The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Founded in 2019 and based in Legnano (MI), Freedome is a digital platform that curates and aggregates outdoor experiences across Italy. Its catalog includes activities such as hot-air balloon flights, paragliding jumps, boat excursions, horseback rides and rafting descents. The company is part of the I3P incubator at Politecnico di Torino and currently has a team of eight people. Freedome supports an ecosystem of about 3,000 people by working with small local operators. Financially, the startup has now raised a total of €740,000 after its recent €600,000 seed round. The company intends to use the new funding to accelerate growth in Italy, boost marketing efforts, consolidate national coverage and increase the number of experiences and professional operators on the platform.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

AmaliaCare operates an AI-driven platform that helps families find and manage professional caregivers by profiling the care recipient, identifying required caregiver characteristics, and using algorithms and adaptive questions to surface best matches. The company was founded in October 2020 in Brescia by Sonia Paonessa and Eliana Pérez. To date it has served 650 families across 19 Italian regions and received over 60,000 caregiver applications. AmaliaCare has closed an equity capital increase (seed) of over €1 million. The new funds will be used to develop the algorithm and platform, expand the team, scale marketing, and open two new offices in Milan and Turin. The team aims to reach six physical offices across Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Veneto by 2025 and to support over 5,000 families in Italy within five years.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

Develop-Players develops a platform of AI-based videogames that personalize learning and cognitive training for children with DSA and ADHD. The platform enables schools to monitor and screen for learning disorders more accessibly and precisely, notably via its game-test “Proffilo.” Founded in 2021 in Cesena by professor Mariagrazia Benassi with Luca Formica, Davide Paolillo, Sara Magri, Sara Giovagnoli, Alessia Baglivo and Luigi Marotta, the company has already collaborated with multiple Italian schools. The team has grown its videogame developers since the start of the year and plans to reinforce its sales team to increase school adoption across Italy. Financially, the company announced a new €600,000 investment from Opes Italia, 20Fund and Privilège Student Ventures, adding to earlier backing from SocialFare Seed. With this funding, Develop-Players aims to scale its national impact and pursue international expansion.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2020

Restorative Neurotechnologies is an Italian startup developing medical devices and telemedicine solutions for rehabilitation and cognitive enhancement. It is a spin-off of Palermo University, was incubated by Consortium Arca and accelerated by SocialFare through the FOUNDAMENTA program, and was founded by Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Massimiliano Oliveri. Its flagship product, Mindlenses Professional, is a wearable glasses device with prismatic lenses that non-invasively modulates brain activity by selectively deviating the field of vision to target cerebral hemispheres. The device is intended to enhance attention, memory and language and to support neurorehabilitation for conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and neurodevelopmental disorders (DSA, ADHD). The company aims to commercialize its solutions in Italy and internationally and to develop telemedicine approaches to facilitate de-hospitalization of patients with neurological diseases. Restorative closed a €1M funding round to continue investing in research, collect further scientific evidence and expand commercial capabilities for corporate scale-up.