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Top 30 EdTech Angel Investors in Italy (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Italy EdTech startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy EdTech startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Matteo de Brabant
Angel
3 Italy, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed News, Beauty, EdTech $1.8M–$11M
Marco Caradonna
Angel
2 Italy, United Kingdom, France Seed, Angel Advertising, PaaS, SaaS $1.2M–$1.6M
Fabio Cannavale
Angel
2 Italy, United States, Hong Kong Series A, Seed SaaS, Software, Information Technology $700k–$11M
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano
Angel
2 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
Matthew Lunelli
Angel
2 Italy Pre-Seed, Series A EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Massimiliano Magrini
Angel
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $274k–$16M
Attilio Mazzilli
Angel
1 Italy, France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, News $2M–$2M
Francesco Beraldi
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Pre-Seed Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech $1.1M–$3.3M
Federico Leproux
Angel
1 Italy Series A EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Vincenzo Cioffi
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed Apps, EdTech, FinTech
Jason Corsello
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Italy Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Human Resources, Recruiting $1.9M–$20M
Thomas Otter
Angel
1 Germany, Italy, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Human Resources, Education $2.7M–$11M
Umberto Bottesini
Angel
1 Italy, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Angel Marketing, E-Commerce, Customer Service $5.3M–$5.7M
Giuseppe Donagemma
Angel
1 Italy, United States Seed, Series A Apps, EdTech, Banking $219k–$2.6M
Simone Cimminelli
Angel
1 United Kingdom Angel, Equity Crowdfunding Analytics, Real Time, Social Media $39k–$250k
Niccolò Colussi
Angel
1 Italy Series A EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Luca Valerio Camerano
Angel
1 Italy Series A EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Giacomo Trovato
Angel
1 Italy Seed EdTech, Gaming, Education
Lorenzo Lagorio
Angel
1 Italy Seed EdTech, Gaming, Education
Loris Gay
Angel
1 Italy Pre-Seed EdTech, Software, Education
David Clarke
Angel
1 Italy, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.4M–$26M
Enrico Drago
Angel
1 Italy Series A EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Gianandrea Strekelj
Angel
1 Italy Series A EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
Marco Fassone
Angel
1 Italy Seed EdTech, Gaming, Education
Paolo Barberis
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Series A Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $165k–$11M
Oscar Farinetti
Angel
1 Italy Seed EdTech, Gaming, Education
Andrea Incondi
Angel
1 Italy Seed EdTech, Gaming, Education
Luca Ascani
Angel
1 France, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services $589k–$38M
Elena Mirandola
Angel
1 Italy Seed EdTech, Gaming, Education
Duccio Vitali
Angel
1 Italy Freelance, Web Design, Web Development
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Matteo de Brabant
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 3 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Beauty, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
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Marco Caradonna
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Marco Caradonna is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at BlackSheep Ventures at BlackSheep Ventures. He attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, PaaS, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoVolt — GoVolt is an innovative startup providing sustainable last mile logistics solutions. The company was born to address the challenge of mobility in modern urban centres and aims to differentiate its service offering within the market while solving a crucial issue for today’s and future generations. The company operates four separate business units:custom B2B delivery services, coroporate dedicated vehicle fleet rentals, third party micro-mobility fleet logistical management and specialized mechatronic maintenance.
  • METACASA
  • Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.
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Fabio Cannavale
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Properly — Properly is a visual checklist tool that lets property owners share turnover instructions with cleaning pros effortlessly.Properly's mission is to have hosts and property managers get the same streamlined results during every guest turnover cleaning, and for professional cleaners to understand their clients' expectations and getrecognized for stellar work.
  • Contents — Contents.com is a tech company that developed an artificial intelligence platform based on a perfect cycle of interaction between data analysis and machine learning systems that makes access to data easier for everyone. Contents.com provides integrated solutions for every online business and customer. Through proprietary algorithm-basedsoftware, Contents.com guarantees specific advanced tools for any needs: all in one unique application platform. The platform provides advanced tools with specific functions: future trends prediction, content generation, user behavior analysis, website performance monitoring, detection of website’s position in search engines, and much more.Contents.com was founded in 2017, currently, the company is present in 4 countries: Italy, Spain, France, and the UK.
  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

