Top 45 Machine Learning VC Funds & Investors in Italy (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $494k–$17M |
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United Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $274k–$18M |
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Primo Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Aerospace, Information Technology | $329k–$28M |
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LIFTT
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing | $329k–$21M |
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UniCredit
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, Germany, Spain | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy | $521k–$1.4B |
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P101
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, Spain, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $236k–$15M |
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CRiF
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain | $122k–$9M |
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Geminea
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Banking, FinTech, Finance | ||
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Metes
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Banking, FinTech, Finance | ||
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NovaCapital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Israel, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Manufacturing | $137k–$40M |
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Vertis
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Computer, E-Commerce | $823k–$10M |
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Wolsey Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Legal, Fashion | $220k–$12M |
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The Techshop
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $658k–$120M |
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ING Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $100M–$3B |
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Fresco Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Hong Kong, China | Seed, Series A | Software, Education, SaaS | $500k–$15M |
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | $55k–$576k |
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Open Venture
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability | $551k–$4.1M |
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ING Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands | Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $5M–$160M |
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Vento
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Germany, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $571k–$8.2M |
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Padda Health
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1.3M–$2.7M |
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Moffu Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Human Resources, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $206k–$2.3M |
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Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Social, Hardware, Software | $329k–$3.1M |
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Webranking
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | SaaS, Software, Analytics | |
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Green Sands Equity
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, Canada | Series B, Seed | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $5M–$221M |
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CDP Equity
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Beauty, Events | $2.7M–$4M |
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Italian Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software | $1.4M–$19M |
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Bocconi University
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Software, Analytics, Security | $33k–$1.1M |
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Mana Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.1M–$48M |
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Lazio Innova
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $27k–$1.3M |
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $325k–$55M |
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EIT Health
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $22k–$1.6M |
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Treuenburg Group
VC Fund
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1 | Hong Kong | Seed | FinTech, Personal Finance, Financial Services | |
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $219k–$14M |
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Azimut Holding
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, China | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Information Technology | $1.8M–$18M |
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Wylab
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning | ||
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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $713k–$10M |
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Torret Road Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, Italy, United States | Series A, Seed | SaaS, Mobile, Tourism | $2.2M–$5M |
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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note | Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy | $299k–$2.5B |
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Invitalia
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Sweden | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $22k–$2M |
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Nina Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $573k–$22M |
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Climate-KIC
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Italy, Switzerland | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | CleanTech, Sustainability, Software | $17k–$1.9M |
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Doorway Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, France | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage | $1.5M–$6.9M |
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Pitchdrive
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $110k–$4.8M |
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QBerg
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Fondazione Golinelli
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech | $122k–$467k |
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CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 245
- Round size: Seed $494k–$8.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
- CamGraPhIC — Our platform supports the ever-increasing data traffic demand with high-performing and low-power consumption electro-optical engines.
- Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
- Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
- Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.
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- Industry: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.4M; Series A $3.3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
- Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
- AIKO - Infinite Ways to Autonomy — We build AI designed for the realities of space. From onboard intelligence to ground operations, our technology turns autonomy into something practical, reliable, and ready to fly.
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $329k–$4.7M; Series A $2.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- vitrealab — Enlighten. Your perspective. Light Engines for AR glasses.
- Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
- RAAAM Memory Technologies Ltd. — RAAAM provides a unique on-chip memory technology that offers the highest-density embedded memory solution in any standard CMOS process.RAAAM develops a high-density memory technology that allows for up to 50% higher on-chip memory density with no cost, complexity, or performance-penalty.
UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $40M–$1.4B; Debt Financing $521k–$899M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
- FITT — FITT specializes in thermoplastic fluid transfer and management solutions.
- EuroGroup Laminations — We develop and produce stators and rotors solutions for the energy transition, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and sustainability on a global scale.
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
- A-Cube — A-Cube is a software company that provides digital solutions to exchange documents with government agencies.
- Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $122k–$9M; Pre-Seed $132k–$549k
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
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.
Geminea assists entrepreneurs and businesses that want to grow and change the world by developing Artificial Intelligence.
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- Industry: Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.
Metes operate as an investment firm.
