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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Italy (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Italy Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
P101
VC Fund
9 Italy, Spain, United States Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $236k–$15M
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $55k–$576k
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
5 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet $291k–$7.9M
Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
5 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Software $66k–$2.4M
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $483k–$23M
Lazio Innova
VC Fund
4 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $22k–$1.9M
TA Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $150k–$28M
B Holding
VC Fund
4 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $120k–$2.4M
Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund
3 United States, Italy, Spain Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology $2.3M–$47M
Vertis
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $823k–$11M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $219k–$14M
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel
3 Italy, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $318k–$3.3M
Alberto Birolini
Angel
3 Italy Seed, Angel Shoes, Retail, Fashion
Pi Campus
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Mobile, Biotechnology $100k–$7M
Alecla7
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care $727k–$8.2M
LIFTT
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $338k–$118M
Club Digitale
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Education, E-Commerce $258k–$8.2M
CDP Equity
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $177k–$13M
La Finanziaria Trentina
VC Fund
2 Italy Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity Health Care, Retail, Medical $910k–$4.6M
Alberto Genovese
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Automotive, E-Commerce $2.3M–$116M
Luca Foresti
Angel
2 Italy Pre-Seed SaaS, Retail, Nutrition $217k–$5.1M
Luca Ferrante Carrante
Angel
2 Italy, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Shoes, Retail, Travel $2.9M–$5M
3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $71k–$2.5M
BlackSheep Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Advertising, Marketing, SaaS $1M–$22M
RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Retail $669k–$16M
Doorway Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, France Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace $647k–$7.1M
Oltre Impact
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Consumer Electronics, Pet, Toys $2.8M–$158M
Giulio Xiloyannis
Angel
2 Italy, Portugal, Philippines Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Gaming, Online Games, Apps $217k–$4.3M
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
2 Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $197k–$30M
UniCredit
VC Fund
2 Italy, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing $197k–$2.1B
ICLUB VC
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $125k–$94M
Growth Engine
VC Fund
2 Italy, Mexico, Portugal Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence $300k–$4.2M
Vintage Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, Gaming, Retail
Federico Menetto
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Retail, Software, Nutrition
United Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $406k–$18M
NXTP Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Argentina, Brazil Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet $50k–$20M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $550k–$16M
RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Fitness
H2 Investments
VC Fund
1 Germany, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Machine Learning, Retail
Angels 4 Impact
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Rossella Brenna
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce
Silvestro Russo
Angel
1 Italy Seed Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
Eberhard Schmidt
Angel
1 Italy Seed Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
Caravatti
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
Lazzaroni
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
Synergo Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, Spain, Germany Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
Francesco Pagano
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce
Niccolo Maisto
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Gaming, FinTech $458k–$14M
Feel Venture
VC Fund
1 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Retail, Grocery, Aerospace $326k–$1.5M
Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $148k–$21M
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P101
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 9 investments in Italy Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $236k–$4.1M; Series A $2.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $265M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Retail startups

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$576k; Pre-Seed $110k–$219k
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.6M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Boost Heroes
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in Italy Retail startups

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $291k–$2.8M; Series A $6M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Ricehouse — Ricehouse creates sustainable construction materials from organic waste from the rice industry to create natural building materials such as rice straws, husks, and chaff. Their products include insulating panels, base plasters, screeds and subfloors, cladding systems, and vertical matt-closing components. The goal of Ricehouse is to construct ahouse made entirely of rice and everything that houses humans, from the smallest to the largest scales.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 5 investments in Italy Retail startups

