Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026

Investor	Machine Learning Italy investments
CDP Venture Capital	6
United Ventures	4
Paolo Barberis	4
UniCredit	3
LIFTT	3
CRiF	3
Primo Capital	3
Metes	2
Vertis	2
P101	2
Geminea	2
NovaCapital	2
Club Italia Investimenti 2	2
ING Group	2
Wolsey Ventures	2
Francesco Beraldi	2
Fresco Capital	2
Webranking	1
Maurizio Donadelli	1
Zanichelli Venture	1
CDP Equity	1
Moffu Labs	1
Jan Sprengnetter	1
Edoardo Alessandri	1
Padda Health	1
Matteo Fago	1
Doorway Capital	1
Exor Ventures	1
Exor Ventures	1
Treuenburg Group	1
Lazio Innova	1
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano	1
Wylab	1
Open Venture	1
Umberto Paolucci	1
Angelo Italiano	1
Widening Venture	1
Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer	1
Torret Road Capital	1
Vento	1
QBerg	1
Deep Ocean Capital	1
Mana Ventures	1
Fondazione Golinelli	1
The Techshop	1
EIT Health	1
Pitchdrive	1
Invitalia	1
Marco Di Pietro	1
Lorenzo Lato	1

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
Dog Heroes — Dog Heroes delivers home recipes of fresh food, perfectly portioned to every dog's need. Only high-quality local ingredients are used in tailor-made portions that are ready to serve. Customers will find 55% meat of exclusively Italian origin in the company's recipes, balanced with vegetables, vitamins, and mineral salts. Dog Heroes doesnot use any chemical additives or preservatives.

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

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

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Italy, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Noiet — Noiet is a biotechnology firm whose mission is to develop clean, natural, and fermented proteins that serve as multifunctional alternatives.
Peelpack — Peelpack is a packaging company that specializes in biodegradable and compostable biopolymer punnets, aiming to replace plastic packaging.
Alma Serum — Alma Serum is a cosmetic and biotech company that turns dairy industry into advanced cosmetic and biomedical materials.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

QSensAto — QSensAto is a quantum sensing company specializing in the development and research of integrated vapor cells and quantum atomic sensors.
Agate Sensors — Agate Sensors offers equipment manufacturers advanced sensors that detect, identify, and classify people, vital signs, objects, and more. Their sensors come in a range of sizes, from single pixel devices to full matrix devices, and are produced using standard CMOS production processes, making them both cost-effective and efficient.
Sparrow Quantum — Sparrow Quantum, a global leader in quantum photonic chip technology. Explore innovative solutions driving advancements in quantum computing, communication, and beyond. Stay ahead with cutting-edge technologies shaping the future.

CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
Agrobit — Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed.
Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
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.
Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.

Metes operate as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Computer
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.
Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
Live Story Inc. — Forget about code and templates: with our freehand designable editor, you can quickly create layouts and publish them online in no time.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Toduba — Toduba is a digitalization company that provides shopping vouchers, food stamps, gift cards, and travel expense management.
Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.

Geminea assists entrepreneurs and businesses that want to grow and change the world by developing Artificial Intelligence.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.

NovaCapital invests in the union between entrepreneurs and innovation. It offers international and managerial experience, to transform innovative start-ups and already established companies into structured companies, with managerial skills and an international network.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Austria

Portfolio highlights

EarlySight — EarlySight start-up company is founded in order to accelerate the development and to bring the technology to clinics.
BeDimensional — New Material Solution
Magentiq Eye Ltd — AI assisted colonoscopy by MAGENTIQ EYE set a new standard of , recognized by the gastroenterology community for its superior performance.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. They serve more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. They draw on our experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service andtheir global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Akaysha Energy — Discover innovative and sustainable renewable energy solutions with Akaysha Energy. Powering Australia's future with clean, reliable energy.
WiseTech Global — WiseTech Global is changing the world of logistics through world-leading software solutions. Find out how you can make an impact by joining our team.

We lead, co-lead and at times just partecipate and invest anywhere in all pre-venture and series A rounds, helping organizations become enduring businesses.Yet entrepreneurs and investors aspire to learn from each other and remain inspired.Our mission at Wolsey Ventures consists in technology startups.We believe adoption of smart, digital andhigh technologies will continue to rise in 2016 and beyond,to meet demands from consumers and pressure from the competition to perform and adapt.This demand creates many opportunities for fast-growing companies to start up and reach a global scale.

