Innogest Capital

Innogest is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 with offices in Turin, Milan, Geneva and San Francisco. It manages investment funds for a total value of about €200 million and it invests in startups mainly in the healthcare and digital sectors mainly in early stage phase. Innogest partners with main local and international research centers and technology transfer offices. In the healthcare field, Innogest invests with a focus on medical devices, diagnostics and digital health and with particular attention to therapeutic areas such as cardiovascular, neurology, and oncology. In the digital field, Innogest invests with a focus on foodtech, fintech, fashion-tech and lifestyle verticals

Hadi Abderrahim

Partner

Enrico Bollini

Director

Giuseppe Donagemma

Chairman of the Board

Claudio Giuliano

CEO

Marco Millini

Portfolio Progress Manager

Hiroaki Tanaka

Partner

77 past transactions

Anaconda BioMed

Seed Round in 2016
Anaconda Biomed, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, is among the world's most innovative early stage medical technology companies. The company was founded by Dr. Ofir Arad and Dr. Marc Ribó in 2015, and is developing the ANCD BRAIN™, a novel 3rd Generation Stented Aspiration Thrombectomy System for the treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS).

GreenBone Ortho

Venture Round in 2017
GreenBone develops a wood-derived bone implants technology to generate biomimetic – reabsorbable– load bearing implant suitable to address non-union fractures. The idea was conceived and developed by a research group of ISTEC-CNR of Faenza comprised of Andrea Ruffini, Simone Sprio and Anna Tampieri.

BeeTV

Series B in 2009
BeeTV is a social TV service that is a real-time, cross-platform hub for all consumers' activity around TV. BeeTV's goal is to revolutionize the TV experience by helping consumers improve how they communicate about, discover, share and consume TV content by making a traditionally social experience social in the digital world as well. Founded by leading media and technology veterans, BeeTV has deployed with major cable operators in Europe and is launching its consumer Internet Social TV service in the United States in May 2011. BeeTV is based in Tel Aviv, Israel and has business offices in Milan, Italy and San Francisco, California. The company is backed by Innogest, the leading Italian venture capital firm.

greenchic

Seed Round in 2018
A pioneer of the circular economy, armadioverde is the number 1 fashion re-commerce start up in Italy. armadioverde’s mission is to become the most recommended community-based service platform for the exchange of high-street fashion in Europe. With a growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in the industry, a collection of 200,000 affordable items, new collections published 4 times a day and a team of talented people in the Milan HQ, armadioverde enables its members to exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and - most importantly - sustainable way. armadioverde is already operating in Italy, France and will soon be expanding into other European territories. How it works: 1) We collect clothes a customer wishes to exchange, free of charge. 2) For each quality item sent in, we give an amount of points called *stars*. 3) The member is now enabled to buy on our platform using both *stars* and €. What people say: “I check it all the time – morning, afternoon, evening. I buy beautiful clothes and every box I receive is a wonderful surprise. I love it!” Pati (26), Milan “Smart, great and efficient. The items look great and the whole process was super-fast. Recommended!” Mark (31), Rome “You can’t do it without armadioverde.” Ambra (23), Paris

Seventeen

Series A in 2016
Seventeen is a medtech startup. The company intends to use the funds to finalize the technology and clinically validate it in order to obtain the CE mark.

greenchic

Seed Round in 2019
A pioneer of the circular economy, armadioverde is the number 1 fashion re-commerce start up in Italy. armadioverde’s mission is to become the most recommended community-based service platform for the exchange of high-street fashion in Europe. With a growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in the industry, a collection of 200,000 affordable items, new collections published 4 times a day and a team of talented people in the Milan HQ, armadioverde enables its members to exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and - most importantly - sustainable way. armadioverde is already operating in Italy, France and will soon be expanding into other European territories. How it works: 1) We collect clothes a customer wishes to exchange, free of charge. 2) For each quality item sent in, we give an amount of points called *stars*. 3) The member is now enabled to buy on our platform using both *stars* and €. What people say: “I check it all the time – morning, afternoon, evening. I buy beautiful clothes and every box I receive is a wonderful surprise. I love it!” Pati (26), Milan “Smart, great and efficient. The items look great and the whole process was super-fast. Recommended!” Mark (31), Rome “You can’t do it without armadioverde.” Ambra (23), Paris

Everli

Venture Round in 2020
Online delivery service transforming the way people buy groceries and home essentials

Cascaad (CircleMe)

