Cosimo F. Biliotti

Kinsect develop an hight scalable business model for Intensive breeding of soldier flies Kinsect designs and develops highly efficient plants of insect farming at industrial scale for animal feed. This model is based on a circular and zero-waste logic.

Europes First Cheque Fund | We support and partner with the most ambitious pre-seed startups from Europe and European founders abroad, often as their first investor. (The APX portfolio is now managed by HEARTFELT)

Eden Ventures is an international venture capital firm, backed by IAG, the main Italian business angel network. We are the garden of Eden of pre-seed startups allowing founders to let their talents flourish. Our top founders can leverage a 500+ angels network unlocking business connections and fundraising opportunities with club deals and VC partners. Our mantra is: keep it simple and do not waste time! Apply to our form and get a potential investment up to €100k in 30 days (if we fall in love..)

Nova Ventures è il primo polo italiano interamente dedicato al pre-seed. Nata dalla fusione tra Open Seed e Seed Money, unisce capitale, competenze e rete per sostenere le startup italiane più promettenti fin dai primissimi passi. Abbiamo raccolto l’eredità di Open Seed, nata nel 2016 per sostenere giovani team e idee innovative, unendola all’esperienza di Seed Money negli investimenti early-stage e nello sviluppo di portafoglio. Nova Ventures va oltre il semplice investimento. Attiviamo un ecosistema generativo fatto di founder, mentor, investitori e corporate, tutti coinvolti in programmi verticali (PropTech, LifeTech, CreativeAI, Impact) disegnati per accelerare la crescita e creare connessioni reali tra startup e mercato. Con oltre 1.000 soci e una community di business angel chiamati Custodi, investiamo ogni anno in 20 startup early-stage, selezionate con metodo, accompagnate con strumenti, supportate da scaleup Maestri e aziende sponsor che credono nell’open innovation. Cosa facciamo concretamente: ✔️ Investiamo in startup italiane in fase pre-seed ✔️ Sviluppiamo programmi di accelerazione settoriali ✔️ Attiviamo co-investimenti con business angel e partner corporate ✔️ Creiamo valore condiviso lungo tutta la filiera dell’innovazione ✔️ Offriamo anche ai piccoli investitori l’opportunità di entrare nell’ecosistema Il veicolo di investimento è costituito nella forma di S.r.l. innovativa – Holding di Partecipazione – che raccoglie capitale dai soci per favorire l’incubazione e il successo delle startup selezionate.

Kinsect develop an hight scalable business model for Intensive breeding of soldier flies Kinsect designs and develops highly efficient plants of insect farming at industrial scale for animal feed. This model is based on a circular and zero-waste logic.

Europes First Cheque Fund | We support and partner with the most ambitious pre-seed startups from Europe and European founders abroad, often as their first investor. (The APX portfolio is now managed by HEARTFELT)

Forest Valley Catalyst, first spin-off of Forest Valley, is a Venture Capital Investment Holding dedicated to supporting the transition toward a more sustainable future. Established in 2024, FV Catalyst is currently active with a growing portfolio of high-potential investments in the Climate Tech space. Catalyst positions itself as an early - stage VC within the European Climate Tech ecosystem, with the goal of supporting and investing in startups developing technologies that can improve our future and the future of our planet. By leveraging a strong network of research institutions, accelerators, and international partners, Forest Valley Catalyst combines financial capital with strategic guidance to empower founders tackling some of the most urgent environmental and technological challenges of our time.

Forest Valley is born out of the desire of a group of entrepreneurs to accelerate the Climate Innovation in Europe. To reach this objective, Forest Valley is building an ecosystem of Innovators, Startups, SMEs, Corporates and Institution to facilitate networking and co-creation. Forest Valley activities are divided into: Sandbox - a program where we scout the most promising startups involved in sustainability and climate innovation cross industry, and prepare them to get matched with companies, public administrations and investors, in order to grant a tangible acceleration on the supply and value chain side. Road To Forest Valley - a Podcast that gives voice to the People and the Projects that are answering to the growing risks connected to climate change disruption and changing market needs; Academy - an education program to connect current and future shapers to the Sustainable Transition topics, from Circular Economy to Sustainable Finance. Special Projects - a program through which we facilitate the development of multi-stakeholders projects with positive climate impact, including sustainable practices, business models and startups innovative ideas and technologies.

We are a diverse team of tech lovers, mentors, experts, and founders ourselves bound together by our passion to support founders on their entrepreneurial journey. We help to solve key challenges at every stage Dare to dream global. We’re a startup accelerator like no other, our optimized approach puts early stage startups on the map and catapults them into worldwide success. Startup Wise Guy’s origins began in Europe’s tech-savvy startup capital, Estonia. Since 2012, we have used our carefully curated expertise, skills and funding to skyrocket hundreds of emerging early stage startups into upwards growth. This is not our first rodeo… we are the most experienced accelerator fund in the region with over 35+ programs, an international community of founders from over 60 countries and an established market in CEE and CIS countries.