Investment focus

Health Care, Legal, Fashion
Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SurgiQ — SurgiQ strives to make surgical pathways more effective, less invasive and easier on surgeons, patients, and their families. We help healthcare providers being more efficient and deliver timely care by providing an innovative audit and planning platform supported by AI algorithms.
Tossed — Healthy eating doesn't have to be boring with our delicious hot pots, house salads, power bowls & rainbow wraps made with fresh vegetables, lean protein & low GI carbs.
AirHelp — AirHelp is an online legal service that helps air passengers get compensation from airlines when their flight gets canceled, delayed, or overbooked. Passengers can access the service via its official Facebook page or its mobile app available for iOS and Android devices.AirHelp takes care of all the paperwork and legal communications with theairline on behalf of the passengers and claims 25% of the compensation obtained as its service fee. The compensation amount varies between $170 to $650 based on the distance flown by the flight and the duration of the delay experienced by the passenger at the final destination.AirHelp was launched in 2013 by Greg Roodt, Henrik Zillmer, and Nicolas Michaelsen.

Francesco Beraldi

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia

Investing at the intersection of people and technology.

Investment focus

Software, Education, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, China

Portfolio highlights

Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
Tangia — Tangia is an all in one platform that allows content creators to supercharge their viewer engagement, boost income, and unleash viewer creativity

Webranking is one of the largest independent digital marketing agencies in Europe, headquartered in Italy. By joining marketing, technology and creativity it has been able to reach peak performances and results for many International clients like Armani, J&J, Prada, Allianz, Ikea and many more. Webranking is certified by Google both as GMPSales Partner (full-stack on the several technologies and services) and Cloud Partner. 4 offices in Italy, 200+ consultants, among the 50 best workplaces in Europe according to Great Place To Work and featured by Financial Times in the FT1000 as one of the fastest growing companies in Europe in the last four years.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cassandra — Cassandra is the Marketing Measurement platform that incorporates Marketing Mix Modeling, Incrementality testing and Always on Incrementality to measure and allocate your Marketing Mix scientifically.

Maurizio Donadelli

Investment focus

Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Antlos — Antlos is a peer-to-peer online marketplace that offers all-inclusive experience-driven boat holidays, published and managed directly by local Skippers, who are the captains and owners of the boat. Based on the principles of a Sharing Economy, Antlos makes yachting simple, affordable and accessible to everyone.Every Skipper may publish severallistings and be contacted by registered users willing to book a holiday. Guests can choose from different destinations and experiences offered and safely pay online via credit card, Paypal and Bank Wire. The Skippers can start earning from the rental of their boat without having to pay any agency fees and clients can book their holidays easily and safely thanks to Antlos' flexible cancellation policies and clear terms and conditions.Antlos was born in Venice and grown in H-FARM Campus. The team is composed of young professionals, passionate and expert on travel and the maritime industry, coming from different work experiences. Recently Antlos has been merged with the Swiss company which runs Sailogy.com.
Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.

Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.We willsupport and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent.We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value.We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
Data Masters — I migliori corsi online di intelligenza artificiale, machine learning e data science. Formazione pratica, docenti esperti, lezioni on-demand e live. Entra ora!
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"

Investment focus

SaaS, Elder Care, Small and Medium Businesses
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.

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

Investment focus

Human Resources, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
Wayla — Wayla offre viaggi serali sicuri e sostenibili a Milano con il primo servizio di van pooling. Prenota tramite app e viaggia a bordo dei nostri van con autisti certificati a tariffe vantaggiose
Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Jan Sprengnetter is the CEO of Sprengnetter. Jan Sprengnetter attended the University of Trier.

Investment focus

FinTech, Leasing, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

onyo — The future of work is hybrid. onyo provides a one-stop solution to create and ensure a healthy working environment for your team at home. We help you consolidate the individual needs of your employees, match them with products and provide an attractive leasing solution. Via a digital platform, you can track and manage the home-office equipment withone click, 100% transparency, 100% cost control.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence

Edoardo Alessandri

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

IdentifAI — identifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!

Siamo partner di private equity con una struttura family office. Selezioniamo start-up tech-driven con idee innovative e voglia di emergere.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

GenomeUp — GenomeUp is an AI platform (SaaS) to enabling doctors and clinical institutions to diagnose and treat rare genetic diseases in less than 24h. GenomeUp is involved in international research projects and clinical trials in partnership with universities and research centers.
TeiaCare — TeiaCare is an Italian start-up born in 2018 with the aim of transferring technology and innovation knowledge to care homes.Our first solution, Ancelia, is an AI-powered operating system designed to increase transparency in the care and assistance processes, both inside the care home and towards residents' families.TeiaCare, based inMilan, operates in Italy and Spain, has a team of 15 people and is supported by international investors.
VoiceMed — Track respiratory health using voiceWe bring deep-tech innovation into your smartphone. With vocal biomarkers and artificial intelligence, we track the evolution of respiratory diseases.

