Top 50 Media (entertainment) VC Funds in Italy

Investor	Media (entertainment) Italy investments
Club Italia Investimenti 2	12
P101	9
CDP Venture Capital	7
Innogest Capital	7
United Ventures	7
Vertis SGR S.p.A.	6
Principia SGR	5
Rancilio Cube	4
Pi Campus	4
Italian Angels for Growth	4
VAM Investments	4
360 Capital	3
Tamburi Investment Partners	3
Impulse VC	3
Creative Thinking Ventures	3
Intesa Sanpaolo	3
Club degli Investitori	3
Atlante Ventures	3
UniCredit	2
GELLIFY	2
Wayra	2
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore	2
Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.	2
R-301 Capital	2
PranaVentures	2
Brahma AG	2
Equiter	2
LIFTT	1
GrowthX	1
CRiF	1
Endeavor Catalyst	1
Club Digitale	1
MetaVenture Holding	1
Paramount Pictures	1
Fashion 22	1
Ligurcapital SpA	1
Centerboard Partners	1
Encelado Ventures	1
Sony Pictures Entertainment	1
Woori Technology Investment	1
Lazio Innova	1
Azimut Digitech Fund	1
Alven	1
Oltre Impact	1
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti	1
Net4Capital	1
Compagnia di San Paolo	1
SmartCapital	1
TLcom Capital Partners	1
Banca Patrimoni Sella	1

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!

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.
Aptus.AI — Aptus.AI exploits AI to make regulations machine readable, toward a new digital format to change the way humans and machines interact with textual documents
DataKrypto — The Cloud Encryption Company DataKrypto -

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

Portfolio highlights

MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
Voidless — VOIDLESS is the new generation of box-on-demand packaging. An innovative system that bets everything on reliability and integrability.
Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.

We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Italy, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

GreenBone Ortho — GreenBone Ortho was founded in Faenzato offer advanced and innovative solutions in the field of orthopaedics and bone regeneration, using the Rattan wood.
Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Technologies engage in the research and offers anticancer products.

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fiscozen — Apertura partita IVA, fatturazione, F24, contributi, dichiarazione dei redditi. Tutto in un unico piano. Richiedi una consulenza gratuita.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
Electra Vehicles — Control, Analyze, & Design Innovative Battery Packs using Electra Vehicles' EVE-Ai 360 Adaptive Controls and Analytics and EnPower Design.

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, E-Commerce, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

NEWTWEN — We develop software that generates real-time embedded digital twin solutions for model predictive control and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, enhancing performance, longevity, and reliability. In essence, our toolchain creates a precise digital replica of a physical device, such as an electric motor or generator, in order to accuratelymodel the electrodynamic and thermodynamic behavior of the system across a wide range of operating conditions. We then apply our proprietary mathematical approach to exponentially reduce the computational complexity of this model—so much so, in fact, that our digital twin can be integrated into the device itself to compute in real-time, “on-chip,” as part of an amazingly fast and accurate firmware solution. By accurately predicting temperatures and other critical system parameters thousands of times per second, our Digital Twin On-Chip solutions not only provide unprecedented insight for real-time control techniques to enhance system performance, but also pave the way for data-as-a-service capabilities such as predictive maintenance, monitoring of component aging, and anomaly detection.
Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
Sibylla Biotech — Sibylla Biotech developed small molecule folding interfering degraders (FIDs) that can address a range of therapeutic areas.

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
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.
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.

Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with loads from shippers and brokers across the nation.
FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.

Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Turion Space — Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite.
Sixfold Bioscience — Sixfold Bioscience engineers programmable oligonucleotide delivery systems are able to deliver RNA exclusively to diseased cells. It is based in London.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

Siamo una partnership di imprenditori, manager e professionisti di Private Equity che investono

Investment focus

Fashion, Music, Dental
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Slam — Sail beyond the horizon with SLAM: high-quality technical sailing apparel, tested by athletes and experienced sailors.
Soundreef — Soundreef ltd is an Independent Management Entity (EU Directive 2014/26/EU) listed in the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom and can operate throughout Europe including Spain. Soundreef was founded to offer a viable alternative to the traditional Collective Management Organisation by combining innovative technology withpersonal customer service. Soundreef manages the rights of over 25,000 authors and publishers worldwide rewarding them with the fair, transparent and quick payment they deserve for the use of their musical works. Business users such as radio and tv broadcasters, digital service providers, live event organisers, theatres and cinemas, business establishments and music labels can obtain a mandatory license for the use of musical works managed by Soundreef.Soundreef ltd is incorporated in U.K. and owned by Soundreef S.p.A. , a company incorporated in Italy. Soundreef S.p.A. is the company that develops the technology and the content management platform used by Soundreef ltd to audit, collect and maximize royalties for Soundreef authors and publishers. The company process billions of transactions with a focus to improve data security and efficiency in the music industry.Soundreef S.p.A. controls also 100% of Soundreef publishing srl and 100% of Soundreef Media Services srl.
Supermoney — Supermoney is an online broker which helps to compare costs of electricity and gas.

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

Portfolio highlights

Guidoio — Guidoio is an ed-tech company that streamlines the process of getting your driver's license.
Talentware — Talentware is the first talent management platform for businesses to automate manual, time-consuming activities while fostering internal talent growth.
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.

TIP is an investment-merchant bank focused on medium-sized Italian companies.

Investment focus

Pharmaceutical, Fashion, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Limonta — Limonta | 1893 is a group focuses on passion, creativity and innovation, with skills in the clothing, leather goods, footwear, furnishings, sports and automotive sectors.
Apoteca Natura — Apoteca Natura is a pharmaceutical company that develops and innovates medicines that helps in treatment and prevention of diseases.
Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

Fund for technological internet companies

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

Investment focus

SaaS, Computer, E-Commerce
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 —

Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Soplaya — Ordina in un click e ricevi nel tuo ristorante in 12/48h, migliaia di ingredienti direttamente dal produttore. Consegna sempre gratuita
Sendabox — Sendabox.it is the first online express courier rate comparison. With sendabox.it compare and ship at unbeatable prices without leaving home. Thanks to the innovative private platform, SMEs, e-commerce and freelancers can save money by simplifying processes and optimizing their business.
Vena Energy — Vena Energy is a leading Independent Power Producer (IPP) and an integrated pure-renewable energy company in the Asia-Pacific region.

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

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
CarpeCarbon — CarpeCarbon is a company that develops technologies for Direct Air Capture (DAC) to extract CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Based in Italy, with a Global vision, the company is made of young researchers (Physics, Chemistry, Astrophysics, Biology, Complex Systems, Engineering) and economists.
ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.

Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Hardware
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, 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.

GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

FSVGDA aims at the promotion of the impact investing culture, in order to facilitate social innovation.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

C.NEXT — C.NEXT develops innovation projects for businesses and organizations by supporting the economy and territorial regeneration.
Way Experience — Way Experience operates in all the entertainment B2C sectors, using augmented and virtual reality technology. They also work in the B2B area by applying their technologies for customized consultancy projects in the following sectors: design, fashion, medical, events, and training.
Istituto De Filippi — L'Istituto Alberghiero De Filippi a Varese propone due diverse offerte formative: la Scuola Superiore e i percorsi di Alta Specializzazione.

The innovative hub to invest in the most promisingand visionary startups in the sport industry.

Investment focus

Apps, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
PunchLab — Download PunchLab Choose among martial arts & combat sports workouts designed for boxing, MMA, karate and kickboxing training. Track any punching and kicking combination you throw at the punching bag USING ONLY YOUR PHONE! Follow audio workouts while you hit the punching bag or shadowbox.
LUDI Therapeutics — Groundbreaking Sport Injury Medicine. LUDI Therapeutics uses cutting edge drug discovery technologies and a biomarkers platform to develop specific first-in-class drugs to enhance muscle repair.

