Top 25 Beauty Startup Investors in Italy (August 2026)

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• Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
• CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
• Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.

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• CityFibre — CityFibre is a brand new full fibre network built for the data age. Never worry about speed or reliability again. Connect your home and business today.
• Power Dot — Powerdot offers electric vehicle charging solutions in convenient locations across six European countries.
• Origis Energy — Origis Energy is powering the solar revolution with solar power and energy storage projects for utility, corporate and public sector energy clients.

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• Khooa — Khooa is a mobile app that leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to make image consulting accessible to everyone. Users can receive personalized style advice and discover the colors that make them shine. The app is simple, intuitive, and fun, transforming users' wardrobes with just a click.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Qlhype — Qlhype is an online fashion store offering used clothing, unsold archive, and sample products from top brands. Its Closets section allows customers to purchase outfits directly from VIPs and influencers, promoting bold styles while preserving environmental impact.

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• Qlhype — Qlhype is an online fashion store offering used clothing, unsold archive, and sample products from top brands. Its Closets section allows customers to purchase outfits directly from VIPs and influencers, promoting bold styles while preserving environmental impact.

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• Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
• Ricehouse — Ricehouse creates sustainable construction materials from organic waste from the rice industry to create natural building materials such as rice straws, husks, and chaff. Their products include insulating panels, base plasters, screeds and subfloors, cladding systems, and vertical matt-closing components. The goal of Ricehouse is to construct ahouse made entirely of rice and everything that houses humans, from the smallest to the largest scales.
• Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

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• 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

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• 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 — SkinLabo is the fastest growing Beauty Industry Disruptor in Europe and US. Our business model is direct to consumer (DTC) and fully digital, leveraging customer acquisition and retention rates well above market benchmarks. Our mission is to make high-quality cosmetics accessible to everyone. For us, high-quality products go hand in hand withhigh-quality service, which we deliver in 16 languages thanks to our team of currently 30 beauty consultants.
• Poke House — Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Poke House specializes in bowl food that often includes marinated fish that’s cubed and layered up with sticky rice, pickles, noodles, etc.

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• Qlhype — Qlhype is an online fashion store offering used clothing, unsold archive, and sample products from top brands. Its Closets section allows customers to purchase outfits directly from VIPs and influencers, promoting bold styles while preserving environmental impact.
• Ventive Group — Ventive Group is a venture capitalist that provides personalized advice to support innovative startups and SMEs.

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• 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

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• Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
• AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
• Alomana — Autonomous systems for enterprise

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• UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
• Paragraph — Paragraph turns your startup's launches, product updates, customer learnings, and founder thinking into an owned media engine your team approves.
• 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!

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• 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.

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• 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
• Custodia Bank — Custodia intends to provide a full suite of banking and financial services tailored to business customers looking for enhanced regulatory clarity, defined asset and balance sheet status for assets, and minimized transactional risk as they traverse the digital asset frontier.

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• Gility — Gility is a digital learning platform that collaborates with business schools and training institutions for an effective training offer. Established in 2022, it was supported by CDP Venture Capital and BPER Banca.
• 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.
• Valvitalia SpA. — VALVITALIA is a leading group in the field of design, production, and overall supply of equipment and components intended for the petroleum, water, natural gas industries, and petrochemical industry as well as electrical power stations. The group works mainly with valves (core product), actuators, pipe fittings, flanges and systems for measuring,filtering, and regulating fluids and gases and with FireFighting systems. VALVITALIA was set up with the precise objective of becoming the leading Italian group able to offer such a wide range of products and to compete with the large American multinationals that have always dominated this field. This young company has extensive experience in the sector, thanks to its professional management and historical brands in the valve world that have been taken on by the Group, including: ROTOR, DELTA V.E., THEVIGNOT, VANADOUR, VITAS, TORMENE T.G.T. and TECNOFORGE. VALVITALIA has always included safety and respect for the environment and its employees among its priorities.

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• 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

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• Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
• Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
• ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.

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• Gamindo — Create interactive training experiences in minutes with AI and gamification. Increase engagement, completion rates and learning outcomes.
• NANDO — NANDO provides AI Waste Monitoring solutions for effective waste tracking. Gain real-time insights and streamline operations.
• This Unique — This Unique offers innovative solutions for feminine hygiene needs in both the B2C and B2B sectors. For consumers, we provide convenient subscription boxes delivering eco-friendly menstrual products right to their doorstep, ensuring they have access to high-quality essentials whenever they need them. In the B2B realm, we specialize in installingstate-of-the-art dispensers in corporate restrooms, offering businesses a hassle-free way to provide their employees with complimentary menstrual products. Our mission is to promote sustainability, inclusivity, and well-being, both at home and in the workplace.

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• GCF — GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie is a landmark of excellence in the railway infrastructures, electrification and signalling sector.
• Sonnedix — Sonnedix is an Independent Solar Power Producer (IPP) with a proven track record in delivering high performance cost competitive solar photovoltaic plants to the market.
• Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Scuter — Scuter is the smart e-scooter sharing service that makes city mobility,simple, enjoyable and sustainable. Scuter is on well on its path toward making a dent in this space.
• Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
• Health Triage — Health Triage, crea nuove tecnologie per offrire modelli innovativi di diagnosi clinica, identificazione e cura delle malattie oncologiche.

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• Qlhype — Qlhype is an online fashion store offering used clothing, unsold archive, and sample products from top brands. Its Closets section allows customers to purchase outfits directly from VIPs and influencers, promoting bold styles while preserving environmental impact.