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Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Italy

Last updated: Apr 2024 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

Investor	Internet Italy investments
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis	4
Alberto Giusti	3
Paolo Barberis	3
Massimo Pagnetti	2
Emiliano Maria Cappuccitti	2
Jacopo Paoletti	2
Stefano Miccinelli	2
Mauro Del Rio	2
Giovanni Gardelli	2
Luigi Bajetti	2
Francesco Starace	2
Marco Bicocchi Pichi	2
Nico Rosberg	2
Roberto Magnifico	2
Claudio Rossi	2
Family, Friends & Angels	2
Giorgio Chiellini	2
Andrea Febbraio	2
Gianpaolo Naef	2
Massimo Cioffi	2
Procolo Casella	1
Nicola Volpi	1
Alexandre Campra	1
Fabio Massaro	1
Giulio Valiante	1
Luca Fabio Giacometti	1
Maurizio Donadelli	1
Valerio Caracciolo	1
Gianluca Dettori	1
Fabio Nalucci	1
Fabio Chinaglia	1
Cristiano Esclapon	1
Angelo Italiano	1
Alessandro Gatti	1
Fabio Cannavale	1
Massimo Prelz Oltramonti	1
Marco Pescarmona	1
Marco Caradonna	1
Ciro Immobile	1
Fernando Diana	1
Alessandro Errico	1
Paolo Basilico	1
Lodovico Rosnati	1
Stefano Bernardi	1
Rosario Didonna	1
Euan Lonmon	1
Andrea Di Camillo	1
Gianluca Boni	1
Andrea Rota	1
Marco Valta	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.

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.

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 — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

Massimo Pagnetti is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
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
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Japal —
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Contents.com — 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.

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.

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.

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 offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.

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 8 that have since become unicorns.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-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!

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 such asUS, 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).In 2014, Francesco Starace was appointed 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

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

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Germany, Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
Guided Energy — Guided Energy is the smart energy platform to power the next generation of renewable, electric fleets. Our platform makes it easier and cheaper to charge, operate and manage electric vehicles.

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 — Monitora e prenditi cura dei tuoi campi ovunque tu sia.
Fitprime — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.
FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.

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 create & buy their dream products. Try it for free!

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.

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 — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.
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
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.

Massimo Cioffi is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
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.

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

Nicola Volpi (born in 1961 in Milan) is an Italian entrepreneur and manager with a deep knowledge of financial matters and more than 25 years of experience in Private Equity. He has been Member of the Board of Directors of several companies. After graduating in Business Administration at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, he earned a Master inFinance at SDA Bocconi. His professional career started as a Financial Analyst at Sefimeta S.p.A. (Financial Services Department of Montedison Group). In 1987 he joined Sanpaolo Finance, the Investment Bank of San Paolo Group (now Banca Intesa). As Head of Leverage Finance until 1995, he structured the first buyouts ever in Italy. In 1997, Nicola Volpi was a founding Partner of Permira– one of the leading and most successful Private Equity firm in Europe and worldwide with over 40 billion euros under management. In 2005 he was appointed CEO of the Italian branch, Permira Associati SpA, and then Member of Permira Executive Committee which run operations worldwide. Under his leadership, Permira successfully executed several acquisitions and disposals of Italian sector-leading companies, such as Ferretti Yacht, Marazzi, Valentino, Sisal, TFL, and Veneta Cucine. His professional experience at Permira lasted until 2013, when he joined the luxury sports cars manufacturer Pagani Automobili Group as a direct Investor and Member of the Board, a position he is currently holding. In 2014 he was appointed by Erick Thohir, the President of FC Internazionale S.p.A., as Member of the Board of Directors: Nicola Volpi held this position until 2018, with a focus in the area of finance and strategic planning.

Investment focus

Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

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 il tuo immobile online gratuitamente e in pochi semplici passi!
Vado | Vending Automatic Delivery Operations — 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 Massaro

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!

Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis SGR S.p.A.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Social Media, Crowdsourcing
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

DeRev — DeRev is the principal Italian crowdfunding platform to fund creative and innovative projects. DeRev built a large network of relationships at national and international level and we work with institutions, brands, political parties, associations, cultural stakeholders, universities and startup incubators to help spreading the culture and practiceof sharing economy, social innovation and participative democracy. Today DeRev is the leading startup in Italy about crowdfunding and social media, with a focus on arts and culture, politics, activism and civic projects.

