Diego Palano

SDA Bocconi, Facile, Westwing, BCG, MIT

📍 Italy🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
VC🌍 Italy
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Board Member
Feb 2025
The MIT Alumni Club of Italy is part of Massachusetts Institute of Technologys alumni network and promotes activities for alumni in Italy also in partnership with other University alumni networks.
Co-Founder, Board Member
Dec 2020
Spiagge.it è la piattaforma di riferimento in Italia per le prenotazioni online di ombrelloni e servizi balneari e il leader di mercato nella fornitura di gestionali per gli stabilimenti.
Board Member
Oct 2017
A pioneer of the circular economy, greenchic is the number 1 fashion-logistics startup in Southern Europe. Send us what you wish to swap, and immediately start buying with our reward points system. Thanks to this effortless service model, greenchic offers the fastest DTC way to regain value from no longer used clothing. Through greenchic, members can exchange items and revamp their style in an affordable, convenient and sustainable way. With 99% of the products sold, reused, upcycled, or donated to charities within 6 months, greenchic is set to become a European leader in circular fashion. With its growing user base, the highest customer retention rate in fashion recommerce, a 4.5-star TrustPilot rating, the platform offers to its highly engaged community a collection of more than 240.000 items. Thanks to a semi-automated logistic warehouse, an event-driven serverless digital platform, and its own digital token, the startup is experiencing a 2X growth pattern and is supported by some of the best investors from the Italian fashion & social impact scene. greenchic is now operating in Italy and France. Find out more by visiting greenchic.com and following @greenchic on socials.
Angel investor, Advisor
Jan 2017
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
Experience · 11 entries
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Founder (2)
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2025
Board Member
Feb 2025
The MIT Alumni Club of Italy is part of Massachusetts Institute of Technologys alumni network and promotes activities for alumni in Italy also in partnership with other University alumni networks.
2023
Limited Partner & Advisor
Jul 2023
Italian Founders Fund is Italys first venture capital fund established by founders, for founders. Weve united over 100 experienced entrepreneurs to build the premier founder-backed VC community, actively supporting Italy’s next generation of exceptional talent and digital innovation. We invest from pre-seed to Series A in companies with an Italian angle, whether they are 1) founded in Italy, 2) expanding into Italy, or 3) founded by Italians anywhere in the world. If you’re a visionary founder ready to make a global impact, we want to hear from you!
2022
Limited Partner & Advisor
Nov 2022
40Jemz (precedentemente Bonsai Ventures) è una holding di investimento che fornisce advisory allecosistema del Venture Capital e investimenti di seed capital a startup ad alto potenziale. La missione di 40Jemz è quella di costruire un portafoglio ampio e diversificato di partecipate attraverso unelevata efficienza operativa, che consente di arrivare allerogazione del capitale in 6 settimane dal primo contatto con la venture
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Board Member
Jun 2022
Save the Children è l’organizzazione internazionale indipendente dedicata dal 1919 a salvare i bambini e a promuovere i loro diritti.
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2017–2025 · 5 investments
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