Top 15 Travel Angel Investors in Italy (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Federico González Tejera
Angel
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2 | Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed | Travel, Software, Travel Agency | |
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Arnaldo Borghesi
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Events, Travel, Software | |
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Maurizio Donadelli
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Analytics, Retail, Travel | $110k–$283k |
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Matteo Fago
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Convertible Note | Sharing Economy, Mobile, Travel | $121k–$4M |
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Confidential
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, Brazil | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Big Data | $50k–$6M |
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Niccolò Branca
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Food and Beverage, Travel, Nanotechnology | |
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Marco Migliore
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Events, Travel, Software | |
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Alessandro Pericolo
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Hotel, Travel, Tourism | |
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Marco Pescarmona
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed, Series A | Travel, Finance, Internet | |
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Luca Ferrante Carrante
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Shoes, Retail, Travel | $2.7M–$4.8M |
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Andrea Dusi
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, FinTech, Software | $150k–$6M |
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
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1 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Software | $66k–$2.4M |
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Cristina Pozzi
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Travel, Tourism, Gift Card | |
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Mario Mariani
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Angel | Apps, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Luca Ascani
Angel
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1 | France, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $589k–$37M |
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Federico González is the Founder at Radisson Hotel Group.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Travel Agency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BizAway — BizAway is the corporate travel management platform trusted by 2,000+ companies worldwide. Simplify business travel booking, policy compliance, and expense management with smart technology and 24/7 real human support.
Arnaldo Borghesi
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- Industry: Events, Travel, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Always Friday — Piattaforma AI per eventi aziendali in Italia: 2.500+ location, team building, retreat e eventi su misura con proposte qualificate e un event manager dedicato per ogni progetto.
Maurizio Donadelli
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- Industry: Analytics, Retail, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $110k–$283k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Antlos — Antlos is a peer-to-peer online marketplace that offers all-inclusive experience-driven boat holidays, published and managed directly by local Skippers, who are the captains and owners of the boat. Based on the principles of a Sharing Economy, Antlos makes yachting simple, affordable and accessible to everyone.Every Skipper may publish severallistings and be contacted by registered users willing to book a holiday. Guests can choose from different destinations and experiences offered and safely pay online via credit card, Paypal and Bank Wire. The Skippers can start earning from the rental of their boat without having to pay any agency fees and clients can book their holidays easily and safely thanks to Antlos' flexible cancellation policies and clear terms and conditions.Antlos was born in Venice and grown in H-FARM Campus. The team is composed of young professionals, passionate and expert on travel and the maritime industry, coming from different work experiences. Recently Antlos has been merged with the Swiss company which runs Sailogy.com.
- 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.
Matteo Fago
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- Industry: Sharing Economy, Mobile, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $121k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
- IdentifAI — Real-time detection of Al-generated images, video and synthetic voice. Trusted by Experian, KPMG and leading financial institutions across 90+ countries.
Confidential
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Big Data
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $60k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RSight — RSight offers each customer, candidate, and partner with a one-of-a-kind and best-in-class recruitment, onboarding, and working experience. The company, above and beyond the current industry possibilities in providing enhanced service to recruiting organizations and individuals. The company is elevating the recruitment experience and interaction byproviding recruitment experience for each client, candidate, and partner.
- Acropolis — Acropolis redefines the way organizations are overcoming the challenges of information governance and integrity in every space of decision . With graph modeling, machine learning, and computer vision, the solution automatically scores , labels, and categorizes every piece of unstructured data within the framework of open source information . Thesolution locates necessary data insights ,appropriately assessing , qualifing them by relevance and objective, providing instant feedback -allowing clarity and precision ,in every context of assessment , choice. Data integrity ,clarity ,precision are significantly enhanced, vulnerability and overheads are minimized while the diligent tasking effort of decision is optimised
- Kronos Fusion Energy Incorporated — Kronos Fusion Energy designs and builds compact, low-neutron fusion generators — dispatchable, fuel-secure power for industrial, defense, and AI-compute demand. Operating from Los Angeles and Switzerland, the company develops two product lines on its S.M.A.R.T. architecture: MetroVolt, for commercial urban-grid power, and AEGIS, for defense. Kronospairs a high-field, compact spherical-tokamak design with direct energy conversion and a rigorous, simulation-first engineering program, targeting commercialization by 2032.
Niccolò Branca
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Travel, Nanotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ALTR — Revolutionary nanotechnology that delicately REMOVES just the alcohol molecule from drinks. Creating new opportunities for beverage makers without sacrificing the craft.
- Cesarine — The best Cooking Classes in Italy, Market Tours, Food Experiences in local homes in Florence, Venice, Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre, Chianti and much more.
Marco Migliore is an International Wealth Management Specialist and Advisor.
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- Industry: Events, Travel, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Alessandro Pericolo
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- Industry: Hotel, Travel, Tourism
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pragmatica — Software House di R&D per lo sviluppo di soluzioni di automazione tramite AI
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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- Industry: Travel, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
- Holidoit — Holidoit is a marketplace to book local outdoor experiences such as horse riding, truffle hunting and sailing – or even heliski flights.
Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group
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- Industry: Shoes, Retail, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$4.8M
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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 the no-profit organization Impactscool, withthe aim to bring education on exponential technologies to Italian students and teachers. Impactscool was sold in 2025 with an exit to an Italian bank. Now his focus is manly on studying, exploring the potential of human beings, understanding true meaning of life, enjoying the passage of time. He is advisor of dozens of technological 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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- Industry: Biotechnology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Angel $170k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CitizenX — CitizenX is the secure and private platform that helps you diversify your passport portfolio, ensuring a safe future for you and your loved ones.
- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $638k–$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.
Cristina Pozzi - COO and Head of Contents @ Treccani Futura
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- Industry: Travel, Tourism, Gift Card
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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).
Mario Mariani - Partner @ United Ventures
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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!
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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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$14M; Pre-Seed $589k–$37M; Series A $4.3M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
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