Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Italy (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
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9 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Software | $83k–$2.4M |
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Alberto Genovese
Angel
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6 | Italy | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, Automotive, E-Commerce | $2.3M–$116M |
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Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel
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4 | Italy, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | E-Commerce, Retail, Internet | $318k–$3.3M |
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Andrea Dusi
Angel
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4 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, FinTech, Software | $150k–$6M |
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Alberto Birolini
Angel
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3 | Italy | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Shoes, Retail, Fashion | |
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Jacopo Paoletti
Angel
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3 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Equity Crowdfunding, Seed | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $63k–$1.1M |
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Maurizio Donadelli
Angel
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3 | Italy, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Analytics, Retail, Travel | $110k–$283k |
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Gianluca Cocco
Angel
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2 | Italy | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software | $1.7M–$8.2M |
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Luca Ferrante Carrante
Angel
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2 | Italy, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Shoes, Retail, Travel | $2.9M–$5M |
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Francesco Zaccariello
Angel
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2 | Italy, Germany | Pre-Seed, Angel | Health Care, CRM, SaaS | $384k–$2.5M |
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Matteo Fago
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Convertible Note | Sharing Economy, Mobile, Travel | $121k–$4M |
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Raffaele Terrone
Angel
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2 | Italy, Germany, Spain | Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $650k–$37M |
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Pascal Houillon
Angel
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2 | Italy, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, SaaS, Security | $2.5M–$5.8M |
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Giampiero Oddone
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Convertible Note | Big Data, Food Delivery, Sharing Economy | |
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Matteo de Brabant
Angel
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2 | Italy, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | News, Beauty, EdTech | $1.8M–$11M |
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Ciro Immobile
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Art, Fashion, Internet | |
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Nico Rosberg
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $4M–$320M |
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Enrico Pandian
Angel
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2 | Italy, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech | $870k–$3.8M |
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Family, Friends & Angels
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Convertible Note | SaaS, Software, E-Commerce | $528k–$881k |
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Stiven Muccioli
Angel
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2 | Italy, San Marino | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $110k–$37M |
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Fabio Zecchini
Angel
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2 | Italy | Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Pet, Retail | |
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Giulio Xiloyannis
Angel
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2 | Italy, Portugal, Philippines | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Online Games, Apps | $217k–$4.3M |
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Karim Ricciardi
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing | |
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Marco Porcaro
Angel
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2 | Italy, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Angel | EdTech, Mobile, Software | $214k–$704k |
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Riccardo Braglia
Angel
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2 | Switzerland, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics | $5M–$86M |
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Euan Lonmon
Angel
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2 | Italy, The Netherlands | Angel, Seed | E-Commerce, B2C, Retail | |
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Riccardo Schiavotto
Angel
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2 | Italy | Angel, Pre-Seed | Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising | |
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Marco Di Pietro
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Advertising, Marketing Automation, SaaS | |
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Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Convertible Note | Farming, Big Data, Agriculture | $121k–$577k |
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Giorgio Chiellini
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Series B | Gaming, Internet, Marketing | $983k–$5.9M |
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Luca Foresti
Angel
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2 | Italy | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Retail, Nutrition | $217k–$5.1M |
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Mario Mariani
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Angel | Apps, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Martin Sinner
Angel
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1 | Germany, Spain, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, iOS | $700k–$1.7M |
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Michael Brehm
Angel
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1 | Germany, Italy, Austria | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Finance | $197k–$13M |
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Alessandro Gatti
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Marketing, Gift, Retail | $296k–$337k |
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Stefano Alberti
Angel
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1 | Italy | Venture - Series Unknown | Gift, Retail, Sports | |
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Alberto Grignolo
Angel
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1 | Italy | Fashion, Women's, Shopping | ||
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Andrea Pederzolli
Angel
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1 | Italy | Angel | Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce | |
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Luca Artoni
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed | Communities, Social Impact, Sustainability | |
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Marco Marianelli
Angel
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1 | Italy | Angel, Equity Crowdfunding | Retail, Wholesale, Food Delivery | |
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Rosario Didonna
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed | Delivery, E-Commerce, Marketplace | |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Marco Filippi
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Apps, Blockchain, Mobile Apps | |
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Riccardo Martinelli
Angel
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1 | Italy | Angel | Internet, Marketplace, Service Industry | |
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Marco Milone
Angel
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1 | Italy, Switzerland | Pre-Seed | Retail, Internet, Nutrition | |
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Francesco Medda
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed | Point of Sale, Developer APIs, Retail Technology | |
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Nicola Drago
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Pet, Wellness, E-Commerce | |
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Andrea Galassi
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding | Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$8.1M |
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Jacopo Sebastio
Angel
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1 | Italy | Shoes, Retail, Fashion | ||
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Mauro Del Rio
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States | Angel, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, E-Commerce, B2B | |
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Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $680k–$2.4M; Angel $83k–$874k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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.