R-301 Capital They are an independent technology venture capital firm. They invest in early stage busineses leveraging disruptive web and mobile technologies in a variety of sectors. As experienced tech entrepreneurs They combine expertise with cash to best support Their portfolio companies. They move quickly and decisevily in funding innovatorsThey believe in.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Italy, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Carnovo — Carnovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the automotive purchase process by making it fast, transparent and convenient for both, car dealers and buyers. Their mission is simple, to put the car buying process upside down by placing customers in the center making them save time and money while offering them the best buyingexperience. Car dealers that partner with Carnovo sell more cars than they could in the showroom alone while reducing cost inefficiencies and increasing stock turnover. This means they can make great offers to Carnovo buyers!
Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an Influencer Marketing platform for your social media campaigns. Find the best influencers on Instagram and Facebook to deliver succesfull campaigns with an effective impact.
Bergamotte — Founded in 2015, Bergamotte offers a delivery service of flowers and plants throughout France.

PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.

Investment focus

SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
BeSafe Group — BeSafe: la Suite di Tool e Strumenti che semplifica la Gestione della tua Struttura e migliora le tue Strategie di Revenue Alberghiero.
Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.

Brahma AG is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Advertising, Social Media, Digital Marketing
Series A, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Artemest — Artimest serves as an online destination for timeless craft. You can meet Italy's finest craftsmen, explore their unique workshops, and find one-of-a-kind pieces. Artimest brings connoisseurs everywhere wonderful handmade products crafted by exceptional artisans in Italy.Artemest offers a unique shopping experience through curatededitorial content and exceptional videos. Its team includes international experienced professionals coming from luxury retail, e-commerce and editorial. Explore the varied worlds of home décor, jewelry and fine art as they change in character from region to region, and observe each artisan in his workshop as he describes his process and worldview.
Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an Influencer Marketing platform for your social media campaigns. Find the best influencers on Instagram and Facebook to deliver succesfull campaigns with an effective impact.

Equiter seleziona, realizza e gestisce investimenti infrastrutturali in capitale di rischio finalizzati allo sviluppo socio-economico del territorio.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Medics — 3D anatomical modeling per la pianificazione pre-operatoria e il supporto intra-operatorio delle chirurgie complesse.
BionIT Labs — We apply IT to Bionics in order to Turn disabilities into New Possibilities

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
SteerLight — SteerLight is a startup that develops LiDAR-based optical sensors, also known as laser-based optical systems, to aid with mobility.
ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.

First we help. Then we invest. Together we rise.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
United States, Canada, Italy

Portfolio highlights

FleetPanda — 100% cloud and smart phone based. No hardware, No install required. Try for 2 weeks before you buy.
HouseKeys — HouseKeys is a for-profit / nonprofit hybrid focused on the economic empowerment of income-eligible households seeking affordable housing options for rent or purchase in high-cost metro and rural areas. We began in 2015, serving as a 3rd-Party contracted Housing Department for Bay Area cities who needed staffing and systems to run theirhousing programs. The next iteration of our company will be to grow our database of low-to-moderate income households and connect them with housing opportunities in California, nationwide, and urbanizing metro areas throughout the world.
Aerotrax — The Next Generation of Aircraft Maintenance Software. Aerotrax is an enterprise software company focused on digitally tracking the lifecycle of every aircraft, part, and component.

CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
STEP 4 Business — STEP is the answer to the key needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, with a complete digital ecosystem of financial products and services chosen and designed for the customer, using the best technologies and the most innovative solutions on the market. Founded in 2021 and is based in Milan, Lombardia, Italy.
Know Your Customer — Know Your Customer is an award-winning SaaS ecosystem and APls designed to revolutionise the compliance, corporate onboarding and periodic review process.

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Tamara — Tamara is a fintech startup that offers a buy now, pay later platform that enables customers to pay on an installment basis, helping merchants to grow their sales. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and mobile apps.In 2020, Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, Turki Bin Zarah, and Abdulmohsen Albabtain co-established the company inRiyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.

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.

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!

MetaVenture Holding is an investment company.

Investment focus

Art, Blockchain
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.

Paramount Pictures is major global player in feature film production and distribution, video and DVD worldwide distribution, and production of programs for television broadcast and syndication.

