Top 50 Sports VC Funds & Investors in Italy (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Apps | $219k–$7.7M |
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $197k–$30M |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $488k–$23M |
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Bios Line Holding
VC Fund
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3 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Sports, Leisure, E-Commerce | $545k–$2.7M |
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Opes Italia
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Spain | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | E-Commerce, Leisure, Medical | $440k–$7.5M |
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Moffu Labs
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Human Resources, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $206k–$2.3M |
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Growth Engine
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $300k–$4.2M |
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IH1
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | $85k–$628k |
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $219k–$14M |
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United Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $406k–$18M |
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Archangel AdVenture
VC Fund
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2 | Italy | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Fitness | $163k–$238k |
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Primo Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence | $329k–$37M |
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Embed Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care | $132k–$2.1M |
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Scuola Italiana di Ospitalità
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Sports, Travel, Outdoors | |
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Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Computer | $2.2M–$35M |
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Rialto Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, GPS, Sports | $555k–$6.7M |
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APEX Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Sports, Media and Entertainment, Sports Leagues and Teams | $611k–$25M |
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Chiron Sports Group
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Events, Soccer, Sports | |
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The Carlyle Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Private Equity, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $8M–$1.1B |
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EXOR N.V.
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $320k–$105M |
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | $55k–$576k |
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Lazio Innova
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $22k–$1.3M |
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UniCredit
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Germany, Spain | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing | $197k–$1.4B |
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RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Beauty, Retail, Fitness | |
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Azimuth Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Italy | Private Equity, Seed | Solar, Energy, CleanTech | |
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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $71k–$2.5M |
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $320k–$55M |
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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note | Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $299k–$2.5B |
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Doorway Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, France | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage | $1.5M–$6.9M |
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Wylab
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning | ||
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Pitchdrive
VC Fund
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1 | Belgium, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $110k–$4.8M |
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PranaVentures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Tourism, Internet | $1.8k–$16M |
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Azimut Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Cycling, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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dPixel
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$1.1M |
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Net4Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | EdTech, Fitness, Software | $658k–$1.4M |
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Creative Thinking Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism | $27k–$166k |
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Fnm
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A, Corporate Round | Travel, Events, Sports | |
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SeedBlink
VC Fund
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1 | Romania, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $137k–$35M |
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Rancilio Cube
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | |
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Vela Imprese
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Gift, Retail, Sports | ||
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The Net Value
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Apps, SaaS, Mobile | |
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WeSportUp Accelerator
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Fitness, Software, Wellness | |
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Vesper Holding
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $750k–$8.2M |
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Cairo Communication
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Series A | Fitness, Software, Training | |
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Atlante Seeds
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Sports, Hardware | |
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Vertis
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Computer | $823k–$10M |
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Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Germany | Seed, Convertible Note | Sports, Software, Apps | $522k–$2.3M |
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Limestone Capital AG
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Germany, Switzerland | Private Equity, Pre-Seed, Series A | Travel, Real Estate, Fitness | |
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U-Start
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion | $406k–$21M |
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Incos Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Sweden | Seed, Convertible Note | Travel, Boating, Medical | |
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Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $219k–$1.9M; Series A $6M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
- Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
- Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $197k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $614k–$5.1M; Series A $889k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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 —
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 277
- Round size: Seed $488k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
- Klaaryo —
- Macingo — Trasporto, spedizioni e traslochi a basso costo. Trasporti economici di auto, moto, barche e mobili in Italia ed Europa. Confronta prezzi e risparmia il 70%
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- Industry: Sports, Leisure, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $545k–$1.3M; Series A $2.3M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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
Opes Italia Sicaf Euveca is an impact investing Venture Capital fund. Our aim is to invest in companies based in Italy, or with prevalent activity in the country, and that propose solutions that generate a strong social impact and create positive externalities for the community and the territory.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Leisure, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Italy, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $440k–$536k; Series A $2.3M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baluwo — Toda la ayuda para tu familia en una sola App
- Freedome — Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy
- GenomeUp — GenomeUp is an AI platform (SaaS) to enabling doctors and clinical institutions to diagnose and treat rare genetic diseases in less than 24h. GenomeUp is involved in international research projects and clinical trials in partnership with universities and research centers.
MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups.
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- Industry: Human Resources, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $206k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $556k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wayla — Wayla offre viaggi serali sicuri e sostenibili a Milano con il primo servizio di van pooling. Prenota tramite app e viaggia a bordo dei nostri van con autisti certificati a tariffe vantaggiose
- Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.
- Elemento Cloud — At Elemento we develop the Cloud of tomorrow. Thanks to our operating system, AtomOS, we are able to provide unprecedented on-premise cloud solutions either on your own servers or on our hardware appliances. In addition, our OS is capable of automatically reselling the surplus power your local infrastructure provides, to transform your local wastein someone else's precious resource. This approach will offer to our customers an unrivalled on-premise cloud experience with the ability to scale into remote cloud resources with a few clicks or taps, making multi-cloud a completely transparent feature.
Growth Engine is a Venture Capital holding investing in Pre-Seed and Seed high-potential opportunities. With a current portfolio of more than 40 companies, most of them evolved in successful Scaleups, Growth Engine is a diversified asset class by sector and stage. Growth Engine Shareholders are entrepreneurs who have built companies from the groundup, collectively creating billions in value, and top executives managing companies with multi-billion-dollar valuations.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $329k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BonusX — Con l'app BonusX hai un supporto anti-burocrazia tutto l'anno. Accedi a centinaia di bonus e servizi pubblici, senza stress e code.
- CiaoDott —
- Vivaio Ventures — Vivaio Ventures partners with early-stage and creator-led consumer brands to scale food, beverage, and beauty products. We offer capital, consulting, and Made in Italy manufacturing excellence for the next CPG leaders.
IH1 is company that invest in the startups created by Mamazen Startup Studio
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $85k–$628k; Pre-Seed $109k–$219k; Convertible Note $165k–$618k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deeva — deeva is an online platform for booking home hairdressers.
- Inpoi — Inpoi ti aiuta a fare la scelta giusta. Valuta gratuitamente il tuo immobile online in pochi semplici passi con il nostro valutatore e vendi casa al prezzo giusto!
- Balanced — Balanced is a fitness platform that provides a personalized meal plan, daily support, and assistance for weight loss.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.9M; Angel $219k–$1.2M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cato AI — Cato AI is a Milan-based B2B SaaS startup that uses AI to automate public tender management.
- AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
- Alomana —
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $406k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M 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.
- Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
- Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Fitness
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $163k–$238k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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
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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- Industry: Software, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$37M; Series A $3.3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
- Yolo Tech Insurance — YOLO Group, uno dei principali operatori nel mercato insurtech italiano dei servizi assicurativi digitali, quotato in borsa sul segmento EGM.
- Italian Artisan — Elevate your fashion brand with expert Italian clothing manufacturers | Streamline your production with Italian Artisan | Low MOQ
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $132k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Piantando — Piantando sells plants connected to initiatives for the preservation of the planet engaged in the following areas: land, water, climate, biodiversity and local communities. Each plant is equivalent to a transparent and unique contribution, destined to an initiative certified by our Value Chain. Everyone become ambassadors of a new way of livinggreen and understanding their commitment to the planet.
- 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.
La prima hotel-school italiana, fondata da CDP e TH Resorts: corso di laurea con Ca' Foscari, specializzazioni in hospitality e ricerca sul turismo.
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- Industry: Sports, Travel, Outdoors
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mapo Tapo — Mapo Tapo organises climbing trips in off-the-beaten-track destinations. Discover new crags, meet other climbers, and leave an impact on the local community.
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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- 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 $2.2M–$16M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $18M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Subbyx — Subbyx provides long-term subscriptions for technology products and small home appliances.
- DRONUS — Dronus provides inspection, safety, and smart city capabilities from an innovative, minimally invasive base that guarantees the drone's flight stability and safety during take-off and landing, even in difficult climatic conditions.
Rialto Ventures fund invests in B2B digital transformation technologies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, GPS, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $555k–$4.3M; Series A $5.4M–$6.7M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pack — Pack is the people development platform that empowers HR with data-driven insights, digital assessments, and world-class mentoring & coaching. Unlock employee growth with tailored development plans, AI-driven tracking, and an international network of experts.