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- Industry: Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Israel, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$40M; Pre-Seed $137k–$140k; Series A $5.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ISAAC — ISAAC is an innovative tech company at the forefront of enhancing structural resilience through advanced active mass damper systems. Specializing in seismic and wind protection, ISAAC's solutions dynamically improve the stability of existing buildings and infrastructure. Utilizing non-invasive retrofitting techniques, our active mass dampersenhance the safety and comfort of structures under dynamic loads without altering their original aesthetics. This approach not only safeguards buildings during natural events but also contributes to greener construction practices by avoiding extensive reconstruction, aligning with sustainable development goals in urban environments.
- Kiutra — We provide cryogen-free cooling systems that simplify low-temperature research. Our solutions offer fast cooldowns, automated control and millikelvin performance ideal for quantum technologies and material science.
- Juniper Biosciences — Juniper Biosciences are at the forefront of transforming healthcare with revolutionary radiopharmaceuticals.
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Browse database — It's Free!Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.
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- Industry: Software, Computer, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $823k–$3.6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Quido AI — Quido is the co-pilot for investment professionals. Quido allows private capital professionals to streamline data retrieval and data analysis and dramatically increase their efficiency.
- Focoos AI — Focoos reshapes computer vision with ultra-efficient models that drive down costs, automate hardware integration, and ensure peak performance on any device, while promoting sustainability.
- TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Legal, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $220k–$235k; Series A $1.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $658k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $658k–$38M; Series A $8.2M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- hlpy — hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks.
- Smartness — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
- Sustainable Brand Platform — Sustainable Brand Platform is the sustainability intelligence solution for fashion brands and manufacturers to accurately measure and manage their sustainability performance.
Corporate site of ING, a global financial institution of Dutch origin, providing news, investor relations and general information
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $116M–$3B; Debt Financing $100M–$1.6B
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terra-Gen — Terra-Gen was established in August 2007, led by an experienced executive management team averaging over 25 years of relevant industry experience. The team has contracted or re-contracted over 10,000 MW of power generation facilities and has developed or acquired over $25 billion in assets over their careers.
- Glenveagh Properties — Glenveagh Properties PLC, formerly Glenveagh Properties Ltd, is an Ireland-based company focused on developing and building starter, mid-size and executive and high-end homes, with a principal focus on the Greater Dublin Area, either for itself or on behalf of third parties. Its flagship residential development site is the Marina village, which islocated beside the marina in Greystones with clear views of the Irish Sea to the east and the Wicklow Mountains to the west. Its other developments include Cois Glaisin, Co. Meath that focuses on first-time buyer homes and is located in the Dublin commuter-belt town of Navan,; Holsteiner Park, Clonee that is a development of 15 detached houses built on half acre plots; Milltown Meadows that is located in Ashbourne and comprises 67 homes; and Herbert Hill that comprises apartments and is located in the centre of Dundrum.
- Vulcan Energy Resources — Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd is a junior mineral exploration company that is exploring and developing battery metals projects in Europe.
Investing at the intersection of people and technology.
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- Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Hong Kong, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.1M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
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.
- Subscript — Create, understand, and tell the story of your subscription business through numbers.
- AlwaysHired — Cost neutral sales hiring solutions for employers. Join top tech companies.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $110k–$219k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.9M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
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.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $551k–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Poleepo — Poleepo ti permette di vendere su tutti i marketplace, comparatori e social contemporaneamente. Ottimizza il tuo e-commerce!
- 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.
- Alter Eco Pulp — Alter Eco Pulp is a fiber molding company that processes waste and natural cellulose fibers to manufacture disposable products.
ING Ventures is the venture capital arm of ING making minority investments in early stage companies that have a strategic relevance to ING. It targets disruptive technologies that have the potential to impact ING’s business and ensure customers and clients get access to best-in-class services. Based in Amsterdam but shadowing ING’s geographicfootprint of 41 countries, ING Ventures is a €300 million fund that not only drives innovation within ING, but also helps entrepreneurs with hands-on support, know-how, scaling expertise and access to our distribution network.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Series A $5M–$17M; Series B $5M–$160M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- qodek — Welcome to qodek website. The most powerful marketing automation plateform. Official website. Ranking number 1 in google search.
