TrentoRISE

TrentoRISE is a Trento, Italy based venture capital firm focused on information and communication technology investments in early stage and startup companies. They were founded in 2010 when the information and communication area of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento.

TrentoRISE works to build the local economy of Trento, and they are a core partner of the European Institute of Innovation of Technology (EIT). As a partner, they collaborate with other EIT ICT lab nodes in Berlin, Paris, Helsinki, Eindhoven and Stockholm.

TrentoRISE has two core partners, Telecom Italia and Engineering, and seven affiliate partners, the Fiat Research Center, STMicrolectronics, the University of Bologna, the National Council for Research, the Polytechnic of Milan, the Polytechnic of Turin and the School for Advanced Studies Santa Anna of Pisa.

TrentoRISE invested in SpazioDati in November 2012 during their Seed Round.