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We invest from Pre-Seed to Series A in companies with an Italian DNA: born in Italy, expanding here, or founded by Italians anywhere in the world. We lead or co-lead early rounds, and help unlock global capital when it’s time to scale.
We’ve been founders before: we know speed matters and what it takes to build. After years of international experience, we came back to Italy to build the VC we wish we had when we started. With a unique network of Italians' top builders and entrepreneurs, we are the country’s first founder-backed VC.
We are Italy’s first founder-backed VC — the partner the country’s best entrepreneurs want and deserve.
We’re looking for:
- Unlimited ambition and global mindset
- Exceptional and passionate founders
- Extreme transparency
- No fear to fail and iterate
We’re offering:
- €250k to €3m initial investment
- Active support from our operating team and founders community
- Founder friendly terms and conditions (we have been on the other side!)
- Speed and transparency
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Jet HR
Jet HR is building a modern payroll and HR platform for Italian SMBs, an under-digitized market worth an estimated €2.8bn in Italy alone. The company was founded by Marco Ogliengo, second-time founder and former CEO of ProntoPro, scaled into a leading European marketplace before its acquisition by Immobiliare.it, and Francesco Scalambrino, former VP Product at ProntoPro and later Product Director at PayFit and Oyster, leading payroll products in regulated markets.
Sava
Sava is developing next-generation biosensing technology that enables continuous, painless and real-time access to biological signals, in the rapidly expanding wearable biosensor and continuous glucose monitoring market, projected to reach $20B by 2028. The company was founded by Renato Circi and Rafael Michali, bioengineering graduates from Imperial College London who previously built Caura together before launching Sava in 2019.
Mama Health
Mama Health is a patient intelligence platform that captures and structures longitudinal patient voice, converting fragmented qualitative data into structured, reusable datasets for pharma companies. The company was founded by Mattia Marco Caruson, who previously co-founded Teach&Touch, a rehabilitation app for children, and Dr. Jonas Witt, a medical doctor and former researcher at the Max Planck Institute.
Pillar
Pillar is building a construction operating system for Italian construction SMEs, converting jobsite artifacts into structured, job-linked records that power reconciliation, invoicing and cashflow planning. The company was founded by Gabriel Guinea Montalvo, former Head of Product at Qomodo, Paolo Tarsia Incuria, who scaled Qomodo's commercial strategy to a €13.5M Series A, and Lorenzo Demaio, former Co-Founder and CPO of Naki Power.
Cato
Cato is an AI-agentic platform that automates the entire workflow around public contract opportunities, from discovery to analysis to preparation, targeting Italy's €250B public procurement market. The company was founded by Andrea Zorzetto, previously co-founder and CEO of peoplerank, and Matteo Bossolini, a software engineer with experience building GenAI products.
Sona
Sona is building an enterprise-grade workforce management platform for complex, shift-based frontline operations across hospitality, QSR, retail and social care, replacing fragmented legacy systems with a unified system of record. The company was founded by Steffen Wulff Petersen, previously co-founder of Lazada, sold to Alibaba for $3.5B, Ben Dixon, co-founder of Catapult, an online staffing marketplace, and Oli Johnson, who previously co-founded Rainmaking Loft, a startup coworking space
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Klearly
Klearly is building a software-only payments platform for restaurants that lets merchants accept card payments directly on smartphones while integrating with existing POS systems, in a European hospitality payments market processing €880B annually. The company was founded by Sam Koekoek, a fintech operator with experience across European and Israeli fintech ecosystems, and Maya Carmeli, who previously scaled a fintech company to IPO.
Complaion
Complaion is an AI-first compliance platform that helps SMBs achieve, maintain and leverage regulatory certifications, in Italy's ISO certification market, valued at more than €0.8B and the second-largest globally. The company was founded by Edoardo Tarricone, former McKinsey consultant, Marco Cortinovis, previously founder of DailyInternship which scaled to over 100,000 users, and Alessandro Vaccaniro, a CTO with over 14 years building software products.
Compri
Compri is an AI-powered procurement operating system built for mid-market manufacturing companies, addressing a structurally under-digitized function that manages over 70% of industrial spend across supplier data, sourcing and compliance. The company was founded by Edoardo Arbizzi, former Bain & Company consultant with firsthand exposure to manufacturing value chains at Ferrari, and Edoardo Gava, previously at Smartpricing with a background spanning product, finance and operations.
