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Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in Italy in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Web3 startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in Italy in January 2025

Investor	Web3 Italy investments
CDP Venture Capital	3
EIT Urban Mobility	3
United Ventures	3
Rosario Bifulco	2
CRiF	2
Luca Ascani	2
Max Ciociola	2
Pietro Invernizzi	2
Dewhales Capital	1
Absoluta Digital	1
Algorand Ventures	1
Black Alpha Capital	1
BlackDragon	1
Coinvision Research	1
Cryptosociety	1
Danu Ventures	1
DEXT Force Ventures	1
Selini Capital	1
DIB Ventures	1
HC Capital	1
Majinx Capital	1
Mapleblock Capital	1
Moon Capital	1
Roham Gharegozlou	1
Jump Crypto	1
Ton Ventures	1
Symbolic Capital	1
Spartan	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Primitive Ventures	1
Polygon Ventures	1
Paper Ventures	1
Speedinvest	1
Protocol Labs	1
LDA Capital	1
PranaVentures	1
Kairos Partners	1
HATCHER+	1
Banca Sella Group	1
Coinbase Ventures	1
Valar Ventures	1
Climate-KIC	1
Sente Ventures	1
Youbi Capital	1
Sygnum	1
Polymorphic Capital	1
ParaFi Capital	1
David García	1
Banca Sella Holding	1
Wintermute	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ekore — Miglioriamo la gestione degli edifici ottimizzando i consumi e la gestione delle manutenzioni tramite il concetto di Digital Twin.
Tau Group — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.

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.

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!

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

xFarm Technologies — The agricultural business is becoming more and more complex due to legal requirements and product certification. On the other hand, technologies evolve and create opportunity. xFarm is a startup that aims at the digitization of agriculture, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and food supply chain's stakeholders in themanagement of their companies. Created by farmers and tailored to the agricultural sector, its main focus is on ease of use, intuitiveness and complete adaptability to agricultural realities. The digital ecosystem includes a free agricultural application, available on both mobile and desktop and integrated with advanced premium modules, a dashboard Analytics dedicated to professionals and a line of IoT sensors selected, optimized and connected by xFarm.
Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet

Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A.

Investment focus

Art, Medical, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

I-VASC — I-VASC has developed the VELEX device using new technology to treat CVI and varicose veins.
Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.

CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Ireland, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
Agrobit — Agrobit develops digital farming solutions based on imaging (smartphone, drones) to help farmers getting better decision in agro-inputs management. The flagship product is the mobile app iAgro, the first quantitative Decision Support System to optimize pesticide treatments and digitize crops (digital twin) quickly and easily just using asmartphone. The competitive advantages are to provide information unobtainable from other technologies (field sensors, satellites), the use of proprietary AR, AI and computer vision algorithms and the possibility to reach a huge number of users that cannot make high investments but are the majority in Europe (small/medium farms). The app uses AR to 3D-scan plants (tree crops) and in-cloud AI and computer vision algorithms to re-create the 3D model (digital twin) of the scanned plant, in order to calculate its biometrics (canopy thickness, height, volume), vigor parameter (LAI) and field parameters (LWA, TRV). Finally, a mathematical model estimates the correct pesticide doses to be distributed.
Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.

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.

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.

Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable businesses in the mobile and media space with broad experience in product, business, and content development for the digital space. Max is founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the World's Largest Lyrics Catalog and MusicAI Company with +70 Mln of users in the world. Musixmatch uses Deep Learning and AI techniques to provide lyrics and language data to most of music digital streaming companies. As first mover in the mobile space Max started in early 1998 with Wireless Solutions, a multi media mobile gateway platform for delivering contents in more than 100 countries over 300 mobile carriers. He then sold his company to Dada, an italian media company, and he spent 7 years with Dada first as CEO Dada Iberia & Latam e then as EVP Mobile Services, leading a team of +100 people and +80 mln yearly turnover. Max is the co founder of AI Labs, an R&D AI Lab in Italy active on Technology Transfer on AI.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
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).
Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.

Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Typedream — Use AI to help you plan, visualize, and build your website. Generate wireframes & copywriting for marketing websites in minutes with Typedream's AI Website Builder, then edit, customize, and publish your site with our powerful website editor
Dimension — Dimension is an all-in-one ecosystem for product development built for a better developer experience, enabling developers to plan, build, and deploy their project in one place.

Dewhales is a disruptive crypto-native fund focused on early-stage protocols and fueled by OGs, founders, and key investors.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
Hana Network — Hana Network is a software development company that develops and manages cryptocurrency and blockchain transactions.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Absoluta Digital is a strategic advisory and investment firm focus on supporting blockchain startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Algorand Ventures is the new program dedicated to providing funding and launch support to the best builders and investors in the algorand ecosystem.

