What does Vento invest in?
Vento invests most often at Pre-seed and Seed (74% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Agnostic, Anti-thematic and Generalist.

Italy · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 82 cheques on record.
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35 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Pre-seed and Seed: 74% of its rounds
Sole investor in 17 rounds, median $686K
1 exits from the portfolio
Every round we can evidence, newest first82 appearances
33 rounds
24 rounds
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.
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Vento. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Vento put money into.
2 episodes naming Vento in the title.

Diyala D'Aveni, CEO at Vento: Italian founders building global companies
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Episode 92: Diyala D'Aveni - Head of Vento & Italian Tech Week - What's the Future of the Italian Startup Ecosystem?
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Vento invests most often at Pre-seed and Seed (74% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Agnostic, Anti-thematic and Generalist.
82 investments on record, 35 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Netsec (Series A, Oct 2026), Embodied AI (Seed, Sept 2026) and Tundr (Series A, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $1.8M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $1.0M.
Sometimes: it led 1 of its 82 investments on record (1%).
Most of the companies it backs are in Italy (48%), the United Kingdom (13%) and the United States (13%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 35 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often 360 Capital (5 rounds together), Founders Fund (5 rounds together) and Plug and Play (5 rounds together).
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