Excellis Holding

Overview

Excellis Holding is a venture capital firm investing in deep-tech companies founded or co-founded by Italian expatriate researchers. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, particularly in seed and Series A rounds, co-investing alongside qualified international venture capitalists. Excellis Holding's investment strategy targets high-potential deep-tech sectors, including enabling technologies like edge AI, advanced computing, chips, quantum computing, laser technologies, sensors, and photonics; robotics and automation such as drones, industrial robots, air taxis, service robots, autonomous vehicles, exoskeletons, agricultural robots, and logistics robots; cleantech innovations like hydrogen technologies, energy storage, batteries and capacitors, carbon capture, graphene, renewable-based polymers, and circular economy solutions; and med-tech advancements like AI applied to research and diagnostics, imaging and diagnostic technologies, lab-on-chips, rehabilitation robotics, and surgical robotics. The firm's portfolio includes companies like Zaphiro Technologies SA, Synthara AG, Renaissance Fusion, ToffeeX, DeepMirror AI, NodeQ, Hylomorph AG, QuantActions AG, Nagi Bioscience, Greenjets, Annaida Technologies, Fluorok, VitreaLab, MintNeuro, and Mentium Technologies. Excellis Holding is headquartered in Turin, Italy, and operates in countries including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and Austria. The firm was founded in 2021 and has a team of 2-10 employees. Its investment size ranges from €200,000 to €500,000 per deal. The firm's investment philosophy emphasizes rapid investments to create valuable portfolios, supporting revolutionary scientific startups with solid patent foundations, and co-investing with qualified venture capital funds with a clear track record in the relevant sector. Excellis Holding aims to invest in ambitious projects that have a tangible positive impact on society and assist entrepreneurs even when they are thousands of kilometers away.

Investment Focus

• Founders or key people with a master's or PhD from prestigious universities
• Technologies originating from top-rated laboratories and research centers
• Start-ups with pre-seed or seed funding, ready to raise capital involving qualified international VCs as main investors

Portfolio Companies