Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Italy (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Iccrea Banca
VC Fund
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8 | Italy | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments | |
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United Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $406k–$18M |
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CRiF
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain | $122k–$9M |
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Luca Ascani
Angel
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3 | France, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $589k–$37M |
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Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Seed | FinTech, Payments, Financial Services | $1.8k–$439k |
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Ithaca Investments
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $713k–$155M |
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Azimut Holding
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Software, Information Technology | $1.8M–$43M |
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InReach Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.1M–$11M |
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UniCredit
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Germany, Spain | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed | Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, Energy | $197k–$1.4B |
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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $71k–$2.5M |
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Baleen Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, Credit | $3M–$155M |
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Majinx Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | $200k–$2M |
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Fondazione Golinelli
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech | $122k–$467k |
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Max Ciociola
Angel
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2 | Italy, Germany | Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, FinTech, Consumer | |
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Fasanara Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Italy, Germany | Debt Financing, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $488k–$23M |
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Sygnum
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, Switzerland, Italy | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $2.3M–$23M |
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Pietro Invernizzi
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, France, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $1.1M–$37M |
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Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Medical, Internet | $658k–$6.2M |
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Cryptosociety
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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Absoluta Digital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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Stakez Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore | Seed | Gaming, Blockchain | |
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SquareOne Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Machine Learning, SaaS | |
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, FinTech | |
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Michele Attisani
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | |
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Honeycomb Portfolio
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C | FinTech, EdTech, Mobile | |
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | |
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Agos
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Banking, FinTech, Payments | |
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Moon Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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SBI Ven Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Banking | |
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Black Alpha Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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TIM Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, Malaysia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, Financial Services | |
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Unreal Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | |
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Keyrock
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Italy, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform | |
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Chris Schagen
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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SOVO
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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Mapleblock Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Estonia | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | |
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Banking | |
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | |
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PranaVentures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce | |
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Kairos Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Fashion | |
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Loris Lanzellotti
Angel
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1 | Italy | SaaS, Retail, FinTech | ||
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SuiN.sui
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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BlackDragon
VC Fund
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1 | France, Singapore, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | |
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Wintermute
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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DIB Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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Invitalia
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Sweden | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities | |
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HC Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Hong Kong | Seed | Gaming, PC Games, Casual Games | |
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Apps | |
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Trinityventures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | |
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Iccrea Banca develops and provides financial products and services on behalf of the Italian co-operative banks. With a wide and personalized offer system, products, services, and business strategies, it develops the BCC market to support local customers. The company directs and coordinates the group companies and centralizes services relating tothe main governance and control functions. It oversees and manages banking, financial, and service activities vis-à-vis the mutual banks. It offers services on finance, institutional credit, securities administration, payment systems, and e-money.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ventis — Acquista online abbigliamento per uomo, donna e bambino, arredamento, beauty e gourmet su Ventis. Approfitta delle offerte con la garanzia di pagamenti comodi e sicuri.
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $406k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
- Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
- Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $122k–$9M; Pre-Seed $132k–$549k
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
- Agrobit — Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed.
- Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$13M; Pre-Seed $589k–$37M; Series A $3.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
Banca Sella Holding is a holding company based in Italy. It provides services that include management, coordination, control, trading, and treasury activities of financial sectors through its subsidiaries. The company's banking products and services also consists of various deposits, as well as repurchase agreements, mortgage loans, personalloans, factoring, and Internet and mobile banking services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.8k–$439k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.
- Hercle — Hercle is a regulated digital asset liquidity provider specializing in OTC trading and market making.
Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $713k–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$37M; Series A $3.3M–$155M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glaut — Glaut is the AI-native platform for market research. Use AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) to collect qualitative insights at scale, with multilingual support, fraud prevention, and real-time analysis.
- Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
- CommerceClarity — CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage.
