Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Italy (October 2026)

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• 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.
• Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
• Beelzebub — A secure low code deception runtime framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.

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• 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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• 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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• Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
• Complaion — Complaion is a compliance technology company that provides software services for regulatory compliance and management system certifications.
• JustSolve — JustSolve is an agentic debt collection team that allows organizations to recover more, spending less.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Seedify — Discover, test-trade and launch tokens on Robinhood Chain Testnet. Testnet only. No real funds.
• 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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• 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.
• Streamkap — Streamkap is the modern real-time data exchange to sync data between systems as well as between companies
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ludoil — Ludoil is an energy company that offers production, storage, logistics, and marketing services for oil products
• 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
• Encavis — The Encavis AG is listed in the SDAX segment of the German stock exchange and is a producer of electricity from renewable energy sources. As one of the leading independent power producers, They acquire and operate solar and wind parks throughout Europe. Their plants generate stable returns and make an important contribution to safe and clean energysupplies.

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• Zyfi — Personalized onchain yield agent through smart accounts, automated allocation, risk monitoring, and rebalancing across DeFi.
• 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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• 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 .
• Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
• Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.

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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• 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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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• Fundcraft — The fundcraft team has created a platform that centralizes, coordinates, and gradually automates all fund activities, including transfer agency, accounting, portfolio and risk management, and compliance, among others.
• 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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• 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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• InceptionLRT — InceptionLRT is a standalone liquid restaking protocol designed specifically for Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs).
• Mind AI — Mind AI is a trading insights platform that offers elite insights to the investors for a competitive edge in the fast-moving crypto markets.
• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• HesabPay — Experience a revolutionary shift in digital payments with HesabPay, enabling effortless money transfers, bill payments, and gift cards.
• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
• Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• FlowPay — Open banking & payment solutions. FlowPay supporta la tua azienda nei flussi di incasso e pagamento con soluzioni innovative integrabili via API.

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• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
• Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.

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• LW3 — LW3 offers sustainable traceability and provenance solutions by utilizing advanced, non-cloneable physical IDs (such as QR codes and NFC tags), integrated with interoperable blockchain technology to support a circular economy
• Arvo — ARVO aims to enable brands in a variety of industries by guaranteeing that their products are traceable, verifiable, and trustworthy, consequently improving customer experiences worldwide.
• Astrix — Astrix wants to revolutionize the ticketing sector by utilizing blockchain technology. Astrix envisions an enhanced event experience, real-time updates, and a system that is impenetrable to fraud. Astrix is an ecosystem that serves as a gateway to a more complex and captivating live event experience.

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• 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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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• Seares — Discover Seares' cutting-edge mooring solutions for ports, aquaculture, yachting and offshore energy. A leader in sustainable and innovative marine technologies.
• FlowPay — Open banking & payment solutions. FlowPay supporta la tua azienda nei flussi di incasso e pagamento con soluzioni innovative integrabili via API.

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• Seares — Discover Seares' cutting-edge mooring solutions for ports, aquaculture, yachting and offshore energy. A leader in sustainable and innovative marine technologies.
• FlowPay — Open banking & payment solutions. FlowPay supporta la tua azienda nei flussi di incasso e pagamento con soluzioni innovative integrabili via API.

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• Flywallet — Flywallet founded by Lorenzo Frollini at the end of 2018 together to Arianna Ludovica Frollini, Matteo Egidi e Alessandro Massimiani, is an innovative startup that connects payment, mobility and health services by enclosing them in a single ecosystem and putting safety first, thanks to biometrics and proprietary wearable and IoT technologies. Ithas created Keyble, a new type of wearable that adapts to the user's lifestyle, created with eco-sustainable materials and inspired by made-in-Italy fashion. It consists in a smart module which can be inserted into fashion accessories such as bracelets or watch straps and is equipped with biometric sensors for user authentication and to monitor their health. Through the fingerprint or heartbeat via ECG, the user enables payments in stores, passwordless access to online services, ticketing for public transport, loyalty cards, access to gyms, offices and homes, car door locks and digital identity. In Q1 2022, the wearable will reach the certification for medical device for performing the analysis of cardiac arrhythmias, blood oxygen saturation and body temperature. Flywallet offers a unique model of "Biometric Wearable Platform as Service" aimed to electronic money and payment institutions, banks, insurance companies and firms. The Flywallet Platform includes the world's 1st wallet for tokenizing payment cards on wearables equipped with biometric authentication and allows Partner companies to deliver new types of services through API connection in a simple and secure way.

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• Carnovo — Carnovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the automotive purchase process by making it fast, transparent and convenient for both, car dealers and buyers. Their mission is simple, to put the car buying process upside down by placing customers in the center making them save time and money while offering them the best buyingexperience. Car dealers that partner with Carnovo sell more cars than they could in the showroom alone while reducing cost inefficiencies and increasing stock turnover. This means they can make great offers to Carnovo buyers!
• Sailogy — Sailogy was born in 2013 with the aim of making sailing holidays accessible to everyone and providing them with the opportunity to rent a boat with comfort and safety. Customers all over the world can choose from a wide selection of sailing yachts, motor yachts, catamarans and gulets all rentable with or without experienced skippers and hostesses.Sailogy has become the market leader in three different countries – Italy, Germany and Switzerland – it’s the leading European charter agency with the widest range of boats with real-time availability, ready to be booked in just a few clicks. The company offers more than 22,000 boats in 800 destinations, from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, and has over 100 thousand clients from 84 countries.
• 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.

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• Ultrade — Ultrade is a powerful decentralized crypto trading platform with the best DeFi tools, all-in-one app, including: A Decentralized Exchange, Leveraged Perpetuals DEX, Swap Crypto DEX, Crypto Lending and Borrowing.
• QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
• Sanctum — Stake SOL and earn optimized LST returns from JupSOL, bbSOL, and more, and launch your own custom LST and Solana validator.

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• Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
• BigProfiles — BigProfiles is an Artificial Intelligence Platform designed for Utilities, Telcos, Banks, Insurance companies and Retails.Large companies such as Teleperformance, Eni, Unicef already have already successfully subscribed to our services.BigProfiles is the No-Code Artificial Intelligence Platform for sales and antichurn that predicts thelikelihood to purchase and churn of each customer in a CRM, before proceeding to contact him in a sales or retention campaign.
• Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.

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• 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.
• Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
• Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.

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• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
• Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.

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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
• Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

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• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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

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• Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
• mika — mika is an accounting solution firm that offers monthly bookkeeping, payroll, invoice management, and financial planning services.
• allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.

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• Clastix — Kubernetes multi-tenancy made easy
• Tiledesk — Boost customer engagement with Tiledesk. Discover our conversational automation ready to use. Personalized experiences, improved conversion and retention.
• Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.

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• UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
• Paragraph — Paragraph's agent turns your company context into posts, newsletters, social campaigns, and landing pages, then ships the work you approve.
• La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

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• 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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• Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
• Bio Hold — BioHold Srl, which specializes in the development, building, and operation of biogas and biomethane plants in Italy, is an important actor in the energy shift to renewable alternatives. BioHold combines operating biogas plants with the intention of converting them to biomethane production, as well as greenfield projects that use agriculturalfeedstock to generate renewable energy. The current portfolio consists of around 20 plants that are either owned or subject to advanced contractual agreements, with a considerable pipeline of assets in the advanced stages of negotiation.
• Società Agricola Halaesa — Halaesa coltiva avocado in Sicilia attraverso pratiche di agricoltura rigenerativa di precisione.

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• X10 — X10 operates as a hybrid crypto exchange provider.
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.