# Top 45 Machine Learning VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in June 2026 ## CDP Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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. ## United Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology. ## Primo Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Aerospace, Information Technology 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. ## LIFTT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital. ## UniCredit - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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 ## CRiF - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle. ## Geminea - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance Geminea assists entrepreneurs and businesses that want to grow and change the world by developing Artificial Intelligence. ## Metes - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance Metes operate as an investment firm. ## NovaCapital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing 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. ## Vertis - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Computer, E-Commerce 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. ## Wolsey Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Genoa, Liguria, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Legal, Fashion 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. ## The Techshop - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups. ## ING Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Corporate site of ING, a global financial institution of Dutch origin, providing news, investor relations and general information ## Fresco Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, SaaS Investing at the intersection of people and technology. ## Club Italia Investimenti 2 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital. ## Open Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability 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. ## ING Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance 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. ## Vento - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS We want to empower the next generation of exceptional Italian founders by investing in and building new companies. ## Padda Health - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology Siamo partner di private equity con una struttura family office. Selezioniamo start-up tech-driven con idee innovative e voglia di emergere. ## Moffu Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Human Resources, E-Commerce, Information Technology MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups. ## Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Social, Hardware, Software Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. ## Webranking - Type: VC Fund - Location: Correggio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics 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. ## Green Sands Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology Green Sands Equity is a boutique private equity investment firm focused on Growth Capital, Investment Advisory and Strategic Buyouts. ## CDP Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Beauty, Events 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" ## Italian Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software Unlocking Italy's Next Founders ## Bocconi University - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, Security 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. ## Mana Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage technology companies and consumer brands. ## Lazio Innova - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Exor Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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 ## EIT Health - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical 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. ## Treuenburg Group - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Personal Finance, Financial Services Treuenburg Group is a Company ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Azimut Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Wylab - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chiavari, Liguria, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning 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. ## Zanichelli Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech 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. ## Torret Road Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mahón, Islas Baleares, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Tourism We back serial entrepreneurs with seed investment ## Intesa Sanpaolo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note - Focus: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy 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. ## Invitalia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Nina Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software We deploy early stage capital to fuel the growth of need-driven health technology companies. ## Climate-KIC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: CleanTech, Sustainability, Software 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. ## Doorway Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage 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. ## Pitchdrive - Type: VC Fund - Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up. ## QBerg - Type: VC Fund - Location: Garbagnate Milanese, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence QBerg is a market research company that provides innovative price intelligence and strategic consulting services for companies. ## Fondazione Golinelli - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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