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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026

Investor Retail Italy investments
P101 9
Club Italia Investimenti 2 6
Giovanni Gardelli 5
CDP Venture Capital 4
B Holding 4
Boost Heroes 3
Italian Angels for Growth 3
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis 3
Alberto Birolini 3
Vertis 3
Lazio Innova 2
3LB Seed Capital Srl 2
Alecla7 2
Luca Foresti 2
Giulio Xiloyannis 2
RedSeed Ventures 2
Growth Engine 2
Luca Ferrante Carrante 2
BlackSheep Ventures 2
Club Digitale 2
Pi Campus 2
LIFTT 2
Milano Investment Partners SGR 2
Matteo de Brabant 1
VentureFriends 1
Doorway Capital 1
Andera Partners 1
Lodovico Rosnati 1
H2 Investments 1
Bossa Invest 1
Alessandro Gatti 1
Banca Sella Holding 1
UniCredit 1
Gianni Tagliapietra 1
Oltre Impact 1
Loris Lanzellotti 1
Jacopo Sebastio 1
Kima Ventures 1
Federico Menetto 1
Angels 4 Impact 1
Francesco Pagano 1
Rossella Brenna 1
Silvestro Russo 1
Eberhard Schmidt 1
Club degli Investitori 1
Caravatti 1
Lazzaroni 1
Synergo Capital 1
HATCHER+ 1
Filippo Corsaro 1
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P101 VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Toduba — Toduba is a digitalization company that provides shopping vouchers, food stamps, gift cards, and travel expense management.
  • Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
  • Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
Club Italia Investimenti 2 VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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!
Giovanni Gardelli Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
  • Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
  • Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
CDP Venture Capital VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
  • Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
  • Dog Heroes — Dog Heroes delivers home recipes of fresh food, perfectly portioned to every dog's need. Only high-quality local ingredients are used in tailor-made portions that are ready to serve. Customers will find 55% meat of exclusively Italian origin in the company's recipes, balanced with vegetables, vitamins, and mineral salts. Dog Heroes doesnot use any chemical additives or preservatives.
B Holding VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
B Holding is an industrial holding that wants to establish itself as a reference player for innovation in Italy, investing and supporting the best business projects.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • sykell — sykell developing scalable and sustainable packaging and pooling solutions for retail, gastronomy and catering industry.
  • This Unique — Customize your own period with a unique assortment to fit your needs that's sustainable and committed.
  • Barberino's - Benessere Italiano — We are an Italian independent men's grooming company. We operates a classic though stylish barber shop chain with an Italian soul in Milan, Rome, Padova and Brescia. Our award-winning Barber Shops recreates places where the gestures, the rituals and the habits behind men's grooming are honored while updated with modern attitude. Ourbarbers are top skilled and carefully trained. We focus on high quality haircuts, beard trims and hot towel wet shave with the mission to offer a relaxing grooming experience. We use and sell exclusively our own products, entirely designed, developed and packaged in Italy by an expert group of artisans, chemists and designers that represent the ultimate Italian excellence. Our product line is the result of our years of on-the-ground experience and hundred of thousands of haircuts and bear trims. We know not only what our customers need but also what our customers wants. The cosmetics are characterized by high performance formulas enriched with the most advanced active ingredients (such as plant stem cells) that are extracted from natural sources. The accessories are entirely handmade using the most precious natural materials, such as horn or wengé wood, according to the most elegant Italian design principles. We offer a 360° customer experience which starts in our store with our barbers and which continue at home with our products!
Boost Heroes VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
  • Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
Italian Angels for Growth VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio is a biotech startup developing next-generation T cell therapies that target ALK-positive cancers. By reprogramming the immune system, the company aims to overcome resistance and deliver more effective, lasting treatments for solid tumors.
  • Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
  • Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Italy, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
  • HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
  • Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
Alberto Birolini Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Alberto Birolini
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Investment focus
  • Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
Vertis VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Computer
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.
  • Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
  • Live Story Inc. — Forget about code and templates: with our freehand designable editor, you can quickly create layouts and publish them online in no time.
Lazio Innova VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Joinrs — We developed an artificial intelligence model able to read job offers for you and show you the ones that best match your profile.
  • Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
  • Ticketoo — Ticketoo: compra e vendi biglietti fan-to-fan in modo sicuro
3LB Seed Capital Srl VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy
3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
  • Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
  • Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.