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Portfolio highlights

CHILI — Without subscription, wherever you are, forever. LIVE YOUR MOVIE!

To distribute High Quality and great Design we frequently travel Europe and adopt Brands who meet our goals.

Investment focus

Fashion, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Drexcode — Drexcode.com is the first web-boutique that provides a unique fashion experience, trendy and convenient, giving the opportunity to rent dresses and accessories from the latest collections.By working directly with the most prestigious Italian and foreign designers, we select the outfits seen at the fashion shows, with particular regards to thosesuitable for special occasions. Our clients have the exclusive opportunity to rent in-season outfits that make dreaming every women.

Ligurcapital is a public and private joint venture that offers equity financing to companies in Liguria, Italy.

Investment focus

Fashion, Internet, Fitness
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
Drexcode — Drexcode.com is the first web-boutique that provides a unique fashion experience, trendy and convenient, giving the opportunity to rent dresses and accessories from the latest collections.By working directly with the most prestigious Italian and foreign designers, we select the outfits seen at the fashion shows, with particular regards to thosesuitable for special occasions. Our clients have the exclusive opportunity to rent in-season outfits that make dreaming every women.
greenchic — A pioneer of the circular economy, greenchic is the number 1 fashion-logistics startup in Southern Europe. Send us what you wish to swap, and immediately start buying with our reward points system. Thanks to this effortless service model, greenchic offers the fastest DTC way to regain value from no longer used clothing. Through greenchic, memberscan exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and sustainable way. With 99% of the products sold, reused, upcycled, or donated to charities within 6 months, greenchic is set to become a European leader in circular fashion. With its growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in fashion recommerce, a 4.5-star TrustPilot rating, the platform offers to its highly engaged community a collection of more than 240.000 items. Thanks to a semi-automated logistic warehouse, an event-driven serverless digital platform, and its own digital token, the startup is experiencing a 2X growth pattern and is supported by some of the best investors from the Italian fashion & social impact scene.greenchic is now operating in Italy and France.Find out more by visiting greenchic.com and following @greenchic on socials.

Centerboard Partners

Investment focus

Video, Content, Social Network
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

New Vision — Siamo THRON. Quelli della piattaforma unica per governare insieme asset digitali e dati di prodotto, distribuendoli su tutti i tuoi canali di comunicazione.

Encelado Ventures seed venture capital fund

Investment focus

Photography, Video on Demand
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wesual — Wesual offers a platform that automates visual content creation for brands. Clients can handle all aspects of postproduction with Wesual in a few clicks and receive the final assets in less than 48 hours. They can organize shoots wherever and whenever they want in order to develop their business in a sustainable manner, whatever that may be. Wesualenables clients to produce high-quality shoots by utilizing professional photographers and videographers located throughout Europe.

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's operations include motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home video acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, development of new entertainmenttechnologies and distribution of filmed entertainment.Throughout the years, SPE has produced, distributed, or co-distributed successful franchises such as Spider-Man, Men in Black, Underworld, and Resident Evil. SPE is also a member of the Motion Picture Association of America.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment, Apps, Video Streaming
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Italy, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HOOQ — Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Entertainment have established HOOQ, a joint venture start-up, to offer a regional over-the-top (OTT) video service in Asia.HOOQ will deliver both Hollywood blockbusters and television series, as well as popular local movies and programmes to customers anytime, anywhere by enabling them tostream and download their favourite shows on their device or platform of choice.HOOQ will be rolled out progressively in the Singtel Group’s Asian footprint, including Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Thailand, from the first quarter of 2015.
CHILI — Without subscription, wherever you are, forever. LIVE YOUR MOVIE!
eko — Unlock limitless creative potential with our cutting-edge Media Creation Suite, powered by Eko's innovative technology.

Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Lambda256 — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Joinrs — We developed an artificial intelligence model able to read job offers for you and show you the ones that best match your profile.
Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
Ticketoo — Ticketoo: compra e vendi biglietti fan-to-fan in modo sicuro

Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Events
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, San Marino

Portfolio highlights

Kampaay — The digital platform for organizing corporate events, in person, virtual or hybrid, in just a few clicks!
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.
Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.
Creative Fabrica — Get access to our ever growing library of fonts, graphics, crafts and more. Over 1 million unique premium designs. Access them all today.

