Top 40 Restaurants Startup Investors in Italy (August 2026)

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• Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
• A-Cube — A-Cube API: la piattaforma globale per la Tax Compliance. Integra la fatturazione elettronica e gli obblighi fiscali in ogni ERP o e-commerce in Italia e nel mondo.
• Incapto Coffee — Incapto provides coffee solutions that combine specialty whole-bean coffee, super-automatic coffee machines, and subscription-based delivery services for consumers and businesses. The company supplies freshly roasted coffee beans sourced from multiple origins and delivers them directly to customers through recurring subscriptions, ensuringcontinuous availability and freshness. Its offering includes fully automatic coffee machines that grind and brew beans on demand, enabling users to prepare coffee without single-use capsules or manual preparation steps. The company also provides workplace coffee solutions, supplying machines, beans, and technical support for offices, hotels, and food service environments.Incapto integrates digital tools that track consumption, manage inventory, and automate replenishment, allowing customers to monitor usage and receive supplies based on demand. It also offers complementary products such as accessories, beverages, and maintenance services to support ongoing operation of its coffee systems.

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• Gility — Gility is a digital learning platform that collaborates with business schools and training institutions for an effective training offer. Established in 2022, it was supported by CDP Venture Capital and BPER Banca.
• 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.
• Valvitalia SpA. — VALVITALIA is a leading group in the field of design, production, and overall supply of equipment and components intended for the petroleum, water, natural gas industries, and petrochemical industry as well as electrical power stations. The group works mainly with valves (core product), actuators, pipe fittings, flanges and systems for measuring,filtering, and regulating fluids and gases and with FireFighting systems. VALVITALIA was set up with the precise objective of becoming the leading Italian group able to offer such a wide range of products and to compete with the large American multinationals that have always dominated this field. This young company has extensive experience in the sector, thanks to its professional management and historical brands in the valve world that have been taken on by the Group, including: ROTOR, DELTA V.E., THEVIGNOT, VANADOUR, VITAS, TORMENE T.G.T. and TECNOFORGE. VALVITALIA has always included safety and respect for the environment and its employees among its priorities.

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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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• GCF — GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie is a landmark of excellence in the railway infrastructures, electrification and signalling sector.
• Sonnedix — Sonnedix is an Independent Solar Power Producer (IPP) with a proven track record in delivering high performance cost competitive solar photovoltaic plants to the market.
• Polo Strategico Nazionale — Scopri Polo Strategico Nazionale: il cloud sovrano per la gestione dei dati e servizi della Pubblica Amministrazione italiana.

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• Ecogest — Ecogest is a greenery maintenance company that maintains greens on roads and highways.
• VINHOOD — VINHOOD understands consumers’ tastes and recommends products that are more suitable for them, providing a “tailor-made” solution with a fun process and simple language. They drive consumers’ choices while at the same time transforming them into brand advocates!
• Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.

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• UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
• Paragraph — Paragraph turns your startup's launches, product updates, customer learnings, and founder thinking into an owned media engine your team approves.
• 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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• Webidoo — Scopri il Webidoo AI Operating System per il Business, il layer operativo che potenzia le imprese e guida l'innovazione tecnologica nel B2B.
• SylloTips — SylloTips is an all-in-one knowledge sharing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to optimize the circulation of skills and knowledge among all employees in a company
• UpSurgeOn — The UpSurgeOn Academy is a hi-tech sequence of virtual and physical technologies designed to support Mental and Manual training and empower cognitive and psychomotor skills of any surgeon.

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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

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• Bestie Bite — Scopri, recensisci e guadagna con Bestie Bite, l'app italiana per esplorare ristoranti, bar e hotel tramite videorecensioni. Condividi le tue esperienze, partecipa ai Treat e converti i punti in cashback. Disponibile su App Store e Google Play.

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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.

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• Deliverart — Deliverart, a Techstars portfolio company, is an all-in-one cloud software that consolidates all the home delivery orders a restaurant receives (from phone, website, app, food delivery platforms) in a single interface. Alongside that, it also provides smart tools to maximize the efficiency of a restaurant’s autonomous home deliveries, whileincreasing the productivity and the coordination between production and logistics. The software, developed by an Italian team and launched in 2019, is born with integrations-by-design, in order to create a helpful environment where restaurants can fully take advantage of digital technologies.Deliverart is a modular solution that can be personalized with add-ons and features, creating a tailor-made software for the restaurants’ needs. It can easily interact with other management softwares, food delivery platforms and services to provide a plug-and-play customizable solution.

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• 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.

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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.

