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Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in Italy in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 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 December 2024

Investor	Web3 Italy investments
EIT Urban Mobility	3
United Ventures	3
CDP Venture Capital	3
Max Ciociola	2
Pietro Invernizzi	2
CRiF	2
Rosario Bifulco	2
Luca Ascani	2
Jump Crypto	1
OKX Ventures	1
Calvin Liu	1
Marco Filippi	1
Keyrock	1
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore	1
OKX Ventures	1
Karatage	1
Mentat Group	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
Algorand Foundation	1
David García	1
Banca Sella Holding	1
Wintermute	1
Middlegame Ventures	1
Woori Technology Investment	1
Meld ventures	1
Crédit Agricole Italia	1
Eterna Capital	1
Fondazione Golinelli	1
OKX Ventures	1

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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
IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!

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

Waxy — Waxy is an innovative startup that operates in the domain of designing, building, and distributing technologies for the sanitization of liquids and food products.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
Dora Factory — Dora Factory is the digital infrastructure builder of the Global Hacker Movement. It creates protocols, toolings, and public good infrastructures that help open source communities and frontier tech builders to thrive.
Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications

I'm a committed and energetic person, fascinated by new knowledges and stimulated by new challenges. My area of interests are: Startups, Blockchain & ICO, Sharing economy, Sport, Food & Wines. Text me if you want to talk about the last DLT development as well as the best restaurant you have been in!

Investment focus

Apps, Blockchain, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

volvero — Condividi la tua auto, noleggia veicoli in modo semplice e affidabile. Mettiamo in contatto proprietari e conducenti per un'esperienza unica!

Scaling liquidity and pricing assets since 2017. We enhance digital markets. Backed by time-tested algorithms and ironclad tech. Market making - OTC - Options

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

fija Finance GmbH — The new way to earn on your crypto
Rho Protocol — Rho Protocol is a next-generation decentralized exchange for interest rate swaps, offering institutions a secure and transparent solution to harness the potential of interest rates in Web3
Arcadia Finance — AI Powered Yield Optimizations & Single Click Transactions, 100% DeFi

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

Karatage

Investment focus

Payments, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
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.
Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.

Crypto native venture fund and contemporary family office focused on resilient, open networks and early-stage founders

Investment focus

Web3
Pre-Seed
United States

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.
Axal — Axal is a smart web3 systems by just stating your intent.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Italy

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.
StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
Zerobase — Zerobase is a real-time ZK prover network that prioritizes speed, decentralization, and regulatory compliance. It generates ZK proofs within hundreds of milliseconds and provides decentralized, quick consensus via its HUB ring-wake mechanism, allowing for large-scale commercial application.

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.
PuffPaw — PuffPaw is an e-cigarette maker that uses blockchain technology to track its consumers' smoking behavior.
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

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.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
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.
Hyve — Hyve is a high-throughput data availability solution designed for high-performance decentralized applications and networks.

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

Jenesys AI — Jack is an AI financial co-pilot that employees use inside Slack or Teams to make purchase and approval requests for spending or managing company money. Jack issues one-time use payment card details for supplier purchases, automates reconciliation and reduces invoice fraud by enforcing budgets, regulations, and internal policies at the point ofspend. Jack ensures compliance by acting as an internal auditor on every purchase transaction. Additionally, Jack helps finance leaders manage cash flow and cuts the time to report numbers by 63% each month.
Odne — Curing with light
Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions

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.
Doubler Pro — Join Doubler, become a Winner.
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.

Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
Kilde — Hands-off regular income with up to 11.5% returns per year. Invest in consumer and SME loans with the leading lending firms.

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.
Raven — Raven is a proprietary high-frequency algorithmic trading firm specializing in CeFi market making and DeFi liquidity provision.
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.

We back world-class fintech entrepreneurs creating transformative companies that will rearchitect financial services for decades to come

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Linq.gg — Fintech solution tailored for mobile game developers to create, publish, and scale real-money games.
Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.

Woori Technology Investment Co., Ltd. is a venture capital firm focusing on venture capital.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Korea, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Nodit — Founded in 2012, Dunamu (CEO Lee Seok-woo) is currently providing services as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, 'Upbit' and stock trading platform based on social network, ‘Kakao Stock'. Both services are leading in the industry and ecosystems. (Upbit launched in Oct. 2017, Kakao Stock launched in Feb. 2014) Dunamuprovides the best service in the fields of cryptocurrency, securities, and asset management. Dunamu is getting much attention in both domestic and global market with professional specialists, innovative services and excellent technology. Recently, it announced to make investment of 100 billion dollars in the blockchain industry, leading the way in creating blockchain ecosystem.
Openknowl — OPENKNOWL is an online career management system, offering mentoring facilities and careers camps for those wanting to develop a career in the IT sector.
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.

Meld Ventures is an Australian-based firm dedicated to backing the next wave of blockchain entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Italy, France, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Wayru — Wayru is a decentralized Internet service provider for the urban development world aiming to democratize Internet access
Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
Prismatic — bDollar is an algorithmic multi-pegstablecoin running on Binance Smart-chain. Completely decentralized on-chain governance Presented by Bearn.fi, bDollar is the first algorithmic stablecoin on Binance Smart Chain with an innovative solution that can adjust its supply deterministically to move the price of the token in the direction of a target price to bring programmability and interoperability to

Crédit Agricole Italia is a bank that offers loans and financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Water
Debt Financing, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Italcer Group — Italcer Group is a manufacturer of indoor and outdoor ceramic products.
Clessidra — Clessidra Private Equity is an investment firm that invests in the Italian upper-middle markets. Clessidra Private Equity was founded in 2003 and was headquartered in Milan, Italy.
Generalfinance — Generalfinance is a financial management agency that provides flexible services designed to address the company's debt issues.

Eterna Capital is a blockchain investment firm - We back innovative entrepreneurs who harness blockchain technology

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Bluesky — Bluesky is a new social media platform.
Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

Fondazione Golinelli was born in Bologna in 1988 by the will of the entrepreneur and philanthropist Marino Golinelli with the aim to promote education and training, to promote the culture, to foster intellectual growth and ethics of young people, the citizens of tomorrow.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Biorfarm — Adotta il tuo Albero, crea il tuo Campo Digitale e ricevi a domicilio la tua frutta biologica. Solo con Biorfarm puoi seguire la crescita dei tuoi frutti!
EvenFi — Criptalia uses blockchain technology to connect businesses that have projects to be funded with people and organizations who are looking for high-yield investments. We offer an online platform where companies publish their innovative ideas and industrial improvement projects. Investors, people, and institutions can fund these projects by lendingmoney in exchange for a higher interest rate.
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.

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

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