Top 5 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Italy in January 2026
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 2026
| Investor | Cryptocurrency Italy investments |
|---|---|
| Max Ciociola | 2 |
| Luca Ascani | 2 |
| Pietro Invernizzi | 2 |
| David García | 1 |
| Calvin Liu | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- 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).
- Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
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.
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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.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
- Dimension — The state of the art collaboration platform for modern engineering teams. Chat, project management, smart actions, and more, accelerated by AI.
Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- Toket — Toket provides user-friendly APIs & no-code tools that empowers teams with no blockchain experience to easily create NFT-based applications
- Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Pi Squared — Pi Squared is building the first fully decentralized Web3 infrastructure that delivers 100,000+ TPS, sub-100ms finality, and is verifiable by design.
- Valhalla — Valhalla is a decentralized exchange platform provider that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets without relying on intermediaries.
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
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