# Top 45 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Italy in June 2026

## Marco Caradonna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Advertising, PaaS, SaaS

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

## Enrico Pandian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech

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.

## Euan Lonmon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2C, Retail

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.

## Federico Menetto
- Type: Angel
- Location: Padua, Veneto, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Software, Nutrition

Federico Menetto

## Giulio Xiloyannis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Apps

Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic.

## Andrea Torlonia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Big Data, Food Delivery

Andrea Torlonia

## Luca Foresti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Nutrition

Luca Foresti is the CEO at Santagostino. Luca Foresti attended The University of Pisa.

## Fabio Pezzotti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Mobile, Hospitality

Fabio Pezzotti is the Founder and CEO at Iconium.

## Niccolo Maisto
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Gaming, FinTech

Niccolo Maisto is the chief executive officer of ESL FACEIT Group.Niccolo Maisto attended Bocconi University.

## Tommaso Loreto
- Type: Angel
- Location: Syracuse, Sicilia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Tommaso Loreto

## Stefano Alberti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gift, Retail, Sports

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.

## Rudy Cortesi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gift, Retail, Sports

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

## Ludovico Maggiore
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Snack Food, Food and Beverage

Ludovico Maggiore

## Rossella Brenna
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce

Rossella Brenna

## Karim Ricciardi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pavia, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing

Karim Ricciardi

## Francesco Pagano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce

Francesco Pagano is a Senior Partner at JAKALA.

## Luca Foschini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, CRM, SaaS

As Head of Data Science, Luca is responsible for data analytics, computing, research and development at Evidation Health. Luca was the co-founder of The Activity Exchange (which joined forces with Evidation Health in 2014) where he led data science and drove research collaborations with Harvard Business School and the Wharton School. Prior tothis role, Luca worked as R&D at Ask.com and was a visiting scholar at Google Research and ETH Zurich where he developed efficient algorithms for spatial data, real-time intrusion and anomaly detection in computer networks. Luca earned a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara focusing on traffic analysis in computer and road networks. He's an alumnus of the Sant'Anna School of Pisa, Italy.

## Alessandro Gatti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Monza, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Gift, Retail

Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire

## Mattia Monti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Mattia Monti

## Andrea Pederzolli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce

Andrea Pederzolli - Director @ Mangustarisk

## Alberto Cartasegna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Alberto Cartasegna

## Nabil Marco
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce

Nabil Marco

## Andrea Francioni
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Winery, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

Andrea Francioni

## Filippo Mottolese
- Type: Angel
- Location: Monza, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Filippo Mottolese

## Roberto Nicastro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, FinTech, Software

Roberto Nicastro

## Francesco MuttiMutti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods

Francesco MuttiMutti

## Marco Ogliengo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Marco Ogliengo

## Claudio Di Zanni
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Online Portals

Claudio Di Zanni

## Andrea Dusi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, CleanTech

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.

## Procolo Casella
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Restaurants

Procolo Casella

## Marco Milone
- Type: Angel
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Internet, Nutrition

After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema
sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed
by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of
interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.

## Davide Cecchini
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Apps

Previously, he has been: CFO at climate-tech startup EXE Engineering (+300k raised in equity and grants); Managing Director at IKIGAI backing 60+ seed companies in 36 months with its acceleration programs; in charge of Business Development at Club degli Investitori, one of the main angel investment groups in Italy (250+ business angel with €30M+invested); previously; Fintech Analyst at Intesa Sanpaolo from 2015 to 2018, one of the major banking group in Italy, working at its Innovation Center. In 2013, 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.

## Marco Marianelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Wholesale, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Marco Marianelli

## Giancarlo Rocchietti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Events, Banking

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.

## Mia Rigo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Human Resources

Mia Rigo is the president at The Magic Collection Retreats.

## Gabriele Borga
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mendrisio, Ticino, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Restaurants, Human Resources

Gabriele Borga is the Founder and CEO of Exelero.

## Matteo de Brabant
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, Beauty, EdTech

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

## Mauro Del Rio
- Type: Angel
- Location: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B

Mauro Del Rio - Chairman @ DOCOMO Digital

## Stefano Miccinelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Pet, Gift, Retail

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

## Giampaolo Cagnin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods

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.

## Stefano Saccardi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits

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

## Paolo Giovine
- Type: Angel
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

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

## Andrea Galassi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Software, CleanTech

Andrea Galassi is the CFO at Miscusi.

## Maurizio di Robilant
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits

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

## Rosario Didonna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Foggia, Puglia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Online Portals

Rosario Didonna - Consultant @ Foodscovery