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Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Italy (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Italy Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Hardware 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
39 Italy, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $483k–$23M
Primo Capital
VC Fund
29 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace $358k–$49M
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
18 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $197k–$30M
360 Capital
VC Fund
15 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$33M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
13 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $219k–$14M
LIFTT
VC Fund
11 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $338k–$118M
EUREKA! Venture SGR
VC Fund
10 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Electronics $419k–$6.2M
e-Novia
VC Fund
9 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Robotics, Electronics $240k–$1.3M
Vertis
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $964k–$25M
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $55k–$8.2M
Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund
8 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Medical, B2B $292–$6.2M
Invitalia
VC Fund
8 Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$2.1M
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund
8 Italy, Turkey, United Arab Emirates Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Manufacturing, Energy, Food and Beverage $71k–$437M
RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund
7 Italy, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Analytics $669k–$16M
GELLIFY
VC Fund
7 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $196k–$9.7M
UniCredit
VC Fund
7 Italy, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $197k–$2.1B
TIM Ventures
VC Fund
7 Italy, United States, Malaysia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Software, SaaS $44k–$7.5M
P101
VC Fund
7 Italy, Spain, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $270k–$15M
Principia SGR
VC Fund
7 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.5M–$9.9M
Growth Engine
VC Fund
6 Italy, Mexico, Portugal Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$4.2M
Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund
6 Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Computer $2M–$35M
Galaxia
VC Fund
5 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Seed Aerospace, Energy, Software $1.1M–$3.8M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$100M
The Techshop
VC Fund
4 Italy, Portugal, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $322k–$120M
SIMEST
VC Fund
4 Italy, San Marino, Saudi Arabia Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, FinTech, Aerospace $4.1M–$24M
Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
4 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $16k–$2.5B
Tech4Planet
VC Fund
4 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $313k–$8.3M
Atlante Ventures
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, Israel Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Hardware, Biotechnology $150k–$3.5M
Fabrick
VC Fund
4 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $279k–$20M
EISMEA
VC Fund
4 Spain, Italy, United Kingdom Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology $53k–$2.6M
RoboIT
VC Fund
4 Italy Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Manufacturing, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence $867k–$81M
40Jemz Ventures
VC Fund
4 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software $338k–$4.2M
Embed Capital
VC Fund
4 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Mobile, Software $130k–$2.1M
Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$125M
Pi Campus
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Mobile, Biotechnology $100k–$7M
Creative Thinking Ventures
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Non-Equity Assistance E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism $32k–$518k
Redstone.VC
VC Fund
3 Germany, Finland, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $460k–$17M
EXOR N.V.
VC Fund
3 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $320k–$55M
Levante Capital
VC Fund
3 Italy Series A, Seed Internet of Things, AgTech, Hardware $3.1M–$6M
Farming Future
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Hardware $657k–$2.3M
035 Investimenti
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Manufacturing, SaaS, Handmade $1.2M–$3.8M
Neva SGR
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Information Technology $6M–$141M
Brembo Ventures
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Consulting $6M–$6M
CRV
VC Fund
3 United States, Israel, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$74M
Obloo Ventures
VC Fund
3 Italy, Germany Seed Robotics, Aerospace, Industrial $1.8M–$4.1M
Game Seer Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 Spain, Canada, France Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Gaming, Video Games, PC Games $250k–$3.4M
Toscana Next Fund
VC Fund
3 Italy Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Robotics, Electronics $1.6M–$6.1M
PranaVentures
VC Fund
3 Italy, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Tourism, Internet $1.8k–$16M
Pariter Partners
VC Fund
3 Italy, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Biotechnology $796k–$1.6M
FITEC
VC Fund
3 Italy, United Kingdom Private Equity, Series B, Series C Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $8.2M–$100M
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 39 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $652k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $212M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
  • TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
  • 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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Primo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 29 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $358k–$5.4M; Series A $3.4M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $48M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
  • Archimede — Archimede.World, connect the impossible. We are an innovative and deep tech startup, engaged in the development of off-grid solutions.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services.
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 18 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 400+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business by investing capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience. Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
  • Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
  • Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 15 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 17 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 251
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
  • BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
  • Circular Materials — Scopri Circular Materials: immagina una tecnologia che tratta le acque reflue e, allo stesso tempo, recupera metalli preziosi.
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 13 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$5.1M; Angel $219k–$987k; Series A $3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
  • Alomana — Alomana is an organization that focuses on harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data analytics to drive insights and innovation across various industries. They offer a range of services, including data analysis, machine learning model development, and AI-driven solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of their clients. Datasparkemphasizes the importance of data-driven decision-making and works closely with businesses to implement strategies that enhance operational efficiency and improve outcomes. With a commitment to advancing the use of AI and data analytics, Dataspark aims to empower organizations to unlock the full potential of their data and stay competitive in a rapidly changing market.
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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 11 investments in Italy Hardware startups

