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Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Italy (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Italy Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Francesco Giartosio
Angel
4 Italy Seed Mobile, Sports, Hardware $241k–$568k
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel
3 Italy, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $318k–$3.3M
Joe Zadeh
Angel
2 Italy, United States, Germany Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $544k–$19M
Nico Rosberg
Angel
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $4M–$320M
Angelo Italiano
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Computer, Software, Gaming $240k–$637k
Andrea Dusi
Angel
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Biotechnology, FinTech, Software $150k–$6M
Giorgio Chiellini
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Series B Gaming, Internet, Marketing $983k–$5.9M
Francesco Starace
Angel
2 Italy, Germany Seed, Angel Aerospace, GreenTech, Automotive $250k–$5.8M
Family, Friends & Angels
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Convertible Note SaaS, Software, E-Commerce $528k–$881k
Gianluca Cocco
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software $1.7M–$8.2M
Utsav Somani
Angel
1 India, United States, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Financial Services $550k–$15M
Angelo Moratti
Angel
1 Italy Series A iOS, Beauty, Mobile $3.3M–$11M
Marco Caradonna
Angel
1 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Angel Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $640k–$1.6M
Alexandro Sances
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Canada Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed Automotive, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing $2.2M–$5M
Reid Hoffman
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $800k–$80M
Marco De Nicola
Angel
1 Italy Angel Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Stefano Miccinelli
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Pet, Gift, Retail
Cristiano Esclapon
Angel
1 Italy Angel, Series A Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
Fabio Tomassini
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Software, GreenTech, E-Commerce $235k–$3.1M
Danila De Stefano
Angel
1 Italy, Spain Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Sales, E-Commerce $1.5M–$3.1M
Diego Piacentini
Angel
1 United States, Italy, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Human Resources $286k–$16M
Luca Rossi
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Enterprise Software
Massimo Prelz Oltramonti
Angel
1 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Audio, Music, Digital Media
Francesco Tirinnanzi
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Computer, Manufacturing, Product Design
Procolo Casella
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Big Data, Software, Restaurants
Marco Carlini
Angel
1 Italy Seed Software, Consulting, Civil Engineering
Davide Ricchi
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Analytics, Restaurants, 3D Technology
Franco Fogliato
Angel
1 Italy Seed 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
Matti Kuivalainen
Angel
1 Italy Seed Software, Consulting, Civil Engineering
Alessio Beverina
Angel
1 Italy, France, Ireland Series B, Series A, Seed Medical, Health Care, Medical Device $11M–$75M
Francesco Medda
Angel
1 Italy Seed Point of Sale, Developer APIs, Retail Technology
Nathaniel Barling
Angel
1 Italy Seed 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
Maurizio Donadelli
Angel
1 Italy, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Analytics, Retail, Travel $110k–$283k
Matteo Riffeser
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Mobile, Wireless
Simone Severini
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Hardware, Software
Daniel Cremers
Angel
1 Italy Seed 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
Alessandro Errico
Angel
1 Italy Angel Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Sacha Monotti Graziadei
Angel
1 Italy, Ireland Pre-Seed EdTech, Software, Education $158k–$704k
Gianluca D'Agostino
Angel
1 Italy, Portugal Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Health Care $2M–$14M
Simone Mancini
Angel
1 Italy, Pakistan Pre-Seed, Seed Retail Technology, Financial Services, FinTech $3.1M–$37M
Fabio Fregi
Angel
1 Italy Seed Cloud Infrastructure
Andrea De Mauro
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Analytics, Restaurants, 3D Technology
Claudio Loda
Angel
1 Italy Seed Smart Home, Product Design, Smart Building
Emanuele Visconti
Angel
1 Italy Seed 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
Alexandr Wang
Angel
1 United States, Italy, Japan Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $4M–$105M
Fabio de Concilio
Angel
1 Italy Series A Pet, Wearables, Internet of Things
Gabriele Grassini
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Energy, Software, Smart Home
Giovanni Tamburini
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Energy, Software, Smart Home
Fabio Penzo
Angel
1 Italy, United Kingdom Pre-Seed Mobile, Hardware, Software
Simo Beraha
Angel
1 Italy Seed Smart Home, Product Design, Smart Building
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Francesco Giartosio
Angel · Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Francesco graduated in Business Administration at Roma University and then worked 22 years in FCA Group, Ducati and System in the area of internal auditing, management control and processes restructuring. In 2008 left the management work to launch Contipronti.it, the first online accounting service in Italy. In the following years he becamespassionate of start up. He launched Giarty, a sort of Italian Yelp. In September 2011 he started to work on a project of advanced reality eyeglasses, and one day lather he estabished the GlassUp company. Its passion is innovate and semplify the way things are done.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Sports, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $241k–$568k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GlassUp — Big data and growing use of on-board sensors are pushing work on shop floors to new heighs of speed and productivity. But the human interaction with all these technologies is still made through desktops or tablets, which are not designed for daily usage in industrial environments. Thus, the company has developed and manufactured augmented realitygoggles for industries. GlassUp is on the market with GlassUp F4 since February 2017. F4 are AR eyewears designed to act as a support in terms of time saving and functionality for operators in professional and industrial fields. The eyewear has all the features of a protective mask and allows making use of contents such as videos, images, instruction manuals and any type of content able to back up a work process without using hands. In this way, the user can be focused on action. F4 can be used stand alone or in pairs with a dashboard which allows remote assistance and remote machineries maintenance routines. On the job training is another fundamental function. As software house, moreover, we are able to create custom applications.
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Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$2.2M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.4M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
  • HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
  • Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
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Joe Zadeh
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Joe Zadeh

