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Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Italy in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Italy in April 2025

Investor	Manufacturing Italy investments
360 Capital	8
CDP Venture Capital	8
Primo Capital	8
UniCredit	5
Intesa Sanpaolo	4
Vertis	4
LIFTT	4
Tech4Planet	3
Pariter Partners	3
Alberto Giusti	3
035 Investimenti	3
RoboIT	3
Eureka Venture	3
Fulvio Basili	2
Matteo Fago	2
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino	2
Scientifica Venture Capital	2
Guala Closures Group	2
Family, Friends & Angels	2
Italian Angels for Growth	2
3LB Seed Capital Srl	2
Giovanni Onesti	2
Algebris Investments	2
Club degli Investitori	2
Club Italia Investimenti 2	2
TAN Food	2
Growth Engine	2
Francesco Starace	2
Crédit Agricole Italia	2
SIMEST	2
Invitalia Ventures	2
Banco BPM	2
Creative Thinking Ventures	2
Toscana Next Fund	2
Considi	1
Archangel AdVenture	1
Invitalia	1
Bios Line Holding	1
Intermedia Iniziative	1
Greiner Innoventures	1
ClubDeal Digital	1
FITEC	1
European regional development fund (ERDF)	1
Alexandro Sances	1
Marco De Nicola	1
Milano Investment Partners SGR	1
Terna Forward	1
Fondamenta SGR	1
Omnes Capital	1
Selected Investments	1

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Oxyle — Destroy PFAS to below detection limits - permanently, sustainably and at scale. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
Soource — Automate B2B sourcing with Soource AI: find and compare new suppliers, and maintain an updated database optimizing your procurement processes.
Movo — Movo is a circular packaging solution made for e-commerce folks. They offer reusable packaging solutions and circular economy systems to eliminate single-use packaging.

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

Investment focus

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

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.
Postura Ergonomics — Postura transform workers videos into ergonomic risk assessments for manufacturing companies. Our AI delivers quick, accurate, and scalable analyses, cutting costs and compliance time. ergonomia lavoro ufficio
Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.

Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Krill Design — Krill Design is a design studio that creates circular economy projects to convert organic waste into material resources. It is a patented process that intercepts resources from the food supply chain to create zero-impact eco-designed 3D printed products.
Stellar — At Stellar we bring perfect internet on the move to vehicles and passengers, leveraging the combined strength of cellular, wi-fi, and satellite networks, through AI and fully integrated solutions. We offer SaaS, data plans, and all-inclusive options for enterprise connectivity needs on the move.
Pangea Aerospace — SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL MISSION In a very conservative sector, European space engineers and business experts have gathered to unlock the untapped potential of new technologies that will drastically reduce the cost of launch

UniCredit (formerly UniCredito) is an Italian global banking and financial services company. Its network spanning 50 markets in 20 countries, with more than 9,000 branches and over 148,000 employees. Its strategic position in Western and Eastern Europe gives the group one of the region's highest market shares.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

La Doria — La Doria is a producer and sells tomato derivatives, ready sauces, preserved legumes, fruit juices, and beverage products. They offer products that include boiled legumes, baked beans, red kidney beans, carrots, ready-made soups and stews, and canned pasta in tomato sauce.
Unifiber — Unifiber is a broadband service company that focuses on the creation of passive access fiber optic networks.
ambrogio transporti — ambrogio transporti is a intermodal transportation company.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

La Doria — La Doria is a producer and sells tomato derivatives, ready sauces, preserved legumes, fruit juices, and beverage products. They offer products that include boiled legumes, baked beans, red kidney beans, carrots, ready-made soups and stews, and canned pasta in tomato sauce.
MODIFI — Explore digital trade finance and B2B payment solutions that empower your business to grow globally.
Aldar Properties — The company has developed some of Abu Dhabi’s most iconic and complex projects, from the Formula 1 facilities on Yas Island to the thriving new Shams Abu Dhabi community on Reem Island. Its property portfolio is diversified and balanced, with residential communities accounting for around half of assets, retail property representing a third, and theremainder split between commercial and hospitality.

