• Vestinda

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2024

  Vestinda builds an automated investment-management platform that enables automated portfolio management using technology from Wall Street. The company plans to focus product development and expand into B2B by offering its technology as a white‑label solution. Vestinda reports more than 10,000 accounts created across over 50 countries. The founders, Alin Breabăn and Diana Drăjneanu, remain actively involved and contributed $35,000 to the round. The startup is targeting $200,000 in annual recurring revenue this year. Current and planned funds will be used primarily to advance product development and support the B2B push.

• Mangatar

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2015

  Mangatar is an Italian social and mobile gaming startup based in Milan and Salerno. Its releases include Mangatar Saga and Dengen Chronicles, a customizable online card game in the Manga universe that combines TCG and RPG elements. The company is led by Andrea Postiglione (CEO & Web Designer), Raffaele Gaito (BizDev & Backend Developer), Enrico Rossomando (CTO & Frontend Developer), Michele Criscuolo (Mobile Developer) and Alfredo Postiglione (Manga Illustrator). Mangatar plans to grow as a publisher by leveraging independent developers, expanding its team and creating a network to develop indie casual and mid-core games for mobile and connected TV platforms. Following the investment, it opened a marketing and promotion office in FIRA Station, a coworking space in Pescara. The company raised €1.1M via Fi.R.A.'s StartHope and Invitalia's Smart&Start Italia, with Fi.R.A. joining as an investor alongside the co-founders and existing shareholder dPixel's Digital Investments S.C.A. SICAR. Mangatar develops a social, manga-universe massive multiplayer card game that lets players create unique "mangatars," take sides, join groups, accomplish missions and improve skills through social play. The team is led by students from the University of Salerno, including Raffaele Gaito, Andrea Postiglione, Enrico Rossomando, Michele Criscuolo and Alfredo Postiglione. The company showcased its game at TechCrunch Italy in September 2012. In November 2012 Mangatar won the €25k “Startup of the year” prize in the ICT & Social Innovation section of the National Prize of Innovation (PNI Cube). The prize check was presented during an event in Bari on November 30, 2012. The award represents the only disclosed financial support mentioned in the article.

• eco4cloud

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2014

  Eco4Cloud, a spin-off of CNR based in Rende, Italy, develops a bio-inspired intelligent software platform aimed at improving the economics of virtualized data centers by reducing energy bills and increasing efficiency. The company’s solution has been tested in Telecom Italia’s data centers in 2013. Eco4Cloud reports that its platform can reduce data-center energy needs by up to 60%. The product targets operators of virtualized data centers seeking lower operational costs and improved efficiency. The company has existing investors Principia and DPixel and recently received additional funding. The business remains focused on deployment and commercial validation with large operators. Eco4Cloud has developed a technology aimed at delivering significant energy savings in data centers by leveraging cloud computing to increase efficiency and guarantee high quality of service for hosted applications. The company is based in Cosenza, Italy, and is a start-up of Università della Calabria. It is hosted in the Technest incubator. Eco4Cloud was founded by CEO Raffaele Giordanelli, CTO Giuseppe Papuzzo, and Carlo Mastroianni and Agostino Forestiero. According to the article, the company has raised €2.3m in funding to support its development. The article does not specify revenue, user metrics, or the financing instrument used.

No current team members are available.