Seed Round in 2010
Cascaad is the company behind the consumer product: CircleMe (http://circleme.com). CircleMe is an inspiring social way to collect all your likes and discover new ones. Cascaad focuses on developing technologies which allow to consume content online in a more personalized way. Cascaad's technologies help the right content find users through a deep analysis on social graphs and social stream activity to create a current semantically-rich interest profile and social sphere of influence for a person, that can then be used to surface personally relevant content and ads. Since establishment, Cascaad launched the following products: 1) Cascaad Reader (web and iOS) 2) Splice 3) CircleMe (http://circleme.com) The company was founded in 2008 to address the increasing shift in digital consumption habits towards social streams and mobile devices, that call for new ways to surface relevant information based on (push) discovery rather than (pull) search. Cascaad's technology is powering innovative consumer products and API-based services that improve social content consumption through prioritization of social streams, tailored suggestions of new content and serving of contextually relevant transactions, all in real-time.

Everli

Series C in 2021
Online delivery service transforming the way people buy groceries and home essentials

SardexPay

Venture Round in 2016
Siamo parte di sardex.net perché crediamo che la collaborazione sia la base imprescindibile per una sana competizione. Perché crediamo nel mercato come luogo di interazione sociale in cui i nostri bisogni e la nostra capacità di produrre valore si incontrano generando benessere duraturo e condiviso. Per ognuno di noi sardex.net rappresenta un obiettivo e una visione comune: l'impegno di migliaia di individui ad essere parte di una comunità in cui le relazioni e la fiducia reciproca sono i veri capitali su cui costruire l’economia di domani.

TheBlogTV

Series A in 2007
TheBlogTV is the first social media company in Europe, with presence in Italy, France, Spain and England. TheBlogTV's mission is to create, activate and manage online communities for top business customers Communities participate in the development of projects, on web and mobile platforms to generate measurable value. TheBlogTV's core business is 360 management of value based communitie's from development to content production, from community management to social media marketing with the goal of delivering high performance to its customers. TheBlogTV is also specialised in producing social video content for TV and web sites, in a traditional and/or user generated way through UserFarm and video crowdsourcing. International Presence ITALY - Operating since 2006, with offices in Rome, Milan and Turin, it has worked for Microsoft, Juventus FC S.p.A, Nestlè Purina, Nokia, Vodafone, Wind, Sony Ericsson, IBM, Wired, NatGeoAdventure, PD, Rai4, Rai5, Rai Educational, SKY, Q8, RomaEuropa Festival, Fiera di Roma. SPAIN - Operating since 2008, with an offices in Madrid and Barcelona, it has worked for Starbucks, Warner, San Miguel, Nokia, GREENPEACE, Sunny Delight, Fnac, Getty Images FRANCE - Operating since 2009, it has worked for Atlas Editori, UNICEF, Barilla,EDF, Lu Paille d’or UNITED KINGDOM - Operating since 2010, it has worked for Zodiak Entertainment, the third biggest company of TV production in the world

Diet to go

Seed Round in 2016
Diet to go every day delivers a thermic bag including fresh meals of the day cooked by expert chefs and dietists. On the website, clients can buy weekly and single day subscription packages. The company, which has also opened a take away store in Milan, is also backed by Digital Magics.

Renovacor

Post in 2021
Renovacor, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It develops a gene therapy, which helps to restore cardiac function in patients with heart failure. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Diet to go

Seed Round in 2017
Diet to go every day delivers a thermic bag including fresh meals of the day cooked by expert chefs and dietists. On the website, clients can buy weekly and single day subscription packages. The company, which has also opened a take away store in Milan, is also backed by Digital Magics.

GreenBone Ortho

Series B in 2021
GreenBone develops a wood-derived bone implants technology to generate biomimetic – reabsorbable– load bearing implant suitable to address non-union fractures. The idea was conceived and developed by a research group of ISTEC-CNR of Faenza comprised of Andrea Ruffini, Simone Sprio and Anna Tampieri.

Anaconda BioMed

Series B in 2019
Anaconda Biomed, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, is among the world's most innovative early stage medical technology companies. The company was founded by Dr. Ofir Arad and Dr. Marc Ribó in 2015, and is developing the ANCD BRAIN™, a novel 3rd Generation Stented Aspiration Thrombectomy System for the treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS).

Prestiamoci

Venture Round in 2015
Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent. With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want to achieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases

Erydel

Series B in 2018
EryDel S.p.A. engages in the production and commercialization of drug delivery based on the use of autologous erythrocytes. The company provides medical devices which includes red cell loader, and erykit. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Urbino, Italy.

