Boost Heroes

Boost Heroes is a venture capital firm based in Milan, Italy, that specializes in seed and early-stage investments. Founded in 2015, the firm targets investments typically up to €0.5 million. As a holding company, Boost Heroes aims to support emerging companies by providing the necessary capital and resources to foster growth and innovation in their early stages.

Fabio Cannavale

Co-Founder

Carolina Montagna

Investment Manager

Zeno Pellizzari

CEO

61 past transactions

RENTUU

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Rentuu is the first B2B online marketplace for equipment to hire.

Enerbrain

Private Placement in 2019
Enerbrain S.r.l. develops a system of dynamic regulation of heating, cooling, and ventilation (HVAC) systems that allows to improve the indoor comfort and reduce consumption for air conditioning. The company offers Enerbrain, a retrofit IoT solution for HVAC systems. It serves culture, hotel, industry 4.0, office, retail, school, shopping mall, and smart city clients; and facility managers of companies, airports, hypermarkets, schools, hospitals, banks, and non-residential buildings. The company is based in Turin, Italy.

Botsociety

Seed Round in 2018
Botsociety allows designers and marketers to preview and prototype their next conversational interfaces. Conversational interfaces, such as voice assistants and chatbots, are the fastest growing interface since the introduction of the iPhone. We have grown 30% month over month in last 6 months; we have more than 200 paying customers including Accenture, Nike, Microsoft, PwC and others.

Gobee.bike

Seed Round in 2017
Gobee.bike is the leading dock-less bike sharing company outside mainland China. They aim to solve your last mile destination problems by making bicycles easily accessible and affordable in your locality. At the tap of a button, you can simply unlock one of their bright green bikes spotted near you and ride to your destination of choice and drop it off there. Convenience, fitness, and leisure can now be integrated into your daily commute. With GoBee's latest technology, cycling has once again been made fun and cool again! Gobee.bike is available in Hong Kong, France, Italy, Belgium.

Properly

Seed Round in 2016
Properly is a visual checklist tool that lets property owners share turnover instructions with cleaning pros effortlessly. Properly's mission is to have hosts and property managers get the same streamlined results during every guest turnover cleaning, and for professional cleaners to understand their clients' expectations and get recognized for stellar work.

Cosaporto

Venture Round in 2021
Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or for events, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, and Bologna, and last year it launched a London branch of the business.

Babaco Market

Funding Round in 2022
Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

Revelop

Angel Round in 2020
Revelop is an email platform for top performers. It makes it easier to make the most out of the personal inbox, highlighting opportunities and turning messages into actions.

DayBreakHotels

Venture Round in 2016
DayBreakHotels S.r.l. owns and operates an online portal for booking day rooms or suites in hotels. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Rome, Italy.

CleanBnB

Seed Round in 2017
CleanBnB S.p.A. operates an integrated platform with the online channels of reservations for houses and apartments for holidays. Its platform offers service to property owners who want to rent them for short periods. The company’s services include online management of the property profile, management of guest requests, management of rates and collections. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Milan, Italy.

ACBC

Private Placement in 2020
ACBC srl designs and manufactures men and women shoes with interchangeable skins. It offers shoes, shoe skin, sole, and packs. It offers its products through its stores and online platform. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Milan, Italy.

PrestaCap

Seed Round in 2016
PrestaCap is a marketplace lender serving small businesses in Europe. Through our website, we provide them with direct access to capital from retail and institutional investors in a fast and convenient way. We are the first truly pan-European marketplace lender for small businesses. E.g. An investor in England can easily lend money to a German company. This means small business borrowers have access to a deep pool of capital, and investors can easily achieve diversification. We are not a bank, our solution is much simpler and allows investors to lend directly to small businesses meaning lower fees and better terms for both.

Casavo Management S.p.A.

Private Placement in 2019
Casavo Management S.p.A. owns and operates online platform that allows to buy and sell homes by providing online real estate transactions. It provides technology driven processes and real estate valuations which shortens the transaction time. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Milan, Italy.

Pneusmart

Seed Round in 2016
Pneusmart is a pan-european tyre retailer. It has offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy and is growing fast in all markets. Pneusmart provides an innovative solution to source tyres for both cars, vans and motorcycles. It provides a full service experience to consumers, delivering tyres to stations in its vast fitting network to ensure a smooth customer experience. The company is expanding fast into a complete car service solution.

