Valerio Durazzo

Principal at Lumen Ventures

📍 Italy🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 Italy
11
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6
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2
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1
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6y
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2025
Not foggy word clouds. Not cryptic dashboards. Executive-ready insights only. Most leadership teams track cash to the penny, but fly blind on the perception, momentum, and weak signals that shape real outcomes. Omniscient gives you an intelligence layer that transforms the world’s noise into a live, decision‑ready pulse of your organisation and ecosystem. We fuse news, social, web, video, and audio with your internal context, then apply AI to surface emerging risks and opportunities, benchmark against peers, and streamline reporting. The result: clarity on what to prioritise, what to rethink, and where to focus your most valuable resources. Monitor in real time. Predict with precision. Act decisively. Already trusted by leading global companies.
Investor
2025
Epic fishing experiences in wonderful destinations with top notch guides.
Investor
Apr 2024
𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 Skillvue is the platform that enables companies to adopt a skills-based approach to recruitment, internal mobility and talent development. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙤 Our innovative, proprietary AI-based technology analyses candidates’ and employees’ skills in a fast, objective and scalable way. This allows companies to identify high-potential candidates and to develop effective growth, training and internal mobility paths for employees. 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙎𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙫𝙪𝙚? In just 3 years, we have gained the trust of some of the largest Italian and European companies in various sectors such as Banking, Finance, Retail and Large-scale distribution, offering tangible support in the transition towards a skills-based approach within recruitment, internal mobility and talent development processes. We have also recently closed a EUR 2.5 million pre-seed round, which will enable us to grow even faster and offer our support to even more companies.
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2024
Starting Finance is the major financial community for Millennials in Italy. Targeting young individuals, Starting Finance was created with the purpose of sharing and developing knowledge and connections. The main aim of Starting Finance is to become within the next 4 years, the major financial community in Europe, and thus the biggest educational platform for under 30.
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Nov 2022
Siamo una piattaforma di pagamento pensata per le aziende fisiche che vogliono crescere, fidelizzare i clienti e aumentare il fatturato. Il nostro obiettivo è semplificare e rendere più accessibile il mondo dei pagamenti, sia per le aziende che per i loro clienti.
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Sep 2022
Carol è un servizio di virtual primary care in abbonamento, che permette di accedere a servizi sanitari digitali in modo facile e veloce, sempre e ovunque. Lapp comprende un ecosistema di servizi sanitari che offrono un’esperienza pratica, efficiente e totalmente digitale: teleconsulti di medicina generale via video e chat, prescrizione elettronica di ricette farmaceutiche e specialistiche; acquisto di farmaci con consegna a domicilio; prenotazione di visite specialistiche ed esami diagnostici nelle migliori strutture partner. Carol è il primo provider di servizi di telemedicina in Italia ad essere autorizzato dall’SSN come ambulatorio virtuale di medicina generale in regime privato. Un team di medici interno altamente qualificato e sempre reperibile garantisce una presenza dedicata ed il più elevato standard di qualità ai propri pazienti, supportato da una piattaforma tecnologica moderna.
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Aug 2022
Jobtech is not just yet another employment agency, but its a reality that is changing the world of work through a smart, simple and transparent service. Thanks to a specialisation on precise core profiles, its own technology and a team who know how to shape talent. We could simply define ourselves as an HR tech company. But that wouldnt be enough. We are way beyond that. #BeyondIndividualOpportunities
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Jun 2022
Offriamo percorsi di psicoterapia, coaching, supporto psicologico, sessuologia, psichiatria e nutrizione grazie a una rete di più di 2500 professioniste e professionisti che aiutano ogni settimana migliaia di persone a prendersi cura del proprio benessere mentale e fisico. Con il programma Serenis Business diamo alle aziende tanti strumenti per migliorare il benessere e la produttività dei dipendenti: sedute gratuite e a prezzo convenzionato, webinar, eventi, incontri di formazione e psicoeducazione. Le aziende che usano Serenis Business possono misurare limpatto delle terapie e il sentiment aziendale con strumenti clinicamente validati. Crediamo che internet sia fondamentale per portare molte più persone a occuparsi del benessere mentale. Allo stesso tempo, abbiamo troppo rispetto della psicologia per affrontarla in modo semplicistico: la sfida è rimuovere gli ostacoli garantendo la massima qualità possibile. Per questo, oltre che una piattaforma digitale, siamo anche un centro medico, autorizzato dallATS di Milano. Rispondiamo della qualità dei percorsi e rispettiamo gli stessi standard sanitari di qualsiasi poliambulatorio. Ogni paziente può contare su di noi dall’inizio alla fine del percorso, e lo stesso vale per ogni professionista. Rispettiamo il lavoro di chi collabora con noi, a livello retributivo, contrattuale e progettuale, non solo perché è giusto, ma anche perché è l’unico modo per tenere fede alla nostra promessa: la scelta migliore per la tua scelta migliore.
