Top 40 Retail Angel Investors in Italy (August 2026)

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• 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.

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• 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.
• Barberino's - Benessere Italiano — We are an Italian independent men's grooming company. We operates a classic though stylish barber shop chain with an Italian soul in Milan, Rome, Padova and Brescia. Our award-winning Barber Shops recreates places where the gestures, the rituals and the habits behind men's grooming are honored while updated with modern attitude. Ourbarbers are top skilled and carefully trained. We focus on high quality haircuts, beard trims and hot towel wet shave with the mission to offer a relaxing grooming experience. We use and sell exclusively our own products, entirely designed, developed and packaged in Italy by an expert group of artisans, chemists and designers that represent the ultimate Italian excellence. Our product line is the result of our years of on-the-ground experience and hundred of thousands of haircuts and bear trims. We know not only what our customers need but also what our customers wants. The cosmetics are characterized by high performance formulas enriched with the most advanced active ingredients (such as plant stem cells) that are extracted from natural sources. The accessories are entirely handmade using the most precious natural materials, such as horn or wengé wood, according to the most elegant Italian design principles. We offer a 360° customer experience which starts in our store with our barbers and which continue at home with our products!

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• 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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• Tuduu — Un'unica infrastruttura tech per creare esperienze digitali intelligenti e personalizzate.
• Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).

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• GLHF — GLHF is a crypto-native game studio founded by industry veterans. The studio is known for its deflationary NFT collection, GLHFers, on the Ethereum mainnet, and for its Gigaverse ROM collection on Abstract.
• Tuduu — Un'unica infrastruttura tech per creare esperienze digitali intelligenti e personalizzate.
• Blade of God X — Blade of God X provides cross-platform play as an optimum medium and way of interaction between people and the virtual world.

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• 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.

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

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• The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

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• L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

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• Sintropy — Dispositivi progettati e prodotti in Italia: riduzione consumi per le catene retail, dati e KPI immediati per l'industria.
• L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.
• Foreverland — Foreverland Food is an Italian food-tech startup.

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

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• Vado — VADO collega negozi automatici alle piattaforme di delivery e gestisce i pagamenti cashless. Attivi in Italia, Germania, Austria, Svizzera, Spagna.

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• 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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• Antlos — Antlos is a peer-to-peer online marketplace that offers all-inclusive experience-driven boat holidays, published and managed directly by local Skippers, who are the captains and owners of the boat. Based on the principles of a Sharing Economy, Antlos makes yachting simple, affordable and accessible to everyone.Every Skipper may publish severallistings and be contacted by registered users willing to book a holiday. Guests can choose from different destinations and experiences offered and safely pay online via credit card, Paypal and Bank Wire. The Skippers can start earning from the rental of their boat without having to pay any agency fees and clients can book their holidays easily and safely thanks to Antlos' flexible cancellation policies and clear terms and conditions.Antlos was born in Venice and grown in H-FARM Campus. The team is composed of young professionals, passionate and expert on travel and the maritime industry, coming from different work experiences. Recently Antlos has been merged with the Swiss company which runs Sailogy.com.
• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• Tuduu — Un'unica infrastruttura tech per creare esperienze digitali intelligenti e personalizzate.
• Hale — Hale is the digital solution supporting people with genito-pelvic pain, helping them live better with their condition. Download our app now!
• ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.

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• Mirta — Discover the finest Luxury Artisans, 100% Made in Italy, straight from the workshops. We ship worldwide for free. All custom duty and taxes are included.

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• Vado — VADO collega negozi automatici alle piattaforme di delivery e gestisce i pagamenti cashless. Attivi in Italia, Germania, Austria, Svizzera, Spagna.

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• 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 — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
• 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.

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• 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 Education is an app for creating online concept maps and mind maps from their own documents in a simple and intuitive way. They automatically synthesize the texts and create concept maps. Algor offers the ability to edit mind maps in the media editor while working with coworkers or teachers. With just a few clicks, you can quickly createmaps, upload any document, and listen to it being read aloud by the speech synthesizer.
• Algor — La migliore app per le mappe concettuali

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• L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

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• L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

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

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• 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.

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• Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
• qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
• Stelia — Stelia builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide

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• Tuduu — Un'unica infrastruttura tech per creare esperienze digitali intelligenti e personalizzate.
• The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.

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

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• Vado — VADO collega negozi automatici alle piattaforme di delivery e gestisce i pagamenti cashless. Attivi in Italia, Germania, Austria, Svizzera, Spagna.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Willow — The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale.
• Marquee — Marquee turns football data into decision-ready insights in seconds, unifying external and internal data and filtering it through your club's sporting DNA.
• CustoMED — End-to-end platform turning medical scans into patient-specific surgical plans, tools & implants instantly. AI-powered surgical planning in minutes.

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• L'Orto di Jack — Ordina online e ricevi la spesa a casa. Servizio di consegna a domicilio su Milano e Monza Brianza di prodotti freschi; frutta, verdura, salumi, pane fresco, carne e vini.

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• faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
• Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
• We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources

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• Vado — VADO collega negozi automatici alle piattaforme di delivery e gestisce i pagamenti cashless. Attivi in Italia, Germania, Austria, Svizzera, Spagna.

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• The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.