Top 15 Beauty Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Beauty Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026
| Investor | Beauty Italy investments |
|---|---|
| Club degli Investitori | 3 |
| CDP Venture Capital | 1 |
| Marco Coin | 1 |
| Antin Infrastructure Partners | 1 |
| Angel Capital Management | 1 |
| Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 1 |
| Vertis | 1 |
| CDP Equity | 1 |
| Matteo de Brabant | 1 |
| Luiss Alumni 4 Growth | 1 |
| Caravatti | 1 |
| Lazzaroni | 1 |
| Visconti | 1 |
| RCS MediaGroup | 1 |
| Angelo Moratti | 1 |
Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
- Approxima — Approxima medical is developing a novel treatment for patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation
- Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
- Dog Heroes — Dog Heroes delivers home recipes of fresh food, perfectly portioned to every dog's need. Only high-quality local ingredients are used in tailor-made portions that are ready to serve. Customers will find 55% meat of exclusively Italian origin in the company's recipes, balanced with vegetables, vitamins, and mineral salts. Dog Heroes doesnot use any chemical additives or preservatives.
Marco Coin operates as an investmenr firm.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Antin Infrastructure Partners is a leading private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Beauty
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- Italy, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Power Dot — Power Dot is a public EV destination charging infrastructure operator that invests, installs and operates charge points on everyday high-traffic public locations
- Empire Access — Visit our homepage and read about whatever you need. If you have questions, we have answers.
- Powerdot — Learn more about Powedot, a company shaping the future of sustainable mobility. Discover our mission, values, goals and much more!
Founded by Angelo Moratti, Angel Capital Management (formerly Angel Lab) is a leading private investment firm providing growth equity to companies in various stages of development. The Direct Investments Practice mainly focuses on fast growing Consumer&Lifesyle companies.
ACM offers its portfolio companies a comprehensive platform for growthacting as i) a partner for the international expansion of Italian companies ii) and a gateway to the Italian and South European market for foreign companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AGORA — Agora World discover and create honest beauty content.
- ZAGO Milano — La tua skincare e skin-prep Made in Italy con Amore!
- Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Computer
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tuidi — Tuidi is a tech startup that develops predictive models of AI, with a particular focus on the food distribution sector. They combine methodical study of data, personalization of business processes and speed of integration for to return an output that is not only accurate but also free from interpretation difficulties so as to increase profits,reduce stock outages and optimize inventories.
- Titan4 — Titan4 provides products and services based on research combining different satellite data and sources for applications. They also provide development and integration, InSAR data analysis and data mining, geological analysis, and deep learning analytic services.
- Live Story Inc. — Forget about code and templates: with our freehand designable editor, you can quickly create layouts and publish them online in no time.
CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Elder Care, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
- Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
- Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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Investment focus
- News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Investment Club Luiss Guido Carli University
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Retail Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Gamindo — AI-powered platform to generate engaging corporate training content through gamification.
- Lampoo — Consign your luxury items and earn up to 80% of the sale! Shop authenticated designer brands at second hand prices! Fast deliveries and easy returns!
- This Unique — Customize your own period with a unique assortment to fit your needs that's sustainable and committed.
Caravatti operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Lazzaroni operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Visconti provides consulting and coaching services to improve business growth. It offers experience-based strategies, professional training, and business management solutions. Visconti was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Fitness
- Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
- MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
Angelo Moratti studied at Columbia University in New York City. He is currently Vice-Chairman of Saras SpA, the largest refinery company in the Mediterranean.
He is Vice-Chairman and member of the Executive Committee of Special Olympics International.
Founder and former Chairman of Sarlux - a company that built and managed an electrical powerstation with capacity of 550 MW (1996/2002).
He was member of the Board of Inter Milan Football Club from 1995 to 2013 and Board Member of Olimpia Milano basketball club sponsored by Armani Jeans (2003/2008).
He was Chairman of Associazione Dino Ferrari, which focuses on research for neurological diseases (2000/2005).
He has been involved in Venture Capital investing since 1996, when he founded telecom company ePlanet which went public in 2000.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Beauty, Mobile
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Applix — Founded in 2010, Applix is a company focused on mobile solutions for brands, publishers and institutions willing to create their own digital presence in an innovative and relevant way.We are a strategic partner for some of the most important publishers and businesses, specialising in two main lines of business:Digital Publishing: we changepublishing products into digital experiences. Our solutions allow to transform any kind of paper-based publication into an interactive edition available for smartphone, tablet and computer and to manage information in a fluid and innovative way, monitoring all readers’ activities.Mobile & Apps: we offer tailor-made solutions for the needs of each client. We make our experience, our technologies and our innovation skills available to turn any project into a customised mobile product. In 2011 our company gained a €3 million investment, underwritten by Principia 2 fund, by the investment company AngelLab and by the company Hyppo Corporation, laying the foundation for the international roll-out of its products.In 2012 and 2014 we completed the acquisition of Xorovo and bSmart, today business units of the company: the former, speciasing in the development of end user and enterprise solutions for mobile devices, the latter, focused on digital publishing services for education.Our Apps have received several international awards and have been downloaded in more than 120 countries, reaching the top 10 of the Stores ranking in over 50 of them with millions of downloads.
- Skinlabo — Our mission is to make high-quality skincare accessible to everyone. We are disrupting the beauty industry with our unique value proposition (High-Quality Cosmetics for Everyone = High Quality Products, 100% made in Italy for less than 15 euro + High-Quality Service, with beauty consultants available 24/7) as well as a fully digital businessmodel (leveraging customer acquisition and retention rates well above the market benchmark).
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