Top 15 Publishing Startup Investors in Italy in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Publishing Startup Investors in Italy in May 2025
Investor | Publishing Italy investments |
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VAM Investments | 4 |
Rancilio Cube | 3 |
United Ventures | 2 |
Massimiliano Magrini | 2 |
B Group | 1 |
Matthias Hilpert | 1 |
Genesis Ventures | 1 |
Federico Ghizzoni | 1 |
CDP Venture Capital | 1 |
Oltre Impact | 1 |
Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 1 |
Pi Campus | 1 |
GELLIFY | 1 |
Principia SGR | 1 |
Andrea Dusi | 1 |
VAM Investments is a private equity company focused on growth and buyout investments.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Music, Dental
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Slam — Sail beyond the horizon with SLAM: high-quality technical sailing apparel, tested by athletes and experienced sailors.
- Soundreef — Soundreef ltd is an Independent Management Entity (EU Directive 2014/26/EU) listed in the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom and can operate throughout Europe including Spain. Soundreef was founded to offer a viable alternative to the traditional Collective Management Organisation by combining innovative technology withpersonal customer service. Soundreef manages the rights of over 25,000 authors and publishers worldwide rewarding them with the fair, transparent and quick payment they deserve for the use of their musical works. Business users such as radio and tv broadcasters, digital service providers, live event organisers, theatres and cinemas, business establishments and music labels can obtain a mandatory license for the use of musical works managed by Soundreef.Soundreef ltd is incorporated in U.K. and owned by Soundreef S.p.A. , a company incorporated in Italy. Soundreef S.p.A. is the company that develops the technology and the content management platform used by Soundreef ltd to audit, collect and maximize royalties for Soundreef authors and publishers. The company process billions of transactions with a focus to improve data security and efficiency in the music industry.Soundreef S.p.A. controls also 100% of Soundreef publishing srl and 100% of Soundreef Media Services srl.
- Supermoney — Supermoney is an online broker which helps to compare costs of electricity and gas.
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from brokers across the nation.
- FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.
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Investment focus
- Software, Network Security, Manufacturing
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Akamas — Akamas autonomous AI safely optimizes application workloads for maximum performance, service quality, resilience and cost savings.
- 20lines — 20lines is a website and a mobile app where users write, read and share short stories.Their goal is to connect writers and readers around the concept of free short stories. They aim at becoming the “Instagram” for short stories. On 20lines everyone can easily share their stories, from the teenagers writing their daily journal for theirfriends to the important authors who want to share the preview of their next book with their audience.
- AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Private equity and advisory group focusing on food, energy, mining and infrastructure
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Investment focus
- Publishing
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- We Wealth — We Wealth ha l'obiettivo di supportare la trasformazione digitale del mondo del Wealth Management e di porsi aggregatore di domanda ed offerta.
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
- Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Making early-stage founders successful globally. A coaching and angel investment platform for early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PlugSecure — Protecting electric vehicle charging networks from cyber threats with advanced security monitoring and threat detection.
- Wealthyhood — Stocks, ETFs and high interest with zero commissions and powerful automation. Start building wealth today!
- Progressive Robotics — Making Robots Smarter
Founder & CEO at UniCredit
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy, San Marino
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tundr — Tundr offers smartcard to companies for sustainable mobility.
- Genius4U — Genius4U offers washing, sewing, registered mail, shipping, and parcel delivery services. They provide physiotherapist massager, osteopath, nutritionist, hairdresser, beautician, and psychologist services. They also provide professional babysitting services.
- Iama Therapeutics — At IAMA Therapeutics, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of neuroscience drug discovery to develop new medicines and make a difference in the lives of children suffering from brain disorders and their families. Our purpose is to provide a therapeutic solution to children suffering from neurological conditions and provide their families withthe support they need.
We shape impact investing for people and planet
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Investment focus
- Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
- Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
- FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
- Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
- Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
- Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
- CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.
Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
- ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
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