Synergo SGR

Synergo is a private equity firm based in Milan, Italy, managing €315 million through its closed-end fund, Sinergia con Imprenditori, which completed its final closing in 2006. The firm focuses on helping entrepreneurs maximize the potential of their companies and enhance shareholder value through capital investment, managerial guidance, and operational support. Synergo's investment strategy is characterized by an active, hands-on approach, leveraging the extensive experience of its investment team in areas such as finance, mergers and acquisitions, change management, and international market opportunities. The firm targets growth investments in a diverse range of sectors, including digital media, online sales, food technology, fashion technology, and artificial intelligence, among others, primarily within Italy.

Matteo Colombo

Investment Director

Gianfilippo Cuneo

Principal and Chairman of the Investment Committee

Paolo Intermite

Partner

Paolo Zapparoli

Principal and Chief Executive Officer

Past deals in Italy

Glickon

Series A in 2022
Glickon S.r.l., founded in 2014 and based in Milan, Italy, specializes in a People Analytics and gamification platform designed for human resources professionals. The platform enables HR teams to effectively listen to, engage with, and manage their workforce throughout the entire employee lifecycle, from recruitment to exit. By integrating gamification dynamics with people analytics, Glickon provides valuable insights that assist HR professionals in making data-driven decisions, ultimately enhancing talent management and organizational performance.

4Gift

Venture Round in 2021
4Gifters Italia S.r.l. operates a luxury e-gifting platform that facilitates the sending and receiving of gifts across various global cities. Founded in 2014 and based in Milan, Italy, the platform uniquely combines classic e-commerce with an in-store shopping experience, allowing users to choose gifts for in-store pickup or delivery to specific addresses. It offers a wide range of products, including clothing, accessories, jewelry, and beauty items, sourced from prestigious international luxury brands. A distinctive feature is the Team Gift option, enabling multiple users to contribute towards a gift, enhancing the gifting experience. The platform notifies recipients via email and text with a unique gift code, which they can use to retrieve their gift at the selected store. Currently operating in major cities such as Milan, Rome, London, Paris, and New York, 4Gifters is expanding into other luxury tourism hubs. Additionally, it has developed the 4Gift® Tool, allowing brands to integrate its unique gifting features into their own e-commerce platforms.

Notizie.it

Venture Round in 2021
Notizie.it serves as a comprehensive source of social information, delivering a wide range of content that includes news, television updates, sports, gossip, and political developments, as well as localized news relevant to specific cities. The platform aims to keep its audience informed by aggregating diverse topics and providing timely updates. Operating within the digital landscape, Notizie.it caters to users seeking current events and insights across various domains, positioning itself as an essential resource for those interested in staying connected with the latest happenings in their communities and beyond.

Notizie.it

Series A in 2021
Notizie.it serves as a comprehensive source of social information, delivering a wide range of content that includes news, television updates, sports, gossip, and political developments, as well as localized news relevant to specific cities. The platform aims to keep its audience informed by aggregating diverse topics and providing timely updates. Operating within the digital landscape, Notizie.it caters to users seeking current events and insights across various domains, positioning itself as an essential resource for those interested in staying connected with the latest happenings in their communities and beyond.

Toscotec

Private Equity Round in 2016
Toscotec SpA is an Italian company that specializes in the design and manufacture of machines, systems, and components for the tissue and paperboard manufacturing industries. Founded in 1948 and based in Marlia, Toscotec offers a wide range of services, including design and process engineering for complete plants or specific sections, as well as the production of tissue slitter rewinders and plants for pulp preparation. The company focuses on integrating modern technology into its products, which include turnkey projects and individual components, aimed at helping paper producers enhance efficiency while minimizing raw material consumption and production costs. Additionally, Toscotec provides training, plant optimization, maintenance and reconditioning services, and spare parts, supporting clients throughout the operational lifecycle of their equipment.

Kirey Group

Private Equity Round in 2016
Kirey Group supports companies in their transformation towards a digital business by offering a specific know-how in the field of technology innovation and process management, a further support to enable better business strategies and a wide offering of IT solutions designed upon the needs of major market segments.

