Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Italy (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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32 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $488k–$23M |
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Primo Capital
VC Fund
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22 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence | $329k–$37M |
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
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14 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $197k–$30M |
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360 Capital
VC Fund
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13 | France, Italy, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1.1M–$44M |
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LIFTT
VC Fund
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11 | Italy, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing | $329k–$21M |
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
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11 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $219k–$14M |
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EUREKA! Venture SGR
VC Fund
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9 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical Device | $384k–$4.1M |
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
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9 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | $55k–$576k |
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Vertis
VC Fund
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9 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Computer | $823k–$10M |
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Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Medical, Internet | $658k–$6.2M |
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Invitalia
VC Fund
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8 | Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $21k–$2M |
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UniCredit
VC Fund
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7 | Italy, Germany, Spain | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing | $197k–$1.4B |
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Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund
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7 | Italy, Turkey, Spain | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed | Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech | $71k–$437M |
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P101
VC Fund
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7 | Italy, Spain, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $236k–$15M |
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Principia SGR
VC Fund
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7 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $329k–$7.7M |
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GELLIFY
VC Fund
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7 | Italy, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $181k–$9M |
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TIM Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Italy, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, SaaS | $47k–$8M |
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Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund
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6 | Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Computer | $2.2M–$35M |
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Growth Engine
VC Fund
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5 | Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $300k–$4.2M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $6M–$200M |
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RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Italy, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Retail, Medical, Privacy | $669k–$16M |
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Embed Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care | $132k–$2.1M |
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Tech4Planet
VC Fund
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4 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing | $313k–$8.3M |
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RoboIT
VC Fund
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4 | Italy | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Manufacturing, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence | $867k–$81M |
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Atlante Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Hardware | $150k–$3.5M |
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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, United Kingdom, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note | Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $299k–$2.5B |
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SIMEST
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, San Marino, Saudi Arabia | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Manufacturing, FinTech, Aerospace | $4.1M–$24M |
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40Jemz Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software | $338k–$6.2M |
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The Techshop
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $322k–$120M |
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dPixel
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United States, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$1.1M |
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PranaVentures
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Tourism, Internet | $1.8k–$16M |
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Finland, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $505k–$17M |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.5M–$125M |
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Pariter Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Electronics, Manufacturing, B2B | $796k–$1.6M |
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Creative Thinking Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism | $27k–$166k |
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Brembo Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Consulting | $6M–$6M |
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Neva SGR
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United States, Israel | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Finance | $5.5M–$141M |
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035 Investimenti
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Electronics, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle | |
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Toscana Next Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Robotics, Electronics | $1.6M–$5.8M |
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Galaxia
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed | Aerospace, Energy, Software | $1.1M–$3.8M |
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CRV
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$65M |
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Levante Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Series A, Seed | Internet of Things, AgTech, Hardware | $3.1M–$6M |
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Farming Future
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Hardware | $657k–$2.3M |
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DVR Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources | ||
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OurCrowd
VC Fund
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2 | Israel, United States, New Zealand | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | |
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Seed | AgTech, Agriculture, Farming | $50k–$4.7M |
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2100 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Manufacturing | |
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Cysero
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Robotics, Mobile | $2.1M–$5.5M |
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Moonstone
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Energy, Health Care, SaaS | $219k–$13M |
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Atlante Seeds
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Sports, Hardware, Incubators | $434k–$745k |
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CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $488k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
- Klaaryo —
- ExoLab Italia — Cosmetics Utilizing plant-derived exosomes in cosmetic products boosts skin absorption, enhancing bioavailability and stimulating cells to produce lacking compounds. Their ability to penetrate the dermis ensures maximum efficacy and optimal results for skincare products. more informations Supplements Plant-derived exosomes, rich in nutrients, enhance bioavailability by
Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.
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- Industry: Software, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$37M; Series A $3.3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
- Yolo Tech Insurance — YOLO Group, uno dei principali operatori nel mercato insurtech italiano dei servizi assicurativi digitali, quotato in borsa sul segmento EGM.
- Italian Artisan — Elevate your fashion brand with expert Italian clothing manufacturers | Streamline your production with Italian Artisan | Low MOQ
Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $197k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $614k–$5.1M; Series A $889k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
- CiaoDott —
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $6.6M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
- NOC Energy — NOC Energy facilitates the decarbonization of industrial heating without producing any carbon emissions.
