Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Italy in May 2026
Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Italy in May 2026
| Investor | Education Italy investments |
|---|---|
| CDP Venture Capital | 9 |
| Club degli Investitori | 6 |
| United Ventures | 4 |
| LIFTT | 3 |
| Matteo de Brabant | 3 |
| Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 3 |
| P101 | 3 |
| Wayra | 2 |
| Club Digitale | 2 |
| 40Jemz Ventures | 2 |
| Equiter | 2 |
| Embed Capital | 2 |
| Matthew Lunelli | 2 |
| Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a. | 2 |
| Opes Impact Fund | 2 |
| Fabio Cannavale | 2 |
| Primo Capital | 2 |
| Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano | 2 |
| Lazio Innova | 2 |
| Massimiliano Magrini | 2 |
| TIM Ventures | 2 |
| Boost Heroes | 2 |
| Mamacrowd | 2 |
| Praxi | 1 |
| Azimut Holding | 1 |
| David Clarke | 1 |
| Andrea Incondi | 1 |
| Doorway | 1 |
| dPixel | 1 |
| Synergo Capital | 1 |
| Francesco Beraldi | 1 |
| Zanichelli Venture | 1 |
| Vertis | 1 |
| Emerge VC | 1 |
| Marco Caradonna | 1 |
| Enrico Drago | 1 |
| Tamburi Investment Partners | 1 |
| Eurazeo | 1 |
| Net4Capital | 1 |
| Azimut Digitech Fund | 1 |
| MVM Life Science Partners | 1 |
| Attilio Mazzilli | 1 |
| Cairo Communication | 1 |
| Banca Patrimoni Sella | 1 |
| Italian Founders Fund | 1 |
| Simone Cimminelli | 1 |
| Oscar Farinetti | 1 |
| Marco Fassone | 1 |
| Lorenzo Lagorio | 1 |
| Giacomo Trovato | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ALBA Robot — Through our micro mobility platform we add autonomy and artificial intelligence to transform passengers transportation.
- RARA Factory — RARA Factory is a company that provides research and development of sustainable materials utilizing physics-based artificial intelligence.
- Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
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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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- 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 — Empowering fertility providers and researchers with AI-driven metabolomic platforms. Non-invasive, real-time insights at the microscale for personalized medical treatments.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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- 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
- Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
- Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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- Software, Biotechnology, 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.
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- News, Beauty, EdTech
- 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
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- 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!
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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- 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.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
- Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
- Omnix Corp — Omnix connects to all customer systems, managing their information and triggering actions when there are operational failures. Currently our clients are large companies in the Retail and Telco sector, where our solution allows complete visibility and traceability of inventory.
Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.
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- 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!
40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses.
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- 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.
Equiter seleziona, realizza e gestisce investimenti infrastrutturali in capitale di rischio finalizzati allo sviluppo socio-economico del territorio.
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- 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.
- Faccin Group — Faccin Group leads in manufacturing top tier metal forming & bending machines. Operating as Faccin, Roundo & Boldrini, we offer unparalleled expertise.
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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- Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care
- 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.
Matthew Lunelli
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- EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
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- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
Sport Tech Investment Company
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- Apps, Sports, Fitness
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy, Germany
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- 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.
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- Communities, Agriculture, Energy
- 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.
Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.
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- Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
- Bricks.sh — The fastest way to build and manage your Supabase database. One-click admin panel with powerful features for teams.
- RARA Factory — RARA Factory is a company that provides research and development of sustainable materials utilizing physics-based artificial intelligence.
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano
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- EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
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- 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.
Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Joinrs — Cut the noise. Joinrs uses AI to find the jobs that actually match your skills, experience and preferences. Over 2 million job seekers trust Joinrs.
- Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
- Ticketoo — Compra e vendi biglietti in modo etico su Ticketoo. La piattaforma sicura per transazioni fan-to-fan. Trova i migliori eventi e assicurati il biglietto per i tuoi spettacoli preferiti.
Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.
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- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
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.
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- Internet, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, Malaysia
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- Webidoo — We provide the digital tools and advanced that big businesses use, but built and designed so they can be easily utilized by local independent business owners. webidoo is dedicated to partnering with local businesses. We’re here to give the solutions you need to connect with customers, wherever they may be. Our clients include businesses of everytype: restaurants, attorneys, builders, doctors, delicatessens, electricians and many others. We can provide solutions that allow companies to connect with their customers, real and potential, like never before. We’re all about supporting local businesses. And we feel good about that.
