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Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Italy

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Transportation startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Italy

Investor Transportation Italy investments
CDP Venture Capital 12
Boost Heroes 7
Intesa Sanpaolo 6
Club Italia Investimenti 2 6
360 Capital 6
Club degli Investitori 5
Ithaca Investments 4
P101 4
Innogest Capital 4
R-301 Capital 3
Italian Angels for Growth 3
The Techshop 3
Rancilio Cube 3
Vertis SGR S.p.A. 3
035 Investimenti 3
EIT Urban Mobility 3
Club Digitale 3
Jacopo Paoletti 2
Francesco Starace 2
PranaVentures 2
LIFTT 2
Growth Engine 2
Azimut Libera Impresa 2
Invitalia Ventures 2
Key Capital 2
Indaco Venture Partners 2
GELLIFY 2
Marco Valta 2
83North 2
Lazio Innova 2
NextEnergy Capital 1
Plug and Play Tech Center 1
Wing Venture Capital 1
HB4 1
3LB Seed Capital Srl 1
Como Venture 1
A11 Venture 1
C.D.S Italy 1
DIP Capital 1
Amazon Alexa Fund 1
SIMEST 1
Fabio Zecchini 1
Banco BPM 1
Blackstone Tactical Opportunities 1
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti 1
Primo Ventures 1
Stefano Mezzadri 1
TA Ventures 1
RedSeed Ventures 1
Climate-KIC 1
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CDP Venture Capital VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 18 investments in the past 12 months
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
  • Voidless — VOIDLESS is the new generation of box-on-demand packaging. An innovative system that bets everything on reliability and integrability.
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
Boost Heroes VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
  • Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
Intesa Sanpaolo VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Soplaya — Ordina in un click e ricevi nel tuo ristorante in 12/48h, migliaia di ingredienti direttamente dal produttore. Consegna sempre gratuita
  • Sendabox — Sendabox.it is the first online express courier rate comparison. With sendabox.it compare and ship at unbeatable prices without leaving home. Thanks to the innovative private platform, SMEs, e-commerce and freelancers can save money by simplifying processes and optimizing their business.
  • Vena Energy — Vena Energy is a leading Independent Power Producer (IPP) and an integrated pure-renewable energy company in the Asia-Pacific region.
Club Italia Investimenti 2 VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
  • Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
  • La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
360 Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 18 investments in the past 12 months
As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Guidoio — Guidoio is an ed-tech company that streamlines the process of getting your driver's license.
  • Talentware — Talentware is the first talent management platform for businesses to automate manual, time-consuming activities while fostering internal talent growth.
  • Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
Club degli Investitori VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
  • CarpeCarbon — CarpeCarbon is a company that develops technologies for Direct Air Capture (DAC) to extract CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Based in Italy, with a Global vision, the company is made of young researchers (Physics, Chemistry, Astrophysics, Biology, Complex Systems, Engineering) and economists.
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
Ithaca Investments VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • Futura — Unisciti agli oltre 7.000 studenti che si sono preparati con noi e realizza il tuo sogno.
P101 VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.
  • Aptus.AI — Aptus.AI exploits AI to make regulations machine readable, toward a new digital format to change the way humans and machines interact with textual documents
  • DataKrypto — The Cloud Encryption Company DataKrypto -
Innogest Capital VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Italy, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • GreenBone Ortho — GreenBone Ortho was founded in Faenzato offer advanced and innovative solutions in the field of orthopaedics and bone regeneration, using the Rattan wood.
  • Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
  • BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Technologies engage in the research and offers anticancer products.
R-301 Capital VC Fund · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
R-301 Capital They are an independent technology venture capital firm. They invest in early stage busineses leveraging disruptive web and mobile technologies in a variety of sectors. As experienced tech entrepreneurs They combine expertise with cash to best support Their portfolio companies. They move quickly and decisevily in funding innovatorsThey believe in.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Italy, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Carnovo — Carnovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the automotive purchase process by making it fast, transparent and convenient for both, car dealers and buyers. Their mission is simple, to put the car buying process upside down by placing customers in the center making them save time and money while offering them the best buyingexperience. Car dealers that partner with Carnovo sell more cars than they could in the showroom alone while reducing cost inefficiencies and increasing stock turnover. This means they can make great offers to Carnovo buyers!
  • Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an Influencer Marketing platform for your social media campaigns. Find the best influencers on Instagram and Facebook to deliver succesfull campaigns with an effective impact.
  • Bergamotte — Founded in 2015, Bergamotte offers a delivery service of flowers and plants throughout France.
Italian Angels for Growth VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
  • Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
  • Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
The Techshop VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in the past 12 months
The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
  • Shop Circle — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
  • Axyon AI — Unlock superior investment performance with Axyon AI. We offer AI-powered asset rankings and customizable strategies across multiple asset classes.
Rancilio Cube VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with loads from shippers and brokers across the nation.
  • FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.
Vertis SGR S.p.A. VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Computer
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • NEWTWEN — We develop software that generates real-time embedded digital twin solutions for model predictive control and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, enhancing performance, longevity, and reliability. In essence, our toolchain creates a precise digital replica of a physical device, such as an electric motor or generator, in order to accuratelymodel the electrodynamic and thermodynamic behavior of the system across a wide range of operating conditions. We then apply our proprietary mathematical approach to exponentially reduce the computational complexity of this model—so much so, in fact, that our digital twin can be integrated into the device itself to compute in real-time, “on-chip,” as part of an amazingly fast and accurate firmware solution. By accurately predicting temperatures and other critical system parameters thousands of times per second, our Digital Twin On-Chip solutions not only provide unprecedented insight for real-time control techniques to enhance system performance, but also pave the way for data-as-a-service capabilities such as predictive maintenance, monitoring of component aging, and anomaly detection.
  • Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
  • Sibylla Biotech — Sibylla Biotech developed small molecule folding interfering degraders (FIDs) that can address a range of therapeutic areas.
035 Investimenti VC Fund · Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy
035 Investimenti
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Investment focus
  • Electronics, Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
  • Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
EIT Urban Mobility VC Fund · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in the past 12 months
EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Transportation, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Spain, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
  • Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
  • Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!
Club Digitale VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Euklid — Euklid is the new way to manage savings and investments through thousands of different algorithms with the following characteristics:• objective, because they are based on concrete data processed with Artificial Intelligence technologies;• transparent and secure, because it’s based on blockchain a technology which lies at the heart of Bitcointime stamp and encryption system, that guarantees clients a constant monitoring and an absolute certainty that nobody can manipulate his account;• fair, because the managers of Euklid-fintech’s service earn only if clients have returns.
  • WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
  • 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!
Jacopo Paoletti Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Digital Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, SaaS, Mobile
  • Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Japal
  • CreationDose
  • Contents.com — Contents.com : Revolutionizing AI content generation for enterprises, providing personalized, scalable solutions for e-commerce, publishers, and agencies, with seamless IT integration and brand consistency.
Francesco Starace Angel
Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries such asUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987). In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).In 2014, Francesco Starace was appointed General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
  • Seed, Angel
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
PranaVentures VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
  • BeSafe Group — BeSafe: la Suite di Tool e Strumenti che semplifica la Gestione della tua Struttura e migliora le tue Strategie di Revenue Alberghiero.
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
LIFTT VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 14 investments in the past 12 months
A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • NeoPhore — NeoPhore targets the dynamics of cancer neoantigen evolution and makes effective medicines that will become a key part of the next-generation of cancer immunotherapies.
  • SteerLight — SteerLight is a startup that develops LiDAR-based optical sensors, also known as laser-based optical systems, to aid with mobility.
  • ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
Growth Engine VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Growth Engine is a holding company that invests in startups and scaleups with high growth potential founded by Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, Andrea Marangione, Michele Appendino and Marco Ariello, Venture Capital professionals with an excellent track record. Growth Engine invests in Italian startups at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, E-Commerce, Fashion
  • Secondary Market, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.