- Gr3n Recycling — GR3N offers depolymerization plants capable of producing virgin grade PET from recycled monomers.
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $329k–$7.6M; Series A $2.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
- Rainbow Crops — Rainbow Crops is a next-generation Agtech company developing climate-resilient, high-performing crop varieties.
- Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- 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.
- AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
- Alomana —
Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments
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- Industry: Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $384k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $3M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Caracol — Lead the future of manufacturing thanks to Caracol's 3D printing technologies. Discover our solutions for industrial, Large Format Additive Manufacturing.
- EYE4NIR — EYE4NIR is a information technology company that develops visible and SWIR image sensors with help of innovative technologies.
- Novac — Progettiamo supercondensatori da affiancare alle batterie, per incrementare performance ed efficienza dei veicoli elettrici.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $110k–$219k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.9M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $823k–$3.7M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Relicta — Relicta solution is a water-soluble bioplastic material obtained from fish processing waste and suitable for packaging solutions.
- Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
- Quido AI — Quido is the co-pilot for investment professionals. Quido allows private capital professionals to streamline data retrieval and data analysis and dramatically increase their efficiency.
Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation. Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1.6M; Series A $900k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $89M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
- BigProfiles — A deep understanding of customers let a company tailor marketing campaigns and CRM strategies, but companies have only basic data about customers (e.g. gender or age). External data sources like Social Networks, Public Registries and Socio-Demographic data contain rich information about billions of people, like job titles, levels of education,interests and habits.BigProfiles is a Customer Intelligence SAAS that leverages external information about persons to enrich customer profiling: it can profile a company's customers with previously unknown information about them. Thanks to its Identity Resolution algorithm (the result of a PHD), it identifies a person’s information scattered among external sources.Through this technology, BigProfiles provides customer base analytics and behavior predictions: using Artificial Intelligence on enriched profiles allows to predict churn, fraud and willingness to buy.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $532k–$2M; Grant $21k–$775k; Debt Financing $212k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VoiceMed — We bring deep-tech innovation into your smartphone. With vocal biomarkers and artificial intelligence, we measure respiratory diseases.
- Totally Innovation — Totally Innovation is a software company developing artificial intelligence based music management platform and creates license-free music.
- Moov — Moov develops technology and services for mobility and insurance across automotive ecosystems. The company builds a modular platform-as-a-service that allows partners such as fleet operators, insurers, and other enterprises to design and manage pay-per-use mobility subscriptions, fleet operations, telematics, and risk management programs. Itsplatform includes modules for advisory, fleet management, telematics, lead management, billing and payments, and customer care, which can be integrated into existing business processes or third-party applications. Moov also operates consumer-facing services under the Flee brand, offering digital long-term vehicle rental subscriptions based on usage. Through embedded protection solutions and dedicated products like Flee Care, it designs insurance programs and usage-based pricing models for individuals and large vehicle fleets. Moov serves both B2B and B2C segments in the mobility, insurtech, and software-as-a-service domains.
UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $38M–$1.4B; Debt Financing $521k–$938M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% 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
- Ivpc Group — Ivpc Group is a renewable energy company that specializes in the development and management of wind farms and turbines.
- Mercuria — A world leading independent energy and commodity group
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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- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Turkey, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Pre-Seed $71k–$439k; Post-IPO Debt $12M–$437M; Debt Financing $5.7M–$288M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Enex — Enex specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning systems.
- Siriusgame — Siriusgame offers a digital platform that brings playful learning to the study of humanities subjects such as Italian, Latin, Greek, history, philosophy, and art history. The platform is designed for Italian lower and upper secondary school students and their teachers. It supports both autonomous student use and classroom use as a teaching ally,aligning with contemporary didactic methodologies. Siriusgame provides collaborative and game-like learning experiences that aim to make humanities study more engaging. The service is accessible through online registration and provides subscription options tailored to its users. It also emphasizes inclusive design in avatars and community features to represent diverse students.
- Salerno Pesca — Salerno Pesca is a wholesaler and retailer of fish products.
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
- A-Cube — A-Cube is a software company that provides digital solutions to exchange documents with government agencies.
- Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
TIM Ventures prefers to invest in the internet, digital life, mobile evolution, e-learning, and green technology sectors. The company provides startups with consulting services and support. It selects companies that exploit disruptive technologies, with particular attention to enterprise applications, digital life, and telecommunications.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $115k–$768k; Pre-Seed $47k–$114k; Series A $1.5M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Webidoo — We provide the digital tools and advanced that big businesses use, but built and designed so they can be easily utilized by local independent business owners. webidoo is dedicated to partnering with local businesses. We’re here to give the solutions you need to connect with customers, wherever they may be. Our clients include businesses of everytype: restaurants, attorneys, builders, doctors, delicatessens, electricians and many others. We can provide solutions that allow companies to connect with their customers, real and potential, like never before. We’re all about supporting local businesses. And we feel good about that.
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
- SonoBee Ultrasound — As Malaysia's most trusted ultrasound and health screening centre, we combine expert radiologists with advanced imaging for precise results. Experience care you can rely on. Book your appointment.
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Computer
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $18M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Subbyx — Subbyx provides long-term subscriptions for technology products and small home appliances.
- DRONUS — Dronus provides inspection, safety, and smart city capabilities from an innovative, minimally invasive base that guarantees the drone's flight stability and safety during take-off and landing, even in difficult climatic conditions.
Growth Engine is a Venture Capital holding investing in Pre-Seed and Seed high-potential opportunities. With a current portfolio of more than 40 companies, most of them evolved in successful Scaleups, Growth Engine is a diversified asset class by sector and stage. Growth Engine Shareholders are entrepreneurs who have built companies from the groundup, collectively creating billions in value, and top executives managing companies with multi-billion-dollar valuations.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $329k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BonusX — Con l'app BonusX hai un supporto anti-burocrazia tutto l'anno. Accedi a centinaia di bonus e servizi pubblici, senza stress e code.
- CiaoDott —
- Vivaio Ventures — Vivaio Ventures partners with early-stage and creator-led consumer brands to scale food, beverage, and beauty products. We offer capital, consulting, and Made in Italy manufacturing excellence for the next CPG leaders.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1825
- Round size: Series A $6M–$54M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.
- Decolar.com — Decolar.com is an online travel agency that offers complete travel services, including tickets, tour packages, accommodation, and car rental. Since 1999, more than 2,000,000 people have bought their air tickets through this platform.Decolar.com is present in 21 countries, including Argentina, the U.S., and Spain. It has a partnership of more than500 airlines and 150,000 hotels worldwide. When purchasing an airline ticket or travel package, Decolar.com’s customers also receive discounts at restaurants and shops in the chosen destination, plus 10% discount on purchases in Duty Free.Decolar.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.
- Remote — Hire international talent in minutes. Remote is the most disruptive global payroll, tax, HR and compliance solution for distributed teams.
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Browse database — It's Free!RedSeed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Companies and Scaleups, in Europe and more particularly in Italy.
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- Industry: Retail, Medical, Privacy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $669k–$1.1M; Series A $2.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
- WIB Machines — Smart vending machines and smart lockers manufacturer pioneering smart, web-based retail automation globally. Patented solutions enabling next-gen retail.
- CyberRidge — CyberRidge is a deep-tech cybersecurity firm that develops photonic encryption to protect data privacy.
Embed Capital directly invests in startups, established or in the process of creation.Embed is mainly focused on innovative companies that:- Are active in the so-called “real economy” sectors: industrials, technology, environment, services, retail or social;- Are characterized by simple and intuitive business models and valuepropositions, and operate in markets or market segments featuring high growth potential;- Present a clear competitive advantage and high barriers-to-entry;- Are cash-generative in the medium term.Given that Embed Capital is not a closed-end fund, it doesn’t have specific time-constrains and it can assess on a project-by-project basis to determine the best time to sell a participation, and sign customized agreements with the entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $132k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Piantando — Piantando sells plants connected to initiatives for the preservation of the planet engaged in the following areas: land, water, climate, biodiversity and local communities. Each plant is equivalent to a transparent and unique contribution, destined to an initiative certified by our Value Chain. Everyone become ambassadors of a new way of livinggreen and understanding their commitment to the planet.
