Italian Founders Fund
Venture capitalItaly · Pre-Seed–Series A · 10 people tracked
Investment thesis
Italian Founders Fund backs early-stage companies with Italian DNA: startups born in Italy, expanding into the country, or founded by Italians globally. Built by former founders who returned to Italy to create the VC they wished they had, the firm leverages a network of top Italian builders and entrepreneurs. It leads or co-leads early rounds, writing initial checks of EUR250k to EUR3m from Pre-Seed to Series A, and helps portfolio companies unlock global capital when scaling. The firm emphasizes speed, transparency, founder-friendly terms, and active support from its operating team and founder community, seeking ambitious founders with a global mindset.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 10 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 21 of 26 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×13Enterprise Software ×12SaaS ×10Data & Infrastructure ×4Energy ×3Cleantech ×2Developer Tools ×2Fintech ×2
HQs:Italy×7European Union×3United States×2Iceland×1
Investments · 26 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathCassandra is a self-service marketing measurement platform that combines marketing mix modeling (using open-source foundations like Project Robyn and Google Meridian) with geo-lift incrementality experiments to help marketing teams measure advertising impact without consultants or technical expertise.
AdTechMarketing TechSaaS
Gabriele Franco(Co-founder)
Complaion provides compliance and certification services centered on ISO standards (including 9001, 27001, 42001, 14001, 45001, 50001) with lead auditors and product tools.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMilano, IT
Edoardo Tarricone(CEO, Lead Auditor)Marco Cortinovis(COO, Lead Auditor)Alessandro Vaccarino(CTO, Lead Auditor)
Fleequid operates a European online marketplace for buying and selling used buses and coaches, offering fixed-price sales and auctions with independent vehicle inspections, secure payments, and cross-border delivery logistics.
Logistics & Supply ChainMarketplaces
Glaut is an AI-powered market research platform that runs AI-moderated voice interviews and performs automatic thematic coding, entity recognition, and interpretative analysis of open-ended responses, delivering dashboards, CSV/SPSS exports, and executive reports.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSEurope, EU
Invertix is an AI-powered renewable energy operating system that uses autonomous agents to audit telemetry data, automate operations and maintenance, and ensure financial compliance for solar, wind, and storage portfolios across Europe.
AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaSViterbo, IT
Kaan Durmaz(CTO)
Klearly is a predictive analytics platform that helps B2B revenue teams—including sales, marketing, and customer success—interpret their data to forecast future opportunities and identify patterns that drive revenue growth.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Alex Krawchick(Co-founder)Eric Pfahl(Co-founder)Matt Webbink(Co-founder)
Manufact provides a platform and open-source SDK for developers to build, test, and deploy MCP (Model Context Protocol) applications and servers for AI agents and chat interfaces like ChatGPT and Claude.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Pietro Zullo(Founder)inLuigi Pederzani(Founder)in
Platonic records desktop and browser activity to use AI for reconstructing workflows, process maps, and automation opportunities for enterprise operations teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Sava develops a wearable biosensor that continuously monitors multiple biomarkers (glucose, lactate, ketones, sodium, histamine, urea, alcohol, cortisol) in real-time, delivering health data to a mobile app for preventative health monitoring and chronic disease management.
HardwareHealthtechMedical Devices
Seltz provides web knowledge infrastructure for large language models and autonomous AI agents, offering continuously updated, high-quality data with precise retrieval capabilities designed for machine reasoning.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesManufact · venturebeat.com · Mar 11, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Italian Founders Fund invest at?
- Italian Founders Fund invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Italian Founders Fund's typical check size?
- Italian Founders Fund typically writes checks of $270K – $3.3M.
- What sectors does Italian Founders Fund focus on?
- Italian Founders Fund focuses on Enterprise Software, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Italian Founders Fund located?
- Italian Founders Fund is headquartered in Italy, IT.
- Does Italian Founders Fund lead rounds?
- Yes, Italian Founders Fund leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamLorenzo Franzi, Italian Founders Fund: Founding with Focus: Why Italy’s VC Moment Is Now
EUVC · Lorenzo Franzi
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