Top 50 Manufacturing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in October 2024
A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in October 2024
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, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sestre — Sestre is an online store that offers nutraceutical supplements, nutrition, Mediterranean diet, healthy, and wellness products.
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
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
- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Ecosmic — Ecosmic is addressing the issue of space debris by inventing plug-and-play cutting-edge technology that will improve collision avoidance, allowing space operators to save both money and time.
- Revolv Space — Revolv Space enables continuous data generation for small satellites by rethinking their critical components. The company solves problems by designing, manufacturing, and testing the next generation of critical components enabling continuous payload operations and full monetization of space assets.
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
- Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
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, E-Commerce, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
- Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
- Starting Finance — Starting Finance is a financial education platform intended to provide financial literacy to its users. The company's platform provides education and information about finance and publishes informative articles on important events in the fields of economics, finance, and politics, enabling users to improve their knowledge regarding finance andthe management of their capital.
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
- 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 — We produce graphene and others two-dimensional materials (2D) with few atomic layers. Find out more.
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Evoralis — Utilise Our Innovative Enzymes to Efficiently Recycle Plastics Into High-Quality Raw Materials
- Touch Sensity — Touch Sensity is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of IoT and sensors.
- BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Therapeutics is a life sciences company that delivers radiotherapy from within. Introducing Yntradose, our proprietary product.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Involve Space — Involve Space provides solutions for space-based activities via a customizable and cost-effective stratospheric pseudo satellite.
- El Corte Ingles — El Corte Inglés is a business group with more than 80 years of history, upholding the same values as always. Our steadfast principles of ethical and responsible conduct allow us to evolve towards an omnichannel model more aligned with digitalisation, diversification and sustainability. This has meant a progress in the transformation of El CorteInglés from a retailer to a unique ecosystem. Without ever taking our eyes off the product and service quality, expertise, curated selections, guarantees and innovation we offer with the ultimate goal of making people's lives easier.
- Toscana Aeroporti — Toscana Aeroporti provides low cost carriers, cargo flights, and the development of intercontinental flights. They also offer economic development, service providers, and traffic management for tourists. They provide aviation and non-aviation. The aviation industry offers services for landing and taking off as well as ground handling for travelersand aircraft.
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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.
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.
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.
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
- J4Energy — We are the next-generation Digital Energy Platform, delivering the industrial energy transition from strategy to execution.
- Soundsafe Care — Soundsafe care combines robotics and focused ultrasound to establish a new way to perform surgical care.
- 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
- Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
- 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.
- 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 — We are the next-generation Digital Energy Platform, delivering the industrial energy transition from strategy to execution.
- FLEEPtech — FLEEP Technologies designs and develops printed electronics solutions for the biomedical and smart packaging sectors. The company, spin-off of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, was founded in May 2019.FLEEPtech developed a proprietary process for the fabrication of polymer-based integrated circuits based on Organic Thin-Film Transistors, creatingthe intelligent core for electronics systems that are mechanically flexible, printed like magazines and recyclable. FLEEPtech is the missing link in the printed electronics industry between a great number of flexible and printed products (i.e. sensors, actuators and energy supplies) that find little space in being integrated with standard non-flexible electronics. For such reasons, the company's mission revolves around the realization of a general purpose platform for the manufacturing of fully-printed integrated systems, composed by printed sensors, printed actuators, printed energy supplies and harvesters and, of course, printed integrated circuits.
- 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.
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 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.
- Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
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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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.
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!
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Ephos — Manufacturing high-fidelity photonic chips that power the most advanced modular quantum architectures
- Glaut — Glaut is an AI-native customer survey platform that conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews with customers at scale.
- ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Aerospace, Biotechnology
- Seed, Private Equity
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
- QuantaBrain — QuantaBrain purpose is to accelerate the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases by applying artificial intelligence.
- 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.
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.
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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.
- StarTric — StarTric developes and is taken to clinical use as a transcatheter structural heart implantable device. They are developing a unique transcatheter repair implantable device to treat TR. They manage entrance to the right atrium, reducing the flow to the lungs. They offer heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and other morbidities.
- TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
The Berkeley Angel Network is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, India, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Monetizr — Turn gamers' attention into revenue for your brand through targeted in-game mobile ads. Partner with Monetizr and get access to audiences across the globe.
- HealthMe — HealthMe is a marketplace platform that allows patients to shop for healthcare like they shop for any other product. They provide prepayment of packages, which streamlines office workflow, decreases no-shows, and enhances patient communications.