  • Holifya — Holifya is a platform for digital health and wellness with a personalized and scientific approach, based on your genetic profile, biomarkers, habits, and goals. They leverage technology and advanced data analysis methods (such as machine learning) to support the doctor or nutritionist in the creation of an increasingly personalized, 360-degree foodand health and wellness plan.
  • TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
Azimut Libera Impresa VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Azimut Libera Impresa is an investment company for both retail and institutional investors.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Apps
  • Private Equity, Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Soul-K — Food-tech company B2B, la prima industria alimentare 4.0 ad applicare lean-production e Just-In-Time. Abilita i professionisti a risparmiare tempo e denaro, riducendo manodopera e spreco di cibo.
  • CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.
  • Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
Invitalia Ventures VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation. Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it
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Investment focus
  • Software, Medical, Health Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Ecomate — The ESG Rating platform for every company
  • BigProfiles — A deep understanding of customers let a company tailor marketing campaigns and CRM strategies, but companies have only basic data about customers (e.g. gender or age). External data sources like Social Networks, Public Registries and Socio-Demographic data contain rich information about billions of people, like job titles, levels of education,interests and habits.BigProfiles is a Customer Intelligence SAAS that leverages external information about persons to enrich customer profiling: it can profile a company's customers with previously unknown information about them. Thanks to its Identity Resolution algorithm (the result of a PHD), it identifies a person’s information scattered among external sources.Through this technology, BigProfiles provides customer base analytics and behavior predictions: using Artificial Intelligence on enriched profiles allows to predict churn, fraud and willingness to buy.
  • Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
Key Capital VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
We are a venture incubator that wants to exploit the extraordinary human capital of the new digital entrepreneurship. From design to ready-to-market, up looking for new partners and capital, we create value along the entire continuum of mentoring: direct investment , skills qualified and specialized network support the growth of new businesses oftomorrow. With our deal flow , we are able to select innovative ideas with high potential with a business model that minimizes the investment risk and guarantee the success on the market.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United States, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • Pixies — Pixies is a Startup that design solutions for Autonomous Cities and a more sustainable future of our planet. Merging Urban Design, Robotics and AI, we believe that urban spaces can now become able to take care of themselves.
  • Alokino Gelato — Alokino Gelato produces plant-based and preservative-less artisanal ice creams.
  • Nimai Digital Company — Think. Create. Make it happen.
Indaco Venture Partners VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in the past 12 months
VENTURE We invest across all sectors with specific focus on technology and digital The largest independent more About Us Portfolio [...]
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Nouscom — Nouscom is a next-generation immunotherapy company developing genetic cancer vaccines and oncolytic viruses..
  • Easy Rain — We are Easyrain. Continuous innovation runs in our blood.With our expertise, we develop, simulate, and test solutions, launching our ideas into production. We exploit the basic laws of physics to engineer a tangible solution!
  • Alia Therapeutics — Alia Therapeutics is developing next-generation gene-editing medicines to cure rare genetic diseases.
GELLIFY VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
  • CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.
Marco Valta Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
83North VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months
83North is a global venture capital firm with over $2.2B under management. The fund invests across all stages, in exceptional entrepreneurs, whose focus is to build global category leading companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • floLIVE — floLIVE provides global, secure, cloud-native connectivity solutions to enterprises, mobile operators and cloud providers. Its platform comprises local core networks that provide local connectivity while being centrally managed and controlled over the cloud.This unique approach enables enterprises to benefit from high performance, secure andregulatory-compliant local connectivity with the flexibility and elasticity of a cloud-native platform. floLIVE offers a complete, cloud-based IoT eco-system that includes a core network with integrated device management, Inventory, and Billing services – all provided as-a-service and support a pay-as-you-grow business model.