Matteo Fago

Investment focus

Travel, Farming, Big Data
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
IdentifAI — identifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!

Doorway Capital is an independent provider of risk capital to law firms. It offers facilities of between £50,000 and £20 million to firms authorized by the SRA to practice law in England and Wales. These facilities can be used to fund disbursements, acquisitions, lock-up, tax liabilities, or anything else. It also purchases paid disbursements fromlaw firms for up to 80% of their face value. These means capital earning little or no return can be redeployed into more profitable activities of the firm or returned to its partners.Doorway Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Reby — Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs.
Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
Eoliann — Eoliann offers a climate risk assessment and prediction API to financial institutions. Our solution leverages satellite data and proprietary ML algorithms to forecast the probability and impact of specific climate risk events

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Investment focus

FinTech, Personal Finance, Financial Services
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

gini — gini is the financial tool that builds automated, AI-powered financial models for forecasting and scenario planning. Contact us today.
TeiaCare — TeiaCare is an Italian start-up born in 2018 with the aim of transferring technology and innovation knowledge to care homes.Our first solution, Ancelia, is an AI-powered operating system designed to increase transparency in the care and assistance processes, both inside the care home and towards residents' families.TeiaCare, based inMilan, operates in Italy and Spain, has a team of 15 people and is supported by international investors.

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Joinrs — We developed an artificial intelligence model able to read job offers for you and show you the ones that best match your profile.
Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
Ticketoo — Ticketoo: compra e vendi biglietti fan-to-fan in modo sicuro

Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Wylab is the first Sports Tech Incubator in Italy offering early stage startups a support program that will help them develop great products and services, as well as a thriving work space for young professionals and small businesses. They created a space where Startups can interact among them and with clubs, federations, agents, sports associationsof various kinds. Wylab is a place where it is possible to communicate with Universities, Industries and the Financial world. As a 100% private incubator, Wylab is able to manage a light and performing environment that allows Startups to grow up and expand their businesses quickly.

Investment focus

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wall Street Football — WSF is based on a fully-automated mathematical and statistical model integrated with Machine Learning for analyzing data and forecasting future player achievements and actions, and a dynamic algorithm that allows financial trading on derivatives based on footballers performance on the pitch.We provide our software and our services to gamingfirms, gambling companies, professional football teams and sport directors that wish to offer our products in their markets.Our long term vision is to cover all the major sports and leagues in the world.

Open Venture’s objective is to accompany early stage B2B start-ups with a high innovation content on their growth path. Its goal is to generate a positive impact on society, the economy and the environment.

Investment focus

AgTech, Software, Geospatial
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Quindi — Quindi is a Smart manufacturing startup that leverages the power of AI to turn data into manufacturing decisions.
Genius4U — Lavanderia, lavaggio auto, spesa, commissioni e molti altri servizi per semplificare la conciliazione vita-lavoro.Facile, veloce e digitale.Tutto direttamente
Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.

Umberto Paolucci

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

IdentifAI — identifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!

Angelo Italiano

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Desmotec — Tecnologia Isoinerziale Desmotec: soluzioni professionali per fisioterapia, sport e performance. Made in Italy, risultati reali.
MedSniper — medSniper is the synthesis of a faster, more secure approach to video laryngoscope procedures.
Ermes - Cyber Security S.p.A. — We believe in empowering people. Just like you. Discover our approach and enable your employees to navigate the web worry-free. Browser: your safe workspace. In a world where the web plays a key role in our daily work routines, our dynamic browser-protection solutions makes the difference, by assesing every web pages as soon as it goes live, providing

What happens at Widening?The most important thing we do is work with startups on their ideas.We are currently managing equity-free accelerator programs and making startup capital and expansion capital - e.g. early stage private equity - investments. We leverage an important international industrial and financial network, providing deeplysupport and mentoring to our start-ups. Widening helps startups improving their business model and introducing them individually to our ecosystem who could help them.We working together on Business Model Improvement / Corporate / Performance Management / Tax&Legal / Business Model Validation / R&D / Brand Stretching / Metrics / Consumer Analysis / UX

Investment focus

Legal, Internet, Software
Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

SurgiQ — SurgiQ strives to make surgical pathways more effective, less invasive and easier on surgeons, patients, and their families. We help healthcare providers being more efficient and deliver timely care by providing an innovative audit and planning platform supported by AI algorithms.
AirHelp — AirHelp is an online legal service that helps air passengers get compensation from airlines when their flight gets canceled, delayed, or overbooked. Passengers can access the service via its official Facebook page or its mobile app available for iOS and Android devices.AirHelp takes care of all the paperwork and legal communications with theairline on behalf of the passengers and claims 25% of the compensation obtained as its service fee. The compensation amount varies between $170 to $650 based on the distance flown by the flight and the duration of the delay experienced by the passenger at the final destination.AirHelp was launched in 2013 by Greg Roodt, Henrik Zillmer, and Nicolas Michaelsen.

