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Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in January 2026

Investor	Payments Italy investments
Iccrea Banca	8
United Ventures	6
CRiF	4
Banca Sella Holding	3
Ithaca Investments	3
3LB Seed Capital Srl	2
InReach Ventures	2
Baleen Capital	2
CDP Venture Capital	2
Fondazione Golinelli	2
Azimut Holding	2
Fasanara Capital	2
Sygnum	2
Club Italia Investimenti 2	1
HC Capital	1
Absoluta Digital	1
DEXT Force Ventures	1
TIM Ventures	1
SBI Ven Capital	1
Jump Crypto	1
Italian Angels for Growth	1
GELLIFY	1
Valhalla Capital	1
Meld ventures	1
Wintermute Ventures	1
PranaVentures	1
Keen Venture Partners	1
OKX Ventures	1
Corniola	1
ParaFi Capital	1
Cryptosociety	1
Trinityventures	1
Valar Ventures	1
Skybridge 20 Ventures	1
Majinx Capital	1
Vertis	1
Eterna Capital	1
Global Payments SpA	1
Youbi Capital	1
Polymorphic Capital	1
Banca Sella Group	1
Middlegame Ventures	1
R-301 Capital	1
Invitalia	1
OKX Ventures	1
Speedinvest	1
Principia SGR	1
Selini Capital	1
Stakez Capital	1
Boost Heroes	1

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Iccrea Banca develops and provides financial products and services on behalf of the Italian co-operative banks. With a wide and personalized offer system, products, services, and business strategies, it develops the BCC market to support local customers. The company directs and coordinates the group companies and centralizes services relating tothe main governance and control functions. It oversees and manages banking, financial, and service activities vis-à-vis the mutual banks. It offers services on finance, institutional credit, securities administration, payment systems, and e-money.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Seed, Series A, Series B
Italy

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.
Hercle — Hercle is a regulated digital asset liquidity provider specializing in OTC trading and market making.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Italy, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glaut — Glaut is the AI-native platform for market research. Use AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) to collect qualitative insights at scale, with multilingual support, fraud prevention, and real-time analysis.
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

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.

InReach Ventures builds its own proprietary software and AI to discover and invest in the best early-stage startups from all over Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Glassfy — The only subscription platform for developers and product managers. Glassfy provides the infrastructure to build & optimize subscriptions for mobile applications. You can now add subscriptions easily with a few lines of code, get info about any event happening in real-time, create different paywalls, and test which selling proposition usersprefer.
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.
Exactly.ai — Advanced AI artwork creation platform for artists that understands your style, creates inspiring images and streamlines your creative process

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Credit
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, United States

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
Dog Heroes — Dog Heroes delivers home recipes of fresh food, perfectly portioned to every dog's need. Only high-quality local ingredients are used in tailor-made portions that are ready to serve. Customers will find 55% meat of exclusively Italian origin in the company's recipes, balanced with vegetables, vitamins, and mineral salts. Dog Heroes doesnot use any chemical additives or preservatives.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, China, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.
RedCarbon — RedCarbon is a cyber automation company that supports security using AI and NLP. RedCarbon was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.
Colossus — Technical provider in institutional blockchain infrastructure, bridging the gap between Asset Holders and yield generation. We empower financial institutions to manage assets while maintaining the highest standards of security and transparency.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Canada, Switzerland, Italy

Portfolio highlights

ZATAP — Explore how ZATAP connects industries with real-time engagement and loyalty through innovative technology.
Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

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

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, Casual Games
Seed
Hong Kong

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.

Absoluta Digital is a strategic advisory and investment firm focus on supporting blockchain startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

HeyElsa — Harness the power of AI in Crypto with Elsa, your crypto co-pilot. Uncover opportunities, trade smarter, and maximize returns, all with unparalleled ease and safety.
InceptionLRT — InceptionLRT is a standalone liquid restaking protocol designed specifically for Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs).
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Italy, Spain

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.

TIM Ventures prefers to invest in the internet, digital life, mobile evolution, e-learning, and green technology sectors. The company provides startups with consulting services and support. It selects companies that exploit disruptive technologies, with particular attention to enterprise applications, digital life, and telecommunications.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Webidoo — We provide the digital tools and advanced that big businesses use, but built and designed so they can be easily utilized by local independent business owners. webidoo is dedicated to partnering with local businesses. We’re here to give the solutions you need to connect with customers, wherever they may be. Our clients include businesses of everytype: restaurants, attorneys, builders, doctors, delicatessens, electricians and many others. We can provide solutions that allow companies to connect with their customers, real and potential, like never before. We’re all about supporting local businesses. And we feel good about that.
Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
SonoBee Ultrasound — Looking for a reliable ultrasound scan center in Malaysia? Our center offers a range of ultrasound services, from pregnancy scans to abdominal and pelvic scans. Our experienced professionals provide accurate and timely results. Contact us today to schedule your appointment

SBI Ven Capital, founded in 2007 and based in Singapore, is a private equity firm that invests in financial services and technology sectors across Asia.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Saladin — Saladin is an online platform that provides life, health, automotive, and travel insurance services.
Nexxa.ai — Agentic automation tailored to system-critical industries the world relies on. Book a free consultation today.
AND Global — AND Global is a Financial Technology as a Services company that provides everything that a modern digital bank needs and more. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Play AI — The Orchestration Layer for Consumer Intelligence
Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.
Nexus Interactive — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
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.
Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
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.

Valhalla Capital makes strategic investments and provides long-term support to some of the most promising start-ups in the space. Whether that’s helping with team formation, capital introductions, tokenomics design and review, or go-to-market strategy, we’ll be here, rolling up our sleeves to take our teams to the next level.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series B
Switzerland, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Gora — Goracle is a oracle network built on the Algorand blockchain, designed to bring real world data to smart contracts.
Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.

