Top 30 Social Media Startup Investors in Italy in September 2025

Investor	Social Media Italy investments
Innogest Capital	4
CDP Venture Capital	3
Vertis	3
Creative Thinking Ventures	3
Club Italia Investimenti 2	3
Impulse VC	3
Club degli Investitori	2
Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.	2
Brahma AG	2
Equiter	2
R-301 Capital	2
Wayra	2
Marco Bicocchi Pichi	1
Fabio Chinaglia	1
Banca Patrimoni Sella & C.	1
Invitalia	1
Nader Sabbaghian	1
TLcom Capital Partners	1
ScaleIT Ventures	1
Tamburi Investment Partners	1
Banca Patrimoni Sella	1
Silicon Valley Fellowship	1
Giulio Valiante	1
BrahmaX Ventures	1
dPixel	1
SmartCapital	1
GELLIFY	1
R301	1
Compagnia di San Paolo	1
Intesa Sanpaolo	1

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Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Italy, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

GreenBone Ortho — GreenBone Ortho was founded in Faenzato offer advanced and innovative solutions in the field of orthopaedics and bone regeneration, using the Rattan wood.
Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Therapeutics is a life sciences company that delivers radiotherapy from within. Introducing Yntradose, our proprietary product.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

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.
lit — Con lit puoi monitorare, quando e dove vuoi, i tuoi consumi energetici, riducendoli fino al 22%, avendo informazioni in real time sui tuoi elettrodomestici.
Tulum Energy — Discover how Tulum Energy harnesses methane pyrolysis technology to transform machinery and produce substantial volumes of clean hydrogen, driving innovation and sustainability in the energy sector.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Computer
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

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.
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.
Live Story Inc. — Design Boundless Experiences with Live Story. Forget about code and templates: with our freehand designable editor, you can quickly create layouts and publish them online in no time. Finally, a no-code design solution that delivers multi-platform integrations with speed and dependability for professional teams.

Creative Thinking Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund for very early-stage ventures, focusing on start-ups and innovative SMEs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Worldz — Thanks to its algorithm, Worldz calculates the economic value of a user’s social popularity (qualitatively and quantitatively). In proportion to this value, it provides a personalized discount, which can be applied in exchange for a social sharing by the user on their Instagram or Facebook profile. This share refers to the brand or productpurchased and the content of the post can be pre-configured by the brand. A user’s social post increases the Brand Awareness and can generate new traffic to the store. This kind of sharing is perceived by the social community as a friend’s advice and not as a promotional activity.
Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
The Social Lender — The Social Lender is a peer-to-peer lending business platform that allows applicants to obtain funding from private and institutional investors, in order to support growth and development of their business and their projects, and where lenders can invest in security actively intervening in the Royal Economy.

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

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!

Fund for technological internet companies

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Russian Federation, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

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.

Investment focus

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
Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.

Sport Tech Investment Company

Investment focus

Apps, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
PunchLab — Download PunchLab Choose among martial arts & combat sports workouts designed for boxing, MMA, karate and kickboxing training. Track any punching and kicking combination you throw at the punching bag USING ONLY YOUR PHONE! Follow audio workouts while you hit the punching bag or shadowbox.

Brahma AG is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Jewelry, Handmade, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Artemest — Artimest serves as an online destination for timeless craft. You can meet Italy's finest craftsmen, explore their unique workshops, and find one-of-a-kind pieces. Artimest brings connoisseurs everywhere wonderful handmade products crafted by exceptional artisans in Italy.Artemest offers a unique shopping experience through curatededitorial content and exceptional videos. Its team includes international experienced professionals coming from luxury retail, e-commerce and editorial. Explore the varied worlds of home décor, jewelry and fine art as they change in character from region to region, and observe each artisan in his workshop as he describes his process and worldview.
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.

