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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Italy (June 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
14 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $494k–$17M
P101
VC Fund
13 Italy, Spain, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $236k–$15M
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
11 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $55k–$576k
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $219k–$14M
Innogest Capital
VC Fund
5 Italy, United States, Spain Series A, Series B Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $1.1M–$29M
Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
5 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy $299k–$2.5B
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
5 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Apps $219k–$7.7M
United Ventures
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $274k–$18M
GELLIFY
VC Fund
4 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $181k–$9M
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
4 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology $197k–$19M
360 Capital
VC Fund
4 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$22M
Azimut Libera Impresa
VC Fund
3 Italy, France, Switzerland Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage $1.4M–$14M
Invitalia
VC Fund
3 Italy, Sweden Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $22k–$2M
Rancilio Cube
VC Fund
3 United States, Italy, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Riello Investimenti Partners
VC Fund
3 Italy Series A, Seed, Private Equity Food and Beverage, Water, Bakery $2.7M–$10M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $549k–$33M
Ithaca Investments
VC Fund
3 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $713k–$155M
Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund
3 United States, Italy, Spain Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology $2.2M–$47M
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund
3 Italy, Turkey, Spain Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech $71k–$437M
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment $189k–$549k
Indico Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Portugal, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
Luca Foresti
Angel
2 Italy Pre-Seed SaaS, Retail, Nutrition $238k–$5.2M
Federico Menetto
Angel
2 Italy Pre-Seed Retail, Software, Nutrition $556k–$927k
CDP Equity
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A SaaS, Beauty, Events $2.7M–$4M
CRiF
VC Fund
2 Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain $122k–$9M
Farming Future
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Hardware $657k–$2.3M
3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $71k–$2.5M
ToSeed & Partners
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Water $657k–$1.3M
Kost Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, France, Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Food Processing, Machine Learning, Apps $494k–$8.1M
Marco Caradonna
Angel
2 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Angel Advertising, PaaS, SaaS $1.2M–$1.6M
Synergo Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, Spain, Germany Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software $5.5M–$27M
UniCredit
VC Fund
2 Italy, Germany, Spain Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy $521k–$1.4B
Primo Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Aerospace, Information Technology $329k–$28M
Andrea Torlonia
Angel
2 Italy Series A, Convertible Note Food and Beverage, Big Data, Food Delivery
dPixel
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce $100k–$1.1M
Doorway Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, France Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage $1.5M–$6.9M
Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Travel, Medical
Alecla7
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Advice, Retail, Grocery $1.3M–$8.2M
Giulio Xiloyannis
Angel
2 Italy, Portugal, Philippines Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Gaming, Online Games, Apps $238k–$4.3M
Moffu Labs
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Human Resources, E-Commerce, Information Technology $206k–$2.3M
Crédit Agricole
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Italy Debt Financing, Seed Energy, Health Care, Software $768k–$1.3B
B Holding
VC Fund
2 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Retail, E-Commerce, Internet $120k–$2.1M
Andera Partners
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Germany Series B, Private Equity Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $14M–$247M
Principia SGR
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $329k–$7.7M
Euan Lonmon
Angel
2 Italy, The Netherlands Angel, Seed E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
Enrico Pandian
Angel
2 Italy, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech $878k–$3.8M
Vertis
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Computer, E-Commerce $823k–$10M
Francesco MuttiMutti
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods
Lifegate Way
VC Fund
1 Italy Medical, Women's, Nutrition
Oltre Impact
VC Fund
1 Italy, United Kingdom Series A Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 14 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 244
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$8.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M 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 .
  • Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
  • 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 · 13 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 8 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
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
  • A-Cube — A-Cube is a software company that provides digital solutions to exchange documents with government agencies.
  • Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 11 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $110k–$219k
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.9M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
  • Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
  • La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 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 opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$5.9M; Angel $219k–$1.2M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
  • Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
  • Alomana
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Innogest Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 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, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$11M; Series B $2.7M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $99M 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.
  • Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
  • BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Therapeutics develops innovative targeted cancer therapy solutions using its proprietary YntraDose technology for nuclear medicine.
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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 22 in the past 12 months

Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $130M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.3B; Convertible Note $299k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NextGeo
  • Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
  • EuroGroup Laminations — We develop and produce stators and rotors solutions for the energy transition, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and sustainability on a global scale.
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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, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$1.9M; Series A $6M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
  • Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 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
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
  • Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
  • Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
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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
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $181k–$9M; Series A $878k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
  • BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 2000 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
  • 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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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $197k–$7.6M; Series A $889k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Largix — Largix is the first company to develop and commercially produce 3D Robotic Printers for real production processes. We have invented the "Cold 3D Printing®" technology that makes 3DP possible for real industrial production. Largix uses the most common thermoplastic polymers: Polypropylene and Polyethylene, polymers that nobody else iscapable of printing.
  • Spacest.com By Roomless — Rent directly online with Roomless, the safe and simple platform for those looking for a house for rent.
  • Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

