Top 45 Travel Startup Investors in Italy in October 2024
A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Travel Startup Investors in Italy in October 2024
Investor | Travel Italy investments |
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Italian Angels for Growth | 5 |
CDP Venture Capital | 4 |
P101 | 4 |
Alma Mundi Ventures | 3 |
Primo Ventures | 3 |
Federico González Tejera | 3 |
PranaVentures | 2 |
United Ventures | 2 |
Fnm | 2 |
Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 2 |
Principia SGR | 2 |
Pi Campus | 2 |
Intesa Sanpaolo | 1 |
BayBG Venture Capital | 1 |
dPixel | 1 |
Matteo Fago | 1 |
Incos Invest | 1 |
Maurizio Donadelli | 1 |
Key Capital | 1 |
HATCHER+ | 1 |
Azimut Digitech Fund | 1 |
Roberto Nicastro | 1 |
Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia | 1 |
Boost Heroes | 1 |
Mario Mariani | 1 |
MTI Holding | 1 |
Luca Ascani | 1 |
Translated | 1 |
Andrea Dusi | 1 |
Verdant Frontiers | 1 |
GELLIFY | 1 |
Vertis | 1 |
UniCredit | 1 |
Club Digitale | 1 |
Xandas New Media Ventures | 1 |
U-Start | 1 |
Giovanni Gardelli | 1 |
Marco Pescarmona | 1 |
Alchimia Investments | 1 |
Cristina Pozzi | 1 |
Orbit Startups | 1 |
360 Capital | 1 |
Exor Ventures | 1 |
Rancilio Cube | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
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.
- Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
- Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sestre — Sestre is an online store that offers nutraceutical supplements, nutrition, Mediterranean diet, healthy, and wellness products.
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
- 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 -
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Investment focus
- Software, Insurance, InsurTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
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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
- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Ecosmic — Ecosmic is addressing the issue of space debris by inventing plug-and-play cutting-edge technology that will improve collision avoidance, allowing space operators to save both money and time.
- Revolv Space — Revolv Space enables continuous data generation for small satellites by rethinking their critical components. The company solves problems by designing, manufacturing, and testing the next generation of critical components enabling continuous payload operations and full monetization of space assets.
Federico González is the Founder at Radisson Hotel Group.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Software, Travel Agency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 1500 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
- Avaneidi — Discover Avaneidi's enterprise storage solutions. Designed in Italy with a 'security by design' approach for unparalleled security and reliability.
- IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Fnm is a transport & mobility Group & non-state investor that is responsible to manage and coordinate its subsidiaries.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Events, Sports
- Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Snowit — Snowit is a smart online travel agency that aggregates in one platform all the services for skiers and snowboarders: skipass, equipment rent, ski lessons, experiences and accommodation.Booking snow activities online is not easy, the online market is highly fragmented and poorly organized. In fact, each ski area has its own website and skipassonline purchases can generally be done only when already owning the local skipass card. Besides the skipass, booking online a full holiday on the snow is complex because of the lack and fragmentation of the offer. Snowit aims at becoming the reference point for winter-related services in multiple ski areas across Europe, allowing users to easily organize their holidays on the snow by booking online all the services they need from accommodation to ski lessons. Moreover, the Snowitcard, that allows to purchase online the ski pass for all ski resorts in the circuit and to go directly at the lift, is a powerful instrument of promotion and loyalty. Snowit booking engine allows also user to compare the total cost of holiday for multiple destination and to recommend the best destination depending on user profile and needs.
- mbility — Mbility is a digital bridge computer software for on-call transport between users and managers.
- Busforfun — Shared and Green traveling to experience the world of fun#WeTheFun | Busforfun is a young mobility company traveling in a sustainable, safe and low-cost way across Europe. Busforfun vision is a green and shared mobility to experience the world of fun.#WeTheTech | Busforfun is a combination of high tech-startup, e-commerce-platform andtransportation company, Busforfun is going to establish European largest bus network for events in the short time. Thanks to a powerful search engine, business intelligence, an user-friendly booking system and an extensive route network, Busforfun offers travellers the opportunity to experience the world of fun with lower fares.#WeTheGreen | Our low-emission buses comply with the highest safety and environmental standards, so Busforfun offers a sustainable and convenient alternative to cars. With main partner Treedom, Busforfun plants new trees at any travel worldwide.Live Fun Experience in partnership – our concept for successBusforfun provides customers with great offers at lowest budget, through smart network planning, dynamic price management and an adaptive web engine.Busforfun platform is where the innovation and start-up spirit meet the experience and know-how of traditional bus companies and travel agencies.Incredible success can be attributed to the digitalization of old-fashioned bus travel industry: Busforfun has not suppliers or clients: but partners only!
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!
Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
- ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
- Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
- Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.
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
- Involve Space — Involve Space provides solutions for space-based activities via a customizable and cost-effective stratospheric pseudo satellite.
