Top 50 Sports VC Funds & Investors in Italy (October 2026)
For AI agents: Short investor table (Markdown), Detailed investor list (Markdown)
| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
|
5 | Italy, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $291k–$7.9M |
|
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
|
4 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $197k–$30M |
|
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
|
3 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $219k–$14M |
|
Growth Engine
VC Fund
|
3 | Italy, Mexico, Portugal | Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $300k–$4.2M |
|
Lazio Innova
VC Fund
|
3 | Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $22k–$1.9M |
|
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
3 | Italy, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $483k–$23M |
|
Bios Line Holding
VC Fund
|
3 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Sports, Leisure, E-Commerce | $545k–$2.7M |
|
Ligurcapital SpA
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy | Seed, Debt Financing | Fashion, Internet, E-Commerce | $284k–$1.5M |
|
Incos Invest
VC Fund
|
2 | Sweden, Italy | Seed, Convertible Note | iOS, Apps, Retail | $325k–$2.2M |
|
Embed Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Mobile, Software | $130k–$2.1M |
|
Primo Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace | $358k–$49M |
|
Opes Italia
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy, Spain | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Leisure, Medical | $440k–$7.5M |
|
IH1
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Health Care, Fitness, Wellness | $85k–$628k |
|
United Ventures
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $406k–$55M |
|
Archangel AdVenture
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Fitness | $163k–$238k |
|
Moffu Labs
VC Fund
|
2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Human Resources, Information Technology | $215k–$2.3M |
|
Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, United Kingdom, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed | Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $16k–$2.5B |
|
Vesper Holding
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $750k–$15M |
|
Vertis
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $823k–$25M |
|
Exor Ventures
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $320k–$50M |
|
UniCredit
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, Germany, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing | $197k–$2.1B |
|
Pitchdrive
VC Fund
|
1 | Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $110k–$4.8M |
|
PranaVentures
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Tourism, Internet | $1.8k–$16M |
|
Scuola Italiana di Ospitalità
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Seed | Sports, Travel, Outdoors | |
|
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | $55k–$8.2M |
|
The Net Value
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Seed | Apps, SaaS, Mobile | |
|
The Carlyle Group
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, China, India | Private Equity, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $8M–$1.1B |
|
Human Company
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Seed | Sports, Travel, Outdoors | |
|
Creative Thinking Ventures
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Non-Equity Assistance | E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism | $32k–$518k |
|
Net4Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | EdTech, Fitness, Software | $693k–$1.6M |
|
APEX Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Portugal, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment | $611k–$25M |
|
WeSportUp Accelerator
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Fitness, Software, Wellness | |
|
Seedrs
VC Fund
|
1 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $44k–$3.4M |
|
Doorway Capital
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, France | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace | $647k–$7.1M |
|
U-Start
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion | $406k–$23M |
|
Wylab
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Venture - Series Unknown | Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning | |
|
Vela Imprese
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Venture - Series Unknown | Gift, Retail, Sports | |
|
Rancilio Cube
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Italy, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | |
|
Chiron Sports Group
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Seed | Events, Soccer, Sports | |
|
EXOR N.V.
VC Fund
|
1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $320k–$105M |
|
Fnm
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Series A, Corporate Round | Travel, Events, Sports | |
|
Azimut Investments
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series B | Energy, Cycling, Nuclear | $3.5M–$18M |
|
Azimuth Capital Management
VC Fund
|
1 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas | $3.7M–$251M |
|
SeedBlink
VC Fund
|
1 | Romania, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $139k–$35M |
|
Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, Germany, Portugal | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Sports, Communities | $522k–$2.3M |
|
RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Beauty, Retail, Fitness | |
|
Atlante Seeds
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Sports, Hardware, Software | $417k–$1.9M |
|
Rialto Ventures
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, GPS, Sports | $555k–$6.7M |
|
dPixel
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, United States, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$1.1M |
|
Limestone Capital AG
VC Fund
|
1 | Italy, Germany, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Private Equity, Series A | Travel, Real Estate, Hotel | $1.9M–$4.1M |
| Access all 80 VC funds in Italy Sports startups. | |||||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investor list
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $291k–$2.8M; Series A $6M–$7.9M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
- Ricehouse — Ricehouse creates sustainable construction materials from organic waste from the rice industry to create natural building materials such as rice straws, husks, and chaff. Their products include insulating panels, base plasters, screeds and subfloors, cladding systems, and vertical matt-closing components. The goal of Ricehouse is to construct ahouse made entirely of rice and everything that houses humans, from the smallest to the largest scales.
- Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $197k–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $204k–$1.9M; 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.
- Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
- Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $331k–$5.1M; Angel $219k–$987k; Series A $3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
- AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
- Alomana — Autonomous systems for enterprise
Growth Engine is a sector-agnostic VC holding, investing from Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A. Thesis-driven and built on one conviction: exceptional founders win.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Mexico, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $329k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Holifya — Holifya offre test del DNA avanzati e piani di salute personalizzati per ottimizzare nutrizione, metabolismo, performance sportive e prevenzione. Con un unico test, scopri intolleranze, rischi genetici e strategie su misura per migliorare il benessere, tutto comodamente da casa.
- CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
- Vivaio Ventures — Vivaio Ventures partners with early-stage and creator-led consumer brands to scale food, beverage, and beauty products. We offer capital, consulting, and Made in Italy manufacturing excellence for the next CPG leaders.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1.9M; Grant $22k–$343k; Pre-Seed $58k–$518k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HEU — Draft, sign and store contracts in one place. AI extracts deadlines and clauses, signatures valid in 180+ countries.
- Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
- GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Round size: Seed $483k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $652k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $212M 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 .
- Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
- Tretau — 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.
investment firm
Show more...Investment focus
- 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
Ligurcapital is a public and private joint venture that offers equity financing to companies in Liguria, Italy.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Fashion, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $284k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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!
- React4life — React4life is an Italian biotech company founded in 2016 after more than 15 years of R&D by Silvia Scaglione and Maurizio Aiello, together with a multidisciplinary team of experts, with the ambition to turn the promise of biomedical research into concrete benefits for society. Scientists can finally rely on a new enabling technology torecapitulate human biology in the lab: MIVO® (Multi In Vitro Organ), the next generation of organ-on-a-chip. This cutting-edge microphysiological system enables researchers to overcome the limits of current in vitro assays and animal models. It improves the reliability and predictivity of several applications: pharmaceutical drug-testing, personalized medicine, novel immuno-oncology therapies, cosmetics, dermatology, and nutraceutical. Learn more at www.react4life.com
- 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: iOS, Apps, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Sweden, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $325k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
- Touchize — Try our Drag2Cart technology and discover the potential in mobile e-commerce
- 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Information Technology, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $130k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $454k–$734k
- 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.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $358k–$5.4M; Series A $3.4M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $48M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Archimede — Deep tech company based in Sicily #archmesh is our satellite kit
- Mirai Robotics — Autonomy and intelligence for the seas. We're building software-defined autonomous systems and AI platforms that unify vessels, sensing, and command at sea.
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Leisure, Medical
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $440k–$536k; Series A $2.3M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Baluwo — Providing basic essentials has never been this easy. Sending money is not always the solution so we provide easy, fast & convenient ways to send prepaid electricity top-ups, mobile top-ups and basic food items to support your family back home in The Gambia, and very soon in Senegal and Nigeria.
- Freedome — Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy
- GenomeUp — Rome-based healthtech startup that offers an ecosystem of AI-powered solutions for genetic analysis and clinical decision support for diseases. GenomeUp's mission is to be a global reference platform to support clinical decision-making for hospitals, laboratories, research centers, and pharmaceuticals to accelerate diagnosis times, improvepatient care and provide knowledge for health prevention, all in less than 24h. Based on these assumptions, the founders decided to evolve the startup and transform it into a Italian Benefit Corporation following the purpose of common benefit by acting responsibly, sustainably and transparently towards stakeholders, people, communities, the territory and the environment.
IH1 is company that invest in the startups created by Mamazen Startup Studio
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $85k–$628k; Pre-Seed $109k–$219k; Convertible Note $158k–$618k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deeva — deeva is an online platform for booking home hairdressers.
- Pelomatto — Pelo Matto offers dog grooming services that are both comfortable and soothing for dogs.
- Balanced — Un nutrizionista online dedicato che legge il tuo diario e ti risponde ogni giorno. Piano personalizzato, supporto costante su WhatsApp. Primo colloquio gratuito.
We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $406k–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$15M; Series B $11M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $166M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
- Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
- Beelzebub — A secure low code deception runtime framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.
