Top 30 Restaurants VC Funds & Investors in Italy (September 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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• Chef in Camicia — Chef in Camicia is an Italian web channel dedicated to the cooking world. Every day on our social network we broadcast new videos about the world of food. There are three Chef in Camicia’s: young and creative they interpret the culinary art in their own personal way; Nicolò has a refined and open approach to the use of exotic and unconventionalingredients, giving a fusion touch to his dishes. Lello puts in every recipe a home-made and authentic spirit, his sandwiches are legendary, tasty and rich in colors and flavors, his respect for tradition never lacks in his dishes. Andrea is our gourmet chef, his experience in Michelin - starred restaurants leads him to seek excellence in every preparation, providing interesting advice, especially for our most attentive and demanding users. The production steadily grows day by day offering new formats and special guests across our channels. The production grows on our channels by providing everyday new formats and presenting special guests. All you need to do is to keep on following us and commenting on our videos, because as everybody knows, for us Italians nothing is more important than food.
• This is Not a Sushi Bar — Thisisnotasushibar is the main chain of Take Away & Delivery Sushi restaurants in Milan. THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE Everything we do is inspired by value and creating quality relationships with their customers. "What's raining, snowing or getting sick, I swear I'll be on time" says one of their customers in one ofthe most beautiful reviews they've received. They are incurable optimists and try with their work to make better the lives of those who work with us or to us, trying to improve with every little daily action. They do this by preparing the best sushi possible, allowing the customer to order it in the most enjoyable way, serving it in the most comfortable way, in the most captivating packaging trying to improve continuously. They prepare sushi and bring it to you wherever you want.
• Museum of Future Experiences (MoFE) — MoFE is a venue in Brooklyn, NY for immersive storytelling that uses Virtual Reality and spatialized sound design. MoFE productions are seated, ticketed shows that feel like a refreshing headtrip, induced technologically.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 — Create, localize and govern content at scale with an enterprise AI platform and digital agency for copy, blogs, SEO, translations, images, video and campaigns.

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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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• 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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• AideXa — AideXa is an Italian challenger bank for SMEs. It operates as credit institution, offering loans and investment-related services.
• Pinsalab — Using genuine imported Italian ingredients, bringing a unique, authentic taste of Rome to the heart of Park Slope. Follow us on Instagram @pinsalab
• Walliance — Walliance is a digital platform that combines investment and financing opportunities in the real estate and renewable energy sectors, accessible through various financial instruments, including Equity, Lending, and Debt crowdfunding. Aiming at providing solutions to the complexities in these areas, Walliance was founded in Trentino (Italy) in2016 and launched its first project in September 2017. Walliance was the first equity crowdfunding platform to receive CONSOB authorization in Italy to raise venture capital for online real estate projects.In November 2023, it also obtained authorization to operate in France and Spain as well. In the same month, Walliance announced the acquisition of Lymo Finance, the first real estate crowdfunding portal launched in France.

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

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• Miscusi — Scopri la cucina italiana leggera di Miscusi: piatti autentici, ingredienti freschi e un servizio accogliente. Visita ora.
• Jellatech — We grow the proteins the human body is built from, at scale, on spec, identical to your own.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
• 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.
• ExoLab Italia — Cosmetics Utilizing plant-derived exosomes in cosmetic products boosts skin absorption, enhancing bioavailability and stimulating cells to produce lacking compounds. Their ability to penetrate the dermis ensures maximum efficacy and optimal results for skincare products. more informations Supplements Plant-derived exosomes, rich in nutrients, enhance bioavailability by

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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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• 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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• 6figr.com — All about Career & Money - We predict future Employability, Earning potential & Unemployment risk using AI.
• Bantamu — BantaMu is a matchmaking platform that connects music freelancers and music artists from all over the world in order to produce beautiful songs.Finding the right professional to collaborate with is like finding the right partner, someone who can take care of your songs and who will love your project as much as you do!That’s how hit recordsare created!On BantaMu you can find the best music freelancers including Producers, Recording Studios, and Mixing & Mastering Engineers ready to collaborate with you, and securely pay for any services needed to fulfil your music projects.
• Hotblack Robotics — Hotblack Robotics proposes cloud robotics solutions to ease the use of robots and boost the digital fabrication and architecture community.

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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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• 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.