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Top 50 Manufacturing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 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 July 2025

Investor	Manufacturing Italy investments
CDP Venture Capital	15
360 Capital	13
Primo Capital	8
Intesa Sanpaolo	5
UniCredit	5
LIFTT	5
EUREKA! Venture SGR	5
RoboIT	4
Vertis	4
Pariter Partners	3
035 Investimenti	3
Invitalia	3
Toscana Next Fund	3
Tech4Planet	3
SIMEST	3
Brembo Ventures	3
Club Italia Investimenti 2	2
Italian Angels for Growth	2
3LB Seed Capital Srl	2
Scientifica Venture Capital	2
Crédit Agricole Italia	2
Guala Closures Group	2
Banco BPM	2
Italian Angels for Biotech	2
Simon Fiduciaria	2
Invitalia Ventures	2
Cysero	2
Bios Line Holding	2
Join Capital	2
Deep Ocean Capital	2
Algebris Investments	2
Creative Thinking Ventures	2
TAN Food	2
Club degli Investitori	2
Growth Engine	2
London Stock Exchange Group	1
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore	1
Neva SGR	1
Vesper Holding	1
Renew Capital	1
Threshold	1
RedSeed Ventures	1
Ambienta	1
Angels4Women	1
Alantra	1
Berkeley Angel Network	1
Plug and Play Tech Center	1
Launch Africa	1
Milano Investment Partners SGR	1
Progress Tech Transfer Fund	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
Tulum Energy — Tulum Energy is a cutting-edge energy business developing a unique methane pyrolysis approach for low-cost, scalable clean hydrogen production that does not require CCS infrastructure.
Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Shop Circle — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
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

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.

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.
Hippocrates — Hippocrates operates a pharmacy platform with a network of over 120 owned pharmacies concentrated in central and northern Italy. Since its foundation, it has approached the pharmacy sector with an industrial and long-term logic. The company was founded in March 2018 by Davide Tavaniello and Rodolfo Guarino, co-CEOs of Hippocrates.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lumai — Lumai delivers fully optical computing for a quicker, smarter and more sustainable world. Lumai power the revolution of fully optical computing by working at the nexus of photonics and machine learning.
QSensAto — QSensAto is a quantum sensing company specializing in the development and research of integrated vapor cells and quantum atomic sensors.
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.

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

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

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

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.
PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
Focoos AI — Focoos reshapes computer vision with ultra-efficient models that drive down costs, automate hardware integration, and ensure peak performance on any device, while promoting sustainability.
TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.

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

Investment focus

Electronics, Semiconductor, Nanotechnology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

035 Investimenti

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, 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.

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

Investment focus

Medical, Manufacturing, Medical Device
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Eye2Drive — EYE2DRIVE is a young company designing and building a new imaging sensor for the autonomous cars. We are based in Tuscany, Italy.
Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.
Next Generation Robotics — Next Generation Robotics is a company that manufactures robotic systems for inspection and monitoring for the railway industry.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

01Green — 01Green is an innovative business focusing on transforming the storage and transportation of hydrogen.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

hlpy — hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks.
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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Water
Debt Financing, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Maire Tecnimont — We are enablers of innovation, working alongside businesses to develop sustainable technologies and design integrated solutions that inspire energy transition.
Garofalo Health Care — Garofalo Health Care SpA is a major group in Italy in the authorized private healthcare sector and the only Italian firm listed on the Star division of the Italian Stock Exchange in the healthcare industry.

Angel group focuses on biotech

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.

Simon Fiduciaria nasce nel 1986 per prestare servizi fiduciari a importanti gruppi familiari, imprenditori e professionisti, a livello nazionale ed estero.

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 — Automate B2B sourcing with Soource AI: find and compare new suppliers, and maintain an updated database optimizing your procurement processes.
Inventio.AI — Inventio.AI is a software development company that provides artificial intelligence tools and solutions for machines and productions.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

investment firm

Investment focus

Sports, Leisure, E-Commerce
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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
FaradaIC Sensors — FaradaIC Sensors is to commoditize gas sensors and provide flexible gas sensing at a cheap cost for the expanding market of IoT applications.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Commercial, Interior Design
Private Equity
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

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

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

Investment focus

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

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

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Finance
Corporate Round, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, China

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Floww — Connecting startups with funding partners, Floww is a data-centric network for innovators, venture capitalists, investors, banks and entrepreneurs.
BattleFin — BattleFin helps investment firms and corporations make better, faster and more profitable decisions.
Borns Robot — Borns Robot is a Chongqing-based minimally invasive surgical robot maker, providing digital diagnosis and treatment solutions for doctors and patients.

