Massimiliano Magrini

Founder and Managing Partner at United Ventures.

📍 Segrate, Lombardy, Italy🔄 Updated September 2026💼 20 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Aug 2025
At identifAI, we develop cutting-edge AI solutions to combat the growing threats of deepfakes and fakenews. Our mission is to empower individuals, organizations, and platforms with the ability to verify the origin of digital content—whether its human-made or machine-generated. In an era where synthetic media is becoming indistinguishable from reality, we believe transparency is a fundamental right. By combining advanced generative artificial intelligence with ethical innovation, identifAI aims to build trust in the digital world and protect the integrity of information across the globe.
Board Member
Aug 2025
Cyberwave is the AI-native robotics infrastructure platform: think “SAP for the physical world.” We give developers and operations teams a code-first way to integrate, orchestrate, and secure heterogeneous robots, PLCs, sensors, and digital twins across factories, warehouses, and maritime operations.
Board Member
Apr 2024
We are the CyberStorage. Avaneidi is the first European provider of CyberStorage, delivering a safe-AI solution, reliable and scalable, that seamlessly integrates Secure Hardware Storage, proprietary Data Governance, and advanced CyberShield into a unified platform. With a secure-by-design architecture and cutting-edge defense strategies, Avaneidi goes beyond traditional storage, enabling organizations to scale, innovate, and operate with confidence in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Board Member
Aug 2022
Babaco Market è il primo e-grocery antispreco d’Italia. Tutti i prodotti italiani che per logiche di mercato faticano a trovare uno sbocco commerciale e rischiano di essere sprecati, unici, freschi e buonissimi vengono consegnati comodamente a casa dei consumatori in una box, attraverso un servizio in abbonamento.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
Young Platform is a FinTech startup based in Turin that aims to become a smart digital bank natively focused on new digital services. Our mission is to make the world of digital assets accessible to all. We want to help make the cryptocurrency industry fairer and more meaningful for everyone. That’s why our exchanges allow you to start buying and selling cryptocurrencies at your own pace and habits. In fact, through its products, Young Platform offers all the tools to freely manage digital assets: from an app to learn everything about crypto, to an intuitive platform to buy the first cryptocurrency, up to indicators and APIs for traders and professionals. Our context is young and dynamic and is based on the sharing of information and continuous feedback, as fundamental tools for constant improvement and growth. We are curious people with very ambitious goals, which we achieve thanks to constant training. We make sure to teach the team what we know and learn what we don’t know. We firmly believe in transparency and dialogue and we encourage free initiative and a critical sense to make the best decisions and reach goals in record time.
Board Member
Apr 2021
We are a game-changer in the life sciences sector. Our mission is to hyper-accelerate drug and medical device development leveraging top notch technology like Modeling and Simulation and Artificial Intelligence. We are an international team of professionals ​coming from healthcare, regulatory, engineering simulation, IT, cloud, and cybersecurity. We work with a network of 70+ prestigious universities and research centers worldwide and we are currently part of 5 EU-funded projects that are really making a difference in healthcare: SimCardioTest, Brainteaser, In Silico World, Disc4All and TranSys. Our unique cloud platform offers Pharma and MedTech companies state-of-the-art simulation tools that can highly reduce the cost and time of medical products development, while increasing their safety and efficacy. We are endorsed by top international regulators such as FDA and EMA., that have been encouraging for years the adoption of in silico methods in healthcare. We share a vision: to deeply innovate the healthcare industry through state-of-the-art technology, which means less tests on humans and animals, and more treatments, new medicines and safer medical products for millions of people worldwide. Live longer, live better.
Board Member
May 2020
DATRIX IS A GROUP OF DATA-DRIVEN TECH COMPANIES THAT DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS & SERVICES OF AUGMENTED ANALYTICS & MACHINE LEARNING. Datrix is listed on Euronext Growth Milan (ISIN code IT0005468357, ticker DATA). Our AI solutions are sustainable because: - we do not intend Artificial Intelligence with a replacement role, but as an accelerator of human intelligence (AI as Augmented or Actionable Intelligence). Our AI solutions are technological innovations that enhance human capabilities and experiences, improve and simplify decision making, actions, business results, sustainable economic growth (Digital Humanism), - they amplify efficiency, speed, resilience, revenues and savings for companies of all sizes, - they are all compliant with the EU Privacy Regulation (GDPR), - they aim to create a circular and inclusive data economy that also rewards those who consent to the use of their information, - data, processes and value are transparent to all stakeholders (no “black boxes”), - we use sustainable, agile, flexible and scalable infrastructure such as cloud to optimize resources and reduce waste, - we aim to reach and ensure that our client companies achieve SDGs Goals promoted by United Nations. OUR OPERATING AREAS: 1. AI for Marketing & Sales, 2. AI for Data Monetization, 3. AI for FinTech 4. Machine Learning Model Serving. OUR TECH COMPANIES AND PLAYERS: - Aramix | AI efficiency (aramix.ai) - FinScience | investment AI (finscience.com) - ByTek | performance marketing AI (bytek.ai) - PaperLit | content & data distribution & monetization AI (paperlit.com) - Adapex | ad revenue maximization (adapex.io)
Board Member
Nov 2019
xFarm Technologies is a tech company focused on the digitisation of the agri-food sector, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and stakeholders in the management of their businesses. 🌱 📱 It offers apps for farm management, connected sensors, support in Digital Transformation projects, algorithms applied to agriculture and training activities for the whole sector. 🌍 xFarm Technologies supports the work of 500,000 farms belonging to more than 30 supply chains on 7 million hectares in more than 100 countries worldwide. 🌳 B Corp™
Board Member
Sep 2019
MishiPay empowers shoppers to scan and pay for their shopping with their smartphones, rather than wasting time queuing at the checkout. With MishiPay’s technology, shoppers can now pick up an item they wish to buy, scan the barcode of the item with their phone and pay for it in the app, then simply leave with the item they just bought. No queueing; just Scan, Pay and Leave. The High Street has been hit hard by the digital revolution. We want to give power back to retailers, and provide the technology to create the kind of outstanding customer experience that will help the High Street to thrive again. Our mission is to make the in-store shopping experience as enjoyable and convenient as possible, for both customers and retail staff. We bridge the gap between online and offline shopping, giving retailers priceless data about their clients to help them gain a clearer understanding of the customer journey in their bricks and mortar stores. Whats more, thanks to our advanced technology and strategic partnerships, our service can be implemented rapidly and cost-effectively by retailers, and we can integrate seamlessly without the need for additional hardware.
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Board Member
2019
Italian Tech Alliance è l’associazione di riferimento per: - fondi di venture capital; - investitori in innovazione; - startup e PMI innovative. L’obiettivo dell’associazione è promuovere lo sviluppo dell’ecosistema della tecnologia e dell’innovazione in Italia, lavorando a stretto contatto con le istituzioni. I contenuti di Italian Tech Alliance diffondono notizie, opportunità e segnalazioni interessanti per gli stakeholder privati e pubblici che lavorano per la crescita economica e sociale del paese. Attualmente siedono nel consiglio Direttivo: Alessio Beverina – Segretario Generale, Panakès Partners Fausto Boni – Osservatore, 360 Capital Chiara Castelli – Moonstone Venture Capital Lorenzo Danese – Timeflow Gianluca DAgostino – The Techshop Diyala DAveni – Vento Gianluca Dettori – Osservatore, Primo Ventures Giuseppe Donvito – Osservatore, P101 Lucia Faccio – Sofinnova Telethon Fund Letizia Goretti – Alia Therapeutics Daniele Panfilo – Aindo Lidia Pieri – Sibylla Biotech Carlo Tassi – Italian Angels for Growth Davide Turco – Presidente, Indaco Venture Partners Fabio Ugolini – Truescreen Per informazioni e segnalazioni o semplicemente per entrare in contatto con noi scrivici su: info@italiantechalliance.com
Board Member
Dec 2018
We are developing the next generation of IoT embedded cybersecurity. Our technology equips every organization on the planet to build secure IoT devices with purpose-built technology.
Board Member
Nov 2016
MainStreaming enables broadcasters, media and enterprise companies to deliver video with the best Quality of Experience to their audience, globally. With our innovative solution, we deliver live and on-demand video, integrating all operative phases for ingest, encoding, management and distribution.
Board Member
Feb 2014
Cloud4Wi helps enterprises unlock the power of physical locations. With our cloud platform, enterprises can offer a seamless, secure WiFi access and unleash innovative location-aware experiences, while driving business outcomes – without any additional workload for IT staff. With over 150 million mobile users connected across 70,000 locations in more than 150 countries, Cloud4Wi is the trusted partner of leading global enterprises –including Albertsons, Aldi, Burger King, Campari Group, Carmila (Carrefour Group), Guess, Gruppo FS Italiane, Prada Group, Puma, Raia Drogasil and Valentino– to drive business outcomes.