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$2.4M; Angel $66k–$878k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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.
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 296
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$7.7M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $212M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Lazio Innova
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$1.9M; Grant $22k–$343k; Pre-Seed $58k–$518k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HEU — Draft, sign and store contracts in one place. AI extracts deadlines and clauses, signatures valid in 180+ countries.
  • Tech4All — We support the study by using AI.
  • GeneSys Bio — Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global health emergency projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The crisis is fueled by slow, conventional diagnostics that take 3-5 days, forcing the empirical use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and accelerating the spread of superbugs.GeneSys Bio is commercialising a breakthrough solution: afully automated, sample-to-result molecular diagnostic platform that identifies infectious pathogens and their critical antibiotic resistance genes in under 30 minutes with >99% sensitivity and specificity. Our portable, laptop-sized device combines proprietary nucleic acid amplification with an AI-driven engine to deliver clear, actionable results directly to clinicians, veterinarians, and public health officials.Our platform is a modular "One Health" solution, adaptable via disease-specific kits for human, veterinary, and environmental applications. We are entering the market with a diagnostic for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), a condition affecting over 500 million people annually and a primary driver of antibiotic misuse. By enabling targeted therapy at the first patient encounter, our platform is set to reduce treatment costs by up to 13%, cut follow-up visits, and decrease mortality from complicated infections by 50%.GeneSys Bio is positioned to capture a significant share of this market by bridging the critical gap between speed, laboratory-grade accuracy, and accessibility. We are not just creating a device; we are building the future of decentralized infectious disease diagnostics to safeguard global health for generations to come
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TA Ventures
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments. We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 281
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$6M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $2.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Willidrop — Willidrop is a B2B automotive logistics platform that optimizes cross-border vehicle transportation. The company provides a unified digital coordination layer that integrates real-time pricing, carrier matching, live tracking, and digital proof of delivery into a single workflow.
  • SpeedLabs — The real-time market engine and foundational AI for sports.
  • Native Commerce — A unified e-commerce platform combining CMS, OMS, WMS, Delivery & Logistics to help modern retailers operate, scale & deliver great e-commerce experiences.
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B Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

B Holding is an industrial holding that wants to establish itself as a reference player for innovation in Italy, investing and supporting the best business projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $776k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$712k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • sykell — sykell developing scalable and sustainable packaging and pooling solutions for retail, gastronomy and catering industry.
  • This Unique — This Unique offers innovative solutions for feminine hygiene needs in both the B2C and B2B sectors. For consumers, we provide convenient subscription boxes delivering eco-friendly menstrual products right to their doorstep, ensuring they have access to high-quality essentials whenever they need them. In the B2B realm, we specialize in installingstate-of-the-art dispensers in corporate restrooms, offering businesses a hassle-free way to provide their employees with complimentary menstrual products. Our mission is to promote sustainability, inclusivity, and well-being, both at home and in the workplace.
  • 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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Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$47M; Series B $2.8M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Vertis
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Capitali e competenze per accelerare l'innovazione. Attraverso fondi di investimento chiusi investiamo in startup, scaleup e PMI innovative

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Scuter — Scuter is the smart e-scooter sharing service that makes city mobility,simple, enjoyable and sustainable. Scuter is on well on its path toward making a dent in this space.
  • 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.
  • Health Triage — Health Triage, crea nuove tecnologie per offrire modelli innovativi di diagnosi clinica, identificazione e cura delle malattie oncologiche.
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$5.1M; Angel $219k–$987k; Series A $3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
  • Alomana — Autonomous systems for enterprise
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Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$2.2M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.4M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

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.
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Alberto Birolini
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

Alberto Birolini

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Pi Campus
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7M; Angel $400k–$1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
  • Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
  • Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
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Alecla7
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Private investment firm founded by Angelomario Moratti in 2015, which mainly focuses on early-stage VC opportunities

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $727k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
  • Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
  • Klaris — Klaris reviews medical-device technical documentation clause by clause; every gap cites the standard with a fix. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, GDPR compliant.
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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $338k–$4.7M; Series A $2.8M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $495k–$118M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CareGlance — CareGlance is the provider of real-time monitoring systems based on SS-OCT technology. Fast, precise and developed for the industry!
  • Rainbow Crops — Rainbow Crops is a next-generation Agtech company developing climate-resilient, high-performing crop varieties.
  • Wearable Robotics — Wearable Robotics produces and develops wearable robotic systems and exoskeletons for rehabilitation, assistance and human-power augmentation.
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Club Digitale
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Education, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $258k–$576k; Venture - Series Unknown $7.5M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WeSchool — Unlock the transformative power of Education with WeSchool: we craft innovative programmes that connect teachers, students and partners.
  • WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
  • 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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CDP Equity
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $177k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $230k–$3.6M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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La Finanziaria Trentina
VC Fund · Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