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
MicroLub — MicroLub produces a fat replacement for lower-calorie plant-based diets. It is cutting-edge innovation to the next generation of protein technology, creating exclusive ingredient solutions that significantly minimize molecular friction.
Composite Research — CoRe Research is an start-up, aimed at the study of new product and process solutions in the field of composite materials.

Tech4Planet was created to facilitate market access and the growth of new companies conceived within research laboratories dedicated to environmental sustainability, particularly in the energytech, circular economy, sustainable manufacturing, smart mobility, and water management sectors.With a total investment of up to 55 million euros allocatedby the Technology Transfer Fund of CDP Venture Capital Sgr , the Tech4Planet Pole was created in collaboration with the Milan Polytechnic and involves the Polytechnics of Turin and Bari .

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

01Green — 01Green is an innovative business focusing on transforming the storage and transportation of hydrogen.
Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.
Suprema — Suprema specializes in manufacturing superconductive tapes. It provides superconductor (HTS) TAPES.

Pariter Partners is a largest Syndicate in Italy, investing in early stage deep-tech teams and advanced service solution startups.

Investment focus

Electronics, Semiconductor, Nanotechnology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

J4Energy — J4ENERGY is a digital energy platform that uses "Energy Co-Pilot" technology to assist industrial decision-makers in decarbonisation processes. The platform reduces costs and emissions by over 50% at various plants, aims to accelerate the energy transition in the industrial sector.
Eye2Drive — EYE2DRIVE is a young company designing and building a new imaging sensor for the autonomous cars. We are based in Tuscany, Italy.
Fluid Wire Robotics — Fluid Wire Robotics sets the new standard for robots in harsh environments. We design innovative robotic arms that excel in radioactive, explosive, space, and subsea applications, avoiding the complexity and cost of traditional solutions. Our technology ensures unparalleled safety, reliability, and efficiency, redefining robot design for any challenging environment without performance loss. Discover our groundbreaking approach and robust, versatile solutions.

Alberto Giusti - Partner @ Guanxi

Investment focus

Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things, Industrial Automation
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Alleantia — Alleantia, through converged industrial edge, transforms the way companies harness the power of data to improve industrial operations.

035 Investimenti

Investment focus

Electronics, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.

RoboIT is the National Technology Transfer Hub for Robotics and Industrial Automation.

Investment focus

Medical, Manufacturing, Medical Device
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

J4Energy — J4ENERGY is a digital energy platform that uses "Energy Co-Pilot" technology to assist industrial decision-makers in decarbonisation processes. The platform reduces costs and emissions by over 50% at various plants, aims to accelerate the energy transition in the industrial sector.
Eye2Drive — EYE2DRIVE is a young company designing and building a new imaging sensor for the autonomous cars. We are based in Tuscany, Italy.
Fluid Wire Robotics — Fluid Wire Robotics sets the new standard for robots in harsh environments. We design innovative robotic arms that excel in radioactive, explosive, space, and subsea applications, avoiding the complexity and cost of traditional solutions. Our technology ensures unparalleled safety, reliability, and efficiency, redefining robot design for any challenging environment without performance loss. Discover our groundbreaking approach and robust, versatile solutions.

Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments

Investment focus

Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Medical Device
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Planckian — Charging the future by powering energy with science We explore frontiers of energy science by developing quantum...
INTA Systems — Nanotech and artificial intelligence for biomolecular analysis
BeDimensional — New Material Solution

Fulvio Basili is a Private Investor at WallFarm and also the CEO and Founder of Ecosafey.

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.

Matteo Fago

Investment focus

Travel, Farming, Big Data
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.

Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms.

