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

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

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• HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
• Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
• Barberino's - Benessere Italiano — We are an Italian independent men's grooming company. We operates a classic though stylish barber shop chain with an Italian soul in Milan, Rome, Padova and Brescia. Our award-winning Barber Shops recreates places where the gestures, the rituals and the habits behind men's grooming are honored while updated with modern attitude. Ourbarbers are top skilled and carefully trained. We focus on high quality haircuts, beard trims and hot towel wet shave with the mission to offer a relaxing grooming experience. We use and sell exclusively our own products, entirely designed, developed and packaged in Italy by an expert group of artisans, chemists and designers that represent the ultimate Italian excellence. Our product line is the result of our years of on-the-ground experience and hundred of thousands of haircuts and bear trims. We know not only what our customers need but also what our customers wants. The cosmetics are characterized by high performance formulas enriched with the most advanced active ingredients (such as plant stem cells) that are extracted from natural sources. The accessories are entirely handmade using the most precious natural materials, such as horn or wengé wood, according to the most elegant Italian design principles. We offer a 360° customer experience which starts in our store with our barbers and which continue at home with our products!

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.
• www.bike-room.com — Browse 15,000+ premium bikes from authorized dealers on the dedicated bike marketplace. New, pre-owned and showroom condition. Road, gravel, MTB, e-bike.

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• Bricks.sh — The fastest way to build and manage your Supabase database. One-click admin panel with powerful features for teams.
• TaDa — TaDa is an energy efficiency company that provides disaggregate energy consumption analytics for users to manage energy usage.
• CommerceClarity — AI-native platform powering the next generation of e-commerce through intelligent agents.

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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 .
• Mopso — Discover Mopso's anti money laundering detection system. Visit our website and try a 30 minutes free demo with one of our experts.
• ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.

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• SurePay — De IBAN-Naam Check Portal. Voorkom fraude en vergissingen bij het onboarden van nieuwe klanten, leveranciers en/of medewerkers
• Cloudmas — Cloudmas is the largest provider of platforms, managed services and project developments in the cloud on the world. As an expert company in technology consulting services and solutions for migration of IT resources to the cloud, their goal is the digital transformation of theirconsulting customers through technological innovation. With their help,companies can carry out previously unimaginable projects and take advantage of new Cloud technologies to continue innovating.They believe in a different way of doing IT, a unique way to design and create the future of their customers. And for this reason, they have a multidisciplinary team, which is expert in design, management and execution of strategic solutions in the Cloud, with a team of 200 professionals that is recognized by the leading Cloud service providers worldwide.
• Eggplant — Use artificial intelligence to create and automate continuous software testing. Learn how to release quality software faster with Eggplant.