Investors in Italy

We support new entrepreneurs and develop new business models by sharing our professional network and our wealth of know-how to create long-term value and positive social impact on the territories.Ulixes Sgr wants to contribute to the resolution of structural problems, even in traditional sectors, paying attention to international macro trends of technological and socio-economic development, in compliance with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) promoted by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda.

Sella Venture Partners invests in a wide selection of some of the best early stage VCs in North America, Europe and Israel. The firm can count on a Senior Management Team with a unique experience in Venture Capital and an advisory board with proven track record in the industry.

Rialto is focused on supporting European founders operating in hard tech sectors which demonstrates domain expertise in recession-proof strategic verticals, such as developer tools, robotics, non-gen AI, cybersecurity, AR/VR, Enterprise SaaS, tech-enabled healthcare, and cloud services.

Primo Ventures is an Italian-based firm focused on early-stage technology venture capital founded by a team with significant digital experience and entrepreneurial background. We invest in two sectors: digital and space. They are an investment team with a solid entrepreneurial track record, dedicated to helping bright and innovative ideas transform into successful companies. They manage funds focused on the digital sector, including Barcamper Ventures, Barcamper Ventures Lazio, and Primo Digital, as well as in the emerging space economy with the Primo Space Fund. Strongly connected with major innovation and research centers in Italy and Europe, they actively select new entrepreneurs poised to disrupt businesses and industries.

Since 2015, the company has focused on investing in startups and innovative companies to generate value, particularly in the tourism and leisure sectors, digital marketing, fintech, and science. They provide comprehensive support to startups through advisory services, leveraging their extensive entrepreneurial experience. Their offerings include designing and managing entrepreneurship training courses, providing strategic advice, evaluating and reviewing business plans, structuring value propositions and business development, supporting business organization and team building, mentoring, developing fundraising strategies, and offering guidance on legal aspects.

Padda health is a VALUE CREATOR VENTURE CAPITAL that invests in innovative start-ups and SMEs in the healthcare area, sustaining them with a value generating skills network, through Padda Innovation Town. Padda health possesses a vision of open innovation on a global scale, while featuring the relationships usually connected with a family office. Padda health moves quickly, creating and providing value, turning start-ups into great game changers through something worth much more than money, i.e. human capital. Padda health is a start-up enabler that, by making use of a network of professionals in the fields of marketing, HR, procurement, legal and finance, aims to support the key areas during all the development stages of the start-ups

Lio Factory is an investment platform building and funding financial businesses designedto endure. The company has several investment arms investing in Real-Estate, Infrastructure, Renewables, Energy and AI. They combine in-depth, long-term investment research with entrepreneurial pragmatism to identify opportunities with significant upside and mitigated risk. With accumulated expertise, they focus on developing businesses where they have extensive experience and a clear competitive edge. Their team functions as a closely bonded community, driven by a shared mission and an entrepreneurial spirit that fosters innovation and exploration of new ideas.

At Korify, the team focuses on investing in innovative and visionary companies that have the potential to shape the future they envision. Korify Capital is focused on three investment strategies: Distributed development companies, Enabling technologies and domain-specific platforms.

Italian Founders Fund provide access to a community of leading founders who have experienced the journey and are eager to share their knowledge and networks. They lead pre-seed and seed rounds investing from 250k to 1.5 million, while facilitating access to international growth capital. As a founder community-powered venture capital fund, they embody what the best Italian entrepreneurs want and deserve.

Giano Ventures is a VC investor in the most promising technology startups in Italy and five other European markets (Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Switzerland). It focuses on building, managing, and improving early-stage companies. Its portfolio companies achieve fast growth trajectories and early profitability and they are a hands-on investor who works alongside the management teams of portfolio companies bringing tangible value-added. Its extensive network of connections ranging from entrepreneurs and SMEs to corporates, institutions, and investors to secure important commercial agreements for our portfolio companies.

Zeta Global Holdings Corp. is a data-driven marketing technology company which was founded in 2007. Zeta offers companies a suite of multichannel marketing tools focused on creating, maintaining, and monetizing customer relationships. Zeta Global Holdings Corp.

Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better. We will support and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent. We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders' way otherwise, if we don't add value. We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership.