Top 50 Community VC Funds & Investors in Italy (October 2023)

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• WORA — Wora is integrated with the main e-commerce platforms. For in-store purchases or via alternative channels (e.g., Instagram, WhatsApp, telephone), they make their app available to retailers to be able to send their requests easily.
• 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.
• Resalis Therapeutics — Resalis Therapeutics sviluppa un farmaco in grado di inibire un micro-RNA per il trattamento di alcune malattie metaboliche

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• UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
• Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
• La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

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• Convoy — Convoy uses technology to make freight more efficient, reduce shippers' costs, increase carriers' earnings, and eliminate carbon emissions.
• FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• Finom — Finom combines digital business account benefits with multiple services to provide financial solutions for entrepreneurs, self-employed, and freelancers. It pulls together accounting, financial management, and banking functions for early-stage businesses and SMEs into one mobile-first product.Founded in 2019, Finom is headquartered in Amsterdam,The Netherlands.

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• Largix — Largix is the first company to develop and commercially produce 3D Robotic Printers for real production processes. We have invented the "Cold 3D Printing®" technology that makes 3DP possible for real industrial production. Largix uses the most common thermoplastic polymers: Polypropylene and Polyethylene, polymers that nobody else iscapable of printing.
• TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
• Electra Vehicles — Control, Analyze, & Design Innovative Battery Packs using Electra Vehicles' EVE-Ai 360 Adaptive Controls and Analytics and EnPower Design.

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• Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
• Turion Space — Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite.
• Sixfold Bioscience — Sixfold Bioscience engineers programmable oligonucleotide delivery systems are able to deliver RNA exclusively to diseased cells. It is based in London.

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• Picosats — PicoSaTs envisages a new generation of telecommunication systems for space applications dedicated to CubeSat pico-satellites. The key technologies at the core of this system are a software defined radio and a highly directive and configurable antenna, operating at higher frequencies (Ka band), and providing very high data rates.
• Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
• Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.

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• Fiscozen — Apertura partita IVA, fatturazione, F24, contributi, dichiarazione dei redditi. Tutto in un unico piano. Richiedi una consulenza gratuita.
• Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
• Electra Vehicles — Control, Analyze, & Design Innovative Battery Packs using Electra Vehicles' EVE-Ai 360 Adaptive Controls and Analytics and EnPower Design.

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• Caracol — Caracol - Large Format Additive Manufacturing for advanced industries. Discover more on our LFAM technology and solutions.
• Muscope — Revolutionize your organization's approach to cyber security with the Muscope CYSR platform's comprehensive risk assessment and rating
• Sidereus Space Dynamics — As an intern, you'll work alongside our talented team of engineers and professionals, gaining valuable experience and insight into the world of space vehicle design and manufacturing.

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• KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
• ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
• WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

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• CellPly — Cellply is a life-science company focused on developing next-generation analytical tools enabling a deep characterization of cancer immunotherapies, cell therapies and cell-based biotherapeutics. The company aims to support the development of novel cancer immunotherapies by accelerating R&D, automating the quality control and advancing theability to monitor the clinical response to these treatments.Through the use of proprietary microfluidic technologies with Co-Culture Array technology, highly-automated analytical instruments and AI-powered image and data analytics, Cellply products define the function of the immune system one cell at a time, combining functional data with other multiplex data and providing unprecedented single-cell analytical solutions.
• Test1 soultions — Test1 Solutions is an oil absorbent technique for hydrocarbons and their derivatives. They serve environmental clean up, oil spill clean up, hydrocarbon spills, geennovation, open cell oleophilic polyurethane foam with a hydrophobic effect, and hydrocarbon spills on water and land.
• Comptek Solutions — Comptek Solutions' novel passivation technology - Kontrox - promotes surface crystalline oxide reconstructions on the surface of the III-V compound semiconductor materials, enabling unprecedented efficiency of devices and a significant reduction in manufacturing costs

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• Dott — Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters, and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.The company is a micro-mobility European start-up, gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe. We recently raised an initial investment of €20 million, co-led by EQT Ventures and Naspers. Dott is headquartered inAmsterdam and is gathering the most experienced team in mobility and tech in Europe.
• Keatz — Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinaryteam is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods.Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• TransferGo — Send & receive money from over 30 countries with TransferGo, either online or through our app. Transfer money at low cost, quickly & safely.