Board Member
Feb 2014
FACEIT is the leading competitive platform for online multiplayer games, with over 25 million users. Through FACEIT, players, organisers, game developers and brands can access a dedicated platform that empowers the development of the competitive gaming ecosystem through play, structured tournaments and social features. By covering the whole spectrum of competitive gaming from grassroots up to the professional level, the platform is the biggest of its kind and already has a long-standing partnership with the most important gaming publishers in the industry.
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2012
We are DataWizard Srl – a team of 21 people passionate about innovating digital healthcare in Europe. We are a mix of developers, data scientists, designers, pharmacists, marketers and leadership. This is our story so far… DataWizard was founded in Rome, Italy, in 2012 by two renowned entrepreneurs – Francesco Romano Marcellino and Massimiliano Magrini – who have extensive leadership experience in ICT and Healthcare industries, previously serving in high-level management positions in companies such as Altavista, Google, IBM, Oracle and PricewaterhouseCoopers for the last twenty years. Starting with a humble team and a big vision to be the global leader in mobile pharmacy services, they started developing the Pharmawizard platform and and closed their first round of Private Equity Seed funding in March 2014. In response to the information gap between public institutions, professionals and patients, the original goal of Datawizard was to be a set of digital services that deliver Third Party and Open Data from official, up-to-date medical datasets in an innovative, user-friendly, personalised way. By using a hybrid technology approach that draws on a Semantic Search Engine, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and Ontology-based techniques, users can quickly extract targeted data by typing a drug name, active ingredient or symptom, and the system, by learning over time, continuously improves its search engine’s performance. The importance of good UX design was never underestimated and the platform’s design was informed through an intensive study on usability based on direct feedback from end-users. In September 2014, Datawizard launched Pharmawizard 1.0 web & mobile apps in Italy with a B2C model and received an outstanding response: - 600,000 iOS/Android Downloads - 140,000 Monthly Active User - 15 Million queries - 1,3 Million products in Pharmawizard Database
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2025
Board Member
Aug 2025
At identifAI, we develop cutting-edge AI solutions to combat the growing threats of deepfakes and fakenews. Our mission is to empower individuals, organizations, and platforms with the ability to verify the origin of digital content—whether its human-made or machine-generated. In an era where synthetic media is becoming indistinguishable from reality, we believe transparency is a fundamental right. By combining advanced generative artificial intelligence with ethical innovation, identifAI aims to build trust in the digital world and protect the integrity of information across the globe.
Board Member
Aug 2025
Cyberwave is the AI-native robotics infrastructure platform: think “SAP for the physical world.” We give developers and operations teams a code-first way to integrate, orchestrate, and secure heterogeneous robots, PLCs, sensors, and digital twins across factories, warehouses, and maritime operations.
2024
Board Member
Apr 2024
We are the CyberStorage. Avaneidi is the first European provider of CyberStorage, delivering a safe-AI solution, reliable and scalable, that seamlessly integrates Secure Hardware Storage, proprietary Data Governance, and advanced CyberShield into a unified platform. With a secure-by-design architecture and cutting-edge defense strategies, Avaneidi goes beyond traditional storage, enabling organizations to scale, innovate, and operate with confidence in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
2022
Board Member
Aug 2022
Babaco Market è il primo e-grocery antispreco d’Italia. Tutti i prodotti italiani che per logiche di mercato faticano a trovare uno sbocco commerciale e rischiano di essere sprecati, unici, freschi e buonissimi vengono consegnati comodamente a casa dei consumatori in una box, attraverso un servizio in abbonamento.
2021
Board Observer
Jun 2021
Young Platform is a FinTech startup based in Turin that aims to become a smart digital bank natively focused on new digital services. Our mission is to make the world of digital assets accessible to all. We want to help make the cryptocurrency industry fairer and more meaningful for everyone. That’s why our exchanges allow you to start buying and selling cryptocurrencies at your own pace and habits. In fact, through its products, Young Platform offers all the tools to freely manage digital assets: from an app to learn everything about crypto, to an intuitive platform to buy the first cryptocurrency, up to indicators and APIs for traders and professionals. Our context is young and dynamic and is based on the sharing of information and continuous feedback, as fundamental tools for constant improvement and growth. We are curious people with very ambitious goals, which we achieve thanks to constant training. We make sure to teach the team what we know and learn what we don’t know. We firmly believe in transparency and dialogue and we encourage free initiative and a critical sense to make the best decisions and reach goals in record time.
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