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Top 50 Software VC Funds & Investors in Italy (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Italy Software startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Software startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
98 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $483k–$23M
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
32 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $197k–$30M
Primo Capital
VC Fund
31 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace $358k–$49M
United Ventures
VC Fund
29 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $406k–$15M
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
28 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $55k–$576k
P101
VC Fund
28 Italy, Spain, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $236k–$15M
360 Capital
VC Fund
28 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$33M
Vertis
VC Fund
25 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $823k–$11M
EXOR N.V.
VC Fund
18 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $320k–$55M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
17 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $219k–$14M
LIFTT
VC Fund
16 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $338k–$118M
Exor Ventures
VC Fund
16 United States, Italy, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $320k–$55M
UniCredit
VC Fund
16 Italy, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $197k–$2.1B
The Techshop
VC Fund
15 Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $322k–$120M
Vento
VC Fund
14 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $384k–$8.2M
GELLIFY
VC Fund
13 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $196k–$9.7M
Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund
11 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Medical, B2B $292–$6.2M
Invitalia
VC Fund
11 Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg Grant, Debt Financing, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$2.1M
PranaVentures
VC Fund
11 Italy, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Tourism, Internet $1.8k–$16M
Principia SGR
VC Fund
10 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $329k–$7.9M
40Jemz Ventures
VC Fund
10 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software $338k–$4.2M
Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
10 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $263k–$2.5B
e-Novia
VC Fund
10 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Robotics, Electronics $240k–$1.3M
Italian Founders Fund
VC Fund
10 Italy, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software $1.4M–$19M
Pi Campus
VC Fund
10 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Mobile, Biotechnology $100k–$7M
CDP Equity
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $177k–$13M
Growth Engine
VC Fund
9 Italy, Mexico, Portugal Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$4.2M
Azimut Holding
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, China Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $1.8M–$43M
Ithaca Investments
VC Fund
9 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $745k–$155M
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
9 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet $291k–$7.9M
Lazio Innova
VC Fund
9 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $22k–$1.9M
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund
9 Italy, Turkey, Spain Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech $71k–$437M
EUREKA! Venture SGR
VC Fund
8 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Electronics $419k–$6.2M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6M–$230M
Azimut Libera Impresa
VC Fund
8 Italy, France, Switzerland Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage $1.4M–$14M
CRiF
VC Fund
8 Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain $117k–$16M
Iccrea Banca
VC Fund
8 Italy Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
TIM Ventures
VC Fund
7 Italy, United States, Malaysia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Software, SaaS $44k–$7.5M
Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund
7 Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Computer $2M–$35M
Apside
VC Fund
7 Italy Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $869k–$5.7M
Galaxia
VC Fund
7 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Seed Aerospace, Energy, Software $1.1M–$3.8M
dPixel
VC Fund
7 Italy, United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$1.1M
Growth Capital
VC Fund
7 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Web Apps $887k–$4.2M
Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund
6 Italy, France, Germany Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $1.8k–$13M
NovaCapital
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Health Care $124k–$40M
Vesper Holding
VC Fund
6 Italy Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $750k–$8.2M
Fabrick
VC Fund
6 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $279k–$20M
Proximity Capital
VC Fund
6 Italy, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $561k–$37M
SIMEST
VC Fund
6 Italy, San Marino, Saudi Arabia Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, FinTech, Aerospace $4.1M–$24M
Scientifica Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Italy, Sweden, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing $209k–$2.9M
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 98 investments in Italy Software 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: 296
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$7.7M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $212M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
  • Klaaryo — Klaaryo is the Conversational AI platform that helps organizations transform how they attract, hire, onboard, and develop their people.We design native AI Agents that communicate in natural language, understand people’s needs, and orchestrate complex HR processes in a simple, immediate, and scalable way.Our approach is WhatsApp-first, built toexpand into a multi-channel ecosystem that brings conversational intelligence everywhere people work, communicate, and interact.
  • ExoLab Italia — Cosmetics Utilizing plant-derived exosomes in cosmetic products boosts skin absorption, enhancing bioavailability and stimulating cells to produce lacking compounds. Their ability to penetrate the dermis ensures maximum efficacy and optimal results for skincare products. more informations Supplements Plant-derived exosomes, rich in nutrients, enhance bioavailability by
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 32 investments in Italy Software startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $197k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $204k–$1.9M; Series A $889k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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Primo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 31 investments in Italy Software startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $358k–$5.4M; Series A $3.4M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $48M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Archimede — Deep tech company based in Sicily #archmesh is our satellite kit
  • Mirai Robotics — Autonomy and intelligence for the seas. We're building software-defined autonomous systems and AI platforms that unify vessels, sensing, and command at sea.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 29 investments in Italy Software 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: 86
  • Round size: Seed $406k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $166M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
  • Beelzebub — A secure low code deception runtime framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.
  • Seltz — The Web Knowledge Layer for AI Agents.
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 28 investments in Italy Software 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: 82
  • 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 $6.6M 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 — Paragraph turns your startup's launches, product updates, customer learnings, and founder thinking into an owned media engine your team approves.
  • 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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P101
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 28 investments in Italy Software startups, 7 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: 120
  • Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $265M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorsaf — Biorsaf is an IT company that develops mobile apps and web control panels to assist companies to bring efficiency to their operations.
  • 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 API: la piattaforma globale per la Tax Compliance. Integra la fatturazione elettronica e gli obblighi fiscali in ogni ERP o e-commerce in Italia e nel mondo.
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 28 investments in Italy Software startups, 20 in the past 12 months