Uniwhere

Angel Round in 2020
Uniwhere UG (haftungsbeschränkt) develops a collaboration tool and career management platform for university students. The company's product allows students to manage their academic life and get support in taking decisions for their education. It offers a workspace where students can find reviews and data-driven recommendations, and a toolbox to organize their university experience. The company also develops and operates a mobile application to provide its services. Uniwhere UG (haftungsbeschränkt) was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Fitprime

Seed Round in 2017
Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.

Uniwhere

Angel Round in 2018
Uniwhere UG (haftungsbeschränkt) develops a collaboration tool and career management platform for university students. The company's product allows students to manage their academic life and get support in taking decisions for their education. It offers a workspace where students can find reviews and data-driven recommendations, and a toolbox to organize their university experience. The company also develops and operates a mobile application to provide its services. Uniwhere UG (haftungsbeschränkt) was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Airlite

Venture Round in 2015
airlite, AM Technology Ltd. produces air purifying paints. The company offers architectural, architectural special, and special technical paints. Its paints are used to reduce pollutants in the air; eliminate bacteria and viruses from the surfaces; eliminate bad odors from living environments; prevent dirt to settle on the walls; and reduce energy consumption in indoor and outdoor places, including houses, offices, shops, schools, hospitals, public places, civil buildings, commercial buildings, infrastructure, tunnels and galleries, and garages. The company is based in London, United Kingdom.

Growish

Venture Round in 2019
Growish is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy. Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.

Mamma M'Ama

Seed Round in 2017
Mamma M’Ama, a Milan, Italy-based producer of fresh baby food, The company intends to use the funds to continue to develop the e-commerce platform, improving its processes and logistics, expand operations in Italy, launch new products, sign new commercial partnerships with bio food chains (such as the existing ones with EcorNaturaSì and Eataly), pharmacies, hotels, and thematic parks, and increase its marketing and communication efforts.

GuestReady

Series A in 2019
GuestReady was founded in late 2016 with the objective of taking the hassle out of Airbnb hosting. They aim to deliver outstanding services to both their hosts and guests in London, Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong. With an extensive battery of premium Airbnb management services, and a combined experience. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Trogen, Ausser-Rhoden.

Edgar

Equity Crowdfunding in 2018
Edgar Srl provide with application software to do guest management. The company has products such as Guide Me Right which facilitate and plan the meeting between the guests, travelers, and local friends; Edgar Smart Concierge which is digital concierge that is application software for travelers to manage things during travelling. Edgar Srl was founded in 2017 and is based in Cagliari, Italy.

Wash out

Seed Round in 2017
Wash Out Srl is the innovative waterless car wash app for cars and motorcycles directly where they are parked.

Fitprime

Seed Round in 2019
Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.

PetMe

Seed Round in 2015
PETME S.R.L. develops an online platform that helps pet owners to find people who are willing for pet sitting. The company is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Talkpush

Seed Round in 2017
Talkpush is making volume hiring fun and personal again. Talkpush is a recruitment platform that leverages the power of messaging and social media. The solution consists of Stanley, a recruitment chatbot compatible with Facebook and WeChat, which conducts interviews and an application management tool, which allows recruiters to evaluate and hire candidates faster than ever before.

Babaco Market

Series A in 2022
Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

GuestReady

Seed Round in 2017
Oporto City Flats, the short-term rental operator in Northern Portugal.

Epicura

Equity Crowdfunding in 2019
EpiCura Srl provides an online platform to book health, and social assistance services in Italy. The company helps to find out certified professionals who consult patient at their home. It offers services such as, house assistance, physiotherapy, nursing, and osteopathy. EpiCura Srl was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Turin, Italy.

Marshmallow Games

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Marshmallow Games, thanks to a proprietary technology, designs and develops educational apps for kids that help them learn in a funny way mixing editorial contents with game. We offer a game based learning experience that help kids to discover school subjects in a funny way. We released 15 apps worldwide reaching more than 1 million kids and we partnered with big brands of the media and entertainment industry as TIM, Clementoni, DNA and Mukako. Most of our apps have been featured on the App Store worldwide and reached the top of the charts in more than 120 countries.

