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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Italy (August 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
United Ventures
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $406k–$15M
Iccrea Banca
VC Fund
8 Italy Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund
5 Italy, France Venture - Series Unknown, Seed FinTech, Payments, Financial Services $1.8k–$4.9M
CRiF
VC Fund
4 Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain $117k–$9.8M
Ithaca Investments
VC Fund
3 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $713k–$155M
Azimut Holding
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, China Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$43M
Luca Ascani
Angel
3 France, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services $589k–$37M
UniCredit
VC Fund
2 Italy, Germany, Spain Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $197k–$2.1B
Max Ciociola
Angel
2 Italy, Germany Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
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
Fondazione Golinelli
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech $146k–$534k
Majinx Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $200k–$2M
Baleen Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Italy, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, Credit, Retail $3M–$155M
Sygnum
VC Fund
2 Canada, Switzerland, Italy Seed, Series A, Post-IPO Debt Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $2.3M–$23M
InReach Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.1M–$11M
Pietro Invernizzi
Angel
2 United Kingdom, France, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1.1M–$37M
Banca Sella
VC Fund
2 Italy Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Logistics, Document Management $56k–$41M
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $483k–$23M
Fasanara Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
LDA Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Australia, Singapore Post-IPO Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $7.9M–$155M
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
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
Innogest Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States, Spain Series A, Series B Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $1.1M–$29M
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
Speedinvest
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Coinvision Research
VC Fund
1 Italy Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain
DEXT Force Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Italy, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Youbi Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Italy Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Middlegame Ventures
VC Fund
1 Ireland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Offbeat Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy Series A FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Roham Gharegozlou
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Italy Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Keen Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 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: 86
  • Round size: Seed $406k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$15M
  • 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.
  • Beelzebub — A secure low code deception runtime framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.
  • Seltz — The Web Knowledge Layer for AI Agents.
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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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Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy · 5 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:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.8k–$439k; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qonto — Qonto is the all-in-one business account for SMEs and freelancers with a simplified accounting flow, a top-notch customer service and transparent pricing.
  • 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
  • Hercle — Hercle is a regulated digital asset liquidity provider specializing in OTC trading and market making.
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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 $134k–$9.8M; Pre-Seed $117k–$612k
  • 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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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: 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 — AI-native platform powering the next generation of e-commerce through intelligent agents.
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Azimut Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$9.8M; Series A $1.8M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.9M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% 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.
  • 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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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–$14M; Pre-Seed $589k–$37M; Series A $4.3M–$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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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: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $44M–$2.1B; Debt Financing $552k–$913M
  • 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
  • Retina — Retina si occupa di realizzare infrastrutture nel Mezzogiorno per la produzione di biometano dalla conversione dei reflui zootecnici.
  • Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.
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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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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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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 $146k–$534k
  • 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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Majinx Capital
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine · 2 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, 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) — Born on @Base. Clarnium is AI-powered DeFi hub to launch & trade tokens - with a SocialFi layer. https://t.co/NDhYKI2oyc
  • 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.
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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, Credit, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$48M; Series A $3.3M–$155M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Canada, Switzerland, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Series A $17M–$23M; Post-IPO Debt $9M–$20M
  • 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.
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InReach Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

InReach Ventures backs European founders with global ambitions. We use proprietary AI to find Europe's most promising teams before anyone else.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$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

  • 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.
  • Dreamdata — Dreamdata is a B2B Revenue Attribution Platform that gathers, joins, cleans all revenue-related data to present transparent, actionable analysis of what drives B2B revenue. The ultimate B2B multi-touch attribution tool for multi-techstack businesses.
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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 $1.2M–$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.
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Banca Sella
VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

Banca Sella offers is a wide range of financial and banking products to meet its customers’ needs, mixing the benefits of specialization with tailor-made solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Document Management
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Debt Financing $56k–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enex — Enex is leader in natural and energy-efficient cooling, heating and refrigeration HVAC systems.
  • A-Cube — A-Cube API: la piattaforma globale per la Tax Compliance. Integra la fatturazione elettronica e gli obblighi fiscali in ogni ERP o e-commerce in Italia e nel mondo.
  • Gruppo Di Martino — Gruppo Di Martino is an Italian logistics and transportation company
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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: 295
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$7.7M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
  • Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
  • ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
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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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LDA Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

LDA Capital is an alternative investment group focused on investing in the global private and public markets. Their firm provides capital solutions to companies seeking financing in underserved markets and in complex conditions on a global basis. Our team has executed over $5 billion in transactions across 42 countries over the last 10 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Private Equity $22M–$155M; Post-IPO Equity $7.9M–$42M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Seedify — Seedify is a blockchain gaming-focused incubator and launchpad ecosystem empowering innovators and project developers through access to funding, community, and partnership building, and a full support system to help drive the future of gaming and blockchain. It is an investor in the blockchain games, NFTs, and metaverses
  • Pilot Energy — Leading the clean energy transition.
  • Hilbert Group — Hilbert Group is a digital assets specialist with focus on algorithmic trading. We offer hedge-fund products as well as managed accounts.
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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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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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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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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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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 492
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
  • Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
  • Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.
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Coinvision Research
VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Coinvision is a community blockchain technology enthusiasts. Not financial advice. Click to read Coinvision Research, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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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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DEXT Force Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

DEXT Force Ventures is an investment arm of DEXTools.io. It helps projects from the incubation stage to public listing and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
  • Bondex — Join Bondex, a Web3 network with 4M+ users. Monetize connections, build your reputation, and earn $BDXN rewards. Advance your career or discover top talent now.
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
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Youbi Capital
VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

We invest in world-class solutions designed to create a sustainable and inclusive web3 infrastructure

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CEBG Studio — CEBG Studio is a gaming studio.
  • TreasureLand — Treasureland is a multi-chain NFT aggregation protocol that supports NFT mint, issuance, auction, and socialization. It aims to connect NFT creators, users, and consumers in a decentralized way, building the eBay of the blockchain world.
  • Webb Protocol — Webb builds infrastructure for connecting zero-knowledge applications empowering developers to unlock user privacy in the Web3 ecosystem.
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Middlegame Ventures
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Middlegame Ventures is a fintech​ venture capital firm investing in early-stage growth businesses focused on Financial Innovation. The firm is seeking great entrepreneurial teams who are focusing on rearchitecting financial services infrastructure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fundcraft — fundcraft offers digital-native fund operations for the management of private equity, venture capital, funds of funds, and feeder funds.
  • Paygentic — Purpose-built payments & billing for AI agents and agentic software. Flexible pricing models, real-time billing, no fixed fees. Start monetizing in days, not months.
  • Cloud Capital — CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML.
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Offbeat Ventures
VC Fund · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Offbeat Ventures' advantages include access to markets, mentors, advisors, and consultants. and unquestionably facilitate and serve as catalysts that offer comprehensive solutions for both aspiring and seasoned business owners.

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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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Roham Gharegozlou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Code — This is Digital Cash
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
  • Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
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Keen Venture Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Keen Venture Partners is a radically human venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing European scale-ups at the Series A and Series B stages

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
  • Avalor AI — Enchaning the Tactical Value of Military Unmanned Systems
  • allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.
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Payments Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 49 deals from 72 investors.

72
investors
in Italy Payments startups
49
deals
in Italy Payments startups
$2.2M
median round
in Italy Payments startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage
81/19
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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