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy.

Investment focus

Social, Hardware, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
ToothPic — ToothPic provides solutions on technologies for the recognition of photographic devices.ToothPic’s mission is turning every smartphone into a secure and user-friendly key for user authentication. ToothPic is an official university spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, a major engineering school in Italy and Europe, and is incubated in the universityincubator I3P, recently recognized by UBI Global as the best public incubator worldwide. ToothPic was founded by a team of 4 researchers and professors from Politecnico di Torino, and in 2018 received a seed from VV3TT, an Italian Venture Capital fund dedicated to Technology Transfer from public research. ToothPic technology is protected by 4 patents, and won several prizes in competitions dedicated to startups and twice the Seal of Excellence issued by the European Commission. ToothPic’s target is the market of authentication systems. Its technology recognizes the unique pattern of invisible imperfections that characterize smartphone cameras to protect cryptographic keys stored on devices, that are commonly used for user authentication, digital signature, blockchain related applications. The additional layer of security represented by this random unclonable feature can be obtained with no additional hardware and related costs. A Software Development Kit has been developed for Android and iOS. It can be integrated into existing third-party apps and authentication systems, allowing the device possession verification by (de)obfuscating asymmetric cryptographic keys. Users’ credentials are not stored in a centralized service provider server - representing a single point of failure exploitable by an attacker, but they are distributed on users’ devices. Hence, an adversary willing to violate those credentials should target each single user device, facilitating for service providers the migration from an on premises architecture to the cloud, because they don’t need to manage sensitive users credentials, but only their public key.
IntendiMe — IntendiMe proposes to improve the life of deaf persons and of those with hearing issues, making them feel more independent, free, and safe. All this is possible thanks to an innovative system that allows to detect any sound in real time and to receive a warning for them directly on your own wrist, through the dedicated smartwatch.

We back serial entrepreneurs with seed investment

Investment focus

Mobile, Information Technology, Tourism
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mercaux — Mercaux was listed in Retail Week's Discovery 50 list 2020, which shines a light on the world's top tech companies whose innovative solutions are supporting the retail sector both during the pandemic and in the future.Mercaux is the ‘backbone’ for your in-store digital transformation journey. We help retailers deliver superioromnichannel customer experiences by bringing the best of digital and physical retail together.We equip Sales Associates and stores with the digital tools they need to serve and sell smarter, across the entire customer journey. The solutions are operated by Sales Associates using a tablet-based app or self-served by customers using touch screen kiosks or their own phones via a web-based App. All the solutions are all managed by a HQ Platform.Our core solutions Sales Assist, Omnichannel and Clienteling equip staff with instant access to product information, company-wide inventory, digital content, customers’ profiles and wish lists, through to mobile checkout capabilities. Additional add-ons such as AI-driven Styling Suggestions, Store and Customer Communications and Advanced Analytics elevate stores towards a fully integrated digital ecosystem.The use of this technology also opens the black box of in-store data so retailers can understand what actions contribute to a sale (or lost basket) in a customer’s path-to-purchase by revealing customer behaviours, staff performance and product funnels.When clients like Nike, French Connection and Benetton adopt digital tools in their stores, they see an increase in conversion, loyalty and units per transaction (UPT). On average they experience a sales uplift of 8% and 5x ROI.
TeiaCare — TeiaCare is an Italian start-up born in 2018 with the aim of transferring technology and innovation knowledge to care homes.Our first solution, Ancelia, is an AI-powered operating system designed to increase transparency in the care and assistance processes, both inside the care home and towards residents' families.TeiaCare, based inMilan, operates in Italy and Spain, has a team of 15 people and is supported by international investors.
Electronic IDentification — Electronic IDentification is a software manufacturer created in 2013 to lead the next generation of e-trust services. We have created VideoID, the first and only technology that combines video streaming with the most advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithm to identify people in just seconds from any device and through anychannel.VideoID is creating a new services category in the Internet to identify customers remotely by providing the same technical security and legal compliance as face-to-face identification.Of its numerous awards, eID was recently named one of the top 100 most innovative RegTech companies in the world and recognised by Gartner as “Cool Vendor 2017” and creator of this new market segment for video identification.Want to see how it works? Check out our website and discover the technology that will exponentially increase your conversion rate and your customer satisfaction in onboarding processes that call for identification with the maximum legal and technical guarantees like in the financial industry for KYC/AML processes, the collaborative economy, or the travel sector.