Artemest

Seed Round in 2017
Artimest serves as an online destination for timeless craft. You can meet Italy's finest craftsmen, explore their unique workshops, and find one-of-a-kind pieces. Artimest brings connoisseurs everywhere wonderful handmade products crafted by exceptional artisans in Italy. Artemest offers a unique shopping experience through curated editorial content and exceptional videos. Its team includes international experienced professionals coming from luxury retail, e-commerce and editorial. Explore the varied worlds of home décor, jewelry and fine art as they change in character from region to region, and observe each artisan in his workshop as he describes his process and worldview.

Satispay

Series B in 2017
Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly to the consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.

Artomatix

Seed Round in 2015
Artomatix makes it easy to create realistic, immersive 3D worlds by developing the first creative artificial intelligence that automatically generates 3D content. Currently focused on textures and texturing – the ‘skin’ of 3D assets – Artomatix’s artificial intelligence automates the tedious aspects of 3D content creation, enabling experts and enthusiasts alike to focus on creativity, which consists in high added value tasks that brought them to this field in the first place. Since its inception, Artomatix won NVIDIA’s Early Stage Challenge (2015, $100k), reached the top 2.5% of TechCrunch Disrupt (2015) and the top 0.8% of Hello Tomorrow (2015). To execute on its vision, Artomatix raised €2.1m in March 2017. Artomatix has been featured in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Le Monde and the Irish Times.

PrenotaUnCampo

Seed Round in 2015
PrenotaUnCampo develops online platform and mobile application which allows users to book playgrounds.

Marshmallow Games

Seed Round in 2018
Marshmallow Games, thanks to a proprietary technology, designs and develops educational apps for kids that help them learn in a funny way mixing editorial contents with game. We offer a game based learning experience that help kids to discover school subjects in a funny way. We released 15 apps worldwide reaching more than 1 million kids and we partnered with big brands of the media and entertainment industry as TIM, Clementoni, DNA and Mukako. Most of our apps have been featured on the App Store worldwide and reached the top of the charts in more than 120 countries.

Dynamitick

Seed Round in 2016
DynamiTick provides dynamic ticket pricing solutions across different markets. It offers its users with pricing strategies, ad hoc solutions, optimization services, and results. It is widely used in the tourism industry, from scheduled flights to hotel bookings. It analyzes the data of their customers to choose the correct pricing strategy for every occasion. DynamiTick is an Italy-based company that was founded in 2015.

WISSHH Srl

Seed Round in 2017
WISSHH Srl designs and manufactures travel bags for travelers. It also sells travel bags, travel kits, and T-shirts online. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Rodengo-Saiano, Italy.

Epicura

Private Placement in 2019
EpiCura Srl provides an online platform to book health, and social assistance services in Italy. The company helps to find out certified professionals who consult patient at their home. It offers services such as, house assistance, physiotherapy, nursing, and osteopathy. EpiCura Srl was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Turin, Italy.

Epicura

Seed Round in 2019
EpiCura Srl provides an online platform to book health, and social assistance services in Italy. The company helps to find out certified professionals who consult patient at their home. It offers services such as, house assistance, physiotherapy, nursing, and osteopathy. EpiCura Srl was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Turin, Italy.

CharityStars

Seed Round in 2014
CharityStars is the groundbreaking fundraising platform where celebrities and brands donate 'money can't buy experiences'' or rare items to raise money for their favortie charitable causes. Celebrities such as Novak Djokovic, James Blunt and Eva Longoria, and brands such as Ferrari, Armani and IWC, just to name a few, have worked with CharityStars in raising over $20M for 500 global charities and counting.

Casavo Management S.p.A.

Private Placement in 2019
Casavo Management S.p.A. owns and operates online platform that allows to buy and sell homes by providing online real estate transactions. It provides technology driven processes and real estate valuations which shortens the transaction time. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Milan, Italy.

2hire

Seed Round in 2016
2Hire s.r.l. develops software that provides mobility solutions by turning all kind of vehicles into connected cars. It offers 2hire board, a dongle which helps in interaction with vehicle by application. It equips vehicles with plug and play device, smartphones, real-time data analysis, and fleet management. The company also provides car and scooter rental and car sharing solutions. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Rome, Italy.

Orangogo

Seed Round in 2017
Sport Grand Tour Srl develops Orango.Go platform that allows users to identify the sport to be practiced. Its platform provides courses, lessons, and invitations to sport. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Turin, Italy.

