Top 25 EdTech Angel Investors in Italy in May 2026
Top 25 EdTech Angel Investors in Italy in May 2026
| Investor | EdTech Italy investments |
|---|---|
| Matteo de Brabant | 3 |
| Fabio Cannavale | 2 |
| Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano | 2 |
| Matthew Lunelli | 2 |
| Massimiliano Magrini | 2 |
| Giuseppe Donagemma | 1 |
| Simone Cimminelli | 1 |
| Niccolò Colussi | 1 |
| Luca Valerio Camerano | 1 |
| Elena Mirandola | 1 |
| Giacomo Trovato | 1 |
| Lorenzo Lagorio | 1 |
| Marco Caradonna | 1 |
| Duccio Vitali | 1 |
| Loris Gay | 1 |
| Attilio Mazzilli | 1 |
| David Clarke | 1 |
| Enrico Drago | 1 |
| Gianandrea Strekelj | 1 |
| Francesco Beraldi | 1 |
| Marco Fassone | 1 |
| Federico Leproux | 1 |
| Oscar Farinetti | 1 |
| Andrea Incondi | 1 |
| Luca Ascani | 1 |
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Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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- News, Beauty, EdTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
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
Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Hong Kong
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.
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano
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- EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- 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.
Matthew Lunelli
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- EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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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- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
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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- Apps, EdTech, Banking
- Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States
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- 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
Simone Cimminelli is a Founding Partner at Cimminelli Holding. He attended ESCP Business School.
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- Analytics, Real Time, Social Media
- Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Spyn Technologies —
- READBUG —
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Niccolò Colussi is a Co-Founder of Flexitalian Srl.
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- EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
- Series A
- Italy
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.
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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- EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
Elena Mirandola is an individual investor
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Giacomo Trovato is an individual investor
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Lorenzo Lagorio is an individual investor.
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
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- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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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- Advertising, PaaS, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nexoya — Performance Marketing optimized with AI. Leverage the power of agile portfolio management. Allocate budgets by using AI technology and reach +70% ROAS
- Acadèmia.tv — Acadèmia.tv is an e-learning provision that offers online classes on cooking conducted by various professional chefs.
- Connected-Stories — Connected-Stories is the Multi agent Ai system that powers generative AI for marketing, creative automation, and personalized content at scale.
Duccio Vitali is a CEO at Alkemy digital_enabler.
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- Freelance, Web Design, Web Development
- Funding Round
- Italy
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!
Loris Gay
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- EdTech, Software, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Usophy Kids — Usophy School - Corsi Online di Inglese per Bambini 6-14 anni
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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- News, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
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.
Enrico Drago is a Chief Executive Officer of PlayDigital at IGT.
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- EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
Gianandrea Strekelj
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- EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
Francesco Beraldi
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- 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
Marco Fassone is an individual investor
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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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- EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
Oscar Farinetti is the Co-Founder & Owner of Eataly. He attended the University of Turin.
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
Andrea Incondi is an individual investor
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- EdTech, Gaming, Education
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
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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