- FrescoFrigo - Healthy food close to you — FrescoFRIGO is a smart fridge with fresh and quality products designed for the needs of worker. Improve everyday lifestyle, through automated proximity selling of good, fresh and healthy product, innovating technology and user experience.
- The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.
Tech4Planet was created to facilitate market access and the growth of new companies conceived within research laboratories dedicated to environmental sustainability, particularly in the energytech, circular economy, sustainable manufacturing, smart mobility, and water management sectors.With a total investment of up to 55 million euros allocatedby the Technology Transfer Fund of CDP Venture Capital Sgr , the Tech4Planet Pole was created in collaboration with the Milan Polytechnic and involves the Polytechnics of Turin and Bari .
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $918k–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $313k–$1.9M
- 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.
- BeNewtral —
- 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.
RoboIT is the National Technology Transfer Hub for Robotics and Industrial Automation.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $867k–$81M; Series A $5.8M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- K3RX — K3RX products for thermal protection systems of the next generation of hypersonic vehicles and rocket motor inserts of satellite launchers demonstrate their performance. K3RX manufactures tiles in uhtcmc material, rocket nozzles, screws, nuts, and support mechanical connectors.
- Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
- Generative Bionics — Generative Bionics develops humanoid robots that integrate robotics, advanced artificial intelligence, and design for safe, reliable operation in real-world industrial environments.
Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $150k–$3.5M; Series A $1.5M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2007
Portfolio highlights
- ADmantX — A NEW ERA OF AUDIENCE TARGETINGADmantX is a contextual analysis and data provider that brings audience targeting to a new level. Awarded patent for semantic advertising technology, the company offers a cookie-less solution that allows publishers, ad networks and exchanges, brand managers and agencies to develop more effective online adcampaigns leveraging semantic understanding, natural language processing and sentiment analysis. Founded in Italy as a spin-off of the leading semantic company Expert System, ADmantX is active in Europe and US. Worldwide customers include NBCUniversal, Integral Ad Science, Networked Insights, Banzai, Cadreon, Amnet, Sojern, Media IQ and ADmantX solutions are integrated in key DSP players such as Turn, Adform and AppNexus.
- YOGITECH — Notizie e approfondimenti di Tecnologia
- Expert.ai — Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding.
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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- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $112M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1000M; Convertible Note $299k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ESAPRO — ESAPRO designs, constructs, and manages plants for the production of electricity from renewable sources.
- Cornaglia — Cornaglia designs, develops, and manufactures metal and plastic components for the automotive industry.
- Aedifica — Aedifica is a listed company that specialises in investments in European healthcare real estate, in particular housing for seniors with care needs.
SIMEST is a financial firm focused on the development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad. Simest acquires up to 49% of the equity capital of foreign firms in countries outside the European Union, whether wholly-owned by Italian companies or set up as joint ventures with local partners. It also provides start-up and growth capital financingas well as participating in buyouts.Geographically it invests in non-EU countries, focusing on BRIC, Americas and Middle-East. Simest also provides Italian companies seeking to internationalize their businesses with technical assistance and advisory services.Simest is a member of the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and the Italian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (AIFI).
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- Industry: Manufacturing, FinTech, Aerospace
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, San Marino, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Series A $4.1M–$17M; Series B $12M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.7M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DRONUS — Dronus provides inspection, safety, and smart city capabilities from an innovative, minimally invasive base that guarantees the drone's flight stability and safety during take-off and landing, even in difficult climatic conditions.
- Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
- EIS Wire and Cable — EIS Wire and Cable is an electrical manufacturing company that provides single and multi-conductor hook-up wire.
40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $434k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $338k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niino.it — Niino is a digital healthcare logistics platform provide easy, rapid, and transparent access to non-urgent medical rides, transforming a historically fragmented and analog sector into an automated, digital-first experience.
- NEOCAD — NEOCAD is a software company that provides generative artificial intelligence solutions for CAD design processes.
- Archimede — Archimede's AI assistant turns natural language into fully working IoT dashboards. Describe the idea, and the system creates a complete satellite-connected application in seconds.
The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $658k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $322k–$37M; Series A $8.2M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qodeup — Qodeup is a provider of digital menu solutions for restaurants. Their QR code payment method reduces waiting times to zero for customers, increases turnover, and is eco-friendly. They allow customers to pay the bill directly from their smartphone through their QR code payment system.
