Massimiliano Magrini
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ United Ventures
Milan, Italy
Massimiliano Magrini is a seed investor at United Ventures in Milan focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
Last updated:
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Industries Massimiliano Magrini invests in
Stages Massimiliano Magrini invests in
Countries Massimiliano Magrini invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $274k–$8.1M
- Series A
- $4M–$15M
- Series B
- $12M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (17%)
- SaaS 3 (13%)
- Cyber Security 2 (8%)
- Cloud Computing 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (38%)
- Series A 8 (33%)
- Series B 2 (8%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- Italy 13 (54%)
- United States 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Beelzebub
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Beelzebub is a cybersecurity company that develops AI-native security software for threat detection, deception, and incident response. Its platform includes honeypot technology, AI-driven red teaming, malware analysis, runtime monitoring, and security operations capabilities designed to detect, analyze, and contain cyber threats. The company alsoprovides tools and APIs for deploying and managing deception environments across multiple protocols to support enterprise security and cybersecurity research. | $3.4M / Seed / Jul 27, 2026 | |
Cyberwave
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Cyberwave provides an AI-native robotics platform enabling developers to build, test, and deploy autonomous systems for robots and assets. | $8.1M / Seed / Oct 08, 2025 | |
IdentifAI
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IdentifAI promises to provide every individual, citizen, customer, and governmental or business decision-maker with the ability to discern between artificial intelligence-generated content and human-created content. By doing so, the company hopes to ensure that developing technologies serve the common good rather than being used to destabilizesociety, due to equally effective solutions capable of minimizing these dangers. | $5.9M / Series A / Jul 24, 2025 | |
Exein
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Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics. | $81.4M / Series C / Jul 16, 2025 | |
Akamas
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Akamas is the autonomous optimization platform that maximizes application performance, service reliability, and cloud cost savings. Akamas helps performance engineers, developers, DevOps, platform engineers, and SREs be more productive, prevent incidents, and achieve aggressive optimization goals at enterprise scale. Unlike infrastructure-focusedcloud optimization tools, Akamas is application-aware, meaning that it optimizes full-stack configurations, taking into account application performance and reliability signals, SLOs, and user-defined constraints. With support for both continuous optimization of live applications in production environments, and automated performance tuning of applications in test/pre-production, Akamas uses reinforcement learning AI, observability data, and safety constraints to autonomously identify and apply the best system configurations to achieve cost, performance, and reliability goals. Founded by veterans in performance engineering, Akamas counts AWS, Dynatrace, Google Cloud, Gremlin, Mia-Platform, Micro Focus, RedHat, Tricentis, and Splunk among its technology partners. Akamas customers include leading financial services, SaaS software, and online consumer services brands. Akamas is headquartered in Milan, with offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Singapore. | $10M / Seed / Feb 11, 2025 | |
xFarm Technologies
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xFarm Technologies is a tech company focused on digitizing the agri-food sector, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and stakeholders in managing their businesses. It offers apps for farm management, connected sensors, support in Digital Transformation projects, algorithms applied to agriculture, and training activities for thewhole sector. xFarm Technologies supports the work of 500,000 farms belonging to more than 30 supply chains on 10 million hectares in more than 100 countries worldwide. | $39.5M / Series C / Oct 09, 2024 | |
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IdentifAI
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IdentifAI promises to provide every individual, citizen, customer, and governmental or business decision-maker with the ability to discern between artificial intelligence-generated content and human-created content. By doing so, the company hopes to ensure that developing technologies serve the common good rather than being used to destabilizesociety, due to equally effective solutions capable of minimizing these dangers. | $2.4M / Seed / Sep 02, 2024 | |
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Exein
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Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics. | $16.4M / Series B / Jul 12, 2024 | |
Avaneidi
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Avaneidi transforms enterprise storage with comprehensive solutions for media management and a proprietary operating system. | $8.6M / Series A / Jun 20, 2024 | |
Babaco Market
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Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste! | $6.6M / Series A / Nov 23, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About United Ventures
We invest in people and technology. Our mission is to support extraordinary founders in their journey to build great companies, from early to growth stage.United Ventures is an independent Italian venture capital firm investing in digital technologies. Since 2013, it has partnered with over twenty-five technology startups, supporting their growthand international expansion process. United Ventures has €190M in assets under management on two early-stage funds, and it is currently raising the first Italy-based VC fund focused on growth equity investments to broaden the firm’s strategy of investing in the best technology entrepreneurs.The firm’s portfolio includes to date sixteen companies across Italy, UK, Switzerland, Israel, and USA: UV1 - Cloud4Wi, Datrix, Faceit, Loop AI Labs, Mainstreaming, Moneyfarm, Musixmatch UV2 - BOOM, brumbrum, Credimi, Equalum, Exein, Fiscozen, InSilicoTrials, MishiPay, xFarm
United Ventures Contacts
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Carlo Alberto Carnevale-Maffe
Independent Director
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Damiano Coletti
Investor
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Mario Mariani
Partner
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Massimiliano Magrini
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Viviana Zama
Office Manager, Administrative & Executive Assistant
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FAQ
What does Massimiliano Magrini invest in?
Massimiliano Magrini invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Massimiliano Magrini's check size?
Massimiliano Magrini typically joins rounds of $274k–$8.1M at Seed, $4M–$15M at Series A and $12M–$16M 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 Massimiliano Magrini participates in.
When did Massimiliano Magrini last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Massimiliano Magrini closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 24 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 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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