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Top 45 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Italy (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Italy Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
P101
VC Fund
9 Italy, Spain, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $236k–$17M
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $55k–$576k
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $488k–$17M
B Holding
VC Fund
4 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Retail, E-Commerce, Internet $120k–$2.1M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $219k–$11M
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Apps $219k–$7.7M
Vertis
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Computer, E-Commerce $823k–$10M
BlackSheep Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Advertising, SaaS, Marketing $1.2M–$22M
Lazio Innova
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $27k–$1.9M
3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $71k–$2.5M
RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Retail, Medical, Big Data $669k–$1.1M
Growth Engine
VC Fund
2 Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $300k–$4.2M
Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund
2 United States, Italy, Spain Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology $2.2M–$47M
Pi Campus
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Biotechnology $100k–$6.4M
Club Digitale
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $258k–$576k
Alecla7
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Advice, Retail, Grocery $1.3M–$8.2M
LIFTT
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $329k–$21M
CLN Group
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Retail, Hardware, E-Commerce
Atlante Seeds
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Sports, Hardware
Vela Imprese
VC Fund
1 Italy Gift, Retail, Sports
UniCredit
VC Fund
1 Italy, Germany, Sweden Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
Angels 4 Impact
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Lazzaroni
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
Oltre Impact
VC Fund
1 Italy, United Kingdom Series A Toys, EBooks, Retail $4.1M–$5.3M
TA Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $150k–$24M
Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $148k–$21M
Synergo Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, Spain, Germany Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software $5.5M–$27M
Caravatti
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
Marco Coin
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
R-301 Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, France, Spain Seed, Series A, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Travel $60k–$6.9M
Doorway Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, France Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage $1.5M–$6.9M
LVX Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Italy Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Internet, Software $179k–$10M
RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Fitness
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
1 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology $197k–$19M
NXTP Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Argentina, Brazil Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile $145k–$14M
Doorway
VC Fund
1 Italy, Switzerland, United States Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail $1.9M–$5.2M
United Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $274k–$18M
H2 Investments
VC Fund
1 Italy, Germany Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Retail, Banking
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $549k–$16M
Andera Partners
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Germany Series B, Private Equity Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $14M–$247M
Hatcher+
VC Fund
1 United States, Italy, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $38k–$1M
Visconti
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed FinTech, Payments, Financial Services $439k–$2M
Bossa Invest
VC Fund
1 Brazil, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $29k–$5M
VentureFriends
VC Fund
1 Greece, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $105k–$25M
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P101
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Retail startups, 6 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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Series A $2.1M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
  • A-Cube — A-Cube is a software company that provides digital solutions to exchange documents with government agencies.
  • Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Retail startups

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $110k–$219k
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.9M in 2013

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!
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 228
  • Round size: Seed $488k–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
  • Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
  • Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
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B Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$658k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

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!
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.6M; Angel $219k–$1.2M; Series A $2.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
  • Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
  • Alomana
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$1.9M; Series A $6M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

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!
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Vertis
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Computer, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$3.6M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2021

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.
  • Focoos AI — Focoos reshapes computer vision with ultra-efficient models that drive down costs, automate hardware integration, and ensure peak performance on any device, while promoting sustainability.
  • TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.
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BlackSheep Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

BlackSheep Ventures is a dedicated European AI VC fund backing outlier founders in Vertical AI, domain-specific AI, and Sovereign AI. Regulated AIFM. Two funds. 12 portfolio companies. Based in Milan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, SaaS, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2M; Series A $5.3M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $47M in 2021

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.
  • Scibids — Automate and customize optimization strategies to maximize your business outcomes.
  • Anonymised — Anonymised is the cookieless data platform that helps publishers and advertisers reach and monetise audiences at scale, without exposing any personal data.
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Lazio Innova
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$1.9M; Grant $27k–$33k; Pre-Seed $53k–$549k
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Joinrs — Cut the noise. Joinrs uses AI to find the jobs that actually match your skills, experience and preferences. Over 2 million job seekers trust Joinrs.
  • Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
  • Ticketoo — Compra e vendi biglietti in modo etico su Ticketoo. La piattaforma sicura per transazioni fan-to-fan. Trova i migliori eventi e assicurati il biglietto per i tuoi spettacoli preferiti.
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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

