The Techshop

The Techshop is a Milan-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in B2B digital startups across Italy. The firm partners with founders at the seed stage, providing both active support and strategic know-how. They are one of the few Italian funds primarily focused on seed stage investments, possessing the experience, network, and mindset to support startups in all phases of the product roadmap, from design to go-to-market to internationalization. The Techshop also manages to involve other investors, both from Italy and abroad, in subsequent fundraising rounds.

The firm's investment strategy is centered on supporting founders on both strategic and operational matters, encouraging the adoption of OKR-driven management models to set and monitor company goals, and actively contributing to the portfolio. They work with startups throughout their growth path, helping them accelerate their go-to-market and bring talent and expertise on board. The Techshop provides capital to software solutions for the enterprise and SME segments, and they are agnostic in terms of industry and vertical. They invest in defendable technology products as well as digital disruptors, focusing on founders that bet on Italy as the starting point of a global path.

The Techshop's principles include passion, continuous training, discipline, team spirit, respect for people, meritocracy, diversity, and inclusion. They aim to generate financial returns aligned with the best European Venture Capital funds and have made several investments in startups co-founded by women, continuing on this path with the aim of integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into their processes.