Alberto Genovese (Alberto Maria Genovese) is an Italian entrepreneur and angel investor, founder of Facile.it and Prima Assicurazioni, and co-founder of Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese ETS.Alberto Maria Genovese, born on May 28, 1977, in Naples, has graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and began hisprofessional journey at top firms like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, and Bain & Company. Between 2005 and 2009, he led the Motors and New Businesses division at eBay.In 2008, he launched a price comparison platform initially called Assicurazioni.it, which later became Facile.it, focusing on insurance and financial products. The company was sold to Oakley Capital in 2014. That same year, he co-founded Prima Assicurazioni, a digital insurance company that raised €100 million in 2018 from investors including Goldman Sachs and Blackstone. Genovese also started Brumbrum, an online used car retailer, and invested in various startups like Abiby, Zappyrent, and Jobtech.In December 2025, AXA acquired the majority of Prima Assicurazioni, valuing the company at approximately €1.6 billion; with that transaction Genovese completed his full exit, worth approximately €89.7 million.Today Genovese is co-founder of Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese ETS, a Milan-based non-profit that offers free, permanent psychological support to families of people affected by drug addiction, runs an outpatient clinic in Milan and the residential care center Casa di Stefano. He is also a supporter of Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti, an association providing free digital tools to protect prisoners' rights in Italy.In July 2026, Genovese joined the board of Nessuno tocchi Caino, the Italian non-profit campaigning against the death penalty and for detainees' rights, as head of fundraising.
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- Industry: Internet, Automotive, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$116M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tramundi —
- Facile.it — Facile has built a leading market position in the fast-growing Italian online price comparison market particularly in car insurance. They recently launched several new price comparison product verticals to broaden its revenue base including gas and electricity, broadband, bank accounts and mobile phones. Today, Facile helps 2.2 million Italians amonth compare prices on key elements of their household expenditure.
- Prima Assicurazioni —
Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Italy, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $318k–$2.2M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.4M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
Entrepreneur and investor. After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded the no-profit organization Impactscool, withthe aim to bring education on exponential technologies to Italian students and teachers. Impactscool was sold in 2025 with an exit to an Italian bank. Now his focus is manly on studying, exploring the potential of human beings, understanding true meaning of life, enjoying the passage of time. He is advisor of dozens of technological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Angel $170k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CitizenX — CitizenX is the secure and private platform that helps you diversify your passport portfolio, ensuring a safe future for you and your loved ones.
- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Alberto Birolini
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- Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
Digital Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $165k–$488k; Equity Crowdfunding $63k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Japal — Japal is an e-commerce service for selected brands that develop a brand policy. It is a customizable official online showcase connected to the client's corporate site and to all its social channels.
- CreationDose — We are the MediaTech Company that build solutions and technologies that help Brands to communicate in new media and enable Creators to monetize their contents and audiences.
- Contents — Create, localize and govern content at scale with an enterprise AI platform and digital agency for copy, blogs, SEO, translations, images, video and campaigns.
Maurizio Donadelli
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- Industry: Analytics, Retail, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $110k–$283k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Antlos — Antlos is a peer-to-peer online marketplace that offers all-inclusive experience-driven boat holidays, published and managed directly by local Skippers, who are the captains and owners of the boat. Based on the principles of a Sharing Economy, Antlos makes yachting simple, affordable and accessible to everyone.Every Skipper may publish severallistings and be contacted by registered users willing to book a holiday. Guests can choose from different destinations and experiences offered and safely pay online via credit card, Paypal and Bank Wire. The Skippers can start earning from the rental of their boat without having to pay any agency fees and clients can book their holidays easily and safely thanks to Antlos' flexible cancellation policies and clear terms and conditions.Antlos was born in Venice and grown in H-FARM Campus. The team is composed of young professionals, passionate and expert on travel and the maritime industry, coming from different work experiences. Recently Antlos has been merged with the Swiss company which runs Sailogy.com.
- Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
- Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.