- Stegra — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.
- Thought Machine — Cloud Native Core Banking.
We want to empower the next generation of exceptional Italian founders by investing in and building new companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $571k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- The Bland Company — The Bland Company is a biotechnology and food startup headquartered in London, focused on developing simple, transformative ingredients. The company operates within the biotechnology research industry and has a small team, with a company size estimated between 2–10 employees. Its official website, theblandcompany.co, indicates it is preparing tolaunch products or services, as the site currently features a "Coming Soon" message along with a newsletter subscription option.
- Always Friday — AI Native Agency for the MICE market
Siamo partner di private equity con una struttura family office. Selezioniamo start-up tech-driven con idee innovative e voglia di emergere.
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- Industry: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — We bring deep-tech innovation into your smartphone. With vocal biomarkers and artificial intelligence, we measure respiratory diseases.
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Browse database — It's Free!MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups.
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- Industry: Human Resources, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $206k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $556k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- Elemento Cloud — At Elemento we develop the Cloud of tomorrow. Thanks to our operating system, AtomOS, we are able to provide unprecedented on-premise cloud solutions either on your own servers or on our hardware appliances. In addition, our OS is capable of automatically reselling the surplus power your local infrastructure provides, to transform your local wastein someone else's precious resource. This approach will offer to our customers an unrivalled on-premise cloud experience with the ability to scale into remote cloud resources with a few clicks or taps, making multi-cloud a completely transparent feature.
Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy.
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- Industry: Social, Hardware, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $329k–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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- Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
- Relicta — Relicta solution is a water-soluble bioplastic material obtained from fish processing waste and suitable for packaging solutions.
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Cassandra — Cassandra gives you ongoing suggestions to optimize Marketing Investments across all the campaigns you have, suggests where and how much to spend on each campaign while automates your marketing workflows.
Green Sands Equity is a boutique private equity investment firm focused on Growth Capital, Investment Advisory and Strategic Buyouts.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, Canada
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- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $5M–$29M; Series B $25M–$221M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- TreQ — TreQ are quantum engineers who manufacture and operate bespoke, open-architecture quantum computing systems to accelerate your quantum journey
- Stepful — New York City, 100% Job Guarantee, Online, 4 months, Part-Time, $166 per month
- Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.
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"
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- Industry: SaaS, Beauty, Events
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$5.2M; Series A $14M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- compri — Automate all your Procurement activities with AI
- Pillar — Pillar is shaping a world where every construction company—regardless of size—is resilient, financially sound, and empowered with the tools and insights needed to navigate uncertainty, manage risk, and achieve long-term growth in a volatile industry.
- Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.
Università Bocconi, founded in 1902, was the first Italian university to grant a degree in economics.For a century, Bocconi has played a leading role in Italy's social and economic modernization. It has remained true to its founding values of being a major research university, with democratic values and open to the world, as well asfinancially and politically independent.Università Bocconi believes that excellence can only be based on a person's academic profile as well as on his or her values and cultural and ethical background. This is why the University offers numerous activities, special occasions for people to enrich their knowledge.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Security
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $33k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Mine Crime — Mine Crime is the social impacting project of the Innovative Startup (also recognised as a benefit corporation) SAFETECOM Srl SB, devoted to a clear vision: revolutionising the paradigm of urban security management.More precisely, Mine Crime is a software (progressive web-app) that, thanks to a proprietary algorithm, collects and systematisesdata on urban offences (by accessing both big data online and offline) within the first Italian thematic database accessible to corporates, citizens and any interested stakeholder.This makes it possible to provide citizens, corporates and public administrations with the first digital observatory (interactive Web-GIS) on urban micro-crimes updated in real time.In addition, thanks to our underneath analytical systems, Mine Crime is able to process and produce composite urban-risk indicators as predictors of criminogenic phenomena. In this way, citizens and corporates can benefit from a safer environment and therefore from lower social, collective and individual costs to be incurred because of crime and urban decay.
