Top 20 Restaurants Startup Investors in Italy in July 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Restaurants Startup Investors in Italy in July 2025
Investor | Restaurants Italy investments |
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P101 | 4 |
Intesa Sanpaolo | 2 |
CDP Equity | 2 |
Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 2 |
Startup Alliance | 1 |
Euan Lonmon | 1 |
Day Ristoservice | 1 |
Invitalia | 1 |
Principia SGR | 1 |
Knobs | 1 |
Milano Investment Partners SGR | 1 |
Mival Capital | 1 |
Synergo Capital | 1 |
Procolo Casella | 1 |
Mia Rigo | 1 |
Moffu Labs | 1 |
Mauro Del Rio | 1 |
Fabio Pezzotti | 1 |
Gabriele Borga | 1 |
Azimut Libera Impresa | 1 |
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, Spain, United States
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- Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
- Carol — Carol is a tech-enabled healthcare provider delivering membership-based primary care services, on a mission to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone. To achieve this goal, Carol leverages a highly scalable technology, combined with high quality clinical operations and a salaried provider model.
- Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.
Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Convertible Note
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Currenta — Industrial analytics for chemistry, life science, polymers. CURRENTA offers the full range of analytical services with competence and experience.
- Hippocrates — Hippocrates operates a pharmacy platform with a network of over 120 owned pharmacies concentrated in central and northern Italy. Since its foundation, it has approached the pharmacy sector with an industrial and long-term logic. The company was founded in March 2018 by Davide Tavaniello and Rodolfo Guarino, co-CEOs of Hippocrates.
- Recurrent Energy — As a leading provider of distributed solar power, Recurrent Energy is overcoming the barriers to widespread solar adoption, making renewable energy a practical choice for today's large scale energy users. They are a developer and owner of locally-sited solar power systems, selling clean electricity to their customers worldwide at competitiverates via a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) or Feed-in Tariffs (FiT). In return, their utility, commercial, and government customers achieve energy independence, predictable pricing, and enhanced sustainability.
CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"
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- SaaS, Elder Care, Small and Medium Businesses
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
- Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- 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!
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- MiSiedo — MiSiedo is an online platform that enables users to discover and book restaurants in real-time. The platform also allows users to read reviews before taking their pick. MiSiedo was launched in 2011 and is based in Italy.
Long years at the helm of transport and tourism companies, (Corsica Ferries, Nouvelles Frontiéres Reseau, Stradeblu) Deep insight in european cultures and languages, have found interest and pleasure in founding, mentoring and sponsoring start-up businesses in very diverse fields.Chairman of Restopolis , sold to La Fourchette, Tripadvisor inoctober 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
- Angel, Seed
- Italy, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Pneusmart — Pneusmart is a pan-european tyre retailer. It has offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy and is growing fast in all markets. Pneusmart provides an innovative solution to source tyres for both cars, vans and motorcycles. It provides a full service experience to consumers, delivering tyres to stations in its vast fitting network to ensure asmooth customer experience. The company is expanding fast into a complete car service solution.
- Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.
- restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
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- Software, Restaurants, Human Resources
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Smart Cities
- Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Italy, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- BILLD — Billd is a cleantech firm that offers the first digital receipt service to capture huge data from the offline market using AI.
- Collecto App — Collecto App objective is to democratize access to luxury items by sharing value and removing economic barriers. Collecto promotes financial and environmental sustainability by allowing consumers to share luxury goods while reducing environmental impact through more effective resource use.
Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
- ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Restaurants
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Sooneat — Sooneat is an online ordering platform that connects closeby food and retail businesses to allow customers to order whatever they like, whenever they like and have a single checkout experience. Sooneat enables businesses to improve customer satisfaction while boosting revenue: your customers will be able to order dishes from multiple restaurantsdirectly from their mobile or tablet, select for pickup or delivery, make one single payment and simply sit back and enjoy their food. No more standing in multiple lines!Sooneat works both with businesses and partners including shopping centers, resellers, and agencies. It offers branded solutions and works on restaurants, shops, events, caterers, theatres, stadiums, and much more! Thanks to its flexibility, if you can think it, we can adapt it.watch Video Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr__SimEihsTRUSTED PARTNERS Burger King, Old Wild West, I Love poke, etc..Here you can find our Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3cKrtC5
MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Italy, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
- Jellatech — Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin.
- Poke House — Poke House is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. Poke House specializes in bowl food that often includes marinated fish that’s cubed and layered up with sticky rice, pickles, noodles, etc.
Mival Capital is a private investment company that invests in SMEs' equity through a combination of finance and tech assets.
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Investment focus
- E-Learning, Generative AI, Corporate Training
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
- Syllog AI — Syllog AI provides solutions that use the most latest generative artificial intelligence technology to revolutionize way firms approach employee retention and growth.
Diamo sostegno operativo e finanziario alle PMI italiane che vogliono crescere negli USA. Investiamo a fianco di imprenditori ambiziosi per aumentare significativamente il valore delle loro aziende. Non siamo un partner solo finanziario, ma anche operativo e strategico. Mettiamo a disposizione la nostra esperienza nel costruire aziende di successo.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
- Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, Spain, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Restaurants
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
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- Sooneat — Sooneat is an online ordering platform that connects closeby food and retail businesses to allow customers to order whatever they like, whenever they like and have a single checkout experience. Sooneat enables businesses to improve customer satisfaction while boosting revenue: your customers will be able to order dishes from multiple restaurantsdirectly from their mobile or tablet, select for pickup or delivery, make one single payment and simply sit back and enjoy their food. No more standing in multiple lines!Sooneat works both with businesses and partners including shopping centers, resellers, and agencies. It offers branded solutions and works on restaurants, shops, events, caterers, theatres, stadiums, and much more! Thanks to its flexibility, if you can think it, we can adapt it.watch Video Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr__SimEihsTRUSTED PARTNERS Burger King, Old Wild West, I Love poke, etc..Here you can find our Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3cKrtC5
Mia Rigo is the president at The Magic Collection Retreats.
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Investment focus
- Software, Restaurants, Human Resources
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
MoffuLabs is a seeding and acceleration investment fund focused on technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Human Resources, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
- 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.
Mauro Del Rio - Chairman @ DOCOMO Digital
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, B2B
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States
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- Zerogrado — Zerogrado is a software Developer Company.
- restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
- DesignerInc — Founded in 2018, DesignerInc.com is a ground-breaking B2B sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry.DesignerInc.com is the most comprehensive trade-only sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry. Amassing hundreds of thousands of trade-only furniture and decor product with unprecedenteddepth and breadth, DesignerInc.com offers a seamless solution to source and purchase furniture and decor for interior designers. And with $77 billion of furniture and decor product purchased via designers, DesignerInc.com brings much needed efficiency to this enormous, yet low-tech, industry.
Fabio Pezzotti is the Founder and CEO at Iconium.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Mobile, Hospitality
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Cibando — Cibando is an iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy.
Gabriele Borga is the Founder and CEO of Exelero.
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- Software, Restaurants, Human Resources
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Restworld — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
Azimut Libera Impresa is an investment company for both retail and institutional investors.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
- Italy, Switzerland, United States
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- Soul-K — Food-tech company B2B, la prima industria alimentare 4.0 ad applicare lean-production e Just-In-Time. Abilita i professionisti a risparmiare tempo e denaro, riducendo manodopera e spreco di cibo.
- 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.
- Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
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