- 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 — As Malaysia's most trusted ultrasound and health screening centre, we combine expert radiologists with advanced imaging for precise results. Experience care you can rely on. Book your appointment.
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States, Hong Kong
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- 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!
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.
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- iOS, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy
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- 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 esperienze di educazione digitale per bambini, famiglie e scuole attraverso giochi educativi e contenuti interattivi.
CVC of Italian Corp
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- Software, Education, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- Pack — Pack is the people development platform that empowers HR with data-driven insights, digital assessments, and world-class mentoring & coaching. Unlock employee growth with tailored development plans, AI-driven tracking, and an international network of experts.
Azimut Holding is an independent financial company that offers investment solutions to develop excellent levels of experience. The company's business model is based on the vertical integration between asset management and distribution. It has portfolio managers and analysts based in major hubs around the world and a network of client-facingfinancial advisors operating to deliver quality advice to clients.Azimut Holding was founded on 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
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- FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, China, Mexico
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- Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
- Chainstack — Chainstack is a leading blockchain infrastructure providing company. Build, run and scale blockchain applications using Chainstack nodes.
- Alps Blockchain — Alps Blockchain is a company specialized in research and development in the sectors of blockchain and data mining.
David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip. David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
- TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
Andrea Incondi is an individual investor
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
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- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Doorway provides a platform for Venture capital firms to find the right investment opportunities and also provides consulting for same.
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- 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
dPixel is a venture capital advisor and management consulting firm that finances early stage internet companies.
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- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Brazil
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- Intraverse — The evolution of acquisition, engagement and loyalty.
- Lendit — Lendit is a credit-sharing platform where companies and professionals can lend and apply for liquidity in a simple, fast and tailor-made manner. Specifically, Lendit provides a web-based platform to match corporate loan requests with companies, professionals or institutional investors who want to lend liquidity. Lendit's objective is to makeaccess to credit inclusive and accessible to all 'fragile' micro enterprises and entrepreneurs to credit. In fact, Lendit's target is microcredit, with applications ranging from a minimum of EUR 1,000 to a maximum of EUR 50,000. To date, almost two million enterprises are unable to obtain the desired credit. Of these, the greatest difficulty encountered is with applications under 20,000€. Lendit is also structured and built to be not only a "simple' p2p lending platform, but also to be integrated with financial institutions (thanks to partnerships with banks and intermediaries) in order to so as to create an open, multi-platform system that allows users to use innovative p2p lending services directly from their home banking
- Seed Venture — Seed Venture is a blockchain-based platform that decentralizes fundraising activities for startups and SMEs by providing liquidity matching between investors and startups.
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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- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
- Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, Spain, Germany
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.
- 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.
Francesco Beraldi
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- Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- 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.
- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.We willsupport and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent.We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value.We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors.
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- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Italy
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- zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
- Data Masters — I migliori corsi online di intelligenza artificiale, machine learning e data science. Formazione pratica, docenti esperti, lezioni on-demand e live. Entra ora!
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.
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- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Popp AI — Popp helps brands boost customer lifetime value + unlock community-led growth by transforming customer advocacy into a community sport.
- Popp — Joinpopp provides AI-driven solutions to automate recruitment tasks, including application screening and candidate conversations. The platform integrates seamlessly with ATS/CRM systems, enhancing efficiency in the hiring process. Joinpopp also offers features for creating personalized messages, streamlining communication with potentialcandidates.
- LearnWise AI — Transform your institution's student support with AI. Cut support costs by 50%, provide 24/7 assistance, and integrate with 400+ EdTech tools. Trusted by leading universities.
Marco Caradonna is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at BlackSheep Ventures at BlackSheep Ventures. He attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart.
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- 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.
Enrico Drago is a Chief Executive Officer of PlayDigital at IGT.
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- 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.
TIP is an investment-merchant bank focused on medium-sized Italian companies.
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- Pharmaceutical, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- Limonta — Limonta | 1893 is a group focuses on passion, creativity and innovation, with skills in the clothing, leather goods, footwear, furnishings, sports and automotive sectors.
- Apoteca Natura — Apoteca Natura is a pharmaceutical company that develops and innovates medicines that helps in treatment and prevention of diseases.
