Top 15 Restaurants Startup Investors in Italy (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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P101
VC Fund
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4 | Italy, Spain, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $230k–$15M |
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Mobile | $54k–$563k |
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Mauro Del Rio
Angel
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1 | Italy, United States | Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, B2B | |
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Procolo Casella
Angel
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Restaurants | |
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Intesa Sanpaolo
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United Kingdom, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $429k–$1.3B |
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Giancarlo Rocchietti
Angel
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1 | Italy | Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Restaurants, Professional Networking | $16M–$47M |
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Fabio Pezzotti
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed | iOS, Mobile, Hospitality | |
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Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, Spain | Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage | $2.1M–$45M |
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Euan Lonmon
Angel
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1 | Italy, The Netherlands | Angel, Seed | E-Commerce, B2C, Retail | |
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Knobs
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Restaurants | |
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Invitalia
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning | $429k–$2.1M |
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CDP Equity
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Seed | Restaurants, Food and Beverage | $3.2M–$4M |
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Startup Alliance
VC Fund
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1 | Italy | Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | ||
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Principia SGR
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $321k–$31M |
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Paolo Giovine
Angel
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1 | Italy | Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage | ||
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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
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $230k–$3.3M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
- mama health — mama health is a platform to find others around the world living the same journey as you - and learn form each other's experience.
- Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $54k–$563k; Pre-Seed $107k–$214k
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.4M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Mauro Del Rio - Chairman @ DOCOMO Digital
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, B2B
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zerogrado — Zerogrado is a software Developer Company.
- restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
- DesignerInc — Founded in 2018, DesignerInc.com is a ground-breaking B2B sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry.DesignerInc.com is the most comprehensive trade-only sourcing and purchasing platform for the professional design industry. Amassing hundreds of thousands of trade-only furniture and decor product with unprecedenteddepth and breadth, DesignerInc.com offers a seamless solution to source and purchase furniture and decor for interior designers. And with $77 billion of furniture and decor product purchased via designers, DesignerInc.com brings much needed efficiency to this enormous, yet low-tech, industry.
Procolo Casella
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Restaurants
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sooneat — Sooneat is an online ordering platform that connects closeby food and retail businesses to allow customers to order whatever they like, whenever they like and have a single checkout experience. Sooneat enables businesses to improve customer satisfaction while boosting revenue: your customers will be able to order dishes from multiple restaurantsdirectly from their mobile or tablet, select for pickup or delivery, make one single payment and simply sit back and enjoy their food. No more standing in multiple lines!Sooneat works both with businesses and partners including shopping centers, resellers, and agencies. It offers branded solutions and works on restaurants, shops, events, caterers, theatres, stadiums, and much more! Thanks to its flexibility, if you can think it, we can adapt it.watch Video Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr__SimEihsTRUSTED PARTNERS Burger King, Old Wild West, I Love poke, etc..Here you can find our Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3cKrtC5
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $429k–$1.3M; Post-IPO Debt $7M–$763M; Debt Financing $536k–$1.3B
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Battistella — Battistella sells lumber, pine chips, sawdust, and pine logs. They serve both domestic and foreign markets. It exports its products worldwide. They engage in continuous recycling, which gives them the experience they need to satisfy the customs regulations of the various nations where they do business. They use the sawn pine wood that they processto make furniture and packaging.
- Fincantieri — Fincantieri is one of the shipbuilding groups and number one by diversification and innovation. It is leader in cruise ship design and construction and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry’s sectors, from naval to offshore vessels, from high-complexity special vessels and ferries to mega-yachts, ship repairs and conversions,systems and components production and after-sales services.
- Selene — Selene produces FFS tubulars, FFS films, preformed bags, stretch hoods, and technical films for industrial applications.
Giancarlo Rocchietti is an entrepreneur, Business Angel, Founder and President at Club degli Investitori.In 1980, Giancarlo founded Euphon, which become the leading independent operator in the multimedia industry in Italy, with a preeminent position in Spain. In the year 2000, Euphon was listed on the Italian stock exchange and Giancarlo decidedexited Euphon in 2004 to a private equity investor.He has been President of Sviluppo Italia Piemonte, a regional government agency and then appointed President of Piemontech, the first regional government seed-capital fund in Italy.Today Giancarlo is investing in SMEs and start ups as Business Angel. He is the Founder and President of Club degli Investitori, one of the most important business angel and investors network in Italy.
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- Industry: Apps, Restaurants, Professional Networking
- Stage:Series B, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series B $16M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wetaxi — Wetaxi is the fixed price taxi app. Active in Italy in more than 20 cities
- Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
- Restworld | Horeca — Restworld propone solo offerte di lavoro selezionate e permette ai datori di risparmiare il 90% del tempo nella selezione del personale. Scopri come funziona.
Fabio Pezzotti is the Founder and CEO at Iconium.
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- Industry: iOS, Mobile, Hospitality
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cibando — Cibando is an iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy.