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $544k–$5.1M; Series A $12M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lexroom — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
  • AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
  • JustSolve — JustSolve is an agentic debt collection team that allows organizations to recover more, spending less.
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Nico Rosberg
Angel · Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$9.3M; Series A $10M–$320M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
  • Flow Engineering — Flow Engineering develops AI-powered systems engineering software for requirements management, validation, and hardware design workflows.
  • General Intuition — The frontier lab for acting in space and time. Enter our waitlist: https://t.co/NCEPCOoE8z
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Angelo Italiano
Angel · 2 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Angelo Italiano

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Software, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $240k–$637k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Algor Education — Algor Education is an app for creating online concept maps and mind maps from their own documents in a simple and intuitive way. They automatically synthesize the texts and create concept maps. Algor offers the ability to edit mind maps in the media editor while working with coworkers or teachers. With just a few clicks, you can quickly createmaps, upload any document, and listen to it being read aloud by the speech synthesizer.
  • MedSniper — medSniper is the synthesis of a faster, more secure approach to video laryngoscope procedures.
  • Ermes - Cyber Security S.p.A. — We believe in empowering people. Just like you. Discover our approach and enable your employees to navigate the web worry-free. Browser: your safe workspace. In a world where the web plays a key role in our daily work routines, our dynamic browser-protection solutions makes the difference, by assesing every web pages as soon as it goes live, providing
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Andrea Dusi
Angel · Verona, Veneto, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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 the no-profit organization Impactscool, withthe aim to bring education on exponential technologies to Italian students and teachers. Impactscool was sold in 2025 with an exit to an Italian bank. Now his focus is manly on studying, exploring the potential of human beings, understanding true meaning of life, enjoying the passage of time. He is advisor of dozens of technological 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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Angel $170k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CitizenX — CitizenX is the secure and private platform that helps you diversify your passport portfolio, ensuring a safe future for you and your loved ones.
  • Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
  • CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
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Giorgio Chiellini
Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Giorgio Chiellini

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Internet, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $983k–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 2Watch — 2WATCH Group is an entertainment group with three divisions: Media House, Creative Studio and Content Factory. +150M monthly views, +15M followers.
  • Qodeup — Qodeup is a provider of digital menu solutions for restaurants. Their QR code payment method reduces waiting times to zero for customers, increases turnover, and is eco-friendly. They allow customers to pay the bill directly from their smartphone through their QR code payment system.
  • Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.
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Francesco Starace
Angel · 2 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Aerospace, GreenTech, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
  • AIRMO — AIRMO is supporting the direct emitters, decision makers and financial institutions to efficiently transition to Net-0 by monitoring their direct emissions from space. With our roots in innovation and a commitment to environmental responsibility, we aim to revolutionize GHG monitoring through advanced satellite technology, proprietary LiDARinstrument and data analytics. We exist to monitor and manage humanity's impact on Earth.
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Family, Friends & Angels
Angel · 2 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Family, Friends & Angels

