Proud to see four Growth Engine portoflio companies on the Financial Times #FT1000 ranking of Europe's fastest #growing companies in 2025! Congrats to Cosmico Italia, ACBC, Barberino's, and UNGUESS for the recognition 🎉
Growth Engine
Mandanti di venture capital e private equity
Milano, Lombardia 945 follower
The engine to fuel the growth of the most promising startups
Chi siamo
Growth Engine is a Venture Capital holding investing in Pre-Seed and Seed high-potential opportunities. With a current portfolio of more than 40 companies, most of them evolved in successful Scaleups, Growth Engine is a diversified asset class by sector and stage mitigating liquidity issues. Growth Engine was founded by Michele Appendino, the co-Founder of the 1st IT focused VC fund in Europe, Marco Ariello, Private Equity professional with 25+ years of experience, Andrea Marangione, experienced business angels and entrepreneur and Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, former Venture Partner of the most active European VC fund in Series A e Series B.
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https://www.growthengine.it/
Link esterno per Growth Engine
- Settore
- Mandanti di venture capital e private equity
- Dimensioni dell’azienda
- 2-10 dipendenti
- Sede principale
- Milano, Lombardia
- Tipo
- Società privata non quotata
- Data di fondazione
- 2021
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Principale
Piazza Armando Diaz, 5
Milano, Lombardia 20123, IT
Dipendenti presso Growth Engine
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TimeFlow, a platform revolutionizing Workforce and Corporate Sourcing management, has successfully raised a €4 million round. The round was led by Vertis SGR and Azimut Group (ALIcrowd III) followed by Azimut Venture Capital Digitech Europe and X-Equity strategy funds. Additionally, CDP Venture Capital SGR (Fondo Rilancio), Growth Engine, and Duccio Vitali converted previously subscribed convertible instruments into equity. Congratulations to the founders Lorenzo Danese, Iacopo Albanese, Gianmarco Ferrante, and Federico Patrioli
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Congratulations to Green Future Project for their recent fundraising round of €2.2 million. Green Future Project is a Milan-based climate tech platform helping companies decarbonize by tracking, offsetting, and transparently reporting their environmental impact. Well done to the Green Future Project co-founders Pietro Pasolini dall'Onda and Briano Martinoni Caleppio
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Growth Engine has invested in Cubbit's $12.5 million fundraising round together with co-lead investors LocalGlobe and ETF Partners, as well as Verve Ventures, 2100 Ventures, Hydra, Eurenergia, Moonstone Venture Capital, Azimut Libera Impresa Digitech Fund, CDP Venture Capital SGR - Fondo Evoluzione, Primo Ventures, and individual investors Fabio Fregi and Joe Zadeh. The new funding will enable Cubbit to expand its operations across Europe, enhance technology adoption, and support vertical projects in diverse industries, including aerospace, defense, and healthcare. Congratulations Stefano Onofri Alessandro Cillario Marco Moschettini and Lorenzo Posani
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Growth Engine has invested in StarTric's seed financing round together with NLC Health Ventures, NLC Health Impact Fund, and several Business Angels. This fundraising round will fuel the development of groundbreaking technology for transcathater triscupid valve repair, offering a minimally invasive solution to millions of patients globally who lack effective and accessible therapeutic options for treating Triscupid Regurgitation (TR). Congratulations to Eugenio Passanante and DANIELE ZANOTTI
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On June 18 at 5 P.M., we will be presenting Growth Engine in a Reverse Pitching session, held in collaboration with Italian Tech Alliance. Andrea Marangione and Fabio Mondini de Focatiis will be presenting Growth Engine’s investment strategy, key criteria for selection, proven track record of success and an overview of portfolio companies. Join us for this informative session and register here: https://lnkd.in/dUx3zVfu
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Growth Engine has invested in Zefi.ai's €1.6M pre-seed funding round, along with 360 Capital, 14Peaks Capital, and Aticco Ventures. Zefi.ai is a platform that enables companies to automate the analysis of all conversations with their customers, such as reviews, calls, surveys, tickets, customer support requests, etc., in real-time through artificial intelligence algorithms. Zefi helps companies extract information that would otherwise be impossible to identify. Congratulations to the Zefi.ai team Aurora Maggio, Nicola Sebastianelli, Daniele Borlizzi, Alexandros Fokianos, and Leonardo Vezzati
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