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.
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Matthew Lunelli
Angel · 2 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Matthew Lunelli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Massimiliano Magrini
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $12M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
  • 20lines — 20lines is a website and a mobile app where users write, read and share short stories.Their goal is to connect writers and readers around the concept of free short stories. They aim at becoming the “Instagram” for short stories. On 20lines everyone can easily share their stories, from the teenagers writing their daily journal for theirfriends to the important authors who want to share the preview of their next book with their audience.
  • AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
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Attilio Mazzilli
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Attilio Mazzilli is Corporate Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a global law firm where he also serves as Co-Head of Italian offices, Head of the Italian Tech Group and Member of the International Technology Companies Group. He specializes in private equity and venture capital, with specific skills in both domestic and cross-borderM&A transactions.Attilio Mazzilli graduated in Law from the University of Milan (dissertation on “The insurance contracts in private international law”). In 2003 he was admitted to the Italian Bar Association. In those years, he started working as Associate for “Pavia e Ansaldo” law firm in Milan. In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained a Master of Laws in Business&Corporate Law from the University of Southern California. The following year he came back to Milan to join “Chiomenti” law firm as Senior Associate. After this working experience, he moved to “Carnelutti” law firm, where he served as Partner and Head of International Development (2011-2015). Subsequently, his career continued at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he currently works as Corporate Partner and Head of the Italian Tech Group. He is also Member of the International Technology Companies Group. In 2023 he was also appointed Co-Head of Italian offices. He focuses on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, while advising startups and venture capital firms in areas including financing, corporate law, M&A, and listings. Furthermore, he works as consultant for leading tech companies, supporting their founders at all stages of their life-cycle. Attilio Mazzilli was awarded “Lawyer of the Year for Venture Capital” in the 2020 Legalcommunity Awards. His commitment contributed to several awards received by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: among these are “Law Firm of the Year 2021 for Venture Capital”, “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for M&A Small Cap” (BeBeez and PBV) and “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for Fintech” (TopLegal Industry Awards). During the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy, he collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Innovation, the Finance Commission and VC Hub in drafting urgent measures to provide financial support to tech and innovative companies in Italy. In the same period, his client Bending Spoons developed Immuni, the app chosen by the Italian Ministry of Health to track the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Over more than 22 years of professional experience, Attilio Mazzilli has taken part in many significant transactions and assisted companies the likes of Gruppo Intesa San Paolo, Cattolica Assicurazioni, Teko Telecom, Octo Telematics, and Prima Assicurazioni. He also assisted Banca Sella Holding and Fabrick (joint venture agreement with illimity Bank concerning Hype), Cerba HealthCare (acquisition of Lifebrain from Investindustrial) and Scalapay (Series B financing round led by Tencent and Series A financing round led by Tiger Global).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, News
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • Futura — Impara come mai prima d'ora con Futura. Combiniamo Intelligenza Artificiale e i migliori docenti per personalizzare il tuo percorso di studi.
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Francesco Beraldi
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Francesco Beraldi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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
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Federico Leproux
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

