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Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Italy in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Internet startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Italy in February 2025

Investor	Internet Italy investments
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis	4
Paolo Barberis	3
Alberto Giusti	3
Luigi Bajetti	2
Jacopo Paoletti	2
Mauro Del Rio	2
Massimo Cioffi	2
Emiliano Maria Cappuccitti	2
Andrea Febbraio	2
Gianpaolo Naef	2
Giorgio Chiellini	2
Marco Bicocchi Pichi	2
Francesco Starace	2
Giovanni Gardelli	2
Nico Rosberg	2
Family, Friends & Angels	2
Massimo Pagnetti	2
Roberto Magnifico	2
Claudio Rossi	2
Stefano Miccinelli	2
Matilde Giglio	1
Fabio Nalucci	1
Euan Lonmon	1
Fabio Cannavale	1
Karim Ricciardi	1
Joe Zadeh	1
Paolo Basilico	1
Andrea Di Camillo	1
Marco Caradonna	1
Gianluca Dettori	1
Hugo Valdivia	1
Gianni Tagliapietra	1
Andrea Rota	1
Maurizio Donadelli	1
Angelo Italiano	1
Rosario Didonna	1
Alexandre Campra	1
Fabio Fregi	1
Procolo Casella	1
Valerio Caracciolo	1
Marco Valta	1
Antonio Zaccheo	1
Riccardo Martinelli	1
Luca Fabio Giacometti	1
Pietro Pellizzari	1
Alessandro Gatti	1
Massimo Nicastro	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Claudio Di Zanni	1
Silvestro Russo	1

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Italy, France, United Kingdom

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.

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Alberto Giusti - Partner @ Guanxi

Investment focus

Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things, Industrial Automation
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Alleantia — Alleantia, through converged industrial edge, transforms the way companies harness the power of data to improve industrial operations.

Luigi Bajetti is the managing partner and founder of Lombardstreet Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California.Luigi is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the tech and internet industries, with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in building and scaling startups.As a full-time investor since2013, he has been leveraging his experience and insights to identify and support the next generation of Silicon Valley founders. With a passion for backing game-changing technologies and a talent for spotting emerging trends, Luigi has a proven track record of success in identifying groundbreaking startups. He has invested almost always at the earliest possible stage of seed in 20+ US startups valued at over $30 billion combined, including 9 that have since become unicorns.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Cardenxe Sotol — Artisanal Small Batch 100% Sotol Spirit Cardenxe Sotol is a terroir-inspired premium craft spirit, distilled from the heart of the Dasylirion plant, in North of Mexico - where it holds a Denomination of Origin. Every label (Desierto and Sierra) honors a different environment in which the plants used to distill grew.
Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Rebellyous Foods — Rebellyous Foods makes crispy, juicy, 100% plant-based nuggets. Your guests will love the taste. Your team will love the simplicity. Get Rebellyous with us!

Digital Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Japal —
CreationDose —
Contents — Revolutionizing AI content generation for enterprises, providing personalized, scalable solutions for e-commerce, publishers, and agencies, with seamless IT integration and brand consistency.

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.

Massimo Cioffi is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Emiliano Maria Cappuccitti is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Venture Capitalist, Investor, Internet entrepreneur, International Speaker and Book Author.+15 years of experience in AdTech & Digital Advertising : I love to start-up international digital business, scale it and make them grow till the exit.Co-founder of Ebuzzing (now Teads) from 0 to 100M$ Revenues in 4 YearsFounder of PromoDigital// Sold It After 2 Years for 4x RevenuesCo-Author of the book "Viral Video: Content is King Distribution is Queen" & Co-Author of the Book "Buzz Marketing nei Social Media" Partner at Ariadne CapitalPro Speaker at London Speaker Bureauhttp://mariafranzoni.com/business-management/4471-andrea-febbraio// I LOVE TO MENTOR AWESOME TEAMS //Speaker at Major Digital Advertising events: Royal Institution of Great Britain, IAB Forum Milan, iStrategy London, iStrategy Amsterdam, Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, Dmexco Cologne, Inspirational Festival Madrid.Advisor http://www.luissenlabs.com/ Angel Portfolio: AdEspresso, Chupamobile, Beintoo, FiloVenture Portfolio: Money Dashboard, Oxygen, Bit X , Quill, Taggstar, SoundOut, Made Television, Orson & Co , Bloomy Days, Norwood SystemSenior Lecturer at :SDA Bocconi, LUISS Business School, Business School Il Sole 24 Ore, IED, NaBA, Master IAB Università Cattolica, Gambero Rosso

Investment focus

Internet, Farming, Fitness
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.

Gianpaolo Naef is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Giorgio Chiellini

Investment focus

Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vedrai — Vedrai develops online platforms based on AL.
Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.

Co-Founder and Marketing Director at WIB.After a successful career as an executive at the intersection of digital technology and business with international leading companies such as EDS, Ernst & Young, Etnoteam, Booz Allen Hamilton (Professional Excellence Award in 2004) and AT Kearney, Marco has funded and has participated in founding since2008 several technology startups including Nextome named the most awesome startup of the Year by on-line vote at Web Summit 2014 in Dublin. Member of the association Italia Startup from the foundation in 2012, he has been elected to the Board of Directors and in 2014 to the newly formed Executive Committee with the delegation for International Affairs. Marco was named Italian Business Angel of the Year 2014 by the Italian Business Angel association and has contributed from 2009 to 2013 the development of the largest angel club in Italy : IAG Italian Angel for Growth. Marco collaborates with several business accelerators, startup competitions, schools, and institutions on the topics of startup and innovation.

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, Accounting
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Nomesia — NOMESIA is one of the major Web Agency in Milan, focused onOnline Marketing for Professional Services whose aim is the acquisition of new business opportunities and new customers.Nomesia offers services relating to SEM, SEO, email marketing, website development and social media.We also give support to customers on the conversion rateoptimisation, providing them with all the necessary tools, resources and skills to achieve their goals.
Condomani — Condomani é il social network gestionale ideato per rivoluzionare il modo di vivere il condominio. Con Condomani finalmente potrai avere il condominio nelle tue mani e gestire dovunque avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc. Sei pronto a rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condominio? Iscriviti gratisCondomanié il social network per il rivoluzionare gestionale ideato di vivere il mode condo. With Condomani finally potrai avere il nelle tue condo peanuts and dovunque gestire avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc.. Sei soon rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condo? free iscriviti

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.

Investment focus

Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Seed, Angel
Italy

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

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

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

Investment focus

Logistics, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

Family, Friends & Angels

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Zakeke — Try out Zakeke's 3D Product Configurator & Customizer plugin for eCommerce. Let customers craft & buy their dream products. Try for free!

Massimo Pagnetti is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

With many years of experience in business finance and international financial markets, he is a collaborator with LUISS EnLabs, director at LVenture Group and a partner with InnovActionLab. Since 2008, he has occupied himself with startups, has acted as co-founder, business angel, advisor and mentor, focusing on turnover, internationalization andcrowdsourcing. He has worked in New York, Rome and London, filling important positions at Lehman Brothers, Banco di Roma, UBS, Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He was co-founder and director of companies and associations, including Business Value, Agorà SGR, Atlas Capital (hedge funds) and Business Club Italia. He has led trainings at Banco di Roma, UBS and Barclays Capital on tools and capital markets and was co-editor of publications about markets, published by Euromoney Publications. He is an alumnus of the University of Bari.

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Mobile
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

NetLex — NetLex is a cloud-based legal practice management software and SaaS for the law firm and lawyers. It also offers legal information management products and services for commercial law firms and in-house lawyers. Currently developing and serving the Italian market, with approximately 250,000 lawyers. This allows the legal profession to finally reachproductivity and client servicing levels unthinkable before.Netlex was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Velletri, RM, Italy.

Claudio Rossi - Advisor @ GoSherpy

Investment focus

Farming, Internet, Agriculture
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Elaisian — Elaisian is a precision farming service that focuses on the preservation of olive trees. By a system of algorithms based on a database of agronomic studies, the company is able to prevent diseases and to optimize cultivation processes such as irrigation and fertilization. The goal is to improve olive tree's life and the producer's work.
Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Matilde Giglio is the Co-Founder of Even and an angel investor in over 30 companies globally https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/even-healthcare-lands-additional-capital-to-advance-primary-care-adoption-in-india/

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Turno — Turno Finance makes owning EV very affordable. Turno Club is a community around commercial EVs. Turno Battery Future is our solution to keeping batteries on the road for longer.
Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.

Fabio Nalucci - CEO & Founder @ GELLIFY

Investment focus

Advice, Internet, Accounting
Seed, Angel, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Limolane — Limolane is a chauffeur service designed to meet the mobility needs of users. They offer a variety of vehicles, transparent pricing, and an easy booking process. They streamline user travel interactions and provide users with private car rentals with drivers.
Normo — Puoi dire addio alle lunghe e dispendiose ricerche. Normo ti fornisce risposte rapide e accurate sulla normativa contabile, fiscale e del lavoro, facendoti guadagnare tempo libero.
FidoCommercialista — FidoCommercialista is a team of accountants to offer tax support. They use digital technologies to save customers time and money. They provide tax advice for their clients. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contact form, and email.

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.

Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Properly is a visual checklist tool that lets property owners share turnover instructions with cleaning pros effortlessly.Properly's mission is to have hosts and property managers get the same streamlined results during every guest turnover cleaning, and for professional cleaners to understand their clients' expectations and getrecognized for stellar work.
Contents.com — Revolutionizing AI content generation for enterprises, providing personalized, scalable solutions for e-commerce, publishers, and agencies, with seamless IT integration and brand consistency.
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

Karim Ricciardi

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Joe Zadeh

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Personal Health
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Italy, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
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).

Paolo Basilico is the Product Manager at SIA-SSB.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Music Streaming
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc

Andrea has over 20 years of experience as a venture capital investor and entrepreneur. He has worked with Kiwi I, Cir Ventures, and Principia SGR, and invested in more than 40 companies – such as Yoox, Venere, Viamente – as well as being a founder of Vitaminic and Banzai. In 2013 he launched P101 SGR, of which he is Managing Partner, which todaymanages three investment funds (P101 – Programma 101; P102 – Programma 101 and Italia 500).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Italy, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
iubenda — Make your sites & apps legally compliant across multiple languages and legislations (including the GDPR) with our lawyer-crafted, self-updating solutions.
Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nexoya — Performance Marketing optimized with AI. Leverage the power of agile portfolio management. Allocate budgets by using AI technology and reach +70% ROAS
Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.
Connected-Stories — Connected-Stories is the unique Creative Management Platform designed for enterprises to automate their end-to-end process to manage dynamically personalized ads at scale. The platform uses a patented model powered by generative and predictive AI to build multimodal unconventional creatives in real time. Creatives produced by Connected-Stories canbe distributed on any kind of paid and owned media.

Gianluca Dettori is the Chairman and General Partner at Primo Ventures, a President at Italian Tech Alliance, the CAO: Chief Agitation Officer at BIG - Boost Innovation Garage, and a Genesis Member at VC3 DAO. He previously worked as the Co-organizer - Milano at Startup Europe Week, Director at iubenda, a Board Member at GoalShouter, and theCo-Founder of im3D. Gianluca attended the Università degli Studi di Torino.

Investment focus

B2B, Legal, Fashion
Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
iubenda — Make your sites & apps legally compliant across multiple languages and legislations (including the GDPR) with our lawyer-crafted, self-updating solutions.
Italian Artisan — Elevate your fashion brand with expert Italian clothing manufacturers | Streamline your production with Italian Artisan | Low MOQ

Hugo was born and raised in Peru. In early 2000’s he got his Diploma in Industrial Engineering, starting off his career in the Logistics industry, where he worked on storage and distribution matters.In January 2012, Hugo moved to The Netherlands to pursue his MBA degree at Erasmus University, graduating in March 2013. Immediately after, Hugochanged career to Corporate Finance, where he specialized on Financial and Business Controlling during his tenures at technology and FMCG companies, including names like TomTom and The KraftHeinz Company.By mid-2018 his entrepreneurship journey started by founding Qullqi, an e-shop for women’s fashion accessories handcrafted in Peru. In addition, Hugo acted as interim Finance Manager for local companies in The Netherlands. During one assignment he moved to do home-office due to Covid-19 outbreak. In this new set-up, he found himself struggling to keep up with his personal productivity. Looking for a solution to allow him regain control over it as well as on his work-life balance, he learned that other professionals were dealing with a similar problem and there was no such a simple product in the market. This was the beginning of Silentus. Since then, Hugo’s been working on market and customer research and also setting up a team to grow the business and develop a great product.In February 2022, Hugo graduated from INSEAD Executive Master in Finance studies. During his free time he enjoys reading, primarily books around the topics of business, philosophy, and personal development; going to the gym; and watching football in local sports bars. He’s currently based in Amsterdam.