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• Equixly — Equixly helps eliminate blind spots by testing your running APIs.
• Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
• Via Sana — Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices.

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• Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
• Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
• Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

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• Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.

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• Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.
• Holifya — Holifya is a platform for digital health and wellness with a personalized and scientific approach, based on your genetic profile, biomarkers, habits, and goals. They leverage technology and advanced data analysis methods (such as machine learning) to support the doctor or nutritionist in the creation of an increasingly personalized, 360-degree foodand health and wellness plan.
• TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences

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• Vikey — Self check-in Automatico e Domotica per Gestire da Remoto ogni aspetto dell'accoglienza in Hotel, Case Vacanze, Appartamenti e B&B.
• YoAgents — YoAgents is a Digital Service company that allows sales professionals to connect with startups and micro-companies and SMEs.Through the app, they can choose services, pitch themselves to companies, download sales documents, create deals, with companies in the fitness, ho.re.ca., retail, sectors, as well as visualize and require revenue. Theplatform currently hosts over 2,000 sales professionals in its lead generation door to door platform.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
• Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.

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• 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).
• Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
• Philips — Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services. The company offers professionals with healthcare, lighting, and oral healthcare products, professional dictation, and display solutions, and innovation services. It offers consumers electronic products related tosound and vision, personal care, mother and child care, housewares, lighting, PCs and phones, and more.

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• Evommune — Evommune is taking a tissue-based approach to advance insights and accelerate the development of transformative medicines in inflammatory diseases.
• Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
• Ariceum Therapeutics — Ariceum Therapeutics focuses on diagnosis and precision treatment of neuroendocrine and certain other aggressive, hard-to-treat cancers.

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• ThetaRay — ThetaRay's big data analytics solutions are based on AI & machine learning, empowering businesses to find opportunities and threats hidden in their big data
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
• Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

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• Snowit — Snowit is a smart online travel agency that aggregates in one platform all the services for skiers and snowboarders: skipass, equipment rent, ski lessons, experiences and accommodation.Booking snow activities online is not easy, the online market is highly fragmented and poorly organized. In fact, each ski area has its own website and skipassonline purchases can generally be done only when already owning the local skipass card. Besides the skipass, booking online a full holiday on the snow is complex because of the lack and fragmentation of the offer. Snowit aims at becoming the reference point for winter-related services in multiple ski areas across Europe, allowing users to easily organize their holidays on the snow by booking online all the services they need from accommodation to ski lessons. Moreover, the Snowitcard, that allows to purchase online the ski pass for all ski resorts in the circuit and to go directly at the lift, is a powerful instrument of promotion and loyalty. Snowit booking engine allows also user to compare the total cost of holiday for multiple destination and to recommend the best destination depending on user profile and needs.
• Busforfun — Shared and Green traveling to experience the world of fun#WeTheFun | Busforfun is a young mobility company traveling in a sustainable, safe and low-cost way across Europe. Busforfun vision is a green and shared mobility to experience the world of fun.#WeTheTech | Busforfun is a combination of high tech-startup, e-commerce-platform andtransportation company, Busforfun is going to establish European largest bus network for events in the short time. Thanks to a powerful search engine, business intelligence, an user-friendly booking system and an extensive route network, Busforfun offers travellers the opportunity to experience the world of fun with lower fares.#WeTheGreen | Our low-emission buses comply with the highest safety and environmental standards, so Busforfun offers a sustainable and convenient alternative to cars. With main partner Treedom, Busforfun plants new trees at any travel worldwide.Live Fun Experience in partnership – our concept for successBusforfun provides customers with great offers at lowest budget, through smart network planning, dynamic price management and an adaptive web engine.Busforfun platform is where the innovation and start-up spirit meet the experience and know-how of traditional bus companies and travel agencies.Incredible success can be attributed to the digitalization of old-fashioned bus travel industry: Busforfun has not suppliers or clients: but partners only!

