Top 25 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Italy in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Italy in May 2025
Investor | Manufacturing Italy investments |
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Alberto Giusti | 3 |
Matteo Fago | 2 |
Francesco Starace | 2 |
Giovanni Onesti | 2 |
Fulvio Basili | 2 |
Family, Friends & Angels | 2 |
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino | 2 |
Daniel Cremers | 1 |
Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos | 1 |
Marco De Nicola | 1 |
Alessandro Errico | 1 |
Cristiano Esclapon | 1 |
Elena Paola Lanati | 1 |
Bhavik Bajaj | 1 |
Andrea Tonti | 1 |
Francesco Beraldi | 1 |
Alexandro Sances | 1 |
Emanuele Visconti | 1 |
Alberto Grignolo | 1 |
Alessandro Rimassa | 1 |
Franco Fogliato | 1 |
Nathaniel Barling | 1 |
Utsav Somani | 1 |
Andrea Francioni | 1 |
Francesco Tirinnanzi | 1 |
Alberto Giusti - Partner @ Guanxi
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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.
Matteo Fago
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Investment focus
- Travel, Farming, Big Data
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
- Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
- IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.
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Investment focus
- 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 Onesti
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Fulvio Basili is a Private Investor at WallFarm and also the CEO and Founder of Ecosafey.
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Family, Friends & Angels
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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!
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino
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Investment focus
- Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Daniel Cremers is the Chief Science Officer and Co-Founderat Artisense Corporation.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Industrial
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
Marco De Nicola
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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
Alessandro Errico
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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
Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci
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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.
Elena Paola Lanati
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Diamante — Diamante is a company that develops and manufactures autoimmune disease diagnosis devices using nanomaterials. It exploits plants as bioreactors for the sustainable production of nanoparticles based on modified plant viruses that are used in developing new tools. Diamante was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Verona, Italy.
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Passato professionista nel 1999, ho negli anni vestito le divise di Cantina Tollo, Saeco, Lampre, Acqua & Sapone, Quick Step, Fuji e Carmiooro. In carriera ho ottenuto tre vittorie, il Gran Premio Fred Mengoni, una tappa dell'Euskal Bizikleta in Spagna e il Trittico Lombardo, tutte nel 2006; come gregario ho invece contribuito ai successial Giro d'Italia di Gilberto Simoni nel 2003 e di Damiano Cunego nel 2004.
Sono stato per quattro anni convocato dalla nazionale italiana ai Campionati del Mondo (in un'occasione riserva), contribuendo ai successi in linea di Paolo Bettini nel 2007 a Stoccarda e di Alessandro Ballan nel 2008 a Varese. Annuncio il ritiro dall'attività agonistica nel gennaio 2011, rimango comunque nel mondo del ciclismo come Sport Manager del team UCI Continental D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo. Nel 2012 e 2013 ricopro la figura di Team Manager nel Team Nippo-De Rosa vincendo due Giri del Giappone, il giro di Malesia e conquistando oltre 40 gare in due anni, portando così il Team ad essere una delle formazioni di maggiore interesse nel mondo Asiatico.
Parallelamente dal 2011 inizio una nuova esperienza personale come co-founder & events manager di "Bike Division Tour Operator" specializzato esclusivamente in viaggi alle più importanti Granfondo nazionali ed internazionali e in viaggi per Cicloturisti con oltre 40 destinazioni a livello mondiale.
Grazie il mio Know How ed alla trentennale presenza/esperienza nel mondo del ciclismo e sportivo in genere sono stato avvicinato da diverse ed importanti aziende Leader nei loro mercati che mi hanno coinvolto in progetti di consulenza commerciale e marketing, legati sia al mondo ciclistico e cicloturistico in genere, ottenendo sin da subito ottimo riscontro professionale.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Women's, Shopping
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Francesco Beraldi
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
A highly driven Senior Director and Executive with +25 Y in Management and Consulting experience, within the Telecommunication, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors and in Digitalization, IT, IoT, and Big Data areas.Always interested in the scouting of new technologies (ie: blockchain, AI, VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor ofTechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Manufacturing, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, Italy, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MacRebur — > The Macrebur website
- Next Industries — Next Industries designs and manufactures high accuracy data acquisition loggers, gateways and sensors provided with IoT solution technology.
- Insurance & Mobility Solutions — Globally-leading connected insurance provider, using telematics data to help insurers improve pricing, customer engagement, risk management & claims handling.
Emanuele Visconti is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Alberto Grignolo - COO @ Yoox Net-a-Porter Group
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Women's, Shopping
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Author of "It's easy to change Italy, if you know how to do it" and "Thousand Euro Generation", director of the school of management and communication of IED.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Industrial
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
Franco Fogliato is the President and CEO at Salomon Group. Franco attended The Open University Business School.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Nathaniel Barling joined Knowhere as Co-Founder, CEO in 2015.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management
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Investment focus
- Apps, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
- Alt Carbon — Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform.
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Andrea Francioni
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Investment focus
- Winery, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- First Glass — Il vino cambia stile e formato, con le monoporzioni di FirstGlass potrai assaporare un calice di pura emozione dove e quando vuoi.
Francesco Tirinnanzi - CEO and Founder @ Gardenstuff
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Investment focus
- Computer, Manufacturing, Product Design
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Gardenstuff — GardenStuff manifactures technological and design articles for plants anf flower integration: Gardening, plant pots, tools, bulbs, flowerpots, planters, plants, fertilizers
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