# CRiF

> CRiF is a VC fund in Bologna backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bologna, Italy
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10722/
- Website: http://www.crif.com

CRIF is an organization specializing in the development and management of credit reporting, business information and decision support systems. Established in 1988 in Bologna (Italy), CRIF has an international presence, operating over four continents (Europe, America, Africa and Asia).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $134k–$9.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $117k–$612k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 44% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 31% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 19% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 9 | 56% |
| Ireland | 1 | 6% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 6% |
| San Marino | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anil Pandya | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anil-pandya |
| Ayman Gaballah | Business Development Manager - Consulting and Solutions | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ayman-abdallah |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BKN301 | BKN301 provides a Banking-as-a-Service platform with blockchain technology features. BKN301 provides Embedded Financial Services and token issuing services with a B2B model, targeting third parties platforms. BKN301 offers white-label and API-based payment solutions including m-wallets, remittance services, P2P, instant lending, prepaid and creditcards programs. | $24.4M | Series B | Apr 12, 2025 |  |
| Latitudo40 | DATA FROM SPACE FOR A WORLD OF INFORMATION. Latitudo 40 has created the easiest and fastest platform to turn satellite imagery into geospatial information to support everyday decisions.For the first time in one platform all the features to automatically search, process and elaborate the images produced by Earth observation satellites and transformthem into information to simplify business processes with powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. | $784.3K | Seed | Jul 19, 2024 |  |
| Agrobit | Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed. | $116.8K | Pre-Seed | Oct 09, 2022 |  |
| BKN301 | BKN301 provides a Banking-as-a-Service platform with blockchain technology features. BKN301 provides Embedded Financial Services and token issuing services with a B2B model, targeting third parties platforms. BKN301 offers white-label and API-based payment solutions including m-wallets, remittance services, P2P, instant lending, prepaid and creditcards programs. | $15.6M | Series A | Jul 04, 2022 |  |
| STEP 4 Business | STEP is the answer to the key needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, with a complete digital ecosystem of financial products and services chosen and designed for the customer, using the best technologies and the most innovative solutions on the market. Founded in 2021 and is based in Milan, Lombardia, Italy. | $9.8M | Seed | Oct 29, 2021 |  |
| Know Your Customer | Know Your Customer provides end-to-end digital solutions that quickly and accurately identify and verify companies and individuals prior to client on-boarding, wherever they are in the world. It offers quick document collection, Digital ID verification and automated anti-money laundering checks in multiple languages and across multiplejurisdictions, automating 90% of compliance teams’ routine tasks. Know Your Customer’s suite of products helps organisations with compliance, risk and client on-boarding, ensuring companies can accurately and confidently conduct their KYC and AML functions. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Trustfull | Alternative credit scoring for the digital world | $531K | Seed | May 25, 2021 |  |
| Trustfull | Alternative credit scoring for the digital world | $612.4K | Pre-Seed | May 25, 2021 |  |
| Biorfarm | BIORFARM is a social-marketplace that connects people with selected organic local farmers. | $148.1K | Seed | May 10, 2021 |  |
| EvenFi | Criptalia uses blockchain technology to connect businesses that have projects to be funded with people and organizations who are looking for high-yield investments. We offer an online platform where companies publish their innovative ideas and industrial improvement projects. Investors, people, and institutions can fund these projects by lendingmoney in exchange for a higher interest rate. | $534.2K | Seed | May 10, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fondazione Golinelli](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fondazione-golinelli) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Azimut Digitech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azimut-digitech-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does CRiF invest in?

CRiF invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CRiF's check size?

CRiF typically joins rounds of $134k–$9.8M at Seed and $117k–$612k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CRiF participates in.

### How do I contact CRiF?

Public channels for CRiF include LinkedIn 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 CRiF?

The team at CRiF includes Anil Pandya (Founder) and Ayman Gaballah (Business Development Manager - Consulting and Solutions). 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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