Eni Next
VC Fund
Rome, Italy
Eni Next is a VC fund in Rome focused on Energy and Environmental Engineering. Eni Next has been recently established as the venture capital arm of Eni Group. It aims to be a key role in Eni's open innovation strategy towards energy transition through investing in startups with disruptive technologies. Its focus investment areas include Clean-Tech, Industrials, Digital technologies, Magnetic Fusion, and others.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
Last updated:
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Industries Eni Next invests in
Stages Eni Next invests in
Countries Eni Next invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $12M–$84M
- Series B
- $28M–$140M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $652k–$225M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 7 (23%)
- Environmental Engineering 6 (19%)
- Renewable Energy 5 (16%)
- CleanTech 4 (13%)
- Manufacturing 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (35%)
- Series B 7 (23%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (16%)
- Seed 2 (6%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 10 (32%)
- Italy 5 (16%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- Chile 1 (3%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clara Andreoletti
Executive
|
Executive | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Gabriele Franceschini
President & CEO
|
President & CEO | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Vittorio Avogadro Di Collobiano
Strategy Development Director
|
Strategy Development Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Black Giant
|
Black Giant SpA is the Chilean project company for EnergyX’s Black Giant lithium project. | $225M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 06, 2026 | |
| Dronus provides inspection, safety, and smart city capabilities from an innovative, minimally invasive base that guarantees the drone's flight stability and safety during take-off and landing, even in difficult climatic conditions. | $17.4M / Series A / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Phoenix Tailings, is building technology to enable the recycling and re-mining of Bauxite Residue (“Red Mud”) - a hazardous by-product in the aluminum industry - to extract strategic materials which are critical to the Defense, Automotive, Electronics and Biotech industries. The company was founded with the mission to revolutionize the miningindustry by enabling new sources of strategic materials, sustainably and economically. | $30.2M / Series B / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| BeDimensional is a global manufacturer of graphene and other two-dimensional materials with few atomic layers. | $3.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| EXE-Engineering for Environment. Miglioriamo i sistemi produttivi per rendere meno impattanti le attività umane | $652.3K / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 09, 2026 | ||
| Generative Bionics develops humanoid robots that integrate robotics, advanced artificial intelligence, and design for safe, reliable operation in real-world industrial environments. | $81.5M / Seed / Dec 08, 2025 | ||
| Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment. | Nov 11, 2025 | ||
| OXCCU develops renewable energy technology with the goal of achieving a circular economy for fuels, chemicals, and plastics. The technology offered by the company combines carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water and renewable electricity to produce fuels, chemicals, and biodegradable plastics. | $27.9M / Series B / Sep 29, 2025 | ||
| BeDimensional is a global manufacturer of graphene and other two-dimensional materials with few atomic layers. | $2.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 12, 2025 | ||
| Tidal Vision is a commercial-scale manufacturer of chitosan, a non-toxic, non-hazmat, biodegradable, and market-proven industrial biopolymer extracted from crab shells. Its zero-waste chitosan extraction process produces by far the most consistent quality and lowest cost chitosan in the industry. Tidal Vision converts chitosan from different specsinto ready-to-use formulas that are optimized for industrial applications. | $140M / Series B / Feb 03, 2025 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Eni Next invest in?
Eni Next invests primarily in Energy, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Eni Next invest in?
Eni Next typically joins rounds of $12M–$84M at Series A, $28M–$140M at Series B and $652k–$225M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Eni Next's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Eni Next took part in.
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Who are the partners at Eni Next?
The team at Eni Next includes Clara Andreoletti (Executive), Gabriele Franceschini (President & CEO) and Vittorio Avogadro Di Collobiano (Strategy Development Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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