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Top 45 Retail Startup Investors in Italy (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Italy Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
P101
VC Fund
8 Italy, Spain, United States Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet $230k–$15M
Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund
6 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Mobile $54k–$563k
Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
4 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Software $64k–$3.7M
Boost Heroes
VC Fund
4 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Apps $214k–$1.8M
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $418k–$7.5M
B Holding
VC Fund
3 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Retail, E-Commerce, Grocery
Vertis SGR S.p.A.
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Computer $654k–$4.9M
Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund
3 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $214k–$2M
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel
3 Italy, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology $321k–$2.9M
Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund
3 United States, Italy, Spain Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage $2.1M–$45M
Alberto Birolini
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Angel Shoes, Retail, Fashion
Club Digitale
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $252k–$563k
Pi Campus
VC Fund
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Biotechnology $100k–$4M
LIFTT
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $268k–$5.7M
RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Retail, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology $654k–$1.1M
Luca Ferrante Carrante
Angel
2 Italy, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Shoes, Retail, Travel $2.7M–$4.8M
Lazio Innova
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software $27k–$1.3M
Seven Investments
VC Fund
2 Italy Seed, Series A Retail, Grocery, E-Commerce
Growth Engine
VC Fund
2 Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom Secondary Market, Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet $321k–$1.2M
Andera Partners
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Germany Series B, Private Equity Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $11M–$241M
Club degli Investitori
VC Fund
1 Italy, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Software $193k–$10M
Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $130k–$12M
Maurizio Donadelli
Angel
1 Italy, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce $107k–$283k
Niccolo Maisto
Angel
1 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Gaming, eSports, E-Commerce $430k–$1.6M
Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed FinTech, Payments, SaaS $429k–$2M
R-301 Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, France, Spain Seed, Series A, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Automotive $60k–$5.4M
NXTP Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Argentina, Brazil Seed, Series A Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile $50k–$14M
RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Fitness
Nader Sabbaghian
Angel
1 Italy, France, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
LetsVenture
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Italy Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $180k–$4.8M
Doorway Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, France Series A, Seed Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketplace $1.5M–$3M
BlackSheep Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland Seed, Series A Advertising, Marketing, SaaS $1.2M–$2M
Alessandro Gatti
Angel
1 Italy Seed Marketing, Gift, Retail $289k–$321k
Vela Imprese
VC Fund
1 Italy Gift, Retail, Sports
Anna Siccardi
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Retail
Lodovico Rosnati
Angel
1 Italy Seed SaaS, Retail, FinTech
Marco Coin
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
Lazzaroni
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
Oltre Impact
VC Fund
1 Italy, United Kingdom Series A Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics $4M–$5.3M
Visconti
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
VentureFriends
VC Fund
1 Greece, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $384k–$25M
Grippo
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
Doorway platform
VC Fund
1 Italy, United States Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding Retail, Hardware, E-Commerce
Synergo Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, Spain, Germany Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software $5.4M–$27M
Bossanova Investimentos
VC Fund
1 Brazil, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $31k–$3.1M
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P101
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 8 investments in Italy Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Club Italia Investimenti 2
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 6 investments in Italy Retail startups

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

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Investment focus

  • 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!
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$3.7M; Angel $64k–$857k
  • 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 offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.
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Boost Heroes
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in Italy Retail startups

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
  • Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
  • 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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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups, 34 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $418k–$3.8M; Series A $2.1M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $193M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Picosats — PicoSaTs envisages a new generation of telecommunication systems for space applications dedicated to CubeSat pico-satellites. The key technologies at the core of this system are a software defined radio and a highly directive and configurable antenna, operating at higher frequencies (Ka band), and providing very high data rates.
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
  • Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
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B Holding
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

