Top 35 Recruiting Startup Investors in Italy (October 2026)

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

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• Mykor — Mykor is a climate tech start-up. It decarbonizes the construction industry by manufacturing carbon-negative materials.
• Airbuild — Discover how Wastewater nutrient recovery and biofertilizer can revolutionize agriculture + ag-infrastructure. Learn about Wastewater nutrient recovery and biofertilizer today!
• Cultipharm — Cultipharm is a producer and supplier of botanicals and active ingredients.

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• Tutornow — Ripetizioni online in matematica, fisica, inglese e oltre 150 materie. Ripetizioni per DSA e BES con tutor certificati. Lezioni online individuali da 60 minuti.
• Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

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• 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

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

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• Properly — Choose self-service tools, Cohost Pro for remote portfolio operations with your systems and local vendors from $119/active property/month, or Guest Support Plus owner guest and turnover support at $149/listing/month.
• 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.
• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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

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• faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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

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• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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

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• Wayla — Wayla offre viaggi serali sicuri e sostenibili a Milano con il primo servizio di van pooling. Prenota tramite app e viaggia a bordo dei nostri van con autisti certificati a tariffe vantaggiose
• Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.
• Elemento Cloud — Elemento is a vendor-neutral, cost-saving, green, high-performance, self-hostable cloud platform with infrastructure-as-code readiness.

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

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

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• SimpL — SimpL is an Italy-based AI sales-intelligence and prospecting platform for B2B sales teams. It researches target companies, identifies relevant buying signals, drafts personalised LinkedIn outreach, manages follow-ups, and helps generate qualified sales meetings.
• Computis — Computis is an AI company offering software solutions for electronic invoicing, bank reconciliation, tax estimation, and billing services.
• Helix Robotics — We are building the first commercial soft manipulator

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• Lexroom — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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• Klaaryo — Klaaryo is the Conversational AI platform that helps organizations transform how they attract, hire, onboard, and develop their people.We design native AI Agents that communicate in natural language, understand people’s needs, and orchestrate complex HR processes in a simple, immediate, and scalable way.Our approach is WhatsApp-first, built toexpand into a multi-channel ecosystem that brings conversational intelligence everywhere people work, communicate, and interact.

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• Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
• BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
• Circular Materials — Scopri Circular Materials: immagina una tecnologia che tratta le acque reflue e, allo stesso tempo, recupera metalli preziosi.

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• Gamindo — Create interactive training experiences in minutes with AI and gamification. Increase engagement, completion rates and learning outcomes.
• Holifya — Holifya offre test del DNA avanzati e piani di salute personalizzati per ottimizzare nutrizione, metabolismo, performance sportive e prevenzione. Con un unico test, scopri intolleranze, rischi genetici e strategie su misura per migliorare il benessere, tutto comodamente da casa.
• AutoConnexa — Scopri AutoConnexa, l'assicurazione online per la tua auto che premia lo stile di guida. Con Drive Connexa, meglio guidi e meno paghi.

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• Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
• Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
• Beelzebub — Validate exploitable paths, detect attacker movement, and turn threat artifacts into governed, response-ready evidence with Beelzebub.

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• Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from brokers across the nation.
• FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.

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• Klaaryo — Klaaryo is the Conversational AI platform that helps organizations transform how they attract, hire, onboard, and develop their people.We design native AI Agents that communicate in natural language, understand people’s needs, and orchestrate complex HR processes in a simple, immediate, and scalable way.Our approach is WhatsApp-first, built toexpand into a multi-channel ecosystem that brings conversational intelligence everywhere people work, communicate, and interact.
• TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
• JustSolve — JustSolve is an agentic debt collection team that allows organizations to recover more, spending less.

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• Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
• TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
• Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.