As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 240
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $3.5M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Talentware — Talentware is the platform that lets you manage your company and people by putting skills first: boosting engagement, talent retention, and productivity.
  • BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
  • Circular Materials — Scopri Circular Materials: immagina una tecnologia che tratta le acque reflue e, allo stesso tempo, recupera metalli preziosi.
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Vertis
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 25 investments in Italy Software startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Capitali e competenze per accelerare l'innovazione. Attraverso fondi di investimento chiusi investiamo in startup, scaleup e PMI innovative

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Scuter — Scuter is the smart e-scooter sharing service that makes city mobility,simple, enjoyable and sustainable. Scuter is on well on its path toward making a dent in this space.
  • 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.
  • Health Triage — Health Triage, crea nuove tecnologie per offrire modelli innovativi di diagnosi clinica, identificazione e cura delle malattie oncologiche.
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EXOR N.V.
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 18 investments in Italy Software startups

EXOR is a holding company based in the Netherlands that the Agnelli family controls. The company has a diverse portfolio of investments in various industries, including automotive, real estate, and finance. The company is known for taking a long-term approach to its assets and has a reputation for being a patient and value-oriented investor. Thecompany's primary focus is on creating long-term value for its shareholders by actively managing and growing its portfolio of investments.EXOR's core mission is to cultivate exceptional enterprises, simultaneously nurturing opportunities for its talented workforce to flourish, make meaningful societal contributions, and yield outstanding returns for its valued investors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$18M; Pre-Seed $320k–$5.1M; Series A $8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Q.ai — Q.ai provides systems designed to support high data throughput, multilingual interaction, privacy controls, and accessibility features within communication workflows. Its technology is used to enhance real-time and asynchronous interactions between users who operate across different languages and regions. Q.ai’s platform is designed to integrateinto existing applications and services, supporting organizations that require consistent communication standards across distributed teams and audiences.
  • Norbert Health — Norbert Health develops a home medical pod that monitors the health of families using contactless sensors. Their product senses key vital signs including heart rate, breathing rate, and temperature, providing a real-time and historical view of the user's health. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Philips — Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services. The company offers professionals with healthcare, lighting, and oral healthcare products, professional dictation, and display solutions, and innovation services. It offers consumers electronic products related tosound and vision, personal care, mother and child care, housewares, lighting, PCs and phones, and more.
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 17 investments in Italy Software startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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: 106
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$5.1M; Angel $219k–$987k; Series A $3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
  • Alomana — Autonomous systems for enterprise
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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 16 investments in Italy Software startups