Investment focus

Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.

Gianni Tagliapietra

Investment focus

Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.

Andrea Rota is a Managing Director at Investors Club. He attended IMD (International Institute for Management Development).

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
AdEspresso — Start driving results across Facebook, and Instagram with a free 14-day trial of AdEspresso.
30SecondsToFly - Claire — We provide A.I. driven workflow automation for travel management companies to lower their cost and provide a "super" user experience to their travelers.In Autopilot mode Claire completes the travel agent's most repetitive tasks and in Copilot mode she shares learnt traveler patterns with the agent. As a result, Claire saves travelagents on avg. 50% of their time. Our in-house NLP has a response time of less than a second and an accuracy of 96%. Our in-house recommender systems are at 85% first tier accuracy. While travelers enjoy an unprecedented level of self-service experience, travel agents are free to focus on their revenue generating, high touch customer interactions. A win-win-win for traveler, agent and TMC.30SecondsToFly was awarded the General Catalyst Award for Travel Innovation $100k, recognised as the most innovate and disruptive emerging company in travel in 2019. Watch our winning pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=DYEzUF0kx78&feature=emb_logo

Maurizio Donadelli

Investment focus

Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
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.

Angelo Italiano

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Fitness
Seed, Convertible Note
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Desmotec — Desmotec - Home - Riabilitazione, Prevenzione & Performance. I dispositivi Desmotec sono attrezzature innovative adatte per fisioterpisti e allenatori.
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

Rosario Didonna - Consultant @ Foodscovery

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Online Portals
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Alexandre Campra

Investment focus

Retail, Real Estate, Online Portals
Pre-Seed, Private Equity
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Inpoi — Inpoi ti aiuta a fare la scelta giusta. Valuta gratuitamente il tuo immobile online in pochi semplici passi con il nostro valutatore e vendi casa al prezzo giusto!
Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.

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

Investment focus

Cloud Infrastructure
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.

Procolo Casella

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Entrepreneur and Business Angel. Valerio Caracciolo is Vice President of the Italian branch of AMREF (African Medical Research Foundation). You He was an entrepreneur in the field of technical gases and CEO of Linde AG in France and Italy. Between 1986 and 1994 he worked at the Industrial Union of Rome (U.I.R) as Vice President of the YoungEntrepreneurs, President of the Chamber of Chemists and Chairman of the Consortium of Innovation and Industrial Research (C.I.R.I.). He also professional experience in the field of real estate development. He graduated in Physics with major in Geophysics and holds a Master in Financial Management and Business Management. He attended courses in programming computers at OLIVETTI and HONEYWELL.

Investment focus

SaaS, Legal, Mobile
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

NetLex — NetLex is a cloud-based legal practice management software and SaaS for the law firm and lawyers. It also offers legal information management products and services for commercial law firms and in-house lawyers. Currently developing and serving the Italian market, with approximately 250,000 lawyers. This allows the legal profession to finally reachproductivity and client servicing levels unthinkable before.Netlex was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Velletri, RM, Italy.

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.

Antonio Zaccheo is the CEO at BIC Capital. Antonio Zaccheo attended at University Bocconi.

Investment focus

Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

The Hundred — The Hundred is an holding company which invests in entertainers.

Riccardo Martinelli

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, Service Industry
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Limolane — Limolane is a chauffeur service designed to meet the mobility needs of users. They offer a variety of vehicles, transparent pricing, and an easy booking process. They streamline user travel interactions and provide users with private car rentals with drivers.

Luca Fabio Giacometti - Chairman & CEO @ Galileo Acquisition Corp

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, 3D Printing
Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Roboze — Roboze is able to engineer high performance thermoplastic polymers resistant to the most extreme operating conditions for various sectors.
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

Pietro Pellizzari

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, Real Estate
Pre-Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!

Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire

Investment focus

Marketing, Gift, Retail
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Massimo Nicastro

Investment focus

Internet, Marketing, Real Estate
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.

Claudio Di Zanni

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Online Portals
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Silvestro Russo

Investment focus

Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.

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