Top 50 Education VC Funds & Investors in Italy (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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15 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $488k–$23M |
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
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7 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $197k–$30M |
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P101
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, Spain, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $236k–$15M |
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United Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $406k–$18M |
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | $55k–$576k |
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LIFTT
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing | $329k–$21M |
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Rialto Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, GPS, Sports | $555k–$6.7M |
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Embed Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care | $132k–$2.1M |
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40Jemz Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software | $338k–$6.2M |
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Apps | $219k–$7.7M |
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Kenya, India | Seed, Series A | Communities, Agriculture, Energy | $219k–$910k |
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Praxi
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Human Resources | |
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StartupItalia
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | EdTech, Software, Education | ||
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Vertis
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Computer | $823k–$10M |
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Club Digitale
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Internet | $258k–$576k |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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2 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $145k–$13M |
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Lazio Innova
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $22k–$1.3M |
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Impact Ventures Hungary
VC Fund
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2 | Hungary, Spain, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Agriculture, Health Care | $878k–$4.6M |
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TIM Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, SaaS | $47k–$8M |
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Luiss Alumni 4 Growth
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, InsurTech, Insurance | $768k–$3.9M |
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Opes Italia
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Spain | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | E-Commerce, Leisure, Medical | $440k–$7.5M |
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Mamacrowd
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | EdTech, iOS, Apps | $180k–$2.7M |
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Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Germany | Seed, Convertible Note | Sports, Software, Apps | $522k–$2.3M |
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Italian Founders Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software | $1.4M–$19M |
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Equiter
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Seed, Series B | Medical, Health Care, Information Technology | $2.2M–$3.8M |
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Primo Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Aerospace, Information Technology | $329k–$37M |
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Microsoft
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1k–$4M |
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Vodafone
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B | Mobile, Information Technology, Big Data | |
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MPM Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | $9M–$125M |
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Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Computer | $2.2M–$35M |
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Pi Campus
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Mobile, Biotechnology | $100k–$6.4M |
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Eisenhower Fellowships
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Wellness, Education, Health Care | |
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Eurazeo
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Germany | Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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Guala Closures Group
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | E-Learning | |
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Creative Thinking Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism | $27k–$166k |
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Tamburi Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, France | Seed, Series A | Fashion, Software, Textiles | $5M–$13M |
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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $695k–$10M |
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RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Beauty, Retail, Fitness | |
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Ithaca Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $713k–$155M |
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Emerge VC
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $1k–$33M |
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Oltre Impact
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom | Series A | Toys, EBooks, Retail | $4.1M–$5.3M |
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dPixel
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce | $100k–$1.1M |
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Synergo Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Spain, Germany | Private Equity, Series A | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software | $5.4M–$27M |
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Banca Patrimoni Sella & C.
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Software | $571k–$2.2M |
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Banca Patrimoni Sella
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Convertible Note | Apps, Software, Education | |
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Mival Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | E-Learning, Generative AI, Corporate Training | |
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CVC S2 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed, Seed | EdTech, Education, InsurTech | $164k–$219k |
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Azimut Holding
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, China, Mexico | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain | |
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Techaround VC
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | SaaS, FinTech, E-Learning | |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 276
- Round size: Seed $488k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Klaaryo —
- Macingo — Trasporto, spedizioni e traslochi a basso costo. Trasporti economici di auto, moto, barche e mobili in Italia ed Europa. Confronta prezzi e risparmia il 70%
- Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $197k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $614k–$5.1M; Series A $889k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CiaoDott —
- Alomana —
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
- A-Cube — A-Cube is a software company that provides digital solutions to exchange documents with government agencies.
- Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $406k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
- Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
- Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $110k–$219k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.9M in 2013
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.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $329k–$4.7M; Series A $2.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- vitrealab — Enlighten. Your perspective. Light Engines for AR glasses.
- CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
- Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
Rialto Ventures fund invests in B2B digital transformation technologies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, GPS, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $555k–$4.3M; Series A $5.4M–$6.7M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Roboze — Roboze is able to engineer high performance thermoplastic polymers resistant to the most extreme operating conditions for various sectors.
- Keyless — Reverify and authenticate your users in a glance, without storing biometric data. PingOne Recognize delivers private, fraud-resistant biometric authentication.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $132k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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.
40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $434k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $338k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NEOCAD — NEOCAD is a software company that provides generative artificial intelligence solutions for CAD design processes.