- RealSeq Biosciences — We're discovering new biomarkers to advance next-generation diagnostics that provide deeper insights and improve more lives.
London Stock Exchange Group is a financial markets infrastructure that provides and delivers financial data, analytics, and news. Its diversified global business focuses on capital formation, intellectual property and risk, and balance sheet management. LSEG operates an open-access model, offering choice and partnership to customers across all ofits businesses. The Group can trace its history back to 1698.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Finance
- Corporate Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- Floww — Connecting startups with funding partners, Floww is a data-centric network for innovators, venture capitalists, investors, banks and entrepreneurs.
- PrimaryBid — PrimaryBid builds technology that connects companies with their retail investor communities. We power smart retail inclusion in global capital markets.
- Borns Robot — Borns Robot is a Chongqing-based minimally invasive surgical robot maker, providing digital diagnosis and treatment solutions for doctors and patients.
UniCredit Group 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
- 3Sun — Our photovoltaic solutions drive change towards a sustainable future, setting new standards of excellence for solar energy applications.
- Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
- 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.
Camfin Alternative Assets is a PE subsidiary of Camfin Group.
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Investment focus
- Electronics, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- CarX — CarX develops off-grid charging points for electric vehicles.
Momenta is the leading Industrial Impact venture capital + growth firm. We accelerate entrepreneurs and leaders devoted to the digitization of energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and supply chains. Since 2012, our team of deep industry operators have made over 100 investments in entrepreneurs and helped scale over 150 industry leaders via ouraward-winning executive search and strategic advisory practices.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Switzerland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- DataHow — DataHow is specialized in data analytics and bioprocess modeling
- Luffy AI — Luffy AI uses Adaptive Intelligence to evolve robotic control systems.
- Composabl — Composabl is a platform for creating industrial-strength, skill-based agents that work in real life. Composabl agents can control manufacturing equipment or make decisions for manufacturing and logistics processes.
Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Euklid — Euklid is the new way to manage savings and investments through thousands of different algorithms with the following characteristics:• objective, because they are based on concrete data processed with Artificial Intelligence technologies;• transparent and secure, because it’s based on blockchain a technology which lies at the heart of Bitcointime stamp and encryption system, that guarantees clients a constant monitoring and an absolute certainty that nobody can manipulate his account;• fair, because the managers of Euklid-fintech’s service earn only if clients have returns.
- WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
- 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!
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
- Soundsafe Care — Soundsafe care combines robotics and focused ultrasound to establish a new way to perform surgical care.
Finindus provides early stage financing and growth capital to innovative companies active in the area of materials, material processing and sustainable manufacturing. We are funded by ArcelorMittal and the Flemish Region and linked to OCAS, the world class metals research center located in Belgium.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Industrial, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Belgium, Sweden, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Kraftblock — Kraftblock is a high-efficiency, high-temperature heat storage system designed to decarbonize power generation and industrial processes.
- Viking Analytics AB — Understand operational behavior and prioritize machines that need attention. Say goodbye to false alarms with Viking Analytics technology.
- Tau Group — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on pre-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, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- SEMRON — open jobs at SEMRON / career
- Quantum Optics Jena — BEYOND CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS We are a team of passionate engineers, physicists, computer scientists and business developers and we believe that quantum technology allows us to achieve more: More confidence in data security via quantum communication More insights into matter and
- Generative Engineering — Generative Engineering is a deep-tech startup with a unique platform that generates, tests, and simulates thousands of different engineering designs, all within a fraction of the time these processes take today. This parallel engineering will radically decrease product development time, enabling innovative designs for all real-world products.
Change Com AS is an Oslo-based advisory and investment company,founded by long-term Telenor research scientist, business developer and senior project manager Endre Skolt.
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
Your Voice is the leading Italian organisation of Cloud multi-channel, automated and interactive communication services.
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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
Founded in 2007, with offices in Milan, Dusseldorf, London and Paris Ambienta is a leading asset manager entirely focused on investments driven by environmental sustainability key drivers, Resource Efficiency and Pollution Control
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Caprari — Caprari design, production, and distribution of centrifugal pumps and motors for the integrated water cycle.
- Nactarome — Nactarome are manufacturer and producer of natural food flavoring components, colours, and ingredients sector.
