Ventures
We invest in our own future, build it with our ventures, and back the people writing it. KVA designs ventures, deploys the technology, and commits capital to those that clear the bar — research-validated, commercially tested.
What we are
KVA builds deep tech AI ventures from a research base. Every product we ship has been validated twice: first scientifically, against academic benchmarks and published evidence; then commercially, with paying clients and measurable outcomes.
We don't build to raise. We build to solve specific, hard problems in how organisations use AI.
Academic partnerships, published benchmarks
RAG systems, knowledge structures, agent infrastructure
Researchers, engineers, domain experts
Revenue and client traction before scale
The KVA method
Every venture is born with AI integrated in its DNA. We don't add artificial intelligence as an afterthought.
The best decisions are made on data, not opinions. Every phase is guided by metrics.
Time is the scarcest resource for a startup. We maximize speed without compromising quality.
We operate with a deeply European mindset: regulatory compliance and sustainability.
Co-creation
We build ventures from scratch, together. Ideal for founders with strong ideas, corporate spin-offs, technical teams.
Department as a Service
We accelerate startups and corporates that want to scale fast. Marketing, tech, operations, AI integration.
Investment
We invest in high-potential early-stage companies in sectors we know best.
AI ventures portfolio
Our own AI ventures — built in-house, often alongside industrial partners, and taken to market as products.
Psychometric team management, training & HR pipelines
An API suite for psychometric team management, corporate training and HR pipelines — mapping how people think, collaborate and grow.
Co-developed with
Excellence Education
Synthetic testing for enterprise products
Synthetic test panels that validate enterprise products before they reach the market — simulating real users and edge cases at scale.
Co-developed with
Excellence Consulting
Organisational knowledge, made computable
Ontologies for organisational knowledge — powering hybrid retrieval and local model training over a company’s own operations.
VC participations
Alongside our own products, we back founders as investors. Today our portfolio includes Pelomatto and Homingo.
Mobile pet grooming · Seed stage
On-demand professional home pet grooming, digitising the Italian market with a scalable model and a strong B2B partnership with Arcaplanet.
Visit pelomatto.it →Proptech & hospitality tech · Early stage
Next-generation proptech for real estate and hospitality, powered by AI-native tools for digital asset management and growth.
Visit homingo.com →Our philosophy
We don't wait for innovation to arrive: we create it. We don't just observe trends: we anticipate them, shape them, transform them into products and services.
Venture building is the purest form of innovation: not just ideas, but execution. Not just vision, but impact.
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