# Top 45 Finance Angel Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## Raffaele Terrone - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director. ## Enrico Giacomelli - Type: Angel - Location: Ancona, Marche, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Accounting Enrico Giacomelli Founder & Co-Owner of Namirial S.p.A. ## Fabio Cannavale - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes ## Simone Mancini - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Simone Mancini currently works as CEO and Co-Founder of Scalapay. He previously worked at Prospa. as Product Manager of New Ventures. ## Alberto Mussinatto - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Alberto Mussinatto ## Andrea Gennarini - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Andrea Gennarini is Co-Founder & Managing Partner at 2100 Ventures and an angel investor. ## Jean Pierre Mustier - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Sales Jean Pierre Mustier is the current Chief Executive Officer of Atos. He previously worked at UniCredit as a Chief Executive Officer. ## Nick Carbonari - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Banking, FinTech Nick Carbonari is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman at eezylife Inc. ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Will Neale - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor. ## Stefano Meloni - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Lending Stefano Meloni - Director of Innovation and Human Resources Development, Organization & QAS @ Brivio & Viganò ## Paolo Galvani - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Paolo Galvani is based out of Milan, Lombardy and is the Co-Founder of Moneyfarm. Paolo previously worked at Sardex SpA as the Chairman. Paolo Galvani attended the University of Padua. ## Mauro Benetton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Credit, FinTech, Finance Mauro Benetton - Chairman @ The Boston Consulting Group ## Vincenzo Cioffi - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, EdTech, FinTech Vincenzo Cioffi works as the Chief Development Officer and Shareholder at Growth Engine. He has studied at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. ## Vito Lomele - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Finance Vito Lomele is the Founder at Jobrapido. ## Serge Chiaramonte - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology Serge Chiaramonte ## Giorgio Tinacci - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Finance Giorgio graduates in International Management at Bocconi University in 2015, starts working at BCG where he remains for two years looking after the technological transformation projects in banking and industrial sector. Decides to leave BCG and co-founds Casavo with the support from Picus Capital with an idea to develop a tech-enabled platformcapable of operating as a market maker in the residential property market, purchasing properties in 30 days and taking a risk of finding a final purchaser. ## Mark Ransford - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Angel Investor ## Freddy Kelly - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech Freddy Kelly is the CEO and co-founder of Credit Kudos, the consumer-first, transparent consumer credit bureau. Credit Kudos uses Open Banking to allow lenders to accurately measure consumer risk, increasing acceptances whilst reducing default rate. Freddy has a background in Computer Science and Machine Learning. Prior to founding the company,Freddy was first engineer at cloud-computing startup, Bitnami (YC W13) and A16z-backed transaction analytics platform, TXN. ## Dario Giudici - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Finance, Crowdfunding, Financial Services 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. ## Paolo Barberis - Type: Angel - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca. ## Lorenzo Pellicioli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Credit, FinTech, Finance Lorenzo Pellicioli is the Co Owner at ABBAYE SAINTE MARIE DE PIERREDON. ## Giuseppe Recchi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 Giuseppe Recchi was born in Naples, in1964. He is now Deputy Chairman of Telecom Italia and he has been Executive Chairman of the Group from April 2014 to June 2017.He was Chairman of the Board of Eni SpA from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the Board of Directors of UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA.He is also a member of the General Committeeof Confindustria (where he chaired the Foreign Investment Committee); the Italian Institute of Technology; the Corporate Governance Committee and of the Board of Assonime (Italian Joint Stock Companies).He is Chair of the B20 Task Force on Improving Transparency and Anti-Corruption.Until 1999 he was an entrepreneur with Recchi Costruzioni Generali, a general contractor active in 25 Countries in the construction of high-tech public infrastructure, spending most of his professional life in the United States. In 1999 he joined General Electric, where he held several managerial positions in Europe and in the USA. He served as Director of GE Capital Structure Finance Group; Managing Director for Industrial M&A and Business Development of GE.EMEA, Chairman & CEO of GE Italy. Until May 2011 he was Chairman & CEO of GE South EuropeHe was a member of the Board of Directors of Exor SpA.He served in several boards among which the European Advisory Board of Blackstone; the Advisory Board of Invest Industrial (private equity); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology E.I. Advisory Board.He graduated in Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He has been visiting Professor in Corporate Finance at Turin University (2004-2006). ## Michele Attisani - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures ## Ray Iglesias - Type: Angel - Location: Guilford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Payments, Mobile Payments, Apps 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. ## Stiven Muccioli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking 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. ## Cristiano Esclapon - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: Finance, Automotive, Smart Home Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci ## Lorenzo Calcagni - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Lorenzo Calcagni is a Partner at MIP. He Attended King's College London during 2009-2010. ## Julien Roux - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Julien Roux ## Andrea Giardino - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Andrea Giardino ## Enrico Pandian - Type: Angel - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech 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. ## Giordano Martinelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Internet, Freelance Giordano Martinelli ## Luca Fabio Giacometti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Internet, 3D Printing Luca Fabio Giacometti - Chairman & CEO @ Galileo Acquisition Corp ## Luca Rodella - Type: Angel - Location: Riva Del Garda, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, FinTech Luca Rodella is based out of Riva del Garda, Trentino-Alto Adige and is the CEO and Founder of Smartness. Luca previously worked at AlphaTeam.Net as a Co-Founder and CEO. Luca Rodella attended the University of Trento. ## Stefano Miccinelli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Pet, Gift, Retail Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings. ## Giuseppe Lacerenza - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Finance Partner at Keen Venture Partners focused on Defence and Security Tech. Former Managing Director at Slimmer Venture Studio and former Manager @ McKinsey & Company. Angel Investor and Entrepreneur, Founder of TourScanner and Smartway ## Jonathan Weiner - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ## Giuseppe Donagemma - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, EdTech, Banking 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. ## Marco Pescarmona - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, Finance, Internet 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. ## Pietro Invernizzi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop ## Kai Hansen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com ## Attilio Mazzilli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, News 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). ## Lodovico Rosnati - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Retail, FinTech Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy. ## Roberto Ferrari - Type: Angel - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services 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. ## Niccolo Maisto - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Gaming, FinTech Niccolo Maisto is the chief executive officer of ESL FACEIT Group.Niccolo Maisto attended Bocconi University.