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• Iktos — Iktos is the only company to offer generative modeling with built-in synthetic accessibility for successful drug discovery
• DiogenX — We incorporated DiogenX with the objective to provide new therapeutic solutions for diabetic patients. With Patrick Collombat and the team, we are focused on developing a first-in-class regenerative treatment for type 1 diabetes. Benjamin Charles CEO See the team News See more Our Work OUR APPROACH ABOUT DIABETES
• The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

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• Convivit — Convivit develops a residential and hotel services platform that creates a network of self-sufficient senior living residences. Convivit is a joint venture between Generali Italia and CDP Venture Capital SGR, created with the aim of introducing senior living in Italy and promoting people's well-being and active aging.
• Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
• Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.

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• Slam — Slam is the nautical clothing brand that has revolutionized the sailing world. In Slam, History and Avant-Garde come together in a perfect union.
• Soundreef — Soundreef ltd is an Independent Management Entity (EU Directive 2014/26/EU) listed in the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom and can operate throughout Europe including Spain. Soundreef was founded to offer a viable alternative to the traditional Collective Management Organisation by combining innovative technology withpersonal customer service. Soundreef manages the rights of over 25,000 authors and publishers worldwide rewarding them with the fair, transparent and quick payment they deserve for the use of their musical works. Business users such as radio and tv broadcasters, digital service providers, live event organisers, theatres and cinemas, business establishments and music labels can obtain a mandatory license for the use of musical works managed by Soundreef.Soundreef ltd is incorporated in U.K. and owned by Soundreef S.p.A. , a company incorporated in Italy. Soundreef S.p.A. is the company that develops the technology and the content management platform used by Soundreef ltd to audit, collect and maximize royalties for Soundreef authors and publishers. The company process billions of transactions with a focus to improve data security and efficiency in the music industry.Soundreef S.p.A. controls also 100% of Soundreef publishing srl and 100% of Soundreef Media Services srl.
• Supermoney — Supermoney is an online broker which helps to compare costs of electricity and gas.

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• Edison Spa — Edison is Europe's oldest energy company, and one of the industry leaders in Italy and Europe. Discover all the activities we ar
• Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
• Casalasco Società Agricola — Casalasco Società Agricola is the supply network for the cultivation and processing of industrial tomatoes.

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• Crea — CREA is the leading digital commerce enabler providing end to end solution for brands to reach the booming, digital savvy millennial and Generation Z consumers in Southeast Asia.
• AGORA — Discover what we are known best for, our AGORA Edits!
• ZAGO Milano — La tua skincare e skin-prep Made in Italy con Amore!

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• Funko — Funko provides branded pop culture products to a diverse range of consumers and retail channels.Funko currently holds hundreds of licenses and the rights to create tens of thousands of characters - one of the largest portfolios in the pop culture and collectibles industry. Funko’s Pop! Vinyl is the number one stylized vinyl collectible on themarket, selling millions of figures to collectors around the world.
• Optoro — Optoro returns software provides retailers with an all-in-one % platform to delight customers, drive revenue, and preserve the planet.
• Heyday — Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.It aims to amplify the eCommerce entrepreneurs' marketplace brand. Heyday is backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Arbor Ventures.The San Francisco-based company started in August 2020 and is founded by Sebastian Rymarz and AdamGerchen.