  • Lendbuzz — Lendbuzz is an AI-based auto finance platform that helps consumers with thin or no credit history obtain financing when purchasing a car. Powered by machine learning and proprietary algorithms, Lendbuzz is able to better assess the creditworthiness of consumers with limited credit history, who are underserved by the traditional banks. By partneringwith auto dealerships, Lendbuzz is able to offer consumers attractive financing solutions and dealerships are able to close additional business opportunities and serve a more diversified client base. Lendbuzz is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2015.
  • Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
Lazio Innova VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Joinrs — We developed an artificial intelligence model able to read job offers for you and show you the ones that best match your profile.
  • Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
  • Ticketoo — Ticketoo: compra e vendi biglietti fan-to-fan in modo sicuro
NextEnergy Capital VC Fund
NextEnergy Capital is an investment management business founded in 2007, Their head office are in London, United Kingdom. NextEnergy Capital focus on the renewable energy sector with a presence in Italy and South Africa. NextEnergy Capital believes in the sustainable energy investment opportunity and plans to selectively add on other businesses.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, GreenTech, Recycling
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • BUFAGA — BUFAGA is a smart device that can be mounted on the top of any means of transportation, which is able to remove pollution from air while at the same time gathering data about pollution level in our cities. This is possible thanks to our smart filtration technology and the IoT software.
Plug and Play Tech Center VC Fund · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Plug and Play Tech Center connects the world's best startups to industry-leading corporations.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Transportation
  • Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
  • Protos Labs — Protos Labs is a Singapore-based cyber risk management company founded by ex-Booz Allen cyber leaders and supported by the Cybersecurity Regulator in Singapore. We enable insurers and their end-customers (i.e. enterprises) to better manage their cyber risk. Using a first-of-its-kind threat-informed approach, Protos Labs dynamically assesses thecyber resiliency of an organization. This helps insurers to accurately quantify their client’s cyber risk exposure in real-time, reduce their likelihood of breach, and pinpoint changes in a client’s risk profile over time.
  • Quickly — Supercharge your cashflow and receive payment 30 times faster.
Wing Venture Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plusoutcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Gradient — A centralized data platform that enables full organizational observability. Find and manage everything that's going on with your team, products, and customers.
  • Wherobots Inc. — Wherobots provides software solutions to enable every orgranization to drive value from data via geospatial location and time
HB4 VC Fund · Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
HB4 is a family owned business operating in the industrial, real estate, automotive and interior design sectors.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Planeat.eco — Planeat.eco is the site where you can plan your food shopping in a simple and economical way, starting from the recipes and receiving at home all the ingredients ready for preparation , weighed and divided into compostable containers. They offer their products online.
3LB Seed Capital Srl VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy
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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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Vikey — Self check-in Automatico e Domotica per Gestire da Remoto ogni aspetto dell'accoglienza in Hotel, Case Vacanze, Appartamenti e B&B.
  • YoAgents — YoAgents is a Digital Service company that allows sales professionals to connect with startups and micro-companies and SMEs.Through the app, they can choose services, pitch themselves to companies, download sales documents, create deals, with companies in the fitness, ho.re.ca., retail, sectors, as well as visualize and require revenue. Theplatform currently hosts over 2,000 sales professionals in its lead generation door to door platform.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
  • 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.
Como Venture VC Fund · Como, Lombardia, Italy
Como Venture is a venture capital firm specialized in seed and early stage investments.
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Health Care, Space Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hyperverse International — Hyperfair, Inc. is a SaaS VR platform that provides Social VR for the Enterprise via a truly 3D immersive experience. It allows enterprises to build their Social VR presence through self-customizable virtual reality spaces, generating the feeling of "presence”, that you’re actually there to interact with customers, partners, leads, etc. viaavatar, to conduct effective marketing programs and sales through VR, to monetize via event management. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Hyperfair has a European subsidiary in Italy.
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
  • Directa Plus — Directa Plus is a nanotechnology company, manufactures nanoparticles.