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• KLISBio — KLISBio is a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company focused on developing innovative technology platforms based entirely on natural silk fibroin. The company, headquartered in Milan, Italy, currently has several assets under development, such as vascular graft, bone graft substitutes, rotator cuff repair, drug release, and a first-in-humanstudy on nerve repair that is ongoing at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
• 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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• Replate — No more expensive photo shoots. Turn your menu into stunning 3D models and boost its visual appeal.

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• Miscusi — Scopri la cucina italiana leggera di Miscusi: piatti autentici, ingredienti freschi e un servizio accogliente. Visita ora.
• 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.

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• NEOCAD — NEOCAD usa l'intelligenza artificiale per cercare, riutilizzare e valorizzare i file CAD del tuo ufficio tecnico. Riduci i tempi di progettazione fino al 60%. Richiedi una demo.
• ReneSys ENERGY — Next Generation Battery Technology and Manufacturing
• Moov — We innovate mobility from every angle!

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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 .
• Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
• ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.

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• 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.

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• Wetaxi — Wetaxi is the fixed price taxi app. Active in Italy in more than 20 cities
• Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
• 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.

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• Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
• Pack — Pack is the people development platform that empowers HR with data-driven insights, digital assessments, and world-class mentoring & coaching. Unlock employee growth with tailored development plans, AI-driven tracking, and an international network of experts.
• Bestie Bite — Scopri, recensisci e guadagna con Bestie Bite, l'app italiana per esplorare ristoranti, bar e hotel tramite videorecensioni. Condividi le tue esperienze, partecipa ai Treat e converti i punti in cashback. Disponibile su App Store e Google Play.

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• Bestie Bite — Scopri, recensisci e guadagna con Bestie Bite, l'app italiana per esplorare ristoranti, bar e hotel tramite videorecensioni. Condividi le tue esperienze, partecipa ai Treat e converti i punti in cashback. Disponibile su App Store e Google Play.

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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.

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• Bestie Bite — Scopri, recensisci e guadagna con Bestie Bite, l'app italiana per esplorare ristoranti, bar e hotel tramite videorecensioni. Condividi le tue esperienze, partecipa ai Treat e converti i punti in cashback. Disponibile su App Store e Google Play.

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• Cibando — Cibando is an iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy.

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• Pneusmart — Compare tyre prices from trusted European merchants. Find your size, see every offer, buy with confidence.
• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• Panfuwa — Panfuwa is a pancake brand that creates a warm and inviting atmosphere, where customers can indulge in fluffy pancakes.

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• Bestie Bite — Scopri, recensisci e guadagna con Bestie Bite, l'app italiana per esplorare ristoranti, bar e hotel tramite videorecensioni. Condividi le tue esperienze, partecipa ai Treat e converti i punti in cashback. Disponibile su App Store e Google Play.

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• IDNTT — The Martech Content Factory. Produciamo ogni giorno, per i nostri clienti, centinaia di contenuti omnichannel con processi industriali certificati ISO 9001 governati dalla tecnologia.
• Izertis — Izertis offer solutions and services in information technology and communications to help their clients achieve their business goals.Their model is based on establishing working with their customers, strong and stable long term to facilitate collaboration in the development of their technology platforms relationships by providing information andsupport to enable them to improve their business processes and achieve a return rapid investment. IZERTIS's mission is to help their customers be more effective, providing ICT services to their needs and providing solutions and products that make the achievement of its objectives.
• Contents — Contents.com is a tech company that developed an artificial intelligence platform based on a perfect cycle of interaction between data analysis and machine learning systems that makes access to data easier for everyone. Contents.com provides integrated solutions for every online business and customer. Through proprietary algorithm-basedsoftware, Contents.com guarantees specific advanced tools for any needs: all in one unique application platform. The platform provides advanced tools with specific functions: future trends prediction, content generation, user behavior analysis, website performance monitoring, detection of website’s position in search engines, and much more.Contents.com was founded in 2017, currently, the company is present in 4 countries: Italy, Spain, France, and the UK.

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• Tuduu — Un'unica infrastruttura tech per creare esperienze digitali intelligenti e personalizzate.
• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• Zell — AI-powered sales training that revolutionizes team performance. Personalized coaching, real-time insights, and autonomous learning to boost your sales success. Join the future of sales today.
• Bestie Bite — Scopri, recensisci e guadagna con Bestie Bite, l'app italiana per esplorare ristoranti, bar e hotel tramite videorecensioni. Condividi le tue esperienze, partecipa ai Treat e converti i punti in cashback. Disponibile su App Store e Google Play.

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• Babaiola — USAHA188 Kolaborasi Bersama Babaiola Resmi menghadirkan suasana penuh semangat dengan pengalaman digital yang seru & modern saat ini!
• 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.

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• Replate — No more expensive photo shoots. Turn your menu into stunning 3D models and boost its visual appeal.

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• 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.