Best Retail Companies in Rome, Italy
The 39 best Retail companies in Rome, Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Portobello.
Ranked: Best Retail companies in Rome
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portobello Retailer of consumer products | $6M | 55 mo ago | Public | Simone Prete Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 2 | Maison Academia Made in Italy fashion brand | $645K | 167 mo ago | Deadpooled | Mary Palomba Co-Founder | 2011 | FirebaseBootstrapAMP+13 | — | — |
| 3 | Le Cicogne Marketplace for baby-sitting | $572K | 121 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 4 | Direttoo Online marketplace for the farmers to sell their produce to restaurants | $296K | 115 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Pathflow Retail analytics | $140K | 156 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alberto Gangarossa Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Unfraud AI and big data analytics based fraud detection in online business transactions | $112K | 107 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Scappatopo Provider of organic mouse repellent | $111K | 130 mo ago | Funding Raised | Carla Delfino Founder & CEO | 2013 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+26 | — | — |
| 8 | Messagenius Enterprise messaging and communication management solution | — | 86 mo ago | Seed | Alessandro Ciotti Co-Founder | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — | — |
Top 8 Retail companies in Rome
#1
Public · Rome, Lazio · founded 2016$5.6Mraised▾
Retailer of consumer products
- Jan 2022Conventional Debt$5.6M
#2
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2013 · 25 employees$572.2Kraised▾
Le Cicogne is a Rome, Italy-based online platform for people to find babysitting services. Le Cicogne offers 18 to 30-year-olds the opportunity to find earning opportunities suitable for their needs. Before accessing the job opportunities, they must be interviewed and then trained. On the other side, Le Cicogne gives families the opportunity to find the typical next-door girl or boy to help them with their children. Families can upload for free their queries on the website and choose between the broad selection of offers. Le Cicogne is also offering B2B services, to companies and hotels. A mobile app to book last minute services will soon be available. Le Cicogne is currently operating in the areas of Rome and Milan.
- Jul 2016Seed$391.2K
- Aug 2014Seed$115K
- Apr 2013Seed$66K
#3
Deadpooled · Rome, Lazio · founded 2014 · 3 employees$111.7Kraised▾
Unfraud provides fraud protection solution in online business transactions. The solution employs machine learning based artificial intelligence to adapt in real time to detect and provide alerts to prevent financial frauds and scams. The product is delivered via a cloud as an API integration to existing websites.
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$59K
- May 2015Seed$111.7K
- Oct 2014Grant (prize money)$31.7K
#4
Deadpooled · Rome, Lazio · founded 2011 · 5 employees$645.3Kraised▾
Maison Acaidemia (previously NextStyler) is made in Italy fashion brand created by emerging designers from worldwide. Maison Academia arranges some contests where the designers upload their sketches, during this phase they are supported by a Mentoring Team, made of experts in fashion that gives them technical advice. Later the sketches are rated by the community of the site and finally are selected by a Jury made of big names of the the fashion world. Best rated sketches are finally produced by them through partnership and sold online. Maison Academia acts as a partner to create co-branding projects
- Sep 2012Seed$645.3K
#5
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2016 · 8 employees$296.5Kraised▾
Direttoo has developed an online platform for restaurants to manage their supply chain and purchase their requirements directly from the farmers. The platform allows the aggregation of orders from various restaurants and claims to provide more discount as a result of that. Moreover, long-term orders can be placed with separate delivery at fix intervals. Direttoo handles the logistics of orders placed on the platform.
- Feb 2017Seed$296.5K
#6
Funding Raised · Rome, Lazio · founded 2013$111Kraised▾
Provider of organic mouse repellent. The company claims that the products are made from plant extracts and maize granules.
- Oct 2015Grant (prize money)$55K
- May 2015Grant (prize money)$56K
#7
Deadpooled · Rome, Lazio · founded 2013 · 7 employees$140Kraised▾
Pathflow is a retail analytics platform that is based on a camera system that analyzes customer behavior inside a store to quantitatively measure their shopping experience, With their analytics managers can view: number of clients, demographical characteristics, time spent and traffic areas. They also provide instruments to improve store setup in real time, such as: heatmap that indicates areas of customer flow, performance comparison between customizable in store areas, product attraction indices and selling strategy efficiency (cross and up selling). They also provide sales managers with a series of significant analysis indices, such as: conversion rate, bounce rate and dwell time. Pathflow is customized for different store types and sold as a subscription contract model (minimum 1 year). Finalist at TechCrunch Italy 2013. Customers include Telecom Italia.
- Aug 2013Seed$140K
#8
Seed · Rome, Lazio · founded 2014—raised▾
Messagenius provides an enterprise messaging and communication management solution. It allows users to connect with teams, colleagues and integrate with software to improve productivity and communication solutions. Other solutions include users to manage tasks, internal communication networks, and conversations. Its products include Black Box Chats that allows users to improve conversations with timestamps and proof-of-receipt, Black Hole Chats that allows users to track and collect company contracts. It caters solutions for banking, finance, insurance, media and entertainment, transportation, logistics, energy, utility, retail, education, and hospitality industries. Its clients and partners include RFI, Almaviva, Rai, Overit, and Momentum.
- 2019Seed—
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