Top 45 Sports Startup Investors in Italy in November 2024
A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Sports Startup Investors in Italy in November 2024
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
- Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
- Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
- Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
- Lymphatica Medtech — Lymphatica Medtech is a medical device development company developing a minimally invasive solution for chronic lymphedema.Lymphedema is the chronic swelling that generally occurs in the arms or the legs.Lymphedema is most commonly caused by the removal of or the damage to the lymph nodes as a part of cancer treatment. It results from ablockage in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system. The blockage prevents the lymphatic system from draining excess fluids, and the fluid buildup leads to swelling, infections, and pain.Unfortunately, there is no cure for lymphedema. It can be managed with early diagnosis and diligent care of the affected limb, through daily compression, bandages, and manual drainage sessions. From the moment of the diagnosis, the life of lymphedema patients changes forever.Cancer and cancer-related interventions (i.e. surgery, radiotherapy) are frequent causes of lymphedema occurring both in the upper and lower limbs. Breast cancer survivors are at high risk for developing lymphedema, as well as patients treated for melanoma, pelvic and head and neck cancer or other cancer treatments that require lymph node dissection. Physical trauma can also result in lymphedema, a major cause of lymphatic disease among wounded veterans.Lymphedema is associated with significantly impaired quality of life, skin changes, increased risk of infection and in rare cases lymphedema itself may undergo malignant transformation.Lymphatica offers a permanent solution that will allow patients to regain their normal lifestyle.
IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
- Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
- Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Waxy — Waxy is an innovative startup that operates in the domain of designing, building, and distributing technologies for the sanitization of liquids and food products.
- Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
- Tau Group — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
Growth Engine is a holding company that invests in startups and scaleups with high growth potential founded by Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, Andrea Marangione, Michele Appendino and Marco Ariello, Venture Capital professionals with an excellent track record. Growth Engine invests in Italian startups at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
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- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- StarTric — StarTric developes and is taken to clinical use as a transcatheter structural heart implantable device. They are developing a unique transcatheter repair implantable device to treat TR. They manage entrance to the right atrium, reducing the flow to the lungs. They offer heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and other morbidities.
- TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
- Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
- Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
- IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- D-Orbit — End-to-end services for the New Space industry, including platform engineering, launch and deployment, and decommissioning.
- WithLess — Apps multiply, costs grow, admin spirals. We get it. The tools your team needs WithLess time, money, and admin.
- Stellar — At Stellar we bring perfect internet on the move to vehicles and passengers, leveraging the combined strength of cellular, wi-fi, and satellite networks, through AI and fully integrated solutions. We offer SaaS, data plans, and all-inclusive options for enterprise connectivity needs on the move.
Embed Capital directly invests in startups, established or in the process of creation.Embed is mainly focused on innovative companies that:- Are active in the so-called “real economy” sectors: industrials, technology, environment, services, retail or social;- Are characterized by simple and intuitive business models and valuepropositions, and operate in markets or market segments featuring high growth potential;- Present a clear competitive advantage and high barriers-to-entry;- Are cash-generative in the medium term.Given that Embed Capital is not a closed-end fund, it doesn’t have specific time-constrains and it can assess on a project-by-project basis to determine the best time to sell a participation, and sign customized agreements with the entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Piantando — Acquista una pianta e regala un albero al pianeta con un click, scopri come vivere green. Piantiamo un albero per ogni pianta acquistata. Basta un click.
- FrescoFrigo - Healthy food close to you — FrescoFRIGO is a smart fridge with fresh and quality products designed for the needs of worker. Improve everyday lifestyle, through automated proximity selling of good, fresh and healthy product, innovating technology and user experience.
- The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.
MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Human Resources, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Gamindo — Customized Video Games for Engagement, Education, Lead Generation, CSR and Training.
- Restworld | Horeca — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
- Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.
L'investitore italiano che ti aiuta ad avviare la tua startup supportando progetti disruptive ad alto valore tecnologico.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Fitness
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Kilogram — Kilogram is the creator of a weight loss software that uses food photos to estimate calorie consumption.
- H-Cube — H-Cube develops smart clothes technology to manufacture sportswear. Its technology is embedded into an industrial production line of sportswear suitable both for training and post-training monitoring to analyze the recovery process related to that specific training session.
- IllumyFi — IllumyFi provides tools for investors and companies to help people on their journey to financial freedom: monitor and manage your investments all in one place, find information based on your interests, learn how to invest. IllumyFi: light your way to financial freedom
Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Italy, United Kingdom
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Azimuth Capital is a leading private equity firm with almost 20 years of experience investing in energy transition, infrastructure, E&P and technology.
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Investment focus
- Oil and Gas, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- H Cycle — H Cycle deploys proven waste gasification technology to produce low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen for industrial and retail customers.
