# Matteo de Brabant

> Matteo de Brabant is a seed investor at Seri Jakala (Milan) backing News and Beauty. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Seri Jakala](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seri-jakala)
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteodebrabant

Matteo de Brabant is a seed investor at Seri Jakala in Milan focused on News and Beauty. Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$2.9M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| News | 1 | 14% |
| Beauty | 1 | 14% |
| EdTech | 1 | 14% |
| Retail | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 5 | 71% |
| France | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| We Are Emma | We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources | $1.8M | Seed | May 05, 2023 |  |
| faire.ai | faire.ai is a data centric fintech company that provides B2B2C digital solutions to transform access to consumer credit.We built an advanced Platform to analyse customers’ financial behaviour, leveraging Open Banking. faire.ai empowers clients and partners with digital products that simplify processes. We employ Machine Learning to deliver humancentred solutions. We aim to improve customers’ lives and simplify access to credit by innovating traditional paradigms. | $2.9M | Seed | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Futura | Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Futura | Futura provides personalized learning using data driven approach and modular classes that adapt to student's Individual needs. | $1.8M | Seed | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| EPICODE | Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies | $11.1M | Series A | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| EPICODE | Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 16, 2021 |  |
| Tannico | Tannin is a project created by a team of web experts with a common passion for good wine. Every day we select carefully the best Italian and foreign cellars, and each bottle is tasted by our team of winemakers. If Tannico was a wine would have an attractive bouquet and a mixed blend, with great adaptability while maintaining its recognisability. | $4.2M | Series A | Oct 03, 2016 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-seeds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EXOR N.V.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Exor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ithaca Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ithaca-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [United Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/united-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Banca del Ceresio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banca-del-ceresio) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Seri Jakala

VC Fund · Milano, Italy

Seri Jakala is an Italian marketing services provider that enables companies to improve their performance through marketing related projects. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Milano, Lombardia.

1 contacts available at Seri Jakala.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matteo de Brabant | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matteo-de-brabant |

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## FAQ

### What does Matteo de Brabant invest in?

Matteo de Brabant invests primarily in News, Beauty and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Matteo de Brabant's check size?

Matteo de Brabant typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$2.9M at Seed and $4.2M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Matteo de Brabant participates in.

### When did Matteo de Brabant last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matteo de Brabant closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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