- Maccaferri — Maccaferri provides tailor-made design and development solutions for complex civil, geotechnical and environmental engineering works all around the word.
Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.
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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.
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.
Executive Agency for SMEs
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland
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.
- BroadBit Batteries — BroadBit is a technology company developing revolutionary new batteries using novel sodium-based chemistries to power the future green economy.
- Aenitis Technologies — We develop innovative devices for cells therapy processing using Acoustic Radiation Forces.
Plug and Play Tech Center connects the world's best startups to industry-leading corporations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
- Protos Labs — Protos Labs is a Singapore-based cyber risk management company founded by ex-Booz Allen cyber leaders and supported by the Cybersecurity Regulator in Singapore. We enable insurers and their end-customers (i.e. enterprises) to better manage their cyber risk. Using a first-of-its-kind threat-informed approach, Protos Labs dynamically assesses thecyber resiliency of an organization. This helps insurers to accurately quantify their client’s cyber risk exposure in real-time, reduce their likelihood of breach, and pinpoint changes in a client’s risk profile over time.
- Quickly — Supercharge your cashflow and receive payment 30 times faster.
L'investitore italiano che ti aiuta ad avviare la tua startup supportando progetti disruptive ad alto valore tecnologico.
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- FinTech, Finance, Fitness
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- 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
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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- Mobile, Internet, Robotics
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
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- DataKrypto — The Cloud Encryption Company DataKrypto -
- TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
- Oversonic Robotics — Oversonic provides cognitive computing systems for robots. Oversonic supplies businesses with intelligent technologies capable performing difficult and exhausting duties from a psychological and physical standpoint.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Italy
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- 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.
Crédit Agricole Italia is a bank that offers loans and financial services.
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- Water, Farming, Software
- Debt Financing, Seed
- Italy
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- Ecopol — The Ecopol's PVA water-soluble film technology is the world leading solution in packaging applications, such as detergents, agrochemicals, etc.
- Finapp — Finapp is an innovative startup that produces a new generation of CRNS probes that allow measuring the water content. Water in the ground, then soil moisture, water out of the ground, then in the biomass, water in the snow, then snow water equivalent. The applications are really many, such as the research of water losses along aqueducts,hydrological and hydraulic modeling, estimates of hydroelectric energy but mainly agricultural ones.
- Generalfinance — Generalfinance is a financial management agency that provides flexible services designed to address the company's debt issues.
CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"
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- SaaS, Elder Care, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom
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- Convivit — Convivit develops a residential and hotel services platform that creates a network of self-sufficient senior living residences. Convivit is a joint venture between Generali Italia and CDP Venture Capital SGR, created with the aim of introducing senior living in Italy and promoting people's well-being and active aging.
- Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
- Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds.
TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge.
We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Digital strategy consulting company
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- Energy Efficiency, Financial Services, Internet of Things
- Seed, Angel
- Italy, United States
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- Alleantia — Alleantia, through converged industrial edge, transforms the way companies harness the power of data to improve industrial operations.
- Dolomite.io — Dolomite.io is a simple & secure decentralized crypto exchange.
Angels 4 Impact is a Business Angel investment firm that invests in startups with innovative and technological content and a focus on impact.
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- Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- 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.
- Envirly — Envirly is a Polish technology company that offers an innovative platform for managing sustainable development, and the carbon footprint of organizations and products.
ELITE is an investment management and consulting firm.
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- Industrial, Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing
- Debt Financing
- Italy
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- Vitillo — We feel better under pressure
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, France
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- 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.
Fondamenta SGR is a private equity and venture capital firm investing in growth capital, distressed assets and mature investments.
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- Chemical, Construction, Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- 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.
Angels4Women is a company that invests in business startups lead by females.
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- Retail, Fashion, Lingerie
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Italy, United States
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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.
- FUTURELY — FUTURELY is a platform which will help to choose university.
- Chite Milano — Lingerie the Italian way. Discover 100% Made in Italy lingerie. Make your own: customise your lingerie and nightwear.
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 — Safety. Generative. Sustainable.
Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Hardware
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, Israel
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- treet — Treet helps brands launch fully-branded recommerce sites where customers can buy & sell items from each other.
- Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
- 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.
Arieli Capital is an investment firm dedicated to advancing cutting-edge technology by making strategic investments in top tech sectors
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- Analytics, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy, Israel
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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.
- Terrific — We bring Brands & Influencers together to recreate the online shopping experience by empowering the story of your brand.
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