Investment focus

Medical, Aerospace, Biotechnology
Seed, Private Equity
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
PlantBit — PlantBit is a producer of sensors and services for smart farming.
Fluid Wire Robotics — Fluid Wire Robotics sets the new standard for robots in harsh environments. We design innovative robotic arms that excel in radioactive, explosive, space, and subsea applications, avoiding the complexity and cost of traditional solutions. Our technology ensures unparalleled safety, reliability, and efficiency, redefining robot design for any challenging environment without performance loss. Discover our groundbreaking approach and robust, versatile solutions.

Guala Closures operates in more than 100 Countries producing high-quality closure solutions for spirits, wine, edible oil, water and a wide range of other beverages.

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.

Family, Friends & Angels

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Zakeke — Try out Zakeke's 3D Product Configurator & Customizer plugin for eCommerce. Let customers craft & buy their dream products. Try for free!

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.

3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.

Giovanni Onesti

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.

Algebris is an independent global asset management firm.Built on an expertise in the financial sector, Algebris has focused on investing across the capital structure in both credit and equity, as well as being pioneers in investing in hybrid capital issued by the most globally systemically important financial institutions. Algebris has graduallyexpanded into private debt in Italy, investing in non-performing loans secured real estate as well as into macro credit and quant spaces to capture a broader set of value opportunities.Founded by CEO Davide Serra in 2006, Algebris maintains offices in London, Milan, Luxembourg, Boston, Singapore and Tokyo and manages a number of funds and individual accounts totalling several billion Euros in assets under management via a highly experienced team of investment professionals.

Investment focus

Software, Commercial, Interior Design
Private Equity
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Franchetti — Franchetti provides existing building analysis, existing building interventions, and new building design. They design residential, educational, commercial, and industrial structures; bridges, viaducts, and other infrastructure. They offer consolidation and structural reinforcement.
Krill Design — Krill Design is a design studio that creates circular economy projects to convert organic waste into material resources. It is a patented process that intercepts resources from the food supply chain to create zero-impact eco-designed 3D printed products.

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
Lymphatica Medtech — Lymphatica Medtech is a medical device development company developing a minimally invasive solution for chronic lymphedema.Lymphedema is the chronic swelling that generally occurs in the arms or the legs.Lymphedema is most commonly caused by the removal of or the damage to the lymph nodes as a part of cancer treatment. It results from ablockage in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system. The blockage prevents the lymphatic system from draining excess fluids, and the fluid buildup leads to swelling, infections, and pain.Unfortunately, there is no cure for lymphedema. It can be managed with early diagnosis and diligent care of the affected limb, through daily compression, bandages, and manual drainage sessions. From the moment of the diagnosis, the life of lymphedema patients changes forever.Cancer and cancer-related interventions (i.e. surgery, radiotherapy) are frequent causes of lymphedema occurring both in the upper and lower limbs. Breast cancer survivors are at high risk for developing lymphedema, as well as patients treated for melanoma, pelvic and head and neck cancer or other cancer treatments that require lymph node dissection. Physical trauma can also result in lymphedema, a major cause of lymphatic disease among wounded veterans.Lymphedema is associated with significantly impaired quality of life, skin changes, increased risk of infection and in rare cases lymphedema itself may undergo malignant transformation.Lymphatica offers a permanent solution that will allow patients to regain their normal lifestyle.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

TAN Food is a privately funded investment company based in Milan. We invest in companies with high growth potential operating in the food & beverage and food-tech sector. A dedicated team, with solid financial and operational background in the F&B industry, actively supports the startups in our portfolio in both strategic and operationaldecisions.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Soul-K — Food-tech company B2B, la prima industria alimentare 4.0 ad applicare lean-production e Just-In-Time. Abilita i professionisti a risparmiare tempo e denaro, riducendo manodopera e spreco di cibo.
Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.

Growth Engine is a holding company that invests in startups and scaleups with high growth potential founded by Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, Andrea Marangione, Michele Appendino and Marco Ariello, Venture Capital professionals with an excellent track record. Growth Engine invests in Italian startups at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.

Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.