- El Corte Ingles — El Corte Inglés is a business group with more than 80 years of history, upholding the same values as always. Our steadfast principles of ethical and responsible conduct allow us to evolve towards an omnichannel model more aligned with digitalisation, diversification and sustainability. This has meant a progress in the transformation of El CorteInglés from a retailer to a unique ecosystem. Without ever taking our eyes off the product and service quality, expertise, curated selections, guarantees and innovation we offer with the ultimate goal of making people's lives easier.
- Toscana Aeroporti — Toscana Aeroporti provides low cost carriers, cargo flights, and the development of intercontinental flights. They also offer economic development, service providers, and traffic management for tourists. They provide aviation and non-aviation. The aviation industry offers services for landing and taking off as well as ground handling for travelersand aircraft.
Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
- StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.
- Kloster Kitchen — Kloster Kitchen is a monastery kitchen as the root of unique taste.
dpixel seleziona e connette imprese, startup, talenti e istituzioni per generare innovazione e crescita attraverso programmi formativi, accelerazione...
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Intraverse — The evolution of acquisition, engagement and loyalty.
- Lendit — Lendit is a credit-sharing platform where companies and professionals can lend and apply for liquidity in a simple, fast and tailor-made manner. Specifically, Lendit provides a web-based platform to match corporate loan requests with companies, professionals or institutional investors who want to lend liquidity. Lendit's objective is to makeaccess to credit inclusive and accessible to all 'fragile' micro enterprises and entrepreneurs to credit. In fact, Lendit's target is microcredit, with applications ranging from a minimum of EUR 1,000 to a maximum of EUR 50,000. To date, almost two million enterprises are unable to obtain the desired credit. Of these, the greatest difficulty encountered is with applications under 20,000€. Lendit is also structured and built to be not only a "simple' p2p lending platform, but also to be integrated with financial institutions (thanks to partnerships with banks and intermediaries) in order to so as to create an open, multi-platform system that allows users to use innovative p2p lending services directly from their home banking
- Seed Venture — Seed Venture is a blockchain-based platform that decentralizes fundraising activities for startups and SMEs by providing liquidity matching between investors and startups.
Matteo Fago
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Investment focus
- Travel, Farming, Big Data
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
- Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
- IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Incos Invest is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to make investments in companies operating in the industries of cosmetics, perfumes, travel and tourism, real estate, e-commerce, IT, and software development.
The company is headquartered in Skane Lan, Sweden.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Boating, Medical
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
- Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.
Maurizio Donadelli
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
- Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
- Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.
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.
Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Italy, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cropify — Eliminating subjective testing from the classification process using AI and machine learning. Cropify.io
- Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions
- Cellivate Technology — Startup, with proprietary platform technologies and products that enable cellular meat companies to accelerate the growth of cells
Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.
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Investment focus
- Software, Computer, Events
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, San Marino
Portfolio highlights
- Kleecks — Kleecks | Next-generation Enterprise Optimisation Platform
- Kampaay — The digital platform for organizing corporate events, in person, virtual or hybrid, in just a few clicks!
- Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
Roberto Nicastro
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
- Cesarine - Home Food — The best Cooking Classes in Italy, Market Tours, Food Experiences in local homes in Florence, Venice, Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre, Chianti and much more.
Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia is an independent asset management company founded in Florence in 1998. Active in the Private Equity and Venture Capital sector, it currently manages four closed-end funds for a total value of around 140 million euro and has already carried out numerous operations. in the capital of companies operating in variousindustrial sectors, from the most traditional to high-tech. The mission of SICI is to encourage the development of unlisted SMEs in Central Italy through the contribution of financial resources intended to strengthen their capital and financial structure. SICI intends to represent a Growth Partner for the investee companies and a strategic operator in the creation of value for the territory with an impact on the economic and social fabric in terms of competitiveness of the economic system, employment, entrepreneurial and managerial culture. Business Development Central Italy is an independent Italian managing closed-end funds company. Established in Florence in 1998, SICI has 4 Private Equity and Venture funds under management with a total committed capital of 140m Euros.
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Investment focus
- Software, Travel, Semiconductor
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Cents — Cents is a platform that allows businesses to raise awareness in the market by supporting social and environmental causes.
- Parking My Car — Parking My Car offers transportation services.
- Recuperiamo srl — Recuperiamo srl is a food industry founded to prevent and reduce waste throughout the food chain. They are involved in the food industry through the Regusto brand. They can use geolocation to report on last-minute offers for their dishes.
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!
Mario Mariani - Partner @ United Ventures
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Italy
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.
MTI Holding invests in a wide range of companies.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Parking My Car — Parking My Car offers transportation services.
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- 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).
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
We are on a mission to open up language to everyone, using a powerful combination of expert human translators and machine intelligence, and providing curated localization solutions and tools to 225,176 customers worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Internet, Web Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wanderio — LOTUS303 merupakan platform slot online terpercaya dengan permainan slot winrate tinggi. Situs Lotus303 juga menjadi situs slot gacor hari ini gampang menang maxwin di Indonesia.
Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
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- 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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Italy, United States
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- Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
- Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
- Starting Finance — Starting Finance is a financial education platform intended to provide financial literacy to its users. The company's platform provides education and information about finance and publishes informative articles on important events in the fields of economics, finance, and politics, enabling users to improve their knowledge regarding finance andthe management of their capital.
