# Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Italy in May 2026

## CDP Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

## Boost Heroes
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

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

## Club Italia Investimenti 2
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

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

## Club degli Investitori
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Club degli Investitori (Investors Club) is a network of investors and business angels that invest on early-stage SMEs and startups. The community of 300+ Members (entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive managers) actively scouts for investing opportunities on SMEs & startups and invests with a minimum ticket of €200k. The Club supports business byinvesting capital and by leveraging the Members' network and experience.Club degli Investitori is supported by Unicredit and KPMG Italy.

## P101
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector.

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## Intesa Sanpaolo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting.

## Ithaca Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet

Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.

## R-301 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Automotive

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.

## Italian Angels for Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.

## Innogest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device

We are investors in companies that make the difference. We partner with hard-working entrepreneurial visionaries

## Club Digitale
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet

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.

## 360 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Early stage european VC investing on ClimateTech, DeepTech, Mass Consumption and Business Automation.

## Vertis SGR S.p.A.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Computer

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.

## Rancilio Cube
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family

## Lazio Innova
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software

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.

## Marco Valta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

## Growth Engine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Secondary Market, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet

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.

## Francesco Starace
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing

Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries such asUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987). In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).In 2014, Francesco Starace was appointed General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.

## Key Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, E-Commerce

We are a venture incubator that wants to exploit the extraordinary human capital of the new digital entrepreneurship. From design to ready-to-market, up looking for new partners and capital, we create value along the entire continuum of mentoring: direct investment , skills qualified and specialized network support the growth of new businesses oftomorrow. With our deal flow , we are able to select innovative ideas with high potential with a business model that minimizes the investment risk and guarantee the success on the market.

## GELLIFY
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

GELLIFY is the first innovation platform that invests in B2B digital software startups and connects them to traditional companies with the purpose of innovating their processes, products and business models, through Open Innovation.We make B2B software digital startups grow from the early stage, that we call the liquid state, to the solid one,thanks to our innovative process called "Gellification".A company which is looking to innovate can partner with GELLIFY to leverage all critical capabilities for digital transformation and focus on these specialties: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Phygital Factory & Operations, Smart Technology and Smart Human. GELLIFY has also built a B2B Innovation Community, called “EXPLORE”, whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs, innovators and professionals through B2B events and phygital experiences.We operate globally from the following locations: Italy, United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal.

## Jacopo Paoletti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Mobile

Digital Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor.

## Invitalia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Medical, Health Care

Invitalia Ventures SGR manages the “Italia Venture Fund I”, a 87€/Ml sized co-investment fund that invests in early stage operations in Italy. They co-invest up to a maximum of 70% in round A (€ 0.5ML - € 1.5ML) in high growth sectors. Invitalia Ventures, with its network of co-investors not only provides risk capital, but also know-how and anetwork for business development. Main LPs includes the Ministery of Economic Development, the European Investment Bank, Cisco Group, the Sardinian Banking Foundation and Metec Group.They are looking for visionary entrepreneurs who share their passion for innovation.
Growth is their mission!!For more information please contact us at info@invitaliaventures.it or visit our website: www.invitaliaventures.it

## Azimut Libera Impresa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Apps

Azimut Libera Impresa is an investment company for both retail and institutional investors.

## 83North
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

83North is a global venture capital firm with over $2.2B under management. The fund invests across all stages, in exceptional entrepreneurs, whose focus is to build global category leading companies.

## Synergo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software

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.

## Primo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Aerospace

Primo Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm manages two funds focused on the digital sector and one fund specializing in the new space economy.

## Wing Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plusoutcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

## 3LB Seed Capital Srl
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B

3LB Seed Capital is not an alternative to start-ups incubators and accelerators, rather acts as a complementary reality that helps to enhance your project in terms of attractiveness for the investor and venture capital market.As investors they are the first willing to know if your project has what it takes to grow successfully. If they areconvinced of your potential, they are ready to bet on you, by joining you and helping you to develop your project.3LB Seed Capital does not provide a percentage of equity in exchange for accompanying activities, but relies exclusively on a premium at the time of its first direct investment in your company.

## Teodoro D'Ambrosio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplace

Teodoro is serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and investor.Teodoro is director of Jetcost Group and Prima.it, former director of Bravofly-Rumbo Group until IPO.
Co-founder of Emaze, Hotelscan (acquired by JetCost), Prima, Bravoavia (acquired by Bravofly), Yeldo, Abiby, Impossible Brands.Founder and partner of Luxembourg investmentvehicle Neurone Ventures with an investment portfolio of over 80 investments with 14 successful exits.Current investment portfolio include companies like: Coinbase, Adoreme, Deliveroo, Wallapop, Justeat.Teodoro started his career, as a techie, in year 2000 by joining the founding team of Emaze; he brought the company to become market leader in Italy for software and network security.Teodoro has engineering degree and an executive degree from Berkeley.

## Como Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, Health Care, Space Travel

Como Venture is a venture capital firm specialized in seed and early stage investments.

## Andrea Torlonia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Big Data, Food Delivery

Andrea Torlonia

## Michel Taride
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Michel Taride

## Banco BPM
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, E-Commerce

Scopri i servizi bancari e finanziari di Banco BPM: conti, mutui, carte, prestiti, assicurazioni, trading e tanto altro. Per privati e imprese.

## DIP Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Banking, Internet, Financial Services

DIP Capital is a venture capital firm that invests across Europe in disruptive businesses. DIP's first fund has €40m to invest in late seed-stage and growth companies, to support top entrepreneurs that have the most interesting disruptive business

## C.D.S Italy
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Grocery, Delivery, E-Commerce

Syndicate of Italian Angel Investors

## RedSeed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology

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

## TA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M.
We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

## Andrea Dusi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology

Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.

## Amazon Alexa Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things

The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

## Ciro Immobile
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Fashion, Internet

Ciro Immobile

## NextEnergy Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, GreenTech, Recycling

NextEnergy Capital is an investment management business founded in 2007, Their head office are in London, United Kingdom. NextEnergy Capital focus on the renewable energy sector with a presence in Italy and South Africa. NextEnergy Capital believes in the sustainable energy investment opportunity and plans to selectively add on other businesses.

## The Techshop
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Computer, Software, Automotive

The Techshop is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in B2B digital startups.

## MTI Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Transportation, Autonomous Vehicles

MTI Holding invests in a wide range of companies.

## Blackstone Tactical Opportunities
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Financial Services, Cyber Security, E-Commerce

Blackstone Tactical Opportunities provides opportunistic capital, timely investing and differentiated solutions.

## MITO Techonolgy
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Computer, Computer Vision

At the intersection of IP law, technology and business strategy

## Plug and Play Tech Center
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Transportation

Plug and Play Tech Center connects the world's best startups to industry-leading corporations.

## Mbe Etc WorldWide
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Logistics, Packaging Services

Global access through local entrepreneurs to shipping, logistics, print, marketing communications and postal outsourcing solutions

## Mazal Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Internet, Logistics, Automotive

Mazal Capital is a venture capital organization firm focusing on private equity funds, investments, club deals and finance management.

## Cysero
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Information Technology

Cysero is a venture capital fund focused on the robotics and cybersecurity sectors. The fund was established in October 2020 and managed by AVM Gestioni SGR S.p.A. Manager EuVECA Società Benefit and jointly promoted with Kilometro Rosso, Bergamo's science and technology park.

## LIFTT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

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

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