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Feb 2022
GenieAI is the premier, award-winning AI-powered Portfolio and Risk Management System helping digital asset funds build and protect their alpha. Our technology enables investors to anticipate market trends and navigate risks in ways that were once unimaginable -- all while managing portfolios with unprecedented precision and workflow automation. GenieAI helps leading fund managers to: * Enhance portfolio performance * Predict market trends * Improve data-driven decisions * Automate analysis and reporting * Boost risk management Our expert team of industry leaders brings unmatched AI and ML experience to investment management. GenieAIs clients include some of the worlds most successful and well-respected digital asset funds. GenieAI is backed by leading investors including Coinbase Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Sierra Ventures, Fasanara Digital, Arca, and other leading investors. Schedule a demo to get started.
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Sep 2020
GenomeUp is a benefit corporation based in Italy that develops digital solutions to simplify and accelerate the diagnostic journey for genetic diseases. Founded in 2017 from the dream of three young Italians, GenomeUp was created to stand alongside those who, every day, work to give a name to a genetic condition—easing, even in part, the long and often painful journey faced by patients and their families. With JuliaOmix™, our cloud-native platform, we digitize and streamline the entire diagnostic workflow—from test request to report. Sample tracking, clinical data management, genetic analysis, and decision support: everything in a single, secure, scalable, and integrated ecosystem. We collaborate with healthcare institutions, research centers, startups, and public bodies in Italy and across Europe, all sharing a common goal: to turn the complexity of clinical genetics into a tangible opportunity to improve people’s lives. We believe in a future where no patient has to wait years in uncertainty for a diagnosis. That’s why we work every day to reduce diagnostic timelines by putting technological innovation at the service of people. Giving back time is our greatest ambition: time to understand, to treat, and to live with greater peace of mind. Because every day gained in reaching a diagnosis can make all the difference. And every step forward in technology is one step closer to a real answer.
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2020
THE NEW, REVOLUTONARY GPS TRACKER FOR ANIMALS Kippy is the first device that combines real time GPS tracking and physical activity monitoring. A technology, which is the result of 5 years of study, created and made for pet lovers. TRACKING With Kippy EVO, your friend will always be close to you. Don’t worry about losing him, thanks to GSM coverage, you can locate your puppy or kitten in REAL TIME and at UNLIMITED DISTANCE ACTIVITY TRACKING Take care of his wellbeing Thanks to a proprietary algorithm, Kippy recognises your friend’s physical activity and shows you a personalised level of ideal exercise to achieve. VITA MESSAGES Find out what he is doing at any moment Thanks to the vita messages, you will be connected constantly and close to your furry friend. You will receive personalised messages suited to him and will learn more about his needs and state of wellbeing at all times. KIPPY: YOUR PET WITH YOU ALL THE TIME!
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2025
Investor
2025
Not foggy word clouds. Not cryptic dashboards. Executive-ready insights only. Most leadership teams track cash to the penny, but fly blind on the perception, momentum, and weak signals that shape real outcomes. Omniscient gives you an intelligence layer that transforms the world’s noise into a live, decision‑ready pulse of your organisation and ecosystem. We fuse news, social, web, video, and audio with your internal context, then apply AI to surface emerging risks and opportunities, benchmark against peers, and streamline reporting. The result: clarity on what to prioritise, what to rethink, and where to focus your most valuable resources. Monitor in real time. Predict with precision. Act decisively. Already trusted by leading global companies.
Investor
2025
Epic fishing experiences in wonderful destinations with top notch guides.
2024
Investor
Apr 2024
𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 Skillvue is the platform that enables companies to adopt a skills-based approach to recruitment, internal mobility and talent development. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙤 Our innovative, proprietary AI-based technology analyses candidates’ and employees’ skills in a fast, objective and scalable way. This allows companies to identify high-potential candidates and to develop effective growth, training and internal mobility paths for employees. 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙎𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙫𝙪𝙚? In just 3 years, we have gained the trust of some of the largest Italian and European companies in various sectors such as Banking, Finance, Retail and Large-scale distribution, offering tangible support in the transition towards a skills-based approach within recruitment, internal mobility and talent development processes. We have also recently closed a EUR 2.5 million pre-seed round, which will enable us to grow even faster and offer our support to even more companies.
Investor
2024
Starting Finance is the major financial community for Millennials in Italy. Targeting young individuals, Starting Finance was created with the purpose of sharing and developing knowledge and connections. The main aim of Starting Finance is to become within the next 4 years, the major financial community in Europe, and thus the biggest educational platform for under 30.
2022
Investor
Nov 2022
Siamo una piattaforma di pagamento pensata per le aziende fisiche che vogliono crescere, fidelizzare i clienti e aumentare il fatturato. Il nostro obiettivo è semplificare e rendere più accessibile il mondo dei pagamenti, sia per le aziende che per i loro clienti.
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