Top 20 Social Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Italy in October 2023

Portfolio highlights

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

Portfolio highlights

• GreenBone Ortho — GreenBone Ortho was founded in Faenzato offer advanced and innovative solutions in the field of orthopaedics and bone regeneration, using the Rattan wood.
• Renovacor — Renovacor is a preclinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene therapy‑based treatments for cardiovascular disease.Renovacor’s lead program is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV)‑based gene therapy for patients suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) due to mutations in the Bcl2‑associatedathanogene 3 (BAG3) gene.Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition affecting over 3 million patients in the US and growing steadily. Many patients develop DCM due to ischemic heart disease. Recently subpopulations have been identified that develop DCM due to mutations in specific genes that have been shown to result in the development of DCM. One of these specific genes is the BAG3 gene. The prevalence of disease‑causing BAG3 haploinsufficiency is estimated at approximately 35,000 individuals in the United States, representing an orphan disease by FDA guidelines. It is estimated a similar number of DCM patients with BAG3 mutations exist in Europe. These patients are typically younger and progress to end-stage heart failure sooner than patients with ischemic heart disease. Currently, DCM patients with a BAG3 mutation are treated with standard of care for heart failure. Despite improvements in pharmacotherapy and care, the five‑year survival of a patient with DCM is only 50%. The development of a BAG3 gene replacement therapy for patients with DCM that carry BAG3 mutations could potentially prevent the progression of disease in this otherwise healthy population of young adults.
• BetaGlue Technologies — BetaGlue Technologies engage in the research and offers anticancer products.

Portfolio highlights

• Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
• GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
• Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

Portfolio highlights

• Worldz — Thanks to its algorithm, Worldz calculates the economic value of a user’s social popularity (qualitatively and quantitatively). In proportion to this value, it provides a personalized discount, which can be applied in exchange for a social sharing by the user on their Instagram or Facebook profile. This share refers to the brand or productpurchased and the content of the post can be pre-configured by the brand. A user’s social post increases the Brand Awareness and can generate new traffic to the store. This kind of sharing is perceived by the social community as a friend’s advice and not as a promotional activity.
• Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
• The Social Lender —

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!

Portfolio highlights

• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Carnovo — Carnovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the automotive purchase process by making it fast, transparent and convenient for both, car dealers and buyers. Their mission is simple, to put the car buying process upside down by placing customers in the center making them save time and money while offering them the best buyingexperience. Car dealers that partner with Carnovo sell more cars than they could in the showroom alone while reducing cost inefficiencies and increasing stock turnover. This means they can make great offers to Carnovo buyers!
• 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.
• Bergamotte — Founded in 2015, Bergamotte offers a delivery service of flowers and plants throughout France.

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.

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.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
• Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
• CercaOfficina — Cercaofficina.it is the online portal that helps you compare quotes for some mechanical repairs and bodywork on your car. By cutting the revision, from small tweaks body to replace the brake pads, the tire change, change Installation system oil LPG / CNG.

Portfolio highlights

• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
• Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Portfolio highlights

• 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.

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Portfolio highlights

• Eoliann — Eoliann offers a climate risk assessment and prediction API to financial institutions. Our solution leverages satellite data and proprietary ML algorithms to forecast the probability and impact of specific climate risk events
• Northvolt — Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.
• Paperbox Health — Paperbox Health is breaking down accessibility barriers for the early identification and treatment of cognitive issues. Applying a combination of gaming principles and telemedicine allows children and families to access an accessible and engaging experience to identify cognitive issues in advance and maximize the efficacy of a preventiveintervention.