# Equiter

> Equiter is a VC fund in Turin backing Medical, Health Care and Information Technology. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Italy
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.equiterspa.com/

Equiter is an investor and advisor in the infrastructure, research, and innovation sector, in support of local economies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 2 | 25% |
| Health Care | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Faccin Group | Faccin Group is an engineering company that specializes in metal forming and bending machines. |  | Private Equity | Oct 17, 2025 |  |
| Busforfun | Shared and Green traveling to experience the world of fun#WeTheFun \| Busforfun is a young mobility company traveling in a sustainable, safe and low-cost way across Europe. Busforfun vision is a green and shared mobility to experience the world of fun.#WeTheTech \| Busforfun is a combination of high tech-startup, e-commerce-platform andtransportation company, Busforfun is going to establish European largest bus network for events in the short time. Thanks to a powerful search engine, business intelligence, an user-friendly booking system and an extensive route network, Busforfun offers travellers the opportunity to experience the world of fun with lower fares.#WeTheGreen \| Our low-emission buses comply with the highest safety and environmental standards, so Busforfun offers a sustainable and convenient alternative to cars. With main partner Treedom, Busforfun plants new trees at any travel worldwide.Live Fun Experience in partnership – our concept for successBusforfun provides customers with great offers at lowest budget, through smart network planning, dynamic price management and an adaptive web engine.Busforfun platform is where the innovation and start-up spirit meet the experience and know-how of traditional bus companies and travel agencies.Incredible success can be attributed to the digitalization of old-fashioned bus travel industry: Busforfun has not suppliers or clients: but partners only! | $5.1M |  | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Easy Rain | Easy Rain’s mission is to improve the safety of wheel vehicles, by contrasting a problem has not currently been addressed by any safety device, being the hydroplaning phenomenon. Hydroplaning is a phenomenon that causes loss of traction between a vehicle’s wheels and the roads surface due to the presence of a layer of water. Millions of accidentsevery year on wet roads. Also Autonomous driving technology has a big issue with wet roads.Easy Rain developed, tested, validated and patented a new driver assistance system specifically designed to contrast hydroplaning. The system prevents large amounts of water from touching the tire, thereby improving a vehicle’s performance and safety, by increasing the adherence of the tire on wet surfaces. | $6.5M |  | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| AWorld | AWorld originated in 2019 from the vision of founders Alessandro Armillotta, Marco Armellino, and Alessandro Lancieri, with the goal of turning individual sustainability efforts into real, measurable impact. Coming from backgrounds in e‑commerce and fashion, they were inspired to address environmental and social challenges—particularly those offast fashion. By combining advanced technology, gamification, and educational content, AWorld quickly emerged as a groundbreaking platform. In 2020, the United Nations chose AWorld as the official tool for its global ActNow campaign—thus launching AWorld ActNow, a mobile app promoting individual action on climate and SDG education. This marked the start of an ongoing collaboration with the UN, later joined by the European Commission, significantly increasing the platform’s global reach. Major corporations—including Estée Lauder, Toyota, and Bayer—adopted the app to engage and train employees on sustainability. Building on its success and expertise, AWorld expanded its scope to corporate learning, wellness, and customer loyalty. This strategic shift transformed it from a standalone app into a modular, API‑first ecosystem. The result: AWorld Lab, a platform enabling any organization to seamlessly integrate gamification-like engagement strategies into their digital environments. Clients such as Conad, Iren, Lavazza, and San Pellegrino (Levissima) tapped AWorld to enhance loyalty programs and encourage sustainable behaviors. The first vertical spin‑off from this evolution is AWorld Evolve, a gamified micro‑learning SaaS platform set to revolutionize corporate training. Today, AWorld leverages its strong impact heritage to position itself as a versatile tech partner, delivering scalable, measurable engagement and education solutions for any industry. | $2M | Convertible Note | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| AWorld | AWorld originated in 2019 from the vision of founders Alessandro Armillotta, Marco Armellino, and Alessandro Lancieri, with the goal of turning individual sustainability efforts into real, measurable impact. Coming from backgrounds in e‑commerce and fashion, they were inspired to address environmental and social challenges—particularly those offast fashion. By combining advanced technology, gamification, and educational content, AWorld quickly emerged as a groundbreaking platform. In 2020, the United Nations chose AWorld as the official tool for its global ActNow campaign—thus launching AWorld ActNow, a mobile app promoting individual action on climate and SDG education. This marked the start of an ongoing collaboration with the UN, later joined by the European Commission, significantly increasing the platform’s global reach. Major corporations—including Estée Lauder, Toyota, and Bayer—adopted the app to engage and train employees on sustainability. Building on its success and expertise, AWorld expanded its scope to corporate learning, wellness, and customer loyalty. This strategic shift transformed it from a standalone app into a modular, API‑first ecosystem. The result: AWorld Lab, a platform enabling any organization to seamlessly integrate gamification-like engagement strategies into their digital environments. Clients such as Conad, Iren, Lavazza, and San Pellegrino (Levissima) tapped AWorld to enhance loyalty programs and encourage sustainable behaviors. The first vertical spin‑off from this evolution is AWorld Evolve, a gamified micro‑learning SaaS platform set to revolutionize corporate training. Today, AWorld leverages its strong impact heritage to position itself as a versatile tech partner, delivering scalable, measurable engagement and education solutions for any industry. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Medics | Medics support service for doctors involved in particularly complicated surgical operations. | $3.1M | Seed | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| BionIT Labs | We apply IT to Bionics in order to Turn disabilities into New Possibilities | $4M | Seed | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Enerbrain | Enerbrain turns wasteful buildings into smarter, healthier & more sustainable ones. Our smart retrofit system is the “Energy Brain” for non residential buildings thanks to innovative IoT hardware and powerful algorithms in the cloud to fine-tune energy usage in real time allowing 30% operational savings. Our focus goes beyond energy byproviding the best indoor air quality and educating occupants in order to generate a wider social impact thanks to engagement tools and a new way to access data across devices. Get in touch to find out more. | $6.2M | Series B | Aug 02, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Equiter invest in?

Equiter invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Equiter's check size?

Equiter typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Equiter participates in.

### When did Equiter last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Equiter closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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