101 Top Retail Startups and Companies in Italy (2021)

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This article showcases our top picks for the best Italy based Retail companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Retail industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
Management
Societal impact

Top Italy Retail Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

iGenius

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iGenius – Augmented Business Intelligence

Scalapay

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Scalapay is a payment method that allows the users to purchase and pay it in three installments of the same amount without interest.

H-FARM

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H-FARM is an innovative platform set up in 2005 to help entrepreneurs launch new initiatives and support the digitalisation of Corporates

Versace

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Versace is an Italian fashion company and trade name founded by Gianni Versace in Milan in 1978.

Velasca

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Velasca is a direct-to-consumer brand, focused on offering Made in Italy shoes at friendly prices.

Invrsion

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inVRsion develops ultra-realistic 6DOF VR simulation with focus on retail and 3D product digitization.

ELSE Corp

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ELSE Corp is an Italian B2B and B2B2C startup, designing new technological solutions for Virtual Retail and Cloud Manufacturing

FrescoFrigo – Healthy food close to you

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FrescoFrigo is a smart fridge designed for people who care about their own well being, requiring fresh and quality products.

Cosaporto

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Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops.

Contactlab

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Technology and services that enables brands to personalise communications and strenghten the relationship with customers

Switcho

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Switcho helps you managing your recurring expenses by finding self-tailored deals, saving your money and time

Wahu S.r.l.

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Wahu is the very first active sole able to adapt its morphology to changes.

Qapla’ Srl

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Tracking information for eCommerce and for better customer support

Barberino’s – Classic Italian Barber

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Independent Italian men’s grooming company offering premium care to premium men

Growish

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Fintech API for the Sharing Economy | Collect money from friend and family for anything you wish | API and Saas Available for third parties

Checkout Technologies

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Checkout Technologies creates AI powered technologies to reshape and enhance the relationship between physical retailers and shoppers.

Eligo

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First Marketplace of Personal Stylists, the Sartorialists

Babaco Market

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Babaco Market is an ecommerce business from Italy selling grocery “ugly products” on demand.

Yocabè

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Yocabè connects apparel brands and their products with the global customers of online marketplaces.

Competitoor

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Competitoor is the B2B data platform that provides global information about pricing to Brands and e-commerce

ARTKNIT STUDIOS

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Direct-to-consumer brand dedicated to democratise luxury in the knitwear industry.

RisparmioSuper

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RisparmioSuper compares grocery store online and offline prices in Italy and developped ad advanced ecommerce platform for retailers

PRIMPY

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Primpy is a community-generated platform that connects the fashion industry through technology, usability, transparency and simplicity.

EXTRABANCA

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Extrabanca is a retail banking company in Italy founded specifically for foreign citizens living in Italy and for the businesses they run.

Mister Worker

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Mister Worker is the online store for professionals, with more than 20,000 tools of the highest quality and from the best brands.

Base Protection

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Base Protection designs, plans and produces Comfort. The comfort of professional shoes that protect and improve worker’s life.

Scloby

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Cloud point of sale for tablet and smartphone

WIB Machines

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WIB merges e-commerce benefits, brick&mortar convenience with data&analytics, providing a bridge between online and physical commerce

AR Market

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AR Market innovative startup operates in the Immersive Technology market (AR/VR) , with focus on Marketing, Retailing, Education & Training.

Monophases

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Sustainability. Circularity. Technology. We are a GreenTech Start-Up, building inclusive solutions to support green development.

Mondial Pet Distribution

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Mondial Pet Distribution distributes hygiene and personal products for animals, under the Fortesan brand.

WonderStore

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WonderStore is a computer vision platform for retail that satisfies the strategic need to know the shop visitors.

Fabbricatorino

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Fabbricatorino produces high quality eyewear, creating a perfect mix of Italian craftsmanship, technological innovation and sustainability. With a omnichannel approach, it sells its products 100% made in Italy using a modern and constantly evolving business model.

Gourmant

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Gourmant is an online shopping club offering wine and food products from Italy at discounts.

Sinba

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The first app to pay and skip the retail line

Chef Dovunque

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Chef Dovunque selects homemade and organic ingredients for signature Italian pasta, and packages and distributes them as pre-measured kits.

Buru Buru

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Buru Buru is an online shopping platform that offers products made by young designers and independent brands.

Generali Group

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The Generali Group is a global insurance firm that offers financial services to its clients.

Lualdi S.p.A.

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Lualdi is a historic company of Italian design in the field of interior doors, custom furniture and contract.

Wineverse

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Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato.

Juicebar Srl

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Juicebar Srl manufactures and markets fresh fruit and vegetable juice, food and natural food.

Renzini

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Renzini produces & sells its own brand “Renzini Alta Norcineria” high quality cured meats, other gastronomic specialties destined for shops.

Taste Italy S.r.l.

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Taste Italy with the brand GustaMente reinterprets the Italian gastronomic excellences in healthy logic. Products strictly gluten-free

Crea Solution Srl

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Crea Solution Srl offers software and hardware solutions to the fashion, automotive, aerospace, leather goods and furniture industries.

What a Space

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What a Space aims to help companies, creatives and professionals to create the best offline business concepts.

Luxottica Group SpA

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Luxottica is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of fashion, luxury and sports eyewear with high quality.

HOPSTOK

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HOPSTOK is a B2B marketplace for independent fashion stores to sell their unsold goods in an innovative way

Tod’s

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Tod’s is a luxury goods company.

riCompro Italia

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Get cash for your used smartphones and buy regenerated phones up to 50% off.

Abiby

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Abiby is the italian leading platform that offers subscription services to discover and try new beauty brand and products.

Diesel

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A leading pioneer in denim and casual fashion, known for moving outside and ahead of trends in its industry.

KlikkaPromo

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KlikkaPromo is an Italian sales promotions search engine operating in both food and non-food retail markets.

Eataly Net

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Eataly is a high-end Italian food market and mall chain that comprises of restaurants, food and beverage stations, bakeries, and retailers.

The WishList

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The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.

Gruppo MutuiOnline

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Gruppo Mutui Online is a mortgage broker for banks and is located in Italy.

Washeria

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E-commerce startup offering foodstuffs, personal and home cleaning products.

Calzedonia Group

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Calzedonia Group is a vibrant, multi-faceted organization.

Arcaplanet

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Arcaplanet is the Pet Store chain in Italy, specialized in pet food & care.

Giochi Preziosi

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Giochi Preziosi is a consumer goods company that offers toys and kids merchandise.

Esselunga S.p.A.

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Esselunga S.p.A. is a retail company.

New Guards Group

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New Guards Group engages in manufacture and distribution of fashion garments.

Brioni S p A

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Brioni S.p.A. is an Italian high-end fashion house founded in 1945.

Wardroba Srl

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Wardroba Srl is a hub of independent fashion brands offering a variety of goods from accessories, bags, shoes, clothes, shirts & sunglasses.

Garanteasy

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Garanteasy is the only technological platform that connects all players in the warranty ecosystem

Luisa Via Roma

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The latest clothing, shoes, bags, and fine jewellery collections from top Designers for both Men and Women.

Max Mara Fashion Group

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Max Mara Fashion Group

Dainese

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To advocate and deliver safety to people exposed to traumatic injuries in dynamic sports and everyday activities.

Amplifon

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Amplifon is a global leader in the hearing care retail market, empowers people to rediscover all the emotions of sound.

Mirror

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Social E-commerce

Stroili Oro Spa

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Stroili Oro Spa are makers of unique & innovative jewellery, rings, ear rings in gold, silver & diamond.

Temera

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Temera offers a ‘digital voice’ to goods using UHF & NFC RFID tech and leverages the use of BlockChain to resolve these traceability issues.

Fortuna Vini

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Fortuna Vini is surrounded by that hills, devoted to the production of wine since Roman Age over 2.000 years ago.

Emerge

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The place where buyers and producers of authentic Italian food can easily connect with each other through a virtual market.

Geox S p A

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GEOX is the premier Italian footwear brand known for its invention of the “shoe that breathes”.

Brunello Cucinelli

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Contemporary luxury brand specialised in cashmere for menswear & womenswear. Made in Italy.

Gruppo Buffetti

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Gruppo Buffetti is an office equipment supplier company.

The Clutcher

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The Clutcher is an e-commerce platform with an accurate selection of multibrand luxury stores.

Renovation Brands

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Internet retail company that sells electric fireplaces and heaters to residential and commercial clientele in the renovation space.

TXT Polymedia

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TXT e-solutions is an international software products and solutions vendor.

Furla

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Furla is a Italian lifestyle brand with a distinctive playful spirit and contemporary elegance.

Guanxi

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Guanxi supports companies in leading the transformation of traditional business models taking the competitive advantage of digital.

MyBeautyBox

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MyBeautyBox is a subscription commerce platform offering an innovative way for discovering, learning and shopping for beauty products.

EUROSPIN ITALIA SPA

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Eurospin is an Italian discount store with a long experience in the large-scale distribution sector & more than 1,200 points of sale.

De Rigo SpA

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De Rigo SpA is a manufacturer and distributor of high-end sunglasses.

Yeppon

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Yeppon is a company that provides internet technology branding.

Safilo Group

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Safilo Group is a manufacturer of sunglasses and optical frames.

PittaRosso

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PittaRosso is a retailer of shoes and leather goods.

Slam Jam

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Slam Jam is a globally-recognized business operates as seal of approval applied to clothing and goods that represent urban subcultural.

HOORO

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HOORO is an Italian Retail Tech start-up developing predictive models of Machine Learning on Out-Of-Stock invetory by intercepting the consumer’s purchase act at the brick & mortar store and optimizing on-shelf and warehouse inventory.