Gianluca achieved two successful exits before founding his new fintech. The first exit occurred in 2018 in Italy when he served as the MD of the Italian branch of Delivery Hero. The second exit happened in 2022 in Spain when he sold Factory14, of which he was a co-founder. From 2011, he spent four years as one of the early managers at Amazon Italy, following the start of his career in strategic consulting at Roland Berger. He is angel investing in Fintech, SaaS and AI at pre-seed stage.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bricks.sh — Bricks.sh provides customer service, operations, and all business teams with an admin panel they enjoy while putting internal tools on autopilot for IT teams. self-generated. Business teams may actually customize it.
- JustSolve — JustSolve is an agentic debt collection team that allows organizations to recover more, spending less.
- CommerceClarity — Enrichment, sourcing, localization, channel publishing, compliance. Run by agents on your own catalog, with your team reviewing only what needs a person.
Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group
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- Industry: Shoes, Retail, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $2.9M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WeRoad — We organise group tours on the road to more than 150 destinations around the world. We leave all year round, in similar groups of age and travel mood.
- Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
- CharityStars — The groundbreaking fundraising platform offering one destination for all. Together we stand strong, dream big and create greater change for causes worldwide.
Francesco Zaccariello founder of eFarma.
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- Industry: Health Care, CRM, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Angel $387k–$450k; Pre-Seed $384k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niino.it — Niino is a digital healthcare logistics platform provide easy, rapid, and transparent access to non-urgent medical rides, transforming a historically fragmented and analog sector into an automated, digital-first experience.
- Hale — Hale is the digital solution supporting people with genito-pelvic pain, helping them live better with their condition. Download our app now!
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
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- Industry: Sharing Economy, Mobile, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $121k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scuter — Scuter is the smart e-scooter sharing service that makes city mobility,simple, enjoyable and sustainable. Scuter is on well on its path toward making a dent in this space.
- 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.
- IdentifAI — Real-time detection of Al-generated images, video and synthetic voice. Trusted by Experian, KPMG and leading financial institutions across 90+ countries.
Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Pre-Seed $650k–$37M; Series A $7.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- SAPI — Our embedded credit solution provides platforms with a flexible end-to-end lending program that enables them to offer fast and attractive financing for their merchants, to grow their ecosystems and businesses.
Pascal HOUILLON is the CEO at Cegid Group. Pascal attended Paris-Sud University.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Security
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
- aais - armageddon artificial intelligence security — AAIS Armageddon provides cybersecurity software and services focused on employee awareness and social-engineering threats. Its platform supports customized phishing, vishing, smishing, and deepfake simulations, interactive sessions, and administrative reporting dashboards. The company also offers data-breach monitoring, continuous monitoring of similar domains, and dark-web analysis related to cybersecurity risks. Its services include customized awareness programs, cybersecurity communication plans, capture-the-flag exercises, and interactive activities such as escape games and workshops.
Giampiero Oddone
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- Industry: Big Data, Food Delivery, Sharing Economy
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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- Industry: News, Beauty, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.9M; Series A $4.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Ciro Immobile
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- Industry: Art, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $4M–$9.3M; Series A $10M–$320M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
- Flow Engineering — Flow is the agentic systems engineering platform for the companies building the physical world. Next-gen hardware teams use Flow as their default platform to design, build, and iterate on hardware faster without sacrificing engineering rigor. Today, thousands of engineers at companies including Rivian, Stoke Space, Joby, Astranis, and Radiant are building on Flow. Flow gives these teams a living system of record that connects requirements, CAD, simulation, code, and test. On top of this system of record, Flow's agents continuously analyze engineering changes, identify downstream impact, and verify requirements and test coverage — so work stays aligned across the tools engineers already use.
- General Intuition — We build a new class of models that can perceive, predict, and act in virtual and physical environments.
Enrico Pandian is the Co-Founder and CEO of StartupGym and the Founder of FrescoFrigo. He previously worked at Checkout Technologies as a Co-Founder and President of the Board. Enrico Pandian attended the University of Verona.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $870k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pillar — Il sistema operativo per l'edilizia del futuro: dove innovazione, finanza e tecnologia si incontrano. Prenota il tuo appuntamento e trasforma la tua impresa edile
- Quisto — On Quisto, Ho.Re.Ca. retailers can find the best suppliers in their area and purchase 24/7 whatever they need for their business --> www.quisto.it
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Family, Friends & Angels
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $528k–$881k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Zakeke — Try out Zakeke's 3D Product Configurator & Customizer plugin for eCommerce. Let customers craft & buy their dream products. Try for free!