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• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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• faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies
• AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia

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• Datapizza — Datapizza allows tech profiles to find training materials, projects, and job opportunities.
• Underdogs Group — Underdogs Group offers integrated MarTech and AI-driven solutions that help companies digitalize and automate marketing, advertising, and customer engagement technologies. It provides services that cover the digital customer journey, including data and analytics, marketing automation, digital marketing, ads and media planning, and creative contentsupport. The company develops and optimizes mission-critical software and technology stacks to enable scalable adoption of marketing technologies and unified data views. It supports strategy formulation and execution across digital platforms to help clients coordinate technology, data, and marketing efforts. Its work includes devising and managing digital advertising campaigns and technology implementations for diverse business needs.

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• HEU — Draft, sign and store contracts in one place. AI extracts deadlines and clauses, signatures valid in 180+ countries.
• Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
• GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come

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• Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
• Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
• Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.

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• Revismart — Revismart usa l'intelligenza artificiale per automatizzare la revisione legale, risparmiando tempo e riducendo gli errori.
• Archimede — Archimede.World, connect the impossible. We are an innovative and deep tech startup, engaged in the development of off-grid solutions.
• Doctorsa — Doctorsa is a digital marketplace offering travelers instant access to urgent care online for common conditions, starting at just €20.

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• Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
• Meritocracy — Explore unique content about Europe's most interesting Companies and apply to their jobs to advance your career.
• Stellar Labs — Stellar is building the most innovative operations management solution for business aviation.

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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.
• FrescoFrigo - Healthy food close to you — FrescoFRIGO is a smart fridge with fresh and quality products designed for the needs of worker. Improve everyday lifestyle, through automated proximity selling of good, fresh and healthy product, innovating technology and user experience.
• The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.

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• faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
• Musixmatch — Match, report and get paid across every DSP. Enrich your catalog with AI. Build with the world's largest lyrics catalog.
• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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• EPICODE — Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies

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• Clastix — Clastix is an enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure company, purpose-built to solve the operational challenges that emerge when Kubernetes runs at scale: cluster sprawl, fragile multi-tenancy, and the mounting cost of over-provisioned hardware and memory. The company's breakthrough is architectural. By combining hosted control planes with hard multi-tenancy, Clastix enables telcos, cloud providers, MSPs, and platform teams to run many isolated Kubernetes environments more efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively than traditional approaches allow. Clastix was founded by engineers who understood these pain points from direct experience running Kubernetes in production. That same commitment to quality engineering runs through everything the company builds – an approach shaped as much by Italian engineering tradition as by technical rigour. The result is infrastructure software that is functional, elegant, and highly scalable. The company's open source credentials are equally strong. Clastix donated Capsule to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, co-founded Cloud Native Days Italy, and continues to evolve Kamaji – contributing not just code, but community and standards to the broader Kubernetes ecosystem. Clastix's platform is trusted by customers including NVIDIA and Mistral AI – organisations that operate some of the most demanding and innovation-intensive infrastructure environments in the world. Their confidence is a direct measure of what the platform can handle. Headquartered in Naples, Italy, with customers and partners across cloud, data centre, edge, and AI infrastructure globally, Clastix is where world-class engineering meets the real operational complexity of modern Kubernetes at scale.
• Tiledesk — Boost customer engagement with Tiledesk. Discover our conversational automation ready to use. Personalized experiences, improved conversion and retention.
• Comestai — Comestai focuses on digital and in-person treatment pathways for people with eating disorders. The company operates a hybrid care model that combines online consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and clinical dietitians and access to physical clinical spaces. It offers virtual multidisciplinary therapy programs tailoredto individuals and families, with structured assessments and follow-up sessions. Comestai also develops corporate welfare programs that provide counseling groups, psychoeducational tools, and consultation modules for employees in partner organizations. Through its La Palestra di Animenta branch, it delivers structured professional training, including multi-module courses and continuing medical education pathways for clinicians treating eating disorders. Comestai additionally produces digital educational content such as the Hilde newsletter to support families and caregivers with practical information and clinical guidance about eating disorders.