# Top 50 Medical Startup Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## CDP Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Panakes Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device Panakès Partners is a Venture Capital firm, based in Milan, which invests in the most ambitious companies and teams, developing revolutionary technologies and products, in the field of life sciences, aiming to improve the lives of people around the world. Panakès, founded in 2015 by Fabrizio Landi, Alessio Beverina and Diana Saraceni, has 250million under management. ## Innogest Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries ## LIFTT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital. ## Invitalia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Medical, Internet 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 ## Indaco Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science VENTURE We invest across all sectors with specific focus on technology and digital The largest independent more About Us Portfolio [...] ## INGENIUM Emilia Romagna - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Privacy INGENIUM Emilia Romagna was started with EUR 5.30 million by the Emilia Romagna region and EUR 1.7 million from fund managers. Managed by META Investment, the nine-year fund operated through the temporary acquisition of minority stakes in high-opportunity technological companies. It is now fully invested. ## Vertis - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Computer, E-Commerce 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. ## Principia SGR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software 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. ## Scientifica Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms. ## Luca Trevisan - Type: Angel - Location: Siena, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device Luca Trevisan Sales Manager and Business Coordinator. ## Lazio Innova - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Lumen Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, InsurTech, Insurance Lumen Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed investments, early-stage investments, and private equity. ## 3B Future Health Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Monaco, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Medical Helsinn Investment Fund S.A. is a Luxembourg fund focused on early-stage investments in areas of high unmet patient need. ## Equiter - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Convertible Note - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Information Technology Equiter seleziona, realizza e gestisce investimenti infrastrutturali in capitale di rischio finalizzati allo sviluppo socio-economico del territorio. ## Riello Investimenti Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage Riello Investimenti is a private equity investment firm. The firm prefers to invest in Italian small and medium enterprises within the manufacturing, healthcare, energy, media, and logistics sectors. It was founded in 2001 and is based in Milan, Italy. ## Maia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Software, Health Care Seeding change by investing in category-defining agri & foodtech ventures. ## Ferrante Gaetani, - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device Ferrante Gaetani, ## Sefea Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Padua, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device Sefea Impact is an asset management company that setting up and managing closed-end alternative investment funds. It aims to generate social impacts through fundamental tools such as tailored finance, technical assistance, and impact measurement. ## DSM-Firmenich Venturing - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage DSM-Firmenich Venturing provides venture capital finance for startup firms. ## Fin Posillipo Spa - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care Familiy Office of Petrone Group ## RoboIT - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Manufacturing, Medical Device RoboIT is the National Technology Transfer Hub for Robotics and Industrial Automation. ## Rearden Capital Management LLC - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology Rearden Capital is a trading and investment firm managing proprietary capital across commodity, currency, fixed income and equity asset classes and related derivative instruments in the global markets. ## Toscana Next Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Manufacturing, Medical Device Toscana Next Fund is a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital. ## Romed - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care Romed is an investment firm. ## Giovanni Cerutti - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care Giovanni Cerutti is a chief executive officer & managing director at NOVAICOS. ## Rosario Bifulco - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Art, Medical, Blockchain Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A. ## CRB Inverbío - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology CRB Inverbio is a private venture capital management firm specialized in life sciences investing in innovative early stage start- ups in biotech, med tech, digital health and medical technologies ## MVM Life Science Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical MVM invests in innovative healthcare companies. Our active portfolio companies are transforming the delivery of healthcare by enabling higher quality, cost-effective care in large, global markets. ## Schia Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology Schia Ventures is investment firm. ## Fabio Faltoni - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device Fabio Faltoni is the President of Kell. ## MiMiT Women's Enterprise Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Medical, Women's, Nutrition MiMiT Women's Enterprise Fund is an investment fund. ## CDP Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Elder Care, Small and Medium Businesses CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors" ## GCM Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology GCM Group is an investment firm. ## Fountain Healthcare Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Fountain Healthcare Partners is an Irish based life science venture capital fund. Fountain is exclusively focused on the life science sector. Specific areas of interest to them are: specialty pharma, medical devices, biotechnology and diagnostics. They will deploy the majority of their capital in Europe with a strong focus on Ireland. ## Sistema Investimenti - Type: VC Fund - Location: Catania, Sicilia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Medical, Health Care Sistema Investimenti is an holding in the form of SpA, established by the will of young professionals and entrepreneurs in Sicily. Sistema Investimenti focus on qualified minorities primarily in companies in the South of Italy with the exception of turnaround/restructuring and distressed. ## Giovanni Leo - Type: Angel - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Giovanni Leo is the Partner at Efficient Frontier Investing. ## 50 Partners Health - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 ## Embed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care Embed Capital directly invests in startups, established or in the process of creation.Embed is mainly focused on innovative companies that:- Are active in the so-called “real economy” sectors: industrials, technology, environment, services, retail or social;- Are characterized by simple and intuitive business models and valuepropositions, and operate in markets or market segments featuring high growth potential;- Present a clear competitive advantage and high barriers-to-entry;- Are cash-generative in the medium term.Given that Embed Capital is not a closed-end fund, it doesn’t have specific time-constrains and it can assess on a project-by-project basis to determine the best time to sell a participation, and sign customized agreements with the entrepreneurs. ## European Commission - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services ## SIMEST - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Series A, Series B - Focus: Manufacturing, Coffee, Aerospace 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). ## Fincarl - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care Fincarl is an investment firm. ## GM&C Life Sciences Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Alderley Edge, Cheshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical The GM&C Life Sciences Fund is a seed and early stage venture capital fund targeting life sciences businesses located in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire & Warrington region. The Fund is managed by Catapult Venture Managers ("Catapult Ventures").The Fund is based at Alderley Park, which is well recognised as a site ofnational importance, being the largest life sciences campus of its kind in the UK with more than 500,000 sq. ft. of top-end laboratory and related space and facilities. Until recently, the Park was the R&D headquarters for AstraZeneca.Since 2002, Catapult Ventures has backed a significant number of companies across a broad range of life sciences, including therapeutics (such as Abzena and Oxford BioTherapeutics), medical devices (such as Monica Healthcare and Probe Scientific), contract research organisations (such as R5 Pharmaceuticals and FDAS), diagnostics developers (such as Lumora and Biofortuna), as well as developers of technology used in healthcare applications (such as Oxford Cryosystems and Accutronics). The Fund is the result of a collaboration between Cheshire and Warrington Enterprise Partnership, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Cheshire East Council, and Manchester Science Partnerships. ## Andrea Venturelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Art, Events, Retail Andrea Venturelli - Venture Partner @ Innogest Capital ## Antin Infrastructure Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Antin Infrastructure Partners is a leading private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments. ## UniCredit - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. ## Claris Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics Claris Ventures is a venture capital firm supporting the best scientists in building successful life sciences companies that will impact people's lives ## Si14 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vicenza, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, mHealth, Diabetes Si14 is a visionary original design and development laboratory for novel technology products that enhance the way we live, work and play. Founded in 2008 and based in Padova, Italy, Si14 turns inspiration into the realization of compelling, cutting-edge products and services that help people connect with their activities and their world, empowerenterprises in realizing greater efficiencies, improve access to vital health screening services for millions worldwide, and much more. ## Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Travel, Medical Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia is an independent asset management company founded in Florence in 1998. Active in the Private Equity and Venture Capital sector, it currently manages four closed-end funds for a total value of around 140 million euro and has already carried out numerous operations. in the capital of companies operating in variousindustrial sectors, from the most traditional to high-tech. The mission of SICI is to encourage the development of unlisted SMEs in Central Italy through the contribution of financial resources intended to strengthen their capital and financial structure. SICI intends to represent a Growth Partner for the investee companies and a strategic operator in the creation of value for the territory with an impact on the economic and social fabric in terms of competitiveness of the economic system, employment, entrepreneurial and managerial culture. Business Development Central Italy is an independent Italian managing closed-end funds company. Established in Florence in 1998, SICI has 4 Private Equity and Venture funds under management with a total committed capital of 140m Euros.