Nuvola Zero Launches an Equity Crowdfunding Campaign with a Collection Target of 1.5 Million

There is time until October 23rd to invest with a minimum of about 250 euros in Nuvola Zero, a startup from Carpi (Modena) founded three years ago, which has patented the recipe for a “non-flour flour,” prepared with a mix of proteins and soluble vegetable fibers, which allows you to prepare sweets, snacks, bread and biscuits with a glycemic index equal to zero.

The young company created in 2021 by Cesare De Stefano, Sabrina Venturelli and Sonia Ruggiero has in fact just launched its first equity crowdfunding campaign on the Mamacrowd platform, with which it expects to raise 1.5 million euros.

The goal of Nuvola Zero, which produces and sells in particular “free from” food products made in Italy and patented without carbohydrates, sugars, lactose, yeasts and gluten, is to reach large-scale retail trade in Spain (where it has recently started supplying Mercadona), France and Germany, countries where it already sells through e-commerce and Amazon. Not only that: the new resources will also serve to strengthen production, introduce new product lines and grow the team.

Nuvola Zero currently has a team of ten people and distributes its products in Italy to 470 points of sale through large distributors, such as Conad, Sigma, Coop, Dimar, Iper la grande I, Oasi Tigre, Granmercato, Carrefour, Dodeca, Gigante and Decò. Abroad, again thanks to e-commerce, it also sells in Switzerland.

The Emilian start-up is so far the only European company to have obtained four patents relating to both the product recipe and the industrial and production process. The quality of its products and the need of consumers to meet different dietary needs have made it possible to double the company’s 2022 turnover and reach 1.2 million in net revenues in 2023 , with an EBITDA margin of 13% .

Nuvola Zero estimates it will invoice around 2.5 million this year also thanks to the virality and success of its flagship product Cloudbread, a bread substitute with zero percent carbohydrates, and is already working to satisfy the high demand from Italian large-scale retail trade, as well as introducing new machinery that will be able to cover ready-made products, such as piadinas, pizza bases and pancakes.

“When we founded Nuvola Zero we started from a personal need to eliminate sugars, lactose and carbohydrates and we realized that there was nothing suitable and ready to use on the market. We started to experiment with different recipes, we wanted them to be good, easy and for everyone. Today we are opening the capital, for the first time, to other partners and we are doing it through the equity crowdfunding tool, because we believe that our customers are also the best people to understand the value of research and development that lies behind each of our products and with them we would like to write a new chapter of Nuvola Zero,” commented NUvola Zero CEO De Stefano.

With Nuvola Zero, ten companies have raised equity through Mamacrowd this year

Among them are Shabosh, which patented the portable and compact dishwasher that washes at high pressure in just 40 seconds, with reduced energy consumption and an affordable price; Etilika , a Roman e-commerce specialized in the sale of Italian wines, champagne and spirits; Immobiliallasta.it , a portal authorized by the Ministry of Justice for the publication of real estate auctions, developed by the proptech scaleup Reviva, specialized in livening up real estate auctions.

Baladin , a craft brewery from Cuneo; the specialty coffee roasting company Cafezal; Akuis, a start-up that has developed a smart gym called Sintesi, a multifunctional station that allows you to train at home as well as in the gym, enclosing all the machines present in a fitness center in two square meters of space;

Fratelli Desideri srl, the first food tech company that launched on the Italian market, in 2018, the Haute Cuisine Meal Kits with the iconic recipes of the greatest Italian Starred Chefs and which in 2020 became the first licensee in the world of the MasterChef brand for the Mystery Boxes; Sikuro , the platform for safety on construction sites promoted by Safety Job srl; and, finally, To Be, a startup that designs and develops dedicated LiFi & IoT solutions.

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