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

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.

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.

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 manufacturing | Streamline your production with Italian Artisan | Low MOQ

Fabio Nalucci - CEO & Founder @ GELLIFY

Investment focus

Internet, Marketplace, Service Industry
Angel
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.
Limolane — LimoLane is the chauffeur service providing a wide range of premium cars, transparent costs, an easy way to book and 24/7 support all in one simple app.

Fabio Chinaglia is the Chief Operation Officer at InfoCert. Msc with honours in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Fabio’s area of expertise is the development of software applications that integrate physical devices, sensors and wearable devices with smartphones and cloud services. Fabio is also founder of Eco-Mind, a companyfocused on developing innovative and eco-friendly devices for smart companies and devoted to be the perfect partner for R&D projects and innovative “in-cloud” solutions. In Eco-Mind Fabio developed a specific competence in user computer interaction, and a fast prototyping approach to software development that has been applied in creating the first release of Eye4Flight.

Investment focus

Accounting, Social Media, Information Technology
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
Angel, Series A
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
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.

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

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.

Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Short-term rental management software at low costs. Get the app to manage home maintenance for easy, remote hosting without hiring a property manager.
Contents.com — 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 — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

Massimo Prelz Oltramonti

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Series A
Italy, United Kingdom

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 — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

Mr. Pescarmona graduated cum laude with a degree in electrical engineering from the Turin Polytechnic Institute in 1993, and holds a second degree in information sciences from the University of Turin, from which he graduated cum laude in 1996. He also earned in 1998 an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Heworked as a consultant in the Milan office of McKinsey & Company, focusing on the insurance and banking industries. Formerly he worked in the Fixed Income Derivatives desk of Morgan Stanley in London. In 2000, Mr. Pescarmona founded Gruppo MutuiOnline together with Alessandro Fracassi, and is currently Chairman of the Board, as well as CEO of the Broking Division. Gruppo MutuiOnline was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange on 6 June 2007.

Investment focus

Travel, Finance, Internet
Pre-Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
Holidoit — Holidoit is a marketplace to book local outdoor experiences such as horse riding, truffle hunting and sailing – or even heliski flights.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Ciro Immobile

Investment focus

Art, Fashion, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Inkdome — Inkdome business is a platform designed to help Tattoo parlours and permanent beauticians manage their day-to-day sales and operations. The platform’s feautures span managing appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records, inventory, supply and financial reporting.
Moovenda — Moovenda provides crowdsourced urban shipment services. It enables its customers to order food from any restaurant of their choice. Moovenda was founded on February 20, 2015, and is based in Roma, Lazio, Italy.

Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews

Investment focus

News, Local, Fitness
Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

CityNews — Citynews is an italian based network of local newspaper sites. Actually active in 9 cities Citynews planning to open in the 30 principal italian cities. Actually 1,4 million visits each months.
Fitprime — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.

Alessandro Errico

Investment focus

Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
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

Upon graduating from Bocconi University in Milan in 1984, Paolo Basilico began his career at Banca Manusardi (now Banca Fideuram) and subsequently worked at Mediobanca.In 1991, he joined Giubergia Warburg, where he served as CEO from 1992 to 1998 and was also a member of Warburg London’s European Equity Management Committee. In 1999, he foundedKairos Group, of which he is Chairman and CEO, with the aim of offering an alternative course in the vast asset management industry.From 2009 to early 2013, he served on the Executive Committee of Assogestioni. Through Kairos Group, in 2005, Basilico established the Fondazione Oliver Twist ONLUS, a charitable foundation to help disadvantaged children in Italy, of which he is President. In addition, he is a patron of ARK, an international charitable organization concerned with improving the lives of children around the world.

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

Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.

Investment focus

SaaS, Retail, FinTech
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
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

Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, France, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration

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.

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.

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, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Italy, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bipi — Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
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.

Gianluca Boni

Investment focus

Sales, Fashion, Internet
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Mirta — Discover the finest Luxury Artisans, 100% Made in Italy, straight from the workshops. We ship worldwide for free. All custom duty and taxes are included.

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 — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.
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

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.

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