Raccortubi Group

Private Equity Round in 2015
Raccortubi S.p.A. manufactures, stocks, and supplies piping materials for applications, including chemical and petrochemical plants, oil installations, power plants, shipyards, urea plants, and offshore platforms worldwide. It offers urea grade pipes and fittings, heat exchanger tubes (cut-to-size), instrumentation tubing, and high temperature materials; as well as butt weld fittings and flanges in stainless steel, duplex, superduplex, superaustenitics, and nickel alloys. The company was founded in 1949 and is based in Marcallo con Casone, Italy with additional locations in Italy, Brazil, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

TMCI Padovan

Acquisition in 2014
TMCI Padovan designs, develops, and manufactures process equipment and plants for food and beverage industries. The company’s process equipment include filtration and clarification, thermal exchange, complete lines, blending and mixing, beer lines, malt transport and milling, brew houses, fermentation and maturation tanks, dry hop and hop back, yeasts propagation, aseptic filling bag in drum, enzyme inactivation, cutting and wrapping, and deodorization.

Building Energy

Private Equity Round in 2013
Italy-based renewable energy producer Building Energy.

The Cobra Group

Private Equity Round in 2008
Cobra Automotive Technologies offering integrated vehicle security solutions for the prevention of risks linked to vehicle usage and ownership.

Gruppo Waste Italia

Private Equity Round in 2008
Gruppo Waste Italia is among the leading private companies in the field of environmental services aimed at businesses, offering pecialized services and customized for the collection, transportation, selection, treatment, recovery, use and disposal of special waste (wastes produced by industrial, commercial or artisanal).

Kinetika Sardegna Srl

Private Equity Round in 2008
Kinetika Sardegna Srl is a operator in the Italian private healthcare market.

Valvitalia SpA.

Private Equity Round in 2007
VALVITALIA is a leading group in the field of design, production, and overall supply of equipment and components intended for the petroleum, water, natural gas industries, and petrochemical industry as well as electrical power stations. The group works mainly with valves (core product), actuators, pipe fittings, flanges and systems for measuring, filtering, and regulating fluids and gases and with FireFighting systems. VALVITALIA was set up with the precise objective of becoming the leading Italian group able to offer such a wide range of products and to compete with the large American multinationals that have always dominated this field. This young company has extensive experience in the sector, thanks to its professional management and historical brands in the valve world that have been taken on by the Group, including: ROTOR, DELTA V.E., THEVIGNOT, VANADOUR, VITAS, TORMENE T.G.T. and TECNOFORGE. VALVITALIA has always included safety and respect for the environment and its employees among its priorities.

V2 S.p.A.

Private Equity Round in 2007
V2 S.p.A. manufactures and markets automation systems for gates, garage doors, rolling shutters, and awnings for residential and industrial use in Italy and internationally. Its gate products include solar energy systems, sliding doors operators, control units, transmitters and receivers, and security devices and accessories, as well as motors for sliding gates, swing gates, garage doors and rolling shutters, and barriers; and screen products include tubular motors and electronic products. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Racconigi, Italy. It has additional locations in Barcelona, Spain; Lyon, France; Caxarias, Portugal; Casablanca, Morocco; Tunis, Tunisia; and Hangzhou, China. As of July 31, 2018, V2 S.p.A. operates as a subsidiary of Nice S.p.A.

Fintyre

Private Equity Round in 2007
The Fintyre group is the distributor of replacement tyres in Italy, and each year sells more that 4 million tyres with the aim of expanding and consolidating its current market position. The Fintyre group operates right across the country and is among the strongest presences in the sector. Fintyre is the main contact for professional stockists for all vehicles looking for a reliable and knowledgeable partner with a strong contractual capacity.

Roen Est

Private Equity Round in 2007
Roen Est SpA is a designer and manufacturer of heat exchangers and ventilated units, catering to the commercial, civil, industrial, naval, and rail sectors across Europe. The company specializes in a variety of products, including finned pack heat exchangers, unit coolers, remote condensers, evaporators, and coils for water and oil, as well as shells and tube bundles. In addition to its hardware offerings, Roen Est provides software solutions for thermodynamic calculations and product selection, enhancing the efficiency of applications in air conditioning, cooling, heating, cogeneration, and thermal recovery. Founded in 1983, Roen Est is headquartered in Ronchi dei Legionari, Italy, with an additional office in Slovakia, positioning itself as a key player in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration industries.