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $528k–$881k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zakeke — Try out Zakeke's 3D Product Configurator & Customizer plugin for eCommerce. Let customers craft & buy their dream products. Try for free!
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Gianluca Cocco
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Gianluca achieved two successful exits before founding his new fintech. The first exit occurred in 2018 in Italy when he served as the MD of the Italian branch of Delivery Hero. The second exit happened in 2022 in Spain when he sold Factory14, of which he was a co-founder. From 2011, he spent four years as one of the early managers at Amazon Italy,following the start of his career in strategic consulting at Roland Berger. He is angel investing in Fintech, SaaS and AI at pre-seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bricks.sh — Bricks.sh provides customer service, operations, and all business teams with an admin panel they enjoy while putting internal tools on autopilot for IT teams. self-generated. Business teams may actually customize it.
  • JustSolve — JustSolve is an agentic debt collection team that allows organizations to recover more, spending less.
  • CommerceClarity — Rebuilding catalog operations around AI agents.
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Utsav Somani
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $575k–$9M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2.7M; Series A $2.5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grexa AI — Grexa AI is creating a one-stop AI assisted mobile app designed to help local business owners grow with their revenue. Grexa helps business owners like clinics and dental practices, home service businesses such as plumbers, HVAC specialists, and pest control services, as well as salons, fitness centers, car service shops, restaurants, real estateagencies, and travel agents to effortlessly and affordably improve their digital presence and customer communication
  • Cleevo — Cleevo offers products of cleaning with eco friendly, non toxic solutions to your home.
  • Eyewear designed& labs — Eyewear designed& labs is a eyewear startup.
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Angelo Moratti
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: iOS, Beauty, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — 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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Marco Caradonna
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $640k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoVolt — GoVolt is an innovative startup providing sustainable last mile logistics solutions. The company was born to address the challenge of mobility in modern urban centres and aims to differentiate its service offering within the market while solving a crucial issue for today’s and future generations. The company operates four separate business units:custom B2B delivery services, coroporate dedicated vehicle fleet rentals, third party micro-mobility fleet logistical management and specialized mechatronic maintenance.
  • METACASA — The platform that simplifies real estate buying and selling.
  • Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning platform that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs. Acadèmia.tv's teachers are among the most illustrious exponents of this world, and through their courses, they transmit recipes and philosophies accumulated over time. Acadèmia.tv's mission is to make cooking more inclusiveand accessible to all.
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Alexandro Sances
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Alexandro Sances is a seasoned Senior Director and Executive with over 30 years of experience in Management and Consulting across the Telecommunications, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors. He has a strong background in digitalization, IT, IoT, and big data.Always interested in scouting new technologies (ie, blockchain, AI,VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor of TechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $2.2M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MacRebur — > The Macrebur website
  • Next Industries — High-performance geotechnical sensors and IoT-based solutions for geotechnical applications, ground monitoring, SHM, infrastructure safety.
  • IMS — Leading connected insurance provider, using telematics data to help insurers improve pricing, policyholder engagement, risk & claims management
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Reid Hoffman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$26M; Series A $2.5M–$38M; Series B $10M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Niteshift — Niteshift is a software development company that builds the full-stack cloud platform for coding agents. enabling background coding agents that can simulate and close loops on complex tasks end-to-end.
  • Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source
  • Entrepreneurs First — We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.
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Marco De Nicola
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Marco De Nicola

