Top 10 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Italy (October 2026)

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• HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
• Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
• Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

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• Holifya — Holifya offre test del DNA avanzati e piani di salute personalizzati per ottimizzare nutrizione, metabolismo, performance sportive e prevenzione. Con un unico test, scopri intolleranze, rischi genetici e strategie su misura per migliorare il benessere, tutto comodamente da casa.
• 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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• Mantel — Mantel proposes a method to trap CO2 before it enters the atmosphere.
• Newcleo — newcleo is the clean and safe nuclear technology company. Privately funded and headquartered in London, UK, newcleo was launched in 2021 to be a disruptor in the field of nuclear energy. Its mission is to generate safe, clean and inexhaustible energy for the world, through a radically innovative combination of existing, accessible technologies.newcleo is building the next generation system with the goals to: (1) eliminate the need for geological repositories by using a fast neutron flux avoiding production of long life radioactive elements; (2) develop an Accelerator Driven System (ADS), based on the intrinsically safe coupling of a particle accelerator and a sub-critical reactor; (3) accelerate the development of new fuel cycles, including thorium, that provide economic, clean, safe and inexhaustible energy from nuclei and the opportunity to burn the long-lived nuclear waste produced by the old generation of nuclear reactors.With visionary co-founders, newcleo brings together a team of engineers with deep knowledge of nuclear energy with younger recruits with a fresh mindset, working to design an innovative micro Lead Fast Reactor with significant commercial applications, for example in shipping. newcleo wants to be the first step toward the evolution of its industry to become fully respectful of people and the environment. To develop a new, sustainable, and completely safe way of generating nuclear energy that will lead humanity to zero emissions, and to the mitigation of global warming.
• Alter Eco Pulp — Alter Eco Pulp is a fiber molding company that processes waste and natural cellulose fibers to manufacture disposable products.

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• Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
• Aptadir Therapeutics — Reprogramming DNA methylation in disease conditions by RNA therapeutics APTADIR Contact us NEWS Press Release Reprogramming DNA methylation by RNA therapeutics A novel therapeutic approach for untreatable cancers and rare diseases Aberrant methylation by DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) of certain genes may cause abnormal cell development and lead to disease. Current therapies targeted to inhibit
• Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.

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• 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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• Kilogram — Kilogram is the creator of a weight loss software that uses food photos to estimate calorie consumption.
• H-Cube — H-Cube develops smart clothes technology to manufacture sportswear. Its technology is embedded into an industrial production line of sportswear suitable both for training and post-training monitoring to analyze the recovery process related to that specific training session.
• IllumyFi — IllumyFi provides tools for investors and companies to help people on their journey to financial freedom: monitor and manage your investments all in one place, find information based on your interests, learn how to invest. IllumyFi: light your way to financial freedom

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• Akuis — Akuis is a smart gym that manufactures high-tech fitness equipment. It substitutes weights, barbells, and all of a complete gym's equipment with electromagnetic motors, which are housed in a simple design framework that saves space, making it ideal for home fitness and personal trainers.
• Subbyx — Subbyx provides long-term subscriptions for technology products and small home appliances.
• 1Control — Apricancello, serratura smart e telecomando universale. Rendi smart cancello, porta e garage con i prodotti 1Control. Scopri SOLO, DORY, WHY e l'ecosistema completo.

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• Iusful — Iusful is a legal services company that provides legal solutions for contracts, intellectual property, and compliance.
• Bricks.sh — Bricks.sh provides customer service, operations, and all business teams with an admin panel they enjoy while putting internal tools on autopilot for IT teams. self-generated. Business teams may actually customize it.
• Complaion — Complaion is a compliance technology company that provides software services for regulatory compliance and management system certifications.

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• Wayla — Wayla offre viaggi serali sicuri e sostenibili a Milano con il primo servizio di van pooling. Prenota tramite app e viaggia a bordo dei nostri van con autisti certificati a tariffe vantaggiose
• Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.
• Elemento Cloud — Elemento is a vendor-neutral, cost-saving, green, high-performance, self-hostable cloud platform with infrastructure-as-code readiness.

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• SurePay — De IBAN-Naam Check Portal. Voorkom fraude en vergissingen bij het onboarden van nieuwe klanten, leveranciers en/of medewerkers
• Luxology — Creators of pioneering software for creative industries. Tacklers of complex visualization challenges. #ImaginationEngineered
• Sanoptis — Sanoptis is an innovative European ophthalmology services group, covering the full spectrum of diagnostic and surgical ophthalmic treatments. The group partners with leading ophthalmologists to deliver on the organic and inorganic growth opportunities within the market.