# Mamacrowd

> Mamacrowd is a VC fund in Milan backing EdTech, Retail and E-Commerce. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mamacrowd/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mamacrowdcom
- Website: https://mamacrowd.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mamacrowdcom/

Mamacrowd is a VC fund in Milan focused on EdTech and Retail. Mamacrowd is the equity crowdfunding platform authorized by Consob that allows you to invest in innovative Italian projects: startups, innovative SMEs or clubs, ie companies that invest mainly in startups and innovative SMEs.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Mamacrowd. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Mamacrowd. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/mamacrowd?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $329k–$570k |
| Equity Crowdfunding | $180k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 2 | 33% |
| Retail | 2 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 33% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 33% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 33% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 4 | 67% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dario Giudici | Founder & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dario-giudici |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ciocomiti | Ciocomiti is a Food and Beverages company that combines tradition, innovation, local tradition, and a passion for authentic flavours. | $2.7M | Equity Crowdfunding | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Kuiri | Kuiri is a cloud kitchen that designs to connect gastronomic varieties and accelerate food startups. | $179.6K | Equity Crowdfunding | Jul 04, 2023 |  |
| HiNelson | HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories. | $2.2M | Equity Crowdfunding | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| dropout | Launched in 2018, dropout is an Italy-based business specialised in the sale of authentic limited edition sneakers and streetwear.With a highly trafficked flagship store located in the centre of Milan, dropout proved a huge success right from the start: over 1000 people attended to the store on its opening weekend, and its doors have seen over50000 visitors from all over the world. The e-commerce dropoutmilano.com has seen millions of visitors and thousands of sales, guaranteeing authenticity of all products shipped and providing free delivery across EU.To support the business activities, dropout's team have developed a software of technical analysis for the secondary streetwear market, named HypeAnalyzer. In dropout, pricing and marketing are automated and data-driven by HypeAnalyzer algorithms. Output of these also include data for consignment rates (dynamic and affected by things such as volatility and demand, objectively calculated) and discounts.dropout is looking to scale this, simple yet efficient, model, for many other things retail and e-commerce and is currently studying the creation of a portal for investment in sneakers as alternative assets. HypeAnalyzer is covered by commercial patent in Italy (SIAE, D000014993) and dropout® is trademarked at continental level.Initially opened with no external funding, in October 2021 dropout launched its first funding round, raising €750k via equity crowdfunding in a lightning 6 days, following the board approval of an extension of the initial €500k goal (reached in 4 days out of a 62 days campaign). The move will see dropout open a new retail location as well the opening of several temporary locations throughout Italy; improve its e-commerce and the further development of HypeAnalyzer.The campaign saw the participation of 2 Italian VC funds and over 150 retail investors, who join the founding team made of Kola Tytler, Andrea Canziani, Federico Pasquetti and Stefano Zeppieri. | $866.9K | Equity Crowdfunding | Oct 07, 2021 |  |
| Marshmallow Games | Marshmallow Games, thanks to a proprietary technology, designs and develops educational apps for kids that help them learn in a funny way mixing editorial contents with game. We offer a game based learning experience that help kids to discover school subjects in a funny way. We released 15 apps worldwide reaching more than 1 million kids and wepartnered with big brands of the media and entertainment industry as TIM, Clementoni, DNA and Mukako. Most of our apps have been featured on the App Store worldwide and reached the top of the charts in more than 120 countries. | $329K | Seed | Dec 17, 2018 |  |
| Lifeed | Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%. | $570K | Seed | May 05, 2018 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ALIcrowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicrowd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Azimut Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azimut-enterprises-holding) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [iStarter](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/istarter) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Boost Heroes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sharkbites) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Mamacrowd invest in?

Mamacrowd invests primarily in EdTech, Retail and E-Commerce startups, most often at Equity Crowdfunding and Seed 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.

### What is Mamacrowd's check size?

Mamacrowd typically joins rounds of $329k–$570k at Seed and $180k–$2.7M at Equity Crowdfunding. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mamacrowd participates in.

### How do I contact Mamacrowd?

Public channels for Mamacrowd include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Mamacrowd?

The team at Mamacrowd includes Dario Giudici (Founder & CEO). 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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