Francesco Grassi serves as Partner leading the Accelerator Fund at CDP Venture Capital, where he focuses on building and scaling Italy's national network of startup accelerators rather than traditional venture rounds. He combines investment banking and venture investing experience with hands-on mentoring through The Mentoring Club, maintaining board roles across portfolio companies while working from Rome to support regional Italian startup ecosystems through public-backed capital.
About their Fund
CDP Venture Capital
Sectors
Generalist, Biotech, Deeptech / Hardware, Climate, AI
Rounds
Pre-Seed - Seed
Avg Check Size
Notable Investments
CDP Venture Capital operates as Italy's state-backed National Innovation Fund with a multi-pronged platform covering the full startup lifecycle from tech transfer to growth stage, explicitly designed as national VC infrastructure rather than a single-stage fund. The fund combines its public mandate with private-market discipline while proactively building Italy's institutional LP base through pension funds and using content like its Let's Venture! podcast to spread venture capital literacy across Italy's broader business ecosystem.
Other partners at the fund
Notable Fund
Investments
No items found.
Is this information out of date? Let us know
Popular Investors
investor name
Active in
Rounds
Avg. Check
Links
Deeptech / Hardware
.svg)
Robotics
Biotech
+
12
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$400K - $2M
Unknown
Defense
Deeptech / Hardware
Energy
+
7
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Series A
Unknown
$100K - $5M
Unknown
Defense
Deeptech / Hardware
Energy
+
7
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Series A
Unknown
$100K - $5M
Unknown
Biotech
Health
Deeptech / Hardware
+
2
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$250K - $2M
Unknown
Climate
Deeptech / Hardware
Materials
+
4
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$400K - $1.5M
Unknown
Deeptech / Hardware
Robotics
Biotech
+
7
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
$400K - $2M
Unknown
.jpeg){kind=logo}
Deeptech / Hardware
Robotics
Biotech
+
2
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Seed
Unknown
~$750K
Unknown
Fintech
Deeptech / Hardware
Devtools
+
2
View more in profile...
Unknown
Pre-Seed - Series A
Unknown
$250K-$1M
Unknown
Or automatically find your investor matches
Upload your pitch deck to get your best investor matches in minutes.
Reveal the very best VCs to pitch for your startup
Get matching investors' email addresses
No ads. No catch. Free from VC Sheet.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Success. Check your email in 5 minutes.
.jpeg){kind=logo}
.png)
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
.jpeg)