- Roboze — Roboze is able to engineer high performance thermoplastic polymers resistant to the most extreme operating conditions for various sectors.
- Keyless — Reverify and authenticate your users in a glance, without storing biometric data. PingOne Recognize delivers private, fraud-resistant biometric authentication.
Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.
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- Industry: Sports, Media and Entertainment, Sports Leagues and Teams
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $611k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $59M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Hexis — Hexis optimises your daily energy needs to the unique demands of your workouts, lifestyle and goals. The only system to personalise, periodic and plan, your daily carbohydrate and calorie needs.
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
- International Dance League —
Chiron Sports Group is an investment firm that invests in sports and advisory groups.
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- Industry: Events, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Venezia FC — Venezia FC is a football club that organizes and competes in tournaments and leagues.
The Carlyle Group is a private equity firm that caters to early and later-stage companies. The firm operates four fund families, focusing on leveraged buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate, and leveraged finance investments.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Series B $8M–$55M; Private Equity $49M–$1.1B
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudmas — Cloudmas is the largest provider of platforms, managed services and project developments in the cloud on the world. As an expert company in technology consulting services and solutions for migration of IT resources to the cloud, their goal is the digital transformation of theirconsulting customers through technological innovation. With their help,companies can carry out previously unimaginable projects and take advantage of new Cloud technologies to continue innovating.They believe in a different way of doing IT, a unique way to design and create the future of their customers. And for this reason, they have a multidisciplinary team, which is expert in design, management and execution of strategic solutions in the Cloud, with a team of 200 professionals that is recognized by the leading Cloud service providers worldwide.
- Amp Solar Group — We are a global energy transition platform. With projects all around the world, we are leading the charge in rethinking the future of energy.
- Piramal Group — Welcome to the official website of the Piramal Group.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Pre-Seed $320k–$5.1M; Series A $10M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- 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.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $110k–$219k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.9M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $186k–$1.3M; Grant $22k–$409k; Pre-Seed $53k–$549k
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HEU — HEU is a legaltech company that automates and manages legal documents and allows users to edit and share them.
- 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
UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $38M–$1.4B; Debt Financing $521k–$938M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% 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
- AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge is an edge data center business with a mission to create the leading-edge platform, delivering seamless, localized and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure to customers. They provide a wide range of direct connectivity options to enable connectivity within their datacenters. All cabling is installed and managed by AtlasEdge and itsengineering team to ensure speed of installation and guaranteed quality and management.
- Mercuria — A world leading independent energy and commodity group
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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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
- MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
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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- Industry: Solar, Energy, CleanTech
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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 a next generation chemical and energy company that believes technology will create the path to environmental transformation.
3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $71k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
- Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
- Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.
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, Information Technology
- 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 $6.5M–$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.
Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI.
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- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $112M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1000M; Convertible Note $299k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ESAPRO — ESAPRO designs, constructs, and manages plants for the production of electricity from renewable sources.
- Cornaglia — Cornaglia designs, develops, and manufactures metal and plastic components for the automotive industry.
- EuroGroup Laminations — We develop and produce stators and rotors solutions for the energy transition, guaranteeing maximum efficiency and sustainability on a global scale.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.9M; Series A $1.5M–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
- Smartness — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
- Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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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- Industry: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wall Street Football — WallStreetFootball Odds. Delivering real-time football odds, and customizable feeds for betting operators worldwide. Fast. Accurate. Scalable.
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Browse database — It's Free!Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $110k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OTIV — OTIV offers autonomous technology to make your railway operations in complex environment safer and more efficient.
- gruup — Because great ideas deserve more than a slideshow. Get Marketing, Creative and Sales Teams all on the same page. Sign up for Free.
- Driven — Driven is the easiest platform to design smart incentives, align targets, and boost overall sales performance.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Tourism, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.8k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $549k–$5.1M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $43M 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
- CloudSEK — CloudSEK leverages contextual AI to predict and prevent cyber threats. Keep your organisation safe and secure.