- Monolith — Monolith is the world’s leading clean hydrogen and clean materials company. The company’s proprietary commercial-scale methane pyroloysis process uses 100% renewable power to superheat-- not burn-- conventional and renewable natural gas to create clean hydrogen, ammonia, and carbon black in an environmentally advantaged manner. Founded in 2012 byRob Hanson and Pete Johnson, Monolith was formed on the belief that you could build both a profitable company and create a cleaner world using technology.
Andrea Rota is a Managing Director at Investors Club. He attended IMD (International Institute for Management Development).
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Travel, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
- AdEspresso — Start driving results across Facebook, and Instagram with a free 14-day trial of AdEspresso.
- 30SecondsToFly - Claire — We provide A.I. driven workflow automation for travel management companies to lower their cost and provide a "super" user experience to their travelers.In Autopilot mode Claire completes the travel agent's most repetitive tasks and in Copilot mode she shares learnt traveler patterns with the agent. As a result, Claire saves travelagents on avg. 50% of their time. Our in-house NLP has a response time of less than a second and an accuracy of 96%. Our in-house recommender systems are at 85% first tier accuracy. While travelers enjoy an unprecedented level of self-service experience, travel agents are free to focus on their revenue generating, high touch customer interactions. A win-win-win for traveler, agent and TMC.30SecondsToFly was awarded the General Catalyst Award for Travel Innovation $100k, recognised as the most innovate and disruptive emerging company in travel in 2019. Watch our winning pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=DYEzUF0kx78&feature=emb_logo
Doorway Capital is an independent provider of risk capital to law firms. It offers facilities of between £50,000 and £20 million to firms authorized by the SRA to practice law in England and Wales. These facilities can be used to fund disbursements, acquisitions, lock-up, tax liabilities, or anything else. It also purchases paid disbursements fromlaw firms for up to 80% of their face value. These means capital earning little or no return can be redeployed into more profitable activities of the firm or returned to its partners.Doorway Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
- Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
- Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe /
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
- Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.
The innovative hub to invest in the most promisingand visionary startups in the sport industry.
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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.
- 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.
- LUDI Therapeutics — Groundbreaking Sport Injury Medicine. LUDI Therapeutics uses cutting edge drug discovery technologies and a biomarkers platform to develop specific first-in-class drugs to enhance muscle repair.
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Computer, Events
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, San Marino
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- Kleecks — Kleecks | Next-generation Enterprise Optimisation Platform
- Kampaay — The digital platform for organizing corporate events, in person, virtual or hybrid, in just a few clicks!
- 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.
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
- SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
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).
- BeSafe Group — BeSafe: la Suite di Tool e Strumenti che semplifica la Gestione della tua Struttura e migliora le tue Strategie di Revenue Alberghiero.
- Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
Ligurcapital is a public and private joint venture that offers equity financing to companies in Liguria, Italy.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Internet, Fitness
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
- Drexcode — Drexcode.com is the first web-boutique that provides a unique fashion experience, trendy and convenient, giving the opportunity to rent dresses and accessories from the latest collections.By working directly with the most prestigious Italian and foreign designers, we select the outfits seen at the fashion shows, with particular regards to thosesuitable for special occasions. Our clients have the exclusive opportunity to rent in-season outfits that make dreaming every women.
- greenchic — A pioneer of the circular economy, greenchic is the number 1 fashion-logistics startup in Southern Europe. Send us what you wish to swap, and immediately start buying with our reward points system. Thanks to this effortless service model, greenchic offers the fastest DTC way to regain value from no longer used clothing. Through greenchic, memberscan exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and sustainable way. With 99% of the products sold, reused, upcycled, or donated to charities within 6 months, greenchic is set to become a European leader in circular fashion. With its growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in fashion recommerce, a 4.5-star TrustPilot rating, the platform offers to its highly engaged community a collection of more than 240.000 items. Thanks to a semi-automated logistic warehouse, an event-driven serverless digital platform, and its own digital token, the startup is experiencing a 2X growth pattern and is supported by some of the best investors from the Italian fashion & social impact scene.greenchic is now operating in Italy and France.Find out more by visiting greenchic.com and following @greenchic on socials.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Leisure, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- MgShell — MgShell offers intraocular devices for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and other ocular diseases. Their technology is the only technical solution capable of replicating current clinical practice with a single injection and releasing the same therapeutic drug doses at predetermined periods, autonomously and without surgicalprocedures.
- Freedome — Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy
Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation.
Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm.
Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
- Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
- Starting Finance — Starting Finance is a financial education platform intended to provide financial literacy to its users. The company's platform provides education and information about finance and publishes informative articles on important events in the fields of economics, finance, and politics, enabling users to improve their knowledge regarding finance andthe management of their capital.
