Supermercato24.it, an Italy-based grocery delivery service that allows consumers to choose products from their favorite grocery chains, order them online, and pay cash at the time Ā of delivery, raised 155k euros in seed financingĀ from many Italian business angels who evaluated the entire company around 1.65 million euros.
Investors include some members of business angel networkĀ Custodi di Successo; Ā WIshDays‘s founders Andrea Dusi, Cristina Pozzi and Simone Zanollo; Ā CharityStars‘ ceo, Ā Francesco Fusetti; NextoneĀ Media‘s founder and ceo MassimilianoĀ Squillace;Ā CercoLavoro.com and GenoaĀ Talent Garden‘s founderĀ Francesco Lato.
Supermercato24.it has been founded and led by Enrico Pandian (who is founder and ceo ofĀ Ā PrezziPazzi and Matura.it and angel investor inĀ Mattermark), and co-founded by Ā Nicola Armellini e Daniele Sandri. The startup company has been launched last September in Verona and as far as L’Arena daily newspaper is concerned Ā (see here the article), the service is now available in the provinces of Verona, Monza, Bergamo, Brescia, Vicenza, Padua, Venice and Treviso, it will be available in other 40 cities by the end of January, will reach 58 provinces by the end of February and will reach London next September.
Verona, Italy-basedĀ InstacartĀ clone, raised ā¬155k in seed funding.
Backers in the round, which valued the company at ā¬1.65m, included members of Custodi di Successo, a group of business angels, Andrea Dusi, Cristina Pozzi, Simone Zanollo, founders of Wish Days, Francesco Fusetti, CEO of CharityStars, MassimilianoĀ Squillace, founder and CEO ofĀ NextoneĀ Media,Ā and Francesco Lato, founder of CercoLavoro.com and Talent Garden Genova.
The company intends to use the funds to expand in new cities across Italy.
Led by Enrico Pandian, CEO, founder PrezziPazzi e Matura.it and angel investor in Mattermark, Supermercato24 is The products are delivered during the same day of the order.Ā Launched in Verona in September 2014, the service is now present in 8 provinces and aims to expand to 21 within the end of January and 58 provinces by the end of March 2015.
The team also includes Daniele Sandri (Designer), Nicola Armellini (Web developer) and Vanessa Rutar (Operations).