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$4.7M; Series A $2.8M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $495k–$118M
  • 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.
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EUREKA! Venture SGR
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 10 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $419k–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
  • ACTIVE LABEL — ACTIVE LABEL is a label on which a film containing one milligram of silicate or fluorohalide powder is applied. With this label, it enables checking whether the optimal storage temperature range has been respected during transport/storage, and thus certifies the quality and safety of the packaged product, also allowing to recalculate theexpiry date of the asset.
  • BeDimensional — New Material Solution
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e-Novia
VC Fund · 9 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Robotics, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $240k–$318k
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blubrake — blubrake is a leading company that develops and produces advanced mechatronic systems focused on braking and sensing applications for bicycles, in particular e-bikes. The company developed the only ABS (anti-lock braking system) for e-bikes that can be fully integrated inside the frame and that can drastically increase safety on every kind ofe-bikes, from city to mountain, from trekking to cargo. A light and invisible technology that can assure a safer and more enjoyable cycling experience.
  • Blimp — Blimp has developed the Head-Counter device to collect real-time data on people and vehicles flows in the physical world, either outdoor or indoor. Blimp Head-Counter processes sampled images in real-time to extract the audience volume and sociodemographic distribution (gender, age and emotional state) up to a 60 meters range in the standardversion. The proprietary technology is privacy compliant as the image processing is executed directly on the device, transmitting only the aggregated and anonymized data to the cloud.
  • Existo S.r.l. — GRABSLOT menghadirkan ribuan permainan seru dalam satu platform lengkap dan praktis, dirancang untuk memberikan pengalaman hiburan online yang lebih seru, cepat, dan menyenangkan setiap saat.
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Vertis
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Clastix — Clastix is an enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure company, purpose-built to solve the operational challenges that emerge when Kubernetes runs at scale: cluster sprawl, fragile multi-tenancy, and the mounting cost of over-provisioned hardware and memory. The company's breakthrough is architectural. By combining hosted control planes with hard multi-tenancy, Clastix enables telcos, cloud providers, MSPs, and platform teams to run many isolated Kubernetes environments more efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively than traditional approaches allow. Clastix was founded by engineers who understood these pain points from direct experience running Kubernetes in production. That same commitment to quality engineering runs through everything the company builds – an approach shaped as much by Italian engineering tradition as by technical rigour. The result is infrastructure software that is functional, elegant, and highly scalable. The company's open source credentials are equally strong. Clastix donated Capsule to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, co-founded Cloud Native Days Italy, and continues to evolve Kamaji – contributing not just code, but community and standards to the broader Kubernetes ecosystem. Clastix's platform is trusted by customers including NVIDIA and Mistral AI – organisations that operate some of the most demanding and innovation-intensive infrastructure environments in the world. Their confidence is a direct measure of what the platform can handle. Headquartered in Naples, Italy, with customers and partners across cloud, data centre, edge, and AI infrastructure globally, Clastix is where world-class engineering meets the real operational complexity of modern Kubernetes at scale.
  • Tiledesk — Boost customer engagement with Tiledesk. Discover our conversational automation ready to use. Personalized experiences, improved conversion and retention.
  • Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $69k–$219k; Venture - Series Unknown $686k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.6M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
  • Paragraph — Paragraph's agent turns your company context into posts, newsletters, social campaigns, and landing pages, then ships the work you approve.
  • La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
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Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical, B2B
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $292–$1.6M; Series A $900k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $103M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
  • BigProfiles — BigProfiles is an Artificial Intelligence Platform designed for Utilities, Telcos, Banks, Insurance companies and Retails.Large companies such as Teleperformance, Eni, Unicef already have already successfully subscribed to our services.BigProfiles is the No-Code Artificial Intelligence Platform for sales and antichurn that predicts thelikelihood to purchase and churn of each customer in a CRM, before proceeding to contact him in a sales or retention campaign.
  • 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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Invitalia
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $468k–$2M; Grant $20k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $187k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NEOCAD — NEOCAD is a software company that provides generative artificial intelligence solutions for CAD design processes.
  • ReneSys ENERGY — Next Generation Battery Technology and Manufacturing
  • Moov — We innovate mobility from every angle!