We shape impact investing for people and planet

Investment focus

Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency

The Cassa depositi e prestiti Group is the national promotional institution that has supported the Italian economy since 1850

Investment focus

CleanTech, InsurTech, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Scuter — NEXT GEN SHARING MOBILITY Introducing the ultimate sharing mobility service, designed to be much better than all the rest. The all-new website. Available so ...
Newarc srl — With the help of technology, we simplify and improve the home buying and selling process.
ViteSicure — Vite sicure is the first insurtech broker selling life insurance policies in Italy (soon in Europe) that transforms the policy purchase experience by making it simple and instant.ViteSicure offers insurance products that guarantee safe lives, because our mission is going straight to the heart of our customer, who with a great sense ofresponsibility are looking for financial security for the most difficult, unpredictable moments of life. ViteSicure fill the protection gap by identifying trigger points in the life of the target and proposing specific solutions to guarantee safe lives in under-insured markets.With an innovative user experience based on growth hacking techniques, ViteSicure bridge the distance between customers and insurance through:• Digitization of the marketing funnel • Digital Customer onboarding • Online download of the Policy • Educational Online Systems • Protection Calculator • Comparison on the need • customer relationship API • Marketing Automation • Digital Customer ServiceThe business model is based on removing the intermediation of insurance products and enabling clients to access to best tailormade insurance solutions based on the specific need.

Net4Capital is a investment management company in private equity and venture capital.

Investment focus

EdTech, Fitness, Software
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
MyLab Nutrition — MyLab Nutrition Group owns T-Rex Integratori, Nutracle, Suprapet and MyLab Nutrition brands. It creates and distributes high quality Made in Italy supplements through its brands using an high technological innovative approach. The corporate vision is to allow people to achieve the highest level of well-being through targeted precisionintegration via supplements. The corporate mission is to recommend perfect supplements to each person based on their needs through interactive consultancy that process datas via A.I. mylabnutrition.net is the first interactive portal that recommends the perfect dietary supplements for each person's specific needs through an interactive consultancy.

Siamo una fondazione bancaria che ha allineato la sua struttura agli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile delle Nazioni Unite. Promuoviamo progetti e lanciamo bandi a Torino e nel territorio di Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Battery
Grant, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Italy, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Eoliann — Eoliann offers a climate risk assessment and prediction API to financial institutions. Our solution leverages satellite data and proprietary ML algorithms to forecast the probability and impact of specific climate risk events
Northvolt — Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.
Paperbox Health — Paperbox Health is breaking down accessibility barriers for the early identification and treatment of cognitive issues. Applying a combination of gaming principles and telemedicine allows children and families to access an accessible and engaging experience to identify cognitive issues in advance and maximize the efficacy of a preventiveintervention.

Smart Capital form a group of entrepreneurs and managers with over 10 years experience in this sectors.

Investment focus

Events, Mobile, Software
Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

KNOBS — KNOBS is a Tech Advisory Firm & Software House specializing in Blockchain development. We are the perfect partner to make your business fly into the future.Founded in 2014, KNOBS deals with the design, prototyping and implementation of complex IT systems. Using the most modern hardware and software engineering technologies, the mostinnovative programming languages and the most reliable frameworks, our team of young professionals is able to offer optimal, customized and cutting-edge solutions.
Cusa Tea — Using only hand-selected, premium tea and coffee, and real fruit, spices and herbs, Cusa Tea & Coffee makes delicious and convenient beverages that are ready to drink, hot or iced, in seconds.
TMP Group — TMP Group performance marketing function supports and supports digital strategies management, organization, qualification, and reporting of social ADS campaigns on major search engines or digital stores. They apply their design, creative, technical, and technical skills to the realization of events, products, promotions, collaborations, pressoffices, and public relations services.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
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.

Bank

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Education
Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.