Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Italy in July 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Italy in July 2025
Investor | Automotive Italy investments |
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Francesco Starace | 2 |
Marco Valta | 2 |
Alessandro Errico | 1 |
Fabio Cannavale | 1 |
Cristiano Esclapon | 1 |
Marco De Nicola | 1 |
Bhavik Bajaj | 1 |
Teodoro D'Ambrosio | 1 |
Michel Taride | 1 |
Stefano Mezzadri | 1 |
Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
- Seed, Angel
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
- SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
- Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
Alessandro Errico
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
- Angel
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci
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Investment focus
- Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
- Angel, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
- Siamosoci — Siamosoci is the directory for italian start ups. Siamosoci srl Italy provides transparency to the market of italian start ups. the new companies can list in the directory including videos and multimedia support. they can include capital request for their own financing needs.Siamosoci srl Italy facilitate the matching between local investors andthe start ups.
Marco De Nicola
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
- Angel
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Teodoro D'Ambrosio is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Biocentis. He previously worked at Hotelscan as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Teodoro D'Ambrosio attended the University of Trieste.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany, Switzerland
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- HAPPYCAR — As a metasearch engine HAPPYCAR offers customers an extended transparency of offers showing insurance packages, kilometer fees and one-way fees, among many others. By providing an easy, user-friendly booking process and a free customer service hotline in case any questions arise, they ensure that their customers can enjoy a hassle free rental cartrip. To conclude, customers benefit from HAPPYCAR by saving time and money.HAPPYCAR (www.happycar.de) is one of the fastest growing online car rental companies in Europe. HAPPYCAR is operating within the tourism sector as a meta-search engine for rental cars. Their goal is to provide the best prices for rental cars worldwide, while comparing all offers of their partners. To achieve this, HAPPYCAR has access to more than 1.000 car rental companies for eight countries through Europe and worldwide destinations – further expansion is going on.
- SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
- CarPrice.ru — CarPrice is the largest online auctioneer for second-hand cars in Russia, providing buyers with free online valuations in mere seconds. More than 4,000 dealers from across the country can then determine the best price during an average 30-minute online bidding process to complete auctions.Within a year from being set up, CarPrice became a topthree Russian used car seller operating from more than 20 locations including Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions. CarPrice achieved this position while an adverse economic environment translated into a 40% drop in new car sales in Russia. The Company intends to increase total monthly auctions from 4,000 currently to 10,000 until the end of 2015.The company's Round B was adjudged as "Deal of the Year" by Venture Awards Russia 2015 (investors included Baring Vostok Capital Partners & Almaz Capital).
Michel Taride
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Investment focus
- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed
- Italy, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- hlpy — hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks.
- tripAbrood — tripAbrood is an AI-driven travel platform for families to discover and book holidays.
- Local Heroes — Local Heroes is the e-commerce platform with which easily and always order the range of local entrepreneurs via the app.
Stefano Mezzadri
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Investment focus
- Events, Battery, CleanTech
- Pre-Seed
- Italy, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Tame — ABOUT With Tame you can fully customise your virtual events, and make them fun, engaging & exciting to attend.- Apply your branding: Customise your virtual event completely - Personalised Welcome: Personal welcome message when attendees enter - Multiple stages: Broadcast content across multiple stages. - Live streaming: Stream live via anybroadcasting software - Pre-recorded videos: Broadcast pre-recorded videos as if it was live - Breakout sessions: Enable public or private breakout sessions. - Virtual Sponsor booths: Allow attendees to engage with sponsors live. - Customise Chat: Allow for 1:1 chat, group chat or session chat. - 1:1 Video Meetings: Empower social networking virtually.OUR COMPANY We are an experience-centric company, and we believe in the power of great experiences. Our international group of dreamers, creators and rule-breakers passionate about merging design and technology together, enables us to transform that into one truly amazing event platform.OUR PEOPLE The team behind Tame has an aggregated decades long experience of creating events and building products that solve real problems for real people. So, what got us here? Our ambition to change a broken event industry through innovation, customer obsession and a relentless focus on the great experience.
- Reefilla — Reefilla EV charging services: recharge your car anywhere, anytime
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