- Quick Algorithm — Placed in one of the fastest-growing markets, Quick Algorithm is a recently established and fast-growing Data-Science start-up based in Milan. Quick Algorithm provides on-demand Data-Science services that enable companies to easily get-up to speed in a new data-driven universe. All our bespoke solutions are supported by our Data-Automationplatform Scops, which allows companies not only to become more efficient in the data analysis but also to benefit from powerful Machine Learning algorithms all in one place. Victoria, our Robo-Analyst, integrates Scops functionalities by autonomously alerting and sending data-driven insight to the client.
Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
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- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.6M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.3M in 2024
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- Secludy — Secludy generates privacy-safe synthetic data so teams can train AI models without exposing PII or restricted customer data.
- Anello Photonics — Anello Photonics is founded by pioneers in silicon photonics and inertial navigation. The patented Anello SiPhOG gyroscope offers an affordable mass-market sensor with true Optical Gyroscope performance. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and funded by leading venture capital firms.
- Kanvas Biosciences — Kanvas Biosciences has developed cutting-edge imaging technology to map the microbiome and develop therapeutics.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $186k–$1.3M; Grant $27k–$33k; Pre-Seed $53k–$549k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
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- HEU — HEU is a legaltech company that automates and manages legal documents and allows users to edit and share them.
- Joinrs — Cut the noise. Joinrs uses AI to find the jobs that actually match your skills, experience and preferences. Over 2 million job seekers trust Joinrs.
- Ticketoo — Compra e vendi biglietti in modo etico su Ticketoo. La piattaforma sicura per transazioni fan-to-fan. Trova i migliori eventi e assicurati il biglietto per i tuoi spettacoli preferiti.
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
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, France
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- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $2M–$26M; Pre-Seed $325k–$6.3M; Series A $6.5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland
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- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $220k–$1.4M; Grant $22k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $44k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
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- 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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Personal Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- 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.
IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.9M; Angel $219k–$1.2M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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- Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
- Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
- Alomana —
Azimut Holding is an independent financial company that offers investment solutions to develop excellent levels of experience. The company's business model is based on the vertical integration between asset management and distribution. It has portfolio managers and analysts based in major hubs around the world and a network of client-facingfinancial advisors operating to deliver quality advice to clients.Azimut Holding was founded on 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, China
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- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$9M; Series A $1.8M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
- RedCarbon — RedCarbon is a cyber automation company that supports security using AI and NLP. RedCarbon was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Streetbeat — Hedge fund level trading for everyone. StreetBeat’s solution is a combination of online brokerage and hybrid Robo-advisor with a significant edge on transforming data into actionable insight for casual and retail traders. Working with data from the most strategic providers, who currently serve the top hedge funds, we develop insights from creditcards, satellites, mobile GPS, app usage, and web browsing. We decode this information and make it actionable for everyone through our web application and an intuitive mobile app that can be easily used by experts and non-experts, reducing the information gap that exists between the average investor and Wall Street.At StreetBeat.com we are driven to give you a real-time view of the economy of the world with our 17 patent-pending software and the fastest signal on the market.Our algorithms individual stocks based on personalized characteristics of traders.https://youtu.be/pxwbSanXDRk
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.
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- Industry: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Wall Street Football — WallStreetFootball Odds. Delivering real-time football odds, and customizable feeds for betting operators worldwide. Fast. Accurate. Scalable.
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.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $713k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $713k–$1.6M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
- 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.
We back serial entrepreneurs with seed investment
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Tourism
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Spain, Italy, United States
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- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI.
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- Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $130M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.3B; Convertible Note $299k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
- EuroGroup Laminations — We develop and produce stators and rotors solutions for the energy transition, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and sustainability on a global scale.
Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Italy, Sweden
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- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $532k–$2M; Grant $22k–$735k; Debt Financing $212k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
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- LexDo.it — LexDo.it provides Affordable Legal Services Online.
- 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.
- Totally Innovation — Totally Innovation is a software company developing artificial intelligence based music management platform and creates license-free music.
We deploy early stage capital to fuel the growth of need-driven health technology companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $2M–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $573k–$2.4M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
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- Navidence — Navidence provides a transformative Real World Evidence (RWE) Design platform that enables organizations to efficiently adapt to the ever-increasing ecosystem of Real World Data (RWD) sources. The company unlocks the power of Computable Operational Definitions (CODefs) for RWE Design and RWD Assessment. Navidence's RWE Sherpa platform offerstools to streamline the process of defining an RWE study's data, making it easier for researchers to conduct their studies in the age of data.