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
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Stefano Miccinelli
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Gift, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippy — Kippy Europe: GPS trackers for dogs & cats. Real-time location, activity tracking & health monitoring. Keep your pet safe across Europe.
  • 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.
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Cristiano Esclapon
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
  • Stage:Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
  • Siamosoci — Siamosoci is the directory for italian start ups. Siamosoci srl Italy provides transparency to the market of italian start ups. the new companies can list in the directory including videos and multimedia support. they can include capital request for their own financing needs.Siamosoci srl Italy facilitate the matching between local investors andthe start ups.
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Fabio Tomassini
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Fabio Tomassini is the Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder, and General Manager of Risparmio Casa. He previously worked at GAROFALO HEALTH CARE as a Group Chief Financial Officer. Fabio Tomassini attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, GreenTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $235k–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TAC S.r.l. — Entra nel futuro del networking con Smart Card personalizzate. Tecnologia NFC e QR. Porta il tuo Business con te.
  • CommerceClarity — Rebuilding catalog operations around AI agents.
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Danila De Stefano
Angel · Peterborough, Peterborough, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Danila De Stefano is the CEO and Founder of unobravo. He attended Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Sales, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Remuner — Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Remuner is the sales compensation software that automate your commissions and drive performance.
  • Niino.it — Niino is a digital healthcare logistics platform provide easy, rapid, and transparent access to non-urgent medical rides, transforming a historically fragmented and analog sector into an automated, digital-first experience.
  • CommerceClarity — Rebuilding catalog operations around AI agents.
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Diego Piacentini
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Diego Piacentini has served as Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business, since February 2012. From January 2007 until February 2012, Diego Piacentini served as Senior Vice President, International Retail, from November 2001 until December 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing and, from February 2000until November 2001, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Piacentini was Vice President and General Manager of Apple Computer Europe, where he headed operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Piacentini joined Apple Computer in 1987. He held several financial management positions both in Apple Italy and at a European level through 1993. Piacentini served as Sales Director for Apple Italy in 1994 and was promoted to the post of General Manager for Apple Italy in May 1995.Piacentini holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University of Milan. An Italian national, he has traveled and worked across Europe, Asia and North America.n Senior Vice President of International Consumer at Amazon.com Inc. since February 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $286k–$16M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
  • IDOVEN — Idoven has developed the world’s first AI cardiologist -Willem- that augments both a cardiologist’s and non-cardiology expert clinician’s ability to identify, triage and diagnose patients at scale through APIs. The company counts clients such as AstraZeneca, Abbott, Novartis, GE Healthcare, FIFPRO, Google, Santander and Real Madrid Foundation.Idoven is backed by top-tier investors and business angels including Insight Partners, Northzone and Wayra (Telefónica), Iker Casillas, Pau Gasol, the Accel Starters program, EIC Accelerator, Horizon 2020, ERC and EIT Health. The company has been awarded with numerous distinctions for its AI technology in Europe and the US, including the the European Seal of Excellence 3x from the European Commission, granted by Horizon 2020, European Research Council ERC 2x (RIA) Europe’s most prestigious research grant, supporting excellent researchers in carrying out ground-breaking, high-risk, high-gain, frontier research projects, EIC Accelerator, and EIT Health. Idoven was ranked #1 Spanish HealthTech company in 2020 by NEOTEC. Idoven has been Google for Startups Resident at Google Campus Madrid and part of the Google for Startups Global Alumni Program. The company has won the prize Emprendedor XXI from CaixaBank, the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, and has been awarded at South Summit 2021 as the Most Disruptive Startup, and Best Health and Wellbeing Startup. Selected by CB Insights as one of the top 150 global companies in Digital Health for 2022, and top 50 global companies in Digital Health for 2023. Idoven was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025.
  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
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Luca Rossi
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Luca Rossi is the Founder of Refactoring.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CommerceClarity — Rebuilding catalog operations around AI agents.
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Massimo Prelz Oltramonti
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Massimo Prelz Oltramonti

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Music, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
  • Saarey — The world's largest online collection of South Asian classical music, with ustads and pandits exclusively performing rare renditions in khayal, dhurpad, thumri and more.
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Francesco Tirinnanzi
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Francesco Tirinnanzi - CEO and Founder @ Gardenstuff

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Computer, Manufacturing, Product Design
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
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Procolo Casella
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Procolo Casella

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Software, Restaurants
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Marco Carlini
Angel · Bolzano, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Marco Carlini