TeamSystem, is the leading market provider of software and related value added services for SMEs and Professionals. Headquartered in Pesaro (Italy), the company has a diverse base of 200,000 customers. It has 42 offices in Italy and employs approximately 1900 people.Federico Leproux began his career in 1996 at Procter & Gamble holdingdifferent positions mainly in operations/product supply. He held positions as Production Unit Manager and Initiative Manager, Logistics. In 2002 he moved into management and strategy consulting. For the next two years he worked at Bain & Company where he managed projects in the automotive, retail and FMCG industries. In 2004 he joined McKinsey & Company where he led multiple projects in several sectors such as Energy, Private Equity, Directory Services and Retail. He moved to TeamSystem in 2007 as General Manager and in 2009 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the TeamSystem Group.Under his leadership TeamSystem has grown from 600 employees in 2006 to over 2000-headcount, with revenues increasing from 78M Euro to ca.330M Euro expected in 2017 and Ebitda from 20 to over 115M. During his period at TS he had the chance to work with several Private Equity funds as key shareholders (Bain Capital, Hg Capital and Hellman & Friedman).He is married and, as a young man, was a successful sportsman (sailing and rowing), becoming 3 times an Italian National Champion and Junior Rowing World Champion in 1988 (male coxless four).Mr Leproux has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome and he currently sits in the board of the MIP School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Vincenzo Cioffi
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Vincenzo Cioffi works as the Chief Development Officer and Shareholder at Growth Engine. He has studied at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Finanz — Finanz is the Duolingo of money, the first free App that teaches everything about the financial world in just 5 minutes a day. By the combination of intelligent algorithms, which analyze study goals, interests and personal needs, it creats flexible and personalized study plans aimed at learning what the student really needs, regardless of theirstarting level. This innovative EdTech offers in addition to lectures, quizzes, insights, and real-time news, an extensive collection of professional video courses taught by top experts in the field, to maximize the learning and interactivity of the educational journey.
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Jason Corsello
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Jason Corsello is the Founder and General Partner at Acadian Ventures. Previously, Corsello was the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development for Cornerstone OnDemand [NASDAQ: CSOD]. Corsello joined Cornerstone in 2011, bringing more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software, market research, and management consulting.In this role, Corsello was responsible for driving innovation, go-to-market strategies and new corporate initiatives including guiding M&A, leading the company's corporate venture investments and accelerator program and overseeing new product initiatives including platform, big data, analytics and mobile.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Human Resources, Recruiting
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$7.8M; Series A $6.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pack — Pack is the people development platform that empowers HR with data-driven insights, digital assessments, and world-class mentoring & coaching. Unlock employee growth with tailored development plans, AI-driven tracking, and an international network of experts.
  • Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
  • Assembly — Assembly is a no code employee engagement platform that extends from recognition and rewards to productivity and performance management
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Thomas Otter
Angel · Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Thomas Otter runs Otter Advisory, a bespoke firm to help buyers, builders and investors navigate the weird and wonderful world of Human Capital Management technology. Thomas built his expertise in consulting, strategy and product management as - most recently - Head of Product at SAP SuccessFactors, and at Gartner as Research Vice President. He hasworked with companies from around the world, including Nestle, Woolworths Australia, Singtel, Teva, PepsiCo, Swiss RE, to name a few.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Human Resources, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6.6M; Series A $5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • become.1 — become.1 is an employee benefits platform that eliminates the complexity of tax regulations for employees.
  • Pack — Pack is the people development platform that empowers HR with data-driven insights, digital assessments, and world-class mentoring & coaching. Unlock employee growth with tailored development plans, AI-driven tracking, and an international network of experts.
  • Penzilla — At Penzilla, we believe it's time to make corporate pension provision the way it really should be - simple. That's why we offer a solution that helps everyone get the maximum benefit from corporate pension options. Most importantly, we enable every employer to achieve true corporate social responsibility with 100% compliance and everyemployee to receive a fair pension. This is how corporate pension provision works with Penzilla: Let's "Simply Provision" together.
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Umberto Bottesini
Angel · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