- Random Power — Random Power develops a random bit generator for key generation. It also provides secure, cost-effective, robust, and tiny devices for the IoT, secure computing, gambling, simulation of complex processes, and training in artificial intelligence algorithms and markets with significant expected growth to let users generate and transmit randombitstreams while varying a variety of system parameters.The company's bit generator is based on a silicon device, with all of the advantages connected to the micro-electronics advances; the source of randomness is endogenous, and this is a genuine paradigm shift with respect to existing devices, providing simplification and robustness to the system.
- Mirai Robotics — Mirai Robotics is a Physical AI company building autonomous maritime systems and intelligence platforms for defense and commercial operations at sea.The company develops software-defined autonomous surface vehicles and AI platforms that deliver dock-to-dock autonomy for persistent maritime operations: ISR, patrolling, infrastructure protection,inspection and domain awareness. Mirai's systems integrate autonomous navigation, multi-sensor perception and fusion, AI-driven mission control, and real-time decision intelligence into a single mission-grade architecture, operating from supervised autonomy to fully uncrewed missions.Mirai builds full-stack: hardware, autonomy software, perception, simulation, and edge AI treating maritime autonomy as a complete robotics and AI challenge, not a software overlay on legacy vessels. The company's technology spans reinforcement learning for navigation and docking, advanced perception pipelines for maritime environments, and synthetic data generation for sim-to-real validation.Alongside its own platforms, Mirai provides modular autonomy solutions that integrate into third-party vessels, enabling shipyards and operators to deploy autonomous capabilities across existing fleets. Every system deployed feeds shared models and learning loops creating a network effect that strengthens the entire ecosystem with each mission.Founded in Italy and rooted in Europe's world-class shipbuilding and defense industrial base, Mirai is building the autonomous maritime operating layer for European and allied operations.
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $219k–$1.9M; Series A $6M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
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!
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Browse database — It's Free!Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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- Industry: Communities, Agriculture, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Kenya, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $219k–$910k
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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.
CVC of Italian Corp
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- Industry: Software, Education, Human Resources
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Siamo la nuova generazione di editori e broadcaster fatta di startup, Investor, imprenditori, manager ma sopratutto appassionati.
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- Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 4books — 4books is an edutech platform that offers micro-learning solutions through eBooks.
- 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!
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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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $823k–$3.7M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Relicta — Relicta solution is a water-soluble bioplastic material obtained from fish processing waste and suitable for packaging solutions.
- Quido AI — Quido is the co-pilot for investment professionals. Quido allows private capital professionals to streamline data retrieval and data analysis and dramatically increase their efficiency.
- Butterfly Decisions — Traccia, Qualifica e Velocizza Processi e Decisioni nella tua organizzazione attraverso algoritmi ed approccio scientifico
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $258k–$576k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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!
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 246
- Round size: Seed $145k–$3.5M; Series A $2.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- Unmanned Life — Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics. It is changing the way autonomous robotics is being deployed by large corporations thanks to its autonomy-as-a-service orchestration platform powered by AI and 5G. Unmanned Life software platform is capable of integrating different technologies, suchas AI, 5G and Edge computing with multiple robots such as drones and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and variety of capabilities to enable autonomous operations across multiple industries, in particular Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities.
- YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $186k–$1.3M; Grant $22k–$409k; Pre-Seed $53k–$549k
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HEU — HEU is a legaltech company that automates and manages legal documents and allows users to edit and share them.
- Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
- GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come
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.
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- Industry: Software, Agriculture, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Hungary, Spain, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $878k–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prosoma — Prosoma was born out a need to provide more comprehensive care for cancer patients. We have found a fundamental lack of access to psychological care for patients who not only have to face a life-altering disease and treatment, but also crucially have a different set of needs than other psychological patients. Barriers to accessing psychologicalcare often include low numbers of therapists and clinicians in the area, financial or geographical limitations, and the general wellbeing of patients preventing them from attending meetings. All of these issues can be solved by modern technology.By using VR as part of, or when necessary, an alternative to traditional psychological treatment, we can reach patients that would otherwise be left without any support. They can use our tool at home or in the clinics whilst undergoing pharmacological treatment and chemotherapy.We hope to provide patients with a tool that will help them manage stress, cope with the burden of cancer, and eventually improve their quality of life.