- Octostar — Octostar is the AI-powered investigative intelligence platform for law enforcement, national security, and financial institutions. Connect the dots and discover the facts across petabytes of data.
- Sustainable Brand Platform — Sustainable Brand Platform is the sustainability intelligence solution for fashion brands and manufacturers to accurately measure and manage their sustainability performance.
dPixel is a venture capital advisor and management consulting firm that finances early stage internet companies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $305k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$407k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- Vestinda — Vestinda is the platform that provides investments in digital assets. Their features are portfolio tracking, crypto portfolio tracking, strategy libraries,crypto investment strategies,strategy builders, trading strategies built with no code, backtesting backtested crypto trading strategies,demo trading,crypto paper trading, and risk-free livetrading.
- LIA — 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
- Lendit — Lendit offers an Integrated Lending Circuit solution for partner platforms, connecting lenders and applicants through a plug and play system. This technology allows to provide inclusive lending and investment services without requiring a license. We create customized access through your platform's portal, simplifying and making the processimmediate for end users.
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Browse database — It's Free!PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.
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- Industry: SaaS, Tourism, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.8k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $549k–$5.1M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $43M in 2021
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
- CloudSEK — CloudSEK leverages contextual AI to predict and prevent cyber threats. Keep your organisation safe and secure.
- GetPica — GetPica is the cutting-edge platform for event organizers to engage event participants with their personal photos and videos in real time. Explore all solutions
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $505k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nomerra — Nomerra operates a business-to-business software-as-a-service model providing an AI-native operating platform tailored for enterprise asset servicers and private market asset managers. The company’s core value proposition focuses on automating fragmented, document-heavy back-office workflows across fund accounting, treasury management, and transferagency functions by deploying specialized AI agents that integrate directly with existing ERPs, banking networks, and email systems. These autonomous agents execute end-to-end operational tasks and validate data while providing human teams with full audit trails, effectively shifting human responsibilities from manual data compilation to automated output review.
- Talentir — Content Monetization
- Waniwani — WaniWani develops AI infrastructure that helps companies distribute products and services through AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. It enables AI storefronts, customer discovery, quoting workflows, analytics, and compliance monitoring for businesses using conversational AI channels.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1714
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$30M; Series A $7M–$90M; Series B $13M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.4B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Brale — Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi.
- Razorpay — Online Payments India: Start Accepting Payments Instantly with Razorpay's Payment Suite, which Supports Netbanking, Credit Card & Debit Cards, UPI etc.
- Matillion — Enterprise level data integration tools built for the cloud. Harness your data into transformative business insights. Your data is your competitive edge.
Pariter Partners is a largest Syndicate in Italy, investing in early stage deep-tech teams and advanced service solution startups.
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- Industry: Electronics, Manufacturing, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $796k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- K3RX — K3RX products for thermal protection systems of the next generation of hypersonic vehicles and rocket motor inserts of satellite launchers demonstrate their performance. K3RX manufactures tiles in uhtcmc material, rocket nozzles, screws, nuts, and support mechanical connectors.
- Eye2Drive — Eye2Drive designs bio-inspired, AI-ready CMOS image sensors for autonomous navigation, eliminating flickering and ghosting while significantly enhancing safety.
- Fluid Wire Robotics — Fluid Wire Robotics sets the new standard for robots in harsh environments. We design innovative robotic arms that excel in radioactive, explosive, space, and subsea applications, avoiding the complexity and cost of traditional solutions. Our technology ensures unparalleled safety, reliability, and efficiency, redefining robot design for any challenging environment without performance loss. Discover our groundbreaking approach and robust, versatile solutions.
Creative Thinking Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund for very early-stage ventures, focusing on start-ups and innovative SMEs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $27k–$165k; Pre-Seed $51k–$166k
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Worldz — Thanks to its algorithm, Worldz calculates the economic value of a user’s social popularity (qualitatively and quantitatively). In proportion to this value, it provides a personalized discount, which can be applied in exchange for a social sharing by the user on their Instagram or Facebook profile. This share refers to the brand or productpurchased and the content of the post can be pre-configured by the brand. A user’s social post increases the Brand Awareness and can generate new traffic to the store. This kind of sharing is perceived by the social community as a friend’s advice and not as a promotional activity.
- Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
- The Social Lender — The Social Lender is a peer-to-peer lending business platform that allows applicants to obtain funding from private and institutional investors, in order to support growth and development of their business and their projects, and where lenders can invest in security actively intervening in the Royal Economy.
Brembo Ventures will strategically invest at a global level in the best technology startups that are capable of delivering value, both in terms of the product and the production process. It will focus on startups that are active in artificial intelligence, big data, sensors, mechatronics, energy efficiency and sustainability, with the goal offinding solutions that can be applied in the automotive sector.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $6M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AGADE — Esoscheletri Agade | Il primo esoscheletro intelligente per lavoratori progettato per ridurre il rischio di disturbi muscolari delle spalle nella movimentazione manuale dei carichi.
- PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
- Spoke — Spoke Safety is an open platform approach enabling the collaboration required with others to amplify the innovation needed to save lives.
Neva SGR, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and wholly owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, plans and manages investment funds for professional investors interested in seizing diversification and high-yield opportunities offered by Venture Capital investments. Neva SGR can count on Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s and Intesa SanpaoloGroup’s strength, financial resources, know-how and network of relationships, a unique source of value on the market. Neva SGR is the perfect blend of strength, reputation and stability of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and the best practices of international venture capital firms. Neva SGR aims to boost the Italian economy through new technologies and to be market maker of the VC asset class of venture capital in Italy.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Italy, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$75M; Series B $17M–$141M; Series C $40M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- iwoca — Iwoca provides small business credit finance services in the United Kingdom. It offers finance for businesses for various purposes ranging from bridging short-term cashflow gaps to investing in stock opportunities. It serves retailers, restaurants, hotels, service providers, and more.Christoph Rieche and James Dear founded iwoca on October 1,2011. iwoca's headquarters is located in London in the United Kingdom.
- Cyberint — Cyberint is a global threat intelligence provider focusing on helping its clients to proactively protect their businesses against cyber threats. As a partner to direct-to-consumer businesses worldwide, Cyberint provides organizations with a unique combination of a market-proven digital risk protection platform and expert cyber analysts. Thiscombination enables establishing an effective Cyber Threat Intelligence program while reducing organizations’ TCO. We serve more than 100 brands worldwide across industries as diverse as financial services, retail, gaming, entertainment, and media.
- Straiker — Security for agentic AI applications built from the ground up with fine-tuned models to protect and secure every layer of your agentic AI stack.
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- Industry: Electronics, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
Toscana Next Fund is a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$1.9M; Series A $4.9M–$5.8M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Small Pixels — SmallPixels provides video and image from compressed video streams applicable to movies, TV series, surveillance videos, and video chats to users, delivering an experience with reduced streaming expenses.
- Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
- Next Generation Robotics — Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.
Galaxia is the national aerospace technology transfer Hub offers investment services. It is launched by CDP Venture Capital’s Technology Transfer Fund together with Obloo Ventures.
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- Industry: Aerospace, Energy, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
- AdapTronics — AdapTronics is a deep-tech startup that produces adaptive mechatronic devices to make logistics sustainable on Earth and in space. Its adaptive mechatronics technology offers an alternative based on a multifunctional electrostatic membrane that allows the gripping and manipulation of objects of any shape. In addition, it offers a thin-filmtechnology with sensor capabilities that becomes adhesive when electrically activated.
- Astradyne —
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Browse database — It's Free!CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise and consumer startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 400 startups at their most crucial stages, including DoorDash, Airtable, Patreon, Drift and Iterable. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 600
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Glyde — Glyde is an innovative peer-to-peer e-commerce marketplace that makes it simple to buy and sell new and used goods. Glyde’s products include Apple and Android phones, tablets, laptops, iPods, and video games.Glyde’s e-commerce engine absorbs complexity, making the user experience faster and easier than other marketplaces. Buyers enjoy thegreat deals of a peer-to-peer marketplace combined with the service, convenience, and safety of a retail store. Sellers enjoy a streamlined experience that connects them with eager and qualified buyers. It takes seconds to list an item for sale, and shipping is effortless with Glyde’s pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.Created by the founder of eBay Motors, Glyde is brought to you by veterans from industry-defining companies such as eBay, Google, and Wal-Mart. Glyde is venture backed with an office in Menlo Park, CA.
