Grey Silo Ventures
VC Fund
Milan, Italy
Grey Silo Ventures is a VC fund in Milan focused on AgTech and Food and Beverage. The mission of Grey Silo Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital of Cereal Docks Group established to invest in the supply chain of non-animal-based ingredients and related innovative technologies, is to broaden horizons in the global food-tech sector while maintaining the original vocation as a processor of plant based sources and explorer of new opportunities for innovation and business diversification. Grey Silo Ventures is committed to study the great potential of new fermentation processes and innovative green proteins, by using them to create novel ingredients. The ag-tech world and cellular agriculture represent other areas of interest that are part of the value chain in which Cereal Docks Group operates. We want to play a leading role in the creation of an ecosystem of innovative food-related businesses as well as help to grow it with the aim of developing novel functional ingredients that are increasingly genuine and sustainable. We also strongly believe that investing in the projects of new company founders with a long-term and strategic vision means looking afresh to the future and innovation. A commitment that aims to seek new answers through innovation in a market where sustainability and a healthier and more inclusive diet are the new trends. Consumers have become increasingly demanding and Grey Silo Ventures is one of the key milestones of Cereal Docks strategy whose goal is finding the perfect balance between nowadays new market requirements and the needs of food manufacturers.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Grey Silo Ventures invests in
Stages Grey Silo Ventures invests in
Countries Grey Silo Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.7M–$10M
- Series B
- $17M–$28M
Investment Focus
Industry
- AgTech 3 (23%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (23%)
- SaaS 2 (15%)
- Software 2 (15%)
- Biotechnology 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (15%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- Italy 3 (23%)
- Germany 3 (23%)
- The Netherlands 2 (15%)
- United States 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Giacomo Fanin
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| hexafarms increases the bottomline revenue of commercial food growers by up to 50% by constantly optimizing production operations in realtime. | $5.4M / Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Tellia is an agtech company that offers voice assisted operating software for farmers and agronomic advisers. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Aardaia is pioneering a new era of domestication on demand, a disruptive method that utilizes the enormous, untapped biodiversity of the plant kingdom to generate new crops tailored to the problem. | $5.7M / Seed / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Revyve develops functional food ingredients derived from yeast that substitute for animal-based textures like eggs, gums, and stabilizers. It focuses on producing natural, animal-free, clean-label ingredients that perform emulsifying, gelling, and binding roles in food formulations. The company applies biotechnological methods to convert yeast intotexturizing compounds without the use of chemicals, solvents, or enzymes. It offers these ingredients to food manufacturers seeking alternatives in plant-based and clean-label product lines. | $28.4M / Series B / Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| NoMaze, you may visually and interactively explore your genomic and phenotypic plant breeding data. We provide specialized pipelines for the most typical use cases, such as yield maximization, environment comparison, and outlier filtering (quality control). | Pre-Seed / May 08, 2025 | ||
| hexafarms increases the bottomline revenue of commercial food growers by up to 50% by constantly optimizing production operations in realtime. | $2.7M / Seed / Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Arsenale is transforming biomanufacturing with a proprietary end-to-end platform that integrates advanced hardware, AI-driven software, and precision fermentation. Designed to bridge the gap from lab-scale innovation to industrial-scale production, Arsenale enables industries like food, chemicals, and materials to seamlessly develop and scalebio-based alternatives to petrochemicals and animal-derived products. By empowering companies to co-design with nature, Arsenale aims to drastically reduce costs by up to 90% while also significantly shortening the timeline for industrial-scale adoption of sustainable products. Headquartered in Milan, Italy, with operations in Pordenone and the US, Arsenale is building the industrial backbone of the bio-economy. | $10M / Seed / Feb 25, 2025 | ||
| Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup. | $3.8M / Seed / Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| Nosh Biofoods is a developer of traditional meat.It produces technical-functional components and nutritional protein by utilising manufacturing technologies to explore natural microbial biodiversity. | Sep 02, 2024 | ||
| Nosh Biofoods is a developer of traditional meat.It produces technical-functional components and nutritional protein by utilising manufacturing technologies to explore natural microbial biodiversity. | $3.2M / Seed / Sep 02, 2024 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Grey Silo Ventures invest in?
Grey Silo Ventures invests primarily in AgTech, Food and Beverage and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Grey Silo Ventures invest in?
Grey Silo Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$10M at Seed and $17M–$28M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Grey Silo Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Grey Silo Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Grey Silo Ventures?
The team at Grey Silo Ventures includes Giacomo Fanin (Managing Partner). 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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