Alecla7 VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Private investment firm founded by Angelomario Moratti in 2015, which mainly focuses on early-stage VC opportunities
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Investment focus
  • Advice, Retail, Grocery
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Glaut — Glaut is the AI-native platform for market research. Use AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) to collect qualitative insights at scale, with multilingual support, fraud prevention, and real-time analysis.
  • Carol — Carol is a tech-enabled healthcare provider delivering membership-based primary care services, on a mission to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone. To achieve this goal, Carol leverages a highly scalable technology, combined with high quality clinical operations and a salaried provider model.
  • FidoCommercialista — FidoCommercialista is a team of accountants to offer tax support. They use digital technologies to save customers time and money. They provide tax advice for their clients. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contact form, and email.
Luca Foresti Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Luca Foresti is the CEO at Santagostino. Luca Foresti attended The University of Pisa.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Retail, Nutrition
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Giulio Xiloyannis Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic.
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Investment focus
  • Online Games, Gaming, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Portugal, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
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RedSeed Ventures VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
RedSeed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Companies and Scaleups, in Europe and more particularly in Italy.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dianax — Milan-based Dianax was founded in 2013 starting from a group scientists led by Eugenio Iannone and Maurizio Moroni and by a few angel investors orchestrated by Gabriele Bavagnoli. Dianax mission is to develop and manufacture labs-on-chip aiming to trasform protein-based diagnostics and make it prompt, easy to use, inexpensive and reliableTheDianax novel technology is designed to make precise diagnostic results convenient, easily accessible, and affordable to patients and healthcare professionals, to empower them to effective prevention, ongoing accurate management and timely emergency treatment.The Dianax technology is the first ever application to diagnostics of a combination of microfluidic innovations and electrochemistry detection systems.Dianax was founded by Eugenio Iannone and his partners to pursue technical and market opportunities based on proprietary, independent research.
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
  • WIB Machines — Smart vending machines and smart lockers manufacturer pioneering smart, web-based retail automation globally. Patented solutions enabling next-gen retail.
Growth Engine VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Secondary Market, Convertible Note
  • Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • BonusX — Con l'app BonusX hai un supporto anti-burocrazia tutto l'anno. Accedi a centinaia di bonus e servizi pubblici, senza stress e code.
  • WithLess — Apps multiply, costs grow, admin spirals. We get it. The tools your team needs WithLess time, money, and admin.
  • Vivaio Ventures — Vivaio Ventures partners with early-stage and creator-led consumer brands to scale food, beverage, and beauty products. We offer capital, consulting, and Made in Italy manufacturing excellence for the next CPG leaders.
Luca Ferrante Carrante Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group
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Investment focus
  • Shoes, Retail, Travel
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WeRoad — We organise group tours on the road to more than 150 destinations around the world. We leave all year round, in similar groups of age and travel mood.
  • Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
  • CharityStars — The groundbreaking fundraising platform offering one destination for all. Together we stand strong, dream big and create greater change for causes worldwide.
BlackSheep Ventures VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
BlackSheep is the first venture capital firm focused on Madtech: AI, Big Data, Automation and its B2B applications for the marketing and advertising industry.
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Investment focus
  • Advertising, SaaS, PaaS
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Spoki — Spoki helps businesses increase sales thanks to WhatsApp.Emails are no more a valid communication channel between businesses and customers. Spoki helps businesses engage their customers using WhatsApp during the whole customer journey: marketing, sales and customer support.Spoki is a WhatsApp conversational platform that allows you to: - sendbulk marketing messages to thousands customers with a click - integrate WhatsApp with: - Ecommerce to notify abandoned cart, tracking number and order status - Marketing Automation Tools or CRM to add it to sales funnels - Social and Digital ADS to catch users in the exact moment expressing their interest in products and services - create automations and chatbots, for customer support or whatever you can think ofIf you are confident with the results you get today with emails, you'll be amazed at what you can achieve with Spoki.
  • Qapla' SPA SB — Track Shipping for eCommerce and other commercial activities. Reduce the cost of customer support and add a Amazon grade tracking feature on every website.
  • Connected-Stories — Connected-Stories is the Multi agent Ai system that powers generative AI for marketing, creative automation, and personalized content at scale.
Club Digitale VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • WeSchool — Unlock the transformative power of Education with WeSchool: we craft innovative programmes that connect teachers, students and partners.
  • WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
  • 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 VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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
  • 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
  • Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
LIFTT VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • QSensAto — QSensAto is a quantum sensing company specializing in the development and research of integrated vapor cells and quantum atomic sensors.