Savelli

Series A in 2011
Founded in 2010, Savelli is creating a new category in luxury goods. The company is creating a new segment in the $1 trillion luxury goods industry, a global market that continues to experience rapid growth as a result of the creation of large numbers of millionaires and upper middle class in emerging markets. Based in Geneva, the heart of the luxury watch and jewelry industry, Savelli is creating the first luxury smartphone for women. This will be the first product to truly converge the design and craftsmanship of the jewelry industry with an avant-garde Google Android smartphone platform. The management team comes from some of the most successful luxury and tech brands, such as Cartier, Chanel, Piaget, Damiani, Vertu and Nokia and Motorola. The company is financed by venture capital firms Innogest SGR and Rho Ventures, and some well known executives from the luxury goods industry such as James McArthur the ex-CEO of Harrods and of Balenciaga, Ketty Maisonrouge luxury goods expert and professor of luxury marketing at Columbia Business School, Peter Ashall, the ex-CEO and co-founder of Vertu, Guillaume Cuvelier, the founder and ex-CEO of SVEDKA Vodka, Cyrus Jilla board member of the De Beers group and Elio Leoni Sceti the ex-CEO of EMI Music.

Renovacor

Private Placement in 2019
Renovacor, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It develops a gene therapy, which helps to restore cardiac function in patients with heart failure. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Empatica

Series A in 2016
Empatica Inc. develops wearable medical sensor devices based on human data analytics. Its products include E3 wristband, a bracelet to monitor physiological signals in real time; E3 mobile application; and web dashboard for stress and sleep monitoring. The company's clientele include Microsoft Research, Sony, University of Trento, and Intel. Empatica Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SardexPay

Private Placement in 2020
Siamo parte di sardex.net perché crediamo che la collaborazione sia la base imprescindibile per una sana competizione. Perché crediamo nel mercato come luogo di interazione sociale in cui i nostri bisogni e la nostra capacità di produrre valore si incontrano generando benessere duraturo e condiviso. Per ognuno di noi sardex.net rappresenta un obiettivo e una visione comune: l'impegno di migliaia di individui ad essere parte di una comunità in cui le relazioni e la fiducia reciproca sono i veri capitali su cui costruire l’economia di domani.

Erydel

Series A in 2008
EryDel S.p.A. engages in the production and commercialization of drug delivery based on the use of autologous erythrocytes. The company provides medical devices which includes red cell loader, and erykit. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Urbino, Italy.

Soul-K

Series A in 2018
Soul-K is a BtoB food-tech company that produces and delivers semifinished and finished goods that allow professionals to execute their food operations in a new and efficient way. Our products: -ReadyToChef E2: line of semifinished food products and ingredients ready for your teams’ imagination. -Switch: the first line of ready-to-eat meals on a subscription model for professionals. 
 -FitUp: our R&D department. We help you achieve the best product for your business. Scale your production capacity and maintain high quality standards. Minimize waste, optimize your warehouse, reduce prep time and boost capacity. 
 We’ll help you make It. Soul-k.com welcome to the future of the food business.

Digital Magics

Post in 2016
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.

Erydel

Private Placement in 2018
EryDel S.p.A. engages in the production and commercialization of drug delivery based on the use of autologous erythrocytes. The company provides medical devices which includes red cell loader, and erykit. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Urbino, Italy.

MBooster

Venture Round in 2009
MBooster is an holding company that aggregates SME with untapped growth potential in the new digital markets.

Savelli

Series B in 2013
Founded in 2010, Savelli is creating a new category in luxury goods. The company is creating a new segment in the $1 trillion luxury goods industry, a global market that continues to experience rapid growth as a result of the creation of large numbers of millionaires and upper middle class in emerging markets. Based in Geneva, the heart of the luxury watch and jewelry industry, Savelli is creating the first luxury smartphone for women. This will be the first product to truly converge the design and craftsmanship of the jewelry industry with an avant-garde Google Android smartphone platform. The management team comes from some of the most successful luxury and tech brands, such as Cartier, Chanel, Piaget, Damiani, Vertu and Nokia and Motorola. The company is financed by venture capital firms Innogest SGR and Rho Ventures, and some well known executives from the luxury goods industry such as James McArthur the ex-CEO of Harrods and of Balenciaga, Ketty Maisonrouge luxury goods expert and professor of luxury marketing at Columbia Business School, Peter Ashall, the ex-CEO and co-founder of Vertu, Guillaume Cuvelier, the founder and ex-CEO of SVEDKA Vodka, Cyrus Jilla board member of the De Beers group and Elio Leoni Sceti the ex-CEO of EMI Music.