Meld Ventures is an Australian-based firm dedicated to backing the next wave of blockchain entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Italy, France, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Wayru — Wayru is a decentralized Internet service provider for the urban development world aiming to democratize Internet access
Pact — Pact is a fintech platform that offers deep liquidity and low transaction fees. With accessible smart contract functionality, transactions on Pact are available to users of all levels of wealth and experience. It provides integration of financial assets on a non-custodial, decentralized platform intended to be the home of liquidity on Algorand.Pact was launched in 2021.
Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Hospitality, Tourism
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, India

Portfolio highlights

Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
CloudSEK — CloudSEK leverages contextual AI to predict and prevent cyber threats. Keep your organisation safe and secure.
GetPica — GetPica is the cutting-edge platform for event organizers to engage event participants with their personal photos and videos in real time. Explore all solutions

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
The Netherlands, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qneiform — The best way to understand human capital
EvidenceHunt — EvidenceHunt is an AI-powered research assistant developed by medical professionals for healthcare research. Our focus is on delivering tools that streamline gathering and analyzing clinical evidence. With features like AI Chat for interactive queries and comprehensive Direct Search options, EvidenceHunt allows precise data retrieval andanalysis. It's a tool designed for healthcare experts seeking quick, reliable access to medical research and insights.
allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

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.

Corniola offre alle imprese una ampia gamma di servizi di consulenza imprenditoriale, amministrativo-gestionale e di pianificazione aziendale, focalizzando la propria attenzione soprattutto sullo sviluppo d’impresa e sulle operazioni straordinarie (creazione, fase di startup, acquisizioni, fusioni, cessioni di rami d'azienda, ristrutturazione,rilancio, ecc.). Inoltre Corniola è una società di investimenti e partecipazioni: investe in partecipazioni di minoranza di imprese di qualità orientate alla crescita, con un orizzonte temporale di lunghissimo periodo, privilegiando situazioni speciali e affiancando l’impresa nella gestione di operazioni straordinarie.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Payments
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.
Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.

Cryptosociety actively supports the project through strategy, marketing, design, launchpad introductions, strategic relationship introductions, and active participation on social media. Therefore, it was only a logical step for us to become advisors on some initiatives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Finance
Seed
Singapore, Switzerland

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed

Portfolio highlights

Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
Starting Finance — Starting Finance is a financial education platform intended to provide financial literacy to its users. The company's platform provides education and information about finance and publishes informative articles on important events in the fields of economics, finance, and politics, enabling users to improve their knowledge regarding finance andthe management of their capital.

Eterna Capital is a blockchain investment firm - We back innovative entrepreneurs who harness blockchain technology

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Blockus — Blockus enables game studios to build fast, reduce costs and laser focus on gameplay. Seamlessly integrated WaaS, first party NFT marketplace, and fiat + crypto payments.
Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

Global Payments SpA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TAS Group.

Investment focus

FinTech, Wearables, Biometrics
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
Doubler Pro — Join Doubler, become a Winner.
Multiple Network — Multiple Network is a web3 DePIN project that uses SD-WAN technology to create a network layer that allows for high-speed transfer of digital assets and data.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Fair Math — Fair Math is a research company with an open-source oriented approach, dedicated to addressing privacy challenges in the modern world.
Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, France, Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

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.

R-301 Capital They are an independent technology venture capital firm. They invest in early stage busineses leveraging disruptive web and mobile technologies in a variety of sectors. As experienced tech entrepreneurs They combine expertise with cash to best support Their portfolio companies. They move quickly and decisevily in funding innovatorsThey believe in.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Italy, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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!
Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an influencer marketing platform. It allows brands to integrate key influencers into their digital and social communications in a fully automated, transparent, and ROI-driven approach. Our technology analyses the online conversations of all registered users across each of their social media channels. Through a semantic model, Buzzooleis able to categorize conversations and to identify the topics that users are most influential in, according to its own algorithm. This allows brands to reach out to specific influencers in their niche market in a completely automated way.Buzzoole's business model is a CPP mode. Brands pay on the basis of posts generated by the influencers. This Cost-Per-Post model allows us to offer all sizes of solutions. From startups to top brands. Working with Buzzoole can save companies up to 70% compared with cooperating with external agencies, which is usually a lengthier, more complicated, and more expensive process.Buzzoole's proprietary algorithm solves the analysis and matching problem, and the transparent approach to campaigns means brands will always see how much they are spending, who is working on their campaign, and what their campaign ROI is.
Bergamotte — Founded in 2015, Bergamotte offers a delivery service of flowers and plants throughout France.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
Italy, Sweden

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.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

zkMe — zkMe operates as a zero-knowledge Identity Oracle provider.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
Legend of Arcadia — Legend of Arcadia is a mobile card-based RPG inspired by Kingdom Hearts, leveraging blockchain technology for immersive gameplay. Players can engage in real-time PvP modes, trade highly composable NFTs, and earn rewards through strategic gameplay.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Taiwan, Australia, Singapore

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.

Stakez Capital: A premier Web3 firm driving innovation in blockchain, GameFi, and fintech. Partnering with groundbreaking startups, we offer expert guidance to shape the future of decentralized technology. Join us at Stakez Capital and empower your vision.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Forward Protocol — Create Blockchains, Subnets, and dApps with A No-Code Interface Wordpress for Web 3.0 Cross-Chain Compatible Industry Agnostic Adoption-Focused Deploy Your dApp Now Join the Community Featured In Deploy and go live in a few minutes. No programming skills required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07z8cQPQGI&ab_channel=ForwardProtocol Lowest Barrier to Entry Easy to use Open Source Drag and drop Complete control Set
Enjinstarter — Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

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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