Investment focus

Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma

Crédit Agricole Italia is a bank that offers loans and financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Water
Debt Financing, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Krill Design — Krill Design is a design studio that creates circular economy projects to convert organic waste into material resources. It is a patented process that intercepts resources from the food supply chain to create zero-impact eco-designed 3D printed products.
Italcer Group — Italcer Group is a manufacturer of indoor and outdoor ceramic products.
Clessidra — Clessidra Private Equity is an investment firm that invests in the Italian upper-middle markets. Clessidra Private Equity was founded in 2003 and was headquartered in Milan, Italy.

SIMEST is a financial firm focused on the development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad. Simest acquires up to 49% of the equity capital of foreign firms in countries outside the European Union, whether wholly-owned by Italian companies or set up as joint ventures with local partners. It also provides start-up and growth capital financingas well as participating in buyouts.Geographically it invests in non-EU countries, focusing on BRIC, Americas and Middle-East. Simest also provides Italian companies seeking to internationalize their businesses with technical assistance and advisory services.Simest is a member of the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and the Italian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (AIFI).

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Coffee, Aerospace
Grant, Series A, Series B
Italy

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.
Objectway — Powered by over 30 years of business expertise in delivering wealth and asset management technology and services, Objectway empowers its clients to embrace their future challenges while providing great performance today.Objectway solutions and services enable opti-channel customer engagement, front-office productivity, stronger investmentperformance, suitable advice and compliance enforcement, efficient back-office operations and automation, pro-active client reporting and management analytics.Our front-to-back, multi-channel, scalable, cloud-ready platform leverages a component-based architecture with AI-driven algorithmic engines for risk & performance analytics, real-time investment compliance, portfolios optimisation and mass customisation, with open APIs for easy integration.Objectway is a Global Top 100 fintech provider (IDC ranking) and our clients include 200+ leading wealth managers, banks, asset managers, fund managers, insurers and outsourcing providers in more than 15 countries. We support approximately 100,000 investment professionals to manage more than £1 trillion in assets.Objectway operates from offices in Italy, UK, Ireland and Belgium serving customers in 4 continents.
BionIT Labs — We apply IT to Bionics in order to Turn disabilities into New Possibilities

Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation. Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
BigProfiles — A deep understanding of customers let a company tailor marketing campaigns and CRM strategies, but companies have only basic data about customers (e.g. gender or age). External data sources like Social Networks, Public Registries and Socio-Demographic data contain rich information about billions of people, like job titles, levels of education,interests and habits.BigProfiles is a Customer Intelligence SAAS that leverages external information about persons to enrich customer profiling: it can profile a company's customers with previously unknown information about them. Thanks to its Identity Resolution algorithm (the result of a PHD), it identifies a person’s information scattered among external sources.Through this technology, BigProfiles provides customer base analytics and behavior predictions: using Artificial Intelligence on enriched profiles allows to predict churn, fraud and willingness to buy.
Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.

Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Product Design, Energy
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Maire Tecnimont — We are enablers of innovation, working alongside businesses to develop sustainable technologies and design integrated solutions that inspire energy transition.
Enel Green Power — Enel Green Power is the company that deals with renewable energy from every perspective: from direct sales through PPA, to commitment at the forefront with its plants worldwide.
Garofalo Health Care — Garofalo Health Care SpA is a major group in Italy in the authorized private healthcare sector and the only Italian firm listed on the Star division of the Italian Stock Exchange in the healthcare industry.

Creative Thinking Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund for very early-stage ventures, focusing on start-ups and innovative SMEs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Worldz — Thanks to its algorithm, Worldz calculates the economic value of a user’s social popularity (qualitatively and quantitatively). In proportion to this value, it provides a personalized discount, which can be applied in exchange for a social sharing by the user on their Instagram or Facebook profile. This share refers to the brand or productpurchased and the content of the post can be pre-configured by the brand. A user’s social post increases the Brand Awareness and can generate new traffic to the store. This kind of sharing is perceived by the social community as a friend’s advice and not as a promotional activity.
Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
The Social Lender — The Social Lender is a peer-to-peer lending business platform that allows applicants to obtain funding from private and institutional investors, in order to support growth and development of their business and their projects, and where lenders can invest in security actively intervening in the Royal Economy.