Neva SGR, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and wholly owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, plans and manages investment funds for professional investors interested in seizing diversification and high-yield opportunities offered by Venture Capital investments. Neva SGR can count on Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s and Intesa SanpaoloGroup’s strength, financial resources, know-how and network of relationships, a unique source of value on the market. Neva SGR is the perfect blend of strength, reputation and stability of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and the best practices of international venture capital firms. Neva SGR aims to boost the Italian economy through new technologies and to be market maker of the VC asset class of venture capital in Italy.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Italy, Israel, United States

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xFarm Technologies — The agricultural business is becoming more and more complex due to legal requirements and product certification. On the other hand, technologies evolve and create opportunity. xFarm is a startup that aims at the digitization of agriculture, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and food supply chain's stakeholders in themanagement of their companies. Created by farmers and tailored to the agricultural sector, its main focus is on ease of use, intuitiveness and complete adaptability to agricultural realities. The digital ecosystem includes a free agricultural application, available on both mobile and desktop and integrated with advanced premium modules, a dashboard Analytics dedicated to professionals and a line of IoT sensors selected, optimized and connected by xFarm.
D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
Cool Planet Technologies — Cool Planet Technologies develops a cutting-edge membrane-based technology to absorb carbon dioxide on a large scale from industrial flue gas emissions. Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, a division of Germany's largest research organization, created the advanced PolyActive membrane used in Cool Planet Technologies' method.

At Vesper Holding, we specialize in supporting early-stage startups. Our mission is to provide the resources, guidance, and expertise needed to help innovative ideas flourish and achieve sustainable growth in today's competitive market.

Investment focus

Advice, Accounting, Financial Services
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Soource — Automate B2B sourcing with Soource AI: find and compare new suppliers, and maintain an updated database optimizing your procurement processes.
FidoCommercialista — FidoCommercialista is a team of accountants to offer tax support. They use digital technologies to save customers time and money. They provide tax advice for their clients. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contact form, and email.

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

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Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

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Numa — Turns BDCs and Advisors into world-class communicators, using visibility + accountability + a healthy dose of AI superpowers
Numa — Leverage modern Generative-AI to autonomously capture every RO, schedule service appointments, and deliver service updates in real time.
Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.

RedSeed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Companies and Scaleups, in Europe and more particularly in Italy.

Investment focus

Retail, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom

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Dianax — Milan-based Dianax was founded in 2013 starting from a group scientists led by Eugenio Iannone and Maurizio Moroni and by a few angel investors orchestrated by Gabriele Bavagnoli. Dianax mission is to develop and manufacture labs-on-chip aiming to trasform protein-based diagnostics and make it prompt, easy to use, inexpensive and reliableTheDianax novel technology is designed to make precise diagnostic results convenient, easily accessible, and affordable to patients and healthcare professionals, to empower them to effective prevention, ongoing accurate management and timely emergency treatment.The Dianax technology is the first ever application to diagnostics of a combination of microfluidic innovations and electrochemistry detection systems.Dianax was founded by Eugenio Iannone and his partners to pursue technical and market opportunities based on proprietary, independent research.
Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
WIB Machines — Smart vending machines and smart lockers manufacturer pioneering smart, web-based retail automation globally. Patented solutions enabling next-gen retail.

Founded in 2007, with offices in Milan, Munich, London and Paris Ambienta is a leading asset manager entirely focused on investments driven by environmental sustainability key drivers, Resource Efficiency and Pollution Control

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom, Germany

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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.

Angels4Women is a company that invests in business startups lead by females.

Investment focus

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.

ALANTRA is a PROJECT, a firm being built by all its partners and professionals, a collective aspiration which aims to become an enduring institution for the generations to come. It is a GLOBAL FIRM, being founded by the partners of the 19 countries we are present in.It is an open firm, articulated around the principles of ENTREPRENEURSHIP,PARTNERSHIP, INNOVATION and FLEXIBILITY.Their segment is the MID-MARKET, a space for growth, for new ambitions, for creative and innovative spirits. We grow with our clients, we share their mindset and we build very long-term relationships with them.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Series B
Spain, France, Sweden

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enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
SunRoof — Roof of the future
Eturnity AG — Die Eturnity Software automatisiert den und erleichtert den Beratungs- und Verkaufsprozess im Bereich der Erneuerbaren Energiesysteme.

The Berkeley Angel Network is a group of angel investors who are alumni, faculty and former faculty of UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, India, Italy

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Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 340M+ Gen Z and Millennial gamers through rewarded, native experiences in mobile games, driving engagement, brand favorability, and purchase intent in one of the most immersive media channels.
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.

Plug and Play Tech Center connects the world's best startups to industry-leading corporations.

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.

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

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Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment fund specialized in sustainable technologies from universities and public research organizations, start-ups, spin-offs, and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Water, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WembraneX — WembraneX's goal is to make wastewater treatment facilities more cost-effective by introducing a new class of anti-fouling and anti-biofouling membranes.
Naturbeads — Naturbeads creates biodegradable, sustainable and cost competitive cellulose microbeads to replace currently used microplastics.
Valuematic — Valuematic realizza soluzioni per il trattamento e gestione dei dati favorendo il miglioramento nei processi organizzativi e informativi di aziende ed enti.

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