Pi Campus was established with the profits generated by Marco Trombetti, Isabelle Andrieu, and Gianluca Granero from their previous businesses.
Initially, it was the investment arm of Translated, a translation service that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence to help professional translators. After a few years, things started growing very fast and the VC firm was created.
We invest in Europe and the US, without any constraints regarding how much and when to invest. Nor do we plan to exit in advance. We invest mostly in AI, but if your startup is growing incredibly fast, it would be our pleasure to meet you anyway.
To date, we have 49 investments mostly in the AI field, 5 of which already successfully exited.
Initially, it was the investment arm of Translated, a translation service that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence to help professional translators. After a few years, things started growing very fast and the VC firm was created.
We invest in Europe and the US, without any constraints regarding how much and when to invest. Nor do we plan to exit in advance. We invest mostly in AI, but if your startup is growing incredibly fast, it would be our pleasure to meet you anyway.
To date, we have 49 investments mostly in the AI field, 5 of which already successfully exited.
Location: Italy, Lazio, Rome
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2007
Portfolio 56
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 08.10.2025 | Cyberwave | cyberwave.com | $8.19M | Italy |
| 21.05.2023 | Yuma | yuma.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 19.10.2022 | Wiraki | wiraki.com | - | - |
| 18.10.2022 | The Yellow | yellowsquare.it | - | Italy, Laz... |
| 27.06.2022 | Macai | macaiapp.com | $3M | Italy, Lom... |
| 16.05.2022 | Strong Com... | strongcompute.com | $7.8M | Australia,... |
| 16.05.2022 | Hubble Net... | hubblenetwork.com | $90M | United Sta... |
| 16.05.2022 | Toko | tokotutor.com | - | United Sta... |
| 13.01.2022 | Rebrandly | rebrandly.com | - | Ireland, D... |
| 27.09.2021 | Metaphor | metaphor.so | - | United Sta... |
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Persons 2
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Marco | Trombetti | Co-Founder... | linkedin.c... | - | m***o@pica... | - |
| - | Isabelle | Andrieu | Co-Founder | linkedin.c... | - | i******e@p... | - |
News 36
| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.05.2021 | Allelica Raises $ 1,75M to Bring Polygenic Risk Score From Research to Clinical Application | We are proud to announce that Pi Campus closed a follow-on in Allelica, a startup founded by three researchers from Oxford and Rome ‘La Sapienza’ universities. Allelica is building the foundations of preventive medicine by incorporating gen... |
| 06.04.2021 | Get on Board! Translated is Building a Team for a Crazy Venture | Translated, Pi Campus’ founding company, is boarding on a venture to prove that if you focus on great human skills you can achieve anything. In business as much as in adventure. Its team is building a crew of visionaries who have no fear to... |
| 11.03.2021 | Building a Modern Rosetta Stone: How Askdata Is Changing Our Interaction With Data | One of the growing startups behind the 2021st edition of Pi Day Coding Competition is Askdata, a next-gen analytics platform that helps teams get a friction-less data experience that is x10 more personal, collaborative, and fast. “Teams aro... |
| 04.03.2021 | Coding to de-risk and speed up R&D for new medicine: the mission of InSilicoTrials | One of the companies sponsoring the 2021st edition of Pi Day Coding Competition is InSilicoTrials, an Italian startup that allows pharma and medical devices companies to significantly decrease R&D costs (from 40% to 60%) and reduce regu... |
| 03.03.2021 | From Production Software to Mobile App: Interview With Filo Co-Founder Stefania De Roberto | One of the sponsors of Pi Day Coding Competition is Filo, a company born with the aim of creating products that simplify some aspects of our daily life. “The coolest thing about working at Filo – says co-founder Stefania De Roberto – is tha... |
| 16.02.2021 | Shaping the Future of Genetics at Allelica: Interview with CTO Paolo Di Domenico | One of the jurors of our Pi Day HackNight is Paolo Di Domenico, co-founder and CTO of Allelica, a fast-growing startup that allows complex diseases risk predictions through the computation of a polygenic risk score based on thousands or mil... |
