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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Italy in October 2023

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

Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Italy in October 2023

Investor Education Italy investments
CDP Venture Capital 8
Club degli Investitori 5
Club Italia Investimenti 2 4
Matteo de Brabant 3
P101 3
United Ventures 3
LIFTT 3
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano 2
Fabio Cannavale 2
Boost Heroes 2
Embed Capital 2
Club Digitale 2
Matthew Lunelli 2
Opes Impact Fund 2
Massimiliano Magrini 2
Synergo Capital 1
Zanichelli Venture 1
Luca Ascani 1
Luca Valerio Camerano 1
Eisenhower Fellowships 1
MPA Education 1
Azimut Holding 1
Pi Campus 1
Marco Caradonna 1
Net4Capital 1
RCS MediaGroup 1
Giuseppe Donagemma 1
Exor Ventures 1
Ithaca Investments 1
Azimut Digitech Fund 1
Vodafone 1
Francesco Beraldi 1
Cairo Communication 1
Oltre Impact 1
StartupItalia 1
Attilio Mazzilli 1
Index Ventures 1
Banca Patrimoni Sella 1
Loris Gay 1
MVM Life Science Partners 1
Ashoka 1
Equiter 1
Impact Ventures Hungary 1
TIM Ventures 1
Wayra 1
Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a. 1
Tamburi Investment Partners 1
Endeavor Catalyst 1
Lazio Innova 1
Guala Closures Group 1

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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 34 investments in the past 12 months

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 8 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
  • Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
  • La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
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Matteo de Brabant
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

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Investment focus

  • News, EdTech, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
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P101
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
  • mama health — mama health is a platform to find others around the world living the same journey as you - and learn form each other's experience.
  • 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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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 12 investments in the past 12 months

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!
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Fabio Cannavale
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Information Technology, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Properly — Short-term rental management software at low costs. Get the app to manage home maintenance for easy, remote hosting without hiring a property manager.
  • Contents.com — Generative AI Platform to Support Businesses in Creating High-performing, Original & SEO-optimized Content 10X Faster.
  • EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Health Care, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Piantando — Piantando sells plants connected to initiatives for the preservation of the planet engaged in the following areas: land, water, climate, biodiversity and local communities. Each plant is equivalent to a transparent and unique contribution, destined to an initiative certified by our Value Chain. Everyone become ambassadors of a new way of livinggreen and understanding their commitment to the planet.
  • FrescoFrigo - Healthy food close to you — FrescoFRIGO is a smart fridge with fresh and quality products designed for the needs of worker. Improve everyday lifestyle, through automated proximity selling of good, fresh and healthy product, innovating technology and user experience.
  • The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the Metaverse for the mass market: virtual worlds, adventures, gaming Play & Earn and amazing experiences.
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Club Digitale
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Matthew Lunelli
Angel

Matthew Lunelli

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.
  • MunyaxEco — MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.
  • WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
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Massimiliano Magrini
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Food and Beverage, Cloud Computing
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • 20lines — 20lines is a website and a mobile app where users write, read and share short stories.Their goal is to connect writers and readers around the concept of free short stories. They aim at becoming the “Instagram” for short stories. On 20lines everyone can easily share their stories, from the teenagers writing their daily journal for theirfriends to the important authors who want to share the preview of their next book with their audience.
  • 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.
  • 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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Synergo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Finland, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • Zick Learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
  • Data Masters — Datamasters designs and develops Machine Learning solutions. They provide artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science skills. They acquire skills in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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Luca Ascani
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United Kingdom, 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).
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
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Luca Valerio Camerano
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Luca Valerio Camerano was born in Rome in 1963. He graduated in Economics from LUISS (Rome) and He attended INSEAD Advanced Management Programme (Fontainebleau). He is currently Managing Director at Algebris Investments where he leads a new business unit dedicated to the environment and sustainability. He is also Indipendent Member of the COIMA ESGCity Impact Fund, Business Angel for startup, and Professor at LUISS. In addition, he has the role of Senior Advisor for infrastructure, energy transition, circular economy and smart city. He has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of A2A S.p.A., Italy’s largest multi-utility company with more than 13,000 employees, a turnover of around 6 billion euros in 2017 and a Gross Operating Profit of more than 1 billion euros. During his mandate, A2A doubled its capitalization end tripled its net income. Currently, Luca Valerio Camerano is a member of the Executive Council and the Energy Advisory Committee of Utilitalia and also a member of the Council and Vice Chairman of the Assolombarda Energy Group. In the past, he developed his professional path working as CEO of GDF SUEZ Energie, Managing Director at Enel Gas, Managing Director at Camuzzi, Chief Executive Officer of Plenia and Managing Director in the Corporate Banking of Citibank.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Series A
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!
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Eisenhower Fellowships
VC Fund · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Eisenhower Fellowships identifies, empowers and links outstanding leaders from around the world helping them to achieve consequential outcomes across sectors and borders. EF provides a transformational experience leading to a lifetime engagement in a global network, where dialogue and collaboration make the world more prosperous, just and peaceful.

