Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Italy in September 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 September 2025
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
- lit — Con lit puoi monitorare, quando e dove vuoi, i tuoi consumi energetici, riducendoli fino al 22%, avendo informazioni in real time sui tuoi elettrodomestici.
- Tulum Energy — Discover how Tulum Energy harnesses methane pyrolysis technology to transform machinery and produce substantial volumes of clean hydrogen, driving innovation and sustainability in the energy sector.
As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
- 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.
- Via Sana — Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- XBOOKS — Investors Relations is Xbooks website whereby the company shares communications between the mangares and the Shareholders community. It provides an accurate account to investors, which keeps them updated of company life and key results.
- ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Italy, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Unifiber — Unifiber is a broadband service company that focuses on the creation of passive access fiber optic networks.
- Ital Gas Storage — Ital Gas Storage is a gas storage company that offers storage services.
- MAXI MOBILITY — Maxi Mobility S.R.L., a Società Benefit, revolutionizes urban transport by developing a digital platform for shared electric taxi services. Utilizing an innovative app, the company facilitates a seamless connection between electric taxi drivers and users, including private individuals and businesses. Maxi Mobility is committed to sustainability,transparency, and responsible operations, aiming to create measurable social value while achieving economic success.
Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments
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Investment focus
- Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Medical Device
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Novac — Progettiamo supercondensatori da affiancare alle batterie, per incrementare performance ed efficienza dei veicoli elettrici.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
- BeDimensional — New Material Solution
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- QSensAto — QSensAto is a quantum sensing company specializing in the development and research of integrated vapor cells and quantum atomic sensors.
- Agate Sensors — Agate Sensors offers equipment manufacturers advanced sensors that detect, identify, and classify people, vital signs, objects, and more. Their sensors come in a range of sizes, from single pixel devices to full matrix devices, and are produced using standard CMOS production processes, making them both cost-effective and efficient.
- Sparrow Quantum — Sparrow Quantum, a global leader in quantum photonic chip technology. Explore innovative solutions driving advancements in quantum computing, communication, and beyond. Stay ahead with cutting-edge technologies shaping the future.
RoboIT is the National Technology Transfer Hub for Robotics and Industrial Automation.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Manufacturing, Medical Device
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- SunCubes — SunCubes is an innovative startup developing wireless energy transmission technologies using lasers, enabling applications like drone recharging and remote sensor power, driving efficiency.
- Eye2Drive — EYE2DRIVE is a young company designing and building a new imaging sensor for the autonomous cars. We are based in Tuscany, Italy.
- PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Computer
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- XBOOKS — Investors Relations is Xbooks website whereby the company shares communications between the mangares and the Shareholders community. It provides an accurate account to investors, which keeps them updated of company life and key results.
- 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.
- Live Story Inc. — Design Boundless Experiences with Live Story. Forget about code and templates: with our freehand designable editor, you can quickly create layouts and publish them online in no time. Finally, a no-code design solution that delivers multi-platform integrations with speed and dependability for professional teams.
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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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Currenta — Industrial analytics for chemistry, life science, polymers. CURRENTA offers the full range of analytical services with competence and experience.
- Ital Gas Storage — Ital Gas Storage is a gas storage company that offers storage services.
- Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.
Brembo Ventures will strategically invest at a global level in the best technology startups that are capable of delivering value, both in terms of the product and the production process.
It will focus on startups that are active in artificial intelligence, big data, sensors, mechatronics, energy efficiency and sustainability, with the goal offinding solutions that can be applied in the automotive sector.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Consulting
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AGADE — Esoscheletri Agade | Il primo esoscheletro intelligente per lavoratori progettato per ridurre il rischio di disturbi muscolari delle spalle nella movimentazione manuale dei carichi.
- PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
- Spoke Safety — Spoke Safety is an open platform approach enabling the collaboration required with others to amplify the innovation needed to save lives.
Toscana Next Fund is a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital.
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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.
- Next Generation Robotics — Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.
035 Investimenti
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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.
Pariter Partners is a largest Syndicate in Italy, investing in early stage deep-tech teams and advanced service solution startups.
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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.
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).
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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.
