# CDP Venture Capital

> CDP Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 295 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Italy
- Total investments: 295
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Fund size: $197M
- Last fund: Sep 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cdp-venture-capital-sgr/
- Website: https://cdpventurecapital.it/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093433956523

CDP Venture Capital is a VC fund in Rome focused on Software and Information Technology. CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $483k–$7.7M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 30 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 17 | 6% |
| Health Care | 16 | 5% |
| Biotechnology | 13 | 4% |
| Medical | 12 | 4% |

198 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 55 | 19% |
| Series A | 38 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 30 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 19 | 6% |
| Series B | 17 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 128 | 43% |
| United States | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Spain | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Emanuele Levi | Chief Executive Officer | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emanuele-levi |
| Lorenzo Franchini | Senior Partner - Co-Head of the Evolution Fund | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lorenzo-franchini |
| Claudia Pingue | Senior Partner | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claudia-pingue |
| Enrico Fili' | Head of CdP Lab | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enrico-fili |
| Filippo Bosco | Senior Investment Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/filippo-bosco |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Circular Materials | At Circular Materials, we believe that valuable resources should be kept in the value chain and not lost to the environment. Our mission is to extend the lifetime of metals in the value chain and prevent the dispersion of critical raw materials by providing innovative and sustainable technologies. Our goal is to transform linear value chains intocircular ones, providing scalable and cost-effective solutions for black mass recycling and industrial wastewater valorization to recover critical raw materials from waste streams. Our proprietary technologies and processes enable us to efficiently recover elements such as Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, Manganese and Lithium from industrial wastestreams, delivering secondary raw materials with low carbon footprint and high sustainability. We are dedicated to working with companies across various industries to optimize their operations, improve their sustainability profile, and gain a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving raw materials market. We are driven by our belief that a circular economy is not only possible but necessary to reduce waste, minimize reliance on expensive virgin materials, and build a more sustainable future. We are proud to be at the forefront of this movement, and we look forward to working with our partners and stakeholders to drive positive change in the industry and beyond. | $13.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Talentware | Talentware is a startup born in 2023 within the venture studio of Bain & Company, from the idea of 3 Bain Alumni to revolutionize the approach to talent management within companies. At Talentware, we specialize in providing an AI-powered SaaS platform to empower companies to engage, develop, and retain their talent using a skill-basedapproach. By analyzing employees' skills, interests, and work preferences, Talentware automatically charts potential career paths and identifies individual skill gaps to suggest personalized development opportunities to each employee. Our goal is to transform static and manual talent processes through the power of AI and deliver continuous skills innovation for a future-ready workforce. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Klaro | Klaro is an AI platform that assists small businesses with credit and improves cash flow management. | $3.4M | Seed | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Salute360 | Salute360 is a digital health company committed to transforming the way patients and healthcare professionals connect and interact. We designed and developed an integrated platform that simplifies access to reliable healthcare information and digital services, compliant to EU Health Regulation and HIPAA. Our mission is to make healthcare moreaccessible, secure, and patient-centered through smart digital solutions. Salute360 empowers healthcare professionals and organizations to deliver more efficient, collaborative, and personalized care - whether in prevention, treatment, or ongoing health management. We support pharmacies, clinics, life science companies, insurance providers, and welfare programs in enhancing their services and creating innovative digital health strategies. At the heart of our work is a connected ecosystem that fosters collaboration and puts the patient at the center of a more intuitive and inclusive healthcare experience. | $579.6K | Seed | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| MIGMA | MIGMA uses Artificial Intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new synergistic combinations of antioxidants. | $290.9K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| DeepTree | DeepTree develops an AI-native SaaS platform that unifies private-market financial data, corporate filings, ownership structures, and internal information into a single research workspace. The platform supports investment banking teams, private equity funds, M&A advisors, and search funds in activities such as target screening, companyanalysis, buyer discovery, and portfolio monitoring. Users can run natural-language searches across millions of data points, interact with official filings and internal documents, and generate standard transaction materials such as teasers and investment memos. DeepTree also offers a native mobile application that extends access to company lookups, saved lists, and synchronized data for use away from the desktop. In addition to its core product, the company provides customized integrations within a client’s infrastructure to combine proprietary data with DeepTree’s datasets and AI modules. | $2.3M | Seed | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Smartness | Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel. | $55.1M | Series B | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Smartness | Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel. |  | Secondary Market | May 04, 2026 |  |
| CellPly | Cellply is a life-science company focused on developing next-generation analytical tools enabling a deep characterization of cancer immunotherapies, cell therapies and cell-based biotherapeutics. The company aims to support the development of novel cancer immunotherapies by accelerating R&D, automating the quality control and advancing theability to monitor the clinical response to these treatments.Through the use of proprietary microfluidic technologies with Co-Culture Array technology, highly-automated analytical instruments and AI-powered image and data analytics, Cellply products define the function of the immune system one cell at a time, combining functional data with other multiplex data and providing unprecedented single-cell analytical solutions. | $8.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 23, 2026 |  |

10 of 295 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does CDP Venture Capital invest in?

CDP Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 295 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CDP Venture Capital's check size?

CDP Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $483k–$7.7M at Seed and $3.3M–$23M 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 CDP Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact CDP Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at CDP Venture Capital?

The team at CDP Venture Capital includes Emanuele Levi (Chief Executive Officer), Lorenzo Franchini (Senior Partner - Co-Head of the Evolution Fund) and Claudia Pingue (Senior Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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