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Investment focus

  • Wellness, Education, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Fight The Stroke — Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. (ENG) Fightthestroke.org sta dalla parte dei piccoli sopravvissuti all'Ictus. (ITA) Description Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. First therapy step has been our storytelling @TED Global in June 2013. #fightt
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MPA Education
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Advisory and Investment Company focusing on the Future of Learning, Talent and Work.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Education, B2B
  • Seed
  • Italy, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Life Based Value — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
  • Blackbullion — Learning platform for students who want to get in control of their money
  • Kide Science — Kide Science supports young children's scientific thinking through play-based learning, which predicts better learning outcomes in school.
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Azimut Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, China, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Capitual — Capitual is an FIU Licensed, global leader in fiat and digital money solutions for both personal and business use. It's the world's first Hybrid Digital Bank where finances and blockchain technology merge into an inclusive future. It helped connecting the financial world of LATAM with EUROPE by bringing the saving, transferring andinvesting on a reliable and stable system, which gives a completely secure environment that allows the full management to be done seamlessly , privately and instantaneously.
  • MICROTECH — Microtech provides technical support for electro-medical equipment used in public and private healthcare organizations. Their services include preventive maintenance,corrective maintenance,electrical safety,creation and assistance,and  testing. They created QMS and meticulously inspected every component of it.
  • Alps Blockchain — Alps Blockchain is a company specialized in research and development in the sectors of blockchain and data mining.
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Pi Campus
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Marco Caradonna
Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Marco Caradonna is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at BlackSheep Ventures at BlackSheep Ventures. He attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart.

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Investment focus

  • Advertising, PaaS, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • nexoya — Performance Marketing optimized with AI. Leverage the power of agile portfolio management. Allocate budgets by using AI technology and reach +70% ROAS
  • ID Ward — Anonymised is the cookieless data platform that helps publishers and advertisers reach and monetise audiences at scale, without exposing any personal data.
  • Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.
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Net4Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Net4Capital is a investment management company in private equity and venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
  • Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Maieutical Labs — I Maieutical Labs sono un insieme di piattaforme ispirate al Mastery Learning, immersive e mobile-oriented, dedicate allo studio nella scuola secondaria
  • MyLab Nutrition — MyLab Nutrition Group owns T-Rex Integratori, Nutracle, Suprapet and MyLab Nutrition brands. It creates and distributes high quality Made in Italy supplements through its brands using an high technological innovative approach. The corporate vision is to allow people to achieve the highest level of well-being through targeted precisionintegration via supplements. The corporate mission is to recommend perfect supplements to each person based on their needs through interactive consultancy that process datas via A.I. mylabnutrition.net is the first interactive portal that recommends the perfect dietary supplements for each person's specific needs through an interactive consultancy.
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RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy

RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Retail, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
  • MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
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Giuseppe Donagemma
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy

Giuseppe (Beppe) is a global executive, who has had leading positions during last 20 years of both large corporate organizations (>10.000 people) and entrepreneurial companies.Beppe has been successful in his career thanks to his flexible mindset and hands-on behavior, in addition to excellent relationships’ building capabilities.Hisexperience entails from management of B2B business around the world to responsibility of project management of networks’ operations, from P/L management of 4 billion euros region to fund raising in Asia for a start-up company, from achieving successful change management and revenue growth turnarounds in big corporates to ensuring strategic partnerships for new emerging ventures, from developing the strategy and vision for a new business unit to opening new markets for an expanding company.Beppe always builds high performing and diverse teams to work with, leading them with high energy, confidence and ambiguity tolerance. He’s an attentive listener and an effective (public) speaker. He has a pragmatic and participative leadership style, and an excellent Board presence attitude.Beppe holds an engineering degree, a master (non-degree) in Strategy & Leadership. He is Fellow at Elis, a post-graduation faculty in Rome. He is an enthusiast sportsman, married with two daughters.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, EdTech, Banking
  • Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Life Based Value — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
  • Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
  • Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months

