# Primo Capital

> Primo Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 110 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 110
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primomiglio-sgr
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PrimoVc
- Website: https://primo.vc

Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $362k–$5.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$4.2M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 10% |
| Aerospace | 10 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 7% |
| SaaS | 6 | 5% |

123 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 41 | 37% |
| Series A | 13 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 5% |
| Series B | 4 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 40 | 36% |
| United States | 6 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 4% |
| France | 3 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Franco Gonella | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franco-gonella |
| Raffaele Mauro | General Partner - Primo Space | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raffaele-mauro |
| Alessandro Mizzi | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alessandro-mizzi |
| Antonio Concolino | Partner & CEO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-concolino |
| Antonio Mercuri | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-mercuri |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Archimede | Archimede's AI assistant turns natural language into fully working IoT dashboards. Describe the idea, and the system creates a complete satellite-connected application in seconds. | $1.7M | Seed | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Quantum Bridge | Quantum Bridge goal is to provide organisations who need unwavering security to encrypt and communicate highly confidential and classified information with unbreakable network and endpoint security solutions. | $8M | Series A | May 20, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| MON5 | MON5 is a startup company specializing in the field of Operational Technology (OT) and critical infrastructure cybersecurity. Its mission is to provide robust protection for essential operations such as industrial manufacturing, energy production, water treatment, and logistics which are vulnerable to emerging cyber threats. | $1.7M | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| RARA Factory | RARA Factory is a company that provides research and development of sustainable materials utilizing physics-based artificial intelligence. | $3.7M | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Bricks.sh | Bricks.sh provides customer service, operations, and all business teams with an admin panel they enjoy while putting internal tools on autopilot for IT teams. self-generated. Business teams may actually customize it. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Jan 11, 2026 |  |
| Blubrake | blubrake is a leading company that develops and produces advanced mechatronic systems focused on braking and sensing applications for bicycles, in particular e-bikes. The company developed the only ABS (anti-lock braking system) for e-bikes that can be fully integrated inside the frame and that can drastically increase safety on every kind ofe-bikes, from city to mountain, from trekking to cargo. A light and invisible technology that can assure a safer and more enjoyable cycling experience. | $2.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 27, 2025 |  |
| U-Space | U-Space Nanosatellites specializes in the design and manufacturing of next-generation nanosatellites tailored for a variety of applications including commercial services, scientific missions, and defense projects. With a focus on innovation, U-Space offers turnkey solutions encompassing a range of nanosatellite sizes such as 3U, 6U, and 12Uconfigurations. The company is dedicated to transforming client needs into high-performance space systems, marking significant milestones in the space industry with projects like the launch of NESS. U-Space collaborates with partners for components supply, contributing to the development of the French space sector and aiming to lead in nanosatellite constellations by 2025. | $27.8M | Series A | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| DMAT | DMAT develops highly-advanced concrete formulas that increase durability and reduce carbon emissions. Our mission is to bring a new level of sustainability and innovation to the concrete industry. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Caracol | Caracol is a 3D printing company that offers design-to-production solutions for different sectors. | $40M | Series B | Oct 14, 2025 |  |

10 of 110 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Primo Capital invest in?

Primo Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Aerospace startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 110 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Primo Capital's check size?

Primo Capital typically joins rounds of $362k–$5.4M at Seed, $1.2M–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $3.3M–$28M 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 Primo Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Primo Capital?

Public channels for Primo Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Primo Capital?

The team at Primo Capital includes Franco Gonella (Partner), Raffaele Mauro (General Partner - Primo Space) and Alessandro Mizzi (Associate), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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