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We’ve ranked the top Incubators Early Stage Venture 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 Incubators Investors & Funds (Italy)
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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Angel Capital Management
Founded by Angelo Moratti, Angel Capital Management (formerly Angel Lab) is a leading private investment firm providing growth equity to companies in various stages of development. The Direct Investments Practice mainly focuses on fast growing Consumer&Lifesyle companies. ACM offers its portfolio companies a comprehensive platform for growth acting as i) a partner for the international expansion of Italian companies ii) and a gateway to the Italian and South European market for foreign companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Enry’s Island
Enry’s Island S.p.A., Incubation & Acceleration Metaverse, is an incubation and acceleration platform and corporate open innovation that boasts a series of competitive advantages and unique best practices on the market, validated in more than 15 years of experience
The organizational model, processes and tools of Enry’s Island S.p.A.(and of the startups in the portfolio) are based on the Enry’s Model, validated and used by over 800 entrepreneurs and professionals around the world.
The Enry’s Model is an industrial invention patent, filed with the IUBM, which organizes the management of Assets and Activities that contribute to the value creation (industrial and financial).
Enry’s Model and Enry’s Island S.p. A. best practices have become an economics manual published by McGrawHill (“Enry’s Theory – Theory, Models and Methods for Managing the Liquid Economy (in the Age of Aquarius)”)
Enry’s Island S.p.A. Infrastructure is holistic both horizontally (throughout the creation process, from the idea to the exit), and vertically, thanks to its 3 layers (Business Layer, Software Layer, Space Layer), which make it a unique player in its holistic approach, from the industrial as well as financial point of view.
Enry’s Island S.p.A. is confirmed in the 2022 as 1st Italian incubator and accelerator, 6th in Europe and 48th WW according to the Crunchbase ranking
Stages:Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: hysical HQ: Tremiti Islands, Italy Metaverse HQ: 1 Enry’s Island Route, Voxels
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet of Things, Web Apps, Metaverse, Real Estate, Health, Marketplace, Social Network, Finance, Waste, E-Commerce
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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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Milky Way Ventures
Milky Way Ventures, founded in 2015, is an ecommerce focussed incubator: a team of passionate entrepreneurs with background at companies such as McKinsey and Groupon aims to create sustainable value and ROI by bringing together all major aspects of startup operation including CRM, finance, technology and capital. The focus of MWV lies on marketplaces. We prefer adaptation over innovation by using existing and proven business models and scale them quickly within Italy aiming for largest possible success rate and feasibility of exits to existing market participants.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, Incubators, Marketplace
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