With EXOR Seeds, We have reconnected with our entrepreneurial roots and long history of innovation. We look for exceptional founders, with the ambition to build great businesses in their field. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-ledbusiness, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • DICE — DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.
  • N5 Now — N5 has developed the way out of your complex legacy systems and into the fintech digital world, without having to change your core technology. Contact Us!
  • Habyt — Habyt is an easy way to find a fully furnished, private room or apartment in Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Lisbon. All costs are included in the rent, no surprises.
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Ithaca Investments
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Italy, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • Futura — Ace the GMAT with Futura and realize your educational dreams
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Azimut Digitech Fund
VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Computer, Mobile
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy, San Marino

Portfolio highlights

  • Kampaay — The digital platform for organizing corporate events, in person, virtual or hybrid, in just a few clicks!
  • Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
  • Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
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Vodafone
VC Fund · Newbury, West Berkshire, United Kingdom

Vodafone is a leading technology communications company in Europe and Africa, keeping society connected and building a digital future. Find out more!

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Information Technology, Telecommunications
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Cognia — Cognia develops cloud voice and data solutions, for use in financial institutions, government and the Fortune 1000. Cognia’s secure, global communication services platform, transforms the cost and ease by which organizations can control, capture and analyze voice and non-voice communications across distributed workforces.The platform provides asingle solution for both traditional fixed-line and mobile, and emerging IP communications, replacing the high capex and complex rollouts of on-premise systems with a flexible, pay-as-you-use cost model.
  • Fight The Stroke — Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. (ENG) Fightthestroke.org sta dalla parte dei piccoli sopravvissuti all'Ictus. (ITA) Description Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. First therapy step has been our storytelling @TED Global in June 2013. #fightt
  • AST SpaceMobile — AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global broadband cellular network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio. The company's team of engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobilesubscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected. The company was founded on May 31, 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, TX. The listed name for ASTS is AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Class A Common Stock.
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Francesco Beraldi
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Francesco Beraldi

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Investment focus

  • Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!
  • AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
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Cairo Communication
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Cairo Communication is a company that carries activities in the communication sector as a publisher - television & books & a concessionaire.

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Investment focus

  • Fitness, Software, Training
  • Series A
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
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Oltre Impact
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months

We shape impact investing for people and planet

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Investment focus

  • Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
  • FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
  • Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency
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StartupItalia
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

StartupItalia: il magazine della startup italiane

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Portfolio highlights

  • 4books — 4books is an edutech platform that offers micro-learning solutions through eBooks.
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Attilio Mazzilli
Angel

Attilio Mazzilli is Corporate Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a global law firm where he also serves as Head of the Italian Tech Group and Member of the International Technology Companies Group. He specializes in private equity and venture capital, with specific skills in both domestic and cross-border M&A transactions.Attilio Mazzilli graduated in Law from the University of Milan (dissertation on “The insurance contracts in private international law”). In 2003 he was admitted to the Italian Bar Association. In those years, he started working as Associate for “Pavia e Ansaldo” law firm in Milan. In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained a Master of Laws in Business&Corporate Law from the University of Southern California. The following year he came back to Milan to join “Chiomenti” law firm as Senior Associate. After this working experience, he moved to “Carnelutti” law firm, where he served as Partner and Head of International Development (2011-2015). Subsequently, his career continued at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he currently works as Corporate Partner and Head of the Italian Tech Group. He is also Member of the International Technology Companies Group. He focuses on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, while advising startups and venture capital firms in areas including financing, corporate law, M&A, and listings. Furthermore, he works as consultant for leading tech companies, supporting their founders at all stages of their life-cycle. Attilio Mazzilli was awarded “Lawyer of the Year for Venture Capital” in the 2020 Legalcommunity Awards. His commitment contributed to several awards received by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: among these are “Law Firm of the Year 2021 for Venture Capital”, “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for M&A Small Cap” (BeBeez and PBV) and “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for Fintech” (TopLegal Industry Awards). During the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy, he collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Innovation, the Finance Commission and VC Hub in drafting urgent measures to provide financial support to tech and innovative companies in Italy. In the same period, his client Bending Spoons developed Immuni, the app chosen by the Italian Ministry of Health to track the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Over more than 22 years of professional experience, Attilio Mazzilli has taken part in many significant transactions and assisted companies the likes of Gruppo Intesa San Paolo, Cattolica Assicurazioni, Teko Telecom, Octo Telematics, and Prima Assicurazioni. He also assisted Banca Sella Holding and Fabrick (joint venture agreement with illimity Bank concerning Hype), Cerba HealthCare (acquisition of Lifebrain from Investindustrial) and Scalapay (Series B financing round led by Tencent and Series A financing round led by Tiger Global).