Mobango

Series B in 2008
Mobango, Ltd. is world’s first social app store that operates as a mobile community. It also provides its 8 million registered mobile consumers with a free online and mobile service platform that allows its users to publish, create, convert, store, share, download, and play various types of mobile content, including videos, photos, ring tones, applications, and games; and distributes mobile applications for brands, publishers, and developers. Customers from approximately 150 countries use Mobango on a daily basis. Mobango is capable of being used by any mobile phone (any OS, any screen size, any device manufacturer) in the world. Mobango supports over 2,000 devices and has over 1.5 million Applications, Games and UGC content available globally. Mobango has already been recognized by The Economist magazine to be amongst world’s top 10 Apps distribution platform in 2011. Mobango is also the recipient of 2012 Red Herring Europe Top 100 award being one of the most innovative technology company. Mobango, a subsidiary of Mauj Mobile, is one of the world’s largest independent mobile applications stores. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

S24 S.p.A.

Private Placement in 2018
S24 S.p.A. operates an online grocery delivery platform that allows consumers to choose products from their favorite grocery chains, order them online, and pay cash at the time of delivery. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Verona, Italy.

S24 S.p.A.

Private Placement in 2020
S24 S.p.A. operates an online grocery delivery platform that allows consumers to choose products from their favorite grocery chains, order them online, and pay cash at the time of delivery. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Verona, Italy.

Angiodroid

Venture Round in 2015
Angiodroid srl operates as a medical technology company. The company provides interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, and vascular surgery technology. It offers an automatic injection system for carbon dioxide angiography. Its products include carbon dioxide injector, which is used as a contrast medium for peripheral interventional angiography; and a single use kit, which is composed of French catheters and a custom connection line. The company is based in San Lazzaro di Savena, Italy.

Authix Tecnologies

Series B in 2009
Authix Tecnologies is a Torino based start-up supplying a comprehensive authentication solution to major brands. The solution allows product authentication through the use of standard mobile phones. Currently, consumers of medications and branded consumer items have no way to check the product authenticity of the item they wish to purchase. Authix solution will provide consumers with a reliable and easy-to-use method of checking that the product they are about to purchase is original and genuine or to discover a fake. Authix is designing a small unique tag that will be inserted in each package or within the item to be purchased. At time of purchase, the consumer communicates through the cell phone with that tag, and receives a message on the phone display indicating whether the product is genuine or counterfeit. Brand manufacturers are expected to the tags and the authentication services as follows: (i) manufacturers buy the brand tags from Authix, (ii) Authix maintain an authentication server which is accessed 24/7 by Internet, SMS or Instant Messaging, (iii) the manufacturers pay Authix for the Service.

Soul-K

Private Placement in 2019
Soul-K is a BtoB food-tech company that produces and delivers semifinished and finished goods that allow professionals to execute their food operations in a new and efficient way. Our products: -ReadyToChef E2: line of semifinished food products and ingredients ready for your teams’ imagination. -Switch: the first line of ready-to-eat meals on a subscription model for professionals. 
 -FitUp: our R&D department. We help you achieve the best product for your business. Scale your production capacity and maintain high quality standards. Minimize waste, optimize your warehouse, reduce prep time and boost capacity. 
 We’ll help you make It. Soul-k.com welcome to the future of the food business.

New Vision

Venture Round in 2014
New Vision, a Padua, Italy-based startup that develops a platform to manage content. It features a collaboration environment to save, modify and share files and and communicate in real time with teammates, video and media management tools to distribute content on the web, on social networks, apps, in store communication solutions and interactive live platforms to organize live events in streaming, public or reserved to a few users.
Silicon Biosystems s.p.a. develops lab-on-a-chip technologies for miniaturized cell-biology testing. Its products include SmartSlide, a disposable Lab-on-a-chip, which works on liquid samples for various tasks, such as enrichment, label-free separation, mating of cells, and/or microbeads; and DEPArray, a cell microarray implementing a technology for individual cell manipulation and detection. The company’s technology is used for cell sorting and cell-cell interaction applications. Silicon Biosystems is based in Bologna, Italy.