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.
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RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Retail, Medical, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

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.
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Growth Engine
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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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  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

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.
  • CiaoDott
  • 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.
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Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$47M; Series B $2.6M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

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.
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Pi Campus
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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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  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
  • Intron Health — Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for AfricaUnlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds Build with Sahara Try Sahara Built for African SpeechFrom Lagos Call Centers, to Hospitals in Nairobi, Boardrooms in Cape Town, and Courtrooms in
  • Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
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Club Digitale
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $258k–$576k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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!
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Alecla7
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Private investment firm founded by Angelomario Moratti in 2015, which mainly focuses on early-stage VC opportunities

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advice, Retail, Grocery
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr offers smartcard to companies for sustainable mobility.
  • Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
  • 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.
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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.7M; Series A $2.7M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
  • Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
  • Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
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CLN Group
VC Fund · Caselette, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

CLN is the Group Company specialized in producing and assembling steel automotive structural parts, components, subassemblies and modules.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Hardware, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WIB Machines — Smart vending machines and smart lockers manufacturer pioneering smart, web-based retail automation globally. Patented solutions enabling next-gen retail.
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Atlante Seeds
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Atlante Seed is an Intesa Sanpaolo Group's Fund dedicated to seed and early stage capital, it invests in innovative companies still small but with high growth potential, with a particular attention to those belonging to the high technology industry. Besides this activity (direct investments), the Fund invests in selected business incubators oraccelerators specialized in specific sectors (indirect investments).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Sports, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sellf — Sellfapp, the CRM Mobile for an easier sales tracking and clients managing. Ask for more information and download our 14 days free trials.
  • GoPillar — Get dozens of high quality projects from professional designers: easy, fast and on a budget. Redesign your space on GoPillar.
  • WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
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Vela Imprese
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Vela Imprese S.r.l. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investing in startups, early venture, management buy-ins, leverage buyouts, and development equity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gift, Retail, Sports
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
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UniCredit
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Angels 4 Impact
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Lazzaroni
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Lazzaroni operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Oltre Impact
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

We shape impact investing for people and planet

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Toys, EBooks, Retail
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $62M in 2021

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
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TA Ventures
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments. We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Shift — Xometry Europe offers CNC Machining, 3D Printing, Sheet Metal and Injection Moulding services online. Upload your files for an instant quote!
  • Aurora Labs — Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Created using Aurora Labs' Line-Of-Code Intelligence™, the Automotive Software Intelligence (ASI) solution collects granular and actionable data from complex automotive systems, applying AI to enable software transparency andmanagement. Aurora Labs' ASI solution detects and validates changes in the software lines-of-code for OTA updates, and analyses dependencies and software behaviour to enable predictive software maintenance throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Aurora Labs provides automotive development teams unique tools to roll out new technologies and services on time and on budget.Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised $34m and has been granted dozens of patents. Aurora Labs has customers around the world and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, and the US.
  • Tortoise — Tortoise is an automated delivery platform for the retail and logistics industries. It was founded by David Graham and Dmitry Shevelenko. Companies like Lyft, Microsoft, and Samsung have brought David in when developing novel technologies and concepts. Meanwhile, Dmitry oversaw the new modality partnership strategy at Uber and led Uber’s firstdeals with JUMP, Getaround, and the public transit ticketing system Masabi. Together, the two have identified some of the biggest pain points in logistics and shared micromobility and are setting out to tackle them together.
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $148k–$2.2M; Series A $5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
  • Parting Pro — Funeral home software dedicated to creating the best death care experience. Grow your business with online arrangements and digital case management.
  • Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.
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Synergo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$8.2M; Private Equity $22M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 95% lead, 5% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

