Top 20 Retail Angel Investors in Italy in February 2025
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Retail Angel Investors in Italy in February 2025
Investor | Retail Italy investments |
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Giovanni Gardelli | 5 |
Alberto Birolini | 3 |
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis | 3 |
Luca Ferrante Carrante | 2 |
Andrea Pederzolli | 1 |
Maurizio Donadelli | 1 |
Alessandro Gatti | 1 |
Lodovico Rosnati | 1 |
Loris Lanzellotti | 1 |
Niccolo Maisto | 1 |
Stefano Miccinelli | 1 |
Matteo de Brabant | 1 |
Anna Siccardi | 1 |
Euan Lonmon | 1 |
Nader Sabbaghian | 1 |
Fabio Zecchini | 1 |
Avishai Abrahami | 1 |
Stefano Alberti | 1 |
Hugo Valdivia | 1 |
Jacopo Sebastio | 1 |
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
- Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
Alberto Birolini
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Investment focus
- Shoes, Retail, Fashion
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation.
Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm.
Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group
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Investment focus
- Shoes, Retail, Travel
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- WeRoad — We organise group tours on the road to more than 150 destinations around the world. We leave all year round, in similar groups of age and travel mood.
- Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
- CharityStars — The groundbreaking fundraising platform offering one destination for all. Together we stand strong, dream big and create greater change for causes worldwide.
Andrea Pederzolli - Director @ Mangustarisk
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Investment focus
- Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Angel
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Maurizio Donadelli
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
- Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
- Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.
Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Gift, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- SMACE — Smace engages in the development of smart working management platforms.
- Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, FinTech
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
Loris Lanzellotti is the cofounder of Boost Heroes attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, FinTech
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
Niccolo Maisto is the Co-CEO at ESL FACEIT Group. Niccolo Maisto attended NYU Stern School of Business and Bocconi University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings.
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Investment focus
- Pet, Gift, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Kippy — Pet owners deal with 2 main issues: every year millions of pets are lost; pets are thought to have become increasingly overweight, with higher risk of arthritis, diabetes and heart diseases development. We create the most advanced GPS and Activity Monitor for pets to keep them safe, healthy and to strengthen our relationship with them.
- Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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Investment focus
- News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Anna Siccardi - Advisor & Investor @ GrowishPay
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Retail
- Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
- Algor — La migliore app per le mappe concettuali
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.
Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Italy, France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- Soource — Automate B2B sourcing with Soource AI: find and compare new suppliers, and maintain an updated database optimizing your procurement processes.
- Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an influencer marketing platform. It allows brands to integrate key influencers into their digital and social communications in a fully automated, transparent, and ROI-driven approach. Our technology analyses the online conversations of all registered users across each of their social media channels. Through a semantic model, Buzzooleis able to categorize conversations and to identify the topics that users are most influential in, according to its own algorithm. This allows brands to reach out to specific influencers in their niche market in a completely automated way.Buzzoole's business model is a CPP mode. Brands pay on the basis of posts generated by the influencers. This Cost-Per-Post model allows us to offer all sizes of solutions. From startups to top brands. Working with Buzzoole can save companies up to 70% compared with cooperating with external agencies, which is usually a lengthier, more complicated, and more expensive process.Buzzoole's proprietary algorithm solves the analysis and matching problem, and the transparent approach to campaigns means brands will always see how much they are spending, who is working on their campaign, and what their campaign ROI is.
Fabio has strong passion for data, technology and free ride skiing. He previous worked at PwC and iProspect/Aegis Media and has a degree in Information Engineering from the University of Padova.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Pet, Retail
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- JAMPY — JAMPY produce integratori premium per il benessere del tuo cane. Solo ingredienti funzionali, sviluppati da veterinari.
- Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
Avishai Abrahami is our Co-Founder, has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2010 and was our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director since October 2006. From 2004 to 2006, Avishai was the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Arel Communications & Software Ltd., a private Israeli company specializing in communicationtechnology. In 1998 he co-founded Sphera Corporation, a private company which develops software for managing data centers, and he served as its Chief Technology Officer from 1998 until 2000 and its Vice President of Product Marketing from 2000 until 2003. In 1993, he co-founded AIT Ltd., a private Israeli software company, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until the company's sale in 1997. Avishai served in the Israeli Defense Forces' elite computer intelligence unit from 1990 until 1992.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Israel, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
- The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.
- Unlimited Robotics — Unlimited Robotics empowers developers to build apps on Gary, the perfect robot for your business or office, and make any robot into a multipurpose one with Ra-Ya.
He started working in 1991, after a degree at Bocconi University, as Analyst bond market and later the stock market at the CIMO Sim - Milan. In 1995 he was Co-Founder Intermobiliare Securities (later Intermonte Sim, leader in Italy in traded volumes) and from '95 until 2009 he held the position of Office Manager studies where he managed a teamof over 20 fundamental analysts who in years has received prestigious awards and placed at the top of important charts internationally. Currently working with the bank Albertini Syz for financial advisory services, corporate finance and private banking. and 'member of AIAF (Italian association of financial Analysts) and of important business partner organization angel (ie financial investors in start-ups). Today Stefano plays an activity related to the management of capital which is looking for new business opportunities to finance and develop and financial guidance.
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Investment focus
- Gift, Retail, Sports
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
Hugo was born and raised in Peru. In early 2000’s he got his Diploma in Industrial Engineering, starting off his career in the Logistics industry, where he worked on storage and distribution matters.In January 2012, Hugo moved to The Netherlands to pursue his MBA degree at Erasmus University, graduating in March 2013. Immediately after, Hugochanged career to Corporate Finance, where he specialized on Financial and Business Controlling during his tenures at technology and FMCG companies, including names like TomTom and The KraftHeinz Company.By mid-2018 his entrepreneurship journey started by founding Qullqi, an e-shop for women’s fashion accessories handcrafted in Peru. In addition, Hugo acted as interim Finance Manager for local companies in The Netherlands. During one assignment he moved to do home-office due to Covid-19 outbreak. In this new set-up, he found himself struggling to keep up with his personal productivity. Looking for a solution to allow him regain control over it as well as on his work-life balance, he learned that other professionals were dealing with a similar problem and there was no such a simple product in the market. This was the beginning of Silentus. Since then, Hugo’s been working on market and customer research and also setting up a team to grow the business and develop a great product.In February 2022, Hugo graduated from INSEAD Executive Master in Finance studies. During his free time he enjoys reading, primarily books around the topics of business, philosophy, and personal development; going to the gym; and watching football in local sports bars. He’s currently based in Amsterdam.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
Jacopo Sebastio is Founder & CEO at Velasca.
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Investment focus
- Shoes, Retail, Fashion
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.
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