Top 15 Automotive Angel Investors in Italy (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Alberto Genovese
Angel
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4 | Italy | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, Automotive, E-Commerce | $2.3M–$116M |
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Francesco Starace
Angel
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2 | Italy, Germany | Seed, Angel | Aerospace, GreenTech, Automotive | $250k–$5.8M |
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Marco Valta
Angel
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Secondary Market | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $250k–$24M |
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Luca Pretto
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed | B2B, Automotive | |
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Paolo Frigati
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed | B2B, Automotive | $584k–$35M |
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Stefano Bernardi
Angel
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Biotechnology | $100k–$18M |
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Fabio Cannavale
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States, Hong Kong | Series A, Seed, Angel | SaaS, Software, Recruiting | $700k–$11M |
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Stefano Mezzadri
Angel
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1 | Italy, Denmark | Pre-Seed | Events, Battery, CleanTech | |
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
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1 | United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $15k–$5M |
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Alessandro Errico
Angel
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1 | Italy | Angel | Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing | |
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Cristiano Esclapon
Angel
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1 | Italy | Angel, Series A | Finance, Automotive, Smart Home | |
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Michel Taride
Angel
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom, The Netherlands | Seed | Travel, Leisure, Tourism | $896k–$2.4M |
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Marco De Nicola
Angel
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1 | Italy | Angel | Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing | |
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Teodoro D'Ambrosio
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Angel, Series A | E-Commerce, Automotive, Software | $250k–$3.3M |
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Emilio Frazzoli
Angel
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1 | Italy, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Analytics | |
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Alberto Genovese (Alberto Maria Genovese) is an Italian entrepreneur and angel investor, founder of Facile.it and Prima Assicurazioni, and co-founder of Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese ETS.Alberto Maria Genovese, born on May 28, 1977, in Naples, has graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and began hisprofessional journey at top firms like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, and Bain & Company. Between 2005 and 2009, he led the Motors and New Businesses division at eBay.In 2008, he launched a price comparison platform initially called Assicurazioni.it, which later became Facile.it, focusing on insurance and financial products. The company was sold to Oakley Capital in 2014. That same year, he co-founded Prima Assicurazioni, a digital insurance company that raised €100 million in 2018 from investors including Goldman Sachs and Blackstone. Genovese also started Brumbrum, an online used car retailer, and invested in various startups like Abiby, Zappyrent, and Jobtech.In December 2025, AXA acquired the majority of Prima Assicurazioni, valuing the company at approximately €1.6 billion; with that transaction Genovese completed his full exit, worth approximately €89.7 million.Today Genovese is co-founder of Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese ETS, a Milan-based non-profit that offers free, permanent psychological support to families of people affected by drug addiction, runs an outpatient clinic in Milan and the residential care center Casa di Stefano. He is also a supporter of Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti, an association providing free digital tools to protect prisoners' rights in Italy.In July 2026, Genovese joined the board of Nessuno tocchi Caino, the Italian non-profit campaigning against the death penalty and for detainees' rights, as head of fundraising.
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- Industry: Internet, Automotive, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tramundi —
- Facile.it — Facile has built a leading market position in the fast-growing Italian online price comparison market particularly in car insurance. They recently launched several new price comparison product verticals to broaden its revenue base including gas and electricity, broadband, bank accounts and mobile phones. Today, Facile helps 2.2 million Italians amonth compare prices on key elements of their household expenditure.
- Prima Assicurazioni —
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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- Industry: Aerospace, GreenTech, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
- AIRMO — AIRMO is supporting the direct emitters, decision makers and financial institutions to efficiently transition to Net-0 by monitoring their direct emissions from space. With our roots in innovation and a commitment to environmental responsibility, we aim to revolutionize GHG monitoring through advanced satellite technology, proprietary LiDARinstrument and data analytics. We exist to monitor and manage humanity's impact on Earth.
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 15 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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Series A $2.5M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coinbase — Coinbase is an online platform for digital currency transactions, enabling merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies. The company provides Bitcoin wallet services, allowing users to manage digital assets and conduct transactions. Coinbase offers merchant payment processing tools, supporting businesses in integratingcryptocurrency payments. It facilitates secure digital currency exchanges, assisting users in navigating blockchain-based financial transactions.
- 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.
Luca Pretto is the Chief Executive Officer at Conceria Pasubio SPA.
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- Industry: B2B, Automotive
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trifoglio — Trifoglio is a car wash platform that specializes in operating several car wash centers.
Paolo Frigati is the Founder & CEO presso Soil - Sustainable Organic Ingredients Lab.
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- Industry: B2B, Automotive
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $584k–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BugsLife — BugsLife is an agroindustrial entrepreneur who bio-converts organic residues into proteins for animal feed. Their products include insect flour, dried soldier fly larvae, compost, insect protein meal, insect oil, and more. The company's contact modes are by mail, phone, and physical address.
- Trifoglio — Trifoglio is a car wash platform that specializes in operating several car wash centers.
Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $100k–$18M; Pre-Seed $874k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Freatic — Building the monetization layer for your alpha
- Niulinx — Niulinx specializes in providing autonomous driving technology solutions based on artificial intelligence, connectivity, and data analytics.
- Automated Architecture — A global ecosystem of automated micro-factories, to deliver sustainable, affordable and beautiful architecture to millions of people.
Stefano Mezzadri
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- Industry: Events, Battery, CleanTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
Bhavik Bajaj
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $46k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
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
Alessandro Errico
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- Industry: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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- Industry: Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Michel Taride
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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $896k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Marco De Nicola
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- Industry: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Automotive, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- VOX — #1 Music player for Mac OS and iOS with Unlimited Music Cloud Storage. Supports all popular audio formats like MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV & more!
- 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.
Emilio Frazzoli is the Chief Scientist at Motional Inc and currently the Professor of ETH Zurich. He was the director of transportation at He is also a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Prior to Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT, Frazzoli held faculty positions at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained a Laurea degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Rome, and a PhD from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niulinx — Niulinx specializes in providing autonomous driving technology solutions based on artificial intelligence, connectivity, and data analytics.
- Embotech — Embotech develops autonomous driving software for industrial and logistics applications. Its platform combines AI, computer vision, and motion planning to enable self-driving vehicles for ports, logistics yards, and automotive operations. The company also provides automated vehicle marshalling, fleet management, and safety-certified autonomysolutions for commercial deployments.
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