Investment focus

Financial Services
Funding Round
Afghanistan

Portfolio highlights

HesabPay — Experience a revolutionary shift in digital payments with HesabPay, enabling effortless money transfers, bill payments, and gift cards.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Black Alpha Capital Embracing the decentralized future of cryptocurrency and its boundless potential, recognize the tremendous opportunities within the crypto market, followed by its inherent high volatility.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

BlackDragon is a decentralized blockchain-native fundraising group with dedicated in-house marketing, development, and research teams. We support the projects we invest in by providing invaluable resources in marketing, advisory, community growth, and access to our expansive, yet exclusive industry network.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Singapore, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Zizle — Zizle wants to use the Solana blockchain to transform social networking: better data privacy, decentralized governance, and more efficient revenue streams for consumers and producers. the platform's goal is to make social networking a more entertaining, healthy, and profitable environment.
GPU.Net — GPUNet offers a scalable, blockchain-based solution for decentralized GPU computing. Access or rent out GPU resources for AI, data analysis, and scientific research.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Coinvision Research provides tech reviews, news with technical and fundamental analysis of the cryptocurrency market.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Cryptosociety actively supports the project through strategy, marketing, design, launchpad introductions, strategic relationship introductions, and active participation on social media. Therefore, it was only a logical step for us to become advisors on some initiatives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

DANU VENTURES provides comprehensive advisory support: attraction of investments, audit, listing, market making, strategic planning etc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

The investment arm of DEXTools.io, DEXT FORCE VENTURES helps projects from incubation stage to public listing and beyond.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Bondex — Find jobs in Web3 and monetize your network through referral bounties. Gain access to the talent network to hire faster and cheaper.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Honeypot Finance — Honeypot Finance is a community-run DeFi hub that includes a novel AMM approach to unify a community-led launchpad (Dreampad) and DEX (HenloDex).

Selini Capital is a multi-strategy trading firm and liquidity provider specializing in crypto assets. With roots in traditional finance and a passion for technology, we strive to bring leadership to this dynamic space.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Taiwan, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Heurist — Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources.
DeFi.app — DeFi.app helps to make DeFi trading easier while keeping full ownership of crypto assets. It also helps to manage CEFI and DEFI more effectively.
Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.

DIB Ventures is a blockchain advisory and investment firm, helping blockchain startups integrate into the crypto landscape and accelerate their growth and industry.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

HC Capital invests in and supports defi, web3, and metaverse businesses.

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, Casual Games
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Yuliverse — Yuliverse is a Web3 metaverse game platform where players can meet other players and connect with like-minded individuals in the same city.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Majinx Capital is an investment fund focused on companies in DeFi, infrastructure, dApps,and other Web3 areas. The firm focuses on (pre-)seed and strategic investment rounds.The main goal of the fund is to find the most promising and ambitious projects, ensure their successful fundraising and boost their growth by using a well-developed innernetwork of connections: + 250 VCs, key opinion leaders from 12 countries and access to crypto communities in 8 countries. The fund scale projects with solid teams with exceptional mindsets, well-developed roadmaps and business strategies that are looking for a financial boost to thrive.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed

Portfolio highlights

Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Moon Capital invests all its energy in researching new projects to detect their potential for success, thus giving the community the opportunity to invest in them. The team firmly believes in collective growth and progress as the basis for healthy investment.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Play AI — The Orchestration Layer for Consumer Intelligence
Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.
Nexus Interactive — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

Ton Ventures

Investment focus

Mobile, FinTech, Payments
Series B
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
Bion — Bion is a Web3 shopping application that uses blockchain technology to enhance the shopping experience.

Symbolic Capital is a crypto VC founded by web3 founders. We provide web3 investing with global impact.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Italy

Portfolio highlights

StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.

Spartan is an oilfield management company that offers labor support, technology, engineering, construction, and project management services.

Investment focus

Gaming, PC Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
Symmio — Symmio is a platform that facilitates the clearing of derivatives transactions by focusing on the specific intentions of users. It provides easy, permissionless access to both traditional and emerging assets.
TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.

Primitive Ventures is a global venture investment firm with a focus on blockchain and related technologies. At Primitive, we're proudly thesis-free, and instead spend all of their waking hours finding and supporting the people building truly valuable things.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.

Polygon Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage Web3 startups.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
B² Network — B² Network is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that utilizes ZK rollup and on-chain logical gate commitment verification mechanisms. It is a supplementary network that runs on top of the Bitcoin Network. It also introduces smart contracts to Bitcoin, which could open up new possibilities for DeFi, NFTs, and derivatives.

Paper Ventures is a first-in, innovative investment firm, focusing on the ever-changing landscape of emerging technologies.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Software, Web3
Seed, Funding Round
Argentina, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qooverse — Qooverse is a Web3 gaming studio that creates fast-paced, win-to-earn mobile card games with a compelling gameplay loop. This involves developing an ecosystem of mid-core and casual social games for Telegram and future social platforms.
TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Akave — Akave is a decentralized data management network that supports the next generation of data-driven apps and marketplaces.
Randamu — making previously impossible distributed applications DePINdable!
Glow Labs — Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions.