L'investitore italiano che ti aiuta ad avviare la tua startup supportando progetti disruptive ad alto valore tecnologico.
Show more...Investment focus
- 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
MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $215k–$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 — Elemento is a vendor-neutral, cost-saving, green, high-performance, self-hostable cloud platform with infrastructure-as-code readiness.
Apri il conto in pochi minuti e scegli il piano adatto a te.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $16k–$2.8M; Post-IPO Debt $112M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $2.7M–$1000M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Windrose Holding — Windrose Holding operates as a dedicated special-purpose sub-holding company that manages a clean energy.
- Mater Private hospital — Mater Private are proud to offer some of the most technologically advanced treatment options in the country and have pioneered many major developments in the delivery of healthcare in Ireland.Their team of over 300 leading consultants bring their patients from all over the country to their facilities with the highest confidence in the standard ofcare they can offer.
- Econergy Renewable Energy — Econergy to create, own, and manage utility-scale renewable energy projects, guided by in-depth knowledge of the industry, regulations, and technology at each crucial stage, from creation to supply
Backing ambitious founders since the earliest stage.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
- Bricks.sh — Bricks.sh provides customer service, operations, and all business teams with an admin panel they enjoy while putting internal tools on autopilot for IT teams. self-generated. Business teams may actually customize it.
- Complaion — Complaion is a compliance technology company that provides software services for regulatory compliance and management system certifications.
Capitali e competenze per accelerare l'innovazione. Attraverso fondi di investimento chiusi investiamo in startup, scaleup e PMI innovative
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $823k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Clastix — Kubernetes multi-tenancy made easy
- Tiledesk — Boost customer engagement with Tiledesk. Discover our conversational automation ready to use. Personalized experiences, improved conversion and retention.
- Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.
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
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$18M; Pre-Seed $320k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
- 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.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $44M–$2.1B; Debt Financing $552k–$913M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ludoil — Ludoil is an energy company that offers production, storage, logistics, and marketing services for oil products
- 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
- Encavis — The Encavis AG is listed in the SDAX segment of the German stock exchange and is a producer of electricity from renewable energy sources. As one of the leading independent power producers, They acquire and operate solar and wind parks throughout Europe. Their plants generate stable returns and make an important contribution to safe and clean energysupplies.
Pitchdrive is a pre-seed investor run by experienced tech entrepreneurs backing founders during their crazy startup ride. Buckle up.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $110k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $69M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- ORiS — ORiS (Orbital Recharge in Space) develops laser-based wireless power transmission to extend the autonomy of satellites, drones, and lunar habitats.
- Backbone — AI platform for food & beverage quality teams. Connects standards, audits, supplier data, and customer requirements into one live picture. Automates the admin. Routes the right intelligence to the right person. Faster decisions, fewer blind spots.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Tourism, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.8k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $572k–$5.1M; Series A $3.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
- BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
- Doctorsa — Doctorsa is a digital marketplace offering travelers instant access to urgent care online for common conditions, starting at just €20.
Prima hotel school in Italia. Corso di laurea top 150 al mondo con Ca' Foscari. Formazione pratica in hospitality con stage garantito. Padova e Roma.
Show more...Investment focus
- 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.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $69k–$219k; Venture - Series Unknown $686k–$8.2M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.6M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Paragraph's agent turns your company context into posts, newsletters, social campaigns, and landing pages, then ships the work you approve.
- 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!
Scopri The Net Value, il cuore dell'innovazione a Cagliari. Spazi di coworking, formazione e un network per startupper e professionisti.
Show more...Investment focus
- 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!
- 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- 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.
meta description is here
Show more...Investment focus
- 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.
Creative Thinking Ventures is a micro-venture capital fund for very early-stage ventures, focusing on start-ups and innovative SMEs.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $32k–$518k; Pre-Seed $49k–$161k
- 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 — Scopri i migliori siti di scommesse sportive in Italia a settembre 2026: operatori verificati, bonus, quote, pagamenti e recensioni aggiornate.
Net4Capital is a investment management company in private equity and venture capital.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: EdTech, Fitness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $693k–$1.6M
- 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.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Portugal, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $611k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $53M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Marquee — Marquee turns football data into decision-ready insights in seconds, unifying external and internal data and filtering it through your club's sporting DNA.