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.
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Caravatti
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Caravatti operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Marco Coin
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Marco Coin operates as an investmenr firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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R-301 Capital
VC Fund · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

R-301 Capital They are an independent technology venture capital firm. They invest in early stage busineses leveraging disruptive web and mobile technologies in a variety of sectors. As experienced tech entrepreneurs They combine expertise with cash to best support Their portfolio companies. They move quickly and decisevily in funding innovatorsThey believe in.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy, France, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $60k–$6.9M; Series A $3M–$5.5M; Convertible Note $1.1M–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carnovo — Carnovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the automotive purchase process by making it fast, transparent and convenient for both, car dealers and buyers. Their mission is simple, to put the car buying process upside down by placing customers in the center making them save time and money while offering them the best buyingexperience. Car dealers that partner with Carnovo sell more cars than they could in the showroom alone while reducing cost inefficiencies and increasing stock turnover. This means they can make great offers to Carnovo buyers!
  • Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an influencer marketing platform. It allows brands to integrate key influencers into their digital and social communications in a fully automated, transparent, and ROI-driven approach. Our technology analyses the online conversations of all registered users across each of their social media channels. Through a semantic model, Buzzooleis able to categorize conversations and to identify the topics that users are most influential in, according to its own algorithm. This allows brands to reach out to specific influencers in their niche market in a completely automated way.Buzzoole's business model is a CPP mode. Brands pay on the basis of posts generated by the influencers. This Cost-Per-Post model allows us to offer all sizes of solutions. From startups to top brands. Working with Buzzoole can save companies up to 70% compared with cooperating with external agencies, which is usually a lengthier, more complicated, and more expensive process.Buzzoole's proprietary algorithm solves the analysis and matching problem, and the transparent approach to campaigns means brands will always see how much they are spending, who is working on their campaign, and what their campaign ROI is.
  • Bergamotte — Founded in 2015, Bergamotte offers a delivery service of flowers and plants throughout France.
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Doorway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.9M; Series A $1.5M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

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
  • Smartness — 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!
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LVX Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 238
  • Round size: Seed $220k–$2.6M; Angel $179k–$750k; Series A $595k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • B:Live — One of Samarth’s fondest memories growing up in Goa was the weekend swim in the clean blue waters. Soaking in the cool evening breeze while gazing into the limitless expanse of green. If there was paradise on earth, it was right here, in Goa. Witnessing the menacing pollution and mindless vehicular congestion in big cities and seeing Goa slowlymove in the same direction, he was determined to bring about a change. Samarth reached out to his close friend Sandeep who had just returned to India after a stint abroad.
  • Online RTI — File RTI application online - Online RTI
  • Innov8 Coworking — Innov8 Coworking is a Y- Combinator backed workspaces and community startup based in India. They provide premium workspaces (managed private offices and coworking spaces).Innov8 Coworking is the first of its kind Thought space in India. They encourage community engagement of like-minded individuals from any space, whether they are founders,investors, freelancers, creators or just want to work in a highly productive zone.They currently have centers across India - Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chandigarh.
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RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
  • MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $197k–$7.6M; Series A $889k–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Largix — Largix is the first company to develop and commercially produce 3D Robotic Printers for real production processes. We have invented the "Cold 3D Printing®" technology that makes 3DP possible for real industrial production. Largix uses the most common thermoplastic polymers: Polypropylene and Polyethylene, polymers that nobody else iscapable of printing.
  • Spacest.com By Roomless — Rent directly online with Roomless, the safe and simple platform for those looking for a house for rent.
  • Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
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NXTP Ventures
VC Fund · Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Argentina, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $145k–$5.4M; Series A $1.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
  • Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
  • Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
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Doorway
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Doorway provides a platform for Venture capital firms to find the right investment opportunities and also provides consulting for same.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.2M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ACBC — The Sneakers produced by ACBC are ecological, created with the best eco-friendly materials. ACBC is a company particularly mindful of environmental health, and its products are a mix of green technology and ecological materials to promote circularity.
  • Joinrs — Cut the noise. Joinrs uses AI to find the jobs that actually match your skills, experience and preferences. Over 2 million job seekers trust Joinrs.
  • AutoConnexa — Connexa InsTech is a digital and telematics insurance company solution offering unprecedented customer-centricity and flexibility. It was founded in 2021 and its headquarters is located in Bari, Apulia, Italy.
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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
  • Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
  • Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
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H2 Investments
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