Azimut Holding is an independent financial company that offers investment solutions to develop excellent levels of experience. The company's business model is based on the vertical integration between asset management and distribution. It has portfolio managers and analysts based in major hubs around the world and a network of client-facingfinancial advisors operating to deliver quality advice to clients.Azimut Holding was founded on 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$9M; Series A $1.8M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.9M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
- RedCarbon — RedCarbon is a cyber automation company that supports security using AI and NLP. RedCarbon was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Streetbeat — Hedge fund level trading for everyone. StreetBeat’s solution is a combination of online brokerage and hybrid Robo-advisor with a significant edge on transforming data into actionable insight for casual and retail traders. Working with data from the most strategic providers, who currently serve the top hedge funds, we develop insights from creditcards, satellites, mobile GPS, app usage, and web browsing. We decode this information and make it actionable for everyone through our web application and an intuitive mobile app that can be easily used by experts and non-experts, reducing the information gap that exists between the average investor and Wall Street.At StreetBeat.com we are driven to give you a real-time view of the economy of the world with our 17 patent-pending software and the fastest signal on the market.Our algorithms individual stocks based on personalized characteristics of traders.https://youtu.be/pxwbSanXDRk
InReach Ventures builds its own proprietary software and AI to discover and invest in the best early-stage startups from all over Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- eyko — eyko is the one-stop platform for data preparation, enabling data blending and data streaming that brings everyone together.
- Eneba — Since its launch back in late 2018, Eneba has been (and continues to be) growing at the speed of light. We aim straight for the bull's eye, and we have no intention to miss.Here at Eneba, we are much more than just regular co-workers. We are a team, a squad, and a crew of like-minded professionals who share the same passion for gaming. Westrive for professionalism and excellence on a daily basis. By doing so, we provide the easiest access and means to video games & services for gaming communities worldwide.Our mission is to bring an outstanding selection of games to every single interested player, in the safest, most trustworthy, and cheapest way possible. And we are not only doing it - we are rocking it!
- NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $38M–$1.4B; Debt Financing $521k–$928M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
- AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge is an edge data center business with a mission to create the leading-edge platform, delivering seamless, localized and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure to customers. They provide a wide range of direct connectivity options to enable connectivity within their datacenters. All cabling is installed and managed by AtlasEdge and itsengineering team to ensure speed of installation and guaranteed quality and management.
- Cornaglia — Cornaglia designs, develops, and manufactures metal and plastic components for the automotive industry.
3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $71k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Credit
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $3M–$42M; Series A $3.3M–$155M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scalapay — Buy now, pay later. Pay your order in 3 equal installments every 4 weeks with 0 interest.
- Hypervolt — Experience Hypervolt: The Highest Rated EV Charger on TrustPilot. Enhance Your Electric Journey with Powerful Charging, Solar Panel Integration, Real-time Cost Control, and Tariff Integration.
- MAGIC AI — The home fitness system that uses AI technology to give you hyper-personalised training on demand on a beautifully designed mirror.
Majinx Capital is an investment fund focused on companies in DeFi, infrastructure, dApps,and other Web3 areas. The firm focuses on (pre-)seed and strategic investment rounds.The main goal of the fund is to find the most promising and ambitious projects, ensure their successful fundraising and boost their growth by using a well-developed innernetwork of connections: + 250 VCs, key opinion leaders from 12 countries and access to crypto communities in 8 countries. The fund scale projects with solid teams with exceptional mindsets, well-developed roadmaps and business strategies that are looking for a financial boost to thrive.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
- Clarnium (ClarFun.Trade) — Clarnium is a DeFi token launch engine built to fix the broken Web3 token lifecycle. It is our live, operating platform designed to attract users and run the initial token distribution, so that when the flagship product goes live we already have a core audience. Clarnium combines SocialFi engagement mechanics and a toolkit for audiences includingquests, airdrops via lootboxes, referrals, ambassador programs for micro-influencers on X, user and influencer leaderboards, and seamless payment system (ClarPay). Clarnium is already live with 7 launched modules and a rapidly growing user base, onboarding communities and monetizing engagement in one unified environment. Key traction includes 500K+ website visitors for the last 6 months, 200K+ connected wallets, $5M+ processed via ClarPay for 2025, 20K+ daily active users. Strategic partners and advisers include Polygon, Seedify, Arbitrum, Animoca Brands (LOI), Planet IX, BGA, and others.ClarFun.Trade is the core product, launching in 2026 under the Clarnium brand as a separate trading and token launch platform on Base (next on Solana). It delivers a token launcher with a built-in ambassador program - it turns token creation into a scalable growth engine - large groups of micro-influencers compete for rewards by creating X-based content around the token using InfoFi narratives, driving consistent attention and new user acquisition for each launch. The company is currently raising a $500K seed round to accelerate expansion, enhance liquidity, and fuel growth.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
Fondazione Golinelli was born in Bologna in 1988 by the will of the entrepreneur and philanthropist Marino Golinelli with the aim to promote education and training, to promote the culture, to foster intellectual growth and ethics of young people, the citizens of tomorrow.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $122k–$467k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biorfarm — Adotta il tuo Albero, crea il tuo Campo Digitale e ricevi a domicilio la tua frutta biologica. Solo con Biorfarm puoi seguire la crescita dei tuoi frutti!