La Finanziaria Trentina is s a private equity firm. It invests in energy, infrastructure, and real estate sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Retail, Medical
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $910k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VENPA — Noleggio Piattaforme Aeree e Noleggio Macchine Movimento Terra. Scopri tutti i mezzi da cantiere Venpa!
  • Tony Kart — Tony Kart is an automotive company specializing in designing and manufacturing chassis, OTK kart parts, and karting wears.
  • Hippocrates — Hippocrates operates a pharmacy platform with a network of over 120 owned pharmacies concentrated in central and northern Italy. Since its foundation, it has approached the pharmacy sector with an industrial and long-term logic. The company was founded in March 2018 by Davide Tavaniello and Rodolfo Guarino, co-CEOs of Hippocrates.
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Alberto Genovese
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Alberto Genovese (Alberto Maria Genovese) is an Italian entrepreneur and angel investor, founder of Facile.it and Prima Assicurazioni, and co-founder of Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese ETS.Alberto Maria Genovese, born on May 28, 1977, in Naples, has graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and began hisprofessional journey at top firms like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, and Bain & Company. Between 2005 and 2009, he led the Motors and New Businesses division at eBay.In 2008, he launched a price comparison platform initially called Assicurazioni.it, which later became Facile.it, focusing on insurance and financial products. The company was sold to Oakley Capital in 2014. That same year, he co-founded Prima Assicurazioni, a digital insurance company that raised €100 million in 2018 from investors including Goldman Sachs and Blackstone. Genovese also started Brumbrum, an online used car retailer, and invested in various startups like Abiby, Zappyrent, and Jobtech.In December 2025, AXA acquired the majority of Prima Assicurazioni, valuing the company at approximately €1.6 billion; with that transaction Genovese completed his full exit, worth approximately €89.7 million.Today Genovese is co-founder of Fondazione Laura e Alberto Genovese ETS, a Milan-based non-profit that offers free, permanent psychological support to families of people affected by drug addiction, runs an outpatient clinic in Milan and the residential care center Casa di Stefano. He is also a supporter of Movimento Italiano Diritti Detenuti, an association providing free digital tools to protect prisoners' rights in Italy.In July 2026, Genovese joined the board of Nessuno tocchi Caino, the Italian non-profit campaigning against the death penalty and for detainees' rights, as head of fundraising.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Automotive, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$116M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • Facile.it — Facile has built a leading market position in the fast-growing Italian online price comparison market particularly in car insurance. They recently launched several new price comparison product verticals to broaden its revenue base including gas and electricity, broadband, bank accounts and mobile phones. Today, Facile helps 2.2 million Italians amonth compare prices on key elements of their household expenditure.
  • Prima Assicurazioni —
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Luca Foresti
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Luca Foresti is the CEO at Santagostino. Luca Foresti attended The University of Pisa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Nutrition
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $217k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Luca Ferrante Carrante
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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3LB Seed Capital Srl
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YoAgents — Yo Agents nasce dalla unione delle competenze di ogni singolo founder messe a fattor comune per creare un sales hub innovativo.
  • Botsociety — Your conversational design suite. Design and prototype your next chatbot or voice assistant. Create a mockup of your project on Messenger, Slack, Google Assistant, Alexa and more. The next generation design solution for chatbots and voice.
  • Metis Precision Medicine — Metis Precision Medicine is a B-Corp founded with the vision of bringing powerful cancer therapies to patients in need. Metis owns the intellectual property of a suite of anti-Met monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with different and unique mechanisms of action, and is currently seeking investors, biotech or pharmaceutical companies interested inacquiring the relevant platform technology on a global basis.
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BlackSheep Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

BlackSheep Ventures is a dedicated European AI VC fund backing outlier founders in Vertical AI, domain-specific AI, and Sovereign AI. Regulated AIFM. Two funds. 12 portfolio companies. Based in Milan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Marketing, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.1M; Series A $5M–$22M; Convertible Note $1M–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $47M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Spoki — Spoki is the WhatsApp Marketing platform that boosts sales and engagement. Automated campaigns, AI-powered customer service, 100+ integrations. Start free.
  • Kleecks — Kleecks is an innovative SaaS platform that optimises performance marketing activities, improves website health and speed in real-time, and has a significant impact on businesses by increasing revenues, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-market
  • Connected-Stories — Connected-Stories is the Multi agent Ai system that powers generative AI for marketing, creative automation, and personalized content at scale.
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RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