| 24.09.2020 | Welcome to Vena Vitals, a startup that has reinvented how blood pressure is monitored | Pi Campus has just closed an investment in Vena Vitals, a YC recently graduated startup that has developed the first real-time non-invasive tool to continuously monitor blood pressure. The technology developed by the startup allows for meas... |
| 04.08.2020 | Translated signs contract to provide EU Parliament with real-time speech translation AI | Translated, the founding company of Pi Campus, has been selected by the European Parliament to automatically transcribe and translate parliamentary multilingual debates in real-time, covering the 24 official languages used by the institutio... |
| 27.07.2020 | Welcome to InSilicoTrials, the first online lab for simulation models | Pi Campus has closed an investment in InSilicoTrials, an Italian startup that allows pharma and medical devices companies to significantly decrease R&D costs (from 40% to 60%) and reduce regulatory approval times (from months to hours) ... |
| 09.06.2020 | Welcome to Hyris, integrated AI platform for DNA testing | We are happy to welcome Hyris among Pi Campus’ startups! Hyris, a biotech company founded by a group of Italian guys, attracted our attention because it represents the “mobile” version of genomics: portable and accessible. The startup devel... |
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Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.10.2025 | Cyberwave Secures €7M to Unleash AI in the Physical World | Cyberwave secures €7M, led by United Ventures, to revolutionize AI-driven automation. Its innovative platform connects AI agents directly with real-world machines using digital twins. This pivotal funding allows developers to program physic... |
| 08.10.2025 | Milan-based Cyberwave secures €7 million to simplify AI-driven automation | Cyberwave, a Milan-based startup developing an operating layer that connects AI agents with real-world machines, has raised €7 million in a funding round led by United Ventures, with participation from The TechShop, Vento (Exor), Pi Campus,... |
| 08.10.2025 | Cyberwave raises €7M to make the physical world programmable | Milan’s Cyberwave, which builds an operating layer between AI agents and real-world machines, has raised €7 million in a round led by United Ventures with participation from The TechShop, alongside seed funds Vento (Exor), Pi Campus, and se... |
| 06.07.2021 | University of Oregon Receives Second $500 Million Gift for the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact | |
| 26.09.2019 | Why and How to Build a Startup – Chapter 11: Money! | Editor’s Note: The following is the 10th chapter of the book “The New Prince“, a collection of essays on the counterintuitive lessons Marco Trombetti, founder of Translated and VC firm Pi Campus, learned by building and investing in startup... |
| 07.08.2019 | Why and How to Build a Startup – Chapter 4: Pitch! | Editor’s Note: The following is the 4th chapter of the book “The New Prince“, a collection of essays on the counterintuitive lessons Marco Trombetti, founder of Translated and VC firm Pi Campus, learned by building and investing in startups... |
| 02.08.2018 | A different path to growth: VC Pi Campus invests in AI startups co-founded by researchers and designers | “This is not the Silicon Valley of Italy. We are different” says serial entrepreneur and investor Marco Trombetti, sitting at a table in the Adriano Olivetti Cafeteria, where people gather to have lunch together at Pi Campus, a seed venture... |
| 27.09.2017 | Pi Campus opens in Rome the first artificial intelligence school | Marco Trombetti’s venture capital fund opened in Rome the Pi Campus, the first artificial intelligence school that brings together creativity and human creativity. The facility offers free courses thanks to some agreements with companies th... |
| 02.08.2016 | Defenx Buys Cloud Storage Platform Memopal for €2.3M | Gianluca Granero & Marco Trombetti Defenx, a security software company listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: DFX), acquired Memopal, a Rome, Italy-based cloud storage platform. The transaction amounted to €2.3m in cash and stock. Fo... |
| 12.10.2015 | PiCampus Joins Invitalia Ventures’ Network | PiCampus, the Rome, Italy-based micro vc fund, is now part of the investor network of Invitalia Ventures. The firm will co-invest in tech startups with Italia Venture I, Invitalia Ventures’ fund, which was recently launched to back Internet... |
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