# Giovanni Tesoriere

> Giovanni Tesoriere is a seed investor at LIFTT (Torino) backing Manufacturing and Security. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LIFTT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liftt)
- Location: Torino, Italy
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-t-a0250012/

Giovanni Tesoriere is a seed investor at LIFTT in Torino focused on Manufacturing and Security. Giovanni T. is the Managing Director presso LIFTT s.r.l.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 25% |
| Security | 1 | 13% |
| Automotive | 1 | 13% |
| Health Care | 1 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 13% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 3 | 38% |
| Denmark | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sparrow Quantum | Sparrow Quantum Aps. is a Danish quantum technology company dedicated to advancing light-matter interfaces for quantum technologies. The company specializes in developing deterministic single-photon sources, which are critical to the success of many quantum technologies. With the best on-chip single-photon source efficiency in the world, unmatchedin photon purity, indistinguishability, and outcoupling, Sparrow is at the forefront of innovation in the field. The company's technology results from over two decades of pioneering research at the prestigious Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Sparrow Quantum has an exclusive license to key patents from the institute. For more information about Sparrow Quantum, please visit www.sparrowquantum.com | $24.2M | Series A | Apr 10, 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 |  |
| Sparrow Quantum | Sparrow Quantum Aps. is a Danish quantum technology company dedicated to advancing light-matter interfaces for quantum technologies. The company specializes in developing deterministic single-photon sources, which are critical to the success of many quantum technologies. With the best on-chip single-photon source efficiency in the world, unmatchedin photon purity, indistinguishability, and outcoupling, Sparrow is at the forefront of innovation in the field. The company's technology results from over two decades of pioneering research at the prestigious Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Sparrow Quantum has an exclusive license to key patents from the institute. For more information about Sparrow Quantum, please visit www.sparrowquantum.com | $4.5M | Seed | May 11, 2023 |  |
| Lipogems International | Lipogems offers adipose tissue solutions to physicians and patients in order to help them maintain or restore their lifestyles. It created and patented a disposable sterile device (CE Marked Class IIa) for close-circuit, single-step lipoaspirate processing. Lipogems is a company based in Milano, Italy. | $13.3M | Series A | Dec 23, 2022 |  |
| Aria Sensing | Aria Sensing engages in the development of radio frequency circuits based on the integration between human centric radar and UWB technology. | $494.9K | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 06, 2022 |  |
| Lipogems International | Lipogems offers adipose tissue solutions to physicians and patients in order to help them maintain or restore their lifestyles. It created and patented a disposable sterile device (CE Marked Class IIa) for close-circuit, single-step lipoaspirate processing. Lipogems is a company based in Milano, Italy. | $1.7M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Keyron | Keyron is a biomedical startup which produces medical devices for obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related comorbidities. | $2.8M | Seed | Dec 24, 2021 |  |
| Drivesec | Drivesec creates cyber solutions to increase IoT system resilience to attacks. For the purpose of evaluating and validating the security needs of interconnected systems, they create methodologies and products. They provide consultation on rules and standards, threat modeling, assessing system vulnerabilities, designing hardware and softwaresecurity systems, validating and testing those systems, reworking processes, and penetration testing. | $3.1M | Series A |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2xN](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2xn) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [European Innovation Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-innovation-council) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABC Medtech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abc-medtech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [European Innovation Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eic-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Equiter](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equiter) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Export and Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-and-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LIFTT

VC Fund · Turin, Italy

Tech Transfer Investment Fund

3 contacts available at LIFTT.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edoardo Bianchi | Project Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edoardo-bianchi-0845 |
| Giovanni Tesoriere | Managing Director, CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giovanni-tesoriere |
| Guido Panizza | Project Management Head | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guido-panizza |

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## FAQ

### What does Giovanni Tesoriere invest in?

Giovanni Tesoriere invests primarily in Manufacturing, Security and Automotive startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did Giovanni Tesoriere last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Giovanni Tesoriere closed in Apr 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?

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