AllSystem

Acquisition in 2006
Allsystem S.p.A. manufactures and markets security and surveillance systems. The Company provides detective, guard, and special protection services to public bodies, companies, bank, and individuals. Allsystem operates in Italy.

Unopiù SpA

Acquisition in 2006
Unopiù SpA is a outdoor furniture sector.

Lediberg S.p.A.

Acquisition in 2006
Lediberg S.p.A. is an Italian company that specializes in the manufacture, distribution, and export of paper products and leather goods targeted at the business-to-business sector. Founded in 1965 and headquartered in San Paolo d'Argon, Italy, the company offers a diverse range of products, including diaries, calendars, notebooks, photo albums, recipe books, and address books. Additionally, Lediberg provides prepress, printing, and bookbinding services, along with promotional items and integrated services. Its products are primarily distributed to stationers and gift shops. The company has expanded its operations internationally, with production units and branches in several countries, including Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, England, and the United States. As of June 2018, Lediberg S.p.A. operates as a subsidiary of Johnson Cpz Distribuzione S.r.l.

Riri SA

Private Equity Round in 2006
Riri SA manufactures zippers and buttons to the luxury fashion and accessories industry. It provides metal, symmetrical teeth, anodized aluminum teeth, water repellent, and thermoplastic material zippers; nylon and classic zippers; and jeans and press buttons, rivets, tra-ins, and accessories. The company sells its products through a team of agents and sales representatives. Riri SA was founded in 1936 and is based in Mendrisio, Switzerland with production sites in Padova and Tirano, Italy.

Air Italy SpA

Private Equity Round in 2006
Air Italy S.p.A. provides airline services. The Company offers tourist flights that connect resorts in Egypt with Italy, France, Germany, Poland, and England. Air Italy operates charter airlines to Europe and other long haul leisure destinations.

Arquati Service S.r.l.

Private Equity Round in 2006
Arquati Service S.r.l. operates in the manufacturing and distribution of awnings, blinds and curtains.

Ducati

Private Equity Round in 2006
Ducati is proud to represent Italian industry - the essence of Italian style shows through the design of each bike. Sinuous, seductive and flexible lines with a permanent, timeless quality that sets an unsurpassable standard. Ducati Bikes – in over 60 nations throughout the world these models dominate the dreams of the most ardent motorcycle enthusiasts.

Tecnowind Spa

Private Equity Round in 2006
Tecnowind Spa manufactures furnishing hoods and ceramic hobs.

Motovario S.p.A.

Acquisition in 2006
Motovario is a manufacturer of power transmission products. 
 The Company has grown to become one of the most important European manufacturers of gear units for industrial and civil applications.

Vending System Italia S.p.A.

Private Equity Round in 2006
Vending System Italia S.p.A. operates automatic and semiautomatic vending machines for the sale of food and cold and hot beverages.

Redecam Group SpA

Acquisition in 2005
Redecam Group SpA offers a wide selection of fitering systems for the cement, steel, glass, and power markets.

CastFutura S.p.A.

Private Equity Round in 2005
CastFutura S.p.A. is an Italian company based in Terno D'Isola, established in 1969. It specializes in the manufacture and distribution of components for household and heating appliances. The company's product offerings include tubular and stamped burners, slim burners, hob and oven thermocouples, timers, lamp holders, roasting spits, gear motors, and spark plugs. CastFutura is recognized for its commitment to quality in the production of essential components that enhance the functionality of cooking and heating equipment.

Teckal S.p.A.

Private Equity Round in 2005
Teckal S.p.A. manufactures, distributes, installs, and maintains heating and air conditioning systems.

IPC

Private Equity Round in 2005
IPC is a manufacturer of machines and equipment for the professional cleaning sector. The company has a full offering including scrubber-dryers, professional vacuum cleaners, high pressure washers and equipment.

LIVISTO

Private Equity Round in 2004
TREI Spa produces and markets veterinary products, medicated premixes, and feed additives used in the livestock industry.

Bozzetto Group

Private Equity Round in 2004
Giovanni Bozzetto is supplies textile chemicals, building chemicals, and performance chemicals to clients in Europe, Asia and the US.

Angelo Randazzo

Private Equity Round in 2004
Angelo Randazzo Srl owns and operates optical retail stores in Italy.