# Step Venture

> Step Venture is a VC fund in Milano backing Medical and Health Care. See 3 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Italy
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Fund size: $35M
- Last fund: Nov 2025
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stepventure
- Website: https://stepventure.eu

Step Venture is a VC fund in Milano focused on Medical and Health Care. Step Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in Italian founders building globally scalable technology companies. Launched in 2025, the fund held a first closing above €30M with governmental, institutional and corporate partners. The fund invests mainly as Lead Investor at Pre-Seed/Seed stage with tickets of €500K–2M, focusing on artificial intelligence and data-driven innovation across fintech, healthtech, B2B software and the connected world. Its model is built around speed, hands-on support and long-term partnership with founders, from first round through to exit.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Step Venture. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Step Venture. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/step-venture?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 2 | 67% |
| Health Care | 2 | 67% |
| Apps | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 2 | 67% |
| Austria | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michele Novelli | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michele-novelli |
| Roberto Montandon | Founder and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roberto-montandon |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Health Force | Health Force develops AI agents that automate administrative and operational workflows for hospitals and clinics. The company focuses on back-office tasks such as scheduling, billing, procurement, and insurance verification. Its AI agents integrate with existing hospital systems to handle repetitive digital work and reduce manual data entry. Health Force offers its agents on a subscription basis, allowing healthcare providers to adopt automation without major software changes. The service includes an AI readiness assessment, implementation support, and continuous optimization based on observed performance. By shifting routine logistics to AI, Health Force enables healthcare staff to spend more time on direct patient-related activities. | $4.8M | Seed | Sep 17, 2026 | https://healthforce.ai |
| Smartwage | Smartwage is an Italian fintech startup that simplifies corporate welfare benefits for both employers and employees. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2026 | https://app.smartwage.it |
| Robin Health | Robin Health provides a platform that combines behavioural, biometric, and clinical data for an accessible user experience, turning it into information for healthcare professionals, supporting the daily management of obesity and overweight through a preventive, personalized, and data-driven approach. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed |  | https://robin.health |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Calm/Storm VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calm-storm-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LUMO labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lumo-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Next Tier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-tier-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Target Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/target-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Step Venture invest in?

Step Venture invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Apps startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 3 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 Step Venture invest in?

Step Venture typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$2.3M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Step Venture's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Step Venture took part in.

### How do I contact Step Venture?

Public channels for Step Venture include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Step Venture?

The team at Step Venture includes Michele Novelli (Partner) and Roberto Montandon (Founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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 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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