# Grey Silo Ventures

> Grey Silo Ventures is a VC fund in Milan backing SaaS and AgTech. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.greysiloventures.com

Grey Silo Ventures is a VC fund in Milan focused on SaaS and AgTech. Corporate Venture Capital of Cereal Docks Group

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.7M–$10M |
| Series B | $17M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| AgTech | 2 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 18% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 18% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 18% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 3 | 27% |
| Germany | 3 | 27% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 18% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Giacomo Fanin | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giacomo-fanin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aardaia | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Bioyards | 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 | Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Foreverland | Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Nosh Biofoods | 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 | 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 |  |
| Nosh Biofoods | 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. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Clear Current Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-current-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Good Seed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-seed-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Grey Silo Ventures invest in?

Grey Silo Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, AgTech and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Grey Silo Ventures's check size?

Grey Silo Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$10M at Seed and $17M–$28M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Grey Silo Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Grey Silo Ventures?

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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.

### 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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