- Doctor.One — Doctor.One is a next generation virtual clinic, helping any doctor build a subscription-based private practice. Our goal is to give everyone direct access to a private doctor, with the aim of restoring the trusted doctor-patient relationship as the foundation of healthcare.
- Candam — Candam specializes in developing technology for the waste management solutions sector. It has developed a cost-effective Smart Ring technology capable of recognizing all types of packaging material. Its patented system recognizes all types of packaging material in real time due to acoustic techniques combined with AI algorithms. It aims to improvewaste collection with the use of technology.
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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- Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $115k–$768k; Pre-Seed $47k–$114k; Series A $1.5M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, InsurTech, Insurance
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $768k–$3.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lampoo — Consign your luxury items and earn up to 80% of the sale! Shop authenticated designer brands at second hand prices! Fast deliveries and easy returns!
- NANDO — Monitor waste in real time with AI. NANDO tracks fill levels, automates reporting and improves recycling rates. Trusted by 80+ companies across 17 countries.
- This Unique — Customize your own period with a unique assortment to fit your needs that's sustainable and committed.
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Browse database — It's Free!Opes Italia Sicaf Euveca is an impact investing Venture Capital fund. Our aim is to invest in companies based in Italy, or with prevalent activity in the country, and that propose solutions that generate a strong social impact and create positive externalities for the community and the territory.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Leisure, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Italy, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $440k–$536k; Series A $2.3M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baluwo — Toda la ayuda para tu familia en una sola App
- Freedome — Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy
- GenomeUp — GenomeUp is an AI platform (SaaS) to enabling doctors and clinical institutions to diagnose and treat rare genetic diseases in less than 24h. GenomeUp is involved in international research projects and clinical trials in partnership with universities and research centers.
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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- Industry: EdTech, iOS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $329k–$570k; Equity Crowdfunding $180k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuiri — Kuiri is a cloud kitchen that designs to connect gastronomic varieties and accelerate food startups.
- 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.
- Ciocomiti — Ciocomiti is a Food and Beverages company that combines tradition, innovation, local tradition, and a passion for authentic flavours.
Sport Tech Investment Company
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $522k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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.
- Felton —
Unlocking Italy's Next Founders
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$5.1M; Series A $14M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Seltz — Web Search Engine
- compri — Automate all your Procurement activities with AI
- Pillar — Pillar is shaping a world where every construction company—regardless of size—is resilient, financially sound, and empowered with the tools and insights needed to navigate uncertainty, manage risk, and achieve long-term growth in a volatile industry.
Equiter seleziona, realizza e gestisce investimenti infrastrutturali in capitale di rischio finalizzati allo sviluppo socio-economico del territorio.
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- Industry: Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Busforfun — Shared and Green traveling to experience the world of fun#WeTheFun | Busforfun is a young mobility company traveling in a sustainable, safe and low-cost way across Europe. Busforfun vision is a green and shared mobility to experience the world of fun.#WeTheTech | Busforfun is a combination of high tech-startup, e-commerce-platform andtransportation company, Busforfun is going to establish European largest bus network for events in the short time. Thanks to a powerful search engine, business intelligence, an user-friendly booking system and an extensive route network, Busforfun offers travellers the opportunity to experience the world of fun with lower fares.#WeTheGreen | Our low-emission buses comply with the highest safety and environmental standards, so Busforfun offers a sustainable and convenient alternative to cars. With main partner Treedom, Busforfun plants new trees at any travel worldwide.Live Fun Experience in partnership – our concept for successBusforfun provides customers with great offers at lowest budget, through smart network planning, dynamic price management and an adaptive web engine.Busforfun platform is where the innovation and start-up spirit meet the experience and know-how of traditional bus companies and travel agencies.Incredible success can be attributed to the digitalization of old-fashioned bus travel industry: Busforfun has not suppliers or clients: but partners only!
- Easy Rain — Leading a new automotive era: our modular ecosystem of virtual sensors and active hardware makes cars and autonomous platforms truly safe in every condition.
- Faccin Group — Faccin Group leads in manufacturing top tier metal forming & bending machines. Operating as Faccin, Roundo & Boldrini, we offer unparalleled expertise.
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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- Industry: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$37M; Series A $3.3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caracol — Lead the future of manufacturing thanks to Caracol's 3D printing technologies. Discover our solutions for industrial, Large Format Additive Manufacturing.
