Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
Bologna, Italy
Zanichelli Venture is a VC fund in Bologna focused on Education and E-Learning. Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.We willsupport and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent.We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value.We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Zanichelli Venture invests in
Stages Zanichelli Venture invests in
Countries Zanichelli Venture invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $695k–$2.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $704k–$2.7M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 9 (45%)
- E-Learning 8 (40%)
- EdTech 7 (35%)
- Software 3 (15%)
- Training 3 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (35%)
- Series A 5 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (20%)
- Convertible Note 1 (5%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 4 (20%)
- Italy 3 (15%)
- Germany 2 (10%)
- United Kingdom 2 (10%)
- France 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Enrico Poli
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gamindo is a gaming platform where people can convert time spent by playing video games in donations to no-profit organizations. They created a win-win-win business model, where people can donate without spending, and by having fun, corporations can both promote themselves and have a corporate social responsibility activity, non-profit canfundraise without costs and guarantee more transparency.Gamindo connects people, brands, and non-profit organizations through videogames. More precisely, it is a mobile app containing advergames, a special type of videogames with a promotional aim, in which users receive virtual coins after every game played.Gamindo was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in | $1.6M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / May 13, 2026 | ||
| Ubimaster delivers customized employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students. They demonstrably improve the acquisition and retention of customers and employees. | $8M / Series A / Apr 29, 2025 | ||
| Anthropos.work helps individuals and companies with their career management. Anthropos.work aims to help users grow faster and develop the roles and capabilities they will need in their future. It was founded in 2023 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / May 14, 2024 | ||
| Tomorrow's Education is an innovative, AI-powered, fully personalized online university based in Europe, designed to redefine higher education by putting students at the center of their learning experience. The university utilizes advanced technology to deliver highly flexible, adaptable, and individualized educational pathways, setting newstandards for learning. The key subjects are business & entrepreneurship, sustainability and inner development as well as technology, data and AI.Key Features: - Personalized Learning: Tomorrow's Education is the first state-recognized online university to provide a fully personalized learning experience that adapts to the unique needs, preferences, and schedules of each student. The platform leverages cutting-edge AI to ensure that each student’s journey is optimized for their success.- Multi-Lingual Education: The university supports multi-lingual learning with AI-powered live translation, making its content accessible to students around the world and fostering inclusive education regardless of language barriers.- AI Tutoring: Tomorrow’s Education integrates AI-driven tutoring to provide scalable, one-on-one support for students, improving the learning experience and boosting student outcomes. This model allows for high efficiency while maintaining high levels of student satisfaction.- High Retention & Success Rates: With a focus on student-centric learning, Tomorrow's Education boasts an very high retention rate and 95%+ job placement rate for graduates, highlighting the university's commitment to academic and career success.- Industry-Relevant Curriculum: The university partners with industry leaders to offer programs that are highly relevant to the current job market, ensuring graduates are well-equipped for success in their chosen fields.- Innovative Learning Environment: Tomorrow's Education provides a comprehensive, flexible, and immersive learning experience that empowers students to achieve their personal and professional goals while overcoming traditional barriers in higher education. | $10M / Series A / Jun 12, 2023 | ||
| Datamasters designs and develops Machine Learning solutions. They provide artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science skills. They acquire skills in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning | $695.2K / Seed / May 31, 2023 | ||
| zick learn is an innovative startup in the corporate education industry, committed to solving standard e-learning failure through our unique product: we can move completion rate from 5%-15% (which, depending on the market research you decide to trust, is the current market standard for corporate trainings) to over 85%. Our capability ofdelivering bite-sized training right in the pocket of our Clients' employees enables us to provide incredible engagement and completion rates to our target market. Founded by Matteo Penzo (serial entrepreneur, 2 exits, former frog design executive leader), Andrea Goggi (serial entrepreneur, 1 exit, former EY Digital leader) and Pietro Stracquadanio (+15 years leading software development projects for the HR industry), and backed by a dynamic team, we are set to redefine corporate education industry and drive significant value. | $703.9K / Pre-Seed / Jan 16, 2023 | ||
| EvidenceB is develops educational resources which combine didactics, cognitive sciences and AI. | $4.2M / Series A / Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| It's hard to achieve both impact AND scale in learning.Solve for scale, and you’re left with click-click content or big video calls that suffer from low engagement. Solve for impact, and you need high-touch group workshops or coaching that are costly to scale.At Sparkwise, we’re building AI-enabled group learning to inspire impact atscale. We build to inspire, with active group learning that sparks practice and insight. We build for impact, with decades of expertise in how adults learn best. And we build for scale, with innovations that make quality learning accessible for all. | Seed / Oct 01, 2022 | ||
| Mindstone automatically identifies the skills trained in your everyday reading, podcast listening and video consumption and turns them it into valuable, quantifiable evidence that employers recognise.As an individual, Mindstone is your personal AI learning coach, guiding you to develop productive habits, while actively demonstrating yourprogress. For managers, Mindstone enables you to set learning objectives, track team advancement, and ensure growth without forcing people through a traditional one-size-fits-all learning management system.All this learning culminates in a universal skills profile, a dynamic visualisation of your learning journey that lets you see and measure your progress over time, while at the same time serving as credible evidence of your learning to current or future employers. | $2M / Equity Crowdfunding / Nov 02, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Zanichelli Venture invest in?
Zanichelli Venture invests primarily in Education, E-Learning and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Zanichelli Venture's check size?
Zanichelli Venture typically joins rounds of $695k–$2.5M at Seed, $704k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $3.3M–$10M 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 Zanichelli Venture participates in.
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Who are the partners at Zanichelli Venture?
The team at Zanichelli Venture includes Enrico Poli (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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