H2 Investments was added in 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Banking
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 523
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $560k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
  • Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
  • Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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Andera Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Private Equity
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Series B $14M–$85M; Private Equity $110M–$247M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $466M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MMI — The future of Microsurgery: microinstruments that expand the possibilities of surgical interventions. Wristed robotic microinstruments for unprecedented results in microsurgery.
  • Amolyt Pharma — AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business and our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.
  • ImCheck Therapeutics — ImCheck Therapeutics is a developer of immuno-modulatory antibodies designed for the treatment of cancer and other immune-related diseases. The company's services are engaged in the discovery and development of immunomodulators for treating breast cancer, gastric, ovarian cancer cells and other solid solid tumours.
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Hatcher+
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $38k–$1M; Pre-Seed $55k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ajé — Secure digital transactions and cross-border trade powered by blockchain technology.
  • PayToMe.co — PayToMe.co offers innovative and secure payment solutions including text-to-pay, digital invoicing, and digital checkbook services.
  • Scholar Saver — Scholar Saver addresses the lack of adequate financial education and support for students, who often struggle with budget management and financial stress. This leads to mental health issues and insufficient student loan provisions, forcing many into additional debt. We provide AI-driven financial guidance, budgeting tools, and educational resourcesto help students and their families manage finances effectively, reduce stress, and achieve financial stability, ultimately improving their overall well-being.
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Visconti
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Visconti provides consulting and coaching services to improve business growth. It offers experience-based strategies, professional training, and business management solutions. Visconti was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 regulated digital asset liquidity provider specializing in OTC trading and market making.
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Bossa Invest
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 469
  • Round size: Seed $181k–$5M; Pre-Seed $29k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $362k in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sukha — The Focus App for Healthy Productivity. Sukha offers focus music, timers, AI assistants and more while you work.
  • You.com — you.com is a search engine that helps users find what they're looking for by prioritizing real results. It aims to take on Google and other search engines dependent on advertising. It offers privacy controls to let users customize their browsing experience. It raises the bar on privacy, offering a zero trace incognito mode. It never tracksusers on the internet.You.com was developed by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher.
  • Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.
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VentureFriends
VC Fund · Athens, Attiki, Greece · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

VentureFriends is a venture capital fund that invests in tech-enabled companies. VentureFriends (VF) is a venture capital fund specialising in seed stage startups. VF seeks to invest in tech-enabled B2C and B2B startups that can develop a sustainable moat over time and have a sweet spot for PropTech, FinTech, Marketplaces, and SaaS. The fundtypically invests between €0.3M - €2.5M and can follow on up to a total of €5 - 10M. VentureFriends invests predominantly in Europe and is founded by ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors, thus having an entrepreneurial and founder-friendly philosophy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $424k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $105k–$3.4M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BibeCoffee — BibeCoffee is an IoT real-time monitoring solution that transforms every professional coffee machine to a smart connected terminal minimizing revenue Loss and safeguarding brand quality image
  • Spotawheel — Spotawheel is a trusted high-tech used cars B2C platform that redesigns the whole buy-sell process from scratch, ensuring value, transparency and customer satisfaction at the highest levels throughout.
  • Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.
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Retail VC funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 91 deals from 92 investors.

92
investors
in Italy Retail startups
91
deals
in Italy Retail startups
$576k
median round
in Italy Retail startups
42%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage

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