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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Italy (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Italy Food and Beverage startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Food and Beverage startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
18 Italy, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $483k–$23M
P101
VC Fund
15 Italy, Spain, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $327k–$15M
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
11 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $55k–$8.2M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
7 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $242k–$14M
CDP Equity
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $177k–$13M
Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia
VC Fund
6 Italy Seed, Angel Software, Food Processing, Food and Beverage $584k–$668k
Innogest Capital
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, Spain Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $1.1M–$32M
Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund
5 United States, Italy, Spain Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology $2.3M–$47M
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund
5 Italy, Turkey, United Arab Emirates Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Energy, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage $71k–$437M
360 Capital
VC Fund
5 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.1M–$33M
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
5 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet $291k–$7.9M
Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
5 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $16k–$2.5B
MEGA Holding
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, RFID, Retail $180k–$2M
Riello Investimenti Partners
VC Fund
4 Italy Series A, Seed, Post-IPO Debt Food and Beverage, Retail, Water $2.7M–$10M
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
4 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $197k–$30M
GELLIFY
VC Fund
4 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $196k–$9.7M
a|impact
VC Fund
4 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Fashion, Wellness $380k–$3.3M
IH1
VC Fund
4 Italy, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note Health Care, Fitness, Wellness $85k–$628k
Picus Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $563k–$34M
Clhub
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed Renewable Energy, Food and Beverage, Android $7.7k–$42k
Farming Future
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Hardware $657k–$2.3M
Synergo Capital
VC Fund
3 Italy, Spain, Germany Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $5.4M–$30M
Invitalia
VC Fund
3 Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$2.1M
Rancilio Cube
VC Fund
3 United States, Italy, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Ithaca Investments
VC Fund
3 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $745k–$155M
United Ventures
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, FinTech $497k–$55M
Club Digitale
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Education $257k–$8.2M
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore
VC Fund
3 Italy, Mexico Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, Information Technology $29k–$841k
Azimut Libera Impresa
VC Fund
3 Italy, France, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, FinTech $1.4M–$25M
HB4
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
Giulio Xiloyannis
Angel
2 Italy, Portugal, Philippines Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Gaming, Online Games, Apps $217k–$4.3M
Luca Foresti
Angel
2 Italy Pre-Seed SaaS, Retail, Nutrition $217k–$5.1M
Federico Menetto
Angel
2 Italy Pre-Seed Retail, Software, Nutrition $556k–$927k
ToSeed & Partners
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Water $657k–$1.3M
CRiF
VC Fund
2 Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain $117k–$16M
Vertis
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $964k–$25M
Doorway Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, France Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace $647k–$7.1M
Enrico Pandian
Angel
2 Italy, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech $870k–$3.8M
B Holding
VC Fund
2 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $120k–$2.4M
Alecla7
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care $727k–$8.2M
Euan Lonmon
Angel
2 Italy, The Netherlands Angel, Seed E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
Oltre Impact
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Consumer Electronics, Pet, Toys $2.8M–$158M
Marco Caradonna
Angel
2 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Angel Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $640k–$1.6M
SAF Venture
VC Fund
2 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel Insurance, E-Commerce, Marketplace $341k–$1.5M
SIMEST
VC Fund
2 Italy, San Marino, Saudi Arabia Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Manufacturing, FinTech, Aerospace $4.1M–$28M
The Techshop
VC Fund
2 Italy, Portugal, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $322k–$120M
Kost Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, France, Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Food Processing, Machine Learning, Apps $486k–$8.1M
Grey Silo Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, Germany, The Netherlands Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed SaaS, AgTech, Biotechnology $2.7M–$28M
Karim Ricciardi
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
Crédit Agricole
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Italy Debt Financing, Seed Energy, Health Care, Software $837k–$1.3B
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 18 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 305
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $652k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $212M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
  • Phononic Vibes — The Art of Noise Management START NOW The Art of Noise Management START NOW Phononic Vibes Technology Working with the MetaMaterial technology, Phononic Vibes
  • 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.
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P101
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 15 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 7 in the past 12 months