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• Aindo — Unlock the full potential of your data. The power of synthetic data integrated in a comprehensive Data Platform.
• ToothPic — ToothPic provides solutions on technologies for the recognition of photographic devices.ToothPic’s mission is turning every smartphone into a secure and user-friendly key for user authentication. ToothPic is an official university spin-off of Politecnico di Torino, a major engineering school in Italy and Europe, and is incubated in the universityincubator I3P, recently recognized by UBI Global as the best public incubator worldwide. ToothPic was founded by a team of 4 researchers and professors from Politecnico di Torino, and in 2018 received a seed from VV3TT, an Italian Venture Capital fund dedicated to Technology Transfer from public research. ToothPic technology is protected by 4 patents, and won several prizes in competitions dedicated to startups and twice the Seal of Excellence issued by the European Commission. ToothPic’s target is the market of authentication systems. Its technology recognizes the unique pattern of invisible imperfections that characterize smartphone cameras to protect cryptographic keys stored on devices, that are commonly used for user authentication, digital signature, blockchain related applications. The additional layer of security represented by this random unclonable feature can be obtained with no additional hardware and related costs. A Software Development Kit has been developed for Android and iOS. It can be integrated into existing third-party apps and authentication systems, allowing the device possession verification by (de)obfuscating asymmetric cryptographic keys. Users’ credentials are not stored in a centralized service provider server - representing a single point of failure exploitable by an attacker, but they are distributed on users’ devices. Hence, an adversary willing to violate those credentials should target each single user device, facilitating for service providers the migration from an on premises architecture to the cloud, because they don’t need to manage sensitive users credentials, but only their public key.
• IntendiMe — IntendiMe proposes to improve the life of deaf persons and of those with hearing issues, making them feel more independent, free, and safe. All this is possible thanks to an innovative system that allows to detect any sound in real time and to receive a warning for them directly on your own wrist, through the dedicated smartwatch.

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• Kampaay — The digital platform for organizing corporate events, in person, virtual or hybrid, in just a few clicks!

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• Battistella — Battistella sells lumber, pine chips, sawdust, and pine logs. They serve both domestic and foreign markets. It exports its products worldwide. They engage in continuous recycling, which gives them the experience they need to satisfy the customs regulations of the various nations where they do business. They use the sawn pine wood that they processto make furniture and packaging.
• Fincantieri — Fincantieri is one of the shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. It is leader in cruise ship design and construction and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, from naval to offshore vessels, from high-complexity special vessels and ferries to mega-yachts, ship repairs and conversions,systems and components production and after-sales services.
• Selene — Selene produces FFS tubulars, FFS films, preformed bags, stretch hoods, and technical films for industrial applications.

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• Mukako — MUtable is the first multi-activity play table for kids with infinite games and accessories. Toddlers and children up to 8 can play with Lego towers, puzzles, playhouses, drawing boards and many other toys. MUtable is made of wood in a sustainable way, and its sleek Italian design can fit any home.
• Insoore — Insoore is a platform that helps insurance companies to improve the claims management process, thanks to on-demand photographic inspections and damage estimates provided by a community of experts.

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• Limonta — Limonta | 1893 is a group focuses on passion, creativity and innovation, with skills in the clothing, leather goods, footwear, furnishings, sports and automotive sectors.
• Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an Influencer Marketing platform for your social media campaigns. Find the best influencers on Instagram and Facebook to deliver succesfull campaigns with an effective impact.
• Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

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• Neosurance — Neosurance is an insurtech company that provides insurers with customer insight and a profiling platform. Its platform enables the sale of instant micro-policies through push notifications. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

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• marinanow — With Marinanow you can hire boats and rent berths throughout Europe. Book your next adventure online in only a few clicks of a mouse!
• AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.

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• Filo — Filo the Bluetooth tracker that can find your keys, wallet and phone with an app on your phone. Attach, connect and ring. Always find what matters most to you.