LDA Capital is an alternative investment group focused on investing in the global private and public markets. Their firm provides capital solutions to companies seeking financing in underserved markets and in complex conditions on a global basis. Our team has executed over $5 billion in transactions across 42 countries over the last 10 years.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
Singapore, Italy, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Jada Ai — Jada Ai develops human-level artificial intelligence technology for collaboration between humans and machines.
Seedify — Seedify is a blockchain gaming-focused incubator and launchpad ecosystem empowering innovators and project developers through access to funding, community, and partnership building, and a full support system to help drive the future of gaming and blockchain. It is an investor in the blockchain games, NFTs, and metaverses
Gameness — Gameness is a Web3 platform that enhances the esports experience through cryptocurrency and NFTs. Users can engage in tournaments and events, leveraging blockchain technology to create a more interactive and rewarding environment for gamers. This platform aims to combine competitive gaming with the benefits of decentralization, allowing players toearn rewards and showcase their achievements in a vibrant community.

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.

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.

Kairos Partners SGR is a independent Italian asset management company.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.
Hercle — Hercle is a FinTech company that develops low-latency technology that offers end-to-end prime-brokerage solutions and trading algorithms to institutional investors who are interested in gaining exposure to crypto-assets.
Underscore District — Underscore District unlocks the potential of Made in Italy fashion brands through the power of technology and data analytics.

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.

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

The Banca Sella Group boasts a history that is now more than a century old, followed by the common thread of the principles and values inspired directly by its founders. In this section we outline the Group profile and its main stages.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MrCall — Un assistente digitale dedicato al tuo business, che risponde quando non puoi, raccoglie i messaggi e li trascrive in una mail, un SMS o un messaggio Whatsapp.Configurabile e attivo sul telefono in due passaggi. Senza cambiare operatore, senza installare nuovi software, senza nuovi centralini.Nessun investimento o costo di attivazionerichiesto.
Tot — Meglio di un conto corrente aziendale: scopri Tot, il conto aziendale online per imprese che semplifica la tua gestione amministrativa. Aprilo ora online.
Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Shinami — Tools to build the next wave of decentralized applications
Pond — Pond is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on creating a comprehensive ecosystem for training Web3 AI models. Pond's approach is quite exciting because it merges two powerful, innovative technologies: AI and Web3.
Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.
Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.

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.

Investment focus

Sustainability, CleanTech, Energy
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
WindCapture Technologies — WindCapture Technologies utilises the scale of wind turbines to provide affordable and scalable direct air capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

KFOBIX — KFOBIX offers nano-composite materials to prevent freezing and contamination of solar panels, wind turbines, and automobile glass.
DRONEQUBE — DRONEQUBE provides an innovative SaaS solution that empowers drones to monitor and defend vineyard health autonomously, addressing pressing concerns brought about by the climate crisis and increasing labor challenges.
Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions

We invest in world-class solutions designed to create a sustainable and inclusive web3 infrastructure

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
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Multiple Network — Multiple Network is a web3 DePIN project that uses SD-WAN technology to create a network layer that allows for high-speed transfer of digital assets and data.

Sygnum is a digital asset bank, founded on Swiss and Singapore heritage, operating globally.Rooted in two of the world’s leading financial hubs, Switzerland and Singapore, they empower institutional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks, and other financial institutions to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.Sygnum was founded by an experienced and interdisciplinary team of banking, investment, DLT, and regulatory experts, and is backed by a distinguished group of individuals and institutions. Together, they share a clear vision of how to transform the financial industry in the coming years through DLT banking innovation.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ledn — Ledn offers a suite of credit and savings products for you to make the most of your digital assets.
Chainstack — Chainstack is a leading blockchain infrastructure providing company. Build, run and scale blockchain applications using Chainstack nodes.
Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.

It is a venture capital firm that selectively invests in extraordinary teams and emerging paradigms in blockchain and fintech globally.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Fair Math — Fair Math is a research company with an open-source oriented approach, dedicated to addressing privacy challenges in the modern world.
Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.
Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.

Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Toket — Toket provides user-friendly APIs & no-code tools that empowers teams with no blockchain experience to easily create NFT-based applications
Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is the innovative DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade and manage digital assets.

Banca Sella Holding is a holding company based in Italy. It provides services that include management, coordination, control, trading, and treasury activities of financial sectors through its subsidiaries. The company's banking products and services also consists of various deposits, as well as repurchase agreements, mortgage loans, personalloans, factoring, and Internet and mobile banking services.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.
Hercle — Hercle is a FinTech company that develops low-latency technology that offers end-to-end prime-brokerage solutions and trading algorithms to institutional investors who are interested in gaining exposure to crypto-assets.

A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.

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