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Top 25 Hospitality Startup Investors in Italy in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Hospitality Startup Investors in Italy in April 2025

Investor	Hospitality Italy investments
P101	6
CDP Venture Capital	4
Vertis	3
PranaVentures	3
Picus Capital	3
Club Italia Investimenti 2	2
Italian Angels for Growth	2
Fabio Pezzotti	1
Startup Alliance	1
Angel Capital Management	1
Azimut Holding	1
Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore	1
Milano Investment Partners SGR	1
Oltre Impact	1
Club Digitale	1
UVET - American Express Travel	1
Pi Campus	1
Euan Lonmon	1
Verdant Frontiers	1
Opes Italia	1
Kitchen Fund	1
Principia SGR	1
Atlante Seeds	1
Mauro Del Rio	1
Boost Heroes	1

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P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
Carol — Carol is a tech-enabled healthcare provider delivering membership-based primary care services, on a mission to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone. To achieve this goal, Carol leverages a highly scalable technology, combined with high quality clinical operations and a salaried provider model.
Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
Postura Ergonomics — Postura transform workers videos into ergonomic risk assessments for manufacturing companies. Our AI delivers quick, accurate, and scalable analyses, cutting costs and compliance time. ergonomia lavoro ufficio
Genoa Instruments — Genoa Instruments is an innovative startup dedicated to transforming the field of biomedical and health research through advanced super-resolution optical microscopy. Our groundbreaking optical microscope uniquely integrates spatial and temporal super-resolution for structural and functional imaging in living samples with unprecedented detail. Ourmission is to make high-resolution imaging accessible to all, fostering scientific discovery and advancing healthcare research.

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
Focoos AI — Focoos reshapes computer vision with ultra-efficient models that drive down costs, automate hardware integration, and ensure peak performance on any device, while promoting sustainability.
TimeFlow — TimeFlow is a software that acts as a B2B marketplace dedicated to the technical and managerial consulting sector.

PranaVentures is an operational venture capital fund launched in 2021 with the goal of filling the funding gap between newly established and startup companies supporting them to grow and quickly reach the next stage of development. The investment strategy is focused on seed and post-seed startups operating in the digital space, with an interest ininnovative sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce and marketplaces. Leveraging a wide network of stakeholders, PranaVentures supports emerging entrepreneurs with capital and strategic expertise.

Investment focus

SaaS, Hospitality, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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).
BeSafe Group — BeSafe: la Suite di Tool e Strumenti che semplifica la Gestione della tua Struttura e migliora le tue Strategie di Revenue Alberghiero.
Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Niko Energy — Niko is a Mexico-based provider of residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners. It is the first solar company in the country offering rent-to-own financing products on top leasing and cash payments. Fully focused on customer experience, Niko provides a 5-star journey owning each step of the value chain in-house, ensuringquality, security and peace of mind for its customers.
SmartSolar — SmartSolar is a Saigon-based EnergyTech company working to decarbonise Southeast Asia. With SmartSolar, businesses save on their electricity bill from day 1. SmartSolar is currently busy building the critical financing infrastructure to get SMBs equipped with solar energy. We help our customers save money and enable our partners to reach morecustomers. Renewable energy is at an inflection point across the region and we are on a mission to make it available for everyone.
Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Series A
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.

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.

Global community helping entrepreneurs connect, overcome challenges and win using the tools and resources we provide.

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.

Founded by Angelo Moratti, Angel Capital Management (formerly Angel Lab) is a leading private investment firm providing growth equity to companies in various stages of development. The Direct Investments Practice mainly focuses on fast growing Consumer&Lifesyle companies. ACM offers its portfolio companies a comprehensive platform for growthacting as i) a partner for the international expansion of Italian companies ii) and a gateway to the Italian and South European market for foreign companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Crea — CREA is the leading digital commerce enabler providing end to end solution for brands to reach the booming, digital savvy millennial and Generation Z consumers in Southeast Asia.
AGORA — Agora World discover and create honest beauty content.
ZAGO Milano — La tua skincare e skin-prep Made in Italy con Amore!

Azimut Holding is an independent financial company that offers investment solutions to develop excellent levels of experience. The company's business model is based on the vertical integration between asset management and distribution. It has portfolio managers and analysts based in major hubs around the world and a network of client-facingfinancial advisors operating to deliver quality advice to clients.Azimut Holding was founded on 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, China, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
Chainstack — Chainstack is a leading blockchain infrastructure providing company. Build, run and scale blockchain applications using Chainstack nodes.
Alps Blockchain — Alps Blockchain is a company specialized in research and development in the sectors of blockchain and data mining.

MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Italy, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
Jellatech — Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin.
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.

We shape impact investing for people and planet

Investment focus

Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency

Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
Funding Round, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

WeSchool — Unlock the transformative power of Education with WeSchool: we craft innovative programmes that connect teachers, students and partners.
WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

The company was founded in Milan in 1950 by the intuition of the entrepreneur Francesco Patanè. Uvet American Express is provides Travel Management Services in Italy. Uvet American Express manages BizTravel Forum, the reference Business Travel Community in Italy for travels, mobility and events.

Investment focus

Apps, News, Hotel
Seed, Funding Round
Italy, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Plannify — Create Impressive 3D Home Designs that Your Clients Love Say hi to the simplest interior home design tool made for both professionals and amateurs. Decorate and personalize the home designs with an extensive library of floors, wall coverings, materials, greenery,...
Blink Booking — Blink Booking is an app that helps travelers in Europe book hotels at the last minute by providing a daily selection of four hotels. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.

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.

Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.

Investment focus

Travel, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.

Opes Italia Sicaf Euveca is an impact investing Venture Capital fund. Our aim is to invest in companies based in Italy, or with prevalent activity in the country, and that propose solutions that generate a strong social impact and create positive externalities for the community and the territory.

Investment focus

Travel, Leisure, Tourism
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!

Kitchen Fund is the leading source of capital for emerging restaurants trying to change the way we eat.

Investment focus

Restaurants, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
Hyphen — Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency in the kitchen with less errors and lower costs.
JUICER — JUICER is helping restaurants automate their pricing within their existing technology stack using machine learning algorithms. By taking a data-driven approach to pricing, restaurants can significantly increase revenue and profitability. With dynamic pricing, restaurants can increase profits during peak periods, increase volume during slowerperiods, and improve the customer experience by providing deals to price-sensitive customers, and by lowering wait times for customers during busy periods.

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

Atlante Seed is an Intesa Sanpaolo Group's Fund dedicated to seed and early stage capital, it invests in innovative companies still small but with high growth potential, with a particular attention to those belonging to the high technology industry. Besides this activity (direct investments), the Fund invests in selected business incubators oraccelerators specialized in specific sectors (indirect investments).

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Sports, Hardware
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sellf — Sellfapp, the CRM Mobile for an easier sales tracking and clients managing. Ask for more information and download our 14 days free trials.
GoPillar — Get dozens of high quality projects from professional designers: easy, fast and on a budget. Redesign your space on GoPillar.
WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

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.

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

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