Atricath

Venture Round in 2013
Atricath is a company dedicated in developing a proprietary and patented technology for pulmonary vein ablation to treat atrial fibrillation

Soul-K

Venture Round in 2019
Soul-K is a BtoB food-tech company that produces and delivers semifinished and finished goods that allow professionals to execute their food operations in a new and efficient way. Our products: -ReadyToChef E2: line of semifinished food products and ingredients ready for your teams’ imagination. -Switch: the first line of ready-to-eat meals on a subscription model for professionals. 
 -FitUp: our R&D department. We help you achieve the best product for your business. Scale your production capacity and maintain high quality standards. Minimize waste, optimize your warehouse, reduce prep time and boost capacity. 
 We’ll help you make It. Soul-k.com welcome to the future of the food business.

Authix Tecnologies

Series A in 2008
Authix Tecnologies is a Torino based start-up supplying a comprehensive authentication solution to major brands. The solution allows product authentication through the use of standard mobile phones. Currently, consumers of medications and branded consumer items have no way to check the product authenticity of the item they wish to purchase. Authix solution will provide consumers with a reliable and easy-to-use method of checking that the product they are about to purchase is original and genuine or to discover a fake. Authix is designing a small unique tag that will be inserted in each package or within the item to be purchased. At time of purchase, the consumer communicates through the cell phone with that tag, and receives a message on the phone display indicating whether the product is genuine or counterfeit. Brand manufacturers are expected to the tags and the authentication services as follows: (i) manufacturers buy the brand tags from Authix, (ii) Authix maintain an authentication server which is accessed 24/7 by Internet, SMS or Instant Messaging, (iii) the manufacturers pay Authix for the Service.

MioAssicuratore

Venture Round in 2018
MioAssicuratore helps customers in the harmful world of insurance, by guiding and assisting them step by step in an increasingly intuitive way. It also provides a complete user panel in order to manage all quotes required, active and expiring. Furthermore, it gives users the opportunity to share their experience by leaving products and companies a review.

Erydel

Series B in 2013
EryDel S.p.A. engages in the production and commercialization of drug delivery based on the use of autologous erythrocytes. The company provides medical devices which includes red cell loader, and erykit. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Urbino, Italy.

THRON

Venture Round in 2014
THRON is a software-as-a-service solution that allows you to unify all content-related processes in your company, centralizing and organizing all products and digital assets (images, video, pdfs, documents, web pages); deliver content within your organization and across your online channels at the highest quality; personalize communication through Artificial Intelligence, which profiles users based on the content they have viewed.

Cascaad (CircleMe)

Seed Round in 2008
Cascaad is the company behind the consumer product: CircleMe (http://circleme.com). CircleMe is an inspiring social way to collect all your likes and discover new ones. Cascaad focuses on developing technologies which allow to consume content online in a more personalized way. Cascaad's technologies help the right content find users through a deep analysis on social graphs and social stream activity to create a current semantically-rich interest profile and social sphere of influence for a person, that can then be used to surface personally relevant content and ads. Since establishment, Cascaad launched the following products: 1) Cascaad Reader (web and iOS) 2) Splice 3) CircleMe (http://circleme.com) The company was founded in 2008 to address the increasing shift in digital consumption habits towards social streams and mobile devices, that call for new ways to surface relevant information based on (push) discovery rather than (pull) search. Cascaad's technology is powering innovative consumer products and API-based services that improve social content consumption through prioritization of social streams, tailored suggestions of new content and serving of contextually relevant transactions, all in real-time.

Formabilio

Venture Round in 2014
Formabilio S.r.l. is an online Web platform for furniture, home accessories, and lighting products. Its platform offers classic and vintage style lightings devices, sofas and armchairs, tables, storage solutions, chairs and stools, and bedroom solutions, as well as various gifts. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cison di Valmarino, Italy.

Newronika

Venture Round in 2016
Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normal daily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.

Medlumics

Venture Round in 2021
Medlumics S.L. designs and manufactures catheter based systems for the treatment of supra ventricular tachycardias. The company develops integrated photonic devices using optical coherence tomography technology, a light based diagnostic technique to provide sectional information about tissue. Medlumics S.L. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Affera, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Affera is a medical technology company dedicated to developing innovative solutions for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, a prevalent condition affecting millions of patients worldwide.

Newronika

Series A in 2019
Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normal daily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.

