# Top 50 Manufacturing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in May 2026

## CDP Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Primo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Aerospace

Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy.

## Vertis SGR S.p.A.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Computer

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

## Eureka Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Nanotechnology, Renewable Energy, Medical Device

Eureka! is the first independent Italian venture capital Asset Management company exclusively focused on deep tech investments

## 360 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Early stage european VC investing on ClimateTech, DeepTech, Mass Consumption and Business Automation.

## LIFTT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

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

## Invitalia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Medical, Health Care

Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation.
Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it

## Club degli Investitori
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

## Club Italia Investimenti 2
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

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

## Intesa Sanpaolo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting.

## Italian Angels for Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

## Soros Private Equity Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Internet, Software, Network Hardware

Soros Private Equity Partners is a private equity investment firm that supports growth companies in the United States and Europe. It is headquartered in London, England.

## SIMEST
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Coffee, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage

SIMEST is a financial firm focused on the development and promotion of Italian enterprises abroad. Simest acquires up to 49% of the equity capital of foreign firms in countries outside the European Union, whether wholly-owned by Italian companies or set up as joint ventures with local partners. It also provides start-up and growth capital financingas well as participating in buyouts.Geographically it invests in non-EU countries, focusing on BRIC, Americas and Middle-East. Simest also provides Italian companies seeking to internationalize their businesses with technical assistance and advisory services.Simest is a member of the European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and the Italian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (AIFI).

## Angels4Women
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Biotechnology

Angels4Women is a company that invests in business startups lead by females.

## Growth Engine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet

Growth Engine is a holding company that invests in startups and scaleups with high growth potential founded by Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, Andrea Marangione, Michele Appendino and Marco Ariello, Venture Capital professionals with an excellent track record. Growth Engine invests in Italian startups at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage.

## Intermedia Iniziative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Payments

Intermedia Iniziative is a consulting and equity investment firm.

## EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

Executive Agency for SMEs

## Corniola
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prato, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Payments

Corniola offre alle imprese una ampia gamma di servizi di consulenza imprenditoriale, amministrativo-gestionale e di pianificazione aziendale, focalizzando la propria attenzione soprattutto sullo sviluppo d’impresa e sulle operazioni straordinarie (creazione, fase di startup, acquisizioni, fusioni, cessioni di rami d'azienda, ristrutturazione,rilancio, ecc.). ​Inoltre Corniola è una società di investimenti e partecipazioni: investe in partecipazioni di minoranza di imprese di qualità orientate alla crescita, con un orizzonte temporale di lunghissimo periodo, privilegiando situazioni speciali e affiancando l’impresa nella gestione di operazioni straordinarie.

## European regional development fund (ERDF)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve the European Union's economic, social, and territorial cohesion by resolving imbalances across its various regions. ERDF funds initiatives for which the European Commission and national and regional governments in member countries share responsibility. Each member state'sgovernment decides which initiatives to support and is responsible for their continued supervision.

## Invitalia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning

Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.

## Principia SGR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

## AVM Gestioni
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Robotics

AVM Gestioni is an investment firm.

## Atlante Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Analytics

Atlante Ventures is a leading Italian VC fund, operated by IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, part of Intesa Sanpaolo Group. Totalling, together with its companion funds Atlante Ventures Mezzogiorno (AVM) and Atlante Seed, 60 mio euros in funds under management, Atlante Ventures only supports truly innovative startups, in Italy and abroad.Sinceinception from 2007, Atlante Ventures, AVM and Atlante Seeds have invested in more than 20 seed and early stage companies across all the innovation spectrum, among which Silicon Biosystems, the leading single-cell genomics company, Icoolhunt, the online trend forecasting startup, Admantx, the semantic-based advertising optimization platformThrough its dedicated team of 8 professionales, Atlante Ventures sifts through hundreds of startup companies per year, using the following as key investment criteria: existence of a clearly innovative product or method, strong IP and Know how where applicable, an entrepreneurial team possessing dynamism, common sense, selling skills and in general, the will to make their mark

## Plug and Play Tech Center
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Transportation

Plug and Play Tech Center connects the world's best startups to industry-leading corporations.

## ELITE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Industrial, Manufacturing, Machinery Manufacturing

ELITE is an investment management and consulting firm.

## Progress Tech Transfer Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Water, Eyewear, Farming

Investment fund specialized in sustainable technologies from universities and public research organizations, start-ups, spin-offs, and entrepreneurs.

## Crédit Agricole Italia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Water, Farming, Software

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

## Banco BPM
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, E-Commerce

Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese.

## Omnes Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.

## Milano Investment Partners SGR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage

MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.

