Ventive closes a 10 million funding round

Ventive closes a €10m funding round, reaching a post-money valuation of €30m. Founded in 2019 by Roberto Sfoglietta, the made-in-Italy company that invests and offers advisory for the growth of startups has invested more than €30 million in the last 36 months, building a portfolio with more than 70 holdings, analysing more than 5,000 start-ups and following more than 500 entrepreneurial realities. Today, it has a network of more than 200 investors and has completed more than 35 deals.

The round that has just closed saw the participation of Vanguard Legacy Capital, an international private equity fund; Redstone, a German strategic venture capital fund for internationalisation; Kon, a company specialising in M& A; and the multi-family office led by Lorenzo Guidotti and FundX, the investment vehicle of entrepreneur Fabio Nalucci. "An operation made possible by the work of the entire Ventive team, when we started this journey," comments Sfoglietta, "we could never have imagined concluding a capital increase of this size with international players. Today we are pursuing a single goal: to create the largest international venture capital player in Italy".

The capital raised in this round will allow Ventive to accelerate its internationalisation project with the opening of an office in London. "Our goal - explains the CEO Sfoglietta - is to become the main Italian player able to act as a bridge between Italy and the European venture capital scene by attracting foreign investors to Italian start-ups and supporting our country's entrepreneurial realities in accessing international capital and opportunities".

Not only internationalisation though, thanks to the new capital injection, the company will continue to strengthen its internal structure with new vertical business units dedicated to recruiting, Tech/IT services, marketing and business development.

'Our path stems from the ambition to build a reality that represents Italy on the international stage and contributes to redefining its perception in the European technology scene,' concludes the CEO.