Everli

Series A in 2016
Online delivery service transforming the way people buy groceries and home essentials

Cascaad (CircleMe)

Series A in 2013
Cascaad is the company behind the consumer product: CircleMe (http://circleme.com). CircleMe is an inspiring social way to collect all your likes and discover new ones. Cascaad focuses on developing technologies which allow to consume content online in a more personalized way. Cascaad's technologies help the right content find users through a deep analysis on social graphs and social stream activity to create a current semantically-rich interest profile and social sphere of influence for a person, that can then be used to surface personally relevant content and ads. Since establishment, Cascaad launched the following products: 1) Cascaad Reader (web and iOS) 2) Splice 3) CircleMe (http://circleme.com) The company was founded in 2008 to address the increasing shift in digital consumption habits towards social streams and mobile devices, that call for new ways to surface relevant information based on (push) discovery rather than (pull) search. Cascaad's technology is powering innovative consumer products and API-based services that improve social content consumption through prioritization of social streams, tailored suggestions of new content and serving of contextually relevant transactions, all in real-time.

Pi-Cardia

Series C in 2016
Pi-Cardia is a medical device start-up company developing a novel low profile catheter for the treatment of aortic stenosis. The company's proprietary technology is based on delivering mechanical impact for creating fractures in valve calcifications, without injuring the surrounding soft tissue. This treatment, which only takes several seconds, is intended to increase the valve effective orifice area without the need to replace the valve.

Stereomood

Seed Round in 2012
Stereomood turns your mood into music. Everything you need is just a click away. Visit the website, choose your mood from our stereotags list, discover and share new music. All the playlists pool the music from the web’s top music blogs and Soundcloud. If you sign up on the site you get access to your favorites with the songs you love and a playlist section in which you can create your own mix.

Medlumics

Series B in 2017
Medlumics S.L. designs and manufactures catheter based systems for the treatment of supra ventricular tachycardias. The company develops integrated photonic devices using optical coherence tomography technology, a light based diagnostic technique to provide sectional information about tissue. Medlumics S.L. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tres Cantos, Spain.

40South Energy

Venture Round in 2012
At 40South Energy they have the expertise to turn ocean wave energy into useful work. Exploiting wave energy correctly lets you generate electricity, run a desalination process, or pump water, among a host of other tasks. Most experts believe that converting sea and ocean wave energy is, along with photovoltaic (PV) energy, one of the best options for the future production of renewable energy. This is why scientists and inventors have been trying for decades to find ways to capture the energy in ocean waves. The search has not had much success. Until now.

Anaconda BioMed

Series A in 2017
Anaconda Biomed, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, is among the world's most innovative early stage medical technology companies. The company was founded by Dr. Ofir Arad and Dr. Marc Ribó in 2015, and is developing the ANCD BRAIN™, a novel 3rd Generation Stented Aspiration Thrombectomy System for the treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS).

Soul-K

Private Placement in 2018
Soul-K is a BtoB food-tech company that produces and delivers semifinished and finished goods that allow professionals to execute their food operations in a new and efficient way. Our products: -ReadyToChef E2: line of semifinished food products and ingredients ready for your teams’ imagination. -Switch: the first line of ready-to-eat meals on a subscription model for professionals. 
 -FitUp: our R&D department. We help you achieve the best product for your business. Scale your production capacity and maintain high quality standards. Minimize waste, optimize your warehouse, reduce prep time and boost capacity. 
 We’ll help you make It. Soul-k.com welcome to the future of the food business.

Drexcode

Seed Round in 2015
Drexcode.com is the first web-boutique that provides a unique fashion experience, trendy and convenient, giving the opportunity to rent dresses and accessories from the latest collections. By working directly with the most prestigious Italian and foreign designers, we select the outfits seen at the fashion shows, with particular regards to those suitable for special occasions. Our clients have the exclusive opportunity to rent in-season outfits that make dreaming every women.

Cuebiq

Series A in 2017
Cuebiq Inc. develops and operates a location and data intelligence platform, AudienceQ that provides the advertisers with the facility of offline location analytics of geo-behavioral audiences for cross-platform advertisement targeting, and footfall attribution analysis by observing and analyzing time spent by users at points of interest across the globe. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.