RedSeed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Companies and Scaleups, in Europe and more particularly in Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $669k–$12M; Series A $1.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space offers a global network of ground stations, providing seamless, cost-effective satellite communication with scalable solutions for all mission sizes.
  • Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.
  • CyberRidge — CyberRidge is a deep-tech cybersecurity firm that develops photonic encryption to protect data privacy.
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Doorway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Doorway Capital is an independent provider of risk capital to law firms. It offers facilities of between £50,000 and £20 million to firms authorized by the SRA to practice law in England and Wales. These facilities can be used to fund disbursements, acquisitions, lock-up, tax liabilities, or anything else. It also purchases paid disbursements fromlaw firms for up to 80% of their face value. These means capital earning little or no return can be redeployed into more profitable activities of the firm or returned to its partners.Doorway Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.9M; Series A $1.6M–$6.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $647k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • Smartness — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
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Oltre Impact
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

We shape impact investing for people and planet

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Electronics, Pet, Toys
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$5.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.9M–$158M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippy — Kippy Europe: GPS trackers for dogs & cats. Real-time location, activity tracking & health monitoring. Keep your pet safe across Europe.
  • FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
  • Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency
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Giulio Xiloyannis
Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Giulio Xiloyannis is the Chief Commercial Officer of ZALORA, the largest online fashion retailer in SEA. Prior to ZALORA, he worked across a number of Rocket Internet Founded Venture in Italy, J.P Morgan and Rabobank. Giulio is an investor and Founding Investor for Omnilytics and an adviser for Musa, Taskomat and Edgar (Italy based ventures).Giulio as a pro-bono advisor for Florence based incubator Nana Bianca and Singapore based Antler as well as having collaborated with the Malaysian state sponsored incubator Magic.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Online Games, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Portugal, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $217k–$927k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $197k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $204k–$1.9M; Series A $889k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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UniCredit
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

UniCredit is a pan-European commercial bank offering unique banking services in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $197k–$197k; Post-IPO Debt $44M–$2.1B; Debt Financing $552k–$913M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Banxware — Banxware provides the technology and the funds for business financing of any kind: fully embedded in your platform or as an affiliate solution - all managed by Banxware
  • Greenvolt Power — Greenvolt Power is a renewable energy platform that develops and operates onshore Wind and photovoltaic installations. Greenvolt Power is a global producer of renewable electricity that relies on experienced employees in Europe and the United States to apply their know-how and expertise to solar and wind projects, as well as energy storage.
  • 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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ICLUB VC
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

ICLUB VC is a global network of private investors, established by a leading European VC fund TA Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.4M; Series A $5.3M–$94M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Liki24 — Liki24 is a logistics company that features a software platform that utilizes deep integration with partner pharmacies, clinics, and insurance companies. Its software is designed for logistics team coordination, task management, and data management.
  • Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
  • Berry Street — Get personalized nutrition therapy from registered dietitians, covered by your insurance. Book an online 1:1 session today.
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Growth Engine
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Growth Engine is a sector-agnostic VC holding, investing from Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A. Thesis-driven and built on one conviction: exceptional founders win.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Secondary Market, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Mexico, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BonusX — Con l'app BonusX hai un supporto anti-burocrazia tutto l'anno. Accedi a centinaia di bonus e servizi pubblici, senza stress e code.
  • CiaoDott — Automatizza le telefonate, prenotazioni e FAQ del tuo studio medico con CiaoDott, l'assistente vocale AI disponibile 24/7. Provalo gratis.
  • Vivaio Ventures — Vivaio Ventures partners with early-stage and creator-led consumer brands to scale food, beverage, and beauty products. We offer capital, consulting, and Made in Italy manufacturing excellence for the next CPG leaders.
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Vintage Capital
VC Fund · Orlando, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

