# Apside

> Apside is a VC fund in Turin backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Italy
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.apsidespa.it/

Apside is a VC fund in Turin focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Apside empowers the Italian innovation ecosystem bringing together expertise, experience and market insights. Apside operates as a joint venture between Intesa Sanpaolo and Zest.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$3.3M |
| Series A | $900k–$5.7M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $869k–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 63% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| PaaS | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Silvia Rinaldi | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silvia-rinaldi-87c5 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LianeCare | LianeCare is a caregiving technology platform that connects companies and employees to find professional caregiving services and jobs. | $1.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 06, 2026 |  |
| BandoSubito | The first AI for finding and managing Grants and Tenders | $2.4M | Seed | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Datasinc | Datasinc provides asset origination, simplification, maintenance, recovery, and enhancement support to a variety of subjects. Real estate developers, financial institutions, credit unions, ESG investment funds, government agencies, regulators, and insurance companies are among them. They are primarily concerned with the development of proprietarydata mining and machine learning algorithms. | $868.9K | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 04, 2025 |  |
| AWorld | AWorld originated in 2019 from the vision of founders Alessandro Armillotta, Marco Armellino, and Alessandro Lancieri, with the goal of turning individual sustainability efforts into real, measurable impact. Coming from backgrounds in e‑commerce and fashion, they were inspired to address environmental and social challenges—particularly those offast fashion. By combining advanced technology, gamification, and educational content, AWorld quickly emerged as a groundbreaking platform. In 2020, the United Nations chose AWorld as the official tool for its global ActNow campaign—thus launching AWorld ActNow, a mobile app promoting individual action on climate and SDG education. This marked the start of an ongoing collaboration with the UN, later joined by the European Commission, significantly increasing the platform’s global reach. Major corporations—including Estée Lauder, Toyota, and Bayer—adopted the app to engage and train employees on sustainability. Building on its success and expertise, AWorld expanded its scope to corporate learning, wellness, and customer loyalty. This strategic shift transformed it from a standalone app into a modular, API‑first ecosystem. The result: AWorld Lab, a platform enabling any organization to seamlessly integrate gamification-like engagement strategies into their digital environments. Clients such as Conad, Iren, Lavazza, and San Pellegrino (Levissima) tapped AWorld to enhance loyalty programs and encourage sustainable behaviors. The first vertical spin‑off from this evolution is AWorld Evolve, a gamified micro‑learning SaaS platform set to revolutionize corporate training. Today, AWorld leverages its strong impact heritage to position itself as a versatile tech partner, delivering scalable, measurable engagement and education solutions for any industry. | $900K | Series A | May 10, 2025 |  |
| Mopso | Software solutions for the anti-money laundering | $1M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Spoki | Spoki helps businesses increase sales thanks to WhatsApp.Emails are no more a valid communication channel between businesses and customers. Spoki helps businesses engage their customers using WhatsApp during the whole customer journey: marketing, sales and customer support.Spoki is a WhatsApp conversational platform that allows you to: - sendbulk marketing messages to thousands customers with a click - integrate WhatsApp with: - Ecommerce to notify abandoned cart, tracking number and order status - Marketing Automation Tools or CRM to add it to sales funnels - Social and Digital ADS to catch users in the exact moment expressing their interest in products and services - create automations and chatbots, for customer support or whatever you can think ofIf you are confident with the results you get today with emails, you'll be amazed at what you can achieve with Spoki. | $5.7M | Series A | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| WithLess | WithLess is a finance-focused software management platform that employs artificial intelligence to optimize costs and structure procurement procedures. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| WithLess | WithLess is a finance-focused software management platform that employs artificial intelligence to optimize costs and structure procurement procedures. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Primo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barcamper-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [B Heroes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-heroes) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Magic Mind](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magic-mind-ddf0) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Yabeo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yabeo-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zest-d9b3) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Apside invest in?

Apside invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Apside's check size?

Apside typically joins rounds of $1M–$3.3M at Seed, $900k–$5.7M at Series A and $869k–$1.2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Apside participates in.

### How do I contact Apside?

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### Who are the partners at Apside?

The team at Apside includes Silvia Rinaldi (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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