U-Start

U-Start S.r.l. is a venture capital firm based in Milan, Italy, with an additional office in Lugano, Switzerland. Established in 2012, it specializes in seed, start-up, early, mid, and late-stage investments, focusing primarily on technology and digital sectors. U-Start invests through club deals, known as the U-Start Club, and collaborates with top-tier venture capital funds to identify and invest in innovative companies across Europe, the United States, and Israel. The firm aggregates high-net-worth Italian and Swiss families into a comprehensive investor club, providing its members with access to the digital and tech landscape. U-Start also assists family offices and private investors in navigating venture capital opportunities, enabling them to make informed and strategic investment decisions.

20 past transactions

Dott

Series A in 2019
Dott is a micromobility company that offers shared electric scooters and electric bikes. The company rents electric scooters. The company's bikes are prepared for reliable road grip with wide decks for an optimized center of gravity and double brake systems.

Keatz

Series B in 2019
Keatz is a network of restaurants that provide contemporary dishes for delivery. Keatz delivers food with a fusion of indulgence and comfort without compromise. The company creates ideal recipes, process, and packaging for the possible quality and the meals will arrive at peoples doors with the same quality that leaves the kitchen. Its culinary team is always on the lookout for upcoming culinary trends and techniques to bring to neighbourhoods. Keatz was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

TransferGo

Series B in 2018
TransferGo is a global money transfer company that supports migrant workers to send money back to their relatives without paying unnecessary bank fees. Through the company, migrants have the ability to transfer money overseas with the help of a digital account-to-account business model. As it is a licensed and authorized payment institution controlled by the FCA under the supervision of HMRC, the company is considered as a secure way of transferring money. Since it removes the costs of international transfers, TransferGo is a fit for businesses to pay their suppliers. It charges a fixed fee for transferring money as well as a 0.6% to 1.5% fee for the currency conversion per transaction.

Finless Foods

Seed Round in 2018
Finless Foods provides cellular-agriculture technologies to create accessible plant-based and cell-cultured seafood alternatives. Finless Foods offers a variety of food choices that cater to different tastes and dietary requirements. They provide consumers with responsibly produced food items to help them expand their daily eating habits while also contributing to a more sustainable future and promoting better ocean health.

Freeda Media

Series A in 2018
Freeda inspires and engages the most powerful generation of women. Through their contents, they foster and celebrate women achievement, free expression of personal style, and women sisterhood. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Horizn Studios

Series A in 2018
Horizn is a travel tech venture, headquartered in Berlin. Their hero hardware product is their Smart Luggage range. As first vertical, online player in the European luggage market, and Europe's first Smart Luggage brand, HS designs, develops and sells premium quality, innovative travel products at very competitive prices. Their products offer GPS, Chargers, Proximity Alerts, Travel App, Personal Travel Assistant, and more - subtly integrated in a very contemporary design.

Hotelscan

Series A in 2017
Hotelscan is an accommodation search engine. It indexes hundreds of global travel sites to help you find the best hotel. Hotelscan not only compare hotels, but also B&Bs, apartments and villas. It searches among more than 1.5 mio different accommodations.

Arthena

Seed Round in 2017
Arthena is a venture-backed financial technology company which has pioneered quantitative strategies for asset acquisition, allowing for targeting investment decisions. Arthena is committed to bringing transparency to art investing, enabling investors to view and learn about acquired assets and artists.

Stoyo

Series A in 2016
Stoyo develops a social video advertisement creation platform to facilitate data-driven advertisement creation. It creates engaging video content for Instagram and Facebook, allowing businesses to to engage their customers on social networks without a hassle.

Outfittery

Series E in 2016
Outfittery provides an online personal shopping service for men. OUTFITTERY’s mission is to take the pain out of shopping for men – as an online version of the “personal shopping”.Their personal style experts put together two or three outfits for each of their customers based on their preferences and personality from a range of top brands. Each customer is served and advised personally after a first online contact and an (optional) phone call. They keep the range of clothes constantly up to date by looking for the most interesting men´s fashion brands and the best items of popular designers worldwide.Their service is free and the individually selected items are sent to their customers free of charge. Customers only pay for the pieces that they want to keep in their wardrobe and feel comfortable in. OUTFITTERY today is the pioneer and market leader in curated shopping for men in Europe, shipping to eight countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden and Denmark).

Soldo

Convertible Note in 2016
Soldo is a multi-user expense account that helps companies to manage the entire business expense cycle. It integrates prepaid mastercard cards, a web-based administration console, and a mobile app into one intuitive future-ready platform.

Secret Escapes

Series C in 2016
At Secret Escapes, they negotiate exclusive rates for luxury hand-picked hotels and holidays in the UK and abroad, at up to 60% off the price you'd pay by booking anywhere else. How have they done it? Well, even the most luxurious hotels out there don't like having empty rooms... For access to their members-only rates, all you have to do is sign up to Secret Escapes with your email address and nothing else. It doesn't cost a penny, and never will. In return, they will give you access to rates for hotels and holidays you'll struggle to find anywhere else, and if you do they will match their price - that's a guarantee.

misterb&b

Seed Round in 2015
Misterb&b is an operator of a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ community. Its marketplace offers a searchable database of short-term rentals of homes, rooms, and apartments for its users as per their preferred locations that enable LGBTQ individuals and allies to monetize from their spare space while providing affordable houses in a hassle-free manner. Misterb&b was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LifeQ

Seed Round in 2015
Our Dream is to empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self. Our Missions is to enable consumers to make better decisions to live healthier lives through optimizing health, and be in a position to make smarter, informed, health decisions. We will do this by giving you a 360-degree personalized health mirror, along with the tools, tailored recommendations, and business partners that cover every aspect of your health.

Coureon

Seed Round in 2015
Coureon offers a great software solution to online merchants, allowing them to manage incoming orders and organise distribution with ease. Our platform supports the integration of the two global e-commerce marketplaces Amazon and eBay. Our cooperations with logistics providers from all over the world enable sellers to find the best price for their respective shipment. We make shipping as simple as shopping.

La Belle Assiette

Seed Round in 2014
La Belle Assiette's mission is to make entertaining simple and enjoyable. It is building the world's largest catering company. Customers browse for a catering service (buffet, canapé reception, private chef, office lunches etc...) select a menu and book online. On the day of the event, a Chef or Caterer selected from a highly curated network, will execute the service. You can now host quality meals at your home or office with no effort or stress. Chefs benefit from a suite of online tools which let them manage their entire business online, from billing to CRM.
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