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$4.1M; Series A $2.3M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $659k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $265M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorsaf — Biorsaf is an IT company that develops mobile apps and web control panels to assist companies to bring efficiency to their operations.
  • 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
  • Agora Labs — Agora Labs is an Italian medical deep-tech enterprise that provides a secure, decentralized infrastructure for real-time health data sharing and privacy-preserving clinical research. The company solves the fundamental privacy and regulatory bottlenecks in healthcare, allowing researchers, life science corporations, and AI developers to collaborate without exposing sensitive patient information.
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 11 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Club Italia Investimenti 2 (CII2) is a Milan based investment firm specialized in Seed Capital. Started in 2013 by a group of entrepreneurs passionate about innovation, CII2 helps early stage tech-focused businesses grow and increase their value over time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$722k; Pre-Seed $69k–$272k; Venture - Series Unknown $313k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.6M 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 — Paragraph turns your company context into posts, newsletters, social campaigns, and landing pages, then ships the work you approve.
  • 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!
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunity at IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$5.1M; Angel $242k–$987k; Series A $3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
  • Alomana — Alomana is an organization that focuses on harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data analytics to drive insights and innovation across various industries. They offer a range of services, including data analysis, machine learning model development, and AI-driven solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of their clients. Datasparkemphasizes the importance of data-driven decision-making and works closely with businesses to implement strategies that enhance operational efficiency and improve outcomes. With a commitment to advancing the use of AI and data analytics, Dataspark aims to empower organizations to unlock the full potential of their data and stay competitive in a rapidly changing market.
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CDP Equity
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $177k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $230k–$3.6M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gility — Gility is a digital learning platform that collaborates with business schools and training institutions for an effective training offer. Established in 2022, it was supported by CDP Venture Capital and BPER Banca.
  • 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.
  • Valvitalia SpA. — VALVITALIA is a leading group in the field of design, production, and overall supply of equipment and components intended for the petroleum, water, natural gas industries, and petrochemical industry as well as electrical power stations. The group works mainly with valves (core product), actuators, pipe fittings, flanges and systems for measuring,filtering, and regulating fluids and gases and with FireFighting systems. VALVITALIA was set up with the precise objective of becoming the leading Italian group able to offer such a wide range of products and to compete with the large American multinationals that have always dominated this field. This young company has extensive experience in the sector, thanks to its professional management and historical brands in the valve world that have been taken on by the Group, including: ROTOR, DELTA V.E., THEVIGNOT, VANADOUR, VITAS, TORMENE T.G.T. and TECNOFORGE. VALVITALIA has always included safety and respect for the environment and its employees among its priorities.
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Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia
VC Fund · Firenze, Toscana, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia is an independent asset management company founded in Florence in 1998. Active in the Private Equity and Venture Capital sector, it currently manages four closed-end funds for a total value of around 140 million euro and has already carried out numerous operations. in the capital of companies operating in variousindustrial sectors, from the most traditional to high-tech. The mission of SICI is to encourage the development of unlisted SMEs in Central Italy through the contribution of financial resources intended to strengthen their capital and financial structure. SICI intends to represent a Growth Partner for the investee companies and a strategic operator in the creation of value for the territory with an impact on the economic and social fabric in terms of competitiveness of the economic system, employment, entrepreneurial and managerial culture. Business Development Central Italy is an independent Italian managing closed-end funds company. Established in Florence in 1998, SICI has 4 Private Equity and Venture funds under management with a total committed capital of 140m Euros.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $584k–$668k
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recuperiamo srl — Connetti aziende e enti non profit per ridurre lo spreco alimentare e non solo
  • Dora Bruschi 1934 — Dora Bruschi 1934 is a cosmetics company that provides cosmetics, beauty, and make-up products with tailor-made formulas.
  • Gastronomia Toscana — Gastronomia Toscana is a food company that manufactures and supplies a wide range of pre-cooked meals.
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Innogest Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$11M; Series B $2.7M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $95M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
  • Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
  • BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Technologies engage in the research and offers anticancer products.
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Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$47M; Series B $2.8M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Miscusi — Scopri la cucina italiana leggera di Miscusi: piatti autentici, ingredienti freschi e un servizio accogliente. Visita ora.
  • Jellatech — We grow the proteins the human body is built from, at scale, on spec, identical to your own.
  • Poke House — Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Poke House specializes in bowl food that often includes marinated fish that’s cubed and layered up with sticky rice, pickles, noodles, etc.
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Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 20 in the past 12 months

