# Top 30 Wellness Startup Investors in Italy in May 2026

## CDP Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Embed Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Mobile

Embed Capital directly invests in startups, established or in the process of creation.Embed is mainly focused on innovative companies that:- Are active in the so-called “real economy” sectors: industrials, technology, environment, services, retail or social;- Are characterized by simple and intuitive business models and valuepropositions, and operate in markets or market segments featuring high growth potential;- Present a clear competitive advantage and high barriers-to-entry;- Are cash-generative in the medium term.Given that Embed Capital is not a closed-end fund, it doesn’t have specific time-constrains and it can assess on a project-by-project basis to determine the best time to sell a participation, and sign customized agreements with the entrepreneurs.

## Italian Angels for Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Dino Giusti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Medical Device

Dino Giusti

## Vodafone
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newbury, West Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Information Technology, Telecommunications

Vodafone is a leading technology communications company in Europe and Africa, keeping society connected and building a digital future.  Find out more!

## Kairos Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care

Kairos Partners SGR was founded in 1999 as the first independent Italian asset management company.

## Azimut Digitech Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Computer, Mobile

Azimut Digitech Fund Was created as part of a partnership with the Gellify Group.

## Panakes Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology

Panakes Partners is a venture capital investor that finances in medical companies, startups, and high growth SMEs in Europe and Israel. Advantages of the firm are broad network of business contacts and corporate relations, domain expertise, proactive portfolio management, and relationship with selected industrial partners. Investments of thecompany focus on medical devices, diagnostics, biotech for in-vitro diagnostics, IT healthcare, and medical services.Panakes Partners is an Italy-based company that was founded in 2015 by Alessio Beverina, Fabrizio Landi, and Diana Saraceni.

## Microsoft
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redmond, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C other segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments licenses server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial other segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online. Microsoft Corporation was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1974. It is based in Redmond, Washington.

## RCS MediaGroup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Fitness

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.

## Sofinnova Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

## Club degli Investitori
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Net4Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition

Net4Capital is a investment management company in private equity and venture capital.

## 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.

## Ashoka
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Education, Health Care

Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who transform institutions and cultures so they support changemaking for the good of society. Find out more about us, and join the worldwide network of changemakers.

## Eisenhower Fellowships
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Education, Health Care

Eisenhower Fellowships identifies, empowers and links outstanding leaders from around the world helping them to achieve consequential outcomes across sectors and borders. EF provides a transformational experience leading to a lifetime engagement in a global network, where dialogue and collaboration make the world more prosperous, just and peaceful.

## 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.

## Cairo Communication
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Training

Cairo Communication is a company that carries activities in the communication sector as a publisher - television & books & a concessionaire.

## Exor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, FinTech

With EXOR Seeds, We have reconnected with our entrepreneurial roots and long history of innovation.
We look for exceptional founders, with the ambition to build great businesses in their field. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-ledbusiness, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs

## Growth Engine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Club Italia Investimenti 2
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Ligurcapital SpA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Internet, Fitness

Ligurcapital is a public and private joint venture that offers equity financing to companies in Liguria, Italy.

## Innogest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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

## 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.

## Neva SGR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Neva SGR, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and wholly owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, plans and manages investment funds for professional investors interested in seizing diversification and high-yield opportunities offered by Venture Capital investments. Neva SGR can count on Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s and Intesa SanpaoloGroup’s strength, financial resources, know-how and network of relationships, a unique source of value on the market.
Neva SGR is the perfect blend of strength, reputation and stability of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and the best practices of international venture capital firms. Neva SGR aims to boost the Italian economy through new technologies and to be market maker of the VC asset class of venture capital in Italy.

## Cube Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Biotechnology

Cube Labs is a venture builder. We enable innovation in the healthcare technology space, building companies to transform science into healthcare solutions. 

## Avanzi Etica Sicaf EuVECA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Wellness, Recycling

Avanzi Etica Sicaf EuVECA is an investment company that supports the development and growth of SMEs and innovative startups .

## I.A.C.E.R. srl
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Medical Device

Manufacturer of medical devices for home rehabilitation

## Istituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Science and Engineering

Istituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi is a platform for biostructures and biosystems that represent the intersection and the synthesis between the life sciences and physical sciences.

## Fin Posillipo Spa
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care

Familiy Office of Petrone Group

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