Investors / Italy / Lumen Ventures
Lumen Ventures
Venture capital · Rome, Italy · Europe
Lumen Ventures is a seed stage operator fund whose team describes itself as founders who have built, scaled and sold companies. It operates Lumen I as a SICAF SIS SpA and Lumen II, which is managed by Ulixes SGR SpA.
Invests inE-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense
In its own wordsseed stageoperator fundfounders
Your fit with Lumen Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsLumen Ventures lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (20%), AI & Machine Learning (20%) and Space & Defense (20%). 100% of its companies are based in Italy. It invests most often alongside CDP Venture Capital, Founders Factory and Loyal VC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Lumen Ventures, 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| CDP Venture Capital | 1 |
| Founders Factory | 1 |
| Loyal VC | 1 |
| The Techshop | 1 |
| Vento | 1 |
| Vertis | 1 |
| Zest | 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 20% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 20% | 3% |
| Education | 20% | 7% |
| Fintech | 20% | 12% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with CDP Venture Capital
Compare Lumen Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Lumen Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Feb 2026 | Series A Led |
Round details for Lumen Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Lumen Ventures' 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026Series A | Page + round | |||
| Bikeroom is a marketplace for buying and selling premium bikes | E-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides financial education and information to young people in Italy through various media and events | EducationFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Toolhouse provides AI-powered automation of repetitive tasks for businesses | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- lumen.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Feb 2026
- 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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