The CDP Group is a joint-stock company that supports economic development through financing and investment. It provides funding for public infrastructure, businesses, and strategic projects in key sectors such as energy, transportation, and digital innovation. CDP also invests in venture capital, private equity, and sustainable initiatives to foster long-term growth. The institution works with governments, financial entities, and enterprises to promote economic stability and innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $71k–$489k; Post-IPO Debt $12M–$437M; Debt Financing $4.7M–$288M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • SITE — SITE is a Telecommunication firm that offers solutions for intelligent management, renewable energy, energy-saving and railway safety.
  • Grissitalia — Grissitalia focuses on the field of industrial bread making. They are present with our brands and private labels at both the large-scale distribution and discount channels.
  • ETG — ETG, established in 1967, is one of the largest and fastest growing integrated agricultural conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa, importing and exporting soft commodities to and from 48 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa. It also has supply chain operations in China, India, America, Middle East, andSouth East Asia; merchandising desks in Europe, and; treasury companies in Singapore, Mauritius and UAE. Globally, ETG is present across 48 countries. ETG runs its business under five business verticals: 1. Fertilizer and Farm Inputs: ETG is one of the largest importers and distributors of fertilizers and farm inputs in sub-saharan africa 2. Cash traded products: Pulses, Sesame seed, Cashew and Rice are key commodities in this vertical. ETG is the world largest trader and processor of Pulses as well as world largest trader for raw cashew nuts. 3. Exchange traded commodities: Grains & oilseeds, sugar, coffee, cocoa, maize and soybean are key products in this segment. ETG is one of the major players for maize and soybean in sub-shara africa 4. Consumer Branded (Vamara): ETG operates multiple processing plants across 14 countries to manufacture products that are targeted to African consumers. ETG has 22 brands in its portfolio that offers products from vegetable cooking oil, condiments, and spreads, etc. 5. Logistics: ETG operates a very successful and integrated Logistics platform. ETG has a network of more than 400+ warehouses across 32 countries and a fleet of more than 900 trucks. ETG provided end-to-end Logistics services across sub-Sahara Africa.
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 17 in the past 12 months

As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
  • BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
  • Photon Bridge — Photon Bridge develops multi-wavelength digital light engines and photonic integration platforms for dense wavelength division multiplexing in data center and telecom optics. The company focuses on external laser sources, tunable laser assemblies, and transmit optical sub-assemblies for co-packaged optics, optical I/O, and high-density optical interconnects. Photon Bridge uses a patented cantilever waveguide and photonics interposer approach to integrate III–V light sources with silicon photonics using OSAT-based manufacturing flows. Its architectures target high channel density, wavelength stability, and simplified packaging for AI data centers, hyperscale cloud, and high-performance computing infrastructure. Photon Bridge also designs scalable photonic integration solutions that support applications in lidar, spectral sensing, and next-generation PIC-based optical systems.
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $291k–$2.8M; Series A $6M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% 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 creates sustainable construction materials from organic waste from the rice industry to create natural building materials such as rice straws, husks, and chaff. Their products include insulating panels, base plasters, screeds and subfloors, cladding systems, and vertical matt-closing components. The goal of Ricehouse is to construct ahouse made entirely of rice and everything that houses humans, from the smallest to the largest scales.
  • 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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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Apri il conto in pochi minuti e scegli il piano adatto a te.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $16k–$2.8M; Post-IPO Debt $112M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $2.7M–$1000M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Windrose Holding — Windrose Holding S.r.l. operates as a dedicated special-purpose sub-holding company that indirectly manages a clean energy asset portfolio with a combined capacity of approximately 157 MW. The entity focuses on the financial optimization, operation, and strategic refinancing of established onshore wind farms and solar photovoltaic plants. It functions as the direct borrowing vehicle for institutional utility-scale grid financing, utilizing structured corporate credit lines like green loans. The company is structured to absorb and manage wholesale merchant risk on its mixed asset portfolio once state-backed tariff incentives expire.
  • Special Car Group — Special Car Group is a car dealership that specializes in the selling of new and used automobiles.
  • Mater Private hospital — Mater Private are proud to offer some of the most technologically advanced treatment options in the country and have pioneered many major developments in the delivery of healthcare in Ireland.Their team of over 300 leading consultants bring their patients from all over the country to their facilities with the highest confidence in the standard ofcare they can offer.
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MEGA Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