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.
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- Beauty, Retail, Fitness
- Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
- MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
Venture Capitalist, Investor, Internet entrepreneur, International Speaker and Book Author.+15 years of experience in AdTech & Digital Advertising : I love to start-up international digital business, scale it and make them grow till the exit.Co-founder of Ebuzzing (now Teads) from 0 to 100M$ Revenues in 4 YearsFounder of PromoDigital// Sold It After 2 Years for 4x RevenuesCo-Author of the book "Viral Video: Content is King Distribution is Queen" & Co-Author of the Book "Buzz Marketing nei Social Media" Partner at Ariadne CapitalPro Speaker at London Speaker Bureauhttp://mariafranzoni.com/business-management/4471-andrea-febbraio// I LOVE TO MENTOR AWESOME TEAMS //Speaker at Major Digital Advertising events: Royal Institution of Great Britain, IAB Forum Milan, iStrategy London, iStrategy Amsterdam, Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, Dmexco Cologne, Inspirational Festival Madrid.Advisor http://www.luissenlabs.com/ Angel Portfolio: AdEspresso, Chupamobile, Beintoo, FiloVenture Portfolio: Money Dashboard, Oxygen, Bit X , Quill, Taggstar, SoundOut, Made Television, Orson & Co , Bloomy Days, Norwood SystemSenior Lecturer at :SDA Bocconi, LUISS Business School, Business School Il Sole 24 Ore, IED, NaBA, Master IAB Università Cattolica, Gambero Rosso
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- Internet, Farming, Fitness
- Seed
- Italy
Fnm is a transport & mobility Group & non-state investor that is responsible to manage and coordinate its subsidiaries.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Events, Sports
- Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Snowit — Snowit is a smart online travel agency that aggregates in one platform all the services for skiers and snowboarders: skipass, equipment rent, ski lessons, experiences and accommodation.Booking snow activities online is not easy, the online market is highly fragmented and poorly organized. In fact, each ski area has its own website and skipassonline purchases can generally be done only when already owning the local skipass card. Besides the skipass, booking online a full holiday on the snow is complex because of the lack and fragmentation of the offer. Snowit aims at becoming the reference point for winter-related services in multiple ski areas across Europe, allowing users to easily organize their holidays on the snow by booking online all the services they need from accommodation to ski lessons. Moreover, the Snowitcard, that allows to purchase online the ski pass for all ski resorts in the circuit and to go directly at the lift, is a powerful instrument of promotion and loyalty. Snowit booking engine allows also user to compare the total cost of holiday for multiple destination and to recommend the best destination depending on user profile and needs.
- mbility — Mbility is a digital bridge computer software for on-call transport between users and managers.
- Busforfun — Shared and Green traveling to experience the world of fun#WeTheFun | Busforfun is a young mobility company traveling in a sustainable, safe and low-cost way across Europe. Busforfun vision is a green and shared mobility to experience the world of fun.#WeTheTech | Busforfun is a combination of high tech-startup, e-commerce-platform andtransportation company, Busforfun is going to establish European largest bus network for events in the short time. Thanks to a powerful search engine, business intelligence, an user-friendly booking system and an extensive route network, Busforfun offers travellers the opportunity to experience the world of fun with lower fares.#WeTheGreen | Our low-emission buses comply with the highest safety and environmental standards, so Busforfun offers a sustainable and convenient alternative to cars. With main partner Treedom, Busforfun plants new trees at any travel worldwide.Live Fun Experience in partnership – our concept for successBusforfun provides customers with great offers at lowest budget, through smart network planning, dynamic price management and an adaptive web engine.Busforfun platform is where the innovation and start-up spirit meet the experience and know-how of traditional bus companies and travel agencies.Incredible success can be attributed to the digitalization of old-fashioned bus travel industry: Busforfun has not suppliers or clients: but partners only!
Cairo Communication is a company that carries activities in the communication sector as a publisher - television & books & a concessionaire.
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- Fitness, Software, Training
- Series A
- Italy
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- Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews
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- News, Local, Fitness
- Seed, Series A
- Italy
Vela Imprese S.r.l. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investing in startups, early venture, management buy-ins, leverage buyouts, and development equity.
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- Gift, Retail, Sports
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Maurizio Donadelli
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- Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States
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- Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
- Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
- Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.
Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire
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- Marketing, Gift, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
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- SMACE — Smace engages in the development of smart working management platforms.
- Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
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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- Health Care, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
- 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).
- Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
Claudio Rossi - Advisor @ GoSherpy
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- Farming, Internet, Agriculture
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy
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- Elaisian — Elaisian is a precision farming service that focuses on the preservation of olive trees. By a system of algorithms based on a database of agronomic studies, the company is able to prevent diseases and to optimize cultivation processes such as irrigation and fertilization. The goal is to improve olive tree's life and the producer's work.
- Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
- FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.
Mario Mariani - Partner @ United Ventures
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- Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Italy
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- marinanow — With Marinanow you can hire boats and rent berths throughout Europe. Book your next adventure online in only a few clicks of a mouse!
- AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Incos Invest is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in companies operating in the industries of cosmetics, perfumes, travel and tourism, real estate, e-commerce, IT, and software development.
The company is headquartered in Skane Lan, Sweden.
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- Travel, Boating, Medical
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy, Sweden
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- Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
- Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.
Rudy Cortesi - Founder and CEO @ Mobile Dream de México S.A. de C.V.
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- Gift, Retail, Sports
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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!
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Italy, Germany
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- Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with loads from shippers and brokers across the nation.
- FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.
U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.
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- E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
- Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- 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 —
Scopri The Net Value, il cuore dell'innovazione a Cagliari. Spazi di coworking, formazione e un network per startupper e professionisti.
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- Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed
- Italy
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- marinanow — With Marinanow you can hire boats and rent berths throughout Europe. Book your next adventure online in only a few clicks of a mouse!
- AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Atlante Seed is an Intesa Sanpaolo Group's Fund dedicated to seed and early stage capital, it invests in innovative companies still small but with high growth potential, with a particular attention to those belonging to the high technology industry. Besides this activity (direct investments), the Fund invests in selected business incubators oraccelerators specialized in specific sectors (indirect investments).
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- Manufacturing, Sports, Hardware
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States
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- Sellf — Sellfapp, the CRM Mobile for an easier sales tracking and clients managing. Ask for more information and download our 14 days free trials.
- GoPillar — Get dozens of high quality projects from professional designers: easy, fast and on a budget. Redesign your space on GoPillar.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
Net4Capital is a investment management company in private equity and venture capital.
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- EdTech, Fitness, Software
- Seed
- Italy
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- Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
- MyLab Nutrition — MyLab Nutrition Group owns T-Rex Integratori, Nutracle, Suprapet and MyLab Nutrition brands. It creates and distributes high quality Made in Italy supplements through its brands using an high technological innovative approach. The corporate vision is to allow people to achieve the highest level of well-being through targeted precisionintegration via supplements. The corporate mission is to recommend perfect supplements to each person based on their needs through interactive consultancy that process datas via A.I. mylabnutrition.net is the first interactive portal that recommends the perfect dietary supplements for each person's specific needs through an interactive consultancy.
All-in-one solution for fundraising, managing and trading equity. Explore promising tech startups and flexible funding opportunities with SeedBlink.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Romania, United States, United Kingdom
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- Pago — Managing and paying utility bills, insurance, mobile top-ups and taxes takes too much time for many households in Europe. Pago simplifies these payments by adding automation where possible, using integrations with billers, insurers and online platforms to dramatically reduce the time needed for all these payments. The service is available in theB2C app called Pago and through B2B integrations by embedding Pago features in partner apps through SDK or API. Pago's services are used by over 500k monthly active users in Romania, Poland and Italy.
- Brainactive — Brainactive is an AI-driven platform that streamlines the access to vital insights used by companies to make sound business decisions, by enabling them to directly interview their current and potential customers, regardless of their expertize in sociology, past experience with market research, size of their team, or their market research budget.Integrated with a pool of 300+ million vetted and engaged consumers around the world, the platform allows companies to get relevant answers to their questions in minutes, with assistance from advanced conversational and generative LLM trained on market research, available along the way.Putting businesses in direct contact with their customers essentially removes the need for any intermediaries in the process and brings the costs and time down to a mere fraction of what traditional market research typically requires. At the same time, companies get to keep sensitive concepts and prototypes tested entirely secured, since no one else is involved, at any stage.
- dotLumen - Empowering the Blind — .lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.
Wylab is the first Sports Tech Incubator in Italy offering early stage startups a support program that will help them develop great products and services, as well as a thriving work space for young professionals and small businesses.
They created a space where Startups can interact among them and with clubs, federations, agents, sports associationsof various kinds. Wylab is a place where it is possible to communicate with Universities, Industries and the Financial world. As a 100% private incubator, Wylab is able to manage a light and performing environment that allows Startups to grow up and expand their businesses quickly.
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- Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- Wall Street Football — WSF is based on a fully-automated mathematical and statistical model integrated with Machine Learning for analyzing data and forecasting future player achievements and actions, and a dynamic algorithm that allows financial trading on derivatives based on footballers performance on the pitch.We provide our software and our services to gamingfirms, gambling companies, professional football teams and sport directors that wish to offer our products in their markets.Our long term vision is to cover all the major sports and leagues in the world.
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