# Alessandro Pontari

> Alessandro Pontari is a seed investor at Vertis (Milan) backing Software and Marketplace. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vertis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vertis-sgr-s-p-a)
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-jan-pontari-6849881/

Alessandro Pontari is a seed investor at Vertis in Milan focused on Software and Marketplace. Venture capital investor focused on tech-driven businesses

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 15% |
| Digital Marketing | 2 | 15% |
| CMS | 1 | 8% |
| Video | 1 | 8% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 8 | 62% |
| United States | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Soource | Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Ogyre | Ogyre is a community that focuses on safeguarding the oceans by providing financial backing to fishermen for collecting marine debris. | $4.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Live Story Inc. | Design Boundless Experiences with Live Story. Forget about code and templates: with our freehand designable editor, you can quickly create layouts and publish them online in no time. Finally, a no-code design solution that delivers multi-platform integrations with speed and dependability for professional teams. | $3.2M | Seed | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Radical Storage | Radical Storage is a luggage storage network that provides luggage storage services. The company works with various local businesses like coffee shops, bike rental shops, bars, and even hotels. It verifies local businesses to guarantee the safety of luggages. Through BAGBNB, people will be redirected to the closest local business in an area ofchoice. Once the booking is completed, people will receive a summary of the booking including the details of your chosen local business.BAGBNB was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Rome, Italy. | $7.5M | Series A | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Coverzen | The digital office of insurers | $3.7M | Seed | Jul 20, 2023 |  |
| Deliveristo | B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors | $7.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Entando | Entando is an open-source software company providing an application composition platform for building applications on Kubernetes. Focused on helping companies fully modularize their applications and align frontend and backend code updates, Entando helps simplify application lifecycle management by automating and accelerating responsiveness tosecurity vulnerabilities, bug fix demands, and requests for enhancements. In 2015, Entando was named in the "Cool Vendors in Web Computing" Gartner report. In 2017, it became an official Red Hat Technology Partner, and Entando's platform won the Digital360 Awards prize in the cloud computing category in 2018. | $11M | Series B | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| Fitprime | Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy. | $3M | Series A | Jan 11, 2021 |  |
| 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. | $5.5M | Series B | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| Milkman Technologies | Milkman is a last-mile delivery platform company, offering technology and expertise for designing optimal delivery experiences to logistics teams and organizations.It has been built at the intersection of the most pressing needs of the Enterprise & eCommerce universes and its wide suite of proprietary, automated features enables unprecedentedfreedom of choice and ease of control over the last-mile.We help meet and exceed customers' expectations cost-effectively by: providing technology for orchestrating choice, control, convenience, and price along the supply chain, and building flawless hyper-automation.Milkman was founded in Italy in 2015 by Antonio Perini and Tommaso Baù. Its first office had three employees. By 2018 it was a two-times winner of the prestigious Netcomm E-commerce Award, as Best Innovation and best Service. We now count €35 million in funding and a growing full-time staff of 70+ professionals, coming from three different continents, with offices in Italy and the USA. In 2019 we partnered with Poste Italiane (Italy’s National Post) to provide Same-day and Scheduled deliveries to their Clients at National level. Among our Clients are Internationally famous Brands such as Amazon, Zara, Nespresso, IKEA & Eataly. | $27.3M | Series C | May 22, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [360 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/360-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Club degli Investitori](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/club-degli-investitori) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GELLIFY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gellify) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Italian Angels for Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/italian-angels-for-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tamburi Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tamburi-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Vertis

VC Fund · Milan, Italy

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.

4 contacts available at Vertis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alessandro Pontari | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alessandro-pontari |
| Amedeo Giurazza | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amedeo-giurazza |
| Giulio Valiante | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giulio-valiante |
| Nicola Redi | Investment Commitee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicola-redi |

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## FAQ

### What does Alessandro Pontari invest in?

Alessandro Pontari invests primarily in Software, Marketplace and Digital Marketing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alessandro Pontari last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alessandro Pontari closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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