B Holding is an industrial holding that wants to establish itself as a reference player for innovation in Italy, investing and supporting the best business projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Grocery
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Abiby — Abiby is the italian leading platform that offers subscription services to discover and try new beauty brand and products.
  • 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!
  • Barberino's - Benessere Italiano — We are an Italian independent men's grooming company. We operates a classic though stylish barber shop chain with an Italian soul in Milan, Rome, Padova and Brescia. Our award-winning Barber Shops recreates places where the gestures, the rituals and the habits behind men's grooming are honored while updated with modern attitude. Ourbarbers are top skilled and carefully trained. We focus on high quality haircuts, beard trims and hot towel wet shave with the mission to offer a relaxing grooming experience. We use and sell exclusively our own products, entirely designed, developed and packaged in Italy by an expert group of artisans, chemists and designers that represent the ultimate Italian excellence. Our product line is the result of our years of on-the-ground experience and hundred of thousands of haircuts and bear trims. We know not only what our customers need but also what our customers wants. The cosmetics are characterized by high performance formulas enriched with the most advanced active ingredients (such as plant stem cells) that are extracted from natural sources. The accessories are entirely handmade using the most precious natural materials, such as horn or wengé wood, according to the most elegant Italian design principles. We offer a 360° customer experience which starts in our store with our barbers and which continue at home with our products!
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Vertis SGR S.p.A.
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

Vertis is a dynamic and independent investment management company authorised by Bank of Italy. It manages five closed-end funds for qualified investors by participating in research projects, spin-offs, startups and PMI and deals with the investments of the innovative Made in Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $654k–$3.5M; Series A $1.4M–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • NEWTWEN — We develop software that generates real-time embedded digital twin solutions for model predictive control and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, enhancing performance, longevity, and reliability. In essence, our toolchain creates a precise digital replica of a physical device, such as an electric motor or generator, in order to accuratelymodel the electrodynamic and thermodynamic behavior of the system across a wide range of operating conditions. We then apply our proprietary mathematical approach to exponentially reduce the computational complexity of this model—so much so, in fact, that our digital twin can be integrated into the device itself to compute in real-time, “on-chip,” as part of an amazingly fast and accurate firmware solution. By accurately predicting temperatures and other critical system parameters thousands of times per second, our Digital Twin On-Chip solutions not only provide unprecedented insight for real-time control techniques to enhance system performance, but also pave the way for data-as-a-service capabilities such as predictive maintenance, monitoring of component aging, and anomaly detection.
  • Coverzen — The digital office of insurers
  • Sibylla Biotech — Sibylla Biotech developed small molecule folding interfering degraders (FIDs) that can address a range of therapeutic areas.
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Italian Angels for Growth
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$2M; Angel $214k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WORA — Wora is integrated with the main e-commerce platforms. For in-store purchases or via alternative channels (e.g., Instagram, WhatsApp, telephone), they make their app available to retailers to be able to send their requests easily.
  • Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
  • Resalis Therapeutics — Resalis Therapeutics sviluppa un farmaco in grado di inibire un micro-RNA per il trattamento di alcune malattie metaboliche
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Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$1M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.4M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Milano Investment Partners SGR
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Retail startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Alberto Birolini
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Alberto Birolini

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Club Digitale
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Club Digitale is an Italian startup accelerator focused on companies in the digital and technology sectors. It is the first club of private investors born with the aim of contributing to the growth of digital in Italy, providing the best startups in the area with the capital necessary for the development of the business. Club Digitale acquiresholdings in the capital of a selection of Startup companies that are completing a process of business acceleration at the partner incubators of the project.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $252k–$563k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Euklid — Euklid is the new way to manage savings and investments through thousands of different algorithms with the following characteristics:• objective, because they are based on concrete data processed with Artificial Intelligence technologies;• transparent and secure, because it’s based on blockchain a technology which lies at the heart of Bitcointime stamp and encryption system, that guarantees clients a constant monitoring and an absolute certainty that nobody can manipulate his account;• fair, because the managers of Euklid-fintech’s service earn only if clients have returns.
  • WeSchool — We empower teachers and educators to transform schools, universities and professional development and impact the future of learning.
  • 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!
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Pi Campus
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$214k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
  • Turion Space — Turion Space provides a spacecraft to remove orbital debris and services to existing satellites. The spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with current satellites and large debris objects using vision sensors and robotic arms. Utilizing the onboard propulsion system, the spacecraft will either deorbit or change the orbit of the debris object orsatellite.
  • Sixfold Bioscience — Sixfold Bioscience engineers programmable oligonucleotide delivery systems are able to deliver RNA exclusively to diseased cells. It is based in London.
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LIFTT
VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups, 12 in the past 12 months