A11 Venture VC Fund · Lucca, Toscana, Italy
A11-Venture investe nel capitale di startup innovative nei settori della robotica, automazione, meccatronica, cleantech, web e IT. Facilita la nascita e lo sviluppo di business innovativi globali per il futuro dell'economia locale. Contribuisce a costruire aziende, lavoro qualificato, brevetti, innovazione capaci di rilanciare e riportareinvestimenti e risorse sul territorio. I soci di A11 Venture credono fermamente nell’innovazione grazie a ciò è possibile crescere per linee esterne diversificando i propri investimenti, grazie ad un portafoglio di imprese, con una forte risk mitigation derivante dalla gestione professionale di tutti processi: scouting, team building, investimenti, management degli investimenti, accelerazione e disinvestimento.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical Device, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Reefilla — Reefilla EV charging services: recharge your car anywhere, anytime
  • Endostart — Endostart development and manufacturing of a new generation medical devices for gastrointestinal endoscopy.
  • Neuron Guard — Neuron Guard, recognized as the best European startup in HEALTH category (Startup Europe Awards - SEUA 2017), is developing a life-saving medical device that aims to become the standard of care for Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) therapy. Every 7 seconds around the world a person suffers of Acute Brain Damage because of CardiovascularDiseases (CVD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). They are the most costly and prevalent killers in the last 15 years (15 million deaths by CVD in 2015), and the leading cause of disability (the global incidence rate of TBI is 200 per 100k people per year). WHO estimated a global expenditure of $ 330 billion in 2015, but it is going to increase sharply: $ 4 trillion in 2025 - including premature death, disability, and health care costs - just for CVD in LMICs. Temperature is a vital body parameter. It regulates all cellular functions so its management is essential for the good outcome of patients in several medical conditions such as cardiac arrest, stroke, traumatic brain injury, neuro and cardiac surgery, epilepsy, migraine and oncology. Regulating body temperature at a desired level makes all other treatments more effective. The most modern medical approach is the target temperature management, where physicians try to maintain the most favourable temperature for the patient for up to 24-36 hours, preventing excessive warming (fever) or cooling.Our device is a targeted temperature management system composed by a THERAPEUTIC COLLAR POWERED BY A SMART CONTROL UNIT (the size of a small briefcase). The collar transforms the neck into a natural heat exchanger exploiting several physiological and anatomical characteristics of the human body. It is quicker to act on brain tissue but can also function as total body temperature adjusting device if required. A disposable protective shield makes cleaning the collar after each use simple while featuring an optimal safety profile both in term of pathogens and allergens. The control unit collects all the data of the treatment and transmits them to the Emergency Response System. Our mission is to improve the safety of patients on the roadside, at home or in the workplace, and to reduce the costs of chronic care. In fact, Neuron Guard aims to be the only device that can be used in every circumstance, inside and outside the hospital, and allow the user to fully manage the temperature of the patient warming and cooling as necessary. Our vision is to have a Neuron Guard kit in every public place just like the Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) to empower bystanders to immediately react in case of emergency. Under this perspective our device becomes a connected-intelligent platform that takes care of the patient, connects the scene with the Emergency Response System transmitting vital data to improve the readiness and effectiveness of professional intervention.The device is patented in Italy, USA and China. We have made several prototypes in collaboration with Italian and English companies, such as Tecno Elettra Impianti and TWI, tested it in laboratory and published the experimental results on the NeuroCritical Care Journal. We have also conducted a GAP Analysis with another English consulting firm (CDP) and we are testing the human prototype internally. We are seeking to raise 2.5M€ to complete the pre-industrialization, with design and construction of the human device for the pilot trial, finalized the regulatory clearance and launch it into the market in 2019.
C.D.S Italy VC Fund
Syndicate of Italian Angel Investors
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Investment focus
  • Grocery, Delivery, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Everli — Choose your country, get your groceries delivered and enjoy peace of mind.
DIP Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
DIP Capital is a venture capital firm that invests across Europe in disruptive businesses. DIP's first fund has €40m to invest in late seed-stage and growth companies, to support top entrepreneurs that have the most interesting disruptive business
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Investment focus
  • Banking, Internet, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • LandVault — In-Play is a non-intrusive monetization solution for games and digital spaces that puts player experience first.
