Marco Caradonna
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ BlackSheep Ventures
Milan, Italy
Marco Caradonna is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at BlackSheep Ventures at BlackSheep Ventures. He attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 90%
Last updated:
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Industries Marco Caradonna invests in
Stages Marco Caradonna invests in
Countries Marco Caradonna invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $640k–$1.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Advertising 4 (40%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (40%)
- SaaS 3 (30%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (30%)
- PaaS 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
Country
- Italy 3 (30%)
- United Kingdom 2 (20%)
- France 1 (10%)
- Switzerland 1 (10%)
- United States 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Connected-Stories is an Enterprise AI-powered platform for content personalization and creative automation. The company uses an agentic system of specialized AI agents that support strategy, content creation, media delivery, and analytics, enabling enterprises to scale marketing campaigns. Its platform allows brands to deliver personalized storiesat scale, track performance, and optimize content across channels. Used by Fortune 1000 global companies available from the Google Cloud Marketplace and supported by major SIs | $1.6M / Seed / Jan 21, 2025 | ||
| Nexoya is a Swiss AI-powered platform for cross-channel marketing attribution, budget optimization, and scenario simulation. The platform uses privacy-safe, regression-based attribution modeling to measure the true impact of each advertising channel, without cookies or pixels. Based on these insights, Nexoya's AI automatically reallocatesbudgets across 40+ connected ad platforms with one click, delivering measurable uplifts in conversions, ROAS, and revenue.Trusted by brands like Zurich Insurance, Generali, Vodafone, Swisscom, flaschenpost, Benetton or Zürcher Kantonalbank, Nexoya has demonstrated results including +72% conversions (Generali), +13% revenue (Vodafone), and +47% add-to-carts (ZKB). Founded in 2018 in Zurich, the company operates across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and the UK. | $5M / Series A / Mar 14, 2023 | ||
| We want to transform the way people buy and sell their house in Italy and Europe.We are the first startup in Europe that combines artificial intelligence and virtual reality in a B2B platform that simplifies real estate buying and selling through digital tools that increase the value of a property, improve its energy efficiency and reveal itsfull potential, drastically improving its environmental impact. | $479.7K / Pre-Seed / Dec 29, 2022 | ||
| Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning platform that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs. Acadèmia.tv's teachers are among the most illustrious exponents of this world, and through their courses, they transmit recipes and philosophies accumulated over time. Acadèmia.tv's mission is to make cooking more inclusiveand accessible to all. | $1.4M / Dec 02, 2022 | ||
| Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning platform that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs. Acadèmia.tv's teachers are among the most illustrious exponents of this world, and through their courses, they transmit recipes and philosophies accumulated over time. Acadèmia.tv's mission is to make cooking more inclusiveand accessible to all. | $1.4M / Angel / Dec 02, 2022 | ||
| ID Ward is a SaaS platform that enables marketers to reach audiences in a 100% private way using decentralised, zero-party data. | $1.2M / Seed / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Scibids Technology was founded in 2016 in Paris, France with the vision of building the future of algorithmic media trading. Drawing from their PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and background in advertising technology (ad tech) and the financial technology (fintech), Scibids’ two founders built a SaaS that mirrors the innovation andsophistication of stock trading. Fast forward to the present day, Scibids has evolved into a venture-backed machine-learning company with active clients from Sydney to Los Angeles, through to Paris, London, Madrid, New York, and Tokyo. | $2.3M / Convertible Note / Jan 20, 2022 | ||
| GoVolt is an innovative startup providing sustainable last mile logistics solutions. The company was born to address the challenge of mobility in modern urban centres and aims to differentiate its service offering within the market while solving a crucial issue for today’s and future generations. The company operates four separate business units:custom B2B delivery services, coroporate dedicated vehicle fleet rentals, third party micro-mobility fleet logistical management and specialized mechatronic maintenance. | $640.4K / Seed / Oct 11, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About BlackSheep Ventures
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.
BlackSheep Ventures Contacts
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Giovanni Strocchi
Co-founder and Venture Partner
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Marco Caradonna
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Sandro Moretti
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Umberto Bottesini
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Marcello Giordani
Junior Partner
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FAQ
What does Marco Caradonna invest in?
Marco Caradonna invests primarily in Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 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 Marco Caradonna invest in?
Marco Caradonna typically joins rounds of $640k–$1.6M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Marco Caradonna's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Marco Caradonna took part in.
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When did Marco Caradonna last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Marco Caradonna closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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