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• Ernesto — Ernesto is the web platform and App which offer a revolutionary method to connect professionals and customers in the home services market. We work with the emerging trend of digital startups offering an opportunity for professionals to find new customers and new job opportunities. At the same time Ernesto provides everyone the possibility tofind quickly trusted and qualified pros.Our customers. Our target customers come from two distinct groups. Our professionals are primarily plumbers, electricians, and anyone who provide home services looking to expand their network and earn an extra income on the side. Our target users are people who need help to manage the house. Our best target is composed by people in their 35-55 age range.Market summary. Market research conducted confirms that targeting these customer groups in a platform will offer an extremely big potential for Ernesto. Shifting social, economic and technological trends are already changing the consumer perceptions in the home services field, making customers more demanding in terms of the efficiency, reliability, price and evaluation.Product description. Ernesto focuses on providing its target customers with an easy solution in the form of a peer-to-peer marketplace to meet their needs. For professionals we offer a creative way to earn extra income by doing what they know to do. By listing withErnesto they are able to practice their skills, find new customers and job opportuni- ties doing it at the time and price they are comfortable with. For users we provide a chance to have a wide list of professionals in their area at affordable and agreed price. Therefore, for both parties, the platform will offer a great chance to solve problem in an efficient and innovative way.Business Model At the core of Ernesto operations lies a marketplace business model based on the Purchase by professional of virtual coins to send quotes applying to the customer’s request. Additional revenue is derived from the premium services and advertising revenues.Strategy Ernesto’s strategy success will be rooted in the partnerships established with key market players. Specifically, the company will aim to develop close cooperation with companies specialized in the sale of products in this specific field (plumbing, electrician, gardening, cleaning, etc.) to secure a continuous growth of new users. We have also developed an innovative marketing strategy based on use -generated content, power of social media and word-of- mouth and believe that a combination of these strategies will greatly aid the fast adoption of our services.

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• Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
• Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
• TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in

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• Le Cicogne — Le Cicogne aims to become the first company in Europe to break down the trust barriers between parents and babysitters. Le Cicogne platform and app matches demand and supply for childcare services as baby sitting, pickup service, homework tuition, baby party and much more.Le Cicogne gives parents an efficient way to find the perfect babysitterfor their needs. Parents will see where the babysitter lives on the maps, will see previous parents feedbacks. Baby sitters have to register and create a profile, they'll be the one choosing the job they prefer by applying. They'll choose number of hours to work per day or week or month. They choose how much distance and if they can offer to the parent what he is asking for.Le Cicogne is not just a matching market place that matches demand and supply of childcare services, but we are also a service provider to our users as check-in and check-out system to calculate the exact timing of work, cashless payments, insurance covering the working hours and a regularization system to set a contract between the parent (employer) and the babysitter (employee).
• Lorenzo Vinci — Lorenzo Vinci is an e-commerce company that offers its clients a selection of Italian food and wine. It is dedicated to those that are passionate about Italian gourmet food and wines, a place where each club member can discover, taste, and purchase Italian products at competitive prices.Lorenzo Vinci also serves as an effective marketing and salechannel for producers. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Milan, Lombardia.

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• Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
• InvGate — InvGate is the solution to build a modern service desk and empower IT with total visibility of your IT estate.

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• Gamindo — Customized Video Games for Engagement, Education, Lead Generation, CSR and Training.
• HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
• Wall Street Football — Wall Street Football - Leveraging first-class machine learning to provide the most accurate football players performance predictions

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• MgShell — MgShell offers intraocular devices for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and other ocular diseases. Their technology is the only technical solution capable of replicating current clinical practice with a single injection and releasing the same therapeutic drug doses at predetermined periods, autonomously and without surgicalprocedures.
• Freedome — Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy

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• Tiassisto24 — Tiassisto24 is the AI/ML micro-services technology platform for managing vehicle-related matters such as deadlines, fines, insurance products, car repairs and payments. It is designed for the modular and scalable configuration of end-to-end solutions for B2B, B2B2C, and B2C channels using an infrastructure of APIs and white label solutions.Who are our clients? Tiassisto24 platform is aimed at all driver groups and service distribution channels: online consumers such as individuals, families and small companies (B2C), local car repair operators (B2B2C) and large corporations in the automotive, insurance, finance, and mobility sectors (B2B).

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• PerMicro — PerMicro: microcredito in Italia a chi non ha storico creditizio. Avvio startup, redazione business plan e prestiti per esigenze famigliari.

