Top 30 Big Data Startup Investors in Italy (July 2026)

Portfolio highlights

• PatchAi — Improve patient engagement and experience in clinical trials and standard care. Discover Patchai solution.
• 1000Farmacie — 1000Farmacie is the leading Pharmacy Marketplace in Italy. Though a network of independent Pharmacies we deliver faster!
• YourCoach Health — Health and Wellness coach practice management solution enabling coaches to holistically lead their clients, connecting mind, body and soul through behavior modification and accountability tools towards outcomes

Portfolio highlights

• LexDo.it — LexDo.it provides Affordable Legal Services Online.
• VoiceMed — We bring deep-tech innovation into your smartphone. With vocal biomarkers and artificial intelligence, we measure respiratory diseases.
• Totally Innovation — Totally Innovation is a software company developing artificial intelligence based music management platform and creates license-free music.

Portfolio highlights

• Klaaryo —
• Macingo — Trasporto, spedizioni e traslochi a basso costo. Trasporti economici di auto, moto, barche e mobili in Italia ed Europa. Confronta prezzi e risparmia il 70%
• Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.

Portfolio highlights

• CiaoDott —
• Alomana —
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
• AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge is an edge data center business with a mission to create the leading-edge platform, delivering seamless, localized and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure to customers. They provide a wide range of direct connectivity options to enable connectivity within their datacenters. All cabling is installed and managed by AtlasEdge and itsengineering team to ensure speed of installation and guaranteed quality and management.
• Cornaglia — Cornaglia designs, develops, and manufactures metal and plastic components for the automotive industry.

Portfolio highlights

• Water PNG — Water PNG designs, constructs, and operates water treatment plants and provides water supply and sewerage services.
• Malta International Airport — Malta International Airport operates flights to and from Malta, offers passenger services and shop & dine facilities.
• Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore —

Portfolio highlights

• HEU — HEU is a legaltech company that automates and manages legal documents and allows users to edit and share them.
• Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
• GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come

Portfolio highlights

• Deciphex — Deciphex - Transforming Digital Pathology - we are focussed on the development of applications for clinical and veterinary pathology that improve productivity
• Ganiga.ai — Ganiga is an innovative startup in the Cleantech and Circular Economy sector, known for patenting and inventing a smart waste bin derived from materials recovered from decommissioned wind turbine blades from Enel Green Power. This integration of open innovation with the circular economy allows for autonomous waste separation using AI, generatingstatistics and data on waste types and quantities. The system notifies and plans optimized waste collection routes, reducing personnel costs and pollution associated with waste collection.Key Features of Ganiga's Solution:AI-Based Waste Sorting: The core of Ganiga's solution lies in its artificial intelligence technology, enabling automated waste recycling. Machine learning algorithms recognize and separate various waste materials, enhancing recycling process efficiency.Smart Waste Bins: Ganiga's intelligent waste bins are equipped with sensors and technology to identify and categorize waste as it is disposed of. Real-time data collection enables precise waste management and optimization.Data-Driven Waste Insights: The system gathers data on waste disposal patterns, providing detailed insights into consumer behavior, waste production trends, and recycling rates. This data-driven approach assists municipalities and businesses in making informed decisions.Customizable Waste Management: Ganiga's solution can be tailored to meet diverse waste management needs, whether in urban areas, public spaces, or corporate settings. The technology adapts to various environments and waste flows.Promoting Sustainability: Ganiga's solution encourages sustainable waste disposal practices, increasing recycling rates and diverting more materials from landfills, contributing to a greener and more environmentally friendly future.Seamless Integration: Ganiga's system seamlessly integrates with existing waste management infrastructure, simplifying adoption for municipalities and organizations without significant disruptions.Remote Monitoring: The solution's remote monitoring capabilities allow real-time tracking of waste bin statuses, optimizing waste collection routes and schedules, reducing costs, and minimizing environmental impact.This innovative startup's focus on AI-driven waste management and sustainability aligns with global efforts to address environmental challenges. Ganiga's commitment to reducing waste, enhancing recycling, and providing efficient waste management solutions positions it as a key player in shaping a more sustainable and environmentally conscious future.

Portfolio highlights

• Roam.ai — Build accurate and battery efficient location experiences with our SDK, APIs, and dashboard for geofencing, food delivery, trip tracking, and more. Get started.
• BOTS — Our BOTS app has been developed so that you too can trade automatically. You don't have to be an expert to make a profit. Download the App now!
• Survicate — Collect NPS, CSAT, CES data & send custom surveys with one tool. Distribute customer surveys via email, links, websites, web apps, mobile apps, and more!

