# Top 20 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Italy in May 2026 ## Club Italia Investimenti 2 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital. ## CDP Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem. ## Club degli Investitori - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed. ## HATCHER+ - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide. ## Intesa Sanpaolo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. ## Benchmark - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California. The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The six equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Matt Cohler, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Mitch Lasky, Eric Vishria, and Scott Belsky. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat. ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree ## Xandas New Media Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Internet, Web Apps We are dedicated to fund, launch and operate highly innovative projects and services in Internet and Mobile services. We enjoy access to a network of top-tier Companies and Professionals with whom we have partnered both for co-investment opportunities as well as for shared expertise and synergies on particular projects. With over 12 years fullydedicated to Internet on a Global scale, Xandas combines broad expertise from the areas of Web, Mobile Internet, Applications and Services. Our projects have a Global scope and have been deployed in Europe, US, and Asia. ## Alberto Cresto - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology Alberto Cresto is the General Partner at Lunar Ventures. ## Translated - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Internet, Web Apps We are on a mission to open up language to everyone, using a powerful combination of expert human translators and machine intelligence, and providing curated localization solutions and tools to 225,176 customers worldwide. ## Embed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Mobile Embed Capital directly invests in startups, established or in the process of creation.Embed is mainly focused on innovative companies that:- Are active in the so-called “real economy” sectors: industrials, technology, environment, services, retail or social;- Are characterized by simple and intuitive business models and valuepropositions, and operate in markets or market segments featuring high growth potential;- Present a clear competitive advantage and high barriers-to-entry;- Are cash-generative in the medium term.Given that Embed Capital is not a closed-end fund, it doesn’t have specific time-constrains and it can assess on a project-by-project basis to determine the best time to sell a participation, and sign customized agreements with the entrepreneurs. ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Boost Heroes - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments. ## Pi Campus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Biotechnology Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth. ## Accel Starters - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, SaaS https://sifted.eu/articles/accel-scouts-europe/ ## Marco Filippi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Blockchain, Mobile Apps I'm a committed and energetic person, fascinated by new knowledges and stimulated by new challenges. My area of interests are: Startups, Blockchain & ICO, Sharing economy, Sport, Food & Wines. Text me if you want to talk about the last DLT development as well as the best restaurant you have been in! ## Mango Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Seed Stage Venture Capital ## Exor Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, FinTech With EXOR Seeds, We have reconnected with our entrepreneurial roots and long history of innovation. We look for exceptional founders, with the ambition to build great businesses in their field. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-ledbusiness, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs ## GELLIFY - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co