Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Italy in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Financial services startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Italy in October 2024
Investor | Financial Services Italy investments |
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Luca Ascani | 4 |
Marco Valta | 3 |
Pietro Invernizzi | 3 |
Lodovico Rosnati | 2 |
Paolo Barberis | 2 |
Raffaele Terrone | 2 |
Stiven Muccioli | 2 |
GianFilippo Cuneo | 2 |
Max Ciociola | 2 |
Nader Sabbaghian | 1 |
Alessandro Mina | 1 |
Enrico Giacomelli | 1 |
Cristina Pozzi | 1 |
Luca Fabio Giacometti | 1 |
Alex Paolo Legler | 1 |
Giulio Valiante | 1 |
Anna Siccardi | 1 |
Attilio Mazzilli | 1 |
Mariano Spalletti | 1 |
Serge Chiaramonte | 1 |
Matteo de Brabant | 1 |
Paolo Galvani | 1 |
Chris Schagen | 1 |
Raffaele Mauro | 1 |
Giordano Martinelli | 1 |
Will Neale | 1 |
Calvin Liu | 1 |
Fabio Chinaglia | 1 |
Mauro Benetton | 1 |
Riccardo Triolo | 1 |
Mark Ransford | 1 |
Sergio Rossi | 1 |
Stefano Meloni | 1 |
Kai Hansen | 1 |
Stefano Miccinelli | 1 |
Nick Carbonari | 1 |
Fabio Sbianchi | 1 |
Jan Sprengnetter | 1 |
Enrico Pandian | 1 |
Maria Scarcella | 1 |
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano | 1 |
Cristiano Esclapon | 1 |
Jean-Pierre Mustier | 1 |
Roberto Ferrari | 1 |
Andrea Dusi | 1 |
Enrico Arietti | 1 |
Pietro Menghi | 1 |
Freddy Kelly | 1 |
Fabio Nalucci | 1 |
David García | 1 |
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 — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- 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: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
- SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
- Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- 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.
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
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 — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
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 — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- SAPI — SAPI provides capital access to payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
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: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- 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.
GianFilippo Cuneo
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Marketing
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- THRON — Siamo THRON. Quelli della piattaforma unica per governare insieme asset digitali e dati di prodotto, distribuendoli su tutti i tuoi canali di comunicazione.
Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable businesses in the mobile and media space with broad experience in product, business, and content development for the digital space.
Max is founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the World's Largest Lyrics Catalog and MusicAI Company with +70 Mln of users in the world.
Musixmatch uses Deep Learning and AI techniques to provide lyrics and language data to most of music digital streaming companies.
As first mover in the mobile space Max started in early 1998 with Wireless Solutions, a multi media mobile gateway platform for delivering contents in more than 100 countries over 300 mobile carriers. He then sold his company to Dada, an italian media company, and he spent 7 years with Dada first as CEO Dada Iberia & Latam e then as EVP Mobile Services, leading a team of +100 people and +80 mln yearly turnover.
Max is the co founder of AI Labs, an R&D AI Lab in Italy active on Technology Transfer on AI.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- 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).
- Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Italy, France, Switzerland
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.
- NEWTWEN — We develop software that generates real-time embedded digital twin solutions for model predictive control and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, enhancing performance, longevity, and reliability. In essence, our toolchain creates a precise digital replica of a physical device, such as an electric motor or generator, in order to accuratelymodel the electrodynamic and thermodynamic behavior of the system across a wide range of operating conditions. We then apply our proprietary mathematical approach to exponentially reduce the computational complexity of this model—so much so, in fact, that our digital twin can be integrated into the device itself to compute in real-time, “on-chip,” as part of an amazingly fast and accurate firmware solution. By accurately predicting temperatures and other critical system parameters thousands of times per second, our Digital Twin On-Chip solutions not only provide unprecedented insight for real-time control techniques to enhance system performance, but also pave the way for data-as-a-service capabilities such as predictive maintenance, monitoring of component aging, and anomaly detection.
- Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an Influencer Marketing platform for your social media campaigns. Find the best influencers on Instagram and Facebook to deliver succesfull campaigns with an effective impact.
Alessandro Mina
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Online Portals, Real Estate Investment
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Inpoi — Inpoi ti aiuta a fare la scelta giusta. Valuta gratuitamente il tuo immobile online in pochi semplici passi con il nostro valutatore e vendi casa al prezzo giusto!
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.
Cristina Pozzi - COO and Head of Contents @ Treccani Futura
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Investment focus
- Travel, Tourism, Gift Card
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wish Days — Wish Days is an Italian holding company operating in different fields.Total 2012 turnover was $ 40 millions, 2013 turnover is espected to be $50 millions.Main areas are:- gift boxes, sold to final customers through retailes (travel agencies, consumer electronic shops, library, food retailer, own shop) with the brand Emozione3. These boxescontain a guide and a voucher through which it is possible to live an experience (night out, day spa, dinner...).- Relationship marketing. We offer b2b services to Italian companies to help them in their loyalty activities and incentive plans.- Online travel agencies (with the brand Elation.it and Finalmentevenerdi.it).- hotel customer reviews web portal (www.trilltip.com).
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
Alex Paolo Legler
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- 200crowd — Il portale di equity crowdfunding per investire nelle migliori aziende
Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis SGR S.p.A.
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Investment focus
- Crowdfunding, Social Media, Crowdsourcing
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- DeRev — DeRev is the principal Italian crowdfunding platform to fund creative and innovative projects. DeRev built a large network of relationships at national and international level and we work with institutions, brands, political parties, associations, cultural stakeholders, universities and startup incubators to help spreading the culture and practiceof sharing economy, social innovation and participative democracy. Today DeRev is the leading startup in Italy about crowdfunding and social media, with a focus on arts and culture, politics, activism and civic projects.
Anna Siccardi - Advisor & Investor @ GrowishPay
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Retail
- Seed, Series A
- 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.
- Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
- Algor — La migliore app per le mappe concettuali
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
- 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 — Futura provides personalized learning using data driven approach and modular classes that adapt to student's Individual needs.
Mariano Spalletti
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Legal Tech, Cyber Security
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
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: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- 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.
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
- News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- 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
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.
I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- DGG — Reliably deliver impressive results, thanks to a single, standardized pipeline for 3D tooling and delivery.
- PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
- Growblocks — Growblocks builds your full SaaS bowtie - letting you see your full funnel, plan & monitor performance across your Go-To-Market engine.
General Partner at Primo Space, a venture capital fund focused on the space economy. Previously he was Managing Director at Endeavor Italy and supported high tech companies at Intesa San Paolo, United Ventures and P101. Raffaele holds an MPA from Harvard University, a Ph.D. from Bocconi and attended the Singularity University at NASA Ames. Raffaeleis member of the Kauffman Fellows, the “Young European Leaders – 40 under 40” network and the Aspen Junior Fellows group. He also invested in companies such as Multiply Labs (YC-2016) and Strive School (YC-2020). Raffaele authored the books “Hacking Finance” and “Quantum Computing”.
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Sibill — Sibill is a fintech company that provides corporate liquidity management services online.
- Ecosmic — Ecosmic is addressing the issue of space debris by inventing plug-and-play cutting-edge technology that will improve collision avoidance, allowing space operators to save both money and time.
- Revolv Space — Revolv Space enