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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
LVenture Group | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe | ||
Club Italia Investimenti 2 | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe | ||
Digital Magics | Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe | ||
Italian Angels for Growth | Seed | Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe | ||
Club degli Investitori | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Torino, Piemonte, Italy, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Seed investors in Italy. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Italy)
LVenture Group
LVenture Group SpA is a holding company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange (MTA), operating in the field of Venture Capital. It owns the Startup Accelerator LUISS EnLabs, born from a joint venture with Luiss University, which has grown into a point of reference in Italian innovation ecosystem. We provide a 9,000 sqm Hub in Rome’s Termini Station, in addition to a dedicated office space in Milan, at the Milan LUISS Hub. Today our investment portfolio includes 90+ startups, characterized by high digital innovation and scalability. Our business model is based mainly on capital gains from the exits of our startups. #investnow
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Digital Magics
Digital Magics, listed on AIM Italia (symbol: DM), is an incubator of digital projects that provides consulting services and acceleration services to startups and enterprises, to facilitate the development of new technological businesses. Thanks to the partnership with Talent Garden and Tamburi Investment Partners, Digital Magics has created the most important national platform for innovation for DIGITAL MADE IN ITALY, by offering services for the digital transformation and “Open Innovation” to excellent enterprises, while providing support to innovative startups to create successful projects, from conception to IPO. The incubation and acceleration services offered by Digital Magics are active in the TAG co-working campuses present throughout Italy. Complementary services include investment activities, which have produced over the years a portfolio of 48 investments in startups, scaleups and digital spinoffs with high growth rates. Accelerated companies are flanked by Digital Magics LAB, a team of highly experienced business partners, and benefit not only from the large network of private and institutional investors that support them through “club deals”, but also from the many partner companies that support them on an industrial scale.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Information Technology, Internet, Venture Capital
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Italian Angels for Growth
IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 50 million Euros to support more than 100 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 opportunity at 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.
Stages: Pre- Seed, Seed, Series A
Location: Via Camperio, 4A – 20123 Milano / Via Marsala, 29/h – 00185 Rom / Piazza di Cestello, 10 – 50124 Firenze / Viale Ledra, 108 – 33100 Udine
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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Club degli Investitori
Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 220+ 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 by investing capital and by leveraging the Members’ network and experience. Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit Private Banking and KPMG Italy.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Venture Capital
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Rancilio Cube
RANCILIO CUBE Cube is the family office founded by the Rancilio family in 2013, after the sale of the espresso machine company founded in 1927 by our grandfather Roberto. After selling the family business we created Rancilio Cube, an Italian family office with an international view: focused on venture, growth and impact investments, Cube makes both direct and fund investments all over the world, building a unique and innovative portfolio. It invested in companies such as Lyft, N26, SpaceX, Airbnb, Calm, 23andme, SumUp, Capsule, Coursera, Lyst, Bnext, Treedom, Freeda and many more, and also makes limited partner investments in investment funds including Firstmark, Seedcamp, EarlyBird, Jackson Square Venture, GSquared, Speedinvest, Target GlobaI, Oxford Science Innovation and others.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Principia SGR
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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Pi Campus
Pi Campus is both a startup district and a venture fund investing in talents. We provide money in Seed and Pre-seed rounds to support the development of startups. Moreover we also offer to those who need it mentoring and the best possible working environment for them to grow: free desks for 6 months in one of our villas.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Atlante Ventures
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. Since inception 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 platform Through 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
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Primo Ventures
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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LUISS ENLABS
LUISS ENLABS “The Factory of Startup” is one of the leading Startup Accelerators in Europe, born in 2013 from a joint venture between LVenture Group and the LUISS University. Its mission is to support startups in the process of growth and development, to enable them to operate successfully in their own reference sector. Financial resources for the Acceleration Program are provided by LVenture Group. LUISS ENLABS is based in Rome, inside Termini Station, via Marsala 29H, within a space of about 5.000 square meters, where over 40 startups that employ more than 500 people operate.
