Top 15 Retail Angel Investors in Italy (May 2026)

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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 offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.

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• Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
• 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.
• Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.

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• 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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• Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.

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

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• Antlos — Yacht charter in over 800 sailing holidays destinations. Choose the best yacht to rent 22,375 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.

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• Gameye — Gameye enables game studios to develop server based multiplayer games without the hassle of creating, testing and maintaining a global server infrastructure
• SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their sellers, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.
• Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

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• 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.

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• Affogata — Affogata optimizes the digital customer journey by analyzing customer interactions and identifying customer needs in real-time.
• Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
• The Gist — The Gist for Slack is our first app to manage your work information overload. Get the gist of it with our personalized AI enginge.

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• GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
• Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an Influencer Marketing platform for your social media campaigns. Find the best influencers on Instagram and Facebook to deliver succesfull campaigns with an effective impact.
• Equixly — Equixly helps eliminate blind spots by testing your running APIs.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
• 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

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• Velasca — Our shoes are made by hand in Italy with the greatest care. Choose your favourite Velasca, now also for Women.