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Top 10 Startup Investors in Italy (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Italy Venture Capital startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Venture Capital startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Istria Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
Enrico Arietti
Angel
1 Italy Seed Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
Vito Giurazza
Angel
1 Italy Seed Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
Kinderhook Industries
VC Fund
1 United States, Italy Private Equity, Seed, Series B Health Care, Hospital, CRM $643k–$500M
IH1
VC Fund
1 Italy Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Real Estate, Online Portals, Venture Capital $11k–$214k
Cerralvo Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy Seed Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
Antonio Zotti
Angel
1 Italy Seed Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
UniCredit Group
VC Fund
1 Italy, Germany, Sweden Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Energy, Software, Financial Services $118k–$2B
Marco Valta
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Secondary Market E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $16k–$4M
Riccardo Triolo
Angel
1 Italy Seed Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
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Istria Capital
VC Fund · Humanes De Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

Global fund of search funds. Focus in Europe, US / Canada, Latam.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
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Enrico Arietti
Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

Enrico Arietti

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
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Vito Giurazza
Angel · Sant'arcangelo Di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

Vito Giurazza

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
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Kinderhook Industries
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

Kinderhook Industries is a private equity firm that manages over $1.25 billion of committed capital. The firm was established to capitalize on the principals' expertise acquiring middle market companies. Kinderhook primarily makes control investments in companies with transaction values of $25-$150 million where the firm can achievesignificant financial, operational and growth improvements. The firm targets orphaned non-core subsidiaries of corporate parents, existing small capitalization public companies lacking institutional support and management-led recapitalizations of entrepreneur-owned companies. Kinderhook’s principals have completed in excess of one hundred transactions, investing over $1 billion throughout their investment careers. In addition, Kinderhook is a licensed Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Hospital, CRM
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $643k–$1M; Private Equity $5.1M–$500M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Digital Diagnostics — Digital Diagnostics, formerly IDx, is a pioneering AI diagnostics company founded with a mission to transform the quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of healthcare worldwide through the application of technology in the medical diagnosis and treatment process. Founded by Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, a fellowship-trained retinaspecialist, neuroscientist, and computer engineer, Digital Diagnostics developed a patented biomarker-based approach to build an autonomous AI platform that makes clinical decisions without human intervention, removing the diagnostic burden of common diseases from specialists. Digital Diagnostics is paving the way for autonomous AI diagnosis to become the new standard of care, helping to democratize healthcare and close care gaps to improve patient outcomes. By working closely with patient advocacy groups, federal regulators, and other quality of care and ethics-focused stakeholders, Digital Diagnostics is working with the healthcare system to enable the continued adoption of autonomous AI.
  • Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
  • Physician Partners — We are actively rebuilding sick care into health care. We help to empower independent physicians to spend more time with patients, and less on other tasks. By providing the tools, insights, and processes needed, our partners can finally deliver the care their patients deserve.
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IH1
VC Fund · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Online Portals, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $11k–$214k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • deeva — deeva is an online platform for booking home hairdressers.
  • Inpoi — Inpoi ti aiuta a fare la scelta giusta. Valuta il tuo immobile online gratuitamente e in pochi semplici passi!
  • Pelo matto — Pelo Matto offers dog grooming services that are both comfortable and soothing for dogs.
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Cerralvo Capital
VC Fund · North Palm Beach, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

Cerralvo Capital is an investment management organization that help other small and large SMEs through investment funds for development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
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Antonio Zotti
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

Antonio Zotti

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
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UniCredit Group
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups, 13 in the past 12 months

UniCredit Group is an Italian global banking and financial services company. Its network spanning 50 markets in 20 countries, with more than 9,000 branches and over 148,000 employees. Its strategic position in Western and Eastern Europe gives the group one of the region's highest market shares.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $7M–$804M; Debt Financing $118k–$2B
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edison Spa — Edison is Europe's oldest energy company, and one of the industry leaders in Italy and Europe. Discover all the activities we ar
  • Goglio Group — Goglio Group produces full trademark food packaging.
  • Casalasco Società Agricola — Casalasco Società Agricola is the supply network for the cultivation and processing of industrial tomatoes.
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Marco Valta
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $16k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MIRA BEAUTY™ — MIRA BEAUTY is the world’s first universal store and collaborative library for makeup and skincare — made up of over 100,000 products and counting — which translates over 10 million product pages, reviews, and videos into one clear, simple, and personalized shopping experience. Community members are able to add products, post reviews, and answereach other’s questions based on their own, unbiased experience, all while shopping for the best products for their unique features and approach to beauty. For more information, please visit mirabeauty.com and @officialmirabeauty.
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
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Riccardo Triolo
Angel · Torino, Piemonte, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Venture Capital startups

Riccardo Triolo is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner at Legacy Partners Search Fund. Riccardo attended UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Università degli Studi di Torino.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
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Venture Capital Investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 13 deals from 19 investors.

19
investors
in Italy Venture Capital startups
13
deals
in Italy Venture Capital startups
$2M
median round
in Italy Venture Capital startups
26%
lead investors
lead at least one round
23%
Seed
most common funding stage
74/26
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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