A not-only-profit operating investment company, eager to create a bridge between innovative ideas, territory and capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$3.2M; Series A $932k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CellPly — Cellply is a life-science company focused on developing next-generation analytical tools enabling a deep characterization of cancer immunotherapies, cell therapies and cell-based biotherapeutics. The company aims to support the development of novel cancer immunotherapies by accelerating R&D, automating the quality control and advancing theability to monitor the clinical response to these treatments.Through the use of proprietary microfluidic technologies with Co-Culture Array technology, highly-automated analytical instruments and AI-powered image and data analytics, Cellply products define the function of the immune system one cell at a time, combining functional data with other multiplex data and providing unprecedented single-cell analytical solutions.
  • Test1 soultions — Test1 Solutions is an oil absorbent technique for hydrocarbons and their derivatives. They serve environmental clean up, oil spill clean up, hydrocarbon spills, geennovation, open cell oleophilic polyurethane foam with a hydrophobic effect, and hydrocarbon spills on water and land.
  • Comptek Solutions — Comptek Solutions' novel passivation technology - Kontrox - promotes surface crystalline oxide reconstructions on the surface of the III-V compound semiconductor materials, enabling unprecedented efficiency of devices and a significant reduction in manufacturing costs
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RedSeed Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

RedSeed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Companies and Scaleups, in Europe and more particularly in Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $654k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dianax — Milan-based Dianax was founded in 2013 starting from a group scientists led by Eugenio Iannone and Maurizio Moroni and by a few angel investors orchestrated by Gabriele Bavagnoli. Dianax mission is to develop and manufacture labs-on-chip aiming to trasform protein-based diagnostics and make it prompt, easy to use, inexpensive and reliableTheDianax novel technology is designed to make precise diagnostic results convenient, easily accessible, and affordable to patients and healthcare professionals, to empower them to effective prevention, ongoing accurate management and timely emergency treatment.The Dianax technology is the first ever application to diagnostics of a combination of microfluidic innovations and electrochemistry detection systems.Dianax was founded by Eugenio Iannone and his partners to pursue technical and market opportunities based on proprietary, independent research.
  • Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
  • WIB Machines — Smart vending machines and smart lockers manufacturer pioneering smart, web-based retail automation globally. Patented solutions enabling next-gen retail.
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Luca Ferrante Carrante
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Luca Ferrante Carrante - Associate Director, Investments @ The Olayan Group

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Investment focus

  • 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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Lazio Innova
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $188k–$1.3M; Grant $27k–$32k; Pre-Seed $54k–$536k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • CyLock — CyLock anti-hacker is a software designed to defend systems from hacker attacks, identifying weaknesses in their systems and websites, and providing information to address vulnerabilities used by the cybercriminal to access their computers. Through CyLock's Anti-Hacker system, small and medium-sized businesses will be able to test theirdigital defences to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities in websites, e-commerce sites, apps, e-mails, information systems, corporate networks, servers, and IoT. Companies that do not periodically test their digital tools and their staff skills are more exposed to cyber attacks, which turn into business interruptions, document loss, e-commerce, and online payments breakdown.
  • Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
  • Rocky — Grow your mindset with the AI coaching chat in just 5 minutes of daily self-improvement sessions to be truly successful.
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Seven Investments
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Private investment firm founded by Angelomario Moratti in 2015, which mainly focuses on early-stage VC opportunities

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Grocery, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Growth Engine
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Retail startups

