• NetLex

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2014

  NetLex is a Rome, Italy-based provider of legal practice management software. Its SaaS platform offers tools to manage documents, clients, counterparts, hearings, payments, invoices, deadlines, parcels and an agenda/calendar. The platform also includes an analytics service to monitor law firm performance. The company is led by CEO Giorgio Pallocca, CTO Fabrizio Giammatteo and CFO Roberto Magnifico. NetLex closed a €300k financing and intends to use the funds to ramp up marketing and further develop its platform. The company previously raised an initial €30k seed in April 2013. NetLex offers an online cloud platform that gives lawyers digital tools to manage documents, clients, counterparts, hearings, payments, invoices, deadlines, parcels, an agenda/calendar and analytics to monitor firm performance. The company was co-founded at the end of April 2013 by CEO Giorgio Pallocca, CTO Fabrizio Giammatteo and CFO/co‑founder Roberto Magnifico. It is part of the Microsoft BizSpark Program. NetLex is already online and generates revenues. The startup raised a small micro-seed and is using the funds to start operations. Management is seeking further funding to continue growing operations.

• RisparmioSuper

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2014

  Risparmio Super provides a platform that allows grocery chains to compare prices and offers from competitors and collect data about consumer behaviour. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Barbara Labate. It also offers a consumer app and recently launched the free "CLICCA & RITIRA" service. Risparmio Super intends to use the new funds to expand operations and to grow the CLICCA & RITIRA offering. The company has offices in Rome and Milan. The article reports the company raised new external financing to support these plans. Risparmio Super is an online and mobile platform that lets users compare grocery store prices in real time. Co-founded by Barbara Labate and Zion Nahum, the company operates from Milan and Catania, Italy. Its service monitors prices of 16,000 stores across 200 grocery chains, helping consumers save on daily shopping and allowing retailers and brands to check competitors' prices and shopper behavior. The company recently launched a mobile app and a partnership with Carrefour to allow customers to retire bags directly in stores. Financially, Risparmio Super has completed multiple funding rounds, raising $550K in 2011, €467K in 2012 and an additional €500K in its third round. Backers in the latest round included existing investor LVenture Group and Filas. Risparmio Super operates Risparmiosuper.it, an online service that finds the cheapest supermarket in a user’s neighborhood based on their shopping list and provides companies with real-time analytics on competitors’ prices and consumer behavior. The company is headquartered in Catania, Italy and was founded by Barbara Labate and Zion Nahum. It offers consumers price comparison in real time and sells analytics access to businesses. Risparmio Super won the Shared Deals Competition in Moscow during the 12th EBAN Congress in May 2012. Financially, the company raised an additional €467K in the first tranche of its second funding round and previously raised €550K in late 2011. It is currently seeking a €533K second tranche to complete the round. Founded in 2010 by Barbara Labate and Zion Nahum, Risparmio Super is based in Catania and also operates offices in Milan. The company gathers and compares prices of food, hygiene products and consumer electronic goods from 45 national retailers and more than 10,000 supermarkets across Italy. Its service helps consumers save on daily shopping by monitoring and comparing online and offline product prices. Over the past two months the www.risparmiosuper.it customer base tripled from 30,000 to over 100,000. Risparmio Super closed a $550K seed funding round co-led by Zernike Meta Ventures and LVenture. The company intends to use the funding to further develop its business abroad, mainly in the US.

• BAASBOX

  Participated · Seed · Jan 2014

  BaasBox is an open-source Back-end as a Service (BaaS) that provides a server offering user management, content management and mobile features such as geo-location, check-ins and venue lists. Users can download and deploy BaasBox on laptops, servers, a PaaS (including RedHat OpenShift) or an IaaS provider such as Amazon AWS. The platform targets mobile apps and web applications by allowing developers to connect their applications to a self-hosted Box. The company was co-founded by Claudio Tesoriero and Federico Pacilli and has been incubated in Enlabs. BaasBox raised funding to continue development of the platform and to expand operations. The announced financing reflects early-stage traction and resources to grow the product and operations.

• Crest Optics

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2013

  Crest Optics is a Rome, Italy–based bioscience startup that uses optical and electro‑optical technology to develop instruments for scientific and industrial applications. Its core products include X-light and complementary systems targeting fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy. The company is a subsidiary of Crisel Instruments and was founded and is led by President Vincenzo Ricco. It raised €400k in equity funding from Filas and Aldabra Capital, with Aldabra acquiring a 35% stake. Crest Optics intends to use the funds to accelerate the commercialization of X-light and to develop further systems through the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The funding announcement was reported on 16 June 2013.

• Bulsara Advertising

  Participated · Equity · May 2013

  Bulsara Advertising creates unconventional, multisensorial ad experiences by placing ads and leveraging sensory tools in locations such as toilet facilities, dressing rooms and nursery areas of universities, cinemas, theatres, airports, fitness centers and commercial centers. Led by Federico Roesler Franz and incubated by EnLabs, the company works with large clients including Warner Bros Italia. It raised €350K in funding from Filas, LVenture Group and unnamed business angels. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate national expansion over the next 24 months and to open a second office in Italy by 2013. The core offering focuses on immersive placements and nontraditional venue targeting rather than traditional media buys.

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