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

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  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$4.7M; Series A $2.8M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $495k–$118M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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!
  • Rainbow Crops — Rainbow Crops is a next-generation Agtech company developing climate-resilient, high-performing crop varieties.
  • Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 16 investments in Italy Software startups

Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

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  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$26M; Pre-Seed $320k–$6.3M; Series A $5.8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
  • PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
  • Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
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UniCredit
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 16 investments in Italy Software 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: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $44M–$2.1B; Debt Financing $552k–$913M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
  • Greenvolt Power — Greenvolt Power is a renewable energy platform that develops and operates onshore Wind and photovoltaic installations. Greenvolt Power is a global producer of renewable electricity that relies on experienced employees in Europe and the United States to apply their know-how and expertise to solar and wind projects, as well as energy storage.
  • Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.
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The Techshop
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 15 investments in Italy Software startups, 7 in the past 12 months

The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $322k–$37M; Series A $7.7M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • Octostar — Octostar is the sovereign, AI-powered investigative intelligence platform for law enforcement, national security and financial institutions.
  • Mirai Robotics — Autonomy and intelligence for the seas. We're building software-defined autonomous systems and AI platforms that unify vessels, sensing, and command at sea.
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Vento
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 14 investments in Italy Software startups

We want to empower the next generation of exceptional Italian founders by investing in and building new companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $384k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $82M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • Always Friday — Piattaforma AI per eventi aziendali in Italia e in Europa: 500+ location, team building, retreat e eventi su misura con proposte qualificate e un event manager dedicato per ogni progetto.
  • HexSeed Technology — HexSeed Technology uses CO2 that has been captured to solve thermal management problems in advanced electronics.
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GELLIFY
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 13 investments in Italy Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$9.7M; Series A $1.8M–$6M; Venture - Series Unknown $589k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BizAway — BizAway is the corporate travel management platform trusted by 2,000+ companies worldwide. Simplify business travel booking, policy compliance, and expense management with smart technology and 24/7 real human support.
  • 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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Invitalia Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 11 investments in Italy Software startups

Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation. Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical, B2B
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $292–$1.6M; Series A $900k–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $103M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
  • BigProfiles — BigProfiles is an Artificial Intelligence Platform designed for Utilities, Telcos, Banks, Insurance companies and Retails.Large companies such as Teleperformance, Eni, Unicef already have already successfully subscribed to our services.BigProfiles is the No-Code Artificial Intelligence Platform for sales and antichurn that predicts thelikelihood to purchase and churn of each customer in a CRM, before proceeding to contact him in a sales or retention campaign.
  • 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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Invitalia
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 11 investments in Italy Software startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $468k–$2M; Grant $20k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $187k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NEOCAD — NEOCAD usa l'intelligenza artificiale per cercare, riutilizzare e valorizzare i file CAD del tuo ufficio tecnico. Riduci i tempi di progettazione fino al 60%. Richiedi una demo.
  • ReneSys ENERGY — Next Generation Battery Technology and Manufacturing
  • Moov — We innovate mobility from every angle!
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PranaVentures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 11 investments in Italy Software startups

PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Tourism, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.8k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $572k–$5.1M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2021

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
  • BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
  • Doctorsa — Doctorsa is a digital marketplace offering travelers instant access to urgent care online for common conditions, starting at just €20.
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Principia SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 10 investments in Italy Software startups

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$3.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • KLISBio — KLISBio is a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company focused on developing innovative technology platforms based entirely on natural silk fibroin. The company, headquartered in Milan, Italy, currently has several assets under development, such as vascular graft, bone graft substitutes, rotator cuff repair, drug release, and a first-in-humanstudy on nerve repair that is ongoing at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
  • WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
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40Jemz Ventures
VC Fund · Verona, Veneto, Italy · 10 investments in Italy Software startups, 7 in the past 12 months