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• NEWTWEN — We develop software that generates real-time embedded digital twin solutions for model predictive control and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, enhancing performance, longevity, and reliability. In essence, our toolchain creates a precise digital replica of a physical device, such as an electric motor or generator, in order to accuratelymodel the electrodynamic and thermodynamic behavior of the system across a wide range of operating conditions. We then apply our proprietary mathematical approach to exponentially reduce the computational complexity of this model—so much so, in fact, that our digital twin can be integrated into the device itself to compute in real-time, “on-chip,” as part of an amazingly fast and accurate firmware solution. By accurately predicting temperatures and other critical system parameters thousands of times per second, our Digital Twin On-Chip solutions not only provide unprecedented insight for real-time control techniques to enhance system performance, but also pave the way for data-as-a-service capabilities such as predictive maintenance, monitoring of component aging, and anomaly detection.
• Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
• Sibylla Biotech — Sibylla Biotech developed small molecule folding interfering degraders (FIDs) that can address a range of therapeutic areas.

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• Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
• Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
• Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.

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• Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
• VitroLabs — The world's oldest material made new. VitroLabs Inc is a startup developing lab grown leather, through tissue engineering, as a solution to help fight climate change. All, while completely avoiding animal slaughter.
• Poke House — Explore Poke House and savor the healthy life. Order now for take-away or delivery and discover our unique bowls. Join the Poke House Squad for exclusive benefits. Learn more about our culture and career opportunities.

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• hlpy — hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks.
• Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
• Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.

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• Euklid — Euklid is the new way to manage savings and investments through thousands of different algorithms with the following characteristics:• objective, because they are based on concrete data processed with Artificial Intelligence technologies;• transparent and secure, because it’s based on blockchain a technology which lies at the heart of Bitcointime stamp and encryption system, that guarantees clients a constant monitoring and an absolute certainty that nobody can manipulate his account;• fair, because the managers of Euklid-fintech’s service earn only if clients have returns.
• WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
• La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

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• KNOBS — KNOBS is a Tech Advisory Firm & Software House specializing in Blockchain development. We are the perfect partner to make your business fly into the future.Founded in 2014, KNOBS deals with the design, prototyping and implementation of complex IT systems. Using the most modern hardware and software engineering technologies, the mostinnovative programming languages ​​and the most reliable frameworks, our team of young professionals is able to offer optimal, customized and cutting-edge solutions.
• Cusa Tea — Using only hand-selected, premium tea and coffee, and real fruit, spices and herbs, Cusa Tea & Coffee makes delicious and convenient beverages that are ready to drink, hot or iced, in seconds.
• TMP Group — TMP Group performance marketing function supports and supports digital strategies management, organization, qualification, and reporting of social ADS campaigns on major search engines or digital stores. They apply their design, creative, technical, and technical skills to the realization of events, products, promotions, collaborations, pressoffices, and public relations services.

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• SurgiQ — SurgiQ strives to make surgical pathways more effective, less invasive and easier on surgeons, patients, and their families. We help healthcare providers being more efficient and deliver timely care by providing an innovative audit and planning platform supported by AI algorithms.
• Tossed — Healthy eating doesn't have to be boring with our delicious hot pots, house salads, power bowls & rainbow wraps made with fresh vegetables, lean protein & low GI carbs.
• AirHelp — AirHelp is an online legal service that helps air passengers get compensation from airlines when their flight gets canceled, delayed, or overbooked. Passengers can access the service via its official Facebook page or its mobile app available for iOS and Android devices.AirHelp takes care of all the paperwork and legal communications with theairline on behalf of the passengers and claims 25% of the compensation obtained as its service fee. The compensation amount varies between $170 to $650 based on the distance flown by the flight and the duration of the delay experienced by the passenger at the final destination.AirHelp was launched in 2013 by Greg Roodt, Henrik Zillmer, and Nicolas Michaelsen.

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• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
• Prestatech — Prestatech is a digital credit factory that has developed an innovative underwriting platform for banks and financial institutions in Europe. Currently active with major European banks, Prestatech offers them a variety of digital credit services from data enrichment to end-to-end instant lending solutions. Thanks to technological innovation,Prestatech has gained an extensive expertise in the digital credit space and through its open-platform is currently offering API-based solutions that leverage on AI, advanced algorithms and Big Data technologies.
• Chiara Ferragni — COM Chiara Ferragni