# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Italy in October 2023 ## CDP Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Club degli Investitori - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy. ## LIFTT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital. ## UniCredit Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Energy, Software, Financial Services UniCredit Group is an Italian global banking and financial services company. Its network spanning 50 markets in 20 countries, with more than 9,000 branches and over 148,000 employees. Its strategic position in Western and Eastern Europe gives the group one of the region's highest market shares. ## GELLIFY - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal. ## Intesa Sanpaolo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. ## Vertis SGR S.p.A. - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Computer Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy. ## United Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology. ## Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Social, Hardware, Software Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. ## Synergo Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software Diamo sostegno operativo e finanziario alle PMI italiane che vogliono crescere negli USA. Investiamo a fianco di imprenditori ambiziosi per aumentare significativamente il valore delle loro aziende. Non siamo un partner solo finanziario, ma anche operativo e strategico. Mettiamo a disposizione la nostra esperienza nel costruire aziende di successo. ## Paolo Barberis - Type: Angel - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed. ## Cassa Depositi e Prestiti - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: CleanTech, InsurTech, B2B The Cassa depositi e prestiti Group is the national promotional institution that has supported the Italian economy since 1850 ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree ## Club Italia Investimenti 2 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital. ## Green Arrow Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 Green Arrow Capital is an independent financial group specializing in alternative investments across Europe. They represent a one-of-a-kind platform, capable of connecting the financial system with the real economy through the management of private equity, private debt, infrastructure, and special credit situation funds as well as thematic fundssuch as microfinance and funds of funds that are currently under management. Their team has a successful track record in asset management, investment banking, industry sectors, technology startups, management consulting, renewable energy, and has government and regulatory experience. Their group is mainly composed of investment, asset management, and financial advisory companies. Their aim is to create a solid financial platform to launch and manage investment funds dedicated to alternatives and to the real economy. ## Francesco Starace - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries such asUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987). In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).In 2014, Francesco Starace was appointed General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award. ## Wolsey Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Genoa, Liguria, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Legal, Fashion We lead, co-lead and at times just partecipate and invest anywhere in all pre-venture and series A rounds, helping organizations become enduring businesses.Yet entrepreneurs and investors aspire to learn from each other and remain inspired.Our mission at Wolsey Ventures consists in technology startups.We believe adoption of smart, digital andhigh technologies will continue to rise in 2016 and beyond,to meet demands from consumers and pressure from the competition to perform and adapt.This demand creates many opportunities for fast-growing companies to start up and reach a global scale. ## CRiF - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle. ## Primo Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Aerospace Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy. ## Francesco Beraldi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech Francesco Beraldi ## GianFilippo Cuneo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: SaaS, Software, Marketing GianFilippo Cuneo ## Eureka Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Medical Device Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments ## Healthware Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Personal Health, PaaS Healthware Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Healthware Group ## Innogest Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries ## Fasanara Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce FASANARA CAPITAL is an independent, owner-managed alternative asset management company authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Co-founded by CEO Francesco Filia in 2011, Fasanara is based in London with alliance offices in Milan. ## Zanichelli Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.We willsupport and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent.We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value.We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors. ## Embed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Mobile Embed Capital directly invests in startups, established or in the process of creation.Embed is mainly focused on innovative companies that:- Are active in the so-called “real economy” sectors: industrials, technology, environment, services, retail or social;- Are characterized by simple and intuitive business models and valuepropositions, and operate in markets or market segments featuring high growth potential;- Present a clear competitive advantage and high barriers-to-entry;- Are cash-generative in the medium term.Given that Embed Capital is not a closed-end fund, it doesn’t have specific time-constrains and it can assess on a project-by-project basis to determine the best time to sell a participation, and sign customized agreements with the entrepreneurs. ## Atlante Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Analytics Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group. Totalling, together with its companion funds Atlante Ventures Mezzogiorno (AVM) and Atlante Seed, 60 mio euros in funds under management, Atlante Ventures only supports truly innovative startups, in Italy and abroad.Sinceinception from 2007, Atlante Ventures, AVM and Atlante Seeds have invested in more than 20 seed and early stage companies across all the innovation spectrum, among which Silicon Biosystems, the leading single-cell genomics company, Icoolhunt, the online trend forecasting startup, Admantx, the semantic-based advertising optimization platformThrough its dedicated team of 8 professionales, Atlante Ventures sifts through hundreds of startup companies per year, using the following as key investment criteria: existence of a clearly innovative product or method, strong IP and Know how where applicable, an entrepreneurial team possessing dynamism, common sense, selling skills and in general, the will to make their mark ## 8a + INVESTMENTS - Type: VC Fund - Location: Varese, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Beauty, Retail Technology, Environmental Consulting 8a + is an investment management firm (SGR) that develops and manages various financial products. ## Azimut Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain Azimut Holding is an independent financial company that offers investment solutions to develop excellent levels of experience. The company's business model is based on the vertical integration between asset management and distribution. It has portfolio managers and analysts based in major hubs around the world and a network of client-facingfinancial advisors operating to deliver quality advice to clients.Azimut Holding was founded on 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy. ## Boost VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more. ## ADM Media Consulting - Type: VC Fund - Location: Balerna, Ticino, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Marketplace, Information Services ADM Media Consulting provides video production, content creativity, event management, and live streaming services. ## ING Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Renewable Energy, Energy ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. They serve more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional customers in Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. They draw on our experience and expertise, their commitment to excellent service andtheir global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions and governments. ## MITO Techonolgy - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Computer, Computer Vision At the intersection of IP law, technology and business strategy ## NovaCapital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Semiconductor NovaCapital invests in the union between entrepreneurs and innovation. It offers international and managerial experience, to transform innovative start-ups and already established companies into structured companies, with managerial skills and an international network. ## Geminea - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance Geminea assists entrepreneurs and businesses that want to grow and change the world by developing Artificial Intelligence. ## Metes - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance Metes operate as an investment firm. ## Compagnia di San Paolo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Battery Siamo una fondazione bancaria che ha allineato la sua struttura agli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile delle Nazioni Unite. Promuoviamo progetti e lanciamo bandi a Torino e nel territorio di Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta. ## BlackSheep Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Advertising, Marketing, SaaS BlackSheep is the first venture capital firm focused on Madtech: AI, Big Data, Automation and its B2B applications for the marketing and advertising industry. ## AVM Gestioni - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Robotics AVM Gestioni is an investment firm. ## Digitech Venture Capital Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Houston, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Software, Health Care Digitech is a strategic venture capital fund that identifies emerging tech companies at their early stages and plays an active role in their growth. ## CDP Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors" ## Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Art, Apps FSVGDA aims at the promotion of the impact investing culture, in order to facilitate social innovation. ## European Union - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical Device Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member countries; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights. ## OCS - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brescia, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Analytics, Marketing OCS offers financial management services such as consumer credit and retail transactions, banking, management, and consultancy. ## Deloitte Consulting - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Marketplace, Information Services Deloitte Consulting offers consulting services. It offers enterprise applications, human capital, outsourcing, strategy and operations, and technology integration consulting services. Deloitte Consulting began operation in 1996, with its headquarters in Chicago in Illinois. It operates as a subsidiary of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. ## FCA Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Debt Financing - Focus: FinTech, Consulting, Transportation FCA Bank is a finance company that provides motor and car insurance services. ## Alessandro Rimassa - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Industrial Author of "It's easy to change Italy, if you know how to do it" and "Thousand Euro Generation", director of the school of management and communication of IED. ## Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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