40Jemz Ventures is an investment firm. Its mission is to identify and finance the most promising early-stage businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $434k–$3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revismart — Revismart usa l'intelligenza artificiale per automatizzare la revisione legale, risparmiando tempo e riducendo gli errori.
  • Archimede — Deep tech company based in Sicily #archmesh is our satellite kit
  • Doctorsa — Doctorsa is a digital marketplace offering travelers instant access to urgent care online for common conditions, starting at just €20.
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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 10 investments in Italy Software startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Apri il conto in pochi minuti e scegli il piano adatto a te.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $112M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $2.7M–$1000M; Convertible Note $263k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GCF — GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie is a landmark of excellence in the railway infrastructures, electrification and signalling sector.
  • Sonnedix — Sonnedix is an Independent Solar Power Producer (IPP) with a proven track record in delivering high performance cost competitive solar photovoltaic plants to the market.
  • Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.
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e-Novia
VC Fund · 10 investments in Italy Software startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Robotics, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $317k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $240k–$318k
  • Lead/follow: 87% lead, 13% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blubrake — blubrake is a leading company that develops and produces advanced mechatronic systems focused on braking and sensing applications for bicycles, in particular e-bikes. The company developed the only ABS (anti-lock braking system) for e-bikes that can be fully integrated inside the frame and that can drastically increase safety on every kind ofe-bikes, from city to mountain, from trekking to cargo. A light and invisible technology that can assure a safer and more enjoyable cycling experience.
  • Blimp — Blimp has developed the Head-Counter device to collect real-time data on people and vehicles flows in the physical world, either outdoor or indoor. Blimp Head-Counter processes sampled images in real-time to extract the audience volume and sociodemographic distribution (gender, age and emotional state) up to a 60 meters range in the standardversion. The proprietary technology is privacy compliant as the image processing is executed directly on the device, transmitting only the aggregated and anonymized data to the cloud.
  • Existo S.r.l. — GRABSLOT menghadirkan ribuan permainan seru dalam satu platform lengkap dan praktis, dirancang untuk memberikan pengalaman hiburan online yang lebih seru, cepat, dan menyenangkan setiap saat.
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Italian Founders Fund
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 10 investments in Italy Software startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Unlocking Italy's Next Founders

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$5.1M; Series A $14M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $35M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • Seltz — The Web Knowledge Layer for AI Agents.
  • compri — AI Agents that automate sourcing, supplier management and procurement operations for manufacturing companies. Your new team colleagues.
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Pi Campus
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 10 investments in Italy Software 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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7M; Angel $400k–$1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
  • Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
  • Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
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CDP Equity
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Software startups

CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $177k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $230k–$3.6M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gility — Gility is a digital learning platform that collaborates with business schools and training institutions for an effective training offer. Established in 2022, it was supported by CDP Venture Capital and BPER Banca.
  • 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.
  • Valvitalia SpA. — VALVITALIA is a leading group in the field of design, production, and overall supply of equipment and components intended for the petroleum, water, natural gas industries, and petrochemical industry as well as electrical power stations. The group works mainly with valves (core product), actuators, pipe fittings, flanges and systems for measuring,filtering, and regulating fluids and gases and with FireFighting systems. VALVITALIA was set up with the precise objective of becoming the leading Italian group able to offer such a wide range of products and to compete with the large American multinationals that have always dominated this field. This young company has extensive experience in the sector, thanks to its professional management and historical brands in the valve world that have been taken on by the Group, including: ROTOR, DELTA V.E., THEVIGNOT, VANADOUR, VITAS, TORMENE T.G.T. and TECNOFORGE. VALVITALIA has always included safety and respect for the environment and its employees among its priorities.
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Growth Engine
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Software startups