greenchic

Seed Round in 2018
A pioneer of the circular economy, armadioverde is the number 1 fashion re-commerce start up in Italy. armadioverde’s mission is to become the most recommended community-based service platform for the exchange of high-street fashion in Europe. With a growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in the industry, a collection of 200,000 affordable items, new collections published 4 times a day and a team of talented people in the Milan HQ, armadioverde enables its members to exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and - most importantly - sustainable way. armadioverde is already operating in Italy, France and will soon be expanding into other European territories. How it works: 1) We collect clothes a customer wishes to exchange, free of charge. 2) For each quality item sent in, we give an amount of points called *stars*. 3) The member is now enabled to buy on our platform using both *stars* and €. What people say: “I check it all the time – morning, afternoon, evening. I buy beautiful clothes and every box I receive is a wonderful surprise. I love it!” Pati (26), Milan “Smart, great and efficient. The items look great and the whole process was super-fast. Recommended!” Mark (31), Rome “You can’t do it without armadioverde.” Ambra (23), Paris

BeeTV

Series C in 2011
BeeTV is a social TV service that is a real-time, cross-platform hub for all consumers' activity around TV. BeeTV's goal is to revolutionize the TV experience by helping consumers improve how they communicate about, discover, share and consume TV content by making a traditionally social experience social in the digital world as well. Founded by leading media and technology veterans, BeeTV has deployed with major cable operators in Europe and is launching its consumer Internet Social TV service in the United States in May 2011. BeeTV is based in Tel Aviv, Israel and has business offices in Milan, Italy and San Francisco, California. The company is backed by Innogest, the leading Italian venture capital firm.

greenchic

Seed Round in 2016
A pioneer of the circular economy, armadioverde is the number 1 fashion re-commerce start up in Italy. armadioverde’s mission is to become the most recommended community-based service platform for the exchange of high-street fashion in Europe. With a growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in the industry, a collection of 200,000 affordable items, new collections published 4 times a day and a team of talented people in the Milan HQ, armadioverde enables its members to exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and - most importantly - sustainable way. armadioverde is already operating in Italy, France and will soon be expanding into other European territories. How it works: 1) We collect clothes a customer wishes to exchange, free of charge. 2) For each quality item sent in, we give an amount of points called *stars*. 3) The member is now enabled to buy on our platform using both *stars* and €. What people say: “I check it all the time – morning, afternoon, evening. I buy beautiful clothes and every box I receive is a wonderful surprise. I love it!” Pati (26), Milan “Smart, great and efficient. The items look great and the whole process was super-fast. Recommended!” Mark (31), Rome “You can’t do it without armadioverde.” Ambra (23), Paris

Renovacor

Series A in 2019
Renovacor, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It develops a gene therapy, which helps to restore cardiac function in patients with heart failure. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Withfounders

Venture Round in 2014
WithFounders is a startup accelerator that provides capital and coaching support to entrepreneurs in building digital or consumer companies. It specialize in initiatives that work in digital media and traditional businesses, which can be improved and developed through technology. Headquartered in Milano, Lombardia, WithFounders was founded in 2013 by Michele Casucci, Marco De Palma, and Julius Valiante.

Anaconda BioMed

Private Placement in 2019
Anaconda Biomed, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, is among the world's most innovative early stage medical technology companies. The company was founded by Dr. Ofir Arad and Dr. Marc Ribó in 2015, and is developing the ANCD BRAIN™, a novel 3rd Generation Stented Aspiration Thrombectomy System for the treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS).

CV Lab

Seed Round in 2016
CV Lab is the first incubator fully focused on cardiovascular innovation in Europe. It supports the most promising ideas through patenting, prototyping, and proof of concept until they mature enough to give life to a spin-off and meet international capitals. CVLab puts to good use the experience of entrepreneurs and specialists with strong expertise in biomedical. The company collaborates with experts in the field. CVLab is a lean organization, close to researchers and clinical needs.

D-EYE

Seed Round in 2016
D-EYE Srl designs and manufactures mobile sensing and examination devices. It offers D-EYE, a portable eye and retinal imaging system for people and animals that turns a smartphone into a portable retinal camera, as well as records and transmits high-definition photos and videos of the posterior of the eye for clinical assessment. The company also provides cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) systems that enable telehealth applications, and aggregate and analyze health screening data to provide insight into individual conditions and trends across patient populations. It sells its products online, as well as distributors in Italy and internationally. D-EYE Srl was founded in 2014 and is based in Padua, Italy with an additional office in Pasadena, California.