MIP SGR is a global investment platform specialized in Venture Capital with multiple alternative and reserved funds, differentiated by growth stages of the portfolio companies and geographical scope, giving privileged access to growing markets. Established in Milan in 2017, MIP SGR is an Alternative Investment Fund Management Company focused mainlybut not exclusively on Tech, Consumer & Lifestyle investments, managing several investment funds. After the success of MIP I fund, in 2021 Milano Investment Partners SGR launched U-Start Ventures, a Multi-compartment fund dedicated to Club Deals in the U.S and Northern Europe, and Cliffs, a new alternative and reserved fund for early-stage, deep-tech focused investments across U.S. Venture Capital landscape and other international hubs. MIP invests in the new class of excellence-driven entrepreneurs across the globe and supports founders and portfolio companies in their quest to go from solid businesses to global champions, combining decades of investing and operational/entrepreneurial experience with a truly global network to help our portfolio companies grow, faster and stronger.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Italy, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$45M; Series B $2.6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Miscusi — Fast-Gourmet freshly made pasta restaurant chain
- VitroLabs — The world's oldest material made new. VitroLabs Inc is a startup developing lab grown leather, through tissue engineering, as a solution to help fight climate change. All, while completely avoiding animal slaughter.
- Poke House — Explore Poke House and savor the healthy life. Order now for take-away or delivery and discover our unique bowls. Join the Poke House Squad for exclusive benefits. Learn more about our culture and career opportunities.
Long years at the helm of transport and tourism companies, (Corsica Ferries, Nouvelles Frontiéres Reseau, Stradeblu) Deep insight in european cultures and languages, have found interest and pleasure in founding, mentoring and sponsoring start-up businesses in very diverse fields.Chairman of Restopolis , sold to La Fourchette, Tripadvisor inoctober 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Italy, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pneusmart — Pneusmart is a pan-european tyre retailer. It has offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy and is growing fast in all markets. Pneusmart provides an innovative solution to source tyres for both cars, vans and motorcycles. It provides a full service experience to consumers, delivering tyres to stations in its vast fitting network to ensure asmooth customer experience. The company is expanding fast into a complete car service solution.
- Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.
- restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
Software development company specialised in blockchain technology
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Restaurants
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sooneat — Sooneat is an online ordering platform that connects closeby food and retail businesses to allow customers to order whatever they like, whenever they like and have a single checkout experience. Sooneat enables businesses to improve customer satisfaction while boosting revenue: your customers will be able to order dishes from multiple restaurantsdirectly from their mobile or tablet, select for pickup or delivery, make one single payment and simply sit back and enjoy their food. No more standing in multiple lines!Sooneat works both with businesses and partners including shopping centers, resellers, and agencies. It offers branded solutions and works on restaurants, shops, events, caterers, theatres, stadiums, and much more! Thanks to its flexibility, if you can think it, we can adapt it.watch Video Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr__SimEihsTRUSTED PARTNERS Burger King, Old Wild West, I Love poke, etc..Here you can find our Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3cKrtC5
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Browse database — It's Free!Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Grant $536k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $429k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agria — Dal 1957 Select seleziona legumi e cereali solo dalle migliori coltivazioni dell'Italia e del mondo. Entra nel sito e scopri tutti i prodotti: lenticchie, ceci, fagioli, piselli, farro, orzo,...
- Socialbeat — Socialbeat is a SaaS platform that aggregates millions of news, social posts and videos, monitoring in real time the success on the main social platforms and giving to customer the opportunity to stay up to date using a single web page.Moreover, Socialbeat has developed AI algorithms to support media company to automate the production of socialposts on their pages (Instagram, Facebook and Twitter) and to personalize their content distribution based on the user.
- Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
CDP Equity is a holding company that has been set up to boost the Italian economy by investing venture capital in companies of "significant national interest" (as envisaged by the decrees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of 3 May 2011 and 2 July 2014) or in companies with "economic, financial and capital balance, with adequateprospects of profitability and development, capable of generating value for investors"
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- Industry: Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Convivit — Convivit develops a residential and hotel services platform that creates a network of self-sufficient senior living residences. Convivit is a joint venture between Generali Italia and CDP Venture Capital SGR, created with the aim of introducing senior living in Italy and promoting people's well-being and active aging.
- Neuranix — Neuranix develops, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for the diagnosis of ear diseases in the medical and veterinary fields. They own several patents in the audiological field. They create products based on the analysis of the acoustic characteristics of the eardrum and middle ear measured over a broad spectrum of frequencies. Theysupport the diagnosis and monitor the therapy of middle ear pathologies.
- Rubber Conversion — Rubber Conversion provides recycling, product sustainability, custom packaging, environmental impact analysis, material tracking, and online document management. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
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- Industry: Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MiSiedo — MiSiedo is an online platform that enables users to discover and book restaurants in real-time. The platform also allows users to read reviews before taking their pick. MiSiedo was launched in 2011 and is based in Italy.
Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $321k–$3.2M; Series A $1.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $171M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
- ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
- WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.
Paolo Giovine joined PubCoder as Chairman in 2016. Paolo Giovine attended at University of Turin.
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- Industry: Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MiSiedo — MiSiedo is an online platform that enables users to discover and book restaurants in real-time. The platform also allows users to read reviews before taking their pick. MiSiedo was launched in 2011 and is based in Italy.
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