Growth Engine is a sector-agnostic VC holding, investing from Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A. Thesis-driven and built on one conviction: exceptional founders win.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Mexico, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Holifya — Holifya offre test del DNA avanzati e piani di salute personalizzati per ottimizzare nutrizione, metabolismo, performance sportive e prevenzione. Con un unico test, scopri intolleranze, rischi genetici e strategie su misura per migliorare il benessere, tutto comodamente da casa.
  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • 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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Azimut Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Software startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Azimut Holding is an independent financial company that offers investment solutions to develop excellent levels of experience. The company's business model is based on the vertical integration between asset management and distribution. It has portfolio managers and analysts based in major hubs around the world and a network of client-facingfinancial advisors operating to deliver quality advice to clients.Azimut Holding was founded on 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$9.8M; Series A $1.8M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.9M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $83M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
  • RedCarbon — RedCarbon is a cyber automation company that supports security using AI and NLP. RedCarbon was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.
  • Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
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Ithaca Investments
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Software startups

Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $745k–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$37M; Series A $3.3M–$155M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glaut — Glaut is the AI-native platform for market research. Use AI-moderated interviews (AIMI) to collect qualitative insights at scale, with multilingual support, fraud prevention, and real-time analysis.
  • Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
  • CommerceClarity — Rebuilding catalog operations around AI agents.
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Software 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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $291k–$2.8M; Series A $6M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% 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 creates sustainable construction materials from organic waste from the rice industry to create natural building materials such as rice straws, husks, and chaff. Their products include insulating panels, base plasters, screeds and subfloors, cladding systems, and vertical matt-closing components. The goal of Ricehouse is to construct ahouse made entirely of rice and everything that houses humans, from the smallest to the largest scales.
  • 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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Lazio Innova
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Software 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: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$1.9M; Grant $22k–$343k; Pre-Seed $58k–$518k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEU — Draft, sign and store contracts in one place. AI extracts deadlines and clauses, signatures valid in 180+ countries.
  • Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
  • GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come
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Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Software startups, 18 in the past 12 months

The CDP Group is a joint-stock company that supports economic development through financing and investment. It provides funding for public infrastructure, businesses, and strategic projects in key sectors such as energy, transportation, and digital innovation. CDP also invests in venture capital, private equity, and sustainable initiatives tofoster long-term growth. The institution works with governments, financial entities, and enterprises to promote economic stability and innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Turkey, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $71k–$489k; Post-IPO Debt $12M–$437M; Debt Financing $5.7M–$288M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kortimed — Kortimed has been offering a wide range of logistics solutions for the transport of consumer liquids (oil, wine, milk and fruit juices),in the Mediterranean, Italy and Europe.
  • ETG — ETG, established in 1967, is one of the largest and fastest growing integrated agricultural conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa, importing and exporting soft commodities to and from 48 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa. It also has supply chain operations in China, India, America, Middle East, andSouth East Asia; merchandising desks in Europe, and; treasury companies in Singapore, Mauritius and UAE. Globally, ETG is present across 48 countries. ETG runs its business under five business verticals: 1. Fertilizer and Farm Inputs: ETG is one of the largest importers and distributors of fertilizers and farm inputs in sub-saharan africa 2. Cash traded products: Pulses, Sesame seed, Cashew and Rice are key commodities in this vertical. ETG is the world largest trader and processor of Pulses as well as world largest trader for raw cashew nuts. 3. Exchange traded commodities: Grains & oilseeds, sugar, coffee, cocoa, maize and soybean are key products in this segment. ETG is one of the major players for maize and soybean in sub-shara africa 4. Consumer Branded (Vamara): ETG operates multiple processing plants across 14 countries to manufacture products that are targeted to African consumers. ETG has 22 brands in its portfolio that offers products from vegetable cooking oil, condiments, and spreads, etc. 5. Logistics: ETG operates a very successful and integrated Logistics platform. ETG has a network of more than 400+ warehouses across 32 countries and a fleet of more than 900 trucks. ETG provided end-to-end Logistics services across sub-Sahara Africa.
  • Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.
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EUREKA! Venture SGR
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Software startups

Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $419k–$4.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BeNewtral — Il futuro delle costruzioni rispetta l'ambiente
  • CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
  • BeDimensional — New Material Solution
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 8 investments in Italy Software startups

We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2392
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$230M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/gOw7WpwkJt https://t.co/ot9sGVXU8x
  • Despegar — Despegar operates as an online business-to-consumer travel agency that focuses on the Portuguese and Spanish speaking markets. It enables people to research travel plans, check flight availability, book airline, and hotel and car rental reservations online, as well as offer travel-related services, including access to airlines, car rentalcompanies, and hotels and vacation packages. The company serves the leisure and corporate travelers. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Miami, Florida.
  • Juicebox — Juicebox is a subscription-based marketplace for businesses to hire independent tech talent. Companies get commission-free access to vetted talent. Independents get the opportunity to work with exciting companies without relying on an agency.
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Azimut Libera Impresa
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Software startups

Azimut Libera Impresa is an investment company for both retail and institutional investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $4.1M–$8.2M; Series A $1.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Webidoo — Scopri il Webidoo AI Operating System per il Business, il layer operativo che potenzia le imprese e guida l'innovazione tecnologica nel B2B.
  • SylloTips — SylloTips is an all-in-one knowledge sharing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to optimize the circulation of skills and knowledge among all employees in a company
  • UpSurgeOn — The UpSurgeOn Academy is a hi-tech sequence of virtual and physical technologies designed to support Mental and Manual training and empower cognitive and psychomotor skills of any surgeon.
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CRiF
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Software startups

CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$9.8M; Pre-Seed $117k–$612k; Series A $1.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
  • Agrobit — Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed.
  • Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
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Iccrea Banca
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Software startups

Iccrea Banca develops and provides financial products and services on behalf of the Italian co-operative banks. With a wide and personalized offer system, products, services, and business strategies, it develops the BCC market to support local customers. The company directs and coordinates the group companies and centralizes services relating tothe main governance and control functions. It oversees and manages banking, financial, and service activities vis-à-vis the mutual banks. It offers services on finance, institutional credit, securities administration, payment systems, and e-money.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ventis — Acquista online abbigliamento per uomo, donna e bambino, arredamento, beauty e gourmet su Ventis. Approfitta delle offerte con la garanzia di pagamenti comodi e sicuri.
  • Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
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TIM Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Software startups

TIM Ventures prefers to invest in the internet, digital life, mobile evolution, e-learning, and green technology sectors. The company provides startups with consulting services and support. It selects companies that exploit disruptive technologies, with particular attention to enterprise applications, digital life, and telecommunications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $115k–$768k; Pre-Seed $44k–$114k; Series A $1.5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Webidoo — Scopri il Webidoo AI Operating System per il Business, il layer operativo che potenzia le imprese e guida l'innovazione tecnologica nel B2B.
  • Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
  • SonoBee Ultrasound — As Malaysia's most trusted ultrasound and health screening centre, we combine expert radiologists with advanced imaging for precise results. Experience care you can rely on. Book your appointment.
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Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Software startups

Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Computer
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $18M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
  • Subbyx — Subbyx provides long-term subscriptions for technology products and small home appliances.
  • DRONUS — Autonomous aerial nodes coordinated as one distributed infrastructure, remotely managed, continuously operational, deployable on existing structures without modifying the environments where it runs.
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Apside
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Software startups

Apside empowers the Italian innovation ecosystem bringing together expertise, experience and market insights. Apside operates as a joint venture between Intesa Sanpaolo and Zest.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $900k–$5.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $869k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasinc — Datasinc provides asset origination, simplification, maintenance, recovery, and enhancement support to a variety of subjects. Real estate developers, financial institutions, credit unions, ESG investment funds, government agencies, regulators, and insurance companies are among them. They are primarily concerned with the development of proprietarydata mining and machine learning algorithms.
  • LianeCare — LianeCare is a caregiving technology platform that connects companies and employees to find professional caregiving services and jobs.
  • BandoSubito — Trova fondi e bandi per la tua azienda in pochi click, grazie all'intelligenza artificiale di BandoSubito.
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Galaxia
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Software startups