Manufact
Manufact is building open-source developer tools and cloud infrastructure to deploy AI agents using the Model Context Protocol, in a $12B enterprise AI DevOps and automation market. The company was founded by Pietro Zullo, second-time founder and ETH Zurich-trained robotics engineer, and Luigi Pederzani, former founding engineer at Morgen, an ETH spin-off.
ReportAId
ReportAid is an AI-driven platform that transforms medical reports and unstructured clinical data into actionable insights for healthcare providers, in a European digital health market valued at €13.5B. The company was founded by Giuseppe Faraci, former Head of Innovation at Sant'Agostino, Claudio Caletti, a technologist with over a decade in healthcare software, and Luca Foresti, CEO of Santagostino.
TextYess
TextYess is building the autonomous AI-native CRM for B2C brands, running personalized marketing across WhatsApp, email, voice, and other channels in a B2C CRM category still wide open with no AI-native leader yet. The company was founded by Riccardo Russo, who previously drove growth at a YC-backed startup, and Edvaldo Gjonikaj, a former LangChain contributor who built fintech products for enterprise partners.
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Invertix
Invertix is building the operations intelligence layer for renewable energy asset managers, normalizing fragmented SCADA, O&M, and financial data into a single view for AI agents to monitor. The company was founded by Joseph Perrotta, former BDR & Tech Ops at Cubbit, and Kaan Durmaz, previously a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich.
Paradigma
Paradigma is an early-stage frontier lab building Flywheel, a research execution engine that automates the engineering behind scientific research, letting ML researchers focus on ideation. The company was founded by Francesco Pappone, former Machine Learning PhD student at Sapienza, Giulio Starace, former Research Engineer at OpenAI, and Emanuele Rodolà, Full Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza.
CommerceClarity
CommerceClarity is building an AI-native orchestration layer for e-commerce operations, designed to help retailers manage and optimize product catalogs at scale, in the large and growing catalog management market. The company was founded by Federico Sargenti, former early Amazon Italy team member who scaled Everli from €1M to €150M in GMV, Daniele Vella, a serial e-commerce entrepreneur, Michele Sampieri, an infrastructure engineer, and Alessandro Angelini, former COO and CFO of Everli.
HeyDiga
HeyDiga is an AI agent that handles business customer conversations across calls, WhatsApp, and chat 24/7, in an SMB and mid-market service sector still running on calls and paper. The company was founded by Sergio Espeja, former CTO of Jobandtalent who scaled its engineering team from 5 to over 150, and David Zafra, previously Product Lead at Hawkers Group.
Programma
Programma is building the understanding layer for AI-generated software, using verification agents that turn every code change into a semantically verified artifact human and non-technical reviewers can trust, addressing a $14.4B DevOps and dev-tools market growing at a 26% CAGR. The company was founded by Pierluca D'Oro, a former research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs who previously worked on frontier LLM, reinforcement learning, and computer-use agent research.
Superlog
Superlog is building autonomous observability that installs itself with one prompt and ships PRs to fix the bugs it finds, targeting a $4B slice of a multi-billion-dollar observability market where incumbents like Datadog and Splunk each generate over $1B in yearly revenue. The company was founded by Nicolò Magnante, a second-time founder and former BCG strategy consultant, and Arseniy Shishaev, a former Datadog software engineer.
Brum
BRUM is building digital driving schools across Italy, offering a digital driver's license solution for faster, safer and more efficient licensing, in a market worth an estimated €1.8B. The company was founded by Luca Cozzarini, previously in finance operations at WeRoad, and Paolo de Nadai, founder of WeRoad and ScuolaZoo, now President of OneDay Group.
Platonic Research
Platonic Research makes people and AI more productive in enterprises by giving them the context they lack: Their AI tool maps every process, spots the bottlenecks, and surfaces automation opportunities. The company was founded by Marco Eterno, physicist and machine learning researcher who previously led the Octopus AI research collaboration, and Federico Visintini, former CTO at Olivia.