- Rundoo — Order materials, schedule pickup & delivery, and share everything with your crew all in one app.
- PullString — PullString, Inc. is leading the field of computer conversation in both text and voice through a combination of design and technology. PullString (formerly ToyTalk) is an entertainment and technology company combining art and science to enable computer conversation with characters.The company's primary product, the PullString Platform, offersa professional authoring environment, hosted AI and machine learning runtime, and integrated conversation analytics to enterprises, agencies, and startups across verticals as diverse as entertainment, customer service, gaming and VR, travel, automotive, health and fitness, finance, human resources, and IoT.With direct support for all major conversational platforms like Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Skype, Slack, Kik, mobile, and web, the PullString Platform has been used to create award winning experiences like Call of Duty’s Lt Reyes on Messenger, Hello Barbie, and The Winston Show.PullString, founded as ToyTalk in 2011, has raised more than $44 million in funding from Greylock Partners; Charles River Ventures; Khosla Ventures; True Ventures; and First Round Capital.
European Technologies, Asian Horizons
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- Industry: Internet of Things, AgTech, Hardware
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $3.1M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Drivesec — drivesec is a company whose main scope is to develop software solutions and consulting for Automotive and IoT cybersecurity markets.
- PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
- Hiro Robotics — Embrace a paradigm shift by revolutionizing the way the immense value contained in electronic waste is extacted through recycling.
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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- 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.
DVR Capital offers M&A advisory and private equity as well as equity services for businesses, financial investors, and multinationals
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- Industry: Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.
Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
- Corgi Insurance — Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention.
- Leo AI — Leo™ is the world's first engineering design copilot, empowering engineers and designers to turn ideas into products in seconds. Leo's generative AI platform transforms text, sketches, specs, and CAD constraints into DFMA-optimized, full-assembly 3D CAD models, saving companies up to 70% of their engineering time and cost. Leading AIresearchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, Microsoft, and Elbit Systems founded Leo in 2023.
We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Verge Ag — Verge turns your existing autosteer and guidance systems into supervised autonomy. Path Planner creates optimized field routes, Equipment Explorer proves equipment value on real fields. No additional hardware required.
- Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
- Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.
We are an early-stage fund built to help the next generation of European heroes defy the odds and build century-defining businesses.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ewake — Ewake.ai is your AI Production Teammate that seamlessly integrates with your production environment to bring reliability proactively and reactively. Never miss the heartbeat of your systems with our ambient agent for production reliability.
- EraDrive — AI-powered vision to navigate, operate, and collaborate in space for commercial and military applications - safely, precisely and intelligently.
- Good Heat — Good Heat delivers zero-carbon heat as a service to industrial heat users.
Cysero is a venture capital fund focused on the robotics and cybersecurity sectors. The fund was established in October 2020 and managed by AVM Gestioni SGR S.p.A. Manager EuVECA Società Benefit and jointly promoted with Kilometro Rosso, Bergamo's science and technology park.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Robotics, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Octostar — Octostar is the AI-powered investigative intelligence platform for law enforcement, national security, and financial institutions. Connect the dots and discover the facts across petabytes of data.
- TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
- Next Generation Robotics — Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.
VC
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- Industry: Energy, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $920k–$13M; Pre-Seed $219k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
- YOUTH — Full health check-up in less than 2 minutes!
- Capsule Corporation — Capsule Corporation (the Italian spacetech startup) develops and commercializes WaterCube, a water-based propulsion system for CubeSats and Smallsats, designed to offer compact, non-toxic, and cost‑effective orbit control, collision avoidance, and deorbiting capabilities
Atlante Seed is an Intesa Sanpaolo Group's Fund dedicated to seed and early stage capital, it invests in innovative companies still small but with high growth potential, with a particular attention to those belonging to the high technology industry. Besides this activity (direct investments), the Fund invests in selected business incubators oraccelerators specialized in specific sectors (indirect investments).
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- Industry: Sports, Hardware, Incubators
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $434k–$745k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sellf — Sellfapp, the CRM Mobile for an easier sales tracking and clients managing. Ask for more information and download our 14 days free trials.
- GoPillar — Get dozens of high quality projects from professional designers: easy, fast and on a budget. Redesign your space on GoPillar.
- 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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