Galaxia is the national aerospace technology transfer Hub offers investment services. It is launched by CDP Venture Capital’s Technology Transfer Fund together with Obloo Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, Energy, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
  • ORiS — ORiS (Orbital Recharge in Space) develops laser-based wireless power transmission to extend the autonomy of satellites, drones, and lunar habitats.
  • AdapTronics — AdapTronics is a deep-tech startup that produces adaptive mechatronic devices to make logistics sustainable on Earth and in space. Its adaptive mechatronics technology offers an alternative based on a multifunctional electrostatic membrane that allows the gripping and manipulation of objects of any shape. In addition, it offers a thin-filmtechnology with sensor capabilities that becomes adhesive when electrically activated.
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dPixel
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $305k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$407k
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Vestinda — Vestinda is the platform that provides investments in digital assets. Their features are portfolio tracking, crypto portfolio tracking, strategy libraries,crypto investment strategies,strategy builders, trading strategies built with no code, backtesting backtested crypto trading strategies,demo trading,crypto paper trading, and risk-free livetrading.
  • LIA — Lia gestisce fatture, solleciti e piani di rientro in autonomia: tu mantieni la visione sul cashflow, sui clienti e sulle decisioni che contano.
  • Lendit — Lia gestisce fatture, solleciti e piani di rientro in autonomia: tu mantieni la visione sul cashflow, sui clienti e sulle decisioni che contano.
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Growth Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 7 investments in Italy Software startups

Cross Border Growth Capital (CBGC) advises outstanding entrepreneurs leading high-potential startups in obtaining funding without ceasing to focus on adding value to their company and helps Corporates and investors to design and implement investment strategies according to the main disruptive trends in their sectors. CBGC operates on a widespectrum of transactions, from early stage capital increases to M&A and private equity operations involving startups and scaleups. With a 90% success rate, CBGC structures and executes transactions ensuring interests between investors and startups are aligned and featuring a strategic and financial fit, resulting in a smoother investment process and optimal structures and conditions. CBGC was founded by Cross Border, M&A boutique with 350+ completed transactions in the last 30 years and Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, serial Business Angel and Venture Partner at Idinvest Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Web Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $887k–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
  • Karrycar — Il primo portale in Italia per il trasporto autoveicoli per privati e aziende con consegna a domicilio a prezzi competitivi. Ritiro e consegna max 10 giorni!
  • TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a cloud-native ecosystem for workforce and vendor intelligence, enabling mid-sized and enterprise organizations to adopt a data-driven sourcing strategy. Through AI-powered matchmaking, automated qualification workflows, and centralized supplier and skill governance, TimeFlow helps companies optimize their sourcing operations, reducetime-to-hire by up to 70%, and ensure regulatory compliance (DORA, NIS2, ESG).The platform serves both buyers and providers of professional services—offering buyers full control over internal and external competencies, and enabling suppliers to showcase certified capabilities, respond to RFPs, and manage their workforce through a single interface. TimeFlow is active across verticals including IT & Digital, BFSI, and Healthcare, and aims to set the global standard for skill-based sourcing by 2030.
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Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Software 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: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.8k–$447k; Series A $2.6M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qonto — Qonto is the all-in-one business account for SMEs and freelancers with a simplified accounting flow, a top-notch customer service and transparent pricing.
  • Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
  • Hercle — Hercle is a regulated digital asset liquidity provider specializing in OTC trading and market making.
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NovaCapital
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Software startups, 6 in the past 12 months