Growth Engine is a holding company that invests in startups and scaleups with high growth potential founded by Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, Andrea Marangione, Michele Appendino and Marco Ariello, Venture Capital professionals with an excellent track record. Growth Engine invests in Italian startups at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Secondary Market, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.
  • Holifya — Holifya is a platform for digital health and wellness with a personalized and scientific approach, based on your genetic profile, biomarkers, habits, and goals. They leverage technology and advanced data analysis methods (such as machine learning) to support the doctor or nutritionist in the creation of an increasingly personalized, 360-degree foodand health and wellness plan.
  • TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
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Andera Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Andera Partners, formerly known as Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) As heir to the traditions and values that have ensured the success of the Rothschild family for 250 years, the Edmond de Rothschild Group has established itself over time as a leading player in European finance. Its activities are grouped around two major areas:Private Banking and Asset Management. The Group offers wealthy families, entrepreneurs, and large institutions a full range of solutions combining a culture of tailored solutions, stability, performance, and innovation. The Edmond de Rothschild Group’s offering is characterised by strong convictions, with the desire to guarantee to each of its customers: A unique, close relationship, underpinned by the know-how and the variety of expertise of a large international group; Autonomous, experienced teams, who anticipate economic trends and innovate to establish long-term performance; The recognised stability, strength, and independence of a family-owned financial group. Founded by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1953, the Group has been chaired by his son, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, since 1997.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Private Equity
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Series B $11M–$75M; Private Equity $107M–$241M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Evommune — Evommune is taking a tissue-based approach to advance insights and accelerate the development of transformative medicines in inflammatory diseases.
  • Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
  • Ariceum Therapeutics — Ariceum Therapeutics focuses on diagnosis and precision treatment of neuroendocrine and certain other aggressive, hard-to-treat cancers.
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Club degli Investitori
VC Fund · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$3.9M; Series A $321k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Largix — Largix is the first company to develop and commercially produce 3D Robotic Printers for real production processes. We have invented the "Cold 3D Printing®" technology that makes 3DP possible for real industrial production. Largix uses the most common thermoplastic polymers: Polypropylene and Polyethylene, polymers that nobody else iscapable of printing.
  • TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
  • Electra Vehicles — Control, Analyze, & Design Innovative Battery Packs using Electra Vehicles' EVE-Ai 360 Adaptive Controls and Analytics and EnPower Design.
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $130k–$1.8M; Series A $5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
  • Mate Fertility — Mate Fertility Is the Fastest Growing Fertility Network That Makes Care Affordable In A Warm Clinic Setting With Compassionate Providers.
  • Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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Maurizio Donadelli
Angel · Altino, Veneto, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Maurizio Donadelli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Retail, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $107k–$283k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Niccolo Maisto
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Niccolo is the co-founder and CEO at FACEIT. He drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth as he assures that the future and the present of the product come together.Under Niccolo’s leadership, FACEIT has expanded to over 5,000,000 users and 12,000,000 game sessions per month on 7 different games, becoming the most active competitivegaming platform in the world. He has a NYU Stern MBA degree and worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity before co-founding FACEIT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $430k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Banca Sella Holding
VC Fund · Biella, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Banca Sella Holding is a holding company based in Italy. It provides services that include management, coordination, control, trading, and treasury activities of financial sectors through its subsidiaries. The company's banking products and services also consists of various deposits, as well as repurchase agreements, mortgage loans, personalloans, factoring, and Internet and mobile banking services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $429k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.
  • Hercle — Hercle is a FinTech company that develops low-latency technology that offers end-to-end prime-brokerage solutions and trading algorithms to institutional investors who are interested in gaining exposure to crypto-assets.
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R-301 Capital
VC Fund · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

R-301 Capital They are an independent technology venture capital firm. They invest in early stage busineses leveraging disruptive web and mobile technologies in a variety of sectors. As experienced tech entrepreneurs They combine expertise with cash to best support Their portfolio companies. They move quickly and decisevily in funding innovatorsThey believe in.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy, France, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $60k–$2M; Series A $3M–$5.4M; Convertible Note $1.1M–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carnovo — Carnovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the automotive purchase process by making it fast, transparent and convenient for both, car dealers and buyers. Their mission is simple, to put the car buying process upside down by placing customers in the center making them save time and money while offering them the best buyingexperience. Car dealers that partner with Carnovo sell more cars than they could in the showroom alone while reducing cost inefficiencies and increasing stock turnover. This means they can make great offers to Carnovo buyers!
  • 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.
  • Bergamotte — Founded in 2015, Bergamotte offers a delivery service of flowers and plants throughout France.
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NXTP Ventures
VC Fund · Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