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Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $71k–$489k; Post-IPO Debt $12M–$437M; Debt Financing $4.7M–$288M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Grissitalia — Grissitalia focuses on the field of industrial bread making. They are present with our brands and private labels at both the large-scale distribution and discount channels.
  • ETG — ETG, established in 1967, is one of the largest and fastest growing integrated agricultural conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa, importing and exporting soft commodities to and from 48 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa. It also has supply chain operations in China, India, America, Middle East, andSouth East Asia; merchandising desks in Europe, and; treasury companies in Singapore, Mauritius and UAE. Globally, ETG is present across 48 countries. ETG runs its business under five business verticals: 1. Fertilizer and Farm Inputs: ETG is one of the largest importers and distributors of fertilizers and farm inputs in sub-saharan africa 2. Cash traded products: Pulses, Sesame seed, Cashew and Rice are key commodities in this vertical. ETG is the world largest trader and processor of Pulses as well as world largest trader for raw cashew nuts. 3. Exchange traded commodities: Grains & oilseeds, sugar, coffee, cocoa, maize and soybean are key products in this segment. ETG is one of the major players for maize and soybean in sub-shara africa 4. Consumer Branded (Vamara): ETG operates multiple processing plants across 14 countries to manufacture products that are targeted to African consumers. ETG has 22 brands in its portfolio that offers products from vegetable cooking oil, condiments, and spreads, etc. 5. Logistics: ETG operates a very successful and integrated Logistics platform. ETG has a network of more than 400+ warehouses across 32 countries and a fleet of more than 900 trucks. ETG provided end-to-end Logistics services across sub-Sahara Africa.
  • Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.
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RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$12M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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.
  • Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.
  • CyberRidge — CyberRidge is a deep-tech cybersecurity firm that develops photonic encryption to protect data privacy.
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GELLIFY
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • BizAway — BizAway is the corporate travel management platform trusted by 2,000+ companies worldwide. Simplify business travel booking, policy compliance, and expense management with smart technology and 24/7 real human support.
  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.
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UniCredit
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Hardware 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: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $44M–$2.1B; Debt Financing $1.2M–$899M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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
  • DevTwo S.p.A. — DevTwo S.p.A. is a special purpose vehicle belonging to Gruppo Barletta,
  • Telebit — Telebit Group is a system integrator and solution provider operating in the telecommunications, ICT, technological plant engineering, and energy sectors.
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TIM Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $109k–$768k; Pre-Seed $44k–$110k; Series A $1.5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Webidoo — Scopri il Webidoo AI Operating System per il Business, il layer operativo che potenzia le imprese e guida l'innovazione tecnologica nel B2B.
  • Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
  • SonoBee Ultrasound — As Malaysia's most trusted ultrasound and health screening centre, we combine expert radiologists with advanced imaging for precise results. Experience care you can rely on. Book your appointment.
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P101
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $270k–$4M; Series A $2.3M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $721k–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $265M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorsaf — Biorsaf is an IT company that develops mobile apps and web control panels to assist companies to bring efficiency to their operations.
  • Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
  • A-Cube — A-Cube API: la piattaforma globale per la Tax Compliance. Integra la fatturazione elettronica e gli obblighi fiscali in ogni ERP o e-commerce in Italia e nel mondo.
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Principia SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Hardware 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$7.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.2M–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • KLISBio — KLISBio is a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company focused on developing innovative technology platforms based entirely on natural silk fibroin. The company, headquartered in Milan, Italy, currently has several assets under development, such as vascular graft, bone graft substitutes, rotator cuff repair, drug release, and a first-in-humanstudy on nerve repair that is ongoing at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • 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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Growth Engine
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Growth Engine is a sector-agnostic VC holding, investing from Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A. Thesis-driven and built on one conviction: exceptional founders win.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Mexico, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Holifya — Holifya offre test del DNA avanzati e piani di salute personalizzati per ottimizzare nutrizione, metabolismo, performance sportive e prevenzione. Con un unico test, scopri intolleranze, rischi genetici e strategie su misura per migliorare il benessere, tutto comodamente da casa.
  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • 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.
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Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.

