Top 30 Finance Angel Investors in Italy
A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 30 Finance Angel Investors in Italy
Investor | Finance Italy investments |
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Raffaele Terrone | 2 |
Jonathan Weiner | 1 |
Jean-Pierre Mustier | 1 |
Luca Fabio Giacometti | 1 |
Will Neale | 1 |
Paolo Barberis | 1 |
Lodovico Rosnati | 1 |
Enrico Giacomelli | 1 |
Ray Iglesias | 1 |
Cristiano Esclapon | 1 |
Lorenzo Pellicioli | 1 |
Enrico Pandian | 1 |
Giordano Martinelli | 1 |
Fabio Cannavale | 1 |
Pietro Invernizzi | 1 |
Paolo Galvani | 1 |
Nick Carbonari | 1 |
Luca Ascani | 1 |
Serge Chiaramonte | 1 |
Marco Pescarmona | 1 |
Simone Mancini | 1 |
Mauro Benetton | 1 |
Roberto Ferrari | 1 |
Dario Giudici | 1 |
Stefano Meloni | 1 |
Giuseppe Donagemma | 1 |
Stiven Muccioli | 1 |
Kai Hansen | 1 |
Mark Ransford | 1 |
Stefano Miccinelli | 1 |
Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.
Jonathan Weiner - Venture Partner @ Oak HC/FT
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 200,000 trade shows and conferences
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Jean-Pierre Mustier joined Tikehau Capital on January 1, 2015, as a partner, based in London, to focus on Tikehau Capital’s international expansion, whilst also contributing to the various existing businesses.Before joining Tikehau Capital, Jean-Pierre’s career was mainly focused on Corporate & Investment Banking activities at SociétéGénérale, which he joined in 1987. He held numerous senior positions in various markets and financing activities, in Europe, but also in Asia and the US. Member of the bank’s Executive Committee since 2003, he headed Société Générale's Corporate & Investment Banking Division (2002-2008) and he then took over the responsibility for Asset Management, Private Banking and Securities Services (2008-2009). In 2010, he advised various financial institutions and completed large amounts of fundraising for various non-profit institutions and social enterprises. In early 2011 he joined UniCredit, Europe’s leading commercial bank, as Deputy General Manager in charge of the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Division. He was a member of the UniCredit Executive Management Committee. He left UniCredit at the end of December 2014 and has since joined the bank's International Advisory Board.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Sales
- Seed, Angel
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Chili Piper — Chili Piper helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments with leads. Instantly turn inbound leads into qualified meetings.
- Credimi — Credimi provides digital factoring solutions for companies of various sectors. It serves customers in Italy and Europe. Ignazio Rocco di Torrepadula, Jacopo Anselmi and Sabino Costanza founded Credimi in September 2015. Headquarters in Milan in Italy.
Luca Fabio Giacometti - Chairman & CEO @ Galileo Acquisition Corp
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, 3D Printing
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Roboze — Roboze is able to engineer high performance thermoplastic polymers resistant to the most extreme operating conditions for various sectors.
- Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Italy, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.
Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy
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 — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!
Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, FinTech
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
- Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
Enrico Giacomelli Founder & Co-Owner of Namirial S.p.A.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
Ray Iglesias is the executive chairman of Ubiquity. He has deep leadership experience, having previously held key roles in several successful startup organizations. Ray most recently served as the chief financial officer for TxVia, Inc. At TxVia, Ray raised more than $55 million in funding from top-tier investors including Oak Investment Partnersand Bain Capital before helping to close the sale of TxVia to Google in 2012. He previously co-founded Prepaid Media (2005) and Clarity Payment Solutions (2000), the latter of which was sold to S&P 500-listed corporation Total System Services (TSYS) in 2004. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Law, Ray previously worked as an associate at Dewey & LeBoeuf.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Mobile Payments, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FreshPay — FreshPay is a U.S.-based company that operates a payment processing platform for digital currencies. The company was fpunded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci
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Investment focus
- Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
- Angel, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
- Siamosoci — Siamosoci is the directory for italian start ups. Siamosoci srl Italy provides transparency to the market of italian start ups. the new companies can list in the directory including videos and multimedia support. they can include capital request for their own financing needs.Siamosoci srl Italy facilitate the matching between local investors andthe start ups.
Lorenzo Pellicioli is the Co Owner at ABBAYE SAINTE MARIE DE PIERREDON.
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Investment focus
- Credit, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Credimi — Credimi provides digital factoring solutions for companies of various sectors. It serves customers in Italy and Europe. Ignazio Rocco di Torrepadula, Jacopo Anselmi and Sabino Costanza founded Credimi in September 2015. Headquarters in Milan in Italy.
Enrico Pandian is the Co-Founder and CEO of StartupGym and the Founder of FrescoFrigo. He previously worked at Checkout Technologies as a Co-Founder and President of the Board. Enrico Pandian attended the University of Verona.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, SaaS, Pharmaceutical
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Quisto — On Quisto, Ho.Re.Ca. retailers can find the best suppliers in their area and purchase 24/7 whatever they need for their business --> www.quisto.it
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
- Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
Giordano Martinelli
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Freelance
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Cosmico — Cosmico is the place where we relate the projects of organizations with the skills of talents. Let's reinvent the job market together.
- Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
Pietro Invernizzi is the Investor Stride.VC. Attended King's College London.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- Typedream — Use AI to help you plan, visualize, and build your website. Generate wireframes & copywriting for marketing websites in minutes with Typedream's AI Website Builder, then edit, customize, and publish your site with our powerful website editor
- Dimension — Dimension is an all-in-one ecosystem for product development built for a better developer experience, enabling developers to plan, build, and deploy their project in one place.