We want to empower the next generation of exceptional Italian founders by investing in and building new companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Italy, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
Perpethua — Perpetua is an Italian fintech company specializing in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (PMIs) through the critical phase of generational transition, especially when there is no clear successor within the business operates primarily as a digital platform that automates the M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) process for SMEs,connecting entrepreneurs without successors with qualified investors interested in ensuring business continuity and growth.
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

QBerg is a market research company that provides innovative price intelligence and strategic consulting services for companies.

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Portfolio highlights

Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.

Deep Ocean Capital is an independent management company that specializes in early-stage investments in deep technologies. Through its fund, Deep Blue Ventures, the firm focuses on sectors such as aerospace, healthcare, and sustainability and aims to support innovative companies from product-market fit to scaling across international markets.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Nanotechnology
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
AIKO - Infinite Ways to Autonomy — Aiko develops and commercializes algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence to increase the autonomy of satellite missions.

Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sahay AI — Smart Inspection solutions for infrastructure
Peer AI — The agentic AI platform for life sciences—Peer AI accelerates regulatory & clinical documentation across phases, combining speed, quality & compliance.
Ruli — Ruli | The AI Teammate for Legal Professionals.

Fondazione Golinelli was born in Bologna in 1988 by the will of the entrepreneur and philanthropist Marino Golinelli with the aim to promote education and training, to promote the culture, to foster intellectual growth and ethics of young people, the citizens of tomorrow.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Biorfarm — Adotta il tuo Albero, crea il tuo Campo Digitale e ricevi a domicilio la tua frutta biologica. Solo con Biorfarm puoi seguire la crescita dei tuoi frutti!
EvenFi — Criptalia uses blockchain technology to connect businesses that have projects to be funded with people and organizations who are looking for high-yield investments. We offer an online platform where companies publish their innovative ideas and industrial improvement projects. Investors, people, and institutions can fund these projects by lendingmoney in exchange for a higher interest rate.
Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GenomeUp — GenomeUp is an AI platform (SaaS) to enabling doctors and clinical institutions to diagnose and treat rare genetic diseases in less than 24h. GenomeUp is involved in international research projects and clinical trials in partnership with universities and research centers.
ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the EU. We deliver solutions to enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
eBreathie — eBreathie is a pioneering digital health startup offering an integrated asthma management solution. Our system comprises a smart inhaler (a medical device) that not only tracks WHEN patients take their medication but also HOW they do it, creating a detailed inhalation profile for each use. Paired with a user-friendly mobile app for patients and acomprehensive patient management platform for doctors, we provide real-time feedback on inhalation efficacy, ensuring patients and healthcare professionals have the insights needed for optimal asthma management. Leveraging IoT and AI, our goal is to reduce emergency visits, asthma attacks, and hospitalizations while ensuring effective inhalation techniques and optimal patient care.
Trak — Trak is a software tool for healthcare professional to provide AI-based tele-rehabilitation services like physiotherapy and others.

Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

introw — We help B2B sales, marketing & partnership teams to unlock warm referral leads in their partner ecosystem through AI. Allowing them to discover & co-sell on these leads from within their sales tools.
Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
DataPad — Say hello to the World's easiest metric tracking tool. Track everything in one place. Enable your entire team. Build data culture. All with no code, no development.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
Italy, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Tutornow — Ripetizioni online in matematica, fisica, inglese e oltre 150 materie. Ripetizioni per DSA e BES con tutor certificati. Lezioni online individuali da 60 minuti.
BILLD — Billd is a cleantech firm that offers the first digital receipt service to capture huge data from the offline market using AI.
Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.

Marco Di Pietro former director of Yoox.

Investment focus

Advertising, Marketing Automation, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
Cassandra — Cassandra is the Marketing Measurement platform that incorporates Marketing Mix Modeling, Incrementality testing and Always on Incrementality to measure and allocate your Marketing Mix scientifically.

Lorenzo Lato

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cassandra — Cassandra is the Marketing Measurement platform that incorporates Marketing Mix Modeling, Incrementality testing and Always on Incrementality to measure and allocate your Marketing Mix scientifically.