# Aurelio Mezzotero

> Aurelio Mezzotero is a seed investor at The Techshop backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Techshop](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-techshop)
- Location: Milano, Italy
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurelio-mezzotero-8056b1/

Aurelio Mezzotero is a seed investor at The Techshop in Milano focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Aurelio is partner and co-founder at The Techshop, a new early stage venture fund: we seek early stage, B2B, digital, Italian fast-growing newcomers.The Techshop's value proposition is simple: we want to bring in resources, analytical thoroughness and expertise, which are staples of later-stage investors, into the seed-early stage arena. Asour namesake goes, we want to establish a craftsman-like collaboration with the companies we fund, providing assistance, advice and growth opportunities .Prior to founding The Techshop, Aurelio held managerial positions at primary technology investment firms such as Innogest, Italian Angels for Growth, Atlante Ventures and Intesa Sanpaolo Merchant Banking. He started his career as a consultant at Gemini Consulting. Graduated cum laude in 1994 from BOCCONI University, he holds a MBA from INSEAD. Aurelio lives in Rome, Italy.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 3 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |
| Finance | 1 | 8% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 15% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mirai Robotics | Mirai Robotics is a Physical AI company building autonomous maritime systems and intelligence platforms for defense and commercial operations at sea.The company develops software-defined autonomous surface vehicles and AI platforms that deliver dock-to-dock autonomy for persistent maritime operations: ISR, patrolling, infrastructure protection,inspection and domain awareness. Mirai's systems integrate autonomous navigation, multi-sensor perception and fusion, AI-driven mission control, and real-time decision intelligence into a single mission-grade architecture, operating from supervised autonomy to fully uncrewed missions.Mirai builds full-stack: hardware, autonomy software, perception, simulation, and edge AI treating maritime autonomy as a complete robotics and AI challenge, not a software overlay on legacy vessels. The company's technology spans reinforcement learning for navigation and docking, advanced perception pipelines for maritime environments, and synthetic data generation for sim-to-real validation.Alongside its own platforms, Mirai provides modular autonomy solutions that integrate into third-party vessels, enabling shipyards and operators to deploy autonomous capabilities across existing fleets. Every system deployed feeds shared models and learning loops creating a network effect that strengthens the entire ecosystem with each mission.Founded in Italy and rooted in Europe's world-class shipbuilding and defense industrial base, Mirai is building the autonomous maritime operating layer for European and allied operations. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Cyberwave | Cyberwave provides an AI-native robotics platform enabling developers to build, test, and deploy autonomous systems for robots and assets. | $8.1M | Seed | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| GenomeUp | Rome-based healthtech startup that offers an ecosystem of AI-powered solutions for genetic analysis and clinical decision support for diseases. GenomeUp's mission is to be a global reference platform to support clinical decision-making for hospitals, laboratories, research centers, and pharmaceuticals to accelerate diagnosis times, improvepatient care and provide knowledge for health prevention, all in less than 24h. Based on these assumptions, the founders decided to evolve the startup and transform it into a Italian Benefit Corporation following the purpose of common benefit by acting responsibly, sustainably and transparently towards stakeholders, people, communities, the territory and the environment. | $4.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| hlpy | hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks. | $20M | Series B | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| Axyon AI | Axyon AI is a fintech company focused on enhancing the investment management sector through advanced AI technologies. It aims to strengthen asset managers by leveraging AI for improved decision-making. The company utilizes deep learning advancements to develop customized business applications specifically designed for capital markets and assetmanagement, enhancing performance and identifying opportunities. | $2.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| hlpy | hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks. | $7.7M | Series A | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Sustainable Brand Platform | Sustainable Brand Platform is a cloud-based platform designed for fashion companies to track, control and optimize sustainability performances. They offer services such as eco score, carbon footprint, product LCA, supply chain management, hotspot analysis, goals setting, sustainable design tool, widget for e-commerce, stainability id card, and ESGreporting. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Qodeup | Qodeup is a provider of digital menu solutions for restaurants. Their QR code payment method reduces waiting times to zero for customers, increases turnover, and is eco-friendly. They allow customers to pay the bill directly from their smartphone through their QR code payment system. | $2.4M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Smartness | Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel. | $2M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Remocean | remocean was founded in 2010, after ten years of joint research activity between the IREA-CNR institute (Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment) in Naples and the INSEAN institute in Rome. |  |  | Jul 26, 2013 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alkemia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alkemia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [40Jemz Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/40jemz-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Azimut Digitech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azimut-digitech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Primo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barcamper-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Doorway Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doorway-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The Techshop

VC Fund · Milan, Italy

The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.

2 contacts available at The Techshop.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gianluca D'Agostino | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gianluca-dagostino |
| Aurelio Mezzotero | Founder and managing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurelio-mezzotero |

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## FAQ

### What does Aurelio Mezzotero invest in?

Aurelio Mezzotero invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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 Aurelio Mezzotero last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aurelio Mezzotero closed in Feb 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.

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