MEGA holding is a company founded in July 2017 in Milan. The corporate objective is to invest the shareholder's funds in acquisitions of major or minor shares of other companies operating in the food sector: companies that have a strong potential growth which needs to be boosted and an innovative business model. MEGA holding operates bysupporting the companies in which it has invested by bringing in specialised services and useful points of contact with other businesses, creating synergies between the various companies with the objective of maximising the growth process.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, RFID, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chef in Camicia — Chef in Camicia is an Italian web channel dedicated to the cooking world. Every day on our social network we broadcast new videos about the world of food. There are three Chef in Camicia’s: young and creative they interpret the culinary art in their own personal way; Nicolò has a refined and open approach to the use of exotic and unconventionalingredients, giving a fusion touch to his dishes. Lello puts in every recipe a home-made and authentic spirit, his sandwiches are legendary, tasty and rich in colors and flavors, his respect for tradition never lacks in his dishes. Andrea is our gourmet chef, his experience in Michelin - starred restaurants leads him to seek excellence in every preparation, providing interesting advice, especially for our most attentive and demanding users. The production steadily grows day by day offering new formats and special guests across our channels. The production grows on our channels by providing everyday new formats and presenting special guests. All you need to do is to keep on following us and commenting on our videos, because as everybody knows, for us Italians nothing is more important than food.
  • This is Not a Sushi Bar — Thisisnotasushibar is the main chain of Take Away & Delivery Sushi restaurants in Milan. THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE Everything we do is inspired by value and creating quality relationships with their customers. "What's raining, snowing or getting sick, I swear I'll be on time" says one of their customers in one ofthe most beautiful reviews they've received. They are incurable optimists and try with their work to make better the lives of those who work with us or to us, trying to improve with every little daily action. They do this by preparing the best sushi possible, allowing the customer to order it in the most enjoyable way, serving it in the most comfortable way, in the most captivating packaging trying to improve continuously. They prepare sushi and bring it to you wherever you want.
  • Museum of Future Experiences (MoFE) — MoFE is a venue in Brooklyn, NY for immersive storytelling that uses Virtual Reality and spatialized sound design. MoFE productions are seated, ticketed shows that feel like a refreshing headtrip, induced technologically.
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Riello Investimenti Partners
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Riello Investimenti is a private equity investment firm. The firm prefers to invest in Italian small and medium enterprises within the manufacturing, healthcare, energy, media, and logistics sectors. It was founded in 2001 and is based in Milan, Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Retail, Water
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8.1M; Series A $5.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecogest — Leader in Italia nella manutenzione del verde su strade e autostrade. Affidati al migliore e scopri tutti i servizi a disposizione!
  • VINHOOD — VINHOOD understands consumers’ tastes and recommends products that are more suitable for them, providing a “tailor-made” solution with a fun process and simple language. They drive consumers’ choices while at the same time transforming them into brand advocates!
  • Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 400+ 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 by investing capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience. Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $197k–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $204k–$1.9M; Series A $889k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
  • Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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GELLIFY
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$9.7M; Series A $1.8M–$6M; Venture - Series Unknown $589k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BizAway — BizAway is the corporate travel management platform trusted by 2,000+ companies worldwide. Simplify business travel booking, policy compliance, and expense management with smart technology and 24/7 real human support.
  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.
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a|impact
VC Fund · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

a|impact invests in the prevailing form of equity or quasi-equity, focusing our operations mainly on companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fashion, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $380k–$1.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $418k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Id.Eight — D.EIGHT is a brand of eco-friendly sneakers produced from food industry waste and recycled material.
  • AmaliaCare — AmaliaCare is a socially conscious company that gives a new perspective to the world of aged care. AmaliaCare are the premier digital employment agency, specializing in profiling the ideal domestic workers using cutting-edge technology for families seeking dependable assistance for loved ones who are no longer self-sufficient.
  • HARG - Healthy Aging Research Group — HARG researches, develops, and markets dehydrated food preparations with modified textures. The company ensures nutritional principles are the same or even enhanced when compared to those of a typical meal by using only natural ingredients. The R&D activity done in collaboration with the University of Genoa ensures scientific efficacy. HARGseeks to enhance the health and wellbeing of those who struggle with swallowing.
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IH1
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