- Bending Spoons — We own and operate leading digital products, including Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, and WeTransfer. And we develop the technology to power them.
Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in SMEs and manages a diversified portfolio of assets.With its expertise in private equity, real estate, and private debt, the group supports companies of all sizes in their development commitment through the commitment of its 235 professionals. It provides companies with thenecessary investments needed to realize their growth potential.The firm was founded in 1969 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PPRO — From PSPs to tech companies, our partners depend on us to build their digital payments offering so they can free up their time and resources.
- Dexory — Discover charming holiday accommodation in Whitby with i-stay. Modern comfort, prime locations, and easy booking for your perfect coastal getaway.
- Neo4j — Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.
Net4Capital is a investment management company in private equity and venture capital.
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- EdTech, Fitness, Software
- Seed
- Italy
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- NHAZCA — NHAZCA is an innovator in the analysis, control, and monitoring of natural and human-induced hazards.
- Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
- MyLab Nutrition — MyLab Nutrition Group owns T-Rex Integratori, Nutracle, Suprapet and MyLab Nutrition brands. It creates and distributes high quality Made in Italy supplements through its brands using an high technological innovative approach. The corporate vision is to allow people to achieve the highest level of well-being through targeted precisionintegration via supplements. The corporate mission is to recommend perfect supplements to each person based on their needs through interactive consultancy that process datas via A.I. mylabnutrition.net is the first interactive portal that recommends the perfect dietary supplements for each person's specific needs through an interactive consultancy.
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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- Software, Information Technology, Computer
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom
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- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Subbyx — Subbyx provides long-term subscriptions for technology products and small home appliances.
- Kleecks — Kleecks is an innovative SaaS platform that optimises performance marketing activities, improves website health and speed in real-time, and has a significant impact on businesses by increasing revenues, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-market
MVM invests in innovative healthcare companies. Our active portfolio companies are transforming the delivery of healthcare by enabling higher quality, cost-effective care in large, global markets.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
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- Ossio — OSSIO is an orthopedic fixation company committed to transforming the orthopedic experience for patients, physicians, and payors. Their vision is to provide the first credible replacement to metal implants in the $10B+ orthopedic fixation market (screws, pins, plates) with an Intelligent Bone Regeneration Technology. OSSIOfiber represents abreakthrough material platform for orthopedic and podiatric surgeons who seek a more biologically friendly way to restore patient stability and mobility with nothing permanent left behind.Founded in 2014, OSSIO began as the culmination of years of biomechanical research and a vision for the possibility of better bone healing. The technological basis of OSSIOfiber™ was developed and would lay the groundwork for ushering in a new breakthrough category of non-permanent fixation, “Bio-Integratives” hardware that has both desired strength AND bio-friendliness. Hardware that has the mechanical strength for easy insertion and secure fixation, while enabling the body to regrow bone, incorporating and replacing the implant (without the adverse inflammation and weakness often seen in “bio-resorbables and other “bio-composites”), has remained elusive to the industry until now.
- Icotec — Icotec develops and produces carbon fiber reinforced plastic implants for spine surgeries and accident treatments.
- Nalu Medical — Nalu Medical is an early-stage company that develops a range of medical devices. Their vision to modernize and improve the technology in medical devices, thus improving the lives of people.The Nalu neurostimulation system is a battery-free, micro-implantable pulse generator (iPG) currently cleared by the FDA for both Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) for mitigating chronic pain. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Carlsbad, California.
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).
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- News, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
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- 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 — Impara come mai prima d'ora con Futura. Combiniamo Intelligenza Artificiale e i migliori docenti per personalizzare il tuo percorso di studi.
Cairo Communication is a company that carries activities in the communication sector as a publisher - television & books & a concessionaire.
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- Fitness, Software, Training
- Series A
- Italy
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- 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.
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- Apps, Software, Education
- Convertible Note
- Italy
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- AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Unlocking Italy's Next Founders
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- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Italy
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- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
- compri — Automate all your Procurement activities with AI
- Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.
Simone Cimminelli is a Founding Partner at Cimminelli Holding. He attended ESCP Business School.
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- Analytics, Real Time, Social Media
- Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
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- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Oscar Farinetti is the Co-Founder & Owner of Eataly. He attended the University of Turin.
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
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- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Marco Fassone is an individual investor
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
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- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Lorenzo Lagorio is an individual investor.
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Giacomo Trovato is an individual investor
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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