• Kopjra

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2017

  Kopjra offers a SaaS-based platform focused on protecting copyright and privacy on the Internet, serving sectors such as cinema, TV, sports, music, publishing, software and videogaming. The company also acts as a technical consultant in legal controversies related to online crimes. Kopjra's services target online threats including anti-piracy, anti-counterfeiting, online crime protection, cyber-bullying, revenge porn and defamation. Clients include legal firms and media organizations. The company is led by Tommaso Grotto (CEO), Emanuele Casadio (CTO) and Matteo Scapin (CMO) and is based in Schio and Bologna, Italy. Kopjra intends to use new funding to consolidate its presence in the Italian market and expand its business lines. Kopjra develops proprietary software that automatically collects and analyzes data to track copyright, IP, trademark and privacy violations across web and peer-to-peer networks. The platform helps clients remove illegal content and provides evidence of damages for legal proceedings. Led by CEO Tommaso Grotto and based in Bologna, Italy, the company participated in Telecom Italia's TIM #Wcap open innovation program. Kopjra raised €150K in funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations in Italy and abroad. Investors include TIM Ventures (the corporate seed funding arm of Telecom Italia), Club Italia Investimenti 2 and earlier backer Custodi di Successo. No operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the report. Kopjra develops a law-enforcement tool that leverages a proprietary crawler and a database of unauthorized websites to monitor piracy, counterfeiting and defamation on the web and on peer-to-peer networks. Results can be analyzed with the company's in-house automatic content recognition technologies and monitored over time. The solution also offers social and geographical big data analytics for market surveys. Kopjra was accelerated within TIM #WCAP and EIT ICT Labs. The company is led by CEO Tommaso Grotto, CTO Emanuele Casadio, CLO Pier Raffaele Catena, CCO Matteo Scapin and CFO Luca Trevisan. Financially, Kopjra raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding in which Custodi di Successo acquired a 10% stake.

• Vino.com

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2017

  Vino75 is a Florence, Italy–based digital wine shop offering over 1,800 wine labels and representing 600 wine producers. The company provides a SaaS platform that enables Italian agri-food companies to manage their business and optimize cost and timing, as well as a B2B platform dedicated to buyers. Led by CEO Andrea Nardi Dei and hosted by NanaBianca in Florence, Vino75 combines direct-to-consumer retail with enterprise software for the hospitality and food sectors. The company signed a cooperation agreement with Alibaba’s TMAll Direct to bring 10 Italian wineries to the Chinese market, with plans to increase that number to at least 100. Vino75 raised €1.5m and intends to use the funds to develop its platform internationally and to consolidate the domestic market with new dedicated services for the Hotellerie-Restaurant-Café industry. Vino75 is a wine ecommerce company based in Florence, Italy, that combines technology and tradition to sell wine online. It offers a catalog of over 900 labels from 200 producers and serves 37,000 subscribers. The company was co-founded by Andrea Nardi-Dei, Elisa Scapin, Diego Di Sepio and Francesco Limberti and was incubated at Florence-based accelerator NanaBianca. Vino75 intends to use new funding to expand into international markets and extend its catalog by adding producers from abroad. The company has set a growth target to reach 300k subscribers.

• Bauzaar

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2015

  Bauzaar is a Milan, Italy-based e-commerce company exclusively dedicated to high-quality pet products. Co-founded in 2013 by Matteo Valente and Domenico Gimeli, the website offers a selection of food and other pet products with a particular focus on "Made in Italy." Customers can choose when to receive products and set the frequency of delivery. The company intends to use new funds to improve the purchase and customer care experience, increase product selection, and acquire new customers. Bauzaar had a turnover of €520k in 2014 and aimed to reach €1m in 2015. The recent financing is intended to support those growth and service-improvement plans. Bauzaar is an ecommerce platform based in Milan and Molfetta, Italy, specializing in online sales of dog and cat food from Italian and international brands. Customers can schedule deliveries and consult an expert for nutrition and health questions to choose products tailored to their pets' needs. Founded in 2013 by Matteo Valente and Domenico Gimeli, the company has delivered over 70 tons of products in Italy across more than 6,000 orders from 4,000 clients. It is finalizing a mobile app to improve customer access and experience. The company intends to use the new funding to expand its offerings and to boost R&D aimed at manufacturing its own line of pet food products. Bauzaar was previously backed by incubators H-Farm and Boox. Bauzaar is a Milan, Italy-based e-commerce retailer selling food and accessories for cats and dogs. The company was co-founded in 2012 by Matteo Valente and Domenico Gimeli. Its core offering is a subscription-style service that lets clients schedule recurring deliveries without repeating orders and payments. Bauzaar also provides expert advice to customers on pet nutrition and general health. The company completed a seed funding round backed by H-Farm and BooX; the amount raised was not disclosed. No additional financial metrics or future plans were provided in the article.

• Gourmant

  Participated · Equity · May 2015

  Gourmant.com operates an ecommerce community and online shopping club that selects high-quality Italian wine and food and sells them via flash-sale events lasting 15 days at discounted prices. The platform reports about 50,000 subscribers who purchase roughly 27,000 products each month. Co-founded in 2013 by Daniele Biffoli and Giovanni Brandini, the company was accelerated within the Nanabianca incubator in Florence. Gourmant plans to broaden its assortment to include fruits and vegetables, open a physical store, increase marketing efforts and pursue international expansion. Its core product is a curated flash-sales ecommerce experience built around Italian food and wine producers. Gourmant is an online shopping club based in Florence, Italy, dedicated to selling curated Italian wine and food. The company's e-commerce platform selects and offers the best wine and food products from Italy. It operates a flash-sales model with offerings during 15-day periods and discounts of about 40–50%. Gourmant is incubated within NanaBianca. Co-founded by Daniele Biffoli and Giovanni Brandini (both aged 30), the company raised €50k in seed funding from Club Italia Investimenti 2. It intends to use the funds to hire new staff and expand its marketing efforts.

• eBoox

  Led · Equity · May 2015

  eboox srl operates Tannico.it and Shoppable.it, two ecommerce sites focused on wine and design respectively. Tannico.it, founded in 2013, selects wines from Italian and foreign producers and sold 200,000 bottles in 2014. Shoppable.it has over 15,000 clients in Italy and abroad and sells design products chosen by a team of cool hunters. The projects are accelerated within Milan-based digital incubator BooX and were founded by Marco Magnocavallo. eboox raised €1M in venture capital which will be split equally between the two ecommerce projects to consolidate their market position in Italy and grow the business. With the investment the sites aim to reach a turnover of $5m by the end of the year, doubling 2014 results.

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