WOPSLOT menghadirkan akses situs Slot Zeus terbaik dengan Live RTP gacor hari ini, permainan populer, peluang kemenangan menarik, dan pengalaman bermain lebih seru.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Gaming, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mythia — Mythia.com is a captivating, 6-letter domain name that exudes mystery, creativity, and innovation. The name conjures images of ancient myths and legends, making it perfect for a variety of industries seeking to stand out in a crowded market
  • 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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Federico Menetto
Angel · Padua, Veneto, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Federico Menetto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, Nutrition
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
  • 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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United Ventures
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $406k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $176M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
  • Entando — The open source, cloud-native Application Composition Platform, Entando Platform simplifies app lifecycle, following composable architecture.
  • Everli — Scegli il supermercato, fai la spesa online e ricevila a casa all'ora che preferisci. Risparmia tempo ed evita code e borse pesanti con Everli.
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NXTP Ventures
VC Fund · Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Argentina, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$5.4M; Series A $988k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $98M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Properati — Properati is an online and mobile property platform for the real estate market. The company offers buyers, users, agile, free of ads, banners website, and tenants or real estate investors with a quick, designed for them to be able to communicate effectively with the offeror who has what they are looking for.Properati has an office in Sao Paulo,Brazil, and was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina.
  • Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
  • Luzid — The agentic ERP delivery platform. Luzid helps you increase quality, reduce risk, and accelerate time to go-live.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 570
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $587k–$4.2M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora —
  • Kyber — Kyber is a deep-tech infrastructure focused on ultra-low-latency real-time communication technologies for emerging AI-driven systems.
  • Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
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RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
  • MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
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H2 Investments
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

H2 Investments was added in 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Machine Learning, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.
  • dealcode AI — Make your sales team data-driven and leverage the value of AI guided selling to increase win-rates and revenue.
  • Ready To Share — Ready to Share is a SaaS startup that offers an inventory management platform that connects brands, agents, and retailers. Ready to Share was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Lombardia, Italy.
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Angels 4 Impact
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Angels 4 Impact is a Business Angel investment firm that invests in startups with innovative and technological content and a focus on impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • XBOOKS — Investors Relations is Xbooks website whereby the company shares communications between the mangares and the Shareholders community. It provides an accurate account to investors, which keeps them updated of company life and key results.
  • Envirly — Envirly is a Polish technology company that offers an innovative platform for managing sustainable development, and the carbon footprint of organizations and products.
  • 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.
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Rossella Brenna
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Rossella Brenna

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
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Silvestro Russo
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Silvestro Russo