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Consulting, Civil Engineering
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAEmate — CAEmate is an innovative company providing a number of engineering services ranging from FEM numerical simulations to design workflow automation. They specialized in mechanical and civil engineering, design optimization, and high performance computing. They provide consulting services in the fields of numerical analysis and structural andmechanical design. They are happy to support them in all phases of their project, from the preliminary stages to the final design.
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Davide Ricchi
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Davide Ricchi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Restaurants, 3D Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Replate — No more expensive photo shoots. Turn your menu into stunning 3D models and boost its visual appeal.
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Franco Fogliato
Angel · Richardson, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Franco Fogliato is based out of Richardson, Texas, and is the CEO and Board Member of Fossil Group. Franco previously worked at Salomon Group as a President and CEO. Franco Fogliato attended Open University Business School. Franco Fogliato has received the Certificate in Corporate Governance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Matti Kuivalainen
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Matti Kuivalainen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Consulting, Civil Engineering
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAEmate — CAEmate is an innovative company providing a number of engineering services ranging from FEM numerical simulations to design workflow automation. They specialized in mechanical and civil engineering, design optimization, and high performance computing. They provide consulting services in the fields of numerical analysis and structural andmechanical design. They are happy to support them in all phases of their project, from the preliminary stages to the final design.
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Alessio Beverina
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Alessio Beverina is based out of Milan, Lombardia and is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Panakes Partners. Alessio previously worked at Sofinnova Partners as a Venture Partner. Alessio Beverina attended the ESCP Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $11M–$25M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aryel — At Aryel, we help brand and agencies across the globe to create, distribute, and measure high-impact ads through any premium publishers and channels.
  • Relief — RELIEF s.r.l. aims at introducing on the market miniaturized devices for the treatment of urinary incontinence. In particular, the company proposes a technology that is simple, highly innovative, unisex, effective, low-cost and acceptable from the patient viewpoint.
  • Neuromod Devices — Neuromod is the global medical device company that developed Lenire, the FDA Approved tinnitus treatment device.
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Francesco Medda
Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

CEO at scloby, father of welco, Web & Mobile Developer, I love cooking, diving, travel and change perspective

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Point of Sale, Developer APIs, Retail Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scloby — Scloby is an innovative cloud POS with advanced features suitable for any type of business.Created for shops, restaurants, bars and beauty salons, it can be customized for every need.With the Scloby Cloud POS, managing your business will be simpler, more practical and faster. All you need is a tablet or a computer and you are ready to go!Moreinfo at https://scloby.com
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Nathaniel Barling
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Nathaniel Barling joined Knowhere as Co-Founder, CEO in 2015.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Maurizio Donadelli
Angel · Altino, Veneto, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Maurizio Donadelli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Retail, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$283k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Antlos — Antlos is a peer-to-peer online marketplace that offers all-inclusive experience-driven boat holidays, published and managed directly by local Skippers, who are the captains and owners of the boat. Based on the principles of a Sharing Economy, Antlos makes yachting simple, affordable and accessible to everyone.Every Skipper may publish severallistings and be contacted by registered users willing to book a holiday. Guests can choose from different destinations and experiences offered and safely pay online via credit card, Paypal and Bank Wire. The Skippers can start earning from the rental of their boat without having to pay any agency fees and clients can book their holidays easily and safely thanks to Antlos' flexible cancellation policies and clear terms and conditions.Antlos was born in Venice and grown in H-FARM Campus. The team is composed of young professionals, passionate and expert on travel and the maritime industry, coming from different work experiences. Recently Antlos has been merged with the Swiss company which runs Sailogy.com.
  • Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
  • Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.
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Matteo Riffeser
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Matteo Riffeser is the Founder of Tate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Wireless
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wiman — Find all the Free WiFi hotspots available in your travel destination and elsewhere in the world.
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Simone Severini
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Simone Severini is the Director, Quantum Computing at Amazon Web Services.He attended University of Bristol.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Hardware, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
  • Muffin — Muffin connette PMI italiane e consulenti certificati per accedere a bandi, incentivi e finanza agevolata. Una piattaforma completa, costruita per far crescere le imprese.
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Daniel Cremers
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Daniel Cremers is the Chief Science Officer and Co-Founderat Artisense Corporation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Alessandro Errico
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Alessandro Errico

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
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Sacha Monotti Graziadei
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Sacha Monotti Graziadei