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Investment focus

  • News, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed
  • Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • Futura — Ace the GMAT with Futura and realize your educational dreams
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 32 investments in the past 12 months

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
  • Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
  • Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
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Banca Patrimoni Sella
VC Fund

Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, Education
  • Convertible Note
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
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Loris Gay
Angel

Loris Gay

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Software, Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Usophy Kids — Usophy School - Corsi Online di Inglese per Bambini 6-14 anni
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MVM Life Science Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investment in the past 12 months

MVM invests in innovative healthcare companies. Our active portfolio companies are transforming the delivery of healthcare by enabling higher quality, cost-effective care in large, global markets.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Ossio — OSSIO is an orthopedic fixation company committed to transforming the orthopedic experience for patients, physicians, and payors. Their vision is to provide the first credible replacement to metal implants in the $10B+ orthopedic fixation market (screws, pins, plates) with an Intelligent Bone Regeneration Technology. OSSIOfiber represents abreakthrough material platform for orthopedic and podiatric surgeons who seek a more biologically friendly way to restore patient stability and mobility with nothing permanent left behind.Founded in 2014, OSSIO began as the culmination of years of biomechanical research and a vision for the possibility of better bone healing. The technological basis of OSSIOfiber™ was developed and would lay the groundwork for ushering in a new breakthrough category of non-permanent fixation, “Bio-Integratives” hardware that has both desired strength AND bio-friendliness. Hardware that has the mechanical strength for easy insertion and secure fixation, while enabling the body to regrow bone, incorporating and replacing the implant (without the adverse inflammation and weakness often seen in “bio-resorbables and other “bio-composites”), has remained elusive to the industry until now.
  • Nalu Medical — Nalu Medical is an early-stage company that develops a range of medical devices. Their vision to modernize and improve the technology in medical devices, thus improving the lives of people.The Nalu neurostimulation system is a battery-free, micro-implantable pulse generator (iPG) currently cleared by the FDA for both Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) for mitigating chronic pain. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Carlsbad, California.
  • Neurolens — 2/3 of patients experience the symptoms of eye misalignment, but relief is in sight with Neurolens using the NMD2 and Neurolenses with Contoured Prism.
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Ashoka
VC Fund · Arlington, Virginia, United States

Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who transform institutions and cultures so they support changemaking for the good of society. Find out more about us, and join the worldwide network of changemakers.

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Investment focus

  • Wellness, Education, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Fight The Stroke — Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. (ENG) Fightthestroke.org sta dalla parte dei piccoli sopravvissuti all'Ictus. (ITA) Description Fightthestroke.org advocates for pediatric stroke survivors. First therapy step has been our storytelling @TED Global in June 2013. #fightt
  • Teens Do Good — Teens Do Good runs social impact initiatives with an aim of encouraging teens to drive change in their community.
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Equiter
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy

Equiter seleziona, realizza e gestisce investimenti infrastrutturali in capitale di rischio finalizzati allo sviluppo socio-economico del territorio.