Stiven Muccioli is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BKN301. He previously worked at Ventis as an Advisor. Stiven Muccioli attended INSEAD.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, San Marino
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $110k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Ventis — Acquista online abbigliamento per uomo, donna e bambino, arredamento, beauty e gourmet su Ventis. Approfitta delle offerte con la garanzia di pagamenti comodi e sicuri.
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Browse database — It's Free!Fabio Zecchini is based out of Milano, and is the Founder of Weebora. Fabio previously worked at Musement as a Founder, CTO, and CPO. Fabio Zecchini attended the University of Padua.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Pet, Retail
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- JAMPY — JAMPY produce integratori premium per il benessere del tuo cane. Solo ingredienti funzionali, sviluppati da veterinari.
- Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic.
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- Industry: Gaming, Online Games, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Portugal, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $217k–$927k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- GLHF — GLHFers is a pixel collection made by gamers, for gamers.
- Tuduu — Un'unica infrastruttura tech per creare esperienze digitali intelligenti e personalizzate.
- Blade of God X — Blade of God X provides cross-platform play as an optimum medium and way of interaction between people and the virtual world.
Karim Ricciardi
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Marco Porcaro - CEO & Founder @ Cortilia
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- Industry: EdTech, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $214k–$704k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
- Rosso — Scopri se sei idoneo, prenota in oltre 1.500 centri e ricevi analisi del sangue gratuite a ogni donazione. L'app italiana per donatori.
- zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
Riccardo Braglia - Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer @ 3B Future Health Fund
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $5M–$5.8M; Series B $9.5M–$86M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BSAMPLY powered by Dedagroup Stealth — BRANDS, BUYERS & DESIGNERS Discover, sample and source everything you need
- iOnctura — Our mission is to develop high impact, low disruption therapies that extend healthspan. We do this by disrupting the dynamic interplay at the heart of the
- Geneos Therapeutics — Geneos is developer of a neo-antigen based personalized immunotherapy designed to offer cancer treatment. The company's technology is designed to identify relevant neoantigen targets from individual patient tumors to develop novel treatments for cancer, providing patients with tumor targeted immunotherapies to cure their disease.
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 in october 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Italy, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- 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.
Riccardo holds a master degree - cum laude - in Management Engineering from University of Padova and an MBA from Colleges des Ingenieurs. He joined Rocket Internet after his MBA, working on the launch of some of the biggest e-commerces in South East Asia, like Lazada (recently sold to Alibaba). He’s passionate about developing new ideas andcreating new companies, with a strong hands-on approach to problem solving, processes and strategy. He created the algorithms that allows Lanieri to achieve a perfect fit for its customer more than 90% of the times.
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
Marco Di Pietro former director of Yoox.
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- Industry: Advertising, Marketing Automation, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
- Cassandra — Cassandra is your AI marketing brain. It learns what drives growth with MMM and incrementality tests, then does the work so your team hits bigger targets.
Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino
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- Industry: Farming, Big Data, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $121k–$577k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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!
Giorgio Chiellini
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- Industry: Gaming, Internet, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $983k–$5.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 2Watch — 2WATCH Group is an entertainment group with three divisions: Media House, Creative Studio and Content Factory. +150M monthly views, +15M followers.
- Qodeup — Qodeup is a provider of digital menu solutions for restaurants. Their QR code payment method reduces waiting times to zero for customers, increases turnover, and is eco-friendly. They allow customers to pay the bill directly from their smartphone through their QR code payment system.
- Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.
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Browse database — It's Free!Luca Foresti is the CEO at Santagostino. Luca Foresti attended The University of Pisa.
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, Nutrition
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $217k–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tuduu — Un'unica infrastruttura tech per creare esperienze digitali intelligenti e personalizzate.
- 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).
Mario Mariani - Partner @ United Ventures
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- marinanow — With Marinanow you can hire boats and rent berths throughout Europe. Book your next adventure online in only a few clicks of a mouse!
- AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Martin Sinner is the COO at 360dialog.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, iOS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $743k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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- Tyles — Build up more knowledge faster
- Hero Software — Hero Software offers cloud software solutions that help make office work more efficient than ever. Companies can use HERO to digitize their entire project management process, from initial contact to offer to implementation and invoicing. The HERO app includes useful features for working on the road and visiting customers, such as customer andproject management, appointment scheduling, construction site documentation, task management, and more.
