BlackSheep is the first european venture capital fund, managed by EUREKA! Venture SGR Spa, with an entrepreneurial background that invests in MadTech, namely high potential technology-based companies focused on AI, Big Data, Automation and its b2b applications for the Marketing & Advertising industry, from seed to Round B and other early stages.
We are witnessing a big discontinuty: the marketing & communication services market is one of the biggest and less automated industry in the world. In the next 10 years it will be completely rewritten both by the explosion of the artificial intelligence, big data, business process automation technologies and the continuous changing in privacy laws.
We have a clear vision about, marketing agencies, consulting firms and tech players are converging in the same competitive arena. Despite the effort the result for marketers is too expensive, too complicated, too slow and privacy unfit.
We believe the marketing provider of the future is a software: automated, intelligent, easy. And led by humans.
We have the mission to invest in ai, big data and automation companies which are developing next generation saas solutions that enable brands to plan, orchestrate, and optimize personalized marketing actions, in a explicit consumer’s consent framework. europe is our playground.
We are witnessing a big discontinuty: the marketing & communication services market is one of the biggest and less automated industry in the world. In the next 10 years it will be completely rewritten both by the explosion of the artificial intelligence, big data, business process automation technologies and the continuous changing in privacy laws.
We have a clear vision about, marketing agencies, consulting firms and tech players are converging in the same competitive arena. Despite the effort the result for marketers is too expensive, too complicated, too slow and privacy unfit.
We believe the marketing provider of the future is a software: automated, intelligent, easy. And led by humans.
We have the mission to invest in ai, big data and automation companies which are developing next generation saas solutions that enable brands to plan, orchestrate, and optimize personalized marketing actions, in a explicit consumer’s consent framework. europe is our playground.
Location: Italy, Lombardy, Milan
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2020
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 28.01.2022 | CDP Ventur... | en.cdpvent... |
Mentions in press and media 7
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| 21.08.2025 | Singapore-Born Kruncher Brings AI Superpowers to Private Market Investors | SINGAPORE, Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- If there is one golden startup needle in a haystack, Kruncher enables investors to find 100 golden needles in a mountain. Kruncher is the most comprehensive AI analyst for private markets. Founded in... |
| 15.03.2023 | Nexoya sheers $5 million from Blacksheep for MadTech tool | Swiss-German start-up Nexoya has raised $5 million Series A funding for its marketing analytics tool. It plans to expand into new markets like Italy and the UK, and grow its team with the injection of funds. Investment comes from Blacksheep... |
| 15.03.2023 | $5 million for marketing AI startup Nexoya | |
| 29.08.2022 | Latvian Max-Precision AdTech Roibox Brings In EUR 2M in Seed | Roibox is a Latvian SaaS that improves ad campaigns by increasing geographic accuracy It raised a EUR 2M Seed round from BlackSheep Ventures With the new investment, the startup will focus on product development: adding more channels and fi... |
| 18.07.2022 | Milan-based AI scale-up iGenius secures €10M to unlock data potential for businesses | Milan-based iGenius, a scale-up on a mission to reimagine data interaction for businesses, announced on Friday (July 15, 2022) that it has raised €10M in a Series A+ round of funding. This round brings the company’s total raised capital to ... |
| 20.06.2022 | Latvian advertising platform Roibox raises €2M | Latvian advertising platform Roibox raises €2M 20 June, 2022, 13:45 Rostyslav Sobachynskyi --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> Roibox, a Riga-based advertising platform, has raised a ... |
| 08.09.2021 | BlackSheep Ventures Holds First Close of MadTech Fund, at €40M | BlackSheep Ventures, a Milan, Italy-based investment firm, has launched a fund specialized in MadTech (Marketing and Advertising Technologies). BlackSheep Fund has held the first closing at nearly €40m and will now go towards the target of ... |