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, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • NOC Energy — NOC Energy facilitates the decarbonization of industrial heating without producing any carbon emissions.
  • Sinergy Flow — We are developing a redox flow battery based on earth abundant and low-cost material which is fully compliant with the Circular Economy principles.
  • Innoviz Technologies — A leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms.
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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, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$8.2M; Series A $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Webidoo — We provide the digital tools and advanced that big businesses use, but built and designed so they can be easily utilized by local independent business owners. webidoo is dedicated to partnering with local businesses. We’re here to give the solutions you need to connect with customers, wherever they may be. Our clients include businesses of everytype: restaurants, attorneys, builders, doctors, delicatessens, electricians and many others. We can provide solutions that allow companies to connect with their customers, real and potential, like never before. We’re all about supporting local businesses. And we feel good about that.
  • SylloTips — SylloTips is an all-in-one knowledge sharing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to optimize the circulation of skills and knowledge among all employees in a company
  • 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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Invitalia
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $532k–$2M; Grant $22k–$735k; Debt Financing $212k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LexDo.it — LexDo.it provides Affordable Legal Services Online.
  • Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.
  • Totally Innovation — Totally Innovation is a software company developing artificial intelligence based music management platform and creates license-free music.
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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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Riello Investimenti Partners
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 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, Water, Bakery
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8.1M; Series A $5.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Finapp — Finapp is an innovative startup that produces a new generation of CRNS probes that allow measuring the water content. Water in the ground, then soil moisture, water out of the ground, then in the biomass, water in the snow, then snow water equivalent. The applications are really many, such as the research of water losses along aqueducts,hydrological and hydraulic modeling, estimates of hydroelectric energy but mainly agricultural ones.
  • Bevy — Bevy is a startup that brings water, beverages and bulky products to consumers' homes.
  • Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 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: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 341
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.5M; Series A $3.7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Solarize — Solarize provides SaaS for energy production, distribution and billing for commercial microgrids.
  • D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.
  • Lightbase — Plan, align, and ship complex projects faster. Lightbase maps your architecture across services and hands agents the full context to make safe, coordinated changes.
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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: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$38M; Series A $3.3M–$155M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glaut — Glaut is the AI-native platform for market research. Use AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) to collect qualitative insights at scale, with multilingual support, fraud prevention, and real-time analysis.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • CommerceClarity — CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage.
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Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 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
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$47M; Series B $2.6M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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 — Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin.
  • 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 · 3 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 15 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 tofoster 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, CleanTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Turkey, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $71k–$439k; Post-IPO Debt $12M–$437M; Debt Financing $5.9M–$368M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Algorithmiq — Algorithmiq utilizes its expertise in quantum information, complex systems, and computational physics to develop algorithms to develop new and effective drugs, solve problems in life sciences, and discover new materials.
  • EuroGroup Laminations — We develop and produce stators and rotors solutions for the energy transition, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and sustainability on a global scale.
  • Aviapartner Handling SpA — Aviapartner Handling is the European provider of airport ground handling services. Aviapartner Handling is the subsidiary of Aviapartner.
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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: Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $189k–$549k
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • C.NEXT — C.NEXT develops innovation projects for businesses and organizations by supporting the economy and territorial regeneration.
  • 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.
  • Istituto De Filippi — L'Istituto Alberghiero De Filippi a Varese propone due diverse offerte formative: la Scuola Superiore e i percorsi di Alta Specializzazione.
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Indico Capital Partners
VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Indico Capital Partners is the leading independent Venture Capital firm in Portugal investing in global technology companies. Indico focuses on software as a service, artificial intelligence, internet of things, fintech, cybersecurity and digital companies, targeting investments at Seed to Series A level. Founded in 2017, the team at Indico werepreviously behind the majority of the Portuguese global tech success stories, as investors and entrepreneurs.Headed by the two most senior former Caixa Capital VC Team members, supported by a successful and experienced entrepreneur and a strong group of advisors, top entrepreneurs, they raised our first fund (authorized by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission - CMVM) from a cornerstone institutional investor (EIF) and international family/multi-family offices from Europe, US, and Australia. In addition to Silicon Valley, London, and Berlin, cities like Lisbon have emerging startup ecosystems. Portugal went through a difficult macro environment years ago which led to a growth in the entrepreneurship culture and investment. We have excellent tech graduates and a global mindset.Highly innovative companies like luxury eCommerce platform Farfetch, YC graduate machine learning translation platform Unbabel or the leading student accommodation marketplace Uniplaces have a strong Portuguese DNA and went to raise international rounds in the UK and the US - we want to back the next success stories of the ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Portugal, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FRVR — FRVR brings captivating games to billions of players instantly.
  • Indie Campers — Indie Campers offers adventurers the opportunity to start their journey in one location and end it in any of our other depots, while delivering an outstanding customer service for a unique and unforgettable experience.
  • Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.
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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 $238k–$5.2M
  • 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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CDP Equity
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 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: SaaS, Beauty, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
  • Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
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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, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $122k–$9M; Pre-Seed $132k–$549k
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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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Farming Future
VC Fund · 2 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: 10
  • Round size: Seed $657k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% 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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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
  • Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
  • Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.
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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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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 $494k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sallea — Sallea is dedicated to pioneering a sustainable future in meat and fish consumption by developing innovative structures for cellular agriculture. This approach allows cells to grow into textured and flavorful whole cuts, ensuring that the products are not only cruelty-free but also safe for consumers. By focusing on these unique methods, Salleaaims to transform the way we think about protein sources, making them more environmentally friendly and ethically produced.
  • 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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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, PaaS, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$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.
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  • Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.
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Synergo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 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, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$8.2M; Private Equity $22M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
  • Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
  • Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
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UniCredit
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $40M–$1.4B; Debt Financing $521k–$899M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
  • FITT — FITT specializes in thermoplastic fluid transfer and management solutions.
  • EuroGroup Laminations — We develop and produce stators and rotors solutions for the energy transition, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and sustainability on a global scale.
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Primo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$5.4M; Series A $3.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
  • AIKO - Infinite Ways to Autonomy — We build AI designed for the realities of space. From onboard intelligence to ground operations, our technology turns autonomy into something practical, reliable, and ready to fly.
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Andrea Torlonia
Angel · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Andrea Torlonia

