# The Techshop

> The Techshop is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techshopcapital
- Website: https://techshop.capital/en/techshop

The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $322k–$37M |
| Series A | $7.7M–$120M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 29% |
| Software | 5 | 18% |
| FinTech | 3 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 11% |
| SaaS | 2 | 7% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 32% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 16 | 57% |
| Portugal | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gianluca D'Agostino | Co-Founder | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gianluca-dagostino |
| Aurelio Mezzotero | Founder and managing partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurelio-mezzotero |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Octostar | Octostar objective is to empower investigators by offering the advanced and adaptable intelligence platform. | $7M | Seed | Apr 03, 2026 |  |
| CiaoDott | CiaoDott uses an AI-powered voice assistant to automatically manage patient calls, organize appointments, and answer frequently asked questions. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Mirai Robotics | Mirai Robotics is a Physical AI company building autonomous maritime systems and intelligence platforms for defense and commercial operations at sea.The company develops software-defined autonomous surface vehicles and AI platforms that deliver dock-to-dock autonomy for persistent maritime operations: ISR, patrolling, infrastructure protection,inspection and domain awareness. Mirai's systems integrate autonomous navigation, multi-sensor perception and fusion, AI-driven mission control, and real-time decision intelligence into a single mission-grade architecture, operating from supervised autonomy to fully uncrewed missions.Mirai builds full-stack: hardware, autonomy software, perception, simulation, and edge AI treating maritime autonomy as a complete robotics and AI challenge, not a software overlay on legacy vessels. The company's technology spans reinforcement learning for navigation and docking, advanced perception pipelines for maritime environments, and synthetic data generation for sim-to-real validation.Alongside its own platforms, Mirai provides modular autonomy solutions that integrate into third-party vessels, enabling shipyards and operators to deploy autonomous capabilities across existing fleets. Every system deployed feeds shared models and learning loops creating a network effect that strengthens the entire ecosystem with each mission.Founded in Italy and rooted in Europe's world-class shipbuilding and defense industrial base, Mirai is building the autonomous maritime operating layer for European and allied operations. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Klaaryo | Klaaryo is the Conversational AI platform that helps organizations transform how they attract, hire, onboard, and develop their people.We design native AI Agents that communicate in natural language, understand people’s needs, and orchestrate complex HR processes in a simple, immediate, and scalable way.Our approach is WhatsApp-first, built toexpand into a multi-channel ecosystem that brings conversational intelligence everywhere people work, communicate, and interact. | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| Cyberwave | 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 |  |
| AndromedAI | AndromedAI is the AI-powered platform that optimizes eCommerce product pages, driving more sales from SEO, Google Ads, and new AI search engines (ChatGPT, AI Mode, Perplexity).Manually optimizing product pages is slow and costly, yet in the past three years traffic to these pages has grown by an average of 400%. Not being optimized means losingboth traffic and sales.With AndromedAI, product pages are optimized in seconds, using a data-driven approach based on real user searches.The outcome? More traffic. More conversions. More sales. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| SylloTips | SylloTips is an all-in-one knowledge sharing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to optimize the circulation of skills and knowledge among all employees in a company | $5M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Tot | Tot is a business banking platform for SMEs. | $8.2M | Seed | Sep 11, 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 |  |
| 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 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Alkemia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alkemia-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Primo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barcamper-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Nextalia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextalia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Vento](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vento-db57) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [3VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does The Techshop invest in?

The Techshop invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is The Techshop's check size?

The Techshop typically joins rounds of $2M–$8.1M at Seed, $322k–$37M at Pre-Seed and $7.7M–$120M 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 The Techshop participates in.

### How do I contact The Techshop?

Public channels for The Techshop 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 The Techshop?

The team at The Techshop includes Gianluca D'Agostino (Co-Founder) and Aurelio Mezzotero (Founder and managing 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 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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