief Executive Officer of PlayDigital at IGT.

Investment focus

EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Series A
Italy

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EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

TeamSystem, is the leading market provider of software and related value added services for SMEs and Professionals. Headquartered in Pesaro (Italy), the company has a diverse base of 200,000 customers. It has 42 offices in Italy and employs approximately 1900 people.Federico Leproux began his career in 1996 at Procter & Gamble holdingdifferent positions mainly in operations/product supply. He held positions as Production Unit Manager and Initiative Manager, Logistics. In 2002 he moved into management and strategy consulting. For the next two years he worked at Bain & Company where he managed projects in the automotive, retail and FMCG industries. In 2004 he joined McKinsey & Company where he led multiple projects in several sectors such as Energy, Private Equity, Directory Services and Retail. He moved to TeamSystem in 2007 as General Manager and in 2009 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the TeamSystem Group.Under his leadership TeamSystem has grown from 600 employees in 2006 to over 2000-headcount, with revenues increasing from 78M Euro to ca.330M Euro expected in 2017 and Ebitda from 20 to over 115M. During his period at TS he had the chance to work with several Private Equity funds as key shareholders (Bain Capital, Hg Capital and Hellman & Friedman).He is married and, as a young man, was a successful sportsman (sailing and rowing), becoming 3 times an Italian National Champion and Junior Rowing World Champion in 1988 (male coxless four).Mr Leproux has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome and he currently sits in the board of the MIP School of Management.

Investment focus

EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Series A
Italy

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EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

StartupItalia: il magazine della startup italiane

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4books — 4books is an edutech platform that offers micro-learning solutions through eBooks.

With EXOR Seeds, We have reconnected with our entrepreneurial roots and long history of innovation. We look for exceptional founders, with the ambition to build great businesses in their field. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-ledbusiness, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

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DICE — DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.
N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
Habyt — Habyt is an easy way to find a fully furnished, private room or apartment in Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Lisbon. All costs are included in the rent, no surprises.

Doorway provides a platform for Venture capital firms to find the right investment opportunities and also provides consulting for same.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Funding Round
Italy, Switzerland, United States

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ACBC — The Sneakers produced by ACBC are ecological, created with the best eco-friendly materials. ACBC is a company particularly mindful of environmental health, and its products are a mix of green technology and ecological materials to promote circularity.
Joinrs — We developed an artificial intelligence model able to read job offers for you and show you the ones that best match your profile.
Vitesy — Smart and sustainable air purifiers for indoor pollution

Powering Breakthroughs in Life Sciences

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

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āshibio — āshibio creates treatments for rare bone and connective tissue ailments, potentially preventing symptoms or slowing their course.
Umoja Biopharma — Pioneering immunotherapy by reprogramming T cells in vivo to target cancer cells.
Reunion Neuroscience — Reunion Neuroscience is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutic solutions for underserved mental health conditions. The Company’s lead asset, RE104, is a proprietary, novel serotonergic psychedelic compound being developed as a potential fast-acting and durable antidepressant for patients suffering from postpartum depressionand other mental health conditions. Reunion is also developing the RE200 series, which includes compounds with the potential for more selective serotonin receptor activity and reduced psychoactivity for application in more chronic treatment paradigms and indications.

Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Mobile
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 — Il Software di Revenue Management per Hotel che trova il Prezzo Giusto al Momento Giusto. Richiedi la tua dimostrazione. Scelto da oltre 2000 Strutture Ricettive.

Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who transform institutions and cultures so they support changemaking for the good of society. Find out more about us, and join the worldwide network of changemakers.

Investment focus

Wellness, Education, Non Profit
Seed, Grant
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fight The Stroke — Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. (ENG) Fightthestroke.org sta dalla parte dei piccoli sopravvissuti all'Ictus. (ITA) Description Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. First therapy step has been our storytelling @TED Global in June 2013. #fightt
Teens Do Good — Teens Do Good runs social impact initiatives with an aim of encouraging teens to drive change in their community.

TIP is an investment-merchant bank focused on medium-sized Italian companies.

Investment focus

Pharmaceutical, Fashion, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Italy, France

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States

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Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
Starting Finance — Starting Finance is a financial education platform intended to provide financial literacy to its users. The company's platform provides education and information about finance and publishes informative articles on important events in the fields of economics, finance, and politics, enabling users to improve their knowledge regarding finance andthe management of their capital.

Impact Ventures is a specialist fund manager focusing on Impact Investments. Our mission is to catalyze social impact by supporting and investing in high-growth social SMEs in Europe, addressing areas of social inclusion, education, employment, health and environmental sustainability.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Waste Management
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Hungary, Italy, Spain

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Hedepy — Online therapy works. Research has proven that what matters is the conversation, not where the conversation happens.
scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
Candam — Helping cities and businesses recycle smarter with AI-powered solutions

Marco Caradonna is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at BlackSheep Ventures at BlackSheep Ventures. He attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart.

Investment focus

Advertising, PaaS, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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Nexoya — Performance Marketing optimized with AI. Leverage the power of agile portfolio management. Allocate budgets by using AI technology and reach +70% ROAS
Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.
Connected-Stories — Connected-Stories is the Multi agent Ai system that powers generative AI for marketing, creative automation, and personalized content at scale.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, Spain, Germany

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Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
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.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Mistral AI — Take control of the future with a complete AI solution from platform to interface, with open, customizable models that can be deployed anywhere.
Parallel — Parallel is a technology company focused on adapting the web for artificial intelligences. It builds retrieval, ranking, and reasoning systems that enable AIs to perform high-value tasks using web data. The company's initial offering is an API designed to facilitate these interactions, enhancing the capabilities of advanced AIs.

Banca Patrimoni Sella & C. is the bank of the Sella group in the management and administration of private and institutional client assets.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Newcleo — newcleo is the clean and safe nuclear technology company. Privately funded and headquartered in London, UK, newcleo was launched in 2021 to be a disruptor in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean and inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.newcleo is building the next generation system with the goals to: (1) eliminate the need for geological repositories by using a fast neutron flux avoiding production of long life radioactive elements; (2) develop an Accelerator Driven System (ADS), based on the intrinsically safe coupling of a particle accelerator and a sub-critical reactor; (3) accelerate the development of new fuel cycles, including thorium, that provide economic, clean, safe and inexhaustible energy from nuclei and the opportunity to burn the long-lived nuclear waste produced by the old generation of nuclear reactors.With visionary co-founders, newcleo brings together a team of engineers with deep knowledge of nuclear energy with younger recruits with a fresh mindset, working to design an innovative micro Lead Fast Reactor with significant commercial applications, for example in shipping. newcleo wants to be the first step toward the evolution of its industry to become fully respectful of people and the environment. To develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will lead humanity to zero emissions, and to the mitigation of global warming.
Perpethua — Perpetua is an Italian fintech company specializing in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (PMIs) through the critical phase of generational transition, especially when there is no clear successor within the business operates primarily as a digital platform that automates the M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) process for SMEs,connecting entrepreneurs without successors with qualified investors interested in ensuring business continuity and growth.

We shape impact investing for people and planet

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