- EvenFi — Criptalia uses blockchain technology to connect businesses that have projects to be funded with people and organizations who are looking for high-yield investments. We offer an online platform where companies publish their innovative ideas and industrial improvement projects. Investors, people, and institutions can fund these projects by lendingmoney in exchange for a higher interest rate.
- Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable businesses in the mobile and media space with broad experience in product, business, and content development for the digital space. Max is founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the World's Largest Lyrics Catalog and MusicAI Company with +70 Mln of users in the world. Musixmatch uses Deep Learning and AI techniques to provide lyrics and language data to most of music digital streaming companies. As first mover in the mobile space Max started in early 1998 with Wireless Solutions, a multi media mobile gateway platform for delivering contents in more than 100 countries over 300 mobile carriers. He then sold his company to Dada, an italian media company, and he spent 7 years with Dada first as CEO Dada Iberia & Latam e then as EVP Mobile Services, leading a team of +100 people and +80 mln yearly turnover. Max is the co founder of AI Labs, an R&D AI Lab in Italy active on Technology Transfer on AI.
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- 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).
- Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
FASANARA CAPITAL is an independent, owner-managed alternative asset management company authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Co-founded by CEO Francesco Filia in 2011, Fasanara is based in London with alliance offices in Milan.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- multifi — Fuelling the growth of small and medium-sized businesses. Get instant access to credit with multifi's user-friendly platform.
- SellersFi — SellersFi offers financial solutions for e-commerce merchants & brands. Contact us to get started and build your economic growth toolkit.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 276
- Round size: Seed $488k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Klaaryo —
- Macingo — Trasporto, spedizioni e traslochi a basso costo. Trasporti economici di auto, moto, barche e mobili in Italia ed Europa. Confronta prezzi e risparmia il 70%
- Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
Sygnum is an international digital asset banking organization, rooted in Swiss and Singaporean traditions. The company provides professional and institutional investors, banks, corporations, and DLT foundations with the means to invest in digital assets with utmost confidence. Sygnum's team facilitates this through our top-tier security,personalized expert service, and regulated services in digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization, and B2B offerings.
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, Switzerland, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Series A $18M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ledn — Ledn offers a suite of credit and savings products for you to make the most of your digital assets.
- Colossus — Technical provider in institutional blockchain infrastructure, bridging the gap between Asset Holders and yield generation. We empower financial institutions to manage assets while maintaining the highest standards of security and transparency.
- Neptune Digital Assets — Neptune Digital Assets is a publicly traded digital asset company focused on Bitcoin treasury growth, staking infrastructure, and emerging technology investments across blockchain, AI, and digital infrastructure.
Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
- Dimension — The state of the art collaboration platform for modern engineering teams. Chat, project management, smart actions, and more, accelerated by AI.
Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation. Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1.6M; Series A $900k–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $89M in 2017
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.