Beintoo

Series A in 2012
Beintoo is creating an ecosystem for advertisers and publishers to power a new generation of relevant mobile advertising. Our first-to-market technology enables marketers to understand users based on actual geo-behavior. Mobile advertising has a problem. Current-state location data collection methodologies do not capture a mobile users’ actual consumer behavior. App publishers and advertisers have not had the means to personalize the mobile experience based on offline user behavior…until now. Through machine learning BeAudience processes user dwell-time data within beacon, Wi-Fi and GPS signals to segment highly targetable audiences for mobile marketing. We provide this valuable, actionable geo-behavioral data for advertisers and app publishers through our automated platform.

MioAssicuratore Srl

Private Placement in 2018
MioAssicuratore Srl is an online insurance broker. It supports clients in selecting contracts from different companies, demystifying clauses and unique features, and assisting in the purchase and renewal phases. The company uses proprietary algorithms and machine learning technology to calculate the premium in real time. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Rome, Italy.

Menarini Silicon Biosystems

Venture Round in 2010
Silicon Biosystems s.p.a. develops lab-on-a-chip technologies for miniaturized cell-biology testing. Its products include SmartSlide, a disposable Lab-on-a-chip, which works on liquid samples for various tasks, such as enrichment, label-free separation, mating of cells, and/or microbeads; and DEPArray, a cell microarray implementing a technology for individual cell manipulation and detection. The company’s technology is used for cell sorting and cell-cell interaction applications. Silicon Biosystems is based in Bologna, Italy.

Igea

Series A in 2008
Since 1980, IGEA has been working to provide innovative and effective therapies to patients. IGEA's constant commitment and knowledge, built on solid scientific foundations, led to the birth of Clinical Biophysics, a branch of medicine based on the use of non-ionising physical energy.

greenchic

Seed Round in 2019
A pioneer of the circular economy, armadioverde is the number 1 fashion re-commerce start up in Italy. armadioverde’s mission is to become the most recommended community-based service platform for the exchange of high-street fashion in Europe. With a growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in the industry, a collection of 200,000 affordable items, new collections published 4 times a day and a team of talented people in the Milan HQ, armadioverde enables its members to exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and - most importantly - sustainable way. armadioverde is already operating in Italy, France and will soon be expanding into other European territories. How it works: 1) We collect clothes a customer wishes to exchange, free of charge. 2) For each quality item sent in, we give an amount of points called *stars*. 3) The member is now enabled to buy on our platform using both *stars* and €. What people say: “I check it all the time – morning, afternoon, evening. I buy beautiful clothes and every box I receive is a wonderful surprise. I love it!” Pati (26), Milan “Smart, great and efficient. The items look great and the whole process was super-fast. Recommended!” Mark (31), Rome “You can’t do it without armadioverde.” Ambra (23), Paris

greenchic

Seed Round in 2018
A pioneer of the circular economy, armadioverde is the number 1 fashion re-commerce start up in Italy. armadioverde’s mission is to become the most recommended community-based service platform for the exchange of high-street fashion in Europe. With a growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in the industry, a collection of 200,000 affordable items, new collections published 4 times a day and a team of talented people in the Milan HQ, armadioverde enables its members to exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and - most importantly - sustainable way. armadioverde is already operating in Italy, France and will soon be expanding into other European territories. How it works: 1) We collect clothes a customer wishes to exchange, free of charge. 2) For each quality item sent in, we give an amount of points called *stars*. 3) The member is now enabled to buy on our platform using both *stars* and €. What people say: “I check it all the time – morning, afternoon, evening. I buy beautiful clothes and every box I receive is a wonderful surprise. I love it!” Pati (26), Milan “Smart, great and efficient. The items look great and the whole process was super-fast. Recommended!” Mark (31), Rome “You can’t do it without armadioverde.” Ambra (23), Paris

MonkeyParking

Venture Round in 2015
MonkeyParking is a mobile application that connects people looking for parking with driveway-owners using its platform. It enables its users to auction parking spaces to other users. Currently, the application is focused on private parking spots and property owners are allowed to grant permission for others to park in front of their driveways. MonkeyParking was launched in 2013 by Paolo Dobrowolny, Federico Di Legge, and Roberto Zanetti. It is based in San Francisco, C.A.

Everli

Series B in 2018
Online delivery service transforming the way people buy groceries and home essentials

Medlumics

Private Placement in 2020
Medlumics S.L. designs and manufactures catheter based systems for the treatment of supra ventricular tachycardias. The company develops integrated photonic devices using optical coherence tomography technology, a light based diagnostic technique to provide sectional information about tissue. Medlumics S.L. was founded in 2009 and is based in Tres Cantos, Spain.

Newronika

Private Placement in 2019
Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normal daily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.