  • Nuri — Discover the app to secure your financial independence.
  • Heroes — We buy, operate and grow Amazon FBA Businesses.
Amazon Alexa Fund VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.
  • Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
  • Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.
SIMEST VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months
SIMEST is a financial firm focused on the development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad. Simest acquires up to 49% of the equity capital of foreign firms in countries outside the European Union, whether wholly-owned by Italian companies or set up as joint ventures with local partners. It also provides start-up and growth capital financingas well as participating in buyouts.Geographically it invests in non-EU countries, focusing on BRIC, Americas and Middle-East. Simest also provides Italian companies seeking to internationalize their businesses with technical assistance and advisory services.Simest is a member of the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and the Italian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (AIFI).
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Coffee, Aerospace
  • Grant, Series A, Series B
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
  • Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.
  • Polo del Gusto — Polo del Gusto is a major holding and production company that focuses on the raw materials for food and beverage industry.
Fabio Zecchini Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Fabio has strong passion for data, technology and free ride skiing. He previous worked at PwC and iProspect/Aegis Media and has a degree in Information Engineering from the University of Padova.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Pet, Retail
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • JAMPY — JAMPY produce integratori premium per il benessere del tuo cane. Solo ingredienti funzionali, sviluppati da veterinari.
  • 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.
Banco BPM VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, E-Commerce
  • Debt Financing, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fincantieri — Fincantieri is one of the shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. It is leader in cruise ship design and construction and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, from naval to offshore vessels, from high-complexity special vessels and ferries to mega-yachts, ship repairs and conversions,systems and components production and after-sales services.
  • Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
  • Generalfinance — Generalfinance is a financial management agency that provides flexible services designed to address the company's debt issues.
Blackstone Tactical Opportunities VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Blackstone Tactical Opportunities provides opportunistic capital, timely investing and differentiated solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, E-Commerce, Cyber Security
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Lazeo — Founded in 2009 by Bernard SILLAM, pioneering and renowned French cosmetic surgeon, Lazeo has 2 beauty care centers in Paris and London, specializing in laser hair removal, liposucions, anti-aging care.Since 2011, under the leadership of Dimitri SILLAM, Lazeo has been designing and distributing its own injection products (botox and hyaluronicacid) internationally, particularly in Asia. This fast-growing business now accounts for most of the company's turnover.
  • Redpin — Redpin connect global citizens and businesses by simplifying life's most crucial payments.
  • Recurrent Ventures — Recurrent is an innovative digital media company that empowers brands to grow, and connect with consumers in a way that is enjoyable, sustainable, inspiring, and profitable—while maintaining editorial integrity. Its best-in-class brands like Popular Science, The Drive, Domino, MEL, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Car Bibles, SAVEUR, Futurism, andTask & Purpose engage a combined audience of more than 50 million monthly unique visitors. Initially founded in late 2018 with the acquisition of The Drive, the portfolio rapidly expanded under the ownership and backing of North Equity LLC to include 20 digital media brands across automotive, home, lifestyle, military, outdoors, and science and tech verticals.
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
The Cassa depositi e prestiti Group is the national promotional institution that has supported the Italian economy since 1850
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, InsurTech, B2B
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Scuter — Scuter is the smart e-scooter sharing service that makes city mobility,simple, enjoyable and sustainable. Scuter is on well on its path toward making a dent in this space.
  • Newarc srl — With the help of technology, we simplify and improve the home buying and selling process.