- persomatch GmbH — persomatch offers the first B2B AdTech SaaS solution for job advertising at the largest job marketplace Google via Google Ads, Google for Jobs and Google SEO
Michael Brehm is based out of Munich, Bayern, and is the General Partner & Founder of Redstone.VC. Michael previously worked at i2x as a Managing Director & Founder. Michael Brehm attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Angel $197k–$932k; Series A $580k–$13M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mika — mika is an accounting solution firm that offers monthly bookkeeping, payroll, invoice management, and financial planning services.
- Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
- Atheneum — Empowering through expertise. Atheneum is a leading global insights platform and expert network, servicing clients across strategy consulting, the financial services, corporate firms and the life sciences.
Alessandro Gatti is the Founder and President of Hubique. He previously worked at Professionecasa S.p.A as a Vice President. Alessandro Gatti attended Bocconi University.
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- Industry: Marketing, Gift, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $296k–$337k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- SMACE — La piattaforma per organizzare eventi corporate in modo semplice, con location verificate e un Event Manager dedicato.
- 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.
He started working in 1991, after a degree at Bocconi University, as Analyst bond market and later the stock market at the CIMO Sim - Milan. In 1995 he was Co-Founder Intermobiliare Securities (later Intermonte Sim, leader in Italy in traded volumes) and from '95 until 2009 he held the position of Office Manager studies where he managed a teamof over 20 fundamental analysts who in years has received prestigious awards and placed at the top of important charts internationally. Currently working with the bank Albertini Syz for financial advisory services, corporate finance and private banking. and 'member of AIAF (Italian association of financial Analysts) and of important business partner organization angel (ie financial investors in start-ups). Today Stefano plays an activity related to the management of capital which is looking for new business opportunities to finance and develop and financial guidance.
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- Industry: Gift, Retail, Sports
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Alberto Grignolo - COO @ Yoox Net-a-Porter Group
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- Industry: Fashion, Women's, Shopping
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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!
Andrea Pederzolli - Director @ Mangustarisk
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- Industry: Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
Luca Artoni
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- Industry: Communities, Social Impact, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Piantando — Piantando sells plants connected to initiatives for the preservation of the planet engaged in the following areas: land, water, climate, biodiversity and local communities. Each plant is equivalent to a transparent and unique contribution, destined to an initiative certified by our Value Chain. Everyone become ambassadors of a new way of livinggreen and understanding their commitment to the planet.
Marco Marianelli
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- Industry: Retail, Wholesale, Food Delivery
- Stage:Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.
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Browse database — It's Free!Rosario Didonna - Consultant @ Foodscovery
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- Industry: Delivery, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Foodscovery — Vendita alimentari online direttamente dalle mani del produttore alle tue
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 311
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
- Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
- Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
I'm a committed and energetic person, fascinated by new knowledges and stimulated by new challenges. My area of interests are: Startups, Blockchain & ICO, Sharing economy, Sport, Food & Wines. Text me if you want to talk about the last DLT development as well as the best restaurant you have been in!
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- Industry: Apps, Blockchain, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- volvero — Condividi la tua auto, noleggia veicoli in modo semplice e affidabile. Mettiamo in contatto proprietari e conducenti per un'esperienza unica!
Riccardo Martinelli
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- Industry: Internet, Marketplace, Service Industry
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, Nutrition
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, Switzerland
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
- The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.
CEO at scloby, father of welco, Web & Mobile Developer, I love cooking, diving, travel and change perspective
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- Industry: Point of Sale, Developer APIs, Retail Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Scloby — Scloby is an innovative cloud POS with advanced features suitable for any type of business.Created for shops, restaurants, bars and beauty salons, it can be customized for every need.With the Scloby Cloud POS, managing your business will be simpler, more practical and faster. All you need is a tablet or a computer and you are ready to go!Moreinfo at https://scloby.com
Nicola Drago
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- Industry: Pet, Wellness, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- JAMPY — JAMPY produce integratori premium per il benessere del tuo cane. Solo ingredienti funzionali, sviluppati da veterinari.
Andrea Galassi is the CFO at Miscusi.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sintropy — Dispositivi progettati e prodotti in Italia: riduzione consumi per le catene retail, dati e KPI immediati per l'industria.
- L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.
- Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.
Jacopo Sebastio is Founder & CEO at Velasca.
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- Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
Mauro Del Rio - Chairman @ DOCOMO Digital
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Marketplace Angel investor funding in Italy at a glance
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