Paolo believes that no industry is safe from either the possibility or the reality of technological disruption. Having observed financial services lagging behind other industries, he saw an opportunity to rethink old models and reinvent the role of the wealth manager. With this in mind, he co-founded Moneyfarm to deliver digital solutions thatcould protect and grow wealth over time. Prior to Moneyfarm, Paolo co-founded prestiamoci.it, working in financial technology before it became known as FinTech. As the former CEO of Sella Capital Management SGR and the Deputy Head of the Private Banking unit, Paolo also brings a wealth of experience from both the asset management and investment banking industries.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
Nick Carbonari is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman at eezylife Inc.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
- eezylife Inc. — A proactive life navigator dedicated to maximizing your life by bringing you personalized solutions based on your character, mood and preferences – enjoy more and share your experiences!
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 — 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.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
Serge Chiaramonte
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
Mr. Pescarmona graduated cum laude with a degree in electrical engineering from the Turin Polytechnic Institute in 1993, and holds a second degree in information sciences from the University of Turin, from which he graduated cum laude in 1996. He also earned in 1998 an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Heworked as a consultant in the Milan office of McKinsey & Company, focusing on the insurance and banking industries. Formerly he worked in the Fixed Income Derivatives desk of Morgan Stanley in London. In 2000, Mr. Pescarmona founded Gruppo MutuiOnline together with Alessandro Fracassi, and is currently Chairman of the Board, as well as CEO of the Broking Division. Gruppo MutuiOnline was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange on 6 June 2007.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Finance, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
Simone Mancini currently works as CEO and Co-Founder of Scalapay. He previously worked at Prospa. as Product Manager of New Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- QisstPay — QisstPay makes eCommerce easier by allowing you to better convert customers with a seamless checkout experience. You can add and test any payment method; payment processors, BNPL, Crypto, Financing, and more.
Mauro Benetton - Chairman @ The Boston Consulting Group
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Investment focus
- Credit, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Credimi — Credimi provides digital factoring solutions for companies of various sectors. It serves customers in Italy and Europe. Ignazio Rocco di Torrepadula, Jacopo Anselmi and Sabino Costanza founded Credimi in September 2015. Headquarters in Milan in Italy.
Author of the book: Fintech Era (2017), L’Era del FinTech (2016, F.Angeli).
FinTech and digital banking thought leader: Listed in WSJ’s Financial News 2016 and 2015 Top40 Fintech powerpeople in Europe, and in 2017, 2016 and 2015 Power 50 digital banker in European digital financial services from Digital Banking Club London.Scaled up and turnedaround to profit CheBanca!, best digital bank in Italy and one of the most successful challenger banks worldwide. First bank in Europe to launch a BTC Robo-Advisor.
From Procter & Gamble school (former P&G EMEA Mktg director).Wide International senior executive experience across markets, with focus on growth, business innovation digital transformation and marketing.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.
Dario Giudici is the Co-founder, President & CEO of SiamoSoci-Mamacrowd. Graduated in Banking, Finance and Insurance, Dario has accumulated 18 years of experience as Private Banker. In 2011, with other 7 bankers and entrepreneurs, he founded SiamoSoci with the mission of enabling private investors to access investments in support of innovativestartups. He previously worked at Banca Esperia as Private Banker. He attended Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Siamosoci — Siamosoci is the directory for italian start ups. Siamosoci srl Italy provides transparency to the market of italian start ups. the new companies can list in the directory including videos and multimedia support. they can include capital request for their own financing needs.Siamosoci srl Italy facilitate the matching between local investors andthe start ups.
Stefano Meloni - Director of Innovation and Human Resources Development, Organization & QAS @ Brivio & Viganò
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Lending
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- SardexPay — SardexPay provides a commercial credit system designed for professionals and companies. It enables companies, freelancers, and associations to exchange goods and services on an online platform via a complementary currency. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Serramanna, Sardinia.
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
- Apps, EdTech, Banking
- Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Life Based Value — 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 is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
- 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
Tech Entrepreneur and investor. The Financial Technology Report awarded him as one of the Top 25 CTOs of the world in the FinTech industry and he was selected as one of the Top 150 FinTech Leaders and Influencers in Italy. Founder and CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service startup BKN301 and founder of the VC firm SM Capital.Founder of Ventis, Fintechcompany sold to Iccrea Banca Group and co-founder of the multi-awarded SportTech startup Golee and the sustainable fashion startup KNIIT Milano. He founded Libertas, the first widely used news App in the Republic of San Marino and founded and later sold the e-commerce company Tippest. Early investor in SpaceX and Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) and Angel Investor of the Founder Institute of San Francisco, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, based in Silicon Valley, through which he invested in startups like Realty Mogul, Andalin and MallIQ.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Italy, San Marino
Portfolio highlights
- BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- Ventis — Acquista online abbigliamento per uomo, donna e bambino, arredamento, beauty e gourmet su Ventis. Approfitta delle offerte con la garanzia di pagamenti comodi e sicuri.
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
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 is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
- Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings.
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Investment focus
- Pet, Gift, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Kippy — Pet owners deal with 2 main issues: every year millions of pets are lost; pets are thought to have become increasingly overweight, with higher risk of arthritis, diabetes and heart diseases development. We create the most advanced GPS and Activity Monitor for pets to keep them safe, healthy and to strengthen our relationship with them.
- Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
- The WishList — The Wishlist is a unique Italian company, which introduced the concept of gift box applied to objects rather than experiences.
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