Toscana Next Fund is a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital.

Investment focus

Medical, Manufacturing, Medical Device
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Eye2Drive — EYE2DRIVE is a young company designing and building a new imaging sensor for the autonomous cars. We are based in Tuscany, Italy.
Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.
Soundsafe Care — Soundsafe care combines robotics and focused ultrasound to establish a new way to perform surgical care.

Considi, strategia del miglioramento, offre formazione e consulenza lean, consulenza di direzione e organizzazione aziendale. Scopri cosa possiamo fare per te

Investment focus

SaaS, Hardware, Robotics
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Quindi — Quindi is a Smart manufacturing startup that leverages the power of AI to turn data into manufacturing decisions.

L'investitore italiano che ti aiuta ad avviare la tua startup supportando progetti disruptive ad alto valore tecnologico.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Fitness
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Kilogram — Kilogram is the creator of a weight loss software that uses food photos to estimate calorie consumption.
H-Cube — H-Cube develops smart clothes technology to manufacture sportswear. Its technology is embedded into an industrial production line of sportswear suitable both for training and post-training monitoring to analyze the recovery process related to that specific training session.
IllumyFi — IllumyFi provides tools for investors and companies to help people on their journey to financial freedom: monitor and manage your investments all in one place, find information based on your interests, learn how to invest. IllumyFi: light your way to financial freedom

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

MinervaS — La soluzione context-aware per ridurre consumi ed emissioni del trasporto su gomma.
Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
Rimborsiamo — Rimborsiamo.com aiuta da anni gli Italiani a ricevere i risarcimenti e i rimborsi che gli spettano grazie a un team di legali esperti.

investment firm

Investment focus

Sports, Leisure, E-Commerce
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

MgShell — MgShell offers intraocular devices for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and other ocular diseases. Their technology is the only technical solution capable of replicating current clinical practice with a single injection and releasing the same therapeutic drug doses at predetermined periods, autonomously and without surgicalprocedures.
Freedome — Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy

Intermedia Iniziative is a consulting and equity investment firm.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Payments
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Seares — Seares srl, an innovative nautical and mooring sector, presents the Seadamps, the innovative mooring dampers that replace the mooring springs.
FlowPay — Open banking & payment solutions. FlowPay supporta la tua azienda nei flussi di incasso e pagamento con soluzioni innovative integrabili via API.

Als Corporate Business Angel der Greiner Group arbeitet Greiner Innoventures mit Start-ups zusammen, um deren Ideen weiterzuentwickeln.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Packaging Services
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Movo — Movo is a circular packaging solution made for e-commerce folks. They offer reusable packaging solutions and circular economy systems to eliminate single-use packaging.

ClubDeal Digital is a digital platform for private asset investments that simplifies the management of assets.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Infrastructure, Mechanical Design
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Flyted — Flyted progetta, realizza e utilizza soluzioni tecnologiche avanzate per raccogliere dati strategici su strutture e territorio.