- Servitly — Servitly software is everything you need to build your DPS system, so you can focus only on your competitive advantages
- Italian Artisan — Elevate your fashion brand with expert Italian clothing manufacturers | Streamline your production with Italian Artisan | Low MOQ
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 licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the 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 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 license 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 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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 240
- Round size: Seed $1k–$4M; Grant $18k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2023
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.
- AppNexus — Microsoft Invest is a demand side platform built for the future of video advertising.
- GuidenAI — We specialize in developing innovative AI-powered products that enhance and simplify everyday experiences through intelligent automation and advanced technology.
Vodafone is a leading technology communications company in Europe and Africa, keeping society connected and building a digital future. Find out more!
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- Industry: Mobile, Information Technology, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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
- Ziggo Group — Ziggo Group is an entity formed by Liberty Global.
- AST SpaceMobile — AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio. The company's team of engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobilesubscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected. The company was founded on May 31, 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, TX. The listed name for ASTS is AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Class A Common Stock.
Powering Breakthroughs in Life Sciences
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 227
- Round size: Series A $9M–$84M; Series B $20M–$125M; Series C $12M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $850M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Orna Therapeutics — Orna Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to designing and delivering a new class of fully engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapeutics with the potential to change the way we treat disease. Orna’s proprietary platform combines novel technology to create oRNAs that drive protein expression with validated and unique delivery solutions.
- Aratana Therapeutics — Aratana is uniquely positioned to deliver new, high-quality medicines to address unmet needs in companion animal care. We are committed to bringing world class science to animal health for companion animals and the people who care for them. Our competitive advantage resides in our ability to identify, acquire and develop high-value commercialproducts for companion animals in a cost effective and efficient manner.
- Rhythm Pharmaceuticals — Rhythm Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the lives of patients with rare neuroendocrine diseases by rapidly advancing care and precision medicines that address the root cause.
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Computer
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $18M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- DRONUS — Dronus provides inspection, safety, and smart city capabilities from an innovative, minimally invasive base that guarantees the drone's flight stability and safety during take-off and landing, even in difficult climatic conditions.
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Browse database — It's Free!Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $125k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
- Intron Health — Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for AfricaUnlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds Build with Sahara Try Sahara Built for African SpeechFrom Lagos Call Centers, to Hospitals in Nairobi, Boardrooms in Cape Town, and Courtrooms in
- Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
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.
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- Industry: Wellness, Education, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 248
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
- Doctolib — Doctolib is an online booking platform and management software provider for doctors in Europe working with 65 000 health practitioners, present in 1 300 health facilities. 25 million patients visit Doctolib website and mobile app every month.For doctors, Doctolib is a full-range service to improve bookings management, reduce no-show and bring newpatients to your office. For patients, Doctolib is a free online service to find a nearby health practitioner and book doctor or dentist appointments 24/24 and 7/7 within a few clicks.Founded in 2013, Doctolib is based out of Paris, France.
- Back Market — Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics. The company brings refurbished electronic devices and appliances to customers in 13 countries (including the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, and more recently, Portugal, Japan, Finland, and Ireland). It employs ateam of 480 employees and counting across its 4 offices located in New York, Berlin, Paris, and Bordeaux.Launched in 2014 by Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute, Back Market is headquartered in Paris, France.
Founded in Italy in 1954 Guala Closures Group is today a multinational leader at international level in the production of non-refillable and aluminium closures for spirits, wine, oil and vinegar, water and beverages, food and pharmaceuticals. It operates in 5 continents through 27 production plants and a sales network covering over 100 countries.Thanks to a policy of continuous business development and technological innovation, the Group is an acknowledged benchmark at world level, in a scenery of highly differentiated and constantly growing markets. The world leader in the production of non-refillable closures for spirits and in the production of aluminium closures, Guala is also active in the design and manufacture of PET bottles. A large Italian multinational with a widespread network covering traditional commercial areas and in continuous expansion in emerging markets.4000 employees between managers, professionals and engineers united by the same passion: to safeguard the quality and enhance the image of the leading international brands in alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, wine, oil, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.14 billion closures sold in 100 countries, 4 research centres, 1 technological innovation Center, 27 production plants.Always one step ahead of its customers’ requirements, providing technological knowhow and reliability.
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- Industry: E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- UpSurgeOn — The UpSurgeOn Academy is a hi-tech sequence of virtual and physical technologies designed to support Mental and Manual training and empower cognitive and psychomotor skills of any surgeon.