IH1 is company that invest in the startups created by Mamazen Startup Studio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $85k–$628k; Pre-Seed $109k–$219k; Convertible Note $158k–$618k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deeva — deeva is an online platform for booking home hairdressers.
  • Pelomatto — Pelo Matto offers dog grooming services that are both comfortable and soothing for dogs.
  • Balanced — Un nutrizionista online dedicato che legge il tuo diario e ti risponde ogni giorno. Piano personalizzato, supporto costante su WhatsApp. Primo colloquio gratuito.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 454
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Pre-Seed $563k–$4.5M; Series A $3.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • Lightbase — An always up-to-date view of your entire IT ecosystem for faster decisions and confident transformation at scale
  • Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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Clhub
VC Fund · Capoterra, Sardegna, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Clhub is an international venture incubator focused on sectors clean, agri, loT and digital specialised in the creation, incubation, cash seed investment and acceleration of startups with a clear, scalable and sustainable business model.The principal headquarters are localised in Capoterra (Cagliari), Santa Monica (California, USA) and otheroffices in Milan.Clhub aims to develop qualified startups throughout the country, for this, alongside startups with an incubation program that starts from the idea and design to the market launch.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Food and Beverage, Android
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $7.7k–$42k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autentico — Autentico offers NFC tagging solutions to validate brand authenticity and prevent counterfeiting.
  • Namastree — Namastree is specialized in the design and manufacture of industrial automation, drones, androids, remote access systems and autonomous multifunctional energy systems. It also offers multifunctional systems to suit different contexts, it's also capable of delivering public utilities as well as capable robotic technologies that can operate in ahostile environment not accessible to man.
  • Milk Brick — Milk Brick is an Innovative Startup that produces patented eco-organic milk fiber bricks. It recovers the waste milk from the Dairy Industry and the waste milk from the GDO and transforms it into a new second raw material to be used in the industrial production of hundreds of products for the construction industry. Milk Brick enhances 100% of therecovered milk without generating production residues. Its products have a continuous life cycle, they are 100% recyclable.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ossi, Italy.
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Farming Future
VC Fund · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Farming Future is the national technology transfer hub founded on the initiative of CDP venture capital in partnership with toseed and partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $657k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aflabox — Aflabox is a grain-screening box. It images a sample under white and ultraviolet light and assesses it kernel by kernel, on site, with results in your dashboard.
  • Biorsaf — Biorsaf is an IT company that develops mobile apps and web control panels to assist companies to bring efficiency to their operations.
  • ACTIVE LABEL — ACTIVE LABEL is a label on which a film containing one milligram of silicate or fluorohalide powder is applied. With this label, it enables checking whether the optimal storage temperature range has been respected during transport/storage, and thus certifies the quality and safety of the packaged product, also allowing to recalculate theexpiry date of the asset.
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Synergo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$13M; Private Equity $26M–$30M
  • 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 — Meetups, hackathons, training tours and conferences for developers and tech leaders.
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Invitalia
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support the investment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $468k–$2M; Grant $20k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $187k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NEOCAD — NEOCAD is a software company that provides generative artificial intelligence solutions for CAD design processes.
  • ReneSys ENERGY — Next Generation Battery Technology and Manufacturing
  • Ganiga.ai — Ganiga is an innovative startup in the Cleantech and Circular Economy sector, known for patenting and inventing a smart waste bin derived from materials recovered from decommissioned wind turbine blades from Enel Green Power. This integration of open innovation with the circular economy allows for autonomous waste separation using AI, generatingstatistics and data on waste types and quantities. The system notifies and plans optimized waste collection routes, reducing personnel costs and pollution associated with waste collection.Key Features of Ganiga's Solution:AI-Based Waste Sorting: The core of Ganiga's solution lies in its artificial intelligence technology, enabling automated waste recycling. Machine learning algorithms recognize and separate various waste materials, enhancing recycling process efficiency.Smart Waste Bins: Ganiga's intelligent waste bins are equipped with sensors and technology to identify and categorize waste as it is disposed of. Real-time data collection enables precise waste management and optimization.Data-Driven Waste Insights: The system gathers data on waste disposal patterns, providing detailed insights into consumer behavior, waste production trends, and recycling rates. This data-driven approach assists municipalities and businesses in making informed decisions.Customizable Waste Management: Ganiga's solution can be tailored to meet diverse waste management needs, whether in urban areas, public spaces, or corporate settings. The technology adapts to various environments and waste flows.Promoting Sustainability: Ganiga's solution encourages sustainable waste disposal practices, increasing recycling rates and diverting more materials from landfills, contributing to a greener and more environmentally friendly future.Seamless Integration: Ganiga's system seamlessly integrates with existing waste management infrastructure, simplifying adoption for municipalities and organizations without significant disruptions.Remote Monitoring: The solution's remote monitoring capabilities allow real-time tracking of waste bin statuses, optimizing waste collection routes and schedules, reducing costs, and minimizing environmental impact.This innovative startup's focus on AI-driven waste management and sustainability aligns with global efforts to address environmental challenges. Ganiga's commitment to reducing waste, enhancing recycling, and providing efficient waste management solutions positions it as a key player in shaping a more sustainable and environmentally conscious future.
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Rancilio Cube
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from brokers across the nation.
  • FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.
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Ithaca Investments
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $745k–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Series A $3.3M–$155M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
  • Complaion — Complaion is a compliance technology company that provides software and professional services for regulatory compliance and management system certifications. Its platform helps companies manage certification processes, including gap assessments, policies and procedures, controls, evidence, internal audits, and certification renewals. The company supports standards and regulations such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 13485, ISO 37001, NIS2, and GDPR. Complaion also provides dedicated Lead Auditor support throughout certification and compliance processes. Its services include employee training, Data Protection Officer support, data protection impact assessments, penetration testing, and compliance-related funding assistance. The platform provides monitoring, audit management, document and evidence management, risk management, and compliance tracking capabilities. Complaion serves small and medium-sized businesses across industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, construction, logistics, professional services, food, and information technology.
  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $497k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$15M; Series B $11M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $166M 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.
  • Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
  • Beelzebub — Validate exploitable paths, detect attacker movement, and turn threat artifacts into governed, response-ready evidence with Beelzebub.
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Club Digitale
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

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 acquires holdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $257k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $521k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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!
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Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

