# Opes Italia

> Opes Italia is a VC fund in Milan backing E-Commerce, Leisure and Medical. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 77%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opes-italia-sicaf
- Website: https://www.opesitalia.com/

Opes Italia is a VC fund in Milan focused on E-Commerce and Leisure. Opes Italia Sicaf Euveca is an impact investing Venture Capital fund. Our aim is to invest in companies based in Italy, or with prevalent activity in the country, and that propose solutions that generate a strong social impact and create positive externalities for the community and the territory.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $440k–$536k |
| Series A | $2.3M–$7.5M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.2M–$4.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 23% |
| Leisure | 2 | 15% |
| Medical | 2 | 15% |
| Health Care | 2 | 15% |
| Consumer Goods | 2 | 15% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 11 | 85% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Freedome | Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy | $2.3M | Series A | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Baluwo | Providing basic essentials has never been this easy. Sending money is not always the solution so we provide easy, fast & convenient ways to send prepaid electricity top-ups, mobile top-ups and basic food items to support your family back home in The Gambia, and very soon in Senegal and Nigeria. | $685.3K |  | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| GenomeUp | Rome-based healthtech startup that offers an ecosystem of AI-powered solutions for genetic analysis and clinical decision support for diseases. GenomeUp's mission is to be a global reference platform to support clinical decision-making for hospitals, laboratories, research centers, and pharmaceuticals to accelerate diagnosis times, improvepatient care and provide knowledge for health prevention, all in less than 24h. Based on these assumptions, the founders decided to evolve the startup and transform it into a Italian Benefit Corporation following the purpose of common benefit by acting responsibly, sustainably and transparently towards stakeholders, people, communities, the territory and the environment. | $4.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| ri-generation | ri-generation sells washing machines, dryers, baking, dishwasher, refrigerators, and freezers. | $536.2K | Seed | Nov 08, 2024 |  |
| Radical Storage | Radical Storage is a luggage storage network that provides luggage storage services. The company works with various local businesses like coffee shops, bike rental shops, bars, and even hotels. It verifies local businesses to guarantee the safety of luggages. Through BAGBNB, people will be redirected to the closest local business in an area ofchoice. Once the booking is completed, people will receive a summary of the booking including the details of your chosen local business.BAGBNB was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Rome, Italy. | $7.5M | Series A | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| 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%. | $3.9M | Convertible Note | Dec 31, 2023 |  |
| Develop Players | Develop-Players is a spin-off of the University of Bologna that develops scientifically validated videogames for the neuropsychological screening, assessment, and cognitive training of children and adolescents with Specific Learning Disorders and ADHD. Combining psychometrics, software development, and game design, the company creates engagingtools that help clinicians and families identify cognitive strengths and weaknesses, support early diagnosis, and enhance cognitive functions through playful, evidence-based experiences. | $666.5K | Pre-Seed | Dec 27, 2023 |  |
| TheCircle | TheCircle is a technological company capable of simultaneously producing food and proteins. They do not produce any type of waste and even less pollution. Their pests are born from the aquaponic culture of selected plants, grown and harvested through production plants with a positive impact on the environment. | $2.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Vivavoce | Vivavoce supports a team of neurologists, neuropsychologists, and physiotherapists, developing an innovative approach. They offer treatment for stuttering, for which they offer a rehabilitation path based on the MRM-S method. They treat people suffering from stuttering, problems related to voice and language, and the psychological andemotional-behavioral sphere. | $2.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 28, 2023 |  |
| Family+Happy | Family+Happy is a family services firm giving training to personnel and offering a platform for finding babysitting facilities. | $440.2K | Seed | Jul 10, 2023 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Opes Italia invest in?

Opes Italia invests primarily in E-Commerce, Leisure and Medical startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Opes Italia's check size?

Opes Italia typically joins rounds of $440k–$536k at Seed, $2.3M–$7.5M at Series A and $2.2M–$4.9M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Opes Italia participates in.

### When did Opes Italia last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Opes Italia closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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