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
  • Medics — 3D anatomical modeling per la pianificazione pre-operatoria e il supporto intra-operatorio delle chirurgie complesse.
  • BionIT Labs — We apply IT to Bionics in order to Turn disabilities into New Possibilities
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Impact Ventures Hungary
VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Impact Ventures is a specialist fund manager focusing on Impact Investments. Our mission is to catalyze social impact by supporting and investing in high-growth social SMEs in Europe, addressing areas of social inclusion, education, employment, health and environmental sustainability.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Waste Management
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Hungary, Italy, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Candam — Candam is a technology company that provides innovative technological solutions for rewarding and refund of disposable waste.
  • Bonapp.eco — bonapp.eco este aplicatia care isi doreste sa ajute la reducerea risipei alimentare in Romania. Profita si tu de ofertele noastre!
  • Proofminder — From planting to harvesting we provide actionable insights on the field to empower growers get higher yield with less resources.
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TIM Ventures
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy

TIM Ventures prefers to invest in the internet, digital life, mobile evolution, e-learning, and green technology sectors. It provides capital for startups in Italy and Europe. The company provides startups with consulting services and support. Salvo Mizzi founded TIM Ventures was founded in July 1995, with its headquarters in Milan in Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • webidoo — We provide the digital tools and advanced that big businesses use, but built and designed so they can be easily utilized by local independent business owners. webidoo is dedicated to partnering with local businesses. We’re here to give the solutions you need to connect with customers, wherever they may be. Our clients include businesses of everytype: restaurants, attorneys, builders, doctors, delicatessens, electricians and many others. We can provide solutions that allow companies to connect with their customers, real and potential, like never before. We’re all about supporting local businesses. And we feel good about that.
  • Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
  • WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
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Wayra
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
  • Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
  • AORA — Aora is a complete digital solution for home services. Headquartered in Equador.
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Sport Horizon Holding S.p.a.
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy

The innovative hub to invest in the most promisingand visionary startups in the sport industry.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Sports, Fitness
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • AWorld — AWorld is The Sustainability Platform and Mobile App chosen by the United Nations to support the ActNow Campaign.
  • PunchLab — Download PunchLab Choose among martial arts & combat sports workouts designed for boxing, MMA, karate and kickboxing training. Track any punching and kicking combination you throw at the punching bag USING ONLY YOUR PHONE! Follow audio workouts while you hit the punching bag or shadowbox.
  • LUDI Therapeutics — Groundbreaking Sport Injury Medicine. LUDI Therapeutics uses cutting edge drug discovery technologies and a biomarkers platform to develop specific first-in-class drugs to enhance muscle repair.
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Tamburi Investment Partners
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investment in the past 12 months

TIP is an investment-merchant bank focused on medium-sized Italian companies.

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Investment focus

  • Events, Fashion, Textiles
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Lazio Innova
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • CyLock — CyLock anti-hacker is a software designed to defend systems from hacker attacks, identifying weaknesses in their systems and websites, and providing information to address vulnerabilities used by the cybercriminal to access their computers. Through CyLock's Anti-Hacker system, small and medium-sized businesses will be able to test theirdigital defences to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities in websites, e-commerce sites, apps, e-mails, information systems, corporate networks, servers, and IoT. Companies that do not periodically test their digital tools and their staff skills are more exposed to cyber attacks, which turn into business interruptions, document loss, e-commerce, and online payments breakdown.
  • Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
  • Rocky — Grow your mindset with the AI coaching chat in just 5 minutes of daily self-improvement sessions to be truly successful.
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Guala Closures Group
VC Fund

Founded in Italy in 1954 Guala Closures Group is today a multinational leader at international level in the production of non-refillable and aluminium closures for spirits, wine, oil and vinegar, water and beverages, food and pharmaceuticals. It operates in 5 continents through 27 production plants and a sales network covering over 100 countries.Thanks to a policy of continuous business development and technological innovation, the Group is an acknowledged benchmark at world level, in a scenery of highly differentiated and constantly growing markets. The world leader in the production of non-refillable closures for spirits and in the production of aluminium closures, Guala is also active in the design and manufacture of PET bottles. A large Italian multinational with a widespread network covering traditional commercial areas and in continuous expansion in emerging markets.4000 employees between managers, professionals and engineers united by the same passion: to safeguard the quality and enhance the image of the leading international brands in alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, wine, oil, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.14 billion closures sold in 100 countries, 4 research centres, 1 technological innovation Center, 27 production plants.Always one step ahead of its customers’ requirements, providing technological knowhow and reliability.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning
  • Seed
  • Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • UpSurgeOn — The UpSurgeOn Academy is a hi-tech sequence of virtual and physical technologies designed to support Mental and Manual training and empower cognitive and psychomotor skills of any surgeon.
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