# Banca Sella Group

> Banca Sella Group is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Biella, Italy
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/banca-sella/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/@bancasella
- Website: https://www.gruppobancasella.it
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1590487091262193

Banca Sella Group is a VC fund in Biella focused on Financial Services and FinTech. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $82k–$49M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 50% |
| FinTech | 4 | 40% |
| Finance | 3 | 30% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| CRM | 1 | 10% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 20% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 2 | 20% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 6 | 60% |
| France | 1 | 10% |
| Germany | 1 | 10% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pietro Sella | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pietro-sella |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $111K | Debt Financing | Apr 22, 2023 |  |
| Young Platform | Young Platform is a brand-new cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy and sell digital assets (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum) with FIAT money (Euros and Pounds) safely, quickly and easily! | $16.7M | Series A | Jun 13, 2022 |  |
| Tot | Tot is a business banking platform for SMEs. | $2.2M | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| AideXa | AideXa is an Italian challenger bank for SMEs. It operates as credit institution, offering loans and investment-related services. | $49.4M | Seed | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Conio | The Conio Bitcoin Wallet lets you buy Bitcoins with a credit card, sell them through a wire transfer, and keep them safe. Available on Google Play, and App Store.1. Your Bitcoins at hand, always. With the Conio Bitcoin Wallet you can pay in any shop that accepts Bitcoins, and send them to your friends. All the Bitcoins you want, in the size of asmartphone.2. You have control. The Bitcoin price is always up to date, wherever you are, in real time. You can also check the Bitcoin Value in the time frame you want.3. Buy and sell Bitcoins. Do you have a 3D Secure enabled credit, prepaid, or debit card? Great, you are able to buy Bitcoins in no time. You can also sell them, receiving Euros on your bank account. | $3.5M | Series A | Jun 21, 2018 |  |
| Electro Power Systems | EPS operates in the sustainable energy sector, specializing in hybrid-storage solutions and microgrids that enable intermittent renewablesources to be transformed into a stable power source.Listed on the French-regulated market Euronext (EPS:FP), EPS is part of the CAC® Mid & Small and the CAC® All-Tradable indices andhas registeredoffice in Paris and research, development and manufacturing in Italy.Thanks to technology covered by 125 patents and applications, combined with more than 10 years of R&D, the Group has developed hybridenergy storage solutions to stabilize electrical grids heavily penetrated by renewable sources in developed countries and, in emergingeconomies, to power off-grid areas at a lower cost than fossil fuels without the need for any subsidy or incentive scheme.EPS has installed and has under commissioning in aggregate 36 large scale projects, including off-grid hybrid systems powered byrenewables and energy storage totalizing over 35 MW of installed power that provides energy to over 165,000 customers every day, inaddition to more than 18 MW of grid support systems, for a total capacity output of 47 MWh of systems in 21 countries worldwide, includingEurope, Latin America, Asia and Africa. | $7.1M | Post-IPO Debt | Oct 26, 2016 |  |
| Taplend | Taplend is a financial help service. With it people can get up to 2500 pounds in a few minutes, provided by friends or lending companies. The problem it’s solving is fairly common for all of us – situations when you need money urgently and can not get it “right now”Company was founded 1 year ago. Since that time Taplend’s team has achieved alot – has participated in three acceleration programs: Technation (USA/Kazakhstan), Hub:Raum by Deutsche Telekom(Poland) and SELLALAB(Italy) in collaboration with Level39(UK), the last one is still going on and finishes this december in London.The mechanism of Taplend is quite a plain one: after the user downloads the application, he sets the desired amount of money and return terms, submits detailed information and sends a request via service to his friends or credit companies. After the request is accepted, it takes 2 minutes in average for the money to come to user’s bank account or mobile wallet. | $82K | Seed | Jul 01, 2016 |  |
| 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 | $2.2M |  | Dec 21, 2015 |  |
| Digital Magics | IGITAL MAGICS S.p.A. listed on Euronext Growth Milan (symbol: DM), is a business incubator that supports startups in the digital and tech world with services for the enhancement and acceleration of business. Digital Magics, Talent Garden and Tamburi Investment Partners have created the biggest national innovation hub for MADE IN ITALY DIGITALTECHNOLOGIES, offering support to innovative start-ups for creating successful projects, from conception to IPO. Digital Magics has always been a partner of top companies with its Open Innovation services, creating a synergistic bridge between companies and digital start-ups. Incubation and acceleration services by Digital Magics are active on Talent Garden coworking campuses throughout Italy. Complementary to services are investment activities, which over the years have produced a portfolio of over 99 investments in start-ups, scale-ups and digital spin-offs with high growth rates. | $1.1M | Post-IPO Debt | Dec 22, 2014 |  |
| Smava | smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans. | $4.4M |  | Nov 01, 2011 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Azimut Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azimut-enterprises-holding) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Banca Ifis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banca-ifis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Banca Sella](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banca-sella) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gruppo Bertoldi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertoldi-holding) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Digital Magics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-magics) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Banca Sella Group invest in?

Banca Sella Group invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Banca Sella Group's check size?

Banca Sella Group typically joins rounds of $82k–$49M at Seed and $3.5M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Banca Sella Group participates in.

### How do I contact Banca Sella Group?

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### Who are the partners at Banca Sella Group?

The team at Banca Sella Group includes Pietro Sella (CEO). 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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