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Top 10 Sports Angel Investors in Italy (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Italy Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
2 United States, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Software $64k–$3.7M
Stefano Alberti
Angel
1 Italy Gift, Retail, Sports
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel
1 Italy, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology $321k–$2.9M
Rudy Cortesi
Angel
1 Italy Gift, Retail, Sports
Stefano Miccinelli
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Pet, Gift, Retail
Andrea Febbraio
Angel
1 Italy Seed Internet, Farming, Fitness $268k–$279k
Andrea Rota
Angel
1 Italy, United States Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Travel, Fitness $268k–$1.6M
Mario Mariani
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Angel Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Claudio Rossi
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Farming, Internet, Agriculture
Alessandro Gatti
Angel
1 Italy Seed Marketing, Gift, Retail $289k–$321k
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Italy Sports 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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Stefano Alberti
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Sports startups

He started working in 1991, after a degree at Bocconi University, as Analyst bond market and later the stock market at the CIMO Sim - Milan. In 1995 he was Co-Founder Intermobiliare Securities (later Intermonte Sim, leader in Italy in traded volumes) and from '95 until 2009 he held the position of Office Manager studies where he managed a teamof over 20 fundamental analysts who in years has received prestigious awards and placed at the top of important charts internationally. Currently working with the bank Albertini Syz for financial advisory services, corporate finance and private banking. and 'member of AIAF (Italian association of financial Analysts) and of important business partner organization angel (ie financial investors in start-ups). Today Stefano plays an activity related to the management of capital which is looking for new business opportunities to finance and develop and financial guidance.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

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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Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy Sports 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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Rudy Cortesi
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Sports startups

Rudy Cortesi - Founder and CEO @ Mobile Dream de México S.A. de C.V.

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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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Stefano Miccinelli
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Sports startups

Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Gift, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Andrea Febbraio
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Sports startups

Venture Capitalist, Investor, Internet entrepreneur, International Speaker and Book Author.+15 years of experience in AdTech & Digital Advertising : I love to start-up international digital business, scale it and make them grow till the exit.Co-founder of Ebuzzing (now Teads) from 0 to 100M$ Revenues in 4 YearsFounder of PromoDigital// Sold It After 2 Years for 4x RevenuesCo-Author of the book "Viral Video: Content is King Distribution is Queen" & Co-Author of the Book "Buzz Marketing nei Social Media" Partner at Ariadne CapitalPro Speaker at London Speaker Bureauhttp://mariafranzoni.com/business-management/4471-andrea-febbraio// I LOVE TO MENTOR AWESOME TEAMS //Speaker at Major Digital Advertising events: Royal Institution of Great Britain, IAB Forum Milan, iStrategy London, iStrategy Amsterdam, Cannes Lions Advertising Festival, Dmexco Cologne, Inspirational Festival Madrid.Advisor http://www.luissenlabs.com/ Angel Portfolio: AdEspresso, Chupamobile, Beintoo, FiloVenture Portfolio: Money Dashboard, Oxygen, Bit X , Quill, Taggstar, SoundOut, Made Television, Orson & Co , Bloomy Days, Norwood SystemSenior Lecturer at :SDA Bocconi, LUISS Business School, Business School Il Sole 24 Ore, IED, NaBA, Master IAB Università Cattolica, Gambero Rosso

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Farming, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$279k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitprime — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.
  • FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.
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Andrea Rota
Angel · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Sports startups

Andrea Rota is a Managing Director at Investors Club. He attended IMD (International Institute for Management Development).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Travel, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $268k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitprime — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.
  • AdEspresso — AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users (startups, merchants and small agencies) save up to 70% of the manual workneeded to setup a Facebook Campaign and improve their performance up to 40%.The other players in the space are super sophisticated tools that only work best with a lot of training and/or very high volumes of Ad Spending. Our strength: AdEspresso is dead simple and blazing fast.We empowers users to quickly split test every aspect of their Facebook Campaigns. In a couple minutes users can create hundreds of Ads, testing everything from the creativity to the targeting.Once the campaign is created, simple yet meaningful analytics allow to understand what is performing best and optimize their campaigns both manually or automatically.
  • 30SecondsToFly - Claire — We provide A.I. driven workflow automation for travel management companies to lower their cost and provide a "super" user experience to their travelers.In Autopilot mode Claire completes the travel agent's most repetitive tasks and in Copilot mode she shares learnt traveler patterns with the agent. As a result, Claire saves travelagents on avg. 50% of their time. Our in-house NLP has a response time of less than a second and an accuracy of 96%. Our in-house recommender systems are at 85% first tier accuracy. While travelers enjoy an unprecedented level of self-service experience, travel agents are free to focus on their revenue generating, high touch customer interactions. A win-win-win for traveler, agent and TMC.30SecondsToFly was awarded the General Catalyst Award for Travel Innovation $100k, recognised as the most innovate and disruptive emerging company in travel in 2019. Watch our winning pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=DYEzUF0kx78&feature=emb_logo
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Mario Mariani
Angel · Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Sports startups

Mario Mariani - Partner @ United Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • marinanow — With Marinanow you can hire boats and rent berths throughout Europe. Book your next adventure online in only a few clicks of a mouse!
  • AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
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Claudio Rossi
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Sports startups

Claudio Rossi - Advisor @ GoSherpy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Farming, Internet, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Elaisian — Monitora e prenditi cura dei tuoi campi ovunque tu sia.
  • Fitprime — Fitprime is an online platform that enables individuals to get unlimited access to a wide range of sport centers through a daily entrance or a monthly subscription. It was launched by Damiano Rossi, Matteo Musa, Musa Matteo, Laura Carpintieri, and Gianluca Mozzillo in February 2016 and is based in Rome, Italy.
  • FRUITSAPP — First bidirectional marketplace in the world, adapted to Fresh Produce Industry. Thanks to IA, we connect companies of Fruit&Veg sector.
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Alessandro Gatti
Angel · Monza, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Sports 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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Sports Angel investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 2 deals from 5 investors.

5
investors
in Italy Sports startups
2
deals
in Italy Sports startups
$459k
median round
in Italy Sports startups
0%
lead investors
lead at least one round
50%
Pre-Seed
most common funding stage

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