# Top 30 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## Tech4Planet - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing Tech4Planet was created to facilitate market access and the growth of new companies conceived within research laboratories dedicated to environmental sustainability, particularly in the energytech, circular economy, sustainable manufacturing, smart mobility, and water management sectors.With a total investment of up to 55 million euros allocatedby the Technology Transfer Fund of CDP Venture Capital Sgr , the Tech4Planet Pole was created in collaboration with the Milan Polytechnic and involves the Polytechnics of Turin and Bari . ## 360 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now. ## EUREKA! Venture SGR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Medical Device Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments ## CDP Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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. ## Espe - Type: VC Fund - Location: Grantorto, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Corporate Round - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy Espe manufactures, designs, and develops dependable green energy systems based on hydroelectric and photovoltaic technology. ## Banca Patrimoni Sella & C. - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed - Focus: Energy, Software, Sustainability Banca Patrimoni Sella & C. is the bank of the Sella group in the management and administration of private and institutional client assets. ## UniCredit - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. ## GELLIFY - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Pariter Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Electronics, Semiconductor, Nanotechnology Pariter Partners is a largest Syndicate in Italy, investing in early stage deep-tech teams and advanced service solution startups. ## Growth Engine - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Growth Engine is a Venture Capital holding investing in Pre-Seed and Seed high-potential opportunities. With a current portfolio of more than 40 companies, most of them evolved in successful Scaleups, Growth Engine is a diversified asset class by sector and stage. Growth Engine Shareholders are entrepreneurs who have built companies from the groundup, collectively creating billions in value, and top executives managing companies with multi-billion-dollar valuations. ## FECS Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Verdello, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Oil and Gas, Semiconductor, Renewable Energy FECS Group provides recovery and recycling of metal raw materials. ## Ambienta - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Computer Founded in 2007, with offices in Milan, Munich, London and Paris Ambienta is a leading asset manager entirely focused on investments driven by environmental sustainability key drivers, Resource Efficiency and Pollution Control ## Russian Direct Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Transportation, Software, Logistics Russian Direct Investment Fund is a Russia’s sovereign wealth fund with reserved capital of $10 billion under management. Working alongside the world’s foremost investors, we make direct investments in leading, as well as promising, Russian companies. RDIF attracted over $40 billion of foreign capital into the Russian economy through long-termstrategic partnerships ## Open Innovation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Oil and Gas, Semiconductor, Renewable Energy Open Innovation is a platform that involves authorities and citizens for finding innovative solutions and models for overall development. ## Helen Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Renewable Energy, SaaS, Energy Helen has signed a service agreement, through which the management of CVC portfolio companies will be transferred to Redstone Nordics starting from June 1, 2025. As part of this change, the Helen Ventures team will join Redstone's expert organization. ## Bhavik Bajaj - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech Bhavik Bajaj ## Terna - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy Terna Driving Energy. Siamo un grande operatore di reti per la trasmissione di energia elettrica, promuoviamo la transizione energetica e lo sviluppo sostenibile. ## Omnes Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Omnes VC is the Venture Capital arm of Omnes Capital, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation with €4.8 billion in assets under management and a 20 year + experience in: venture capital, buyout & growth capital, private debt, renewable energy, co-investment, secondary funds of funds. Omnes Capital is fullyindependent.With 65 business sales including 14 IPOs carried out in 16 years, Omnes VC is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both Technology and Healthcare sectors. Omnes VC has supported 120 companies and has invested more than €500M in businesses such as Scality, Novaled, BioVex, arGEN-X, Pixium, Blablacar. ## Banco BPM - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Energy Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese. ## Barclays Sustainable and Impact Banking - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Industrial, Renewable Energy Barclays is providing the green and sustainable finance required to transform the economies we serve. ## LIFTT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital. ## EIC Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology start-ups, SMEs, technology, co-investment ## RoboIT - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence RoboIT is the National Technology Transfer Hub for Robotics and Industrial Automation. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed. ## Barclays - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Energy, Financial Services, Legal Barclays is a consumer and wholesale bank with a transatlantic presence. We have extensive roots. Barclays is part of an 85,000-person network that moves, lends, invests, and protects money for customers and clients in 40 countries. In the United States, the organization works with over 25 leading companies to provide a wide range of consumer andsmall business credit card programs to meet any lifestyle.The company operates with vigor and invigoration, championing innovation and sustainability, with the goto make a lasting influence, and taking satisfaction in leaving things better than we found them. ## NextSteps Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Big Data, Analytics, CleanTech NextSteps Capital ## DXT Commodities - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy We are an energy trading company committed to the global energy transition, both in the markets we operate in and the choices we make. ## Playground Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Robotics, Biotechnology Playground Global is an early-stage venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders with deep engineering expertise, a collaborative environment, and a first-hand understanding of the intricacies of deep tech. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Playground’s mission is to transform ambitious ideas into impactfulbusinesses that benefit humanity and the planet. We invest in areas that span across next gen compute automation, energy transition and engineered biology. Playground has been an early – and frequently first investor – in companies that include PsiQuantum, Relativity Space, Ultima Genomics, MosaicML (acq. by Databricks), d-Matrix, and Strand Therapeutics. ## Intesa Sanpaolo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note - Focus: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI. ## Finindus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zelzate, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Industrial, Renewable Energy Finindus provides early stage financing and growth capital to innovative companies active in the area of materials, material processing and sustainable manufacturing. We are funded by ArcelorMittal and the Flemish Region and linked to OCAS, the world class metals research center located in Belgium.