  • Agate Sensors — Agate Sensors offers equipment manufacturers advanced sensors that detect, identify, and classify people, vital signs, objects, and more. Their sensors come in a range of sizes, from single pixel devices to full matrix devices, and are produced using standard CMOS production processes, making them both cost-effective and efficient.
  • Sparrow Quantum — Sparrow Quantum, a global leader in quantum photonic chip technology. Explore innovative solutions driving advancements in quantum computing, communication, and beyond. Stay ahead with cutting-edge technologies shaping the future.
Milano Investment Partners SGR VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Italy, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Miscusi — Scopri la cucina italiana leggera di Miscusi: piatti autentici, ingredienti freschi e un servizio accogliente. Visita ora.
  • Jellatech — Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin.
  • Poke House — Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Poke House specializes in bowl food that often includes marinated fish that’s cubed and layered up with sticky rice, pickles, noodles, etc.
Matteo de Brabant Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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Investment focus
  • News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
VentureFriends VC Fund · Athens, Attiki, Greece · 6 investments in the past 12 months
We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
  • Embla — Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
Doorway Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Doorway Capital is an independent provider of risk capital to law firms. It offers facilities of between £50,000 and £20 million to firms authorized by the SRA to practice law in England and Wales. These facilities can be used to fund disbursements, acquisitions, lock-up, tax liabilities, or anything else. It also purchases paid disbursements fromlaw firms for up to 80% of their face value. These means capital earning little or no return can be redeployed into more profitable activities of the firm or returned to its partners.Doorway Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, France
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.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
Andera Partners VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Andera Partners, formerly known as Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) As heir to the traditions and values that have ensured the success of the Rothschild family for 250 years, the Edmond de Rothschild Group has established itself over time as a leading player in European finance. Its activities are grouped around two major areas:Private Banking and Asset Management. The Group offers wealthy families, entrepreneurs, and large institutions a full range of solutions combining a culture of tailored solutions, stability, performance, and innovation. The Edmond de Rothschild Group’s offering is characterised by strong convictions, with the desire to guarantee to each of its customers: A unique, close relationship, underpinned by the know-how and the variety of expertise of a large international group; Autonomous, experienced teams, who anticipate economic trends and innovate to establish long-term performance; The recognised stability, strength, and independence of a family-owned financial group. Founded by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1953, the Group has been chaired by his son, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, since 1997.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Private Equity, Funding Round
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Qovoltis — Qovoltis specializes in the renewable energy sector, providing smart charging solutions for electric vehicles. Their product is a smart charger with real-time power demand adaptability, designed to connect with all vehicles compatible with the ISO 15118 standard. The company also offers a mobile application that allows users to authenticatethemselves and manage their charging remotely. In addition to individual users, Qovoltis provides innovative charging station solutions for real estate projects, enhancing asset value.
  • Skysun — Skysun is a financial institution that provides financial solutions and services to the solar energy sector.
  • Kestra Medical Technologies, Inc. — Kestra Medical Technologies is a wearable medical device and digital healthcare company that protects patients with diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that are intuitive, and mobile. They provide intuitive medical technologies to protect and support at-risk patients.
Lodovico Rosnati Angel
Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
H2 Investments VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
H2 Investments was added in 2013.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Retail, Banking
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.
  • Ready To Share — Ready to Share is a SaaS startup that offers an inventory management platform that connects brands, agents, and retailers. Ready to Share was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Lombardia, Italy.
Bossa Invest VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Aprenda a Investir em Startups
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Brazil, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Comunitive — Peepi is a solution for scaling and changing customer and employee engagement into brand defenders improving retention, empowering sharing experiences, and attracting new customers. The company allows users to know who likes a brand and get closer to these people and increase engagement. Users can encourage people to share and advertise a brand insocial networks and more.Peepi was founded on 2017 and is headquartered Curitiba, Brazil.
  • Guapeco — Guapeco provides customized pet insurance services that helps pet parents take care of well-being of their pets through a health plan
  • Just Travel — Just Travel serves as a reference in the distribution of tourism products and customer service. The company offers cutting-edge technology that focuses on virtual presence, and provides growth, profitability, and brand strengthening on the internet.
Alessandro Gatti Angel · Monza, Lombardia, Italy
Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Gift, Retail
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • SMACE — Smace engages in the development of smart working management platforms.
  • Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
  • The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Banca Sella Holding VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy
Banca Sella Holding is a holding company based in Italy. It provides services that include management, coordination, control, trading, and treasury activities of financial sectors through its subsidiaries. The company's banking products and services also consists of various deposits, as well as repurchase agreements, mortgage loans, personalloans, factoring, and Internet and mobile banking services.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.
  • Hercle — Hercle is a FinTech company that develops low-latency technology that offers end-to-end prime-brokerage solutions and trading algorithms to institutional investors who are interested in gaining exposure to crypto-assets.
UniCredit VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Italy, Germany, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Noiet — Noiet is a biotechnology firm whose mission is to develop clean, natural, and fermented proteins that serve as multifunctional alternatives.
  • Peelpack — Peelpack is a packaging company that specializes in biodegradable and compostable biopolymer punnets, aiming to replace plastic packaging.
  • Alma Serum — Alma Serum is a cosmetic and biotech company that turns dairy industry into advanced cosmetic and biomedical materials.
Gianni Tagliapietra Angel
Gianni Tagliapietra
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
Oltre Impact VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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
Loris Lanzellotti Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Loris Lanzellotti is the cofounder of Boost Heroes attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Retail, FinTech
  • Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
Jacopo Sebastio Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Jacopo Sebastio is Founder & CEO at Velasca.
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Investment focus
  • Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 42 investments in the past 12 months
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
  • Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
  • Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.
Federico Menetto Angel · Padua, Veneto, Italy
Federico Menetto
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Software, Nutrition
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
  • Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
Angels 4 Impact VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Angels 4 Impact is a Business Angel investment firm that invests in startups with innovative and technological content and a focus on impact.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • XBOOKS — Investors Relations is Xbooks website whereby the company shares communications between the mangares and the Shareholders community. It provides an accurate account to investors, which keeps them updated of company life and key results.
  • Envirly — Envirly is a Polish technology company that offers an innovative platform for managing sustainable development, and the carbon footprint of organizations and products.
  • Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
Francesco Pagano Angel · Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Pagano is a Senior Partner at JAKALA.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
Rossella Brenna Angel
Rossella Brenna
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  • Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
Silvestro Russo Angel
Silvestro Russo
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  • Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
Eberhard Schmidt Angel
Eberhard Schmidt
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  • Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
Club degli Investitori VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.
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  • Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
  • Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
  • Lymphatica Medtech — Lymphatica Medtech is a medical device development company developing a minimally invasive solution for chronic lymphedema.Lymphedema is the chronic swelling that generally occurs in the arms or the legs.Lymphedema is most commonly caused by the removal of or the damage to the lymph nodes as a part of cancer treatment. It results from ablockage in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system. The blockage prevents the lymphatic system from draining excess fluids, and the fluid buildup leads to swelling, infections, and pain.Unfortunately, there is no cure for lymphedema. It can be managed with early diagnosis and diligent care of the affected limb, through daily compression, bandages, and manual drainage sessions. From the moment of the diagnosis, the life of lymphedema patients changes forever.Cancer and cancer-related interventions (i.e. surgery, radiotherapy) are frequent causes of lymphedema occurring both in the upper and lower limbs. Breast cancer survivors are at high risk for developing lymphedema, as well as patients treated for melanoma, pelvic and head and neck cancer or other cancer treatments that require lymph node dissection. Physical trauma can also result in lymphedema, a major cause of lymphatic disease among wounded veterans.Lymphedema is associated with significantly impaired quality of life, skin changes, increased risk of infection and in rare cases lymphedema itself may undergo malignant transformation.Lymphatica offers a permanent solution that will allow patients to regain their normal lifestyle.
Caravatti VC Fund
Caravatti operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Seed
  • Italy
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  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Lazzaroni VC Fund
Lazzaroni operates as an investment firm.
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  • Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Synergo Capital VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Diamo sostegno operativo e finanziario alle PMI italiane che vogliono crescere negli USA. Investiamo a fianco di imprenditori ambiziosi per aumentare significativamente il valore delle loro aziende. Non siamo un partner solo finanziario, ma anche operativo e strategico. Mettiamo a disposizione la nostra esperienza nel costruire aziende di successo.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
  • Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, Spain, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
  • Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
  • Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
HATCHER+ VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.
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  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Italy, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cropify — Eliminating subjective testing from the classification process using AI and machine learning. Cropify.io
  • Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions
  • Cellivate Technology — Startup, with proprietary platform technologies and products that enable cellular meat companies to accelerate the growth of cells
Filippo Corsaro Angel
Filippo Corsaro
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
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