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Top 25 Small cap private equity firms based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 72 small cap private equity firms headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 487 professional contacts across them, including 151 with verified work emails. Milan is the largest hub.
This list covers small cap private equity firms headquartered in Italy, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest small cap private equity firms based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “21 Invest was founded in Italy in 1992 by Alessandro Benetton to invest in mid-market companies and make them grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edizione is a holding company with over 40 years of activity, characterized by a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and an Italian heart that beats worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Aksìa Group is an Italian private equity player, specialized in SMEs, that actively manages and develops the companies it acquires, providing them with finance, strategy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “QuattroR SGR S.p.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HAT SGR is the leading Italian private equity firm, based in Milan and London, specializing in the technology and innovation sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mutares Italy è stata fondata nel 2017 e fa capo alla società di investimento Mutares SE & Co KGaA quotata alla borsa di Francoforte.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alkemia Capital is an independent asset management firm dedicated to identifying and nurturing value through strategic investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Siamo una società di private equity indipendente controllata dal management che affianca investitori istituzionali nell’investimento del capitale di piccole e medie aziende…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ibla Capital is an independent investment company, targeting Private Equity investments in small and medium-sized businesses headquartered in Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First Capital S.p.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seven Development S.p.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “VERTEQ Capital is a Milan-based private equity holding company investing its own capital alongside professional and institutional co-investors, focusing on expansion and buy-out…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Assietta Private Equity SGR is an independent management company whose mission is to raise and manage closed-end Private Equity funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Space Holding is an investment firm founded in 2013 by a team of promoters with extensive experience, complementary sets of professional expertise, and proven track records in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sistema investimenti è una holding di partecipazioni (sotto forma di S.p.A.) che investe, in aumento di capitale, con un obiettivo temporale di medio-lungo termine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PERDIECI (x10) is the ability to multiply the value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Summary We are an Investment and Management Company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lakeview Partners is an investment firm dedicated to acquiring, actively managing, and growing high-potential small to medium enterprises (SMEs).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are passionate investors of long term capital, invest in listed, high-quality companies all over the world, team up with great business builders who take the long view.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Innovest, fondata nel 1993, è una holding di partecipazioni specializzata in operazioni di private equity e distressed equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JF Capital è il veicolo di investimento che supporta PMI, startup ed imprenditori visionari offrendo capitali e risorse operative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Siamo una holding che investe nelle società, di piccola e media capitalizzazione, per sviluppare il loro business nei settori industriali, software, media, private market e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovative-RFK (i-RFK) is an Investment Holding founded in 2017 and listed on the Euronext Access Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Siamo un gruppo di imprenditori e investitori privati e cerchiamo una singola azienda di piccole-medie dimensioni da acquisire e gestire attivamente con un’ottica di lungo termine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Think Fwd Group is an holding company founded in 2013, although it can be said that it has been operating for almost 20 years in the field of investments in start-ups and small…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: small cap private equity firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names small cap private equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of small cap private equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name small cap private equity firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Small cap private equity firms based in Italy at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 72 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among small cap private equity firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Italy whose own description of what they do matches “small cap private equity firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names small cap private equity firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among small cap private equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 151 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names small cap private equity firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many small cap private equity firms are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 72 small cap private equity firms headquartered in Italy as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
21 Invest, headquartered in Treviso, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most small cap private equity firms?
Milan leads with 38 headquartered companies, followed by Rome (5) and Treviso (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 151 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 72 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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