Ignazio Castiglioni

Co-Founder & CEO at HAT | Empowering Innovation & Growth in Italy’s Tech Ecosystem through Private Equity Leadership

📍 Italy🔄 Updated July 2026💼 22 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
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Investor & Board Member
Jun 2025
MECH-I-TRONIC is a global player in the design and production of custom mechatronic solutions. Bringing together highly specialized brands such as CB Automation, Neyret Group, Union, Tecom, Alci, SMP, and ERMO, we deliver precise, innovative, and tailored applications, leveraging our deep expertise in automated assembly lines, plastic extrusion, and molding machines. With over 70 years of success and worldwide customer satisfaction, we proudly support a global client base of more than 100 companies across 25 countries. Recognized for our commitment to the highest industry standards, we provide cutting-edge, reliable solutions designed to meet the demands of the most exacting customers. By seamlessly integrating mechanical engineering, advanced electronics, and software, our state-of-the-art machines continuously shape the future of automation. We are more than just a group of companies; we are a federation of successful entrepreneurs, united by a shared vision to join forces and better serve customers on a global scale.
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May 2021
Huma is a global healthcare AI company on a mission to accelerate the adoption of digital solutions in care and research. Huma’s technology has powered over 3,000 hospitals and clinics, with 500+ unique deployments across 70+ countries. The software has been used to engage and screen over 35 million individuals, with 1.8 million active users across its various products. The company is renowned for its role in major national healthcare projects worldwide, from the US and the UK to Germany, Greece, and Saudi Arabia, as well as working with most large pharma companies and CROs. The Huma Cloud Platform offers a technology infrastructure built on strong regulatory foundations to launch digital solutions for healthcare and research. Huma has achieved FDA 510(k) Class II, EU/MDR Class IIb, and Saudi FDA Class C regulatory clearance for its disease-agnostic flagship product, enabling rapid, code-free configuration with the ability to host AI/ML models.
Anchor Investor
Feb 2021
Passionate about classic cars, driven by financial results. AssetClassic is an investment and experience vehicle formed to facilitate privileged access to private and institutional investors to the classic car asset class. Classic cars have historically been one of the best performing alternative asset classes, however marked by high entry barriers. AssetClassic removes these for its members, while offering exclusive curated automotive and networking experiences.
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Angel Investor
Jul 2020
Trustfulls Identity Intelligence Platform helps businesses reduce risks, protect integrity and accelerate growth on a global scale. By silently analyzing digital footprint data from customer interactions, Trustfull unlocks hundreds of signals to accurately detect fraud and fincrime attempts across the customer journey. Through combined and fully silent phone, email, IP, device and browser checks, our complete suite of models, workflows and data empowers teams to make better customer decisions with no UX implications. Hundreds of clients and partners - including Nexi, Twilio, Sisal, Banca Sella, Snaitech, IBL Banca and Trulioo - rely on Trustfulls award-winning technology to prevent fraud and build trust across borders.
Independent Board Member
Apr 2018
Growens is an integrated industrial group that creates technologies for content creation, predictive marketing and mobile messaging, meant for organizations wishing to communicate effectively with their customers. Italian design, global vision, attention to local communities – Growens is defined by its people’s passion and competence, by scalability and profitability for its investors, and by innovation for its customers. It is admitted to trading on the Euronext Growth Milan (EGM) market of the Italian Stock Exchange, and operates worldwide with over 11,200 customers in more than 115 countries. Our mission is to bring growth and technological innovation to our customers and investors worldwide, thanks to ethical and easy-to-use marketing and communication tools, developed with passion by an international team. Today the brand portfolio includes: - Beefree: a drag-n-drop content editor used and loved by over a million users and 600 SaaS applications around the world - Agile Telecom: SMS wholesale reseller operating worldwide To receive the latest news or the monthly newsletter register here: https://www.growens.io/en/newsletter/
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2017
We’re a leader in coating and patching applications for the industrial fastening industry. Consisting of six companies located between Italy, USA and Brazil, Primat Curtis Group and its under arching companies make diversification and quality its strengths, using advanced technologies and technical know-how to satisfy any fastener needs. While having a strong presence in the automotive sector, we also serve clients in other industries: agricultural, alternate energy, appliance, construction, heavy truck, military and off-road vehicles.
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2016
Safety21 is the leading Italian software provider in the Smart Road and Smart City sector specialized in technological outsourcing services. It’s the main partner for Local Authorities, Public Administration and Institutions offering IoT solutions and innovative services to digitize, streamline and accelerate safety projects for the improvement of road safety standards. Innovation, sustainability, and competence allow us to support Public Institutions in the digitization of urban strategies through the development of Public-Private Partnership projects. Safety21 has designed and implemented the first integrated Smart City project, with the aim of making cities more sustainable and safer through scalable innovative outsourcing services that optimize traffic, improve safety on the roads and citizens’ quality of life. That’s thanks to its proprietary Titan® Ecosystem – a unique IoT cloud platform able to manage road mobility data. Safety21 is particularly into environmental issues and pursues the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda (SDGs). It contributes to making infrastructure and its production system more sustainable, promoting greater efficiency of the resources used and the adoption of green and environmentally friendly technologies that support development and innovation. By embracing ESG criteria, Safety21 ensures equal and ethical people approach and a corporate governance that respects the principles of honesty and transparency. Safety21 is owned by the private equity fund BU (Bregal Unternehmerkapital) which supports business development towards leading model of sustainable mobility and international expansion. Currently the company employs over 200 people, the main offices are in Rome and Milan.
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May 2015
Ennova was established within I3P (Incubator of Innovative Enteprises) at Politecnico di Torino, the best place in Italy for process and technological innovation Today Ennova is growing and growing: its success story in five years is promising for the future. The spirti of the first years is still intact: tust of the future, customer focused, innovative in any part of its business.
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Apr 2014
Lutech Group, a leading Italian and European player in digital and AI, designs, implements and manages solutions for digital transformation, innovation and growth for companies and institutions, thanks to an in-depth knowledge of the specific processes of different industries. With 5,500 professionals and revenues of approximately 850 million euros, Lutech Group drives change through an end-to-end journey in which business consulting, execution, and governance maximize companies results, for a comprehensive and integrated offering. Evolving and transforming requires a new way of interacting and connecting people, data and technology. Lutech expands and updates its solution and service offerings through strategic acquisitions and ongoing investments in people, platforms and geographies.
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2025
Investor & Board Member
Jun 2025
MECH-I-TRONIC is a global player in the design and production of custom mechatronic solutions. Bringing together highly specialized brands such as CB Automation, Neyret Group, Union, Tecom, Alci, SMP, and ERMO, we deliver precise, innovative, and tailored applications, leveraging our deep expertise in automated assembly lines, plastic extrusion, and molding machines. With over 70 years of success and worldwide customer satisfaction, we proudly support a global client base of more than 100 companies across 25 countries. Recognized for our commitment to the highest industry standards, we provide cutting-edge, reliable solutions designed to meet the demands of the most exacting customers. By seamlessly integrating mechanical engineering, advanced electronics, and software, our state-of-the-art machines continuously shape the future of automation. We are more than just a group of companies; we are a federation of successful entrepreneurs, united by a shared vision to join forces and better serve customers on a global scale.
2024
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Dec 2024
Webgenesys Srl opera nel campo dellinformatica e dell​ ICT proponendo alla sua clientela un vasto parco prodotti incentrati sulla sicurezza fisica ed informatica, lottimizzazione di procedure legate alla vita quotidiana del cittadino ( servizio automatizzato gestione mense scolastiche e strasporti, soluzioni RFID, sistemi di comunicazione integrata con QR, Applicazioni Mobile...), e la realizzazione di campagne di marketing on e off line. Webgenesys Srl gestisce il suo business su tutto il territorio italiano a fianco di partner deccezione quali Telecom Italia e Olivetti.
Investor & Board Member
Mar 2024
Texor is specialized in the design, set up and servicing of corporate information networks, by offering integrated solutions for complete IT infrastructures (hardware, software and related services). The IT Infrastructure Area includes a technical team combining specific expertise in several fields and with different levels of complexity, from company networks for small and medium entities to specialized consultancy for nation-wide carriers. Texor operates with the purpose of guaranteeing the best efficiency and efficacy to mission-critical applications, thus assuring high quality performances of the information system and concretely helping customers to focus on their core business. A team of specialized consultants lead the customer in the choice of the most appropriate hardware and software solutions by offering a full range of consulting services for maintenance, development and expansion of IT infrastructures with the purpose of supplying the best solutions available on the market and generating a real competitive edge for our customers.
2022
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Mar 2022
We believe that micro electric mobility is the key to exploring the world in harmony with others and the environment. We want to bring new value and enjoyment to life in our cities by leading our partners into the future of urban mobility. We provide a solid know-how in e-bike and e-scooter production to established brands interested in widening their offer. We work closely with every brand partner to develop e-mobility lines that embody their values and seamlessly blend in with their identity. We are a bold company that has never been afraid to change, building on experience and acquired competences to the boundaries of business and evolve.
2021
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Oct 2021
LUISAVIAROMA is a premier luxury fashion destination renowned for its curated selection of high-end clothing, accessories, and lifestyle products. Since its inception in Florence, Italy, in 1929, LVR has established itself as a global leader in the luxury retail industry, blending tradition with innovation to offer discerning customers an unparalleled shopping experience. With a keen eye for emerging trends and a commitment to excellence, LVR showcases collections from top fashion houses alongside cutting-edge designers, catering to the sophisticated tastes of fashion enthusiasts worldwide. Passion, creativity, and a dedication to quality are at the heart of everything we do, making LUISAVIAROMA the ultimate destination for luxury fashion aficionados seeking style, elegance, and distinction.
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