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Top 30 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Italy in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Italy in December 2024

Investor	Food and Beverage Italy investments
Andrea Torlonia	2
Enrico Pandian	2
Euan Lonmon	2
Roberto Nicastro	1
Davide Cecchini	1
Giancarlo Rocchietti	1
Stefano Alberti	1
Mauro Del Rio	1
Procolo Casella	1
Stefano Miccinelli	1
Matteo de Brabant	1
Andrea Dusi	1
Niccolo Maisto	1
Andrea Pederzolli	1
Alessandro Gatti	1
Rosario Didonna	1
Ludovico Maggiore	1
Giampaolo Cagnin	1
Marco Marianelli	1
Francesco MuttiMutti	1
Rudy Cortesi	1
Andrea Galassi	1
Fabio Pezzotti	1
Karim Ricciardi	1
Claudio Di Zanni	1
Marco Caradonna	1
Filippo Mottolese	1
Stefano Saccardi	1
Paolo Giovine	1
Maurizio di Robilant	1

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Andrea Torlonia

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Big Data, Food Delivery
Series A, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Soul-K — Food-tech company B2B, la prima industria alimentare 4.0 ad applicare lean-production e Just-In-Time. Abilita i professionisti a risparmiare tempo e denaro, riducendo manodopera e spreco di cibo.
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!

Enrico Pandian is the Co-Founder and CEO of StartupGym and the Founder of FrescoFrigo. He previously worked at Checkout Technologies as a Co-Founder and President of the Board. Enrico Pandian attended the University of Verona.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Quisto — On Quisto, Ho.Re.Ca. retailers can find the best suppliers in their area and purchase 24/7 whatever they need for their business --> www.quisto.it
CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.

Long years at the helm of transport and tourism companies, (Corsica Ferries, Nouvelles Frontiéres Reseau, Stradeblu) Deep insight in european cultures and languages, have found interest and pleasure in founding, mentoring and sponsoring start-up businesses in very diverse fields.Chairman of Restopolis , sold to La Fourchette, Tripadvisor inoctober 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
Angel, Seed
Italy, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pneusmart — Pneusmart is a pan-european tyre retailer. It has offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy and is growing fast in all markets. Pneusmart provides an innovative solution to source tyres for both cars, vans and motorcycles. It provides a full service experience to consumers, delivering tyres to stations in its vast fitting network to ensure asmooth customer experience. The company is expanding fast into a complete car service solution.
Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.
restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.

Roberto Nicastro

Investment focus

Travel, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
Cesarine - Home Food — The best Cooking Classes in Italy, Market Tours, Food Experiences in local homes in Florence, Venice, Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre, Chianti and much more.

Davide Cecchini is Managing Director at IKIGAI, the early-stage venture capital program backing enterprising founders.Previously, he was in charge of Business Development at Club degli Investitori, one of the main angel investment groups in Italy (250+ business angel with €30M+ invested) and worked at Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the major bankinggroup in Italy, working at its Innovation Center. He has also been Chapter Director for Startup Grind, a global network of startup communities, sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs.He holds an M.A. in Philosphy at University of Pisa and a post-grad Master in Innovation Management at Scuola Sant’Anna.

Investment focus

Health Care, Food and Beverage, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Grant, Convertible Note
Italy, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Picarta — Upload a photo and find out where it was taken. We will predict the photo location using AI
Bmind — Your way to feel good
WAMI - Water with a Mission — Our mission is to provide clean water to people in need and give to everyone the possibility to solve the problem of water in the world, by transforming an ordinary act in something extraordinary. Why water? Water is the most important resource we have, but still today 700 million people do not have access to clean water. Most of these people livein rural and isolated areas and have to walk long hours to get the water necessary for the survival of their family. Lack of drinkable water not only endangers people's health, but also takes away a lot of valuable time from women and children who usually take care of the supply. What can we do? With every WAMI bottle, you donate 100 litres of clean water. Thanks to a simple act, you help us build water projects in villages in need and change the world one bottle at a time. Our water flows down the Italian Alps at 1600 metres above the sea level, from an oligo-mineral source known for its organoleptic properties. By choosing this brand, everyday-water-consumers have the possibility to make the change in the world in an ethical and responsible way. In addition of giving access to drinkable water to villages in need, WAMI is also committed to sustainability. The packaging is 100% recyclable and made with 50% recycled r-PET plastic, the maximum allowed in Italy. Moreover, in order to minimize the environmental impact and to contribute to the reabsorption of CO2, the start-up plants trees in Italy in collaboration with Rete Clima.

Giancarlo Rocchietti is an entrepreneur, Business Angel, Founder and President at Club degli Investitori.In 1980, Giancarlo founded Euphon, which become the leading independent operator in the multimedia industry in Italy, with a preeminent position in Spain. In the year 2000, Euphon was listed on the Italian stock exchange and Giancarlo decidedexited Euphon in 2004 to a private equity investor.He has been President of Sviluppo Italia Piemonte, a regional government agency and then appointed President of Piemontech, the first regional government seed-capital fund in Italy.Today Giancarlo is investing in SMEs and start ups as Business Angel. He is the Founder and President of Club degli Investitori, one of the most important business angel and investors network in Italy.

Investment focus

Apps, Restaurants, Professional Networking
Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wetaxi — Wetaxi is the fixed price taxi app. Active in Italy in more than 20 cities
Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
Restworld | Horeca — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.

He started working in 1991, after a degree at Bocconi University, as Analyst bond market and later the stock market at the CIMO Sim - Milan. In 1995 he was Co-Founder Intermobiliare Securities (later Intermonte Sim, leader in Italy in traded volumes) and from '95 until 2009 he held the position of Office Manager studies where he managed a teamof over 20 fundamental analysts who in years has received prestigious awards and placed at the top of important charts internationally. Currently working with the bank Albertini Syz for financial advisory services, corporate finance and private banking. and 'member of AIAF (Italian association of financial Analysts) and of important business partner organization angel (ie financial investors in start-ups). Today Stefano plays an activity related to the management of capital which is looking for new business opportunities to finance and develop and financial guidance.

Investment focus

Gift, Retail, Sports
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

Mauro Del Rio - Chairman @ DOCOMO Digital

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, B2B
Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zerogrado — Zerogrado is a software Developer Company.
restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
DesignerInc — Founded in 2018, DesignerInc.com is a ground-breaking B2B sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry.DesignerInc.com is the most comprehensive trade-only sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry. Amassing hundreds of thousands of trade-only furniture and decor product with unprecedenteddepth and breadth, DesignerInc.com offers a seamless solution to source and purchase furniture and decor for interior designers. And with $77 billion of furniture and decor product purchased via designers, DesignerInc.com brings much needed efficiency to this enormous, yet low-tech, industry.

Procolo Casella

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Italy

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

Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings.

Investment focus

Pet, Gift, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Kippy — Pet owners deal with 2 main issues: every year millions of pets are lost; pets are thought to have become increasingly overweight, with higher risk of arthritis, diabetes and heart diseases development. We create the most advanced GPS and Activity Monitor for pets to keep them safe, healthy and to strengthen our relationship with them.
Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

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

Entrepreneur and investor. After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration

Niccolo Maisto is the Co-CEO at ESL FACEIT Group. Niccolo Maisto attended NYU Stern School of Business and Bocconi University.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

Andrea Pederzolli - Director @ Mangustarisk

Investment focus

Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.

Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire

Investment focus

Marketing, Gift, Retail
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

SMACE — Smace engages in the development of smart working management platforms.
Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

Rosario Didonna - Consultant @ Foodscovery

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Online Portals
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Foodscovery — Foodscovery is an online market which allows you to order regional gastronomic products directly from the farmers, fisherman, small producers which are more representative of the local tradition.

Ludovico Maggiore

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Snack Food, Food and Beverage
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Mamma M’Ama — Pappe frozen per lo svezzamento. Fatte solo con ingredienti che usiamo in casa, subito surgelate in modo professionale, controllate e certificate, pronte in 3 minuti.

Giampaolo’s aim has always been to apply a disruptive approach to functional food ingredients and that’s how he founded Italiana Ingredienti in ’89 and Campus in ’05. Both companies have been acquired, Italiana Ingredienti by Chr. Hansen in ‘99 and Campus by Firmenich in ’18. Today he serves as Founder and Chairman at Hi-Food, an Italian companyproviding key functional ingredients to food companies, and as a business Angel Investor in several startups.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Chromologics — Chromologics produce natural sustainable colors. Our flagship product is ChromoRed which performs better than existing natural, red colorants. ChromoRed is also applicable with vegan, kosher and halal diets.
Dreamfarm — We are a team of food-lovers 100% made in Italy! We dreamt of a better, tastier, more sustainable future and decided to join forces to create something special.

Marco Marianelli

Investment focus

Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

Francesco MuttiMutti

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Dreamfarm — We are a team of food-lovers 100% made in Italy! We dreamt of a better, tastier, more sustainable future and decided to join forces to create something special.

Rudy Cortesi - Founder and CEO @ Mobile Dream de México S.A. de C.V.

Investment focus

Gift, Retail, Sports
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

Andrea Galassi

Investment focus

Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

Fabio Pezzotti is the Founder and CEO at Iconium.

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile, Hospitality
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cibando — Cibando is an iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy.

Karim Ricciardi

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Planeat.eco — Planeat.eco is the site where you can plan your food shopping in a simple and economical way, starting from the recipes and receiving at home all the ingredients ready for preparation , weighed and divided into compostable containers. They offer their products online.

Claudio Di Zanni

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Online Portals
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Foodscovery — Foodscovery is an online market which allows you to order regional gastronomic products directly from the farmers, fisherman, small producers which are more representative of the local tradition.

Marco Caradonna is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at BlackSheep Ventures at BlackSheep Ventures. He attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart.

Investment focus

Advertising, PaaS, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

nexoya — Performance Marketing optimized with AI. Leverage the power of agile portfolio management. Allocate budgets by using AI technology and reach +70% ROAS
ID Ward — Anonymised is the cookieless data platform that helps publishers and advertisers reach and monetise audiences at scale, without exposing any personal data.
Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.

Filippo Mottolese

Investment focus

Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

Stefano Saccardi is managing director at Gruppo Campari. He is also a board member of the company.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Tannico — Tannin is a project created by a team of web experts with a common passion for good wine. Every day we select carefully the best Italian and foreign cellars, and each bottle is tasted by our team of winemakers. If Tannico was a wine would have an attractive bouquet and a mixed blend, with great adaptability while maintaining its recognisability.

Paolo Giovine joined PubCoder as Chairman in 2016. Paolo Giovine attended at University of Turin.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

MiSiedo — MiSiedo is an online platform that enables users to discover and book restaurants in real-time. The platform also allows users to read reviews before taking their pick. MiSiedo was launched in 2011 and is based in Italy.

Maurizio di Robilant is the president and founder of RobilantAssociati.n He led the company since 1984.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Tannico — Tannin is a project created by a team of web experts with a common passion for good wine. Every day we select carefully the best Italian and foreign cellars, and each bottle is tasted by our team of winemakers. If Tannico was a wine would have an attractive bouquet and a mixed blend, with great adaptability while maintaining its recognisability.

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