Zanichelli Venture Information

Intelligence is spreading everywhere—human to human, human to artificial, artificial to artificial. Zanichelli Venture funds builders driving this shift: companies at pre-seed to Series A creating tools that amplify human potential across five domains—tech-augmented learning, personal evolution, the infrastructure that makes both more effective, the bridges between learning and meaningful work, and copilots that embed intelligence into the tools people already use. Steve Jobs called computers "bicycles of the mind." We back the builders of those bicycles. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent. We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred-year-old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our history, mission, network, and resources can be a lodestar; and we believe in getting out of the founders' way otherwise, if we don't add value. We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company's digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest across Europe and North America, typically following trusted, local lead investors.