Top 20 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in October 2024
A list of 20 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Hospitality VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in October 2024
Investor | Hospitality Italy investments |
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P101 | 6 |
Picus Capital | 4 |
CDP Venture Capital | 3 |
PranaVentures | 3 |
Milano Investment Partners SGR | 2 |
Italian Angels for Growth | 2 |
Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 2 |
Vertis | 2 |
Startup Alliance | 1 |
Oltre Impact | 1 |
Siparex Groupe | 1 |
Kitchen Fund | 1 |
Orbit Startups | 1 |
Angel Capital Management | 1 |
Verdant Frontiers | 1 |
UVET - American Express Travel | 1 |
Club Digitale | 1 |
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore | 1 |
Atlante Seeds | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, Spain, United States
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- Aptus.AI — Aptus.AI exploits AI to make regulations machine readable, toward a new digital format to change the way humans and machines interact with textual documents
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Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Blitzy — You Describe It, We Build It
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
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- Sestre — Sestre is an online store that offers nutraceutical supplements, nutrition, Mediterranean diet, healthy, and wellness products.
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.
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- SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- BeSafe Group — BeSafe: la Suite di Tool e Strumenti che semplifica la Gestione della tua Struttura e migliora le tue Strategie di Revenue Alberghiero.
- Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Italy, Spain
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- Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
- VitroLabs — The world's oldest material made new. VitroLabs Inc is a startup developing lab grown leather, through tissue engineering, as a solution to help fight climate change. All, while completely avoiding animal slaughter.
- Poke House — Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Poke House specializes in bowl food that often includes marinated fish that’s cubed and layered up with sticky rice, pickles, noodles, etc.
IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
- Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
- Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
- Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
- Starting Finance — Starting Finance is a financial education platform intended to provide financial literacy to its users. The company's platform provides education and information about finance and publishes informative articles on important events in the fields of economics, finance, and politics, enabling users to improve their knowledge regarding finance andthe management of their capital.
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- MiSiedo — MiSiedo is an online platform that enables users to discover and book restaurants in real-time. The platform also allows users to read reviews before taking their pick. MiSiedo was launched in 2011 and is based in Italy.
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Investment focus
- Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
- Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom
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- Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
- FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
- Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency
Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon.It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of theindependent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
- NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
- Monet Associes — Monet + Associes is a public relations agency.
Kitchen Fund is the leading source of capital for emerging restaurants trying to change the way we eat.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
- Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
- JUICER — JUICER is helping restaurants automate their pricing within their existing technology stack using machine learning algorithms. By taking a data-driven approach to pricing, restaurants can significantly increase revenue and profitability. With dynamic pricing, restaurants can increase profits during peak periods, increase volume during slowerperiods, and improve the customer experience by providing deals to price-sensitive customers, and by lowering wait times for customers during busy periods.
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
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- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
Founded by Angelo Moratti, Angel Capital Management (formerly Angel Lab) is a leading private investment firm providing growth equity to companies in various stages of development. The Direct Investments Practice mainly focuses on fast growing Consumer&Lifesyle companies.
ACM offers its portfolio companies a comprehensive platform for growthacting as i) a partner for the international expansion of Italian companies ii) and a gateway to the Italian and South European market for foreign companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- Crea — CREA is the leading digital commerce enabler providing end to end solution for brands to reach the booming, digital savvy millennial and Generation Z consumers in Southeast Asia.
- AGORA — Discover what we are known best for, our AGORA Edits!
- ZAGO Milano — La tua skincare e skin-prep Made in Italy con Amore!
Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia
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- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
The company was founded in Milan in 1950 by the intuition of the entrepreneur Francesco Patanè.
Uvet American Express is provides Travel Management Services in Italy.
Uvet American Express manages BizTravel Forum, the reference Business Travel Community in Italy for travels, mobility and events.
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Investment focus
- Apps, News, Hotel
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, Spain
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- Plannify — Create Impressive 3D Home Designs that Your Clients Love Say hi to the simplest interior home design tool made for both professionals and amateurs. Decorate and personalize the home designs with an extensive library of floors, wall coverings, materials, greenery,...
- Blink Booking — Blink Booking is an app that helps travelers in Europe book hotels at the last minute by providing a daily selection of four hotels. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed
- Italy
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- Euklid — EUKLID is a technology development company that realizes customizable systems of algorithms of Time Series Forecasting applied to financial stocks, commodities, indexes and other purposes.
- WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
FSVGDA aims at the promotion of the impact investing culture, in order to facilitate social innovation.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- C.NEXT — C.NEXT develops innovation projects for businesses and organizations by supporting the economy and territorial regeneration.
- Way Experience — Way Experience operates in all the entertainment B2C sectors, using augmented and virtual reality technology. They also work in the B2B area by applying their technologies for customized consultancy projects in the following sectors: design, fashion, medical, events, and training.
- Istituto De Filippi — L'Istituto Alberghiero De Filippi a Varese propone due diverse offerte formative: la Scuola Superiore e i percorsi di Alta Specializzazione.
Atlante Seed is an Intesa Sanpaolo Group's Fund dedicated to seed and early stage capital, it invests in innovative companies still small but with high growth potential, with a particular attention to those belonging to the high technology industry. Besides this activity (direct investments), the Fund invests in selected business incubators oraccelerators specialized in specific sectors (indirect investments).
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Sports, Hardware
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sellf — Sellfapp, the CRM Mobile for an easier sales tracking and clients managing. Ask for more information and download our 14 days free trials.
- GoPillar — Get dozens of high quality projects from professional designers: easy, fast and on a budget. Redesign your space on GoPillar.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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