Artomatix

Private Placement in 2019
Artomatix makes it easy to create realistic, immersive 3D worlds by developing the first creative artificial intelligence that automatically generates 3D content. Currently focused on textures and texturing – the ‘skin’ of 3D assets – Artomatix’s artificial intelligence automates the tedious aspects of 3D content creation, enabling experts and enthusiasts alike to focus on creativity, which consists in high added value tasks that brought them to this field in the first place. Since its inception, Artomatix won NVIDIA’s Early Stage Challenge (2015, $100k), reached the top 2.5% of TechCrunch Disrupt (2015) and the top 0.8% of Hello Tomorrow (2015). To execute on its vision, Artomatix raised €2.1m in March 2017. Artomatix has been featured in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Le Monde and the Irish Times.

Treedom

Seed Round in 2011
Treedom s.r.l. operates an online platform that allows users to plant or dedicate a tree online. Its platform allows users to choose a tree to plant it for them, follow it, and find out how much CO2 it emits every day, as well as gift trees. The company also allows businesses to plant trees in their brand names. Treedom s.r.l. was founded in 2010 and is based in Florence, Italy.

Prodibi

Seed Round in 2016
Prodibi Sàrl provides an image display cloud-based software technology to show full-resolution images without a size limit. It offers templates with built-in search engine optimization, social features, and mobile-responsive design to let a client to show off client’s pictures. The company serves casual and professional photographers and artists, watchmakers, fashion photographers, business users, and Web publishers. Prodibi Sàrl was founded in 2011 and is based in Petit-Lancy, Switzerland.

Fitprime

Venture Round in 2016
Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.

Stegimondo GmbH

Seed Round in 2017
Stegimondo GmbH operates an online platform where users can upload construction plans or roofing photos and get the price and cost. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

MiMoto

Seed Round in 2016
MiMoto Smart Mobility is an innovative start-up that operates with the electric scooter sharing service.

Casavo

Series A in 2019
Casavo is a tech-enabled market maker that makes the real estate market easier and less stressful. It offers hassle-free and quick transactions by acquiring properties directly and therefore cutting the sale time. Casavo provides online, real-time evaluations, and purchase offers in 24 hours to sellers, allowing them to sell within 30 days, after a maximum of 2 home visits. The service is free, but an (average) 8% discount is applied to the purchase offers as compared to the market price. Once acquired by Casavo, the properties are renovated or fractioned and sold again in the shortest time possible. Casavo works both with RE agencies and private sellers. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Milan, Italy.

Shampora

Seed Round in 2018
Shampora Srl manufactures hair products. It offers shampoos for oily, colored, curly, fine, and frizzy hair; conditioners; and leave-in products. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Pomezia, Italy.

GoodBuyAuto

Seed Round in 2016
GoodBuyAuto is an innovative startup that launched the first mobile marketplace in Italy and Continental Europe for the sale of used private cars. Convenience of online, certainty of collateral and convenience of the best prices are the three promises of GoodBuyAuto to all motorists.

Homepal

Funding Round in 2017
Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and the contracts. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.

Hex Trust

Seed Round in 2019
Hex Trust provides institutional platform for digital assets. It offers custody, token issuance, and KYC platform. Hex Trust was formerly known as HEX Capital Group. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.

My Foody

Seed Round in 2018
MyFoody is the solution that disrupts the relationship between consumers and food retailers turning waste into value. Finally, supermarkets will innovate their relationship with the consumers and make their brands stand out and more sustainable.

Everli

Seed Round in 2015
Online delivery service transforming the way people buy groceries and home essentials

2hire

Series A in 2020
2Hire s.r.l. develops software that provides mobility solutions by turning all kind of vehicles into connected cars. It offers 2hire board, a dongle which helps in interaction with vehicle by application. It equips vehicles with plug and play device, smartphones, real-time data analysis, and fleet management. The company also provides car and scooter rental and car sharing solutions. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Rome, Italy.

MySecretCase s.r.l.

Seed Round in 2014
MySecretCase s.r.l. operates an online marketplace for women sex toys and accessories. It offers vibrators, dildos, underwears, bondages, vaginal balls, condoms, and lubricants. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Milan, Italy.

GuestReady

Venture Round in 2019
Oporto City Flats, the short-term rental operator in Northern Portugal.