# Francesco Marini Clarelli

> Francesco Marini Clarelli is a angel investor at Italian Angels for Growth backing Retail. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Italian Angels for Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/italian-angels-for-growth)
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2000
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/francesco-marini-clarelli/7/609/632

Francesco Marini Clarelli is a angel investor at Italian Angels for Growth in Milan focused on Retail and Fashion. Francesco Marini Clarelli actively invested in startups as an Angel Investor all along his career and he is currently the President and Co-founder of Italian Angels for Growth, the largest angel group in the country.His first angel investment was made in 1987, when he was 30, in a media start-up that few years later it was sold to the mainItalian publishing group after a growth from €1 million to €15 million in sales. His latest successful exit has been Yoox.com, a global fashion products e-commerce company, that he invested in as a start-up in 2000. The company later became the leading global player and successfully listed on the Milan stock exchange in 2009.Francesco has so far invested in more than 20 startups during his professional career.Always an active investor both in the private equity as well as listed securities fields, he presently owns and runs Astor Investment Advisors SIM, a thematic asset allocation advisory concern. He sits on the Advisory Board of Value Secondary Investments, an Luxembourg based secondary private equity investment fund, and is also a member of the board of a number of industrial concerns.In 2001 he founded, with other partners, one of the first funds of hedge funds management companies in Italy.Francesco obtained a BA with honors in 1980 majoring in Economics at the University of California in Santa Barbara,and started his career at Bank of America’s New York branch.Francesco was awarded "Angel of the Year 2011" by EBAN (European Business Angel Network), the pan-European federation of early stage investors.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 100% |
| Fashion | 1 | 100% |
| Lifestyle | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoox Net-a-Porter Group | Yoox Net-a-Porter Group is the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion and design brands. It has established itself amongst the market leaders with the multi-brand online stores yoox.com, thecorner.com, and shoescribe.com, as well as with numerous mono-brand online stores.In October 2015, YOOX GROUP and THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP cametogether, two companies that have revolutionized the luxury fashion industry since their birth in 2000.The Group has offices and operations in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and Hong Kong and delivers to more than 100 countries worldwide. |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2000 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Italian Angels for Growth

VC Fund · Milan, Italy

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

5 contacts available at Italian Angels for Growth.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Francesco Marini Clarelli | Onorary Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesco-marini-clarelli |
| Leonardo Giagnoni | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonardo-giagnoni |
| Nicoletta Morra | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicoletta-morra |
| Roberto Scibetta | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roberto-scibetta |
| Alessandro Rufo | Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alessandro-rufo-8f5a |

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## FAQ

### What does Francesco Marini Clarelli invest in?

Francesco Marini Clarelli invests primarily in Retail, Fashion and Lifestyle startups, most often at Angel stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Francesco Marini Clarelli last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Francesco Marini Clarelli closed in Jan 2000. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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