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Big Data, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soul-K — Semilavorati, elaborati gastronomici e piatti pronti per ristorazione organizzata, food retail e travel catering.
  • Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
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dPixel
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

dPixel is a venture capital advisor and management consulting firm that finances early stage internet companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $305k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$165k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Intraverse — The evolution of acquisition, engagement and loyalty.
  • Lendit — Lendit is a credit-sharing platform where companies and professionals can lend and apply for liquidity in a simple, fast and tailor-made manner. Specifically, Lendit provides a web-based platform to match corporate loan requests with companies, professionals or institutional investors who want to lend liquidity. Lendit's objective is to makeaccess to credit inclusive and accessible to all 'fragile' micro enterprises and entrepreneurs to credit. In fact, Lendit's target is microcredit, with applications ranging from a minimum of EUR 1,000 to a maximum of EUR 50,000. To date, almost two million enterprises are unable to obtain the desired credit. Of these, the greatest difficulty encountered is with applications under 20,000€. Lendit is also structured and built to be not only a "simple' p2p lending platform, but also to be integrated with financial institutions (thanks to partnerships with banks and intermediaries) in order to so as to create an open, multi-platform system that allows users to use innovative p2p lending services directly from their home banking
  • Seed Venture — Seed Venture is a blockchain-based platform that decentralizes fundraising activities for startups and SMEs by providing liquidity matching between investors and startups.
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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, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.9M; Series A $1.5M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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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Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia
VC Fund · Firenze, Toscana, Italy · 2 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, Travel, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cents — Cents is a platform that allows businesses to raise awareness in the market by supporting social and environmental causes.
  • Parking My Car — Parking My Car offers transportation services.
  • Recuperiamo srl — Recuperiamo srl is a food industry founded to prevent and reduce waste throughout the food chain. They are involved in the food industry through the Regusto brand. They can use geolocation to report on last-minute offers for their dishes.
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Alecla7
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Private investment firm founded by Angelomario Moratti in 2015, which mainly focuses on early-stage VC opportunities