- BionIT Labs — We apply IT to Bionics in order to Turn disabilities into New Possibilities
- Next Generation Robotics — Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
- Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Italy, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Tutornow — Ripetizioni online in matematica, fisica, inglese e oltre 150 materie. Ripetizioni per DSA e BES con tutor certificati. Lezioni online individuali da 60 minuti.
- BILLD — Billd is a cleantech firm that offers the first digital receipt service to capture huge data from the offline market using AI.
- Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.
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 .
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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.
- Resilco — Resilco develops and applies unique sustainable solutions for circular economy, carbon capture and for gas purification, both for clean production and for renewable energy applications. They offer knowledge combined with high skill in material science to solve existing and emerging problems in gas treatment.
- Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.
Alberto Giusti - Partner @ Guanxi
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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.
Simon Fiduciaria nasce nel 1986 per prestare servizi fiduciari a importanti gruppi familiari, imprenditori e professionisti, a livello nazionale ed estero.
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Investment focus
- Therapeutics, Simulation, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series B
- Italy, United Kingdom
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.
- Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
- Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.
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.
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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.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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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!
Creative Thinking Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund for very early-stage ventures, focusing on start-ups and innovative SMEs.
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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.
Cysero is a venture capital fund focused on the robotics and cybersecurity sectors. The fund was established in October 2020 and managed by AVM Gestioni SGR S.p.A. Manager EuVECA Società Benefit and jointly promoted with Kilometro Rosso, Bergamo's science and technology park.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Internet, Robotics
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Octostar — Octostar objective is to empower investigators by offering the advanced and adaptable intelligence platform.
- TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
- Next Generation Robotics — Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.
Crédit Agricole Italia is a bank that offers loans and financial services.
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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.
- Ital Gas Storage — Ital Gas Storage is a gas storage company that offers storage services.
Deep Ocean Capital is an independent management company that specializes in early-stage investments in deep technologies. Through its fund, Deep Blue Ventures, the firm focuses on sectors such as aerospace, healthcare, and sustainability and aims to support innovative companies from product-market fit to scaling across international markets.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Nanotechnology
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
- AIKO - Infinite Ways to Autonomy — Aiko develops and commercializes algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence to increase the autonomy of satellite missions.
Angel group focuses on biotech
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- 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.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
- 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.
JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on Seed and Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Our portfolio companies are front and center at factories, delivering smart machinery and robotics for high-volume manufacturing. They’re behind the scenes with powerful algorithms for managing global production systems. They rethink andrewire essential processes, with the goal of maximizing human capabilities. We invest in technologies related to core business functions: operations, manufacturing, data analytics, supply chain and software development. We seek innovative solutions to real customer problems that have achieved product-market fit. Technologies we invest in include: machine learning, robotics, cloud computing, IoT, smart sensors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- QuadSAT — QuadSAT has been established as a VSAT solution and R&D company in Horsens, Denmark. Their satellite service offerings range from preventative maintenance, servicing, upgrades and new installation on Ku, C-band, and TVRO installations whether it is maritime or terrestrial.They also provide consultation, auditing, surveying and projectmanagement ensuring a reliable and efficient communications network for Their clientele.Their company has built on innovation; therefore they pay attention to the newest technologies and work on their own inventions to improve the service level in the whole satellite industry.
- PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
- 36ZERO Vision — With the AI-powered software solutions from 36ZERO Vision, automated quality control becomes easy, fast, and accessible to all
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
Growth Engine is a Venture Capital holding investing in Pre-Seed and Seed high-potential opportunities. With a current portfolio of more than 40 companies, most of them evolved in successful Scaleups, Growth Engine is a diversified asset class by sector and stage.
Growth Engine Shareholders are entrepreneurs who have built companies from the groundup, collectively creating billions in value, and top executives managing companies with multi-billion-dollar valuations.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Secondary Market, Convertible Note
- Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BonusX — Con l'app BonusX hai un supporto anti-burocrazia tutto l'anno. Accedi a centinaia di bonus e servizi pubblici, senza stress e code.
- WithLess — Apps multiply, costs grow, admin spirals. We get it. The tools your team needs WithLess time, money, and admin.
- Vivaio Ventures — Vivaio Ventures partners with early-stage and creator-led consumer brands to scale food, beverage, and beauty products. We offer capital, consulting, and Made in Italy manufacturing excellence for the next CPG leaders.
Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Product Design, Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- NextChem — NextChem is the green chemistry subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont, an Italian multinational company specializing in engineering, technology, and energy. NextChem focuses on the energy transition by developing and deploying innovative solutions for sustainable industrial processes. It aims to accelerate decarbonization and promote the circular economythrough advanced technologies.
- Bending Spoons — We own and operate leading digital products, including Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, and WeTransfer. And we develop the technology to power them.
- Maire Tecnimont — We are enablers of innovation, working alongside businesses to develop sustainable technologies and design integrated solutions that inspire energy transition.
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio is a biotech startup developing next-generation T cell therapies that target ALK-positive cancers. By reprogramming the immune system, the company aims to overcome resistance and deliver more effective, lasting treatments for solid tumors.
- 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.
Giovanni Onesti
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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.
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
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- 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.
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- Sports, Leisure, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Italy
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- 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
Matteo Fago
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- 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!
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.
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- Software, Commercial, Interior Design
- Private Equity
- Italy
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- 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.
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- Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
- Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
- Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Fulvio Basili is a Private Investor at WallFarm and also the CEO and Founder of Ecosafey.
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- 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
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- SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy
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- Zakeke — Try out Zakeke's 3D Product Configurator & Customizer plugin for eCommerce. Let customers craft & buy their dream products. Try for free!
Elena Paola Lanati
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- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
- Seed
- Italy
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- Diamante — Diamante is a company that develops and manufactures autoimmune disease diagnosis devices using nanomaterials. It exploits plants as bioreactors for the sustainable production of nanoparticles based on modified plant viruses that are used in developing new tools. Diamante was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Verona, Italy.
Author of "It's easy to change Italy, if you know how to do it" and "Thousand Euro Generation", director of the school of management and communication of IED.
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- SaaS, Software, Industrial
- Seed
- Italy
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- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
Als Corporate Business Angel der Greiner Group arbeitet Greiner Innoventures mit Start-ups zusammen, um deren Ideen weiterzuentwickeln.
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- E-Commerce, Manufacturing, Packaging Services
- Seed
- Italy
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- 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.
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
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- Transportation, Manufacturing, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, Italy, Canada
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- 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.
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.
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- Electronics, Manufacturing, Marine Technology
- Seed
- Italy
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- Seares — Seares srl, an innovative nautical and mooring sector, presents the Seadamps, the innovative mooring dampers that replace the mooring springs.
Vittoria is a manufacturer of bicycle tires with an annual production of more than 7 million tires and 900,000 high-performance tubular and cotton tires.
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- Electronics, Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- Zehus — Zehus is an Italy-based smart mobility company.BIKE+ all in one smartly manages the electric power from the batteries and the “human engine” power maximizing the efficiency of the latter. BIKE+ all in one is energetically independent by the grid, that is the battery is charge sustained by the human power. Hence, BIKE+ all in one does not help thecyclist by adding electric energy taken by the grid into the system “human - bike.”On the contrary, it only uses the human energy in the most efficient way.An increasing of the human efficiency was experimentally proven.Results are awesome: 30+% efficiency increasing - 20+% less oxygen consumption online MEASURED.A bike equipped with BIKE+ all in one is the REAL zero-emission vehicle.
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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- AgTech, Software, Geospatial
- Seed
- Italy
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- Quindi — Quindi is a Smart manufacturing startup that leverages the power of AI to turn data into manufacturing decisions.
- Genius4U — Lavanderia, lavaggio auto, spesa, commissioni e molti altri servizi per semplificare la conciliazione vita-lavoro.Facile, veloce e digitale.Tutto direttamente
- Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
Science and Capital to build visionary ventures
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- Biotechnology, Sustainability, Product Research
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, Sweden, Finland
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- PlantBit — PlantBit is a producer of sensors and services for smart farming.
- LOTO Biotech — LOTO Biotech is a biotechnology platform focused on supporting the development of treatments for rare diseases, particularly those caused by dominant negative genetic mutations.
- LayerLogic AB — Reliable and instantaneous bacteria detection
PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.
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- SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
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- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- BeSafe Group — BeSafe: la Suite di Tool e Strumenti che semplifica la Gestione della tua Struttura e migliora le tue Strategie di Revenue Alberghiero.
- Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
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