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $158k–$704k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
  • Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.
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Gianluca D'Agostino
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Gianluca D'Agostino is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Techshop. He previously worked at Bango as a Non Executive Director. Gianluca D'Agostino attended Sapienza University of Rome.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $7.7M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • Octostar — Octostar is the sovereign, AI-powered investigative intelligence platform for law enforcement, national security and financial institutions.
  • Smartness — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
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Simone Mancini
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Simone Mancini currently works as CEO and Co-Founder of Scalapay. He previously worked at Prospa. as Product Manager of New Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $3.1M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • QisstPay — QisstPay makes eCommerce easier by allowing you to better convert customers with a seamless checkout experience. You can add and test any payment method; payment processors, BNPL, Crypto, Financing, and more.
  • CommerceClarity — Rebuilding catalog operations around AI agents.
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Fabio Fregi
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Fabio Fregi is an Investor at Cubbit and a Senior Advisor at Accenture.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cloud Infrastructure
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
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Andrea De Mauro
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Andrea De Mauro

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Restaurants, 3D Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Replate — No more expensive photo shoots. Turn your menu into stunning 3D models and boost its visual appeal.
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Claudio Loda
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Claudio Loda - Technical Director @ Colorado Mountain College

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Smart Home, Product Design, Smart Building
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • almadom.us — Start-up founded in 2015 in partnership with some important companies in the technology and energy market. We develops innovative solutions to make buildings more and more smart, thanks to an intelligent energy consumption and environmentally friendly device.
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Emanuele Visconti
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Emanuele Visconti is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Alexandr Wang
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Alexandr Wang is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Board of Directors of Scale AI. Alexandr Wang attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$56M; Series A $13M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Netic — The AI revenue engine for essential service industries that keep America running.
  • Reflection AI — Make intelligence open and accessible to all
  • Volantis — Volantis specializes in developing AI-driven semiconductor solutions. The company focuses on creating advanced systems that support high-performance computing for various applications, including networking, data centers, and edge computing. Volantis provides integrated hardware and software platforms designed to optimize processing power, energyefficiency, and scalability. Their technology aims to enhance the capabilities of existing infrastructure, making it adaptable to emerging computational demands. The company's solutions cater to industries that require robust, efficient computing power at scale.
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Fabio de Concilio
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Wearables, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippy — Kippy Europe: GPS trackers for dogs & cats. Real-time location, activity tracking & health monitoring. Keep your pet safe across Europe.
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Gabriele Grassini
Angel · Lucca, Toscana, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Gabriele Grassini

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Smart Home
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Homsai — In occasione dell'Earth Day lanciamo sul mercato Homsai, l'app che grazie all'intelligenza artificiale ottimizza i consumi della tua smart home.
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Giovanni Tamburini
Angel · Lucca, Toscana, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Giovanni Tamburini

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Smart Home
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Homsai — In occasione dell'Earth Day lanciamo sul mercato Homsai, l'app che grazie all'intelligenza artificiale ottimizza i consumi della tua smart home.
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Fabio Penzo
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Entrepreneur, Advisor, Angel Investor. My passion is to build and support amazing groups of people in accomplishing ambitious business goals

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Hardware, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Smate — all your services, sorted!
  • 2045Tech — FLOOME can monitor your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) and it gives you the necessary time to recover if you are above the legal limit.FLOOME combines high accuracy, fashion design, and price. FLOOME has unmatched features, such as: • Endless battery life
• Sleek Italian design and best usability on the market • International patent-pendingtechnology covering the professional-grade accuracy, battery life, and low manufacturing costs • Retail price • High accuracy; same sensors used by law enforcement officers • Connects to any iPhone, Android or Windows smartphone through the standard headphone jack • The proprietary app displays the BAC as well as other helpful and relevant information like the time to recovery • Customizable colors and limited branded versions (with car TMs, and alike).
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Simo Beraha
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Hardware startups

Simo Beraha

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Smart Home, Product Design, Smart Building
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • almadom.us — Start-up founded in 2015 in partnership with some important companies in the technology and energy market. We develops innovative solutions to make buildings more and more smart, thanks to an intelligent energy consumption and environmentally friendly device.
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Hardware Angel investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 52 deals from 63 investors.

63
investors
in Italy Hardware startups
52
deals
in Italy Hardware startups
$644k
median round
in Italy Hardware startups
10%
lead investors
lead at least one round
42%
Seed
most common funding stage

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