Top 15 Digital Media Angel Investors in Italy in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Digital media startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Digital Media Angel Investors in Italy in May 2025
Investor | Digital Media Italy investments |
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Jacopo Paoletti | 1 |
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman | 1 |
Francesco Beraldi | 1 |
Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos | 1 |
Alessandro Rimassa | 1 |
Utsav Somani | 1 |
Nathaniel Barling | 1 |
Franco Fogliato | 1 |
Emanuele Visconti | 1 |
Daniel Cremers | 1 |
Khaled Helioui | 1 |
Giulio Valiante | 1 |
Jenny Lefcourt | 1 |
Henri Moissinac | 1 |
Sebastian Picardo | 1 |
Digital Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Japal —
- CreationDose — CreationDose crafts engaging campaigns and videos that amplify brand awareness and foster engagement through our Creator Communities. Specializing in technology products, social media content, and creator engagement tailored for new generations, we are at the forefront of digital strategy. Established in 2018, our headquarters are located inCatania and Milan, ItalyCreationDose concentrates on technological services and products, social media content, and creators communities. They include bringing marketing, communication, technology, design, community, and business projects to life.CreationDose was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Catania, Italy.
- Contents — Generative AI Platform to Support Businesses in Creating High-performing, Original & SEO-optimized Content 10X Faster.
Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe /
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
- Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.
Francesco Beraldi
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Industrial
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
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.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Industrial
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management
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Investment focus
- Apps, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
- Alt Carbon — Alt Carbon operates as a climate tech platform.
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Nathaniel Barling joined Knowhere as Co-Founder, CEO in 2015.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Franco Fogliato is the President and CEO at Salomon Group. Franco attended The Open University Business School.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Emanuele Visconti is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Daniel Cremers is the Chief Science Officer and Co-Founderat Artisense Corporation.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Khaled Helioui is a Partner at Plural, an early stage investment firm founded & led by entrepreneurs. We invest serious time & early stage venture capital to back the next generation of iconic founders. Plural lead investors have the scar tissue & reach to best support founders & tilt the odds for them to build legendary companiesthat can have a GDP-level impact in Europe, tackle systemic risks & address opportunity gap.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
- Cardless — Cardless is a credit card company. They help brands launch custom cobrand credit card products. They handle the program creation, card underwriting, lending, issuance, and top-notch customer service, while brands focus on delivering rewards truly valuable to their superfan cardholders.Cardless was founded in February 2019 by Michael Spelfogel andScott Kazmierowicz (ex-Stanford CS / Data Science, ex-Lyft, ex-Visa, ex-Goldman) and is backed by top VCs including Accomplice, Greycroft, Clocktower Ventures, as well as founders of Plastiq, SeatGeek, Flatiron Health, and FiveStars
- Numerade — Discover Numerade, your go-to homework helper for expert solutions in Science, Math, and Economics. Get step-by-step guidance from top educators.
Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis
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Investment focus
- Video, Software, Recruiting
- Seed, Series A
- Italy
Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Idiomatic — Idiomatic believes that if you can listen to your customers at scale, you will make better business decisions. Its voice-of-customer platform helps companies do just that, by using AI to identify and track all issues and trends that customers bring up in customer support inquiries, NPS survey responses, and app reviews. Idiomatic quantifies thosegranular issues so that their clients have clear, data-driven criteria for prioritizing resources in order to improve their products or services. Beloved companies like Pinterest, Slack, Instacart, and Disney rely on Idiomatic.
- Inspectiv — Identify complex security vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposures to reduce risk of security incidents and provide assurance to your customers.
- Change — CHANGE is a platform that powers the giving economy. Brands add a button to checkout, and we do the rest. With CHANGE, brands eliminate the time and resources spent on connecting, vetting, and integrating with nonprofits. The platform streamlines corporate giving, provides real-time analytics, and actively engages the most coveted demographic withshareable content.
Henri Moissinac is the CEO and Co-Founder of dott. He previously worked at ofo UK as a Head of Business Europe. Henri Moissinac attended Télécom Paris.
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Investment focus
- Content, Lifestyle, Digital Media
- Series A
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- Upway — Upway is building Europe's leading marketplace for reconditioned e-bikes.
- Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for
over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and
Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a
leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing,
customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised
companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store
Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior
management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy,
underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless
customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing
Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had
helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as
Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had
held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in
Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he
attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced
Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish,
English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
- UNMADE — Unmade helps fashion and sportswear brands connect demand directly to production - so they become more adaptive, responsive, efficient and responsible.
- Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
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