NovaCapital invests in the union between entrepreneurs and innovation. It offers international and managerial experience, to transform innovative start-ups and already established companies into structured companies, with managerial skills and an international network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$40M; Pre-Seed $124k–$1.7M; Series A $5.6M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ISAAC — ISAAC is an innovative tech company at the forefront of enhancing structural resilience through advanced active mass damper systems. Specializing in seismic and wind protection, ISAAC's solutions dynamically improve the stability of existing buildings and infrastructure. Utilizing non-invasive retrofitting techniques, our active mass dampersenhance the safety and comfort of structures under dynamic loads without altering their original aesthetics. This approach not only safeguards buildings during natural events but also contributes to greener construction practices by avoiding extensive reconstruction, aligning with sustainable development goals in urban environments.
  • DefendEye — World’s first fully Autonomous Drone, powered by AI, requires no human pilot, no setup, no programming, handling everything from Takeoff & Landing to Aerial Reconnaissance & Navigation. Launch-Tube can be in a backpack, or installed on a fence. It’s very simple to install, and it’s low cost. The drone searches & navigates to humans. AIDetects humans faster & more accurate than humans can.
  • BeDimensional — New Material Solution
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Vesper Holding
VC Fund · Genova, Liguria, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Software startups

Backing ambitious founders since the earliest stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bricks.sh — The fastest way to build and manage your Supabase database. One-click admin panel with powerful features for teams.
  • TaDa — TaDa is an energy efficiency company that provides disaggregate energy consumption analytics for users to manage energy usage.
  • CommerceClarity — Rebuilding catalog operations around AI agents.
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Fabrick
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Software startups

Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $279k–$6M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $9.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
  • Brainyware — Brainyware is a secure, on-premise AI platform for enterprises designed to make internal knowledge searchable and actionable.
  • Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
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Proximity Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Software startups

Proximity Capital - The Italian venture capital operator. We invest in B2B software products in pre-seed and seed stage...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $561k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $3M–$37M; Series A $1.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
  • Lampoo — Consign your luxury items and earn up to 80% of the sale! Shop authenticated designer brands at second hand prices! Fast deliveries and easy returns!
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
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SIMEST
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Software startups, 6 in the past 12 months

SIMEST is a financial firm focused on the development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad. Simest acquires up to 49% of the equity capital of foreign firms in countries outside the European Union, whether wholly-owned by Italian companies or set up as joint ventures with local partners. It also provides start-up and growth capital financingas well as participating in buyouts.Geographically it invests in non-EU countries, focusing on BRIC, Americas and Middle-East. Simest also provides Italian companies seeking to internationalize their businesses with technical assistance and advisory services.Simest is a member of the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and the Italian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (AIFI).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, FinTech, Aerospace
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, San Marino, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$17M; Series B $12M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.7M–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DRONUS — Autonomous aerial nodes coordinated as one distributed infrastructure, remotely managed, continuously operational, deployable on existing structures without modifying the environments where it runs.
  • Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
  • EIS Wire and Cable — EIS Wire & Cable provides extraordinary customer service, short lead times, competitive pricing and the ability to meet your custom or private label requirement
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Scientifica Venture Capital
VC Fund · Roma, Lazio, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Software startups

Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $209k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $209k–$541k
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Relicta — Relicta solution is a water-soluble bioplastic material obtained from fish processing waste and suitable for packaging solutions.
  • OhmSpace — OhmSpace provides the satellite market with reliable resistojets.
  • LOTO Biotech — LOTO Biotech is a biotechnology platform focused on supporting the development of treatments for rare diseases, particularly those caused by dominant negative genetic mutations.
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Software VC funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 730 deals from 574 investors.

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730
deals
in Italy Software startups
$585k
median round
in Italy Software startups
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30%
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To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.

You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.

What is Shizune?

Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

With Shizune you can:

  • browse the database
  • use smart matching
  • enrich with emails
  • download

All you need to find investors for your startup.

Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

Is Shizune free?

Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

Email search and export are paid features.

For full info, visit our pricing.

Who built Shizune?

Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.

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