Cryptosociety actively supports the project through strategy, marketing, design, launchpad introductions, strategic relationship introductions, and active participation on social media. Therefore, it was only a logical step for us to become advisors on some initiatives.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
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Browse database — It's Free!Absoluta Digital is a strategic advisory and investment firm focus on supporting blockchain startups.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HeyElsa — Harness the power of AI in Crypto with Elsa, your crypto co-pilot. Uncover opportunities, trade smarter, and maximize returns, all with unparalleled ease and safety.
- InceptionLRT — InceptionLRT is a standalone liquid restaking protocol designed specifically for Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs).
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Stakez Capital: A premier Web3 firm driving innovation in blockchain, GameFi, and fintech. Partnering with groundbreaking startups, we offer expert guidance to shape the future of decentralized technology. Join us at Stakez Capital and empower your vision.
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Forward Protocol — Create Blockchains, Subnets, and dApps with A No-Code Interface Wordpress for Web 3.0 Cross-Chain Compatible Industry Agnostic Adoption-Focused Deploy Your dApp Now Join the Community Featured In Deploy and go live in a few minutes. No programming skills required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07z8cQPQGI&ab_channel=ForwardProtocol Lowest Barrier to Entry Easy to use Open Source Drag and drop Complete control Set
- Enjinstarter — Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
- Coboworx — Coboworx is an online market place for information, hardware and software products
- Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
- PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bankaya — Bankaya is the first fintech startup in Mexico built through a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Bankaya's purpose is to empower everyone with the financial and digital freedom to break through barriers and achieve more.
- Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
- Hastee — Hastee is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their workforce. It empowers employees to receive their earned pay immediately to increase their choice and financial wellbeing. Companies profit from the improved productivity, engagement, recruitment & retention of their workforce, with zero cost or impact on company cash-flow.Thecompany was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.
Honeycomb Portfolio is a venture capital investment firm that seeks to invest in early-stage companies that are created within nature's intuitive intelligence. It has its headquarters in New York City.
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- Industry: FinTech, EdTech, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ©elfie — The genesis is that an image of you should belong to you and should be able to control when and where it is displayed. You should also trust that if you sent that image to a trusted partner in an intimate relationship it was for their eyes only.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
- Syncremedies Healthcare Pvt Ltd — Syncremedies is an Integrated Medicine service that brings together Allopathy, Ayurveda and Homeopathy to treat chronic ailments.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Lead/follow: no public data
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!
Agos is a leading company in the consumer credit sector. Our mission is to provide customers with a wide range of financial solutions, designed with the utmost attention, correctness, responsibility and transparency. We work to make the credit necessary for the development of their projects, whether small or large, accessible to families, becausewe know that customer satisfaction comes above all from our ability to be close to their needs… and this is our vocation. We provide credit through different product lines: Personal Loans, Finalized Financing, Credit Cards, Fifth Salary and Leasing, as well as offering a wide range of insurance services.
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- Industry: Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- FlowPay — Open banking & payment solutions. FlowPay supporta la tua azienda nei flussi di incasso e pagamento con soluzioni innovative integrabili via API.
Moon Capital invests all its energy in researching new projects to detect their potential for success, thus giving the community the opportunity to invest in them. The team firmly believes in collective growth and progress as the basis for healthy investment.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
SBI Ven Capital, founded in 2007 and based in Singapore, is a private equity firm that invests in financial services and technology sectors across Asia.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Saladin — Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services.
- Nexxa.ai — Agentic automation tailored to system-critical industries the world relies on. Book a free consultation today.
- AND Global — AND Global is a Financial Technology as a Services company that provides everything that a modern digital bank needs and more. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.