With over 20 years of experience in the digital industry as entrepreneur and manager Umberto Bottesini is a pioneer in Europe in data driven marketing and a great expert of MadTech with 3 exits in the field. Umberto Bottesini covered executive assignments for several international companies. He starts his career working for technology consultingfirms such as IBM and Teradata; in 2005 he held the role of manager at Fullsix Group, part of WPP Group. In 2008 he co-founded and led as a CEO Simple Agency which became in a few years the largest digital marketing agency in Italy, holding the role of Ceo until the acquisition by Dentsu, a global leader in media & communications services. From 2017 he simultaneously held the positions of Chief Data Officer of the Group and General Manager of Amnet, the business unit dedicated to the programmatic advertising. In November 2018 he was definitely appointed Chief Digital and Data Officer of the Group, position that he held till February 2020. From March 2020 is the Founder and Managing Partner of BlackSheep Ventures, the first european venture capital firm with an entrepreneurial background that invests in MadTech, namely high potential technology-based companies focused on AI, Big Data, Automation and its b2b applications for the Marketing & Advertising industry. Since 2014 Umberto is the Founder and Ceo of Qreative, a private investment vehicle that creates, identifies and invests in start-up or scale-up companies united by the same mission: applying emerging technology and deep automation to solve real life or business problems of today. He's also contract professor of Digital Communication at ALMA - Università Cattolica of MIlan.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, E-Commerce, Customer Service
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qapla' SPA SB — Track Shipping for eCommerce and other commercial activities. Reduce the cost of customer support and add a Amazon grade tracking feature on every website.
  • Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.
  • AdTonos — AdTonos is a programmatic audio advertising platform that connects advertisers with publishers. The marketplace offers multiple ad placements from well-known pre-rolls, through to mid-rolls and real-time ad replacement for live streaming. This provides advertisers with vast reach across digital audio channels, while radio stations, podcasters ormusic streaming services profit from the use of an effective tool that supports them in growing their revenues from online advertising. Brands have, at their fingertips, an easy-to-reach audience of more than 15 million unique online audio listeners from the UK and worldwide and potential of at least 200 million ad playouts a month. AdTonos is supported by the UK’s Department of International Trade, helping the company to scale globally, and is a member of IAB UK, IAB Europe and the European Association of Commercial Radios, which represents commercial radio at the European Parliament.
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Giuseppe Donagemma
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Giuseppe (Beppe) is a global executive, who has had leading positions during last 20 years of both large corporate organizations (>10.000 people) and entrepreneurial companies.Beppe has been successful in his career thanks to his flexible mindset and hands-on behavior, in addition to excellent relationships’ building capabilities.Hisexperience entails from management of B2B business around the world to responsibility of project management of networks’ operations, from P/L management of 4 billion euros region to fund raising in Asia for a start-up company, from achieving successful change management and revenue growth turnarounds in big corporates to ensuring strategic partnerships for new emerging ventures, from developing the strategy and vision for a new business unit to opening new markets for an expanding company.Beppe always builds high performing and diverse teams to work with, leading them with high energy, confidence and ambiguity tolerance. He’s an attentive listener and an effective (public) speaker. He has a pragmatic and participative leadership style, and an excellent Board presence attitude.Beppe holds an engineering degree, a master (non-degree) in Strategy & Leadership. He is Fellow at Elis, a post-graduation faculty in Rome. He is an enthusiast sportsman, married with two daughters.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lifeed — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
  • Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
  • Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per
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Simone Cimminelli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Simone Cimminelli is a Founding Partner at Cimminelli Holding. He attended ESCP Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Real Time, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Angel $39k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spyn Technologies
  • READBUG
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Niccolò Colussi
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Niccolò Colussi is a Co-Founder of Flexitalian Srl.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Luca Valerio Camerano
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Luca Valerio Camerano was born in Rome in 1963. He graduated in Economics from LUISS (Rome) and He attended INSEAD Advanced Management Programme (Fontainebleau). He is currently Managing Director at Algebris Investments where he leads a new business unit dedicated to the environment and sustainability. He is also Indipendent Member of the COIMA ESGCity Impact Fund, Business Angel for startup, and Professor at LUISS. In addition, he has the role of Senior Advisor for infrastructure, energy transition, circular economy and smart city. He has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of A2A S.p.A., Italy’s largest multi-utility company with more than 13,000 employees, a turnover of around 6 billion euros in 2017 and a Gross Operating Profit of more than 1 billion euros. During his mandate, A2A doubled its capitalization end tripled its net income. Currently, Luca Valerio Camerano is a member of the Executive Council and the Energy Advisory Committee of Utilitalia and also a member of the Council and Vice Chairman of the Assolombarda Energy Group. In the past, he developed his professional path working as CEO of GDF SUEZ Energie, Managing Director at Enel Gas, Managing Director at Camuzzi, Chief Executive Officer of Plenia and Managing Director in the Corporate Banking of Citibank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Giacomo Trovato
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Giacomo Trovato is an individual investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Gaming, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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Lorenzo Lagorio
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Lorenzo Lagorio is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Gaming, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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Loris Gay
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Loris Gay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Usophy Kids — Usophy School - Corsi Online di Inglese per Bambini 6-14 anni
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David Clarke
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$6.9M; Series A $6.7M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
  • Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
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Enrico Drago
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Enrico Drago is a Chief Executive Officer of PlayDigital at IGT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Gianandrea Strekelj
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Gianandrea Strekelj

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Marco Fassone
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Marco Fassone is an individual investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Gaming, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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Paolo Barberis
Angel · Firenze, Toscana, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$3.3M; Series A $1.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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Oscar Farinetti
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Oscar Farinetti is the Co-Founder & Owner of Eataly. He attended the University of Turin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Gaming, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Andrea Incondi
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Andrea Incondi is an individual investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Gaming, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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Luca Ascani
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$13M; Pre-Seed $589k–$38M; Series A $3.7M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
  • 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.
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Elena Mirandola
Angel · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Elena Mirandola is an individual investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Gaming, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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Duccio Vitali
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy EdTech startups

Duccio Vitali is a CEO at Alkemy digital_enabler.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Freelance, Web Design, Web Development
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
  • Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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EdTech Angel investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 7 deals from 23 investors.

23
investors
in Italy EdTech startups
7
deals
in Italy EdTech startups
$580k
median round
in Italy EdTech startups
22%
lead investors
lead at least one round
57%
Pre-Seed
most common funding stage

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