Top 5 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Italy in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Italy in January 2025

Investor	Cryptocurrency Italy investments
Luca Ascani	2
Max Ciociola	2
Pietro Invernizzi	2
David García	1
Calvin Liu	1

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Investor list

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.

Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable businesses in the mobile and media space with broad experience in product, business, and content development for the digital space. Max is founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the World's Largest Lyrics Catalog and MusicAI Company with +70 Mln of users in the world. Musixmatch uses Deep Learning and AI techniques to provide lyrics and language data to most of music digital streaming companies. As first mover in the mobile space Max started in early 1998 with Wireless Solutions, a multi media mobile gateway platform for delivering contents in more than 100 countries over 300 mobile carriers. He then sold his company to Dada, an italian media company, and he spent 7 years with Dada first as CEO Dada Iberia & Latam e then as EVP Mobile Services, leading a team of +100 people and +80 mln yearly turnover. Max is the co founder of AI Labs, an R&D AI Lab in Italy active on Technology Transfer on AI.