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Investment focus

  • 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 $2M–$16M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $18M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
  • Subbyx — Subbyx provides long-term subscriptions for technology products and small home appliances.
  • DRONUS — Dronus provides inspection, safety, and smart city capabilities from an innovative, minimally invasive base that guarantees the drone's flight stability and safety during take-off and landing, even in difficult climatic conditions.
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Galaxia
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Energy, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
  • ORiS — ORiS (Orbital Recharge in Space) develops laser-based wireless power transmission to extend the autonomy of satellites, drones, and lunar habitats.
  • 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.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in Italy Hardware startups

We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2523
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $5.5M–$50M; Series B $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Despegar — Despegar operates as an online business-to-consumer travel agency that focuses on the Portuguese and Spanish speaking markets. It enables people to research travel plans, check flight availability, book airline, and hotel and car rental reservations online, as well as offer travel-related services, including access to airlines, car rentalcompanies, and hotels and vacation packages. The company serves the leisure and corporate travelers. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Miami, Florida.
  • Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
  • 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.
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The Techshop
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SimpL — SimpL is an Italy-based AI sales-intelligence and prospecting platform for B2B sales teams. It researches target companies, identifies relevant buying signals, drafts personalised LinkedIn outreach, manages follow-ups, and helps generate qualified sales meetings.
  • Computis — Computis is an AI company offering software solutions for electronic invoicing, bank reconciliation, tax estimation, and billing services.
  • Helix Robotics — We are building the first commercial soft manipulator
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SIMEST
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$17M; Series B $12M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.7M–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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 specializes in manufacturing a wide range of custom design and standard construction products-from single conductor hook-up wire to complex multi conductor, composite cables.
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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 22 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $16k–$2.8M; Post-IPO Debt $112M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $2.7M–$1000M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Windrose Holding — Windrose Holding S.r.l. operates as a dedicated special-purpose sub-holding company that indirectly manages a clean energy asset portfolio with a combined capacity of approximately 157 MW. The entity focuses on the financial optimization, operation, and strategic refinancing of established onshore wind farms and solar photovoltaic plants. It functions as the direct borrowing vehicle for institutional utility-scale grid financing, utilizing structured corporate credit lines like green loans. The company is structured to absorb and manage wholesale merchant risk on its mixed asset portfolio once state-backed tariff incentives expire.
  • Mater Private hospital — Mater Private are proud to offer some of the most technologically advanced treatment options in the country and have pioneered many major developments in the delivery of healthcare in Ireland.Their team of over 300 leading consultants bring their patients from all over the country to their facilities with the highest confidence in the standard ofcare they can offer.
  • Econergy Renewable Energy — Econergy to create, own, and manage utility-scale renewable energy projects, guided by in-depth knowledge of the industry, regulations, and technology at each crucial stage, from creation to supply
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Tech4Planet
VC Fund · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 — Il futuro delle costruzioni rispetta l'ambiente
  • 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.
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Atlante Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group. Totalling, together with its companion funds Atlante Ventures Mezzogiorno (AVM) and Atlante Seed, 60 mio euros in funds under management, Atlante Ventures only supports truly innovative startups, in Italy and abroad. Since inception from 2007, Atlante Ventures, AVM and Atlante Seeds have invested in more than 20 seed and early stage companies across all the innovation spectrum, among which Silicon Biosystems, the leading single-cell genomics company, Icoolhunt, the online trend forecasting startup, Admantx, the semantic-based advertising optimization platform Through its dedicated team of 8 professionales, Atlante Ventures sifts through hundreds of startup companies per year, using the following as key investment criteria: existence of a clearly innovative product or method, strong IP and Know how where applicable, an entrepreneurial team possessing dynamism, common sense, selling skills and in general, the will to make their mark

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Hardware, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$3.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2007

Portfolio highlights

  • treet — Treet helps brands launch fully-branded recommerce sites where customers can buy & sell items from each other.
  • 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
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Fabrick
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $279k–$6M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $9.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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
  • Brainyware — Brainyware is a secure, on-premise AI platform for enterprises designed to make internal knowledge searchable and actionable.
  • Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
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EISMEA
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

EISMEA is an executive agency of the European Commission that implements European Union programs supporting innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the Single Market. The agency manages the European Innovation Council and European Innovation Ecosystems programs under Horizon Europe. It also implements the SME component of the Single Market Programme and the Interregional Innovation Investments instrument. EISMEA provides funding and support for innovators, researchers, businesses, regions, and other organizations through grants, procurement, investment, and advisory programs. Its activities cover innovation development, SME competitiveness, entrepreneurship, market access, consumer policy, standardization, and interregional innovation. The agency also supports the implementation of EU policies and programs related to innovation ecosystems and economic development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3546
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$800k; Grant $54k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $573k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
  • BroadBit Batteries — BroadBit is a technology company developing revolutionary new batteries using novel sodium-based chemistries to power the future green economy.
  • Aenitis Technologies — We develop innovative devices for cells therapy processing using Acoustic Radiation Forces.
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RoboIT
VC Fund · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

RoboIT is the National Technology Transfer Hub for Robotics and Industrial Automation.

