Top 10 Travel Angel Investors in Italy in November 2024
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Travel Angel Investors in Italy in November 2024
Investor | Travel Italy investments |
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Federico González Tejera | 3 |
Andrea Dusi | 1 |
Marco Pescarmona | 1 |
Mario Mariani | 1 |
Maurizio Donadelli | 1 |
Luca Ascani | 1 |
Giovanni Gardelli | 1 |
Luca Ferrante Carrante | 1 |
Roberto Nicastro | 1 |
Cristina Pozzi | 1 |
Federico González is the Founder at Radisson Hotel Group.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Software, Travel Agency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 1500 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Mr. Pescarmona graduated cum laude with a degree in electrical engineering from the Turin Polytechnic Institute in 1993, and holds a second degree in information sciences from the University of Turin, from which he graduated cum laude in 1996. He also earned in 1998 an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Heworked as a consultant in the Milan office of McKinsey & Company, focusing on the insurance and banking industries. Formerly he worked in the Fixed Income Derivatives desk of Morgan Stanley in London. In 2000, Mr. Pescarmona founded Gruppo MutuiOnline together with Alessandro Fracassi, and is currently Chairman of the Board, as well as CEO of the Broking Division. Gruppo MutuiOnline was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange on 6 June 2007.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Finance, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
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Mario Mariani - Partner @ United Ventures
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- marinanow — With Marinanow you can hire boats and rent berths throughout Europe. Book your next adventure online in only a few clicks of a mouse!
- AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Maurizio Donadelli
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,000 certified sailing boats, catamarans, motorboats and gulets. You can hire a skippered or bareboat. Real time availability. Book your sailing week now!
- Pathflow — Pathflow is real life Analytics. Through a camera based system we study how customers move and behave inside a location, we match this analysis with marketing and sales data and we generate dashboards with objective data and analysis.We are focusing on the retail market to provide businesses with a tool that will allow them to really knowtheir customers and their shopping habits.
- Competitoor — Competitoor is the service for price intelligence. We track the price of your competitors and help you defining your price strategy.
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- 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).
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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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.
Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group
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Investment focus
- Shoes, Retail, Travel
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Italy, United States
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.
Roberto Nicastro
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
- Cesarine - Home Food — The best Cooking Classes in Italy, Market Tours, Food Experiences in local homes in Florence, Venice, Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre, Chianti and much more.
Cristina Pozzi - COO and Head of Contents @ Treccani Futura
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Investment focus
- Travel, Tourism, Gift Card
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wish Days — Wish Days is an Italian holding company operating in different fields.Total 2012 turnover was $ 40 millions, 2013 turnover is espected to be $50 millions.Main areas are:- gift boxes, sold to final customers through retailes (travel agencies, consumer electronic shops, library, food retailer, own shop) with the brand Emozione3. These boxescontain a guide and a voucher through which it is possible to live an experience (night out, day spa, dinner...).- Relationship marketing. We offer b2b services to Italian companies to help them in their loyalty activities and incentive plans.- Online travel agencies (with the brand Elation.it and Finalmentevenerdi.it).- hotel customer reviews web portal (www.trilltip.com).
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