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Browse database — It's Free!As we stand on the precipice of the next crypto bull market, expertise and strategic investment approach of Black Alpha Capital aim to unlock untapped potential and generate market-beating returns.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
TIM Ventures prefers to invest in the internet, digital life, mobile evolution, e-learning, and green technology sectors. The company provides startups with consulting services and support. It selects companies that exploit disruptive technologies, with particular attention to enterprise applications, digital life, and telecommunications.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Malaysia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Webidoo — We provide the digital tools and advanced that big businesses use, but built and designed so they can be easily utilized by local independent business owners. webidoo is dedicated to partnering with local businesses. We’re here to give the solutions you need to connect with customers, wherever they may be. Our clients include businesses of everytype: restaurants, attorneys, builders, doctors, delicatessens, electricians and many others. We can provide solutions that allow companies to connect with their customers, real and potential, like never before. We’re all about supporting local businesses. And we feel good about that.
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
- SonoBee Ultrasound — Looking for a reliable ultrasound scan center in Malaysia? Our center offers a range of ultrasound services, from pregnancy scans to abdominal and pelvic scans. Our experienced professionals provide accurate and timely results. Contact us today to schedule your appointment
Unreal Capital is an international fund focusing on investments in innovative and promising crypto projects.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- InceptionLRT — InceptionLRT is a standalone liquid restaking protocol designed specifically for Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs).
- Mind AI — Mind AI is a trading insights platform that offers elite insights to the investors for a competitive edge in the fast-moving crypto markets.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Scaling liquidity and pricing assets since 2017. We enhance digital markets. Backed by time-tested algorithms and ironclad tech. Market making - OTC - Options
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rhuna — Rhuna is an AI and blockchain platform that transforms event management with NFT ticketing and token rewards.
- BitVault — BitVault is a DeFi protocol that provides a crypto-native money solution via its BTC-backed stablecoin, bvUSD, and yield-bearing staked stablecoin, sbvUSD.
- Doppler Finance — Doppler Finance is a yield-earning platform that unlock earning opportunities within the XRPL ecosystem
I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
- PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
- Growblocks — Growblocks builds your full SaaS bowtie - letting you see your full funnel, plan & monitor performance across your Go-To-Market engine.
SOVO is a dynamic and multifaceted organisation with a focus on spearheading innovation, supporting entrepreneurs, and driving growth in the business landscape.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
- Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
- Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
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- Total investments: 170
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
- Momentum — Momentum is a move central liquidity engine with multi-sig treasury management, token vesting, and liquidity provisioning.
- Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.
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- Industry: SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Kairos Partners SGR is a independent Italian asset management company.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
- Hercle — Hercle is a FinTech company that develops low-latency technology that offers end-to-end prime-brokerage solutions and trading algorithms to institutional investors who are interested in gaining exposure to crypto-assets.
- Underscore District — Underscore District unlocks the potential of Made in Italy fashion brands through the power of technology and data analytics.
Loris Lanzellotti is the cofounder of Boost Heroes attended London Business School.
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
SUIN is an investment firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
BlackDragon is a decentralized blockchain-native fundraising group with dedicated in-house marketing, development, and research teams. We support the projects we invest in by providing invaluable resources in marketing, advisory, community growth, and access to our expansive, yet exclusive industry network.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Singapore, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Zizle — Zizle wants to use the Solana blockchain to transform social networking: better data privacy, decentralized governance, and more efficient revenue streams for consumers and producers. the platform's goal is to make social networking a more entertaining, healthy, and profitable environment.
- GPU.Net — GPU Network is a decentralized graphics processing unit on-demand infrastructure that supports the next generation of Generative AI, Web3 Metaverses, high-end graphics rendering, and cryptocurrency mining.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 88
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
- Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.
DIB Ventures is a blockchain advisory and investment firm, helping blockchain startups integrate into the crypto landscape and accelerate their growth and industry.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Italy, Sweden
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- Total investments: 50
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
HC Capital invests in and supports defi, web3, and metaverse businesses.
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- Industry: Gaming, PC Games, Casual Games
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Yuliverse — Yuliverse is a Web3 metaverse game platform where players can meet other players and connect with like-minded individuals in the same city.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
- Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
- 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!
Trinityventures is a venture studio firm looks for breakthrough ideas and tech startups. Start-Up Services and Consulting.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Payments Investor funding in Italy at a glance
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