## Russian Direct Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Transportation, Logistics, Industrial

Russian Direct Investment Fund is a Russia’s sovereign wealth fund with reserved capital of $10 billion under management. Working alongside the world’s foremost investors, we make direct investments in leading, as well as promising, Russian companies. RDIF attracted over $40 billion of foreign capital into the Russian economy through long-termstrategic partnerships

## Pariter Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Electronics, Semiconductor, Nanotechnology

Pariter Partners is a largest Syndicate in Italy, investing in early stage deep-tech teams and advanced service solution startups.

## Finindus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zelzate, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Industrial, Renewable Energy

Finindus provides early stage financing and growth capital to innovative companies active in the area of materials, material processing and sustainable manufacturing. We are funded by ArcelorMittal and the Flemish Region and linked to OCAS, the world class metals research center located in Belgium.

## RedSeed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology

RedSeed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Companies and Scaleups, in Europe and more particularly in Italy.

## Altana
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wesel, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Printing, Automotive

ALTANA develops and produces high-quality innovative products in the specialty chemicals business. The ALTANA Group, with headquarters in Wesel/Germany, is a genuine “global player” with 86% of its sales generated by international activities. The ALTANA Group has four divisions: BYK Additives & Instruments, ECKART Effect Pigments, ELANTASElectrical Insulation, and ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants. All of these divisions occupy a leading position in their target markets with respect to quality, product solution expertise, innovation and service.ALTANA offers innovative, environmentally compatible solutions with the matching specialty products for coating manufactures, paint and plastic processors, the printing and cosmetic industries, and the electrical and electronic industry. The product range includes additives, special coatings and adhesives, effect pigments, sealants and compounds, impregnating resins & varnishes, and testing and measuring instruments.

## Arieli Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology

Arieli Capital is a premier investment and holding company that builds long-term wealth.

## Angels 4 Impact
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology

Angels 4 Impact is a Business Angel investment firm that invests in startups with innovative and technological content and a focus on impact.

## Your Voice SPA
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing

Your Voice is the leading Italian organisation of Cloud multi-channel, automated and interactive communication services.

## TLcom Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds.
TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge.
We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

## Threshold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

## Selected Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Florence, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing, Marine Technology

Selected Investments è una società di investimenti e partecipazioni che investe prevalentemente in imprese innovative ad alto contenuto tecnologico ed elevato potenziale di crescita, partecipando al capitale di rischio con un orizzonte temporale di lungo termine. La società opera quindi come investitore di venture capital nelle fasi seed edearly-stage. Selected Investments, inoltre, offre alle imprese supporto strategico e servizi ad alto valore aggiunto in tema di corporate finance, M&A e operazioni straordinarie.

## Club Digitale
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

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.

## Momenta
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Engelberg, Obwalden, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence

Momenta is the leading Digital Industry venture capital + growth firm. We accelerate entrepreneurs and leaders devoted to the digitization of energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and supply chains. Since 2012, our team of deep industry operators have made over 100 investments in entrepreneurs and helped scale over 150 industry leaders via ouraward-winning executive search and strategic advisory practices.

## Guanxi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things, Industrial Automation

Digital strategy consulting company

## Green Arrow Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1

Green Arrow Capital is an independent financial group specializing in alternative investments across Europe. They represent a one-of-a-kind platform, capable of connecting the financial system with the real economy through the management of private equity, private debt, infrastructure, and special credit situation funds as well as thematic fundssuch as microfinance and funds of funds that are currently under management. Their team has a successful track record in asset management, investment banking, industry sectors, technology startups, management consulting, renewable energy, and has government and regulatory experience. Their group is mainly composed of investment, asset management, and financial advisory companies. Their aim is to create a solid financial platform to launch and manage investment funds dedicated to alternatives and to the real economy.

## Alantra
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Information Technology

ALANTRA is a PROJECT, a firm being built by all its partners and professionals, a collective aspiration which aims to become an enduring institution for the generations to come.
It is a GLOBAL FIRM, being founded by the partners of the 19 countries we are present in.It is an open firm, articulated around the principles of ENTREPRENEURSHIP,PARTNERSHIP, INNOVATION and FLEXIBILITY.Their segment is the MID-MARKET, a space for growth, for new ambitions, for creative and innovative spirits. We grow with our clients, we share their mindset and we build very long-term relationships with them.

## Scientifica Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Sustainability

Scientifica Venture Capital offers private equity and venture capital investment services for Italy based startups and firms.

## Fondamenta SGR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Chemical, Construction, Manufacturing

Fondamenta SGR is a private equity and venture capital firm investing in growth capital, distressed assets and mature investments.

## CDP Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage

CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"

## Vittoria
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madonna Dell'arco, Campania, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing

Vittoria is a manufacturer of bicycle tires with an annual production of more than 7 million tires and 900,000 high-performance tubular and cotton tires.

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