12Venture Società Benefit
Italian startup studio building and supporting EdTech and HRTech companies in lifelong learning and corporate education, launching five startups a year and backing founders from formation to exit.
12Venture Società Benefit is an Italian startup studio operating in EdTech and HRTech, with a focus on lifelong learning and corporate education. The firm creates and launches startups itself rather than investing solely in existing ones, committing both human and financial capital to each venture. Its stated cadence is five new startups a year.
Support runs the length of a company's life, from incorporation to exit, and is described across three dimensions: strategic, operational and emotional. In practice this includes mentorship, specialist knowledge, and access to a network of experts and partners. A central workstream is business model and product development - working alongside founders to shape products and commercial models with a view to product-market fit, and to convert ideas into workable EdTech solutions.
The studio is backed by Enzima12, a team of founders, investors and professionals whose experience in the sector is given as more than 20 years. 12Venture's stated purpose is to make innovative solutions in education a reality. Sector coverage extends across education, corporate education, lifelong learning, and work and employment.