FSVGDA aims at the promotion of the impact investing culture, in order to facilitate social innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $205k–$603k; Venture - Series Unknown $29k–$841k
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • C.NEXT — C.NEXT develops innovation projects for businesses and organizations by supporting the economy and territorial regeneration.
  • Vivavoce — Vivavoce supports a team of neurologists, neuropsychologists, and physiotherapists, developing an innovative approach. They offer treatment for stuttering, for which they offer a rehabilitation path based on the MRM-S method. They treat people suffering from stuttering, problems related to voice and language, and the psychological andemotional-behavioral sphere.
  • Way Experience — Way Experience operates in all the entertainment B2C sectors, using augmented and virtual reality technology. They also work in the B2B area by applying their technologies for customized consultancy projects in the following sectors: design, fashion, medical, events, and training.
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Azimut Libera Impresa
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Azimut Libera Impresa is an investment company for both retail and institutional investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, France, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$8.2M; Series A $1.4M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
  • Webidoo — Scopri il Webidoo AI Operating System per il Business, il layer operativo che potenzia le imprese e guida l'innovazione tecnologica nel B2B.
  • 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.
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HB4
VC Fund · Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

HB4 is a family owned business operating in the industrial, real estate, automotive and interior design sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Giulio Xiloyannis
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Online Games, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Portugal, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $217k–$927k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GLHF — GLHF is a crypto-native game studio founded by industry veterans. The studio is known for its deflationary NFT collection, GLHFers, on the Ethereum mainnet, and for its Gigaverse ROM collection on Abstract.
  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
  • Blade of God X — Blade of God X provides cross-platform play as an optimum medium and way of interaction between people and the virtual world.
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Luca Foresti
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Luca Foresti is the CEO at Santagostino. Luca Foresti attended The University of Pisa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Nutrition
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $217k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
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Federico Menetto
Angel · Padua, Veneto, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Federico Menetto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, Nutrition
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $556k–$927k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
  • 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.
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ToSeed & Partners
VC Fund · Siena, Toscana, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Toseed Venture Capital of the CDP network, created by Luigi Galimberti and Giovanni Ferri, supports innovative projects in Agrifood tech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Water
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $657k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aflabox — Aflabox develops food contaminant detection devices utilizing NIR spectroscopy and advanced image processing that uses AI analysis.
  • Yeastime — Yeastime's value proposition is its innovative retrofitting ultrasound technology, which accelerates fermentation by up to 30%. This groundbreaking approach not only boosts efficiency but also represents a significant leap forward in food technology, setting Yeastime apart as a true pioneer in the field.
  • VisioNing — VisioNing is a cleantech company that offers proprietary technology solutions for treatment and valorization of agro-industrial wastewater.
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CRiF
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$9.8M; Pre-Seed $117k–$612k; Series A $1.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
  • Agrobit — Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed.
  • Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
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Vertis
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Capitali e competenze per accelerare l'innovazione. Attraverso fondi di investimento chiusi investiamo in startup, scaleup e PMI innovative

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $964k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $49M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Clastix — Clastix is an enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure company, purpose-built to solve the operational challenges that emerge when Kubernetes runs at scale: cluster sprawl, fragile multi-tenancy, and the mounting cost of over-provisioned hardware and memory. The company's breakthrough is architectural. By combining hosted control planes with hard multi-tenancy, Clastix enables telcos, cloud providers, MSPs, and platform teams to run many isolated Kubernetes environments more efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively than traditional approaches allow. Clastix was founded by engineers who understood these pain points from direct experience running Kubernetes in production. That same commitment to quality engineering runs through everything the company builds – an approach shaped as much by Italian engineering tradition as by technical rigour. The result is infrastructure software that is functional, elegant, and highly scalable. The company's open source credentials are equally strong. Clastix donated Capsule to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, co-founded Cloud Native Days Italy, and continues to evolve Kamaji – contributing not just code, but community and standards to the broader Kubernetes ecosystem. Clastix's platform is trusted by customers including NVIDIA and Mistral AI – organisations that operate some of the most demanding and innovation-intensive infrastructure environments in the world. Their confidence is a direct measure of what the platform can handle. Headquartered in Naples, Italy, with customers and partners across cloud, data centre, edge, and AI infrastructure globally, Clastix is where world-class engineering meets the real operational complexity of modern Kubernetes at scale.
  • Tiledesk — Boost customer engagement with Tiledesk. Discover our conversational automation ready to use. Personalized experiences, improved conversion and retention.
  • Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
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Doorway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Doorway Capital is an independent provider of risk capital to law firms. It offers facilities of between £50,000 and £20 million to firms authorized by the SRA to practice law in England and Wales. These facilities can be used to fund disbursements, acquisitions, lock-up, tax liabilities, or anything else. It also purchases paid disbursements fromlaw firms for up to 80% of their face value. These means capital earning little or no return can be redeployed into more profitable activities of the firm or returned to its partners.Doorway Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.9M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $647k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • Smartness — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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Enrico Pandian
Angel · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Enrico Pandian is the Co-Founder and CEO of StartupGym and the Founder of FrescoFrigo. He previously worked at Checkout Technologies as a Co-Founder and President of the Board. Enrico Pandian attended the University of Verona.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $870k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pillar — Il sistema operativo per l'edilizia del futuro: dove innovazione, finanza e tecnologia si incontrano. Prenota il tuo appuntamento e trasforma la tua impresa edile
  • Quisto — On Quisto, Ho.Re.Ca. retailers can find the best suppliers in their area and purchase 24/7 whatever they need for their business --> www.quisto.it
  • CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
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B Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