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Eberhard Schmidt
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Eberhard Schmidt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Caravatti
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Caravatti operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Lazzaroni
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Lazzaroni operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Cosmetics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Synergo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Diamo sostegno operativo e finanziario alle PMI italiane che vogliono crescere negli USA. Investiamo a fianco di imprenditori ambiziosi per aumentare significativamente il valore delle loro aziende. Non siamo un partner solo finanziario, ma anche operativo e strategico. Mettiamo a disposizione la nostra esperienza nel costruire aziende di successo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
  • Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
  • Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
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Francesco Pagano
Angel · Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Francesco Pagano is a Senior Partner at JAKALA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Nutrition, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tuduu — Tuduu.it: Revolutionizing the Internationalization of Italian Food E-commerceTuduu.it is an innovative internationalization-as-a-service platform designed to empower small and medium-sized Italian food producers to overcome the digital and linguistic barriers that limit their global reach. By providing a scalable AI-powered ecosystem, Tuduuenables these producers to seamlessly translate, enrich, and showcase their product catalogs and recipes in over 17 languages, unlocking new export opportunities across Europe and beyond.The Challenge The Italian agri-food sector is a global leader, generating over €523 billion in turnover and employing 3.6 million people. However, only 15% of this turnover currently derives from exports, and just 20% of Italian food companies have an e-commerce presence — often limited to Italian language only. This poor digitalization and language gap create significant competitive disadvantages for many small and medium producers eager to reach international customers.Tuduu’s Solution Tuduu.it addresses these challenges through a comprehensive, AI-driven digital platform designed as an internationalization-as-a-service (IaaS) model for Made in Italy food e-commerce. The key pillars of Tuduu’s solution include:AI-powered catalog and recipe translation: Automatic, scalable translation of product catalogs, recipes, and user-generated content (UGC) videos into 17 languages, including automated dubbing of video content, enabling producers to speak directly to diverse international markets.Personalized user experience: Dynamic nutrition filters allow users to explore products and recipes tailored to their dietary profiles (e.g., vegan, gluten-free, allergies), with AI algorithms that automatically determine macro- and micronutrients, and assess nutritional compatibility with specific dietary restrictions.Seamless marketplace integration: Producers set up or maintain their own e-commerce sites and access Tuduu’s ecosystem by installing a simple plugin or API feed. This approach preserves producers’ autonomy while enabling them to benefit from Tuduu’s unique international visibility and user engagement.Recipe-driven commerce: Tuduu innovates by combining product discovery with rich recipe content, allowing consumers to explore authentic Italian culinary experiences and directly purchase ingredients through integrated shopping lists and seamless checkout flows.SEO and marketing optimization: Tuduu acts as a multilingual media showcase optimized for both Google search and YouTube video discovery, leveraging AI-generated content and influencer marketing networks to boost brand awareness and export sales.Market Opportunity 54,000+ Italian food companies generate approximately €67 billion in export value annually.The total addressable market (TAM) of the Italian agri-food sector is €523 billion, with the serviceable available market (SAM) focused on the digitally mature segment estimated at €12 billion.Tuduu’s projected serviceable obtainable market (SOM) aims to capture €11.4 million in transactions within five years, with a target of more than 800 retailers and 90 million euros in transaction volume.Business Model Tuduu operates primarily on a performance-based affiliation fee of 10% on sales, coupled with a SaaS subscription starting at €99/month for access to advanced platform features. Custom projects and media services (including influencer campaigns) are offered to support brand promotion and growth.The Tuduu Ecosystem and Team The platform is built on three key scalable AI models:Product Model: Analyzes and translates product data with nutritional profiling and cross-contamination detection.Recipe Model: Automates recipe nutrient calculation and compatibility with specific dietary needs.Nutrition Model: Generates personalized nutrition plans and profiles.The Tuduu team combines expertise in food tech, software development, UX design, marketing, and business development, driven by a shared mission to support Italian food producers’ digital transformation and international expansion.Sustainability and Impact Tuduu embraces sustainability not only as a goal but as a driver of growth. By promoting healthier eating habits through nutritionist-guided recipes and improving access to authentic local products, Tuduu aligns with several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The platform also supports small producers by facilitating their entry into global markets via digital channels, thereby enhancing social and economic sustainability in local communities.Side Project: Tuduu Nutrition Expanding the core technology, Tuduu has developed a complementary SaaS platform for nutritionists called Tuduu Nutrition. This platform enables rapid creation, analysis, and digitization of personalized nutrition plans, integrated into a mobile app for patient compliance and monitoring.Key features of Tuduu Nutrition include:Generation of tailored nutrition profiles and plans based on validated dietary guidelines.Weekly meal planning with integrated recipes from Tuduu’s extensive database.Shared and collaborative shopping lists that automatically sync with partner retailers for easy purchasing.SaaS pricing based on a monthly subscription (€29/month) plus a fee per managed patient (€2.5/month).Tuduu Nutrition leverages the same AI technology and data models as Tuduu.it, creating synergy between food e-commerce and health-oriented nutrition planning.Financial Outlook and Fundraising Tuduu is currently in a growth and fundraising phase, targeting €1,000,000 in capital with investment tickets starting from €5,000. The company projects rapid scaling with increasing revenues from marketplace transactions, media services, and SaaS subscriptions, aiming for over €11 million in revenues by 2029 and expanding its brand network substantially.Summary Tuduu.it is poised to transform the Italian food export landscape by bridging the gap between small producers and international consumers through advanced AI-driven digital tools, an engaging marketplace experience, and a strong commitment to sustainability and nutrition. Alongside its sister platform Tuduu Nutrition, it creates a comprehensive ecosystem that connects producers, consumers, and health professionals in a unique, scalable way.
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Niccolo Maisto
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Niccolo Maisto is the chief executive officer of ESL FACEIT Group.Niccolo Maisto attended Bocconi University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Gaming, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $458k–$4.7M; Series A $6.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Feel Venture
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Feel Venture invests in Seed and Series-A tech-enabled startups run by ambitious Italian teams. We invest ealry and with high-conviction and leverage the power of our community to help companies scale to their fullest potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Grocery, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $326k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NANDO — Monitor waste in real time with AI. NANDO tracks fill levels, automates reporting and improves recycling rates. Trusted by 80+ companies across 17 countries.
  • Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!
  • Space DOTS — SKY-I, by SpaceDOTS, transforms fragmented space environmental data into unified, mission-critical intelligence that enables confident decision-making across the entire space mission lifecycle.
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $148k–$2.2M; Series A $5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
  • Parting Pro — Funeral home software dedicated to creating the best death care experience. Grow your business with online arrangements and digital case management.
  • Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.
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Retail Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 163 deals from 212 investors.

212
investors
in Italy Retail startups
163
deals
in Italy Retail startups
$818k
median round
in Italy Retail startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
26%
Seed
most common funding stage
67/33
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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