Top 15 Local VC Funds & Investors in Italy (July 2026)

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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!

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

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• Shawton Energy — Shawton Energy provides innovative, sustainable energy solutions that help businesses reduce their carbon footprint, cut costs and optimise efficiency. Discover how we can power your business toward a greener future.
• Mochdre Biomass Ltd — Mochdre Biomass Ltd owns and operates a biomass combined heat and power generation plant.
• Carbon Capture Scotland — Carbon Capture Scotland seeks to get rid of carbon dioxide that has been organically stored in grains and barley.

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• Vestinda — Vestinda is the platform that provides investments in digital assets. Their features are portfolio tracking, crypto portfolio tracking, strategy libraries,crypto investment strategies,strategy builders, trading strategies built with no code, backtesting backtested crypto trading strategies,demo trading,crypto paper trading, and risk-free livetrading.
• LIA — Lendit is a credit-sharing platform where companies and professionals can lend and apply for liquidity in a simple, fast and tailor-made manner. Specifically, Lendit provides a web-based platform to match corporate loan requests with companies, professionals or institutional investors who want to lend liquidity. Lendit's objective is to makeaccess to credit inclusive and accessible to all 'fragile' micro enterprises and entrepreneurs to credit. In fact, Lendit's target is microcredit, with applications ranging from a minimum of EUR 1,000 to a maximum of EUR 50,000. To date, almost two million enterprises are unable to obtain the desired credit. Of these, the greatest difficulty encountered is with applications under 20,000€. Lendit is also structured and built to be not only a "simple' p2p lending platform, but also to be integrated with financial institutions (thanks to partnerships with banks and intermediaries) in order to so as to create an open, multi-platform system that allows users to use innovative p2p lending services directly from their home banking
• Lendit — Lendit offers an Integrated Lending Circuit solution for partner platforms, connecting lenders and applicants through a plug and play system. This technology allows to provide inclusive lending and investment services without requiring a license. We create customized access through your platform's portal, simplifying and making the processimmediate for end users.

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• Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
• Ivpc Group — Ivpc Group is a renewable energy company that specializes in the development and management of wind farms and turbines.
• Mercuria — A world leading independent energy and commodity group

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• Ludoil — Ludoil is an energy company that offers production, storage, logistics, and marketing services for oil products
• Ecoross — Ecoross eroga servizi inerenti alla gestione rifiuti, bonifica amianto, sanificazione ambienti, noleggio bagni chimici e pulizia stradale.
• ITA Airways — Die Angebote von ITA Airways. Entdecken Sie mehr und buchen Sie sofort Ihren Flug nach Italien, Europa und in den Rest der Welt.

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• Linkem — Linkem ti offre Internet senza linea fissa per la tua casa grazie alla tecnologia FWA. Naviga senza limiti di traffico.
• PerMicro — PerMicro: credito e microcredito per l'inclusione. Al fianco di startup, micro e piccole imprese e famiglie con esigenze primarie.

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• VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
• SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.
• Complix — Complix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of Alphabodiesâ„¢, a novel class of biopharmaceuticals that offer significant advantages over existing protein based therapies. Alphabodiesâ„¢ bind with high affinity to a wide range of disease targets and are particularly suited to address certain targets that aredifficult to reach with antibodies or other types of protein scaffolds. Due to their unique stability and versatility Alphabodiesâ„¢ can be delivered via alternative non-injectable routes of administration, unlike most therapeutic proteins.

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• iRaiser — Elevate your charity fundraising with iRaiser's tailored solutions. Trusted by over 850 charities globally. Boost donations, engage supporters, and track success effortlessly. Unleash generosity today!
• EatRight — EatRight are into packaging of fresh and good quality food products.
• Trapview — Trapview provides automated pest monitoring and forecasting tools for agriculture, forestry and food storage. Get real-time insights and reduce insecticide use.

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• Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
• Intron Health — Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for AfricaUnlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds Build with Sahara Try Sahara Built for African SpeechFrom Lagos Call Centers, to Hospitals in Nairobi, Boardrooms in Cape Town, and Courtrooms in
• Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

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• KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
• ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
• WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

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• PerMicro — PerMicro: credito e microcredito per l'inclusione. Al fianco di startup, micro e piccole imprese e famiglie con esigenze primarie.

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• CityNews — Citynews is an italian based network of local newspaper sites. Actually active in 9 cities Citynews planning to open in the 30 principal italian cities. Actually 1,4 million visits each months.

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• HEU — HEU is a legaltech company that automates and manages legal documents and allows users to edit and share them.
• Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
• GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come

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• Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
• Yolo Tech Insurance — YOLO Group, uno dei principali operatori nel mercato insurtech italiano dei servizi assicurativi digitali, quotato in borsa sul segmento EGM.
• Italian Artisan — Elevate your fashion brand with expert Italian clothing manufacturers | Streamline your production with Italian Artisan | Low MOQ