FITEC, managed by Fondo Italiano d’Investimento SGR, with a target commitment of Euro 150 million is the first Italian technology private equity and late-stage venture capital fund. It is entirely dedicated to equity investments in small and medium-sized technology-based Italian companies, which are either backed by VC funds, like Termo, Everli andBeMyEye, or have been self-financed and are owned by entrepreneurs seeking further investment to grow, like Seco and Healthware Group. The fund announced its first closing in September 2017 with Cassa Depositi e Prestiti as Cornerstone Investor. Fondo Italiano d’investimento SGR currently manages a total of eight investment funds, dedicated to institutional investors, for a total of about Euro 3 billion of target Asset Under Management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile
Series B, Series C, Private Equity
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Intrauma — Intrauma was founded in 2006 and is based in Rivoli, near Turin, in Piedmont. The company designs and manufactures the O’nil range of locking plates, which has been in clinical use since 1998. Intrauma is committed to on-going research and development of both materials and manufacturing processes, in collaboration with experienced trauma surgeons,to provide the highest quality implants and to simplify today’s approach to Traumatology. Intrauma is also dedicated to building and maintaining strong customer relationships, believing that this is the foundation of a successful business.Intrauma TODAYToday, Intrauma is the second largest supplier of trauma devices in Italy, and is rapidly expanding its international sales and marketing operations across the world.This also gives the company the opportunity to work with surgeons across the globe, developing more unique products and continuing to improve traumatology techniques for the benefit of both patient and surgeon.
Apparound — How to digitize the corporate sales journey? With Apparound, the all-in-one solution to a successful digital selling.
UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
PulmoBiomed — Pulmobiomed has developed a best-in-class exhaled breath condensate device, capable of capturing Covid-19 particles in as little as 5 seconds. Pulmobiomed a biotechnology company is working with industry leaders in integrating their diagnostic capabilities into our PBM-Hale device. Pulmobiomed techn
Knock Technology — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

A highly driven Senior Director and Executive with +25 Y in Management and Consulting experience, within the Telecommunication, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors and in Digitalization, IT, IoT, and Big Data areas.Always interested in the scouting of new technologies (ie: blockchain, AI, VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor ofTechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program

Investment focus

Transportation, Manufacturing, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MacRebur — > The Macrebur website
Next Industries — Next Industries designs and manufactures high accuracy data acquisition loggers, gateways and sensors provided with IoT solution technology.
Insurance & Mobility Solutions — Globally-leading connected insurance solution provider, using telematics data to help insurers improve pricing, customer engagement, risk management and claims handling.

Marco De Nicola

Investment focus

Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma

MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Italy, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
VitroLabs — The world's oldest material made new. VitroLabs Inc is a startup developing lab grown leather, through tissue engineering, as a solution to help fight climate change. All, while completely avoiding animal slaughter.
Poke House — Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Poke House specializes in bowl food that often includes marinated fish that’s cubed and layered up with sticky rice, pickles, noodles, etc.

Terna Forward invests in solutions that facilitate the energy transition.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
unusuals — We are unusuals. We are AI. We are automatic detection. Take control of your infrastructure and start saving by unlocking visual data potential.

Fondamenta SGR is a private equity and venture capital firm investing in growth capital, distressed assets and mature investments.

Investment focus

Chemical, Construction, Manufacturing
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Personal Factory — Personal Factory is a company that operates mainly in the chemical industry for the construction industry by providing chemical compound useful for the production of powder with the establishment Origami 4. Personal Factory, designing and realizing also the technological platform (Origami 4) and providing business consulting services and technical,branding, marketing and research laboratory work then no.

Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Quandela — Quandela is an expert in the fabrication of performing devices for the research in quantum photonics and quantum information. They fabricate unique solid-state sources of quantum light. These sources bring a new revolution in quantum technologies based on light.The company's single-photon source device combines photonics and semiconductorquantum dots for quantum communication, computation and sensing and permits to collect the emitted single-photons with exceptional efficiency at high rates, enabling researchers to strongly reduce the charge noise decoherence and assist in the emission of identical photons with fidelity close to unity, an essential requirement for the development of the most advanced quantum applications.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.

Selected Investments è una società di investimenti e partecipazioni che investe prevalentemente in imprese innovative ad alto contenuto tecnologico ed elevato potenziale di crescita, partecipando al capitale di rischio con un orizzonte temporale di lungo termine. La società opera quindi come investitore di venture capital nelle fasi seed edearly-stage. Selected Investments, inoltre, offre alle imprese supporto strategico e servizi ad alto valore aggiunto in tema di corporate finance, M&A e operazioni straordinarie.

Investment focus

Electronics, Manufacturing, Marine Technology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Seares — Seares srl, an innovative nautical and mooring sector, presents the Seadamps, the innovative mooring dampers that replace the mooring springs.

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