B Holding is an industrial holding that wants to establish itself as a reference player for innovation in Italy, investing and supporting the best business projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $776k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$712k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • sykell — sykell developing scalable and sustainable packaging and pooling solutions for retail, gastronomy and catering industry.
  • This Unique — This Unique offers innovative solutions for feminine hygiene needs in both the B2C and B2B sectors. For consumers, we provide convenient subscription boxes delivering eco-friendly menstrual products right to their doorstep, ensuring they have access to high-quality essentials whenever they need them. In the B2B realm, we specialize in installingstate-of-the-art dispensers in corporate restrooms, offering businesses a hassle-free way to provide their employees with complimentary menstrual products. Our mission is to promote sustainability, inclusivity, and well-being, both at home and in the workplace.
  • Barberino's - Benessere Italiano — We are an Italian independent men's grooming company. We operates a classic though stylish barber shop chain with an Italian soul in Milan, Rome, Padova and Brescia. Our award-winning Barber Shops recreates places where the gestures, the rituals and the habits behind men's grooming are honored while updated with modern attitude. Ourbarbers are top skilled and carefully trained. We focus on high quality haircuts, beard trims and hot towel wet shave with the mission to offer a relaxing grooming experience. We use and sell exclusively our own products, entirely designed, developed and packaged in Italy by an expert group of artisans, chemists and designers that represent the ultimate Italian excellence. Our product line is the result of our years of on-the-ground experience and hundred of thousands of haircuts and bear trims. We know not only what our customers need but also what our customers wants. The cosmetics are characterized by high performance formulas enriched with the most advanced active ingredients (such as plant stem cells) that are extracted from natural sources. The accessories are entirely handmade using the most precious natural materials, such as horn or wengé wood, according to the most elegant Italian design principles. We offer a 360° customer experience which starts in our store with our barbers and which continue at home with our products!
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Alecla7
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Alecla7 is a private investment firm which mainly focuses on early-stage VC opportunities

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $727k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • Computis — Computis is an AI company offering software solutions for electronic invoicing, bank reconciliation, tax estimation, and billing services.
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Euan Lonmon
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Long years at the helm of transport and tourism companies, (Corsica Ferries, Nouvelles Frontiéres Reseau, Stradeblu) Deep insight in european cultures and languages, have found interest and pleasure in founding, mentoring and sponsoring start-up businesses in very diverse fields. Chairman of Restopolis , sold to La Fourchette, Tripadvisor in october 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pneusmart — Pneusmart is a pan-european tyre retailer. It has offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy and is growing fast in all markets. Pneusmart provides an innovative solution to source tyres for both cars, vans and motorcycles. It provides a full service experience to consumers, delivering tyres to stations in its vast fitting network to ensure asmooth customer experience. The company is expanding fast into a complete car service solution.
  • Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato.
  • restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
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Oltre Impact
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

We shape impact investing for people and planet

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Electronics, Pet, Toys
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$5.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.9M–$158M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippy — Kippy Europe: GPS trackers for dogs & cats. Real-time location, activity tracking & health monitoring. Keep your pet safe across Europe.
  • 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
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Marco Caradonna
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $640k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoVolt — GoVolt is an innovative startup providing sustainable last mile logistics solutions. The company was born to address the challenge of mobility in modern urban centres and aims to differentiate its service offering within the market while solving a crucial issue for today’s and future generations. The company operates four separate business units:custom B2B delivery services, coroporate dedicated vehicle fleet rentals, third party micro-mobility fleet logistical management and specialized mechatronic maintenance.
  • METACASA — La piattaforma all-in-one per agenzie immobiliari. Automatizza marketing, compliance e sales con l'Agentic AI.
  • Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning platform that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs. Acadèmia.tv's teachers are among the most illustrious exponents of this world, and through their courses, they transmit recipes and philosophies accumulated over time. Acadèmia.tv's mission is to make cooking more inclusiveand accessible to all.
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SAF Venture
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

