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Growth Engine
Venture capital · Italy · Europe
Growth Engine is a sector-agnostic venture capital holding that invests from Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A. It was built by entrepreneurs, venture capital pioneers, and executives, and draws on an investment committee with experience across industries and investment cycles.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordssector-agnosticfoundersearly-stageitalyeurope
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Or find every investor that fitsGrowth Engine lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (33%), Fintech (17%) and AI & Machine Learning (17%). 100% of its companies are based in Italy. It invests most often alongside Alpha Partners, Vento and 360 Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Growth Engine, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 33% | 15% |
| Fintech | 17% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Education | 17% | 7% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 17% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Alpha Partners | 2 |
| Vento | 2 |
| 360 Capital | 1 |
| The Techshop | 1 |
| Zest | 1 |
| Zooga | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Growth Engine head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Growth Engine| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Nov 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Growth Engine
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Growth Engine's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CiaoDott provides an AI virtual secretary for medical centers to manage calls, appointments, and reminders | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Guidoio provides a platform for learning and obtaining a driver's license | EducationMobility & Logistics | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Holifya provides a medical program for weight loss | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Rulen provides a platform to automate fiscal and accounting activities for accountants and tax lawyers. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- growthengine.it
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 17 Nov 2025
- Companies checked
- 4
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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