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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Italy (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Italy Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Iccrea Banca
VC Fund
8 Italy Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
United Ventures
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $274k–$18M
CRiF
VC Fund
4 Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain $122k–$9M
Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed FinTech, Payments, Financial Services $439k–$2M
Luca Ascani
Angel
3 France, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services $589k–$38M
Ithaca Investments
VC Fund
3 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $713k–$155M
Baleen Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Italy, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, Credit $3M–$155M
Sygnum
VC Fund
2 Canada, Switzerland, Italy Seed, Series A Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $2.3M–$23M
Pietro Invernizzi
Angel
2 United Kingdom, France, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1.1M–$38M
InReach Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $1.1M–$11M
Fasanara Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
UniCredit
VC Fund
2 Italy, Germany, Spain Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy $384k–$1.1B
Fondazione Golinelli
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech $122k–$467k
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $488k–$17M
Azimut Holding
VC Fund
2 Italy, China, Mexico Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain $1.8M–$18M
3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $71k–$2.5M
Max Ciociola
Angel
2 Italy, Germany Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
Chris Schagen
Angel
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS
SOVO
VC Fund
1 Italy Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Majinx Capital
VC Fund
1 Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Mapleblock Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Estonia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
OKX Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
PranaVentures
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
Kairos Partners
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Fashion
Loris Lanzellotti
Angel
1 Italy SaaS, Retail, FinTech
SuiN.sui
VC Fund
1 Italy Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain
BlackDragon
VC Fund
1 France, Singapore, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Wintermute
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Stefano Meloni
Angel
1 Italy FinTech, Finance, Lending
DIB Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Invitalia
VC Fund
1 Italy, Sweden Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
HC Capital
VC Fund
1 Hong Kong Seed Gaming, PC Games, Casual Games
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Trinityventures
VC Fund
1 Italy Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Selini Capital
VC Fund
1 Taiwan, Australia, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, FinTech, Gaming
Polymorphic Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Skybridge 20 Ventures
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Switzerland Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Finance
Stiven Muccioli
Angel
1 Italy, San Marino Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Banca Sella Group
VC Fund
1 Italy, France, Germany Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
David García
Angel
1 United States, Italy, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Danu Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Woodson Capital Management
VC Fund
1 Italy, Australia Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, Credit, Payments
Innogest Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States, Spain Series A, Series B Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $1.1M–$29M
Crédit Agricole Italia
VC Fund
1 Italy, Spain Debt Financing, Seed Manufacturing, Building Material, Financial Services $1.3M–$176M
Lodovico Rosnati
Angel
1 Italy Seed SaaS, Retail, FinTech $439k–$603k
U-Start
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion $406k–$21M
Nick Carbonari
Angel
1 Italy, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Banking, FinTech
GELLIFY
VC Fund
1 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
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Iccrea Banca
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
  • Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
  • 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.
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CRiF
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$2M
  • 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.
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Luca Ascani
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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–$38M; 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.
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Ithaca Investments
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Payments startups

Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$38M; 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.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • CommerceClarity — CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage.
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Baleen Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

Baleen Capital is a value-based investment firm that seeks to invest in exceptional people, products, and companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sygnum
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, Switzerland, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Series A $18M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • ZATAP — Explore how ZATAP connects industries with real-time engagement and loyalty through innovative technology.
  • Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
  • 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.
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Pietro Invernizzi
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop

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Investment focus

  • 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–$38M
  • 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.
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InReach Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.4M; Series A $5.1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $62M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
  • jobpal — We build AI-powered chatbots that automate the engagement between companies and candidates. jobpal makes it easy for candidates to discover and apply for jobs so that recruiters can concentrate on building meaningful relationships.
  • Streamkap — Streamkap is the modern real-time data exchange to sync data between systems as well as between companies
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Fasanara Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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UniCredit
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$15M; Post-IPO Debt $40M–$1.1B; Debt Financing $417k–$614M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FITT — FITT specializes in thermoplastic fluid transfer and management solutions.
  • EuroGroup Laminations — We develop and produce stators and rotors solutions for the energy transition, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and sustainability on a global scale.
  • E4 Computer Engineering — E4 Computer Engineering stands out for its tireless pursuit of the most cutting edge proposals in the IT sector.
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Fondazione Golinelli
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 228
  • Round size: Seed $488k–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
  • Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
  • Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
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Azimut Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, China, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$9M; Series A $1.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • 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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Max Ciociola
Angel · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Chris Schagen
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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SOVO
VC Fund · Hastings, Christ Church, Barbados · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Majinx Capital
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
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Mapleblock Capital
VC Fund · Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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OKX Ventures
VC Fund · Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups, 15 in the past 12 months

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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PranaVentures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Kairos Partners
VC Fund · Milan, Michigan, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Kairos Partners SGR is a independent Italian asset management company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Loris Lanzellotti
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Loris Lanzellotti is the cofounder of Boost Heroes attended London Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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SuiN.sui
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

SUIN is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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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BlackDragon
VC Fund · Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, Singapore, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Wintermute
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Stefano Meloni
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Stefano Meloni - Director of Innovation and Human Resources Development, Organization & QAS @ Brivio & Viganò

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Lending
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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DIB Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Invitalia
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tutornow — Ripetizioni online in matematica, fisica, inglese e oltre 150 materie. Ripetizioni per DSA e BES con tutor certificati. Lezioni online individuali da 60 minuti.
  • BILLD — Billd is a cleantech firm that offers the first digital receipt service to capture huge data from the offline market using AI.
  • Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.
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HC Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

