# Giovanni Strocchi

> Giovanni Strocchi is a seed investor at BlackSheep Ventures (Milan) backing SaaS and Advertising. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BlackSheep Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blacksheep-ventures)
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-strocchi-97b145
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gstrocc

Giovanni Strocchi is a seed investor at BlackSheep Ventures in Milan focused on SaaS and Advertising. Giovanni Strocchi is the Co-founder and Venture Partner of BlackSheep Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Advertising | 2 | 33% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 33% |
| Business Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 2 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
| Israel | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthropos | Anthropos.work helps individuals and companies with their career management. Anthropos.work aims to help users grow faster and develop the roles and capabilities they will need in their future. It was founded in 2023 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| AdTonos | AdTonos is a programmatic audio advertising platform that connects advertisers with publishers. The marketplace offers multiple ad placements from well-known pre-rolls, through to mid-rolls and real-time ad replacement for live streaming. This provides advertisers with vast reach across digital audio channels, while radio stations, podcasters ormusic streaming services profit from the use of an effective tool that supports them in growing their revenues from online advertising. Brands have, at their fingertips, an easy-to-reach audience of more than 15 million unique online audio listeners from the UK and worldwide and potential of at least 200 million ad playouts a month. AdTonos is supported by the UK’s Department of International Trade, helping the company to scale globally, and is a member of IAB UK, IAB Europe and the European Association of Commercial Radios, which represents commercial radio at the European Parliament. | $2M | Seed | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| NeuroBrave | NeuroBrave Using ordinary wearable gadgets to gain access to real-time cognitive states. | $300K | Angel | Aug 19, 2022 |  |
| iGenius | iGenius is the scaleup that reimagines data interaction for businesses and augments human intelligence with AI. Our product, crystal, adds direction to data-driven decisions and lets any team extract value from their business data seamlessly, regardless of analytics training. Putting siloed and complex data into one conversational interface,crystal answers questions and gives data-based insights via voice or easy-to-read data visualizations. These insights make advanced connections between data sources with the help of machine learning, and enrich responses with advice and proactive notifications, so you never miss important changes in your data.Founded in 2016 by Uljan Sharka, iGenius was mentioned as one of Europe’s top 100 SaaS companies, and one of nine top names in data & analytics, by venture capital firm Accel. With offices in Italy, the USA, the UK and Switzerland, and some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies already using crystal, iGenius is a high-growth scaleup that thinks like an enterprise, where talented innovators can thrive and people come first. | $21.9M | Series A | Jul 15, 2022 |  |
| Domyn | Domyn develops AI models and applications for regulated industries. Their flagship product, Crystal, allows organizations to accelerate AI deployments and enhance governance, facilitating adoption in production. Incorporating robust key security features and controls designed for highly confidential and mission-critical use cases, Crystal hasgained the trust of Fortune 500 companies. iGenius is also working with NVIDIA to build Colosseum, one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers. | $10.1M | Series A | Jul 15, 2022 |  |
| Anonymised | Anonymised is a SaaS platform that enables marketers reach their target audiences and measure advertising campaigns private way using anonymised data. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NovaCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novacapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founderful](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wingman-897a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Corvus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corvus-ventures-e980) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-seeds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EXOR N.V.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BlackSheep Ventures

VC Fund · Milano, Italy

Blacksheep Ventures is the first european venture capital firm with an entrepreneurial background that invests in MadTech, namely high potential technology-based companies focused on AI, Big Data, Automation and its b2b applications for the Marketing & Advertising industry, from seed to Round B and other early stages. We believe the marketingprovider of the future is a software: automated, intelligent, easy. And led by humans.

5 contacts available at BlackSheep Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Giovanni Strocchi | Co-founder and Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giovanni-strocchi |
| Marco Caradonna | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marco-caradonna |
| Sandro Moretti | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandro-moretti |
| Umberto Bottesini | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/umberto-bottesini |
| Marcello Giordani | Junior Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcello-giordani |

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## FAQ

### What does Giovanni Strocchi invest in?

Giovanni Strocchi invests primarily in SaaS, Advertising and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Giovanni Strocchi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Giovanni Strocchi closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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?

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