Being the centre of Italy, Rome provides great support and networking opportunities to entrepreneurs seeking to start up something of their own. Below is the list of best VC investors in the city.
This article is part of a series where we present you the best Venture Capital firms across different cities and countries. Here you can view the rankings for Milan and Italy.
Top VC Investors in Rome
1-Pi Campus
Pi Campus is both a startup district and a venture fund investing in talents. They provide money in Seed and Pre-seed rounds to support the development of startups.
Website: http://www.picampus.it/
Founded: 2007
Latest fund size: -
Notable Investments: Cambridge Cancer Genomics, lvl5, lybra.tech Revenue Assistant, Oberlo, Memopal, Glamoo
2-CDP Venture Capital
CDP Venture Capital aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
Website: https://cdpventurecapital.it/
Founded: -
Latest fund size: €180M (2021)
Notable Investments: BeSafe Group, Insoore, Qapla’Srl, Open Impact Fund, LailaTech, Buzzoole, Neuron Guard, Diadem, EasyPol
3-Invitalia Ventures
Invitalia Ventures co-invests up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5M - € 1.5M) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and a network for business development.
Website: http://www.invitaliaventures.it/
Founded: 2015
Latest fund size: €87M (2017)
Notable Investments: Mindesk, Codemotion, Kither Biotech, D-orbit, 2hire, BigProfiles
4-Lazio Innova
The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.
Website: http://www.lazioinnova.it/
Founded: -
Latest fund size: €22.8M (2018)
Notable Investments: Crest Optics
5-Eni Next
Eni Next LLC has been recently established as the venture investing arm of Eni Group. It aims to be a key role in Eni's open innovation strategy towards energy transition through investing in startups with disruptive technologies. Its focus investment areas include Clean-Tech, Industrials, Digital technologies, Magnetic Fusion, and others.
Website: https://www.eni.com/
Founded: 1956
Latest fund size: -
Notable Investments: Form Energy, Commonwealth Fusion, C-Zero Thiozen, PASQAL
6-META Investments
META Investment is the investment platform of META Group. META Investment is an international fund manager specialized in early stage, high-growth companies.
Website: http://www.meta-group.com/
Founded: 2005
Latest fund size: -
Notable Investments: Dialog, GreenBone Ortho, Manfing
7-Fondo Italiano per l'Efficienza Energetica
The Italian Energy Efficiency Fund - FIEE - is an equity fund dedicated to financing energy efficiency projects in partnership with energy service companies, with an attractive return on investment and low volatility.
Website: https://www.fieesgr.com/
Founded: 2014
Latest fund size: -
Notable Investments: Cremonesi
8-LVenture Group
LVenture Group is a seed-stage micro venture capital firm and accelerator. Typically invests in tech companies in sectors like Digital Technologies. Usually invests up to $250K in companies.
Website: https://www.lventuregroup.com/Home
Founded: 2013
Latest fund size: -
Notable Investments: : Dynamitick, Qurami, Yakkyo
9-Lumen Ventures
Lumen Ventures provides sector and geography agnostic investments in early-stage startups.
Website: https://www.lumen.com/lumen-digital-ventures.html
Founded: 2018
Latest fund size: -
Notable Investments: Macai, DCJ Global Wealth Management, The Basket Company
10-A15
A15 focuses on sectors like digital products, Enterprise Applications and technology brands.
Website: http://www.a15.com/en-us/
Founded: 1996
Latest fund size: -
Notable Investments: Shezlong, Tutorama, MENA Commerce, Mumm
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