Novum Partners
At Novum Partners, we invest across all growth stages, from disruptive startups to established companies scaling operations. Partnering with venture capital and private equity funds, we identify high-growth opportunities, support business transformations, and co-invest in buy-outs and secondaries. Our diversified approach ensures a dynamic portfolio and long-term value creation.
Corporate housing platform offering fully furnished, vetted serviced apartments and properties worldwide for business travel and global mobility. The platform spans millions of properties across tens of thousands of locations, with policy compliance, instant API booking, and 24/7 support.
AI safety company and creator of the Claude family of large language models. Founded by former OpenAI researchers, it focuses on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Leading independent Italian professional haircare group that develops a premium portfolio of brands including Medavita, milk_shake, and z.one concept. It was acquired by private equity firm PAI Partners in 2024, with previous owner Bluegem retaining a significant stake.
French multinational animal-health company based in Libourne that researches, develops, produces, and markets veterinary pharmaceuticals and vaccines for companion animals, poultry, ruminants, and swine. It is the world’s fifth-largest animal health company, with 7,000+ employees across 47 countries and active business in over 110.
Data and AI platform built around the “lakehouse” architecture, unifying data warehousing, analytics, and machine learning. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, it is widely used by enterprises to build and deploy data and AI applications.
Milan-based deep-tech company developing the CO2 Battery for utility-scale, long-duration energy storage. Its technology dispatches energy for 8–24 hours by compressing and liquefying carbon dioxide, and the company has signed a global commercial partnership with and strategic investment from Google.
AI hardware company building LPU (Language Processing Unit) chips designed for fast, low-latency AI inference. It also runs a cloud service that lets developers serve large language models at high speed.
Italy’s leading independent pharmacy platform, consolidating and operating a network of community pharmacies across northern and central Italy with an industrial, long-term approach. It aims to become Italy’s leading proximity-healthcare provider and is backed by Antin Infrastructure Partners.
US-based cryptocurrency exchange that lets investors trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 500+ other cryptocurrencies, plus advanced products like margin trading, futures, and OTC. Founded in 2011 and legally named Payward, Inc., it was the first crypto company to obtain a US bank charter and has expanded into stocks, ETFs, and tokenized equities.
US construction firm providing energy-related construction, industrial, mechanical, electrical, and inspection services. Headquartered in Colorado, it serves clients across energy, power, mining, manufacturing, data centers, and infrastructure with safety-focused, turnkey project delivery.
French AI lab developing open-weight and commercial large language models. Founded in 2023 by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, it positions itself as a leading European frontier-AI player.
European-headquartered, vertically integrated AI cloud provider that builds and operates its own data centres and GPU clusters with orchestration and AI services. Founded in 2024, it has signed major GPU-deployment deals with Microsoft, partners on “AI factory” projects like Stargate UK and Norway, and raised the largest Series B in(…)
Munich-based startup commercializing fusion energy using quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarator technology, spun out of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. It plans a demonstration stellarator (“Alpha”) to begin operations around 2031 and has raised record private fusion funding in Europe.
US AI lab founded in 2024 by former DeepMind researchers, originally focused on autonomous coding agents. It now positions itself as an open-source alternative to closed frontier labs and a Western counterpart to Chinese AI firms and raised $2B to train frontier-scale Mixture-of-Experts models.
Belgian company that develops avionics visualization and computing solutions, including rugged, certifiable cockpit displays and display computers. Its DAL-A certified products are deployed on more than 150 civil and military aircraft types across fixed-wing and rotor-wing platforms.
US defense-technology company building AI pilot software (Hivemind) and autonomous aircraft and drones for military operations. Its technology lets aircraft and swarms operate without GPS, communications, or a human pilot.
Designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft, including the reusable Falcon rockets and the Starship vehicle. It also operates Starlink, a satellite constellation delivering broadband internet globally.
Financial infrastructure platform providing payments processing and related software for online businesses. Its APIs power billing, marketplaces, and fraud prevention for companies from startups to large enterprises.
US direct-to-consumer brand offering intimate apparel and shapewear, including bras, underwear, activewear, and everyday essentials. Founded in 2020 by a team with decades of intimate-apparel design experience, it is known for comfort-focused, wire-free products and a 180-day at-home trial.
Milan-based company providing low-cost air-quality monitoring and management, plus sustainable corporate-mobility solutions. Its solar-powered sensors feed a platform that turns data into web dashboards for municipalities and free apps offering air-quality forecasts to citizens.