Stages: Seed
Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Industries: Cyber Security, FinTech, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Atlante Seeds
Atlante Seed is an Intesa Sanpaolo Group’s Fund dedicated to seed and early stage capital, it invests in innovative companies still small but with high growth potential, with a particular attention to those belonging to the high technology industry. Besides this activity (direct investments), the Fund invests in selected business incubators or accelerators specialized in specific sectors (indirect investments).
Stages: Seed
Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Enterprise Software, Pharmaceutical, Venture Capital
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Embed Capital
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 value propositions, 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.
Stages: Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Life Science, Venture Capital
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TIM Ventures
TIM Ventures prefers to invest in the internet, digital life, mobile evolution, e-learning, and green technology sectors. The company provides startups with consulting services and support. It selects companies that exploit disruptive technologies, with particular attention to enterprise applications, digital life, and telecommunications.
Stages: Seed
Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Lazio Innova
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Boox
Boox is an accelerator focused on innovative initiatives with specific drive for the Italian and European market, in particular for seed stage projects that are in the ecommerce and SaaS sectors. The accelerator is managed by Marco Magnocavallo (angel investor and serial entrepreneur, founder Blogo sold to Populis in 2011) and Andrea Di Camillo (angel investor, venture capitalist with Kiwi I, CIR and Principia SGR, serial entrepreneur, founder of Banzai and Vitaminic). The investment model of Boox is hybrid and does not only focus on investments in companies already formed and with a history, but also on on-demand companies, created on the basis of analysis and considerations which are the result of experience and of the industrial network built over the years. The Boox portfolio includes 15 startup such as: Cortilia, Mumumìo, Tannico, Shoppable and Tinybazar in the e-commerce sector while ElasticDot, Iubenda, Misiedo, Trigger.io and Pusher are active in SaaS services.
Stages: Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Fashion Technology Accelerator Milan
Fashion Technology Accelerator is a management consulting company operating in the fashion industry, providing full business support and acceleration consulting services to startups and enterprises, unleashing the power of digital technology. They assist startups in all aspects of their business, to achieve growth and valorization. Since 2014, Fashion Technology Accelerator Milan’s aim is to advance the fashion industry through innovative business models and the use of digital processes. Today they are part of an international network with the main office in Milan and a subsidiary in London. Being highly industry-specific and with a global reach, we select and work with the best players worldwide. For this reason, in 2018 Fashion Technology Accelerator has been chosen by Hatcher+ as their global partner to invest in fashion technology startups.
Stages: Seed
Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Fashion, Retail Technology, Venture Capital
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Key Capital
We are a venture incubator that wants to exploit the extraordinary human capital of the new digital entrepreneurship. From design to ready-to-market, up looking for new partners and capital, we create value along the entire continuum of mentoring: direct investment , skills qualified and specialized network support the growth of new businesses of tomorrow. With our deal flow , we are able to select innovative ideas with high potential with a business model that minimizes the investment risk and guarantee the success on the market.
Stages: Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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A11 Venture
A11-Venture investe nel capitale di startup innovative nei settori della robotica, automazione, meccatronica, cleantech, web e IT. Facilita la nascita e lo sviluppo di business innovativi globali per il futuro dell’economia locale. Contribuisce a costruire aziende, lavoro qualificato, brevetti, innovazione capaci di rilanciare e riportare investimenti e risorse sul territorio. I soci di A11 Venture credono fermamente nell’innovazione grazie a ciò è possibile crescere per linee esterne diversificando i propri investimenti, grazie ad un portafoglio di imprese, con una forte risk mitigation derivante dalla gestione professionale di tutti processi: scouting, team building, investimenti, management degli investimenti, accelerazione e disinvestimento.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Lucca, Toscana, Italy, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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IKIGAI
IKIGAI is the Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program by Fondazione MPS (Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena). IKIGAI empowers founders, professionals and students running startup acceleration & incubation programs, offering scholarship grants to young professionals and providing job orientation to high-school students.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Siena, Toscana, Italy, Europe
Industries: Education, Impact Investing, Incubators, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Impact, Venture Capital
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SAF Venture
We are seed and early-stage equity investors who mainly focus on high tech start-up businesses, with openings for other investments considered interesting. We do offer expertise, business management experience and contacts in addition to funding when the projects are beginning and are still in the market research or development stages.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Vela Imprese
Vela Imprese S.r.l. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investing in startups, early venture, management buy-ins, leverage buyouts, and development equity.