  • ViteSicure — Vite sicure is the first insurtech broker selling life insurance policies in Italy (soon in Europe) that transforms the policy purchase experience by making it simple and instant.ViteSicure offers insurance products that guarantee safe lives, because our mission is going straight to the heart of our customer, who with a great sense ofresponsibility are looking for financial security for the most difficult, unpredictable moments of life. ViteSicure fill the protection gap by identifying trigger points in the life of the target and proposing specific solutions to guarantee safe lives in under-insured markets.With an innovative user experience based on growth hacking techniques, ViteSicure bridge the distance between customers and insurance through:• Digitization of the marketing funnel • Digital Customer onboarding • Online download of the Policy • Educational Online Systems • Protection Calculator • Comparison on the need • customer relationship API • Marketing Automation • Digital Customer ServiceThe business model is based on removing the intermediation of insurance products and enabling clients to access to best tailormade insurance solutions based on the specific need.
Primo Ventures VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Aerospace
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
  • Data Masters — Datamasters designs and develops Machine Learning solutions. They provide artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science skills. They acquire skills in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning
  • Sidereus Space Dynamics — As an intern, you'll work alongside our talented team of engineers and professionals, gaining valuable experience and insight into the world of space vehicle design and manufacturing.
Stefano Mezzadri Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Stefano Mezzadri
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Investment focus
  • Events, Battery, CleanTech
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Tame — ABOUT With Tame you can fully customise your virtual events, and make them fun, engaging & exciting to attend.- Apply your branding: Customise your virtual event completely - Personalised Welcome: Personal welcome message when attendees enter - Multiple stages: Broadcast content across multiple stages. - Live streaming: Stream live via anybroadcasting software - Pre-recorded videos: Broadcast pre-recorded videos as if it was live - Breakout sessions: Enable public or private breakout sessions. - Virtual Sponsor booths: Allow attendees to engage with sponsors live. - Customise Chat: Allow for 1:1 chat, group chat or session chat. - 1:1 Video Meetings: Empower social networking virtually.OUR COMPANY We are an experience-centric company, and we believe in the power of great experiences. 
 Our international group of dreamers, creators and rule-breakers passionate about merging design and technology together, enables us to transform that into one truly amazing event platform.OUR PEOPLE The team behind Tame has an aggregated decades long experience of creating events and building products that solve real problems for real people. So, what got us here? Our ambition to change a broken event industry through innovation, customer obsession and a relentless focus on the great experience.
  • Reefilla — Reefilla EV charging services: recharge your car anywhere, anytime
TA Ventures VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
  • Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
RedSeed Ventures VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
RedSeed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Companies and Scaleups, in Europe and more particularly in Italy.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dianax — Milan-based Dianax was founded in 2013 starting from a group scientists led by Eugenio Iannone and Maurizio Moroni and by a few angel investors orchestrated by Gabriele Bavagnoli. Dianax mission is to develop and manufacture labs-on-chip aiming to trasform protein-based diagnostics and make it prompt, easy to use, inexpensive and reliableTheDianax novel technology is designed to make precise diagnostic results convenient, easily accessible, and affordable to patients and healthcare professionals, to empower them to effective prevention, ongoing accurate management and timely emergency treatment.The Dianax technology is the first ever application to diagnostics of a combination of microfluidic innovations and electrochemistry detection systems.Dianax was founded by Eugenio Iannone and his partners to pursue technical and market opportunities based on proprietary, independent research.
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
  • WIB Machines — Smart vending machines and smart lockers manufacturer pioneering smart, web-based retail automation globally. Patented solutions enabling next-gen retail.
Climate-KIC VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
EIT Climate-KIC is a European knowledge and innovation community, working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, we identify and support innovation that helps society mitigate and adapt to climate change. They believe that a decarbonised, sustainable economy is notonly necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, but presents a wealth of opportunities for business and society.
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Investment focus
  • Sustainability, CleanTech, Energy
  • Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • volvero — Drive the power of sharing with Volvero. Set up an account in minutes and start sharing vehicles with our community of users.
  • Everimpact — We help cities, businesses and industries measure, reduce, and monetise their GHG emissions (CO2 and methane). We measure GHG emissions accurately and in real time with satellite imagery, big data and sensors and certify the data.
  • WindCapture Technologies — We capture carbon from the air using the blades of wind turbines
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