HC Capital invests in and supports defi, web3, and metaverse businesses.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • 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!
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Trinityventures
VC Fund · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Trinityventures is a venture studio firm looks for breakthrough ideas and tech startups. Start-Up Services and Consulting.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Selini Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Selini Capital is a multi-strategy trading firm and liquidity provider specializing in crypto assets. With roots in traditional finance and a passion for technology, we strive to bring leadership to this dynamic space.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Taiwan, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
  • Heritage Distilling — Heritage Distilling Co. (HDC) is a craft distillery based in Gig Harbor, Washington. HDC is the most awarded craft distillery in North America by the American Distilling Institute 10 years in a row. We pour a little of our heart into every batch of spirits we make.
  • Temple Digital Group — Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets.
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Polymorphic Capital
VC Fund · Clayton, North Carolina, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

It is a venture capital firm that selectively invests in extraordinary teams and emerging paradigms in blockchain and fintech globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
  • Freename — Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains
  • BIO Protocol — The BIO Protocol (BIO) allows onchain scientific communities to fund, build, and co-own research and products in specific biomedical domains including lifespan, brain health, and rare disorders. BIO, founded by senior VitaDAO members, empowers worldwide communities of scientists, patients, and investors to take science into their own hands andbring solutions to life more effectively than traditional pharmaceutical companies.
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Skybridge 20 Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Skybridge 20 Ventures is a crypto investment firm specialising in providing unique, exclusive and influential support to established block-chain companies and emerging Web3 start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shaga — Shaga is a veteran team of blockchain, gaming, distributed systems, and networking professionals.
  • EclipseFi — EclipseFi is a Cosmos modular multi-chain token issuance platform that seeks to tackle Launchpad's cross-chain user experience and sustainability challenges with features like smart accounts and cross-chain design.
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
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Stiven Muccioli
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Tech Entrepreneur and investor. The Financial Technology Report awarded him as one of the Top 25 CTOs of the world in the FinTech industry and he was selected as one of the Top 150 FinTech Leaders and Influencers in Italy. Founder and CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service startup BKN301 and founder of the VC firm SM Capital.Founder of Ventis, Fintechcompany sold to Iccrea Banca Group and co-founder of the multi-awarded SportTech startup Golee and the sustainable fashion startup KNIIT Milano. He founded Libertas, the first widely used news App in the Republic of San Marino and founded and later sold the e-commerce company Tippest. Early investor in SpaceX and Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) and Angel Investor of the Founder Institute of San Francisco, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, based in Silicon Valley, through which he invested in startups like Realty Mogul, Andalin and MallIQ.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, San Marino

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • 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.
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Banca Sella Group
VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

The Banca Sella Group boasts a history that is now more than a century old, followed by the common thread of the principles and values ​​inspired directly by its founders. In this section we outline the Group profile and its main stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MrCall — Un assistente digitale dedicato al tuo business, che risponde quando non puoi, raccoglie i messaggi e li trascrive in una mail, un SMS o un messaggio Whatsapp.Configurabile e attivo sul telefono in due passaggi. Senza cambiare operatore, senza installare nuovi software, senza nuovi centralini.Nessun investimento o costo di attivazionerichiesto.
  • Tot — Meglio di un conto corrente aziendale: scopri Tot, il conto aziendale online per imprese che semplifica la tua gestione amministrativa. Aprilo ora online.
  • 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.
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David García
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Toket — Toket provides user-friendly APIs & no-code tools that empowers teams with no blockchain experience to easily create NFT-based applications
  • Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
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Danu Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

DANU VENTURES provides comprehensive advisory support: attraction of investments, audit, listing, market making, strategic planning etc.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Woodson Capital Management
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Woodson Capital Management operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Credit, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scalapay — Buy now, pay later. Pay your order in 3 equal installments every 4 weeks with 0 interest.
  • Reshop — Get your refund, fast.
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Innogest Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$11M; Series B $2.7M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $99M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
  • BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Therapeutics develops innovative targeted cancer therapy solutions using its proprietary YntraDose technology for nuclear medicine.
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Crédit Agricole Italia
VC Fund · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Building Material, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Debt Financing $1.3M–$176M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FoolFarm — UN NUOVO MODO DI CREARE STARTUP Investiamo in imprenditori con idee rivoluzionarie in AI e Deep-tech. Offriamo supporto operativo ed investimenti per costruire aziende leader attraverso un metodo validato ed un team esperto in startup. CANDIDA LA TUA IDEA DIVENT
  • FITT — FITT specializes in thermoplastic fluid transfer and management solutions.
  • Acque del Chiampo — Acque del Chiampo has always been dedicated to managing the integrated water cycle in a transparent and sustainable manner while honoring the environment and the communities we serve.
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Lodovico Rosnati
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$603k
  • 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.
  • Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
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U-Start
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $406k–$3.5M; Series A $3.1M–$21M; Series B $3.4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
  • Keatz — A technodelic for VR
  • TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
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Nick Carbonari
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Nick Carbonari is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman at eezylife Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • eezylife Inc. — A proactive life navigator dedicated to maximizing your life by bringing you personalized solutions based on your character, mood and preferences – enjoy more and share your experiences!
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GELLIFY
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
  • BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 2000 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
  • 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.
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Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Blum — Blum is a decentralized exchange platform
  • DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.
  • Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
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Payments Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 38 deals from 61 investors.

61
investors
in Italy Payments startups
38
deals
in Italy Payments startups
$2.3M
median round
in Italy Payments startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
34%
Seed
most common funding stage
77/23
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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