# Day One: portfolio, investments and team

> Day One is a venture studio based in Italy. 8 investments on record, latest Jan 2019. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-srl (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Day One

Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Apr 2025, closing $7M. Last cheque observed Jan 2019.

Quiet New fund $7.4M, Apr 2025 Venture studio Website unconfirmed

Seed Series C Deep Tech

Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 8 on record

Since the last cheque **2827** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$4.3M** Rounds led **0 of 8** Mostly in **United States, 75%**

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## Day One highlights

- 01 8 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Seed and Series C: 100% of its rounds

## What they do

- **Type:** Venture studio
- **Cheque size:** Not stated
- **Sectors:** Deep Tech
- **Based in:** Rome, Italy
- **Cold pitches:** Not accepted

A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. [Tell us the right one](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=day-one-srl).

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **8 appearances**

- **2019** 2 rounds
- **Jan** **[Zestful](https://millionrounds.com/company/zestful)** US · Crunchbase News **$1.1M** With 3 others
- **Jan** **[Hone](https://millionrounds.com/company/hone)** Seed · US · TechCrunch **$3.6M** With 7 others
- **2018** 5 rounds
- **Oct** **[Invisible](https://millionrounds.com/company/invisible)** Seed · VA · Vator **$2.6M** With 8 others
- **Oct** **[Truebill](https://millionrounds.com/company/truebill)** US · Vator **$5.0M** With 9 others
- **Sept** **[Public Goods](https://millionrounds.com/company/public-goods)** Seed · US · FinSMEs **$3.0M** With 1 other
- **Jul** **[Octi](https://millionrounds.com/company/octi)** Seed · US · FinSMEs **$7.5M** With 11 others
- **Jun** **[Catalog](https://millionrounds.com/company/catalog)** US · FinSMEs **$9.0M** With 6 others
- **2017** 1 round
- **Jan** **[Almotive](https://millionrounds.com/company/almotive)** Series C · HU · FinSMEs **$38M** With 6 others

An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.

## The team

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **1 named**

MB **Mariia Bucher** Managing Member of Day One Ventures Management (GP) III, LLC the general partner i Filing they signed

We also hold **2** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.

New fund on file

**$7.4M**

raised in Apr 2025

From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy.

## The cheque

Seed Series C

Median round joined **$4.3M** the round, not its cheque

Led 0 of 8 rounds **0%**

- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Jan 2019

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Seed *4*
- Series C *1*

Cheques by year Led Joined

2017 2019

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## Recently backed

The latest companies Day One put money into.

[**Zestful** $1.1M · Jan 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/zestful)[**Hone** $3.6M · Jan 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/hone)[**Truebill** $5.0M · Oct 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/truebill)[**Public Goods** $3.0M · Sept 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/public-goods)

## On podcasts

6 episodes naming Day One in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) 15 Oct 2026 · 1h 13m 20VC: The Pro-Rata Battle: Valar Atomics Sues Day One Ventures | Meta Returns to the AI Frontier With Muse Wonder | NVIDIA Eyes $30B Reflection Deal & Jev Raises $870M at a $7.5B Valuation Mentions [Day One](https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-srl)[Day One Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-ventures) Apple PodcastsShow page
- [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) 25 Dec 2025 · 6 min Investor Stories 449: Exceptional Founders Up Close: Listening Over Posturing, Integrity Over Ease, and Deliberate Execution from Day One (Hsieh, Delk, Maples Jr.) Mentions [Day One](https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-srl)[Cypress Growth Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cypress-growth-capital)[Floodgate](https://millionrounds.com/fund/floodgate) *+1* Apple PodcastsShow page
- [Greymatter](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/greymatter) 21 Sept 2021 · 6 min $500M for Seeds | Greylock's New Pool of Capital for Day One Investments Mentions [Day One](https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-srl) Apple PodcastsShow page
- [The Healthtech Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/healthtech-podcast) 8 Mar 2020 · 9 min Episode 75: Getting Things Right From Day One ☝🏼 Mentions [Day One](https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-srl)[Jacob Haddad](https://millionrounds.com/person/jacob-haddad) Apple PodcastsShow page
- [The Official SaaStr Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/saastr) 19 Jun 2019 · 24 min SaaStr 244: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on How to Build a Truly Global Business from Day One Mentions [Day One](https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-srl)[Ryan Petersen](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ryan-petersen) Apple PodcastsShow page
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) 30 Apr 2018 · 29 min 20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann Mentions [Day One](https://millionrounds.com/fund/day-one-srl)[Jerry Neumann](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jerry-neumann) Apple PodcastsShow page

### Mentioned in

- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) 23 May 2026 · 1h 20m 20Sales: The $100M CRO Bubble: Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis | Why You Should Never Hire From Salesforce or Service Now | How to Hire, Train and Forecase in a World of AI with Chad Peets and Chris Degnan Apple PodcastsShow page
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) 21 May 2026 · 1h 22m 20VC: Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic & Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1: What it Means for IPOs | Why Mass Layoffs Are More Worrying Than Anyone Sees Apple PodcastsShow page
- [Equity](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/equity) 3 Dec 2025 · 32 min This VC charges $0 for PR, and has 12 unicorns to show for it Apple Podcasts
- [Sourcery](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/sourcery) 1 Nov 2024 · 34 min Aramco of The Moon: Lunar Ice Mining For Multiplanetary Rockets | Starpath Apple PodcastsShow page

## Quick answers about Day One

### What does Day One invest in?

Day One invests most often at Seed and Series C (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Deep Tech.

### How active is Day One?

8 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Jan 2019.

### What has Day One invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Zestful (Undisclosed round, Jan 2019), Hone (Seed, Jan 2019) and Invisible (Seed, Oct 2018).

### How big are Day One's cheques?

The median round it joins is $4.3M.

### Does Day One lead rounds?

Rarely, if at all: none of its 8 investments on record names it as the lead.

### Where does Day One invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (75%), the Vatican City (13%) and Hungary (13%).

### Is Day One investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Jan 2019.

### What kind of investor is Day One?

Day One is a venture studio based in Rome, Italy.

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