Equiter seleziona, realizza e gestisce investimenti infrastrutturali in capitale di rischio finalizzati allo sviluppo socio-economico del territorio.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Medics — 3D anatomical modeling per la pianificazione pre-operatoria e il supporto intra-operatorio delle chirurgie complesse.
BionIT Labs — We apply IT to Bionics in order to Turn disabilities into New Possibilities

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Italy, France, Spain

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.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kunzapp — Kunzapp, ayuda a las empresas a maximizar su presupuesto, eficiencia y seguridad, eliminando gastos innecesarios, haciendo visibles los “Shadow IT”, y consiguiendo ahorro de miles de dólares al año.
Remuner — Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Remuner is the sales compensation software that automate your commissions and drive performance.
Openlayer — Test, monitor, and govern AI systems from ML to LLMs. Openlayer's enterprise platform brings unified AI evaluation, observability, and governance to every stage of the AI lifecycle.

Co-Founder and Marketing Director at WIB.After a successful career as an executive at the intersection of digital technology and business with international leading companies such as EDS, Ernst & Young, Etnoteam, Booz Allen Hamilton (Professional Excellence Award in 2004) and AT Kearney, Marco has funded and has participated in founding since2008 several technology startups including Nextome named the most awesome startup of the Year by on-line vote at Web Summit 2014 in Dublin. Member of the association Italia Startup from the foundation in 2012, he has been elected to the Board of Directors and in 2014 to the newly formed Executive Committee with the delegation for International Affairs. Marco was named Italian Business Angel of the Year 2014 by the Italian Business Angel association and has contributed from 2009 to 2013 the development of the largest angel club in Italy : IAG Italian Angel for Growth. Marco collaborates with several business accelerators, startup competitions, schools, and institutions on the topics of startup and innovation.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, Accounting
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Nomesia — NOMESIA is one of the major Web Agency in Milan, focused onOnline Marketing for Professional Services whose aim is the acquisition of new business opportunities and new customers.Nomesia offers services relating to SEM, SEO, email marketing, website development and social media.We also give support to customers on the conversion rateoptimisation, providing them with all the necessary tools, resources and skills to achieve their goals.
Condomani — Condomani é il social network gestionale ideato per rivoluzionare il modo di vivere il condominio. Con Condomani finalmente potrai avere il condominio nelle tue mani e gestire dovunque avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc. Sei pronto a rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condominio? Iscriviti gratisCondomanié il social network per il rivoluzionare gestionale ideato di vivere il mode condo. With Condomani finally potrai avere il nelle tue condo peanuts and dovunque gestire avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc.. Sei soon rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condo? free iscriviti

Fabio Chinaglia is the Chief Operation Officer at InfoCert. Msc with honours in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Fabio’s area of expertise is the development of software applications that integrate physical devices, sensors and wearable devices with smartphones and cloud services. Fabio is also founder of Eco-Mind, a companyfocused on developing innovative and eco-friendly devices for smart companies and devoted to be the perfect partner for R&D projects and innovative “in-cloud” solutions. In Eco-Mind Fabio developed a specific competence in user computer interaction, and a fast prototyping approach to software development that has been applied in creating the first release of Eye4Flight.

Investment focus

Accounting, Social Media, Information Technology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Condomani — Condomani é il social network gestionale ideato per rivoluzionare il modo di vivere il condominio. Con Condomani finalmente potrai avere il condominio nelle tue mani e gestire dovunque avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc. Sei pronto a rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condominio? Iscriviti gratisCondomanié il social network per il rivoluzionare gestionale ideato di vivere il mode condo. With Condomani finally potrai avere il nelle tue condo peanuts and dovunque gestire avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc.. Sei soon rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condo? free iscriviti