Creative Thinking Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund for very early-stage ventures, focusing on start-ups and innovative SMEs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $27k–$165k; Pre-Seed $51k–$166k
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Worldz — Thanks to its algorithm, Worldz calculates the economic value of a user’s social popularity (qualitatively and quantitatively). In proportion to this value, it provides a personalized discount, which can be applied in exchange for a social sharing by the user on their Instagram or Facebook profile. This share refers to the brand or productpurchased and the content of the post can be pre-configured by the brand. A user’s social post increases the Brand Awareness and can generate new traffic to the store. This kind of sharing is perceived by the social community as a friend’s advice and not as a promotional activity.
- Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
- The Social Lender — The Social Lender is a peer-to-peer lending business platform that allows applicants to obtain funding from private and institutional investors, in order to support growth and development of their business and their projects, and where lenders can invest in security actively intervening in the Royal Economy.
TIP is an investment-merchant bank focused on medium-sized Italian companies.
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- Industry: Fashion, Software, Textiles
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Series A $5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- didimora — Didimora uses AI to help investors and developers assess and improve real estate assets for renovation and regeneration.
- Planeat.eco — Planeat.eco is the site where you can plan your food shopping in a simple and economical way, starting from the recipes and receiving at home all the ingredients ready for preparation , weighed and divided into compostable containers. They offer their products online.
- Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
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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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $695k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $704k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Anthropos — Assess workforce skills and capabilities with AI readiness workforce assessment tools. Identify gaps, benchmark readiness, and develop teams for AI transformation.
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
- MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $713k–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$37M; Series A $3.3M–$155M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glaut — Glaut is the AI-native platform for market research. Use AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) to collect qualitative insights at scale, with multilingual support, fraud prevention, and real-time analysis.
- Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
- CommerceClarity — CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage.
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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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1k–$1.4M; Series A $5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
- MyEdSpace — MyEdSpace offers high-quality online courses created by experts with tailored resources for KS2 (Year 5/6), KS3 (Year 7-8), GCSE, and A-level students.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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- Industry: Toys, EBooks, Retail
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $62M in 2021
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
dPixel is a venture capital advisor and management consulting firm that finances early stage internet companies.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $305k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$165k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Spain, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Series A $5.4M–$13M; Private Equity $22M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
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.
Banca Patrimoni Sella & C. is the bank of the Sella group in the management and administration of private and institutional client assets.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $571k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vexuvo — Vexuvo develops, builds and operates utility-scale plants for the production and storage of energy from renewable sources. The company focuses on photovoltaic and agrivoltaic projects that combine solar generation with agricultural land use. It manages the full project lifecycle, including land identification, technical design, permitting,financing, construction and long-term operation of assets. Vexuvo works with businesses, investors and local communities to deploy large-scale clean energy infrastructure. Its activities support decarbonization and grid transformation.
- SUNSPEKER — Solar technology for smart mobility solutions. Sunspeker.com realizes new innovative technological products to connect the world and save the planet.
- Gruppo Di Martino — Gruppo Di Martino is an Italian logistics and transportation company
Bank
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Education
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Mival Capital is a private investment company that invests in SMEs' equity through a combination of finance and tech assets.
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- Industry: E-Learning, Generative AI, Corporate Training
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
- Syllog AI — Syllog AI provides solutions that use the most latest generative artificial intelligence technology to revolutionize way firms approach employee retention and growth.
CVC S2 Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, InsurTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $164k–$219k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- E-Plato —
- Taylora — Il modo veloce e sicuro per condividere video lezioni, ebook e corsi con i tuoi clienti.
- TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
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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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, China, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sneaks Up — Sneaks Up is an e-commerce platform for buying branded footwear, apparel for men and women.
- Jakala — JAKALA is a MarTech company driving digital transformation by combining a human-centric touch with data analytics and technology.
- Colossus — Colossus Digital - Spearheading the evolution of Web3 with robust validation services and tailored decentralised solutions.
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
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
- Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
- Eoliann — Eoliann offers a climate risk assessment and prediction API to financial institutions. Our solution leverages satellite data and proprietary ML algorithms to forecast the probability and impact of specific climate risk events
Techaround VC is an investment firm.
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
- Syllog AI — Syllog AI provides solutions that use the most latest generative artificial intelligence technology to revolutionize way firms approach employee retention and growth.
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