- GetPica — GetPica is the cutting-edge platform for event organizers to engage event participants with their personal photos and videos in real time. Explore all solutions
Investment focus
- Industry: Cycling, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Newcleo — newcleo is the clean and safe nuclear technology company. Privately funded and headquartered in London, UK, newcleo was launched in 2021 to be a disruptor in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean and inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.newcleo is building the next generation system with the goals to: (1) eliminate the need for geological repositories by using a fast neutron flux avoiding production of long life radioactive elements; (2) develop an Accelerator Driven System (ADS), based on the intrinsically safe coupling of a particle accelerator and a sub-critical reactor; (3) accelerate the development of new fuel cycles, including thorium, that provide economic, clean, safe and inexhaustible energy from nuclei and the opportunity to burn the long-lived nuclear waste produced by the old generation of nuclear reactors.With visionary co-founders, newcleo brings together a team of engineers with deep knowledge of nuclear energy with younger recruits with a fresh mindset, working to design an innovative micro Lead Fast Reactor with significant commercial applications, for example in shipping. newcleo wants to be the first step toward the evolution of its industry to become fully respectful of people and the environment. To develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will lead humanity to zero emissions, and to the mitigation of global warming.
- Alter Eco Pulp — Alter Eco Pulp is a fiber molding company that processes waste and natural cellulose fibers to manufacture disposable products.
- www.bike-room.com — Road, Gravel, Mountain, Cyclocross,and E-Bikes For Sale. Choose from the models of the best brands, discover new arrivals, World Tour TeamBikes and the hot deals!
dPixel is a venture capital advisor and management consulting firm that finances early stage internet companies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $305k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$407k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M 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 — Lendit is a credit-sharing platform where companies and professionals can lend and apply for liquidity in a simple, fast and tailor-made manner. Specifically, Lendit provides a web-based platform to match corporate loan requests with companies, professionals or institutional investors who want to lend liquidity. Lendit's objective is to makeaccess to credit inclusive and accessible to all 'fragile' micro enterprises and entrepreneurs to credit. In fact, Lendit's target is microcredit, with applications ranging from a minimum of EUR 1,000 to a maximum of EUR 50,000. To date, almost two million enterprises are unable to obtain the desired credit. Of these, the greatest difficulty encountered is with applications under 20,000€. Lendit is also structured and built to be not only a "simple' p2p lending platform, but also to be integrated with financial institutions (thanks to partnerships with banks and intermediaries) in order to so as to create an open, multi-platform system that allows users to use innovative p2p lending services directly from their home banking
- Lendit — Lendit offers an Integrated Lending Circuit solution for partner platforms, connecting lenders and applicants through a plug and play system. This technology allows to provide inclusive lending and investment services without requiring a license. We create customized access through your platform's portal, simplifying and making the processimmediate for end users.
Net4Capital is a investment management company in private equity and venture capital.
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- Industry: EdTech, Fitness, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $658k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NHAZCA — NHAZCA is an innovator in the analysis, control, and monitoring of natural and human-induced hazards.
- 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.
Creative Thinking Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund for very early-stage ventures, focusing on start-ups and innovative SMEs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $27k–$165k; Pre-Seed $51k–$166k
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Worldz — Thanks to its algorithm, Worldz calculates the economic value of a user’s social popularity (qualitatively and quantitatively). In proportion to this value, it provides a personalized discount, which can be applied in exchange for a social sharing by the user on their Instagram or Facebook profile. This share refers to the brand or productpurchased and the content of the post can be pre-configured by the brand. A user’s social post increases the Brand Awareness and can generate new traffic to the store. This kind of sharing is perceived by the social community as a friend’s advice and not as a promotional activity.
- Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
- The Social Lender — The Social Lender is a peer-to-peer lending business platform that allows applicants to obtain funding from private and institutional investors, in order to support growth and development of their business and their projects, and where lenders can invest in security actively intervening in the Royal Economy.
Fnm is a transport & mobility Group & non-state investor that is responsible to manage and coordinate its subsidiaries.
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- Industry: Travel, Events, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
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- 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!