- Northern Super League — Northern Super League operates a professional women's soccer league, offering matches, stats, and news online.
- International Dance League — The Global Professional Dance League Teams: Royal Family, Quick Style, 1MILLION, Jam Republic, Brotherhood, GRV
MeetSpeech is a premium and detailed Webflow Template suited for your upcoming Events and Conferences. It is designed to help you promote and communicate effectively to your audience and clients. Sell the tickets for your special days and spread the voice of creative minds.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mangofit — Il miglior software gestionale per personal trainer in Italia. Gestisci clienti, programmi di allenamento personalizzati, appuntamenti e pagamenti in un'unica piattaforma.
Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $45k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $44k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $125k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
- LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
- OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2.9M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $647k–$7.1M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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!
U-Start is the workspace angel groups and syndicate leads use to source, diligence and close co-investments: pipeline, diligence checklists, allocations and investor updates.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $406k–$3.5M; Series A $3M–$23M; Series B $3.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Sports, Fantasy Sports, Machine Learning
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Gift, Retail, Sports
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
Show more...Investment focus
- 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.
Investing in the future of sports
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Events, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- 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.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Fnm is a transport & mobility Group & non-state investor that is responsible to manage and coordinate its subsidiaries.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Travel, Events, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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!
Investment focus
- Industry: Energy, Cycling, Nuclear
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $3.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mantel — Mantel proposes a method to trap CO2 before it enters the atmosphere.
- 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.
Azimuth Capital is a leading private equity firm with almost 20 years of experience investing in energy transition, infrastructure, E&P and technology.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Private Equity $3.7M–$251M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Enoflex — Enoflex is passionate about connecting the low carbon world of tomorrow.
- 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.
All-in-one solution for fundraising, managing and trading equity. Explore promising tech startups and flexible funding opportunities with SeedBlink.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Romania, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $348k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $139k–$1M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Pago — Pago develops a digital payments platform that allows users to manage and pay household expenses through a mobile application. The company provides bill payment services for utilities, insurance, taxes, mobile prepaid recharges, road tolls, and travel-related services within a unified interface. Its platform supports account aggregation, automaticbill retrieval, payment scheduling, and notification tools that help users organize recurring financial obligations. Pago also integrates with banking and financial service applications to extend payment capabilities across partner ecosystems. The company includes transaction history, account management, and digital document storage features to support personal finance tracking and payment administration. In addition, Pago uses encrypted communications and secure payment processing technologies to support data protection and digital transaction security for consumers and partner platforms.
- Footprints AI — Retail Media Powered by AI That Understands Why People Buy. Connected to Real Shopper Purchases. Footprints AI is the most advanced platform to buy or sell retail ads - in stores and online - with precise targeting across the largest retail media ecosystem.
Sport Tech Investment Company
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Sports, Communities
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Portugal
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 — Felton is an AI audience intelligence platform that profiles every person in your social media audience. 200+ KPIs, 25+ emotions, 250+ filters.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
- MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
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).
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Sports, Hardware, Software
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $417k–$895k; Venture - Series Unknown $530k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2011
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.
Rialto Ventures fund invests in B2B digital transformation technologies.
Show more...Investment focus
- 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
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2024
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.
dPixel is a venture capital advisor and management consulting firm that finances early stage internet companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $305k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$407k
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- Vestinda — Vestinda is the platform that provides investments in digital assets. Their features are portfolio tracking, crypto portfolio tracking, strategy libraries,crypto investment strategies,strategy builders, trading strategies built with no code, backtesting backtested crypto trading strategies,demo trading,crypto paper trading, and risk-free livetrading.
- LIA — Lia gestisce fatture, solleciti e piani di rientro in autonomia: tu mantieni la visione sul cashflow, sui clienti e sulle decisioni che contano.
- Lendit — Lia gestisce fatture, solleciti e piani di rientro in autonomia: tu mantieni la visione sul cashflow, sui clienti e sulle decisioni che contano.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Travel, Real Estate, Hotel
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.9M–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% 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.
Sports VC funding in Italy at a glance
Stats across 60 deals from 80 investors.
Access all 80 VC funds in Italy Sports startups.
Open ListFAQ
Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?
Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.
Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.
All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the Sports VC Funds in Italy investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 80 VC funds investing in Italy Sports startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
Contact 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!