# Emilia Romagna

> Emilia Romagna is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence, Real Time and Local Business. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.emiliaromagnastartup.it

Emilia Romagna is a VC fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Real Time. Startup Innovative competition

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 100% |
| Real Time | 1 | 50% |
| Local Business | 1 | 50% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 50% |
| Embedded Software | 1 | 50% |

10 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Niipy | Niipy reads your reviews, your visibility and your local competitors — and tells you exactly how to win more customers. You run the place. Niipy reads the market. | $171.5K | Grant | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Minerva Systems | Minerva Systems delivers platform software and tooling for the future embedded systems: electronic units for software-defined or autonomous vehicles, or for smart manufacturing and advanced robotics. Minerva Systems solutions removes the friction between chip providers, application producers, integrators and OEMs. This can halve the SW processcosts, and multiply available HW performance up to 10x. Their product offering includes software tools like a memory profiler & tracer, and configuration optimiser; but also platform software like a high-performance RTOS and a real-time hypervisor.Founded at the end of 2021 as a startup of the University of Modena (IT), operates also in Munich (DE) with a fast-growing team currently counting a dozen employees. The company is lead by senior software architects, managers and researchers previously active in the avionic and automotive domains. Technologies and performances have already been validated and proven ($500+K revenues in '22). | $137.7K | Grant | May 26, 2023 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NextGenerationEU](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextgenerationeu) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Emilia Romagna invest in?

Emilia Romagna invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Real Time and Local Business startups, most often at Grant stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Emilia Romagna last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Emilia Romagna closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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