All-in-one solution for fundraising, managing and trading equity. Explore promising tech startups and flexible funding opportunities with SeedBlink.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Romania, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $370k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $137k–$768k; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YAROOMS — YArooms is a web based booking software package that makes it easy for you to manage rooms and resources and to book a room anywhere, even if it is in a different time zone or location. It prevents double bookings and allows revenue tracking through its Reports feature. YArooms allows for granular access of your users to the meeting rooms byorganizing users into types and soon groups. Meeting rooms can have owners, restricted users will require approval from the room owners for each meeting. If you use Outlook for work, you can bring YArooms into your email client by installing our dedicated plugin. You’ll be able to use YArooms without opening up the web application. All YArooms accounts come bundled with the YArooms Door app. Install it on a the tablet of your choice and mount that on your conference room's door. Check-in functionality with auto-release is built in, you can also book directly from the app, see the room’s current status and much more.
- Dronamics — Dronamics offers an all-in-one solution for the middle-mile powered by our Black Swan cargo drone, a network of droneports, and fully mobile control and cargo systems.
- Sypher Solutions — Sypher Suite is a GDPR software platform. Simplify and organize your GDPR compliance work. Get powerful tools for DPO effectiveness. DPIA Support. Dynamic data flows. Smart monitoring. Robust controls. Start your free trial now!
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from 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.
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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- Industry: Gift, Retail, Sports
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
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WESPORTUP was set up with the vision of developing one of the world's most important innovation ecosystems in the field of sport and health.
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- Industry: Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Mangofit — Mangofit is a technology company offering innovative software dedicated to personal trainers
Backing ambitious founders since the earliest stage
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- 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 — CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage.
Cairo Communication is a company that carries activities in the communication sector as a publisher - television & books & a concessionaire.
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- Industry: Fitness, Software, Training
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Sports, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sellf — Sellfapp, the CRM Mobile for an easier sales tracking and clients managing. Ask for more information and download our 14 days free trials.
- GoPillar — Get dozens of high quality projects from professional designers: easy, fast and on a budget. Redesign your space on GoPillar.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
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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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $823k–$3.7M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Relicta — Relicta solution is a water-soluble bioplastic material obtained from fish processing waste and suitable for packaging solutions.
- 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.
- Quido AI — Quido is the co-pilot for investment professionals. Quido allows private capital professionals to streamline data retrieval and data analysis and dramatically increase their efficiency.
Sport Tech Investment Company
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $522k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
- Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
- Felton —
Limestone Capital is the creator and manager of unique hotels rooted in its unique location and authentic architecture. A partnership between serial entrepreneurs and hospitality experts, Limestone Capital's core expertise is an ability to collaborate with original talent within the world of design, service, and food & beverage, and bringthem together in the creation of compelling new experiences that engage the communities around them. Limestone Capital's focus is the most dynamic cities in the world that allow for new immersive travel experiences.
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- Industry: Travel, Real Estate, Fitness
- Stage:Private Equity, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YDUN — The next-generation health studio combining advanced technology and a scientific, innovative approach to enhance vitality
- Outsite — Work anywhere, live differently. Join a diverse global community of remote workers and creatives living and working all over the world.
- Emerald Stay — Discover luxury rental accommodation options in France, Spain, Switzerland, Marrakech and the US. All of our properties have been carefully selected to premium standards.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $406k–$3.5M; Series A $3.1M–$21M; Series B $3.4M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Dott — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
- Keatz — A technodelic for VR
- TransferGo — Move and manage money between borders quickly and affordably with TransferGo.
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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- Industry: Travel, Boating, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Antlos — Antlos is a peer-to-peer online marketplace that offers all-inclusive experience-driven boat holidays, published and managed directly by local Skippers, who are the captains and owners of the boat. Based on the principles of a Sharing Economy, Antlos makes yachting simple, affordable and accessible to everyone.Every Skipper may publish severallistings and be contacted by registered users willing to book a holiday. Guests can choose from different destinations and experiences offered and safely pay online via credit card, Paypal and Bank Wire. The Skippers can start earning from the rental of their boat without having to pay any agency fees and clients can book their holidays easily and safely thanks to Antlos' flexible cancellation policies and clear terms and conditions.Antlos was born in Venice and grown in H-FARM Campus. The team is composed of young professionals, passionate and expert on travel and the maritime industry, coming from different work experiences. Recently Antlos has been merged with the Swiss company which runs Sailogy.com.
- 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.
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