Best Data as a Service Companies in Italy
The 37 best Data as a Service companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: XOCEAN.
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Ranked: Best Data as a Service companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | XOCEAN Provider of uncrewed surface vessel ocean data acquisition services | $50M | 20 mo ago | Series C | James Ives Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — | 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
| 2 | Musixmatch Music lyrics database | $13M | 26 mo ago | Series C | Francesco Delfino Co-Founder | 2010 | SentryRubyRuby on Rails+22 | 17 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 3 | The Data Appeal Company AI-based location, customer feedback, and behavioral intelligence and analytics solution for enterprises | $5M | 95 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — |
| 4 | KPI6 Platform offering data driven decision support solutions | $2M | 50 mo ago | Seed | Luca Castagnetti Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — |
| 5 | SpazioDati Developer of sales intelligence products and semantic text analytics services | $2M | 92 mo ago | Series A | Michele Barbera Co-founder & CEO | 2012 | WixSentryBootstrap+13 | — | — |
| 6 | modeFINANCE Provider of credit ratings, ESG assessments, and risk management solutions | $1M | 63 mo ago | Seed | — | 2009 | BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesNginx+11 | 7 patents Electronic payment processing and financial transaction data handling systems | — |
| 7 | Flowy Provider of real-time data analytics for public transportation optimization solutions | $1M | 6 mo ago | Seed | Marco Musumeci Co-Founder & CEO | 2024 | — | — | — |
| 8 | EsgMax AI based sustainability reporting platform for businesses | $541K | 30 mo ago | Seed | Massimo Ferri Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | Framer SitesReactMicrosoft Clarity+16 | — | — |
| 9 | MESPAC Provider of metocean data and analysis for offshore wind and ocean energy | — | 19 mo ago | Seed | Giulia Cervelli Co-Founder | 2022 | WordPressMySQLPHP+35 | — | 2 launchs |
| 10 | YunoAI AI-powered market intelligence platform | — | 30 mo ago | Seed | Marco Raineri Founder & CEO | 2023 | Webflowparticles.jsSplide+16 | — | 1 launch |
| 11 | Cerved Credit rating agency | — | 52 mo ago | Public | — | 1974 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+21 | — | — |
Top 11 Data as a Service companies in Italy
#1
Series C · Bergamo, Lombardy · founded 2017 · 176 employees$50.4Mraised▾
Provider of uncrewed surface vessel ocean data acquisition services. It uses autonomous vessels to collect ocean data for various applications, including seabed mapping and environmental monitoring. The company offers a turnkey solution, encompassing data acquisition, processing, and interpretation, delivering final reports to clients. Services include multibeam echosounder, side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, and magnetometer data collection. This approach provides a safe, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional methods.
- Jan 2025Series C$118.7M
- Jun 2024Venture Debt$21.5M
- Jun 2024Series B$32.3M
- Sep 2021Series A$9.3M
#2
Seed · Florence, Tuscany · founded 2024$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of real-time data analytics for public transportation optimization solutions. The company offers tools for passenger flow monitoring and origin-destination analysis. It helps transportation companies optimize fleet management and improve customer experience. The company provides solutions for real-time passenger communication and service planning.
- Mar 2026Seed$1.2M
#3
Series C · Bologna, Emilia Romagna · founded 2010 · 115 employees$13.1Mraised▾
MusiXmatch is a song lyrics database. The application lets users search for and view lyrics matched to the music they are listening to, and are available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Mac, Windows 8, and Spotify. The application offers lyrics in various languages. The company provides Official Lyrics API that allows 3rd party companies and apps to use its lyrics catalog. Also, the partners of the company include Sony/ATV, Warner Chappell, Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Publishing, BMG rights, Chrysalis, Kobalt Publishing, Harry Fox Agency, PeerMusic.
- Jul 2024Venture Debt—
- Jul 2022Series C—
- Sep 2014Series B$5M
- Jan 2013Series A$3.7M
#4
Seed · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2023$541.3Kraised▾
AI based sustainability reporting platform for businesses. It is a platform that simplifies and speeds up the collection and organization of data for sustainability reporting. It offers solutions for managing sustainability reports and integrating intelligence into sustainability data. It also offers features like simplified data collection, collaborative platforms, automated reminders, and AI assistance with report drafting.
- Mar 2024Seed$541.3K
#5
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2015 · 47 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Platform offering data driven decision support solutions. It allows users to monitor and analyze the target people based on data such as demographics, habits, language, and interests, supporting the decision making process. It leverages ML and AI that extract data and provide social media intelligence and monitoring solutions. It also includes data visualization reports by evaluating consumer evaluations and social media posts and predicting future outcomes based on social media interactions.
- Jul 2022Seed$2M
- Mar 2016Seed$164.7K
#6
Acquired · Florence, Tuscany · founded 2013 · 30 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Data Appeal offers AI-based location, customer feedback, and behavioral intelligence and analytics solution for enterprises. It allows retail, banking, telecom, travel, real estate, and utility sectors to analyze enterprise data such as geographical data, online feedback, customer purchasing behaviors, and marketing trends. JLL, Shell, Swisscom, and UniCredit are some of its clients.
- Oct 2018Series A$3.5M
- Mar 2017Seed$720K
- Mar 2015Seed$108.5K
- Dec 2013Seed$342.6K
#7
Seed · Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia · founded 2009 · 64 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of credit ratings, ESG assessments, and risk management solutions. It offers credit ratings for businesses and banks, along with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessments. The company develops and provides risk management tools, including platforms for automating risk analysis, evaluating creditworthiness, and simulating financial scenarios. It caters to fintech companies, banks, financial institutions, investment firms, and businesses, offering integration via APIs and plug-and-play solutions.
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$343.8K
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$73.1K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$57.3K
- May 2016Grant (prize money)$55.6K
#8
Series A · Trento, Trentino South Tyrol · founded 2012 · 66 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Developer of sales intelligence products and semantic text analytics services. The company builds tools to help businesses analyze public contracts. It applies semantic text analysis and machine learning models to extract insights from corporate data. The company provides services of lead generation and portfolio analysis.
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$346.7K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$200.3K
- Mar 2015Grant (prize money)$393.5K
- May 2014Grant (prize money)$237.7K
#9
Seed · Torino, Piedmont · founded 2022 · 1 employees—raised▾
Provider of metocean data and analysis for offshore wind and ocean energy. It offers spatially-refined wind, wave, and environmental information using satellite data and proprietary AI algorithms. The company integrates satellite data with in-situ instruments, providing insights for project development, financing, and operation. It delivers data suitable for site prospecting, auction bid preparation, site evaluation, and plant performance monitoring. The AI algorithms elaborate continuous datasets accessible via interactive dashboards.
- Feb 2025Seed—
#10
Seed · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2023—raised▾
AI-powered market intelligence platform. The platform leverages GenAI and algorithms to provide business research and intelligence services. It sources and analyzes structured and unstructured data to inform data-driven investment decisions. It offers a solution for market research, deal sourcing, and market intelligence.
- Mar 2024Seed—
#11
Public · Milano, Umbria · founded 1974 · 2800 employees—raised▾
Cerved is a major credit rating agency in Italy. Its business is categorized into three segments- credit information, marketing solution, and credit management. Credit information segment offers creditworthiness information of companies and individuals to companies and financial institutions. Its Marketing Solutions segment offers business information and analysis about the new market to develop business activities. Credit Management segment involves activities such as credit assessment of non-performing assets and remarketing of movable and immovable properties.
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