NXTP Ventures backs early-stage technology companies led by extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout Latin America. As one of the oldest VC firms in Latin America active since 2011, NXTP puts its extensive network of mentors, investors and industry specialists to work for its portfolio companies. We are particularly passionate about SaaS, logistics,and other services primed to create efficiencies in business workflows by introducing new technology. NXTP Ventures was an early investor in business such as AuthO, CargoX, Trocafone, Satellogic, Cobli, Liftit, VU Security and many more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Argentina, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $189k–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
  • ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
  • Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
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RCS MediaGroup
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

RCS MediaGroup S.p.A., based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange is one of the world’s major multimedia publishing groups. RCS MediaGroup is active in all publishing sectors – from newspapers to magazines, books to TV and radio to new media – and among the leaders in terms of advertising sales and distribution. With 32% of RCSMediaGroup's turnover generated in foreign markets, they have a significant presence in particular in Spain, Portugal, USA, South America, UAE and China. In the future, RCS MediaGroup believes that culture, reliable information and communications will be increasingly important for all people and will play a crucial role in how society develops. The impact of this trend will be more dynamic, widespread and accessible than ever before thanks to continuous technological progress. RCS MediaGroup is at the forefront of publishing evolution, inspired by their principles and founding values and strengthened by the trust in their content, brands and writers. RCS MediaGroup's main objectives have always been to produce and propagate culture, information, services and entertainment, while respecting the principles of liberty, honesty and pluralism and driving innovation across all forms of communication.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buddyfit — Buddyfit is a fitness app that offers live monthly fitness classes to help people feel strong and healthy. Buddyfit's programs include fat burning, tonification, and yoga. With Buddyfit, users can train wherever and whenever they want to, through live classes or through the replay section.
  • MyBeautyBox — Scopri con Beauty Box il tuo prossimo desiderio di bellezza: cofanetti, cosmetici, make up, trucchi, creme viso, creme corpo biologici a prezzi scontati.
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Nader Sabbaghian
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, France, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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LetsVenture
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups, 24 in the past 12 months

Connect with 10,000 plus angel investors. Raise funding seamlessly. Find startups to invest in. Easy to use & seamless technology platform for startup investing & funding.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $240k–$2.6M; Angel $180k–$900k; Series A $600k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Clensta — Clensta is a biotechnology start-up to improve the National Hygiene condition whilst addressing the aspect of water conservation. Clensta is an Indian startup and in association with IIT Delhi, works to create innovative healthcare solutions to make hygiene accessible for anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Driven by their aim to create products thatpromote complete cleaning solutions without water.
  • Bluwheelz — BluWheelz is a Tech-enabled Mid-mile and last-mile logistics solutions company, with an Exclusive EV Fleet, addressing cost & timelines challenges for E-commerce, Quick commerce, Food Tech industries and creating a positive environment impact.
  • Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
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Doorway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Doorway Capital is an independent provider of risk capital to law firms. It offers facilities of between £50,000 and £20 million to firms authorized by the SRA to practice law in England and Wales. These facilities can be used to fund disbursements, acquisitions, lock-up, tax liabilities, or anything else. It also purchases paid disbursements fromlaw firms for up to 80% of their face value. These means capital earning little or no return can be redeployed into more profitable activities of the firm or returned to its partners.Doorway Capital was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deliveristo — B2B Foodtech marketplace and delivery platform which allows chefs and restaurant owners to digitally organize their orders directly from farmers and distributors
  • Smartpricing — Smartpricing is a provider of computer software application and revenue management system solutions to Hotel.
  • 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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BlackSheep Ventures
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

