Top 10 Sports Angel Investors in Italy in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Sports Angel Investors in Italy in January 2026

Investor	Sports Italy investments
Giovanni Gardelli	2
Alessandro Gatti	1
Claudio Rossi	1
Andrea Febbraio	1
Stefano Alberti	1
Stefano Miccinelli	1
Andrea Rota	1
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis	1
Rudy Cortesi	1
Mario Mariani	1

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Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire

Investment focus

Marketing, Gift, Retail
Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

SMACE — Smace engages in the development of smart working management platforms.
Wikicasa — Scegli tra migliaia di annunci di case in vendita completi, aggiornati e affidabili. Per trovare velocemente la tua futura casa con Wikicasa!
The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

Claudio Rossi - Advisor @ GoSherpy

Investment focus

Farming, Internet, Agriculture
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Elaisian — Elaisian is a precision farming service that focuses on the preservation of olive trees. By a system of algorithms based on a database of agronomic studies, the company is able to prevent diseases and to optimize cultivation processes such as irrigation and fertilization. The goal is to improve olive tree's life and the producer's work.
Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.

Venture Capitalist, Investor, Internet entrepreneur, International Speaker and Book Author.+15 years of experience in AdTech & Digital Advertising : I love to start-up international digital business, scale it and make them grow till the exit.Co-founder of Ebuzzing (now Teads) from 0 to 100M$ Revenues in 4 YearsFounder of PromoDigital// Sold It After 2 Years for 4x RevenuesCo-Author of the book "Viral Video: Content is King Distribution is Queen" & Co-Author of the Book "Buzz Marketing nei Social Media" Partner at Ariadne CapitalPro Speaker at London Speaker Bureauhttp://mariafranzoni.com/business-management/4471-andrea-febbraio// I LOVE TO MENTOR AWESOME TEAMS //Speaker at Major Digital Advertising events: Royal Institution of Great Britain, IAB Forum Milan, iStrategy London, iStrategy Amsterdam, Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, Dmexco Cologne, Inspirational Festival Madrid.Advisor http://www.luissenlabs.com/ Angel Portfolio: AdEspresso, Chupamobile, Beintoo, FiloVenture Portfolio: Money Dashboard, Oxygen, Bit X , Quill, Taggstar, SoundOut, Made Television, Orson & Co , Bloomy Days, Norwood SystemSenior Lecturer at :SDA Bocconi, LUISS Business School, Business School Il Sole 24 Ore, IED, NaBA, Master IAB Università Cattolica, Gambero Rosso

Investment focus

Internet, Farming, Fitness
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.

He started working in 1991, after a degree at Bocconi University, as Analyst bond market and later the stock market at the CIMO Sim - Milan. In 1995 he was Co-Founder Intermobiliare Securities (later Intermonte Sim, leader in Italy in traded volumes) and from '95 until 2009 he held the position of Office Manager studies where he managed a teamof over 20 fundamental analysts who in years has received prestigious awards and placed at the top of important charts internationally. Currently working with the bank Albertini Syz for financial advisory services, corporate finance and private banking. and 'member of AIAF (Italian association of financial Analysts) and of important business partner organization angel (ie financial investors in start-ups). Today Stefano plays an activity related to the management of capital which is looking for new business opportunities to finance and develop and financial guidance.

Investment focus

Gift, Retail, Sports
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings.

Investment focus

Pet, Gift, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Kippy — Pet owners deal with 2 main issues: every year millions of pets are lost; pets are thought to have become increasingly overweight, with higher risk of arthritis, diabetes and heart diseases development. We create the most advanced GPS and Activity Monitor for pets to keep them safe, healthy and to strengthen our relationship with them.
Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

Andrea Rota is a Managing Director at Investors Club. He attended IMD (International Institute for Management Development).

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale
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30SecondsToFly - Claire — We provide A.I. driven workflow automation for travel management companies to lower their cost and provide a "super" user experience to their travelers.In Autopilot mode Claire completes the travel agent's most repetitive tasks and in Copilot mode she shares learnt traveler patterns with the agent. As a result, Claire saves travelagents on avg. 50% of their time. Our in-house NLP has a response time of less than a second and an accuracy of 96%. Our in-house recommender systems are at 85% first tier accuracy. While travelers enjoy an unprecedented level of self-service experience, travel agents are free to focus on their revenue generating, high touch customer interactions. A win-win-win for traveler, agent and TMC.30SecondsToFly was awarded the General Catalyst Award for Travel Innovation $100k, recognised as the most innovate and disruptive emerging company in travel in 2019. Watch our winning pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=DYEzUF0kx78&feature=emb_logo

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.