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Investment focus

  • 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.​
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40Jemz Ventures
VC Fund · Verona, Veneto, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $434k–$3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revismart — Revismart usa l'intelligenza artificiale per automatizzare la revisione legale, risparmiando tempo e riducendo gli errori.
  • Archimede — Archimede.World, connect the impossible. We are an innovative and deep tech startup, engaged in the development of off-grid solutions.
  • Doctorsa — Doctorsa is a digital marketplace offering travelers instant access to urgent care online for common conditions, starting at just €20.
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Embed Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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 value propositions, 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $454k–$734k
  • 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.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2448
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$26M; Series A $7M–$85M; Series B $15M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $600M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
  • Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
  • Zaria Systems — Zaria provides loan servicing and collateral management infrastructure for banks, private credit firms, fintech lenders, and digital asset lenders. Its platform supports primary servicing and auditable collateral management for structured finance and digital asset-backed lending. The company combines these functions within a single platform for institutional lending operations.
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Pi Campus
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7M; Angel $400k–$1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
  • Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
  • Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
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Creative Thinking Ventures
VC Fund · Albertville, Rhone-Alpes, France · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $32k–$518k; Pre-Seed $49k–$161k
  • 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 — Scopri i migliori siti di scommesse sportive in Italia a settembre 2026: operatori verificati, bonus, quote, pagamenti e recensioni aggiornate.
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 24 in the past 12 months

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $460k–$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 — The AI Coworker in Private Market Operations
  • LimX Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
  • Zhuji Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
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EXOR N.V.
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

EXOR is a holding company based in the Netherlands that the Agnelli family controls. The company has a diverse portfolio of investments in various industries, including automotive, real estate, and finance. The company is known for taking a long-term approach to its assets and has a reputation for being a patient and value-oriented investor. The company's primary focus is on creating long-term value for its shareholders by actively managing and growing its portfolio of investments. EXOR's core mission is to cultivate exceptional enterprises, simultaneously nurturing opportunities for its talented workforce to flourish, make meaningful societal contributions, and yield outstanding returns for its valued investors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$18M; Pre-Seed $320k–$5.1M; Series A $8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Q.ai — Q.ai provides systems designed to support high data throughput, multilingual interaction, privacy controls, and accessibility features within communication workflows. Its technology is used to enhance real-time and asynchronous interactions between users who operate across different languages and regions. Q.ai’s platform is designed to integrateinto existing applications and services, supporting organizations that require consistent communication standards across distributed teams and audiences.
  • Norbert Health — Norbert Health develops a home medical pod that monitors the health of families using contactless sensors. Their product senses key vital signs including heart rate, breathing rate, and temperature, providing a real-time and historical view of the user's health. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Philips — Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services. The company offers professionals with healthcare, lighting, and oral healthcare products, professional dictation, and display solutions, and innovation services. It offers consumers electronic products related tosound and vision, personal care, mother and child care, housewares, lighting, PCs and phones, and more.
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Levante Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

European Technologies, Asian Horizons

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Farming Future
VC Fund · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, SaaS, Handmade
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dalfilo — Dalfilo is a textile company that manufactures and retails handcrafted household items, linen sheets, and bathroom accessories.
  • Talentware — Talentware is the platform that lets you manage your company and people by putting skills first: boosting engagement, talent retention, and productivity.
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
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Neva SGR
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$64M; Series B $17M–$141M; Series C $28M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • iwoca — Iwoca provides financing to businesses for various purposes, including bridging short-term cashflow gaps and investing in stock opportunities. It services retailers, restaurants, hotels, and other businesses. It offers flexible repayment options from 1 day to 24 months, with no penalties for early repayment. Iwoca helps businesses manage cash flowgaps and invest in growth opportunities, enhancing their financial capabilities.
  • 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.
  • Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.
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Brembo Ventures
VC Fund · Stezzano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Discover the latest innovations in braking systems and mobility. Brembo ensures safety, performance, and sustainability. Explore our products on the official website