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advice, Retail, Grocery
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr offers smartcard to companies for sustainable mobility.
  • Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
  • Carol — Carol is a tech-enabled healthcare provider delivering membership-based primary care services, on a mission to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone. To achieve this goal, Carol leverages a highly scalable technology, combined with high quality clinical operations and a salaried provider model.
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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 $238k–$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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Moffu Labs
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Human Resources, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $206k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $556k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wayla — Wayla offre viaggi serali sicuri e sostenibili a Milano con il primo servizio di van pooling. Prenota tramite app e viaggia a bordo dei nostri van con autisti certificati a tariffe vantaggiose
  • Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.
  • Elemento Cloud — At Elemento we develop the Cloud of tomorrow. Thanks to our operating system, AtomOS, we are able to provide unprecedented on-premise cloud solutions either on your own servers or on our hardware appliances. In addition, our OS is capable of automatically reselling the surplus power your local infrastructure provides, to transform your local wastein someone else's precious resource. This approach will offer to our customers an unrivalled on-premise cloud experience with the ability to scale into remote cloud resources with a few clicks or taps, making multi-cloud a completely transparent feature.
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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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$4.4M; Debt Financing $8.8M–$1.3B
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crelan — Crelan is a co-operative bank that offers a wide range of banking and insurance products to individuals and entrepreneurs.
  • FlowPay — Open banking & payment solutions. FlowPay supporta la tua azienda nei flussi di incasso e pagamento con soluzioni innovative integrabili via API.
  • Justclip — Justclip is a French company that offers DIY electrical installation kits designed to make electrical work accessible to everyone, even those without technical skills or experience in electricity. The system is based on a modular, clip-together design—components can be easily connected from an existing power source (such as a wall socket, solarpanel, or battery) without the need for specialized tools or professional assistance.
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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: Retail, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$658k
  • 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 — Customize your own period with a unique assortment to fit your needs that's sustainable and committed.
  • 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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Andera Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Andera Partners, formerly known as Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) As heir to the traditions and values that have ensured the success of the Rothschild family for 250 years, the Edmond de Rothschild Group has established itself over time as a leading player in European finance. Its activities are grouped around two major areas:Private Banking and Asset Management. The Group offers wealthy families, entrepreneurs, and large institutions a full range of solutions combining a culture of tailored solutions, stability, performance, and innovation. The Edmond de Rothschild Group’s offering is characterised by strong convictions, with the desire to guarantee to each of its customers: A unique, close relationship, underpinned by the know-how and the variety of expertise of a large international group; Autonomous, experienced teams, who anticipate economic trends and innovate to establish long-term performance; The recognised stability, strength, and independence of a family-owned financial group. Founded by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1953, the Group has been chaired by his son, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, since 1997.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Private Equity
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 179
  • Round size: Series B $14M–$85M; Private Equity $110M–$247M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $466M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Amolyt Pharma — AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business and our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.
  • ImCheck Therapeutics — ImCheck Therapeutics is a developer of immuno-modulatory antibodies designed for the treatment of cancer and other immune-related diseases. The company's services are engaged in the discovery and development of immunomodulators for treating breast cancer, gastric, ovarian cancer cells and other solid solid tumours.
  • Greywolf Therapeutics — Novel antigen modulation technology that controls T cells to guide the immune system
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Principia SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$3.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $187M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
  • ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
  • WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
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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 inoctober 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. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.
  • 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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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–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $878k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mattermark — Mattermark lets you search for companies & investors to effortlessly create actionable lists for leads. Enrich your company data with customer intelligence from the industry leader of identity resolution.
  • Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
  • Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
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Vertis
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$3.6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Focoos AI — Focoos reshapes computer vision with ultra-efficient models that drive down costs, automate hardware integration, and ensure peak performance on any device, while promoting sustainability.
  • Butterfly Decisions — Traccia, Qualifica e Velocizza Processi e Decisioni nella tua organizzazione attraverso algoritmi ed approccio scientifico
  • TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.
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Francesco MuttiMutti
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

Francesco MuttiMutti

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Dreamfarm — We are a team of food-lovers 100% made in Italy! We dreamt of a better, tastier, more sustainable future and decided to join forces to create something special.
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Lifegate Way
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

LifeGate Way is an ecosystem aimed at supporting and connecting start-ups that aim to change the world while respecting people and the planet through open innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Women's, Nutrition
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sestre — Sestre is an online store that offers nutraceutical supplements, nutrition, Mediterranean diet, healthy, and wellness products.
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Oltre Impact
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Food and Beverage startups

We shape impact investing for people and planet

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
  • FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
  • Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency
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Food and Beverage Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 165 deals from 191 investors.

191
investors
in Italy Food and Beverage startups
165
deals
in Italy Food and Beverage startups
$1.3M
median round
in Italy Food and Beverage startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage
80/20
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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