Portfolio highlights

• ADmantX — A NEW ERA OF AUDIENCE TARGETINGADmantX is a contextual analysis and data provider that brings audience targeting to a new level. Awarded patent for semantic advertising technology, the company offers a cookie-less solution that allows publishers, ad networks and exchanges, brand managers and agencies to develop more effective online adcampaigns leveraging semantic understanding, natural language processing and sentiment analysis. Founded in Italy as a spin-off of the leading semantic company Expert System, ADmantX is active in Europe and US. Worldwide customers include NBCUniversal, Integral Ad Science, Networked Insights, Banzai, Cadreon, Amnet, Sojern, Media IQ and ADmantX solutions are integrated in key DSP players such as Turn, Adform and AppNexus.
• YOGITECH — Notizie e approfondimenti di Tecnologia
• Expert.ai — Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding.

Portfolio highlights

• Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
• Welmed — Welmed is an innovative Italian startup company (Sistemi Salute Informatica Srl) that operates in the digital healthcare services environment. The Company was founded in 2017 by two highly experienced doctors convinced that the development of Telemedicine services together with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence technologies will revolutionizehealthcare systems globally, with important benefits in terms of prevention capacity, the effectiveness of treatments, accessibility to medical services and cost-effectiveness.

Portfolio highlights

• Soul-K — Semilavorati, elaborati gastronomici e piatti pronti per ristorazione organizzata, food retail e travel catering.
• Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!

Portfolio highlights

• PatchAi — Improve patient engagement and experience in clinical trials and standard care. Discover Patchai solution.

Portfolio highlights

• WaterView — Visual intelligence solutions to inform business decision making and address complex problems in monitoring, prevention, and safety.

Portfolio highlights

• AIM Solutions — AIM Solutions develops artificial intelligence models using big data and intelligent automation for the tourism marketing industry.

Portfolio highlights

• Deliverart — Deliverart, a Techstars portfolio company, is an all-in-one cloud software that consolidates all the home delivery orders a restaurant receives (from phone, website, app, food delivery platforms) in a single interface. Alongside that, it also provides smart tools to maximize the efficiency of a restaurant’s autonomous home deliveries, whileincreasing the productivity and the coordination between production and logistics. The software, developed by an Italian team and launched in 2019, is born with integrations-by-design, in order to create a helpful environment where restaurants can fully take advantage of digital technologies.Deliverart is a modular solution that can be personalized with add-ons and features, creating a tailor-made software for the restaurants’ needs. It can easily interact with other management softwares, food delivery platforms and services to provide a plug-and-play customizable solution.

Portfolio highlights

• FilmChain — Managing end-to-end financial transactions for creative industries
• Bunnyshell — Bunnyshell is a a simple and fast cloud-agnostic DevOps automation platform to deploy, scale, and optimize your applications.We provide easy infrastructure management on multiple clouds , application management and DevOps Tools.Bunnyshell increases speed, performance, and scalability & works on the most popular major clouds: AWS, DigitalOcean, Azure, Linode, Vultr, UpCloud.Our platform allows you to focus on growing your app, while we take care of the rest: real time monitoring, auto scaling, smart self-healing servers, one click deployment. Backed by 24/7 real time support.
• Kinderpedia — Free remote video teaching on Kinderpedia, Daily attendance, gradebook and reports and 20 more functionalities for connected education.

Portfolio highlights

• Sooneat — Sooneat is an online ordering platform that connects closeby food and retail businesses to allow customers to order whatever they like, whenever they like and have a single checkout experience. Sooneat enables businesses to improve customer satisfaction while boosting revenue: your customers will be able to order dishes from multiple restaurantsdirectly from their mobile or tablet, select for pickup or delivery, make one single payment and simply sit back and enjoy their food. No more standing in multiple lines!Sooneat works both with businesses and partners including shopping centers, resellers, and agencies. It offers branded solutions and works on restaurants, shops, events, caterers, theatres, stadiums, and much more! Thanks to its flexibility, if you can think it, we can adapt it.watch Video Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr__SimEihsTRUSTED PARTNERS Burger King, Old Wild West, I Love poke, etc..Here you can find our Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3cKrtC5