Stages: Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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INGENIUM Umbria Fund
INGENIUM Umbria Fund is a public-private early-stage fund that invests in innovative ideas under the ATI PRISMA II program in the Region of Umbria. It has a total budget of 6 million EURO under management and has been co-financed by Umbria Region, using ERDF funds. The fund typical investments range from 30k€ to1.500k€.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Terni, Umbria, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Wolsey Ventures
We lead, co-lead and at times just partecipate and invest anywhere in all pre-venture and series A rounds, helping organizations become enduring businesses. Yet entrepreneurs and investors aspire to learn from each other and remain inspired. Our mission at Wolsey Ventures consists in technology startups. We believe adoption of smart, digital and high technologies will continue to rise in 2016 and beyond, to meet demands from consumers and pressure from the competition to perform and adapt. This demand creates many opportunities for fast-growing companies to start up and reach a global scale.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Genoa, Liguria, Italy, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Prana Ventures
Prana Ventures focused on seed and post seed stage investment. The first recognized stage of equity fundraising is seed capital. It is usually the first official money raised by a commercial endeavor or enterprise. Some businesses never go from seed investment to Series A or beyond.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital
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META Investment
META Investment is the investment platform of META Group. META Investment has invested in over 200 high-growth startups across Europe via eight venture capital funds in three countries. META Investment is an international fund manager specialized in early stage, high-growth companies. With over 20 years of experience in fund management and running private-public financial instruments, we have successfully invested in over 200 companies. META Investment builds customized solutions for early stage funds and has developed a unique range of public-private partnerships between business incubators & accelerators, business angels clubs, corporate ventures, regional development authorities, national governments and EU Institutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Industries: Advice, Angel Investment, Business Development, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
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Widening Venture
What happens at Widening? The most important thing we do is work with startups on their ideas. We are currently managing equity-free accelerator programs and making startup capital and expansion capital – e.g. early stage private equity – investments. We leverage an important international industrial and financial network, providing deeply support and mentoring to our start-ups. Widening helps startups improving their business model and introducing them individually to our ecosystem who could help them. We working together on Business Model Improvement / Corporate / Performance Management / Tax&Legal / Business Model Validation / R&D / Brand Stretching / Metrics / Consumer Analysis / UX
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Genoa, Liguria, Italy, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Orienta Partners
Orienta Partners specializes in investments in private equity for businesses. It has expertise in the commercial and international expansion, business model review, generational shift management, corporate restructuring, financial renegotiation, and transactions.
Stages: Seed
Location: Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Grafoventures
Grafoventures is a family-owned investment firm that invests in SMBs in the software and IT industry across Southeast Europe. We make minority investments, supporting them operationally after the investment in going public, scaling on the market and managing the “next step” of their lifecycle. Track record Active since 2011, we have invested in 4 companies. They all resulted in 4 IPOs on the Italian Stock Exchange and on Vienna Stock Exchange. Since we started our collaboration, our companies raised more than 20M$ and executed more than 10 cross border acquisitions. Asset management We also invest in stocks of prospective listed IT and software companies and are particularly focused on Small/Micro/Nano Caps. We find and invest our money in unnoticed small caps in the software and IT industry.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Communications Infrastructure, Finance, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Information Technology, Venture Capital
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