We are seed and early-stage equity investors who mainly focus on high tech start-up businesses, with openings for other investments considered interesting. We do offer expertise, business management experience and contacts in addition to funding when the projects are beginning and are still in the market research or development stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Insurance, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $341k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeldo — Unlocking exclusive access to Real Estate deals for professional investors
  • Shampora — Shampora creates hyper-personalized hair products
  • PrestaCap — PrestaCap is a marketplace lender serving small businesses in Europe. Through our website, we provide them with direct access to capital from retail and institutional investors in a fast and convenient way.We are the first truly pan-European marketplace lender for small businesses. E.g. An investor in England can easily lend money to a Germancompany. This means small business borrowers have access to a deep pool of capital, and investors can easily achieve diversification.We are not a bank, our solution is much simpler and allows investors to lend directly to small businesses meaning lower fees and better terms for both.
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SIMEST
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 7 in the past 12 months

SIMEST is a financial firm focused on the development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad. Simest acquires up to 49% of the equity capital of foreign firms in countries outside the European Union, whether wholly-owned by Italian companies or set up as joint ventures with local partners. It also provides start-up and growth capital financing as well as participating in buyouts. Geographically it invests in non-EU countries, focusing on BRIC, Americas and Middle-East. Simest also provides Italian companies seeking to internationalize their businesses with technical assistance and advisory services. Simest is a member of the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and the Italian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (AIFI).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, FinTech, Aerospace
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, San Marino, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$17M; Series B $12M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.7M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Phononic Vibes — The Art of Noise Management START NOW The Art of Noise Management START NOW Phononic Vibes Technology Working with the MetaMaterial technology, Phononic Vibes
  • EIS Wire and Cable — EIS Wire and Cable specializes in manufacturing a wide range of custom design and standard construction products-from single conductor hook-up wire to complex multi conductor, composite cables.
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The Techshop
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 7 in the past 12 months

The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Portugal, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $322k–$37M; Series A $7.7M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SimpL — SimpL is an Italy-based AI sales-intelligence and prospecting platform for B2B sales teams. It researches target companies, identifies relevant buying signals, drafts personalised LinkedIn outreach, manages follow-ups, and helps generate qualified sales meetings.
  • Computis — Computis is an AI company offering software solutions for electronic invoicing, bank reconciliation, tax estimation, and billing services.
  • Helix Robotics — We are building the first commercial soft manipulator
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Kost Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Kost Capital is a venture capital fund backing the visionary entrepreneurs creating ingredients and enablers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food Processing, Machine Learning, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, France, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $486k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nutrumami — Nutrumami is multi-functional plant proteins for taste, texture, and nutrition in all-in-one solutions to reduce the need for excessive additives or animal proteins.
  • Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
  • Amass Technologies — Amass Technologies researches and develops productivity through AI and machine learning tools.
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Grey Silo Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Corporate Venture Capital of Cereal Docks Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$10M; Series B $17M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NoMaze — At NoMaze we believe data should bring answers, not questions, therefore we build intuitive data understanding tools to help experts get new insights from their existing data.
  • Aardaia — Inventing new crops from 400 million years of evolution, starting with the aardaker.
  • Revyve — This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.
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Karim Ricciardi
Angel · Pavia, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Karim Ricciardi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Crédit Agricole
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Credit Agricole is a banking corporation with focuses on corporate and investment banking, retail banking, and savings management. Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, helpful bank serving 49 million customers, 7.4 million mutual shareholders, and 1.2 million shareholders. Crédit Agricole Group supports its customers in their plans and projectsin France and around the world, through its operations in all segments of the market including insurance, real estate, payment systems, asset management, leasing and factoring, consumer finance, and corporate and investment banking. Crédit Agricole also stands out for its dynamic, innovative corporate social responsibility policy serving the economy. This policy is based on a pragmatic approach that permeates throughout the entire Group and engages all its employees. Its recent inclusion in the Vigeo-NYSE Euronext extra-financial indices is recognition of this engagement.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $837k–$6M; Debt Financing $2.1M–$1.3B
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

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  • Bohr Energy — Bohr Energy is an artificial intelligence firm that aims to make the energy market accessible to independent producers.
  • Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma develops off-the-shelf, next-generation in vivo immunotherapies designed to unlock the immune response against solid tumors.
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Food and Beverage Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 273 deals from 292 investors.

292
investors
in Italy Food and Beverage startups
273
deals
in Italy Food and Beverage startups
$1.2M
median round
in Italy Food and Beverage startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
26%
Seed
most common funding stage
79/21
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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