# Niccolo Manzoni

> Niccolo Manzoni is a Series A investor at Five Seasons Ventures (Paris) backing Pet and Nutrition. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Five Seasons Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/five-seasons-ventures)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niccolo-manzoni-ba984215/

Niccolo Manzoni is a Series A investor at Five Seasons Ventures in Paris focused on Pet and Nutrition. Niccolo Manzoni

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pet | 2 | 33% |
| Nutrition | 2 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 33% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 33% |
| Baby | 1 | 17% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 50% |
| Portugal | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ARTAH | ARTAH manufactures supplements like vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and botanicals. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Mammaly | Mammaly, a pet health startup that develops a range of snacks specifically targeting and helping reduce the severity of common aging dog issues. | $3.4M | Series A | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| air up | air up is a provider of a drinking bottle system that provides scent-flavored water. The innovation uses retronasal olfaction—where the brain perceives scent through the mouth as taste—to allow the user to enjoy flavored water without added sugars or artificial ingredients. | $46.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| VlyFoods | VlyFoods is a foodtech startup that produces delicious milk alternatives made from pea protein. The startup developed an alternative using yellow split pea protein, that matches cow's milk for nutrients, taste, and functionality, and a neutral taste to attract a larger market. It's also more environmentally friendly; 1L of vly uses 15xless CO2, 13x less water, and 5x less land than cow's milk. They combine natural ingredients with cutting-edge technology to develop the best milk alternatives and transform the food industry. | $7.5M | Series A | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Barkyn | Delivering health and happiness to pet families, reshaping the future of e-commerce. | $3.6M | Series A | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| yamo | yamo is on a mission to give parents healthier and easy food choices for their children. Its products are available online via a direct to consumer subscription model and through grocery stores. The latter includes Coop in Switzerland and select Edeka and Rewe stores in Germany. | $11.1M | Series A | Jul 09, 2020 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Active Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BackBone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [b2venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/btovpartners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fundament](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundament) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Good Seed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-seed-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Five Seasons Ventures

VC Fund · Paris, France

Five Seasons Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm entirely focused on innovative companies along the food and agriculture supply chain. Consumers are becoming more conscious about their nutritional choices and they are changing their dietary preferences to healthier food, extreme convenience, cleaner labels, and higher sustainability. Thefirm provides reliable capital, technology, and food experience, and a network of industry contacts to European food tech entrepreneurs who create new food categories, develop cleaner processes and ingredients and use technology to enable new and disruptive business models.

3 contacts available at Five Seasons Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anaïs Jollivet | Senior Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ana%C3%AFs-jollivet |
| Ivan Farneti | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivan-farneti |
| Niccolo Manzoni | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niccolo-manzoni |

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## FAQ

### What does Niccolo Manzoni invest in?

Niccolo Manzoni invests primarily in Pet, Nutrition and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Niccolo Manzoni last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Niccolo Manzoni closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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?

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