- Rivia — Integrated Clinical Trial Intelligence. Drive therapeutic evaluation and trial management with real-time insights.
- Sober Sidekick — Gamified peer to peer support
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Browse database — It's Free!EIT Climate-KIC is a European knowledge and innovation community, working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, we identify and support innovation that helps society mitigate and adapt to climate change. They believe that a decarbonised, sustainable economy is notonly necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, but presents a wealth of opportunities for business and society.
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- Industry: CleanTech, Sustainability, Software
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $274k–$1.9M; Grant $17k–$99k; Pre-Seed $55k–$351k
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
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- Afterwind — Afterwind® exists to preserve natural resources for future generations by recycling glass fibre assets into circular advanced materials with full traceability.We help asset owners and industrial manufacturers in Advanced Materials, Renewable Energy, and Construction recover and reuse end-of-life and byproduct materials without compromising theiroriginal properties, including glass and carbon fibres, PET and PVC foams, and resin powders.Team Afterwind is expanding across Europe, working on- or near-site to help our clients cut costs, CO2, and risks, while supplying stable, high-quality, circular advanced materials that deliver on EU Taxonomy and green targets.
- RECYCLLUX — RECYCLLUX is making use of the collected satellite Earth Observation data and applies machine-learning algorithms to identify the marine plastic litter problem spots, where actions need to be taken.
- GreenPow — GreenPow is a grid and carbon-aware cloud infrastructure platform that reduces AI and ICT emissions by up to 85% while lowering compute costs for organizations worldwide. GreenPow Holdings sits at the center of this group, owning the core intellectual property behind the MAIZX carbon-aware orchestration engine, the Carbon Ledger, and the automationframework deployed across private, hybrid, and sovereign cloud environments.Through its subsidiaries in Estonia, Germany, and Costa Rica, GreenPow operates renewable-powered cloud nodes, provides private-cloud-as-a-service for enterprises, and delivers a carbon-intelligent compute platform. It combines real-time emissions tracking, workload automation, and compliance-grade reporting aligned with CSRD, ESG, and data sovereignty requirements.Through customer aquisition and pilot experimentation, GreenPow delivers operative 78% gross margins and achieves around 52% CO₂ reduction per compute-hour versus baseline cloud workloads, while leveraging a distributed, high-efficiency infrastructure footprint. Its mission is to build the world’s first federated, carbon-intelligent cloud a platform where workloads automatically run in the cleanest and most efficient locations available.Positioned at the intersection of AI infrastructure, sustainability, and cloud automation, GreenPow is creating a next-generation compute ecosystem designed to power climate-aligned digital transformation for enterprises, governments, and emerging markets.Carbon-aware cloud, green cloud computing, private cloud, sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, ESG, CSRD, carbon accounting, carbon optimization, cloud orchestration, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, DevOps automation, clean tech, sustainability, green compute, iaas,paas.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.9M; Series A $1.5M–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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
- Smartness — 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!
Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $656k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $110k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NineID — NineID provides a biometric access control solution and identity visitor management system that increases businesses' security, compliance, and safety.
- Revend — Thanks for visiting Revend's Crunchbase page. Revend is the e-commerce tool that monitors, detects, and pinpoints revenue-impacting issues in minutes for D2C and omni-channel companies. Put differently, Revend is a watchdog for e-commerce KPIs. Revenue, add to carts, checkouts, we keep a close eye on them in near real-time. It is supereasy to install, and easily integrates with your preferred communication channels. We've also been called 'a smoke detector for online shops'.We are working together with a select number of large e-commerce companies that currently trail our solution prior to our launch in early 2023.Today, you can put yourself on the waitlist to ensure early access on Revend's website upon launch. For any questions or requests, please feel welcome to reach out via info@revend.ai.
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
QBerg is a market research company that provides innovative price intelligence and strategic consulting services for companies.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $122k–$467k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
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