Seltz AI
Seltz AI is building foundational infrastructure that lets AI agents ground their reasoning in real-time, multimodal and verifiable web knowledge, in a rapidly expanding $50B+ AI infrastructure market. The company was founded by Antonio Mallia, a retrieval systems expert who previously worked at Pinecone, Amazon Alexa search and Bloomberg.
Aquila
Aquila is building a data infrastructure platform that connects IoT sensors and Industry 4.0 technologies with sustainable finance and ESG reporting, in a rapidly growing market driven by increasing ESG disclosure requirements. The company was founded by Stefano Pellegrino, former Country Head of Vietnam and Head of International Expansion at Aspire, and Jarek Tkaczyk, a senior engineering leader with over a decade in software development.
Skillvue
Skillvue is an AI powered skill assessment platform that helps companies evaluate candidates and employees on soft skills, culture fit and leadership potential at scale, in a large assessment market where traditional methods are costly, biased and poorly predictive. The company was founded by Nicolò Mazzocchi and Simone Patera, who previously worked together at Booming Lab, bringing combined entrepreneurial, commercial and product experience.
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Cassandra
Cassandra is building an AI-driven budget allocation platform that optimizes advertising spend and maximizes marketing ROI, in a rapidly evolving marketing analytics space reshaped by stricter privacy regulations and the decline of third-party cookies. The company was founded by Gabriele Franco, growth and marketing expert who previously founded Hybrida Marketing with clients including Conad and NATO, and Cristian Nozzi, a full-stack engineer who built AI solutions for over 20 clients.
Ratel
Ratel is building the enabling layer that turns legacy vertical SaaS webapps into embedded AI agents, in a European legacy software market worth an estimated €40B TAM. The company was founded by Giacomo Nicoli, former consultant at BCG, and Roberto Stagi, previously a software engineer at Bending Spoons.
Glaut
Glaut is an AI native customer research platform that helps companies gather, analyze and act on customer feedback at scale, in a large customer research market where proven players have built multi-billion-dollar businesses. The company was founded by Matteo Cera, former Senior Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund and Engagement Manager at McKinsey, together with Giovanni Del Gallo, a technical founder from the Vento Founder Cohort 2022 with strong AI systems experience.
Livia
Livia is an AI-powered condominium administrator for Milan residents seeking fast answers, transparent expenses and reliable suppliers, in Italy's property management market. The company was founded by Alessandro Barone, former Founding GTM at AI agent startup Twin, and Matthias Kullbach, former Founding GTM at Gama.
Iusful
Iusful is building an AI-powered legal assessment platform giving Italian SMEs continuous legal and compliance support, in a market where civil legal services for small businesses and professionals total an estimated €4.5B annually in Italy. The company was founded by Roberto Marazzini, a five-time founder with prior exits including Boolean Careers, Michele Papagni, a repeat founder with product and tech leadership experience, and Federica Pulcino, former Strategic Project Lead at Boolean.
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Fleequid
Fleequid is a vertical B2B marketplace for used buses, combining online auctions and buy-now sales with standardized inspections and end-to-end services including logistics, registration and warranty. The company was founded by Filippo Battaglia, CEO of Basco Srl, a commercial vehicle supplier, and Federico Battaglia, who brings 13+ years of experience in the commercial vehicle industry.
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Wynwood
Wynwood is an asset-light real estate and hospitality platform offering flexible stays and investment services across LatAm, the U.S. and Europe through four brands. The company was founded by Ignacio Masias, former Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, and Juan Garay, previously a VC investor at Global Founders Capital.
TaDa
TaDa is developing a Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring platform that gives households and energy partners continuous, precise insights into home energy consumption, in the growing home energy management market. The company was founded by Stefano Fumi, former energy sector executive at Enel, Giuseppe Teatino, former Head of UX at PostePay, and Federico Ungolo, previously Lead Machine Learning Engineer at NTT DATA.
Salupay
Salupay is a revenue collection platform for healthcare clinics, automating payments and administrative workflows in a fragmented, operationally inefficient sector, within Italy's healthcare market where spending exceeds €170B annually and private out-of-pocket payments are rapidly growing. The company was founded by Giorgia Caruso, former M&A analyst at J.P. Morgan and private equity investor at Blackstone, together with Marco Sampellegrini, a senior software engineer with experience at Prima and Facile.it.
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