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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CRV
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 620
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$74M
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Maximum — Maximum is a boutique agency that likes to remain small and agile. There are sixty of us, all specialists, and our advanced digital solutions are 100% generated in-house. We have a knowledgeable and sophisticated research presence, especially in the digital arena and with regard to social recruitment. This means we can make things happen for youthat other agencies can't. Giving your organization the edge takes serious research, heavyweight strategy, considered creativity and intelligent use of the digital space. This is why we've developed the Social Recruitment Monitor™ for you, the definitive index on the use of social media for recruitment purposes.
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Obloo Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Obloo is the only global comprehensive ecosystem for Deep Tech, enabling the effective creation of startup from science and research to the market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Aerospace, Industrial
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Kurs Orbital — Kurs Orbital expands human activities beyond Earth
  • Astradyne — Astradyne develops lightweight, high-performance solar power systems for space and terrestrial applications.
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Game Seer Venture Partners
VC Fund · Aschaffenburg, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Game Seer: Indie game funding and financing. Empowering creative freedom, offering industry expertise, and helping studios create successful titles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • TavroxGames — TavroxGames is a game development company working on turn-based games. Our objective is to make interesting games inspired by real-life social issues while still keeping the fun! Is that possible?
  • Old Skull Games — Old Skull Games
  • Half Sword Games — Half Sword Games is an indie studio developing a physics-based medieval combat simulator.
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Toscana Next Fund
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Toscana Next Fund is a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Robotics, Electronics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$1.9M; Series A $4.9M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorsaf — Biorsaf is an IT company that develops mobile apps and web control panels to assist companies to bring efficiency to their operations.
  • Small Pixels — Elevate video quality and efficiency with Small Pixels AI Video Enhancement Solutions. Real-time and hardware-agnostic.
  • Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
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PranaVentures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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 in innovative 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Tourism, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.8k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $572k–$5.1M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M 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
  • BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
  • Doctorsa — Doctorsa is a digital marketplace offering travelers instant access to urgent care online for common conditions, starting at just €20.
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Pariter Partners
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Pariter Partners is a largest Syndicate in Italy, investing in early stage deep-tech teams and advanced service solution startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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 — A fully electric robotic platform for extreme environments: nuclear, space, cryogenic, ATEX and subsea. Manipulation where conventional robots cannot go.
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FITEC
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

FITEC, managed by Fondo Italiano d’Investimento SGR, with a target commitment of Euro 150 million is the first Italian technology private equity and late-stage venture capital fund. It is entirely dedicated to equity investments in small and medium-sized technology-based Italian companies, which are either backed by VC funds, like Termo, Everli andBeMyEye, or have been self-financed and are owned by entrepreneurs seeking further investment to grow, like Seco and Healthware Group. The fund announced its first closing in September 2017 with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti as Cornerstone Investor. Fondo Italiano d’investimento SGR currently manages a total of eight investment funds, dedicated to institutional investors, for a total of about Euro 3 billion of target Asset Under Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series B $10M–$21M; Series C $8.5M–$100M; Private Equity $8.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Intrauma — Intrauma was founded in 2006 and is based in Rivoli, near Turin, in Piedmont. The company designs and manufactures the O’nil range of locking plates, which has been in clinical use since 1998. Intrauma is committed to on-going research and development of both materials and manufacturing processes, in collaboration with experienced trauma surgeons,to provide the highest quality implants and to simplify today’s approach to Traumatology. Intrauma is also dedicated to building and maintaining strong customer relationships, believing that this is the foundation of a successful business.Intrauma TODAYToday, Intrauma is the second largest supplier of trauma devices in Italy, and is rapidly expanding its international sales and marketing operations across the world.This also gives the company the opportunity to work with surgeons across the globe, developing more unique products and continuing to improve traumatology techniques for the benefit of both patient and surgeon.
  • UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
  • Skynet Technology — Azienda specializzata in servizi di supporto per le aziende Retail nel mondo Fashion & Luxury con negozi e magazzini distribuiti a livello internazionale.
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Hardware VC funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 659 deals from 457 investors.

457
investors
in Italy Hardware startups
659
deals
in Italy Hardware startups
$727k
median round
in Italy Hardware startups
42%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage

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Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.

The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.

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Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?

Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

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