BlackSheep is the first venture capital firm focused on Madtech: AI, Big Data, Automation and its B2B applications for the marketing and advertising industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, Marketing, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $43M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • nexoya — Performance Marketing optimized with AI. Leverage the power of agile portfolio management. Allocate budgets by using AI technology and reach +70% ROAS
  • Connected-Stories — HyperTV's Connected-Stories is the first integrated platform for creating personalized sequences of consumer-journey-minded marketing and advertising content formats. The platform is able to distribute the content experience across the broader digital advertising ecosystem. Easy to use tools and platform services empower content creators toscale up their productivity and effectiveness
  • AdTonos — AdTonos is a programmatic audio advertising platform that connects advertisers with publishers. The marketplace offers multiple ad placements from well-known pre-rolls, through to mid-rolls and real-time ad replacement for live streaming. This provides advertisers with vast reach across digital audio channels, while radio stations, podcasters ormusic streaming services profit from the use of an effective tool that supports them in growing their revenues from online advertising. Brands have, at their fingertips, an easy-to-reach audience of more than 15 million unique online audio listeners from the UK and worldwide and potential of at least 200 million ad playouts a month. AdTonos is supported by the UK’s Department of International Trade, helping the company to scale globally, and is a member of IAB UK, IAB Europe and the European Association of Commercial Radios, which represents commercial radio at the European Parliament.
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Alessandro Gatti
Angel · Monza, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Alessandro Gatti - Founder & CEO @ maisonFire

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Gift, Retail
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $289k–$321k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Vela Imprese
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Vela Imprese S.r.l. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investing in startups, early venture, management buy-ins, leverage buyouts, and development equity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gift, Retail, Sports
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Anna Siccardi
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Anna Siccardi - Advisor & Investor @ GrowishPay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Algor Lab — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
  • Algor — La migliore app per le mappe concettuali
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Lodovico Rosnati
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Marco Coin
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Marco Coin operates as an investmenr firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
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Lazzaroni
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Lazzaroni operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
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Oltre Impact
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

We shape impact investing for people and planet

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Toys, Mobile Apps, Consumer Electronics
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
  • FABA — Le fiabe sonore sono un ottimo metodo per far divertire i bambini imparando. Tanti Personaggi Sonori tra cui scegliere. Scopri FABA, il tuo Raccontastorie.
  • Jobtech — Digital recruiting and temporary staff agency
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Visconti
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Visconti provides consulting and coaching services to improve business growth. It offers experience-based strategies, professional training, and business management solutions. Visconti was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
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VentureFriends
VC Fund · Athens, Attiki, Greece · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups, 9 in the past 12 months

We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$6.5M; Series A $1.4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $107M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
  • Embla — Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
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Grippo
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Grippo operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, Commerce and Shopping
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
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Doorway platform
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

https://www.doorwayplatform.com/

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Hardware, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vitesy — Smart and sustainable air purifiers for indoor pollution
  • AorticLab — AorticLab is committed to provide medical and technological innovations developing next generation devices for a safe and effective transcatheter treatment of the stenotic aortic native valve.
  • Qapla' Srl — Track Shipping for eCommerce and other commercial activities. Reduce the cost of customer support and add a Amazon grade tracking feature on every website.
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Synergo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups

Diamo sostegno operativo e finanziario alle PMI italiane che vogliono crescere negli USA. Investiamo a fianco di imprenditori ambiziosi per aumentare significativamente il valore delle loro aziende. Non siamo un partner solo finanziario, ma anche operativo e strategico. Mettiamo a disposizione la nostra esperienza nel costruire aziende di successo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$6M; Private Equity $21M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 94% lead, 6% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • hlpy — hlpy operates as a roadside assistance company. Hlpy provides a digital roadside assistance service via a network of 580+ centers, 1,900+ drivers/mechanics, 2,800+ tow trucks.
  • Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
  • 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.
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Bossanova Investimentos
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Italy Retail startups, 29 in the past 12 months

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 362
  • Round size: Seed $131k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $31k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
  • Ping. — SaaS
  • Doutor Ao Vivo — Doutor ao Vivo is a digital health platform for telemedicine. Doutor Ao Vivo is a health tech software company.
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Retail Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 78 deals from 102 investors.

102
investors
in Italy Retail startups
78
deals
in Italy Retail startups
$550k
median round
in Italy Retail startups
30%
lead investors
lead at least one round
32%
Seed
most common funding stage
81/19
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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