Portfolio highlights

• Newcleo — newcleo is the clean and safe nuclear technology company. Privately funded and headquartered in London, UK, newcleo was launched in 2021 to be a disruptor in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean and inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.newcleo is building the next generation system with the goals to: (1) eliminate the need for geological repositories by using a fast neutron flux avoiding production of long life radioactive elements; (2) develop an Accelerator Driven System (ADS), based on the intrinsically safe coupling of a particle accelerator and a sub-critical reactor; (3) accelerate the development of new fuel cycles, including thorium, that provide economic, clean, safe and inexhaustible energy from nuclei and the opportunity to burn the long-lived nuclear waste produced by the old generation of nuclear reactors.With visionary co-founders, newcleo brings together a team of engineers with deep knowledge of nuclear energy with younger recruits with a fresh mindset, working to design an innovative micro Lead Fast Reactor with significant commercial applications, for example in shipping. newcleo wants to be the first step toward the evolution of its industry to become fully respectful of people and the environment. To develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will lead humanity to zero emissions, and to the mitigation of global warming.
• Easy Rain — Leading a new automotive era: our modular ecosystem of virtual sensors and active hardware makes cars and autonomous platforms truly safe in every condition.
• Iama Therapeutics — At IAMA Therapeutics, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of neuroscience drug discovery to develop new medicines and make a difference in the lives of children suffering from brain disorders and their families. Our purpose is to provide a therapeutic solution to children suffering from neurological conditions and provide their families withthe support they need.

Portfolio highlights

• Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
• A-Cube — A-Cube is a software company that provides digital solutions to exchange documents with government agencies.
• Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.

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!

Portfolio highlights

• Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
• Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
• Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.

Portfolio highlights

• Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
• Intron Health — Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for AfricaUnlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds Build with Sahara Try Sahara Built for African SpeechFrom Lagos Call Centers, to Hospitals in Nairobi, Boardrooms in Cape Town, and Courtrooms in
• Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

Portfolio highlights

• InkVivo — InkVivo provides clinicians and healthcare providers with a product delivery system that optimizes treatments. Their manufacturing approach allows users to design implantable patches, tablets, and injectable biomaterials.
• Artificialy — Artificialy provides custom AI solutions, consulting, and training for enterprises in Switzerland and beyond. Artificial Intelligence actually delivered.
• Jaipur Robotics — Jaipur Robotics focuses on developing AI software for waste recycling ecosystem.

Portfolio highlights

• PatchAi — Improve patient engagement and experience in clinical trials and standard care. Discover Patchai solution.
• Perfood — Perfood is a digital therapeutic startup that identifies what actions need to take on a personalized level, to prevent or fight diseases. Using sensors, lab results, and holistic analyses, they derive therapeutic angles and deliver them in a slick, easy-to-use way, making them accessible for all patients. They call this approach digitaltherapeutics. A digital solution that is just as effective as a drug. But without side effects.

Portfolio highlights

• Hypermeteo — Hypermeteo develops and provides high-quality, high-resolution weather and climate data through a powerful API-based platform. By analyzing observations on detailed territorial grids, the company provides historical, real-time, nowcasting and forecasting data, risk assessments, early warning systems, and future climate projections that supportinformed decision-making. These insights enable companies and organizations to integrate climate intelligence into their business planning, enhance operational capabilities, manage climate-related risks, and adapt to climate change, ultimately helping to reduce climate-driven impacts and losses across sectors such as energy, insurance, infrastructure, finance, agriculture, and urban planning.

Portfolio highlights

• Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
• Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
• IdentifAI — identifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!

Portfolio highlights

• Gyala — Gyala primarily offers cybersecurity solutions.
• Hibot — Hibot offers robotic platforms, and related hardware and software solutions. The company offers robots for hazardous operations as well as for maintenance and inspection of infrastructure, search, and rescue missions. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
• Hypermeteo — Hypermeteo develops and provides high-quality, high-resolution weather and climate data through a powerful API-based platform. By analyzing observations on detailed territorial grids, the company provides historical, real-time, nowcasting and forecasting data, risk assessments, early warning systems, and future climate projections that supportinformed decision-making. These insights enable companies and organizations to integrate climate intelligence into their business planning, enhance operational capabilities, manage climate-related risks, and adapt to climate change, ultimately helping to reduce climate-driven impacts and losses across sectors such as energy, insurance, infrastructure, finance, agriculture, and urban planning.

Portfolio highlights

• Sooneat — Sooneat is an online ordering platform that connects closeby food and retail businesses to allow customers to order whatever they like, whenever they like and have a single checkout experience. Sooneat enables businesses to improve customer satisfaction while boosting revenue: your customers will be able to order dishes from multiple restaurantsdirectly from their mobile or tablet, select for pickup or delivery, make one single payment and simply sit back and enjoy their food. No more standing in multiple lines!Sooneat works both with businesses and partners including shopping centers, resellers, and agencies. It offers branded solutions and works on restaurants, shops, events, caterers, theatres, stadiums, and much more! Thanks to its flexibility, if you can think it, we can adapt it.watch Video Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr__SimEihsTRUSTED PARTNERS Burger King, Old Wild West, I Love poke, etc..Here you can find our Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3cKrtC5