UniCredit Group is an Italian global banking and financial services company. Its network spanning 50 markets in 20 countries, with more than 9,000 branches and over 148,000 employees. Its strategic position in Western and Eastern Europe gives the group one of the region's highest market shares.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Italy, Germany, Sweden
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- Involve Space — Involve Space provides solutions for space-based activities via a customizable and cost-effective stratospheric pseudo satellite.
- Toscana Aeroporti — Toscana Aeroporti provides low cost carriers, cargo flights, and the development of intercontinental flights. They also offer economic development, service providers, and traffic management for tourists. They provide aviation and non-aviation. The aviation industry offers services for landing and taking off as well as ground handling for travelersand aircraft.
- Garofalo Health Care — Garofalo Health Care SpA is a major group in Italy in the authorized private healthcare sector and the only Italian firm listed on the Star division of the Italian Stock Exchange in the healthcare industry.
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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- E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed
- Italy
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- Euklid — EUKLID is a technology development company that realizes customizable systems of algorithms of Time Series Forecasting applied to financial stocks, commodities, indexes and other purposes.
- 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!
We are dedicated to fund, launch and operate highly innovative projects and services in Internet and Mobile services. We enjoy access to a network of top-tier Companies and Professionals with whom we have partnered both for co-investment opportunities as well as for shared expertise and synergies on particular projects. With over 12 years fullydedicated to Internet on a Global scale, Xandas combines broad expertise from the areas of Web, Mobile Internet, Applications and Services. Our projects have a Global scope and have been deployed in Europe, US, and Asia.
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- Travel, Internet, Web Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- Wanderio — LOTUS303 merupakan platform slot online terpercaya dengan permainan slot winrate tinggi. Situs Lotus303 juga menjadi situs slot gacor hari ini gampang menang maxwin di Indonesia.
U-Start is a professional advisory firm structuring deals with private investors, investing in tech companies across Europe, Israel and US.
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- E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Dott — Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters, and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.The company is a micro-mobility European start-up, gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe. We recently raised an initial investment of €20 million, co-led by EQT Ventures and Naspers. Dott is headquartered inAmsterdam and is gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe.
- Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
- Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
Mr. Pescarmona graduated cum laude with a degree in electrical engineering from the Turin Polytechnic Institute in 1993, and holds a second degree in information sciences from the University of Turin, from which he graduated cum laude in 1996. He also earned in 1998 an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Heworked as a consultant in the Milan office of McKinsey & Company, focusing on the insurance and banking industries. Formerly he worked in the Fixed Income Derivatives desk of Morgan Stanley in London. In 2000, Mr. Pescarmona founded Gruppo MutuiOnline together with Alessandro Fracassi, and is currently Chairman of the Board, as well as CEO of the Broking Division. Gruppo MutuiOnline was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange on 6 June 2007.
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- Travel, Finance, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
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Alchimia is an investment company primarily operating in the Venture Capital Sector. Leveraging the expertise of our team and a wide network of international advisors, we invest and co-invest in high growth potential opportunities offering capital, as well as dedicated strategic and operational resources.
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- Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom, Israel
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- NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
- Prestatech — Prestatech is a digital credit factory that has developed an innovative underwriting platform for banks and financial institutions in Europe. Currently active with major European banks, Prestatech offers them a variety of digital credit services from data enrichment to end-to-end instant lending solutions. Thanks to technological innovation,Prestatech has gained an extensive expertise in the digital credit space and through its open-platform is currently offering API-based solutions that leverage on AI, advanced algorithms and Big Data technologies.
- Chiara Ferragni — COM Chiara Ferragni
Cristina Pozzi - COO and Head of Contents @ Treccani Futura
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- Travel, Tourism, Gift Card
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- Wish Days — Wish Days is an Italian holding company operating in different fields.Total 2012 turnover was $ 40 millions, 2013 turnover is espected to be $50 millions.Main areas are:- gift boxes, sold to final customers through retailes (travel agencies, consumer electronic shops, library, food retailer, own shop) with the brand Emozione3. These boxescontain a guide and a voucher through which it is possible to live an experience (night out, day spa, dinner...).- Relationship marketing. We offer b2b services to Italian companies to help them in their loyalty activities and incentive plans.- Online travel agencies (with the brand Elation.it and Finalmentevenerdi.it).- hotel customer reviews web portal (www.trilltip.com).
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
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- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
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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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, United States
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- Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
With EXOR Seeds, We have reconnected with our entrepreneurial roots and long history of innovation.
We look for exceptional founders, with the ambition to build great businesses in their field. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-ledbusiness, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs
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- Health Care, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- Sibill — Sibill is a fintech company that provides corporate liquidity management services online.
- Anthropos — Anthropos is your career platform designed for individuals and companies to manage their careers at scale, inside and outside organizations.
- Viaduct — Viaduct is the AI platform built to help automotive OEMs, fleets, and suppliers reduce the cost of quality and deploy predictive maintenance strategies at scale.
Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Italy, Germany
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- Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with loads from shippers and brokers across the nation.
- FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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