Banca Patrimoni Sella & C. is the bank of the Sella group in the management and administration of private and institutional client assets.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
Newcleo — newcleo is the clean and safe nuclear technology company. Privately funded and headquartered in London, UK, newcleo was launched in 2021 to be a disruptor in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean and inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.newcleo is building the next generation system with the goals to: (1) eliminate the need for geological repositories by using a fast neutron flux avoiding production of long life radioactive elements; (2) develop an Accelerator Driven System (ADS), based on the intrinsically safe coupling of a particle accelerator and a sub-critical reactor; (3) accelerate the development of new fuel cycles, including thorium, that provide economic, clean, safe and inexhaustible energy from nuclei and the opportunity to burn the long-lived nuclear waste produced by the old generation of nuclear reactors.With visionary co-founders, newcleo brings together a team of engineers with deep knowledge of nuclear energy with younger recruits with a fresh mindset, working to design an innovative micro Lead Fast Reactor with significant commercial applications, for example in shipping. newcleo wants to be the first step toward the evolution of its industry to become fully respectful of people and the environment. To develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will lead humanity to zero emissions, and to the mitigation of global warming.
Perpethua — Perpetua is an Italian fintech company specializing in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (PMIs) through the critical phase of generational transition, especially when there is no clear successor within the business operates primarily as a digital platform that automates the M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) process for SMEs,connecting entrepreneurs without successors with qualified investors interested in ensuring business continuity and growth.

Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
Italy, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Tutornow — Ripetizioni online in matematica, fisica, inglese e oltre 150 materie. Ripetizioni per DSA e BES con tutor certificati. Lezioni online individuali da 60 minuti.
BILLD — Billd is a cleantech firm that offers the first digital receipt service to capture huge data from the offline market using AI.
Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.

Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Italy, France, Switzerland

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.
Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
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.

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

ScaleIT Ventures is the investment arm of the platform-event selecting every year the top digital and sw scaleups from Italy and SE Europe

Investment focus

Jewelry, Handmade, E-Commerce
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Artemest — Artimest serves as an online destination for timeless craft. You can meet Italy's finest craftsmen, explore their unique workshops, and find one-of-a-kind pieces. Artimest brings connoisseurs everywhere wonderful handmade products crafted by exceptional artisans in Italy.Artemest offers a unique shopping experience through curatededitorial content and exceptional videos. Its team includes international experienced professionals coming from luxury retail, e-commerce and editorial. Explore the varied worlds of home décor, jewelry and fine art as they change in character from region to region, and observe each artisan in his workshop as he describes his process and worldview.
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.

TIP is an investment-merchant bank focused on medium-sized Italian companies.

Investment focus

Pharmaceutical, Fashion, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Limonta — Limonta | 1893 is a group focuses on passion, creativity and innovation, with skills in the clothing, leather goods, footwear, furnishings, sports and automotive sectors.
Apoteca Natura — Apoteca Natura is a pharmaceutical company that develops and innovates medicines that helps in treatment and prevention of diseases.
Bending Spoons — We own and operate leading digital products, including Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, and WeTransfer. And we develop the technology to power them.

Bank

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Education
Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.

The Silicon Valley Fellowship is an immersive five-day program designed to fast-track participants into the heart of Silicon Valley. Held annually in the San Francisco Bay Area, the fellowship offers workshops, private community events, and networking opportunities with leaders from global tech corporations, top universities, and successfulstartups. Participants gain firsthand insights into innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, aiming to inspire the next generation of professionals, academics, and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Waveful — Become a content creator on Waveful. Build an audience with your simple, everyday content and start to monetize on social media. Download the free app now!

Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis

Investment focus

Video, Software, Recruiting
Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

nCore HR — nCore HR is a modern Video ATS/Recruiting software. nCore HR strives to help Recruiters automate non-core operations that typically occupy 60% of the time they spent in Human Resources. Innovation, Automation, Agility and Analytics are the four cornerstones of nCore HR, which provides carefully selected and advanced functionality. nCore in thefirst nine months has collected over 1,000,000 of candidates with an NPS satisfaction rating of 80%. Was founded in December 2017 by Enrico Ariotti and Aldo Toja, entrepreneurs who have been operating in the IT market for over 20 years, with several companies that are very active in the sector. In just 6 months from foundation, nCore has reached a value of over $ 4,500,000, a real record for an Italian startup.
DeRev — Il Partner digitale di fiducia

100% satisfaction guaranteed on every domain we sell. 30-day, no questions asked, money-back guarantee. Easy, fast and convenient shopping.

Investment focus

Advertising, Social Media, Digital Marketing
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.

dPixel is a venture capital advisor and management consulting firm that finances early stage internet companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Intraverse — The evolution of acquisition, engagement and loyalty.
Lendit — Lendit is a credit-sharing platform where companies and professionals can lend and apply for liquidity in a simple, fast and tailor-made manner. Specifically, Lendit provides a web-based platform to match corporate loan requests with companies, professionals or institutional investors who want to lend liquidity. Lendit's objective is to makeaccess to credit inclusive and accessible to all 'fragile' micro enterprises and entrepreneurs to credit. In fact, Lendit's target is microcredit, with applications ranging from a minimum of EUR 1,000 to a maximum of EUR 50,000. To date, almost two million enterprises are unable to obtain the desired credit. Of these, the greatest difficulty encountered is with applications under 20,000€. Lendit is also structured and built to be not only a "simple' p2p lending platform, but also to be integrated with financial institutions (thanks to partnerships with banks and intermediaries) in order to so as to create an open, multi-platform system that allows users to use innovative p2p lending services directly from their home banking
Seed Venture — Seed Venture is a blockchain-based platform that decentralizes fundraising activities for startups and SMEs by providing liquidity matching between investors and startups.

Smart Capital form a group of entrepreneurs and managers with over 10 years experience in this sectors.

Investment focus

Events, Mobile, Software
Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

KNOBS — KNOBS is a Tech Advisory Firm & Software House specializing in Blockchain development. We are the perfect partner to make your business fly into the future.Founded in 2014, KNOBS deals with the design, prototyping and implementation of complex IT systems. Using the most modern hardware and software engineering technologies, the mostinnovative programming languages and the most reliable frameworks, our team of young professionals is able to offer optimal, customized and cutting-edge solutions.
Cusa Tea — Using only hand-selected, premium tea and coffee, and real fruit, spices and herbs, Cusa Tea & Coffee makes delicious and convenient beverages that are ready to drink, hot or iced, in seconds.
TMP Group — TMP Group performance marketing function supports and supports digital strategies management, organization, qualification, and reporting of social ADS campaigns on major search engines or digital stores. They apply their design, creative, technical, and technical skills to the realization of events, products, promotions, collaborations, pressoffices, and public relations services.

GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 2000 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.

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Investment focus

Advertising, Social Media, Digital Marketing
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.

Siamo una fondazione bancaria che ha allineato la sua struttura agli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile delle Nazioni Unite. Promuoviamo progetti e lanciamo bandi a Torino e nel territorio di Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AI4IV — AI4IV is a start-up developing and marketing revolutionary bio-inspired vision sensor technology, combing the advantages of neuromorphic devices with those of digital CMOS devices. No other technologies currently available provide this unique combination or are based on similar concepts.Our vision sensor technology has already been validated withsilicon prototypes. We now aim at making available camera chips that can acquire images without artifacts even in the most challenging light conditions and extract the relevant information from the scene with an innovative on-die integrated AI processor.Our target use cases include autonomous vehicles, machine vision, robotics, security & surveillance and agriculture.
Keplera — Keplera offers copyright, trademarks, creativity, constitution, digital marketing, consulting, intellectual property, business development, technology, software, and financial services. They provide services for non-profit bodies and freelancers. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
Paperbox Health — Paperbox Health is breaking down accessibility barriers for the early identification and treatment of cognitive issues. Applying a combination of gaming principles and telemedicine allows children and families to access an accessible and engaging experience to identify cognitive issues in advance and maximize the efficacy of a preventiveintervention.

Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Currenta — Industrial analytics for chemistry, life science, polymers. CURRENTA offers the full range of analytical services with competence and experience.
Ital Gas Storage — Ital Gas Storage is a gas storage company that offers storage services.
Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.