# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## Paolo Barberis - Type: Angel - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca. ## Gianluca Cocco - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Mobile Gianluca achieved two successful exits before founding his new fintech. The first exit occurred in 2018 in Italy when he served as the MD of the Italian branch of Delivery Hero. The second exit happened in 2022 in Spain when he sold Factory14, of which he was a co-founder. From 2011, he spent four years as one of the early managers at Amazon Italy,following the start of his career in strategic consulting at Roland Berger. He is angel investing in Fintech, SaaS and AI at pre-seed stage. ## Joe Zadeh - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Personal Health Joe Zadeh ## Luca Rodella - Type: Angel - Location: Riva Del Garda, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, FinTech Luca Rodella is based out of Riva del Garda, Trentino-Alto Adige and is the CEO and Founder of Smartness. Luca previously worked at AlphaTeam.Net as a Co-Founder and CEO. Luca Rodella attended the University of Trento. ## Francesco Starace - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award. ## GianFilippo Cuneo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: SaaS, Software, Marketing GianFilippo Cuneo ## Francesco Beraldi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech Francesco Beraldi ## Alessandro Errico - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing Alessandro Errico ## Andrea Dusi - Type: Angel - Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, CleanTech Entrepreneur and investor. After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018. ## Alexandr Wang - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Alexandr Wang is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Board of Directors of Scale AI. Alexandr Wang attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ## Raffaele Vitale - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness Raffaele Vitale ## Serra Elizabeth Falk - Type: Angel - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Legal, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Serra Elizabeth Falk ## Marco De Nicola - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing Marco De Nicola ## Fabio Nalucci - Type: Angel - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, SaaS, Advice Fabio Nalucci - CEO & Founder @ GELLIFY ## Marco Di Pietro - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Advertising, Marketing Automation, SaaS Marco Di Pietro former director of Yoox. ## Matteo de Brabant - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: News, Beauty, EdTech Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000. ## Maurizio Donadelli - Type: Angel - Location: Altino, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Analytics, Retail, Travel Maurizio Donadelli ## Niccolò Colussi - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development Niccolò Colussi is a Co-Founder of Flexitalian Srl. ## Enrico Giacomelli - Type: Angel - Location: Ancona, Marche, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Accounting Enrico Giacomelli Founder & Co-Owner of Namirial S.p.A. ## Orange Palestre Torino - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Service Industry, Artificial Intelligence Orange Palestre Torino is an individual investor. ## Cristiano Esclapon - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: Finance, Automotive, Smart Home Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci ## Carl Tremblay - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Procurement, Artificial Intelligence Carl Tremblay ## Edoardo Alessandri - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Edoardo Alessandri ## Giacinto Carullo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Procurement, Artificial Intelligence Giacinto Carullo is the Chief Procurement Officer at Leonardo. ## Umberto Paolucci - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Umberto Paolucci ## Luca Foschini - Type: Angel - Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, CRM, SaaS As Head of Data Science, Luca is responsible for data analytics, computing, research and development at Evidation Health. Luca was the co-founder of The Activity Exchange (which joined forces with Evidation Health in 2014) where he led data science and drove research collaborations with Harvard Business School and the Wharton School. Prior tothis role, Luca worked as R&D at Ask.com and was a visiting scholar at Google Research and ETH Zurich where he developed efficient algorithms for spatial data, real-time intrusion and anomaly detection in computer networks. Luca earned a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara focusing on traffic analysis in computer and road networks. He's an alumnus of the Sant'Anna School of Pisa, Italy. ## David Clarke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip. David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993. ## Lorenzo Lato - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Lorenzo Lato ## Marco Piuri - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Procurement, Artificial Intelligence Marco Piuri ## Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano ## Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Industrial Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School. ## Reid Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet Reid Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Manas AI and a member of the Sanmai Board of Directors. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Oxford, where he earned his M.St. in Philosophy. ## Pascal Houillon - Type: Angel - Location: Orange, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 Pascal HOUILLON is the CEO at Cegid Group. Pascal attended Paris-Sud University. ## Tommaso Centonze - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence Tommaso Centonze is the Founder and COO at Smartpricing. ## Riccardo Zacconi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Gaming, Apps, Mobile Riccardo Zacconi is based out of London, England and is the Board Member of Layer AI. Riccardo previously worked at King.com as Co-Founder and Chairman. Riccardo Zacconi attended Luiss Guido Carli University. ## Jacopo Paoletti - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Mobile Digital Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor. ## Paolo Basilico - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Apps, Music, Music Streaming Paolo Basilico is the Product Manager at SIA-SSB. ## Roberto Condulmari - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Music Roberto Condulmari is a portfolio manager at Kairos. ## Luca Furfaro - Type: Angel - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Legal, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Luca Furfaro ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017. ## Fabio Cannavale - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes ## Alessandro Rimassa - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Industrial Author of "It's easy to change Italy, if you know how to do it" and "Thousand Euro Generation", director of the school of management and communication of IED. ## Matteo Fago - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Travel, Farming, Big Data Matteo Fago ## Jacopo Liguori - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Legal, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Jacopo Liguori is the Partner and Head of the Intellectual Property, Technology, and Privacy team at Withersworldwide. ## Filippo Conforti - Type: Angel - Location: Florence, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Filippo Conforti is the Founder & CEO at Commerce Layer. Attended Università degli Studi di Firenze. ## Pietro Cesati - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Market Research, Consumer Research, Artificial Intelligence Pietro Cesati graduated in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and obtained the CEMS Master's Degree in International Management in Stockholm.He worked in the banking & finance sector for 14 years, as an analyst and then manager in Reuters and Oliver Wyman and then moved to the bank in UniCredit and finally as Head ofRisk Management in BNL BNP Paribas.In Unicredit he dealt with the management of the credit risk of the mortgage portfolio and in the more than seven years in BNL BNP Paribas has expanded the scope of management to the entire loan portfolio to individuals and companies.Fed up with inertia and the inability to adapt to the banks, in 2015 he founded Soisy with the ambition to reinvent banking services around lending between people , with cutting-edge technological experience that is both pleasant and fast.In Soisy he also experiments with a new type of business organization suitable for listening and serving customers better: remote, agile, fluid and participatory.When he is not working he reads books of all kinds, even though since he founded Soisy most of them have talked about start-up, business model canvas and agile. He also loves to experiment with new sports and lately he practices tennis, skiing, surfing and yoga, without forgetting the table football at lunchtime with his colleagues. ## Angelo Italiano - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Gaming, Sports, Fitness Angelo Italiano ## Francesco Signorato - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Legal, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Francis Signorato is the Co-founder, CEO of nebuly. ## Jan Sprengnetter - Type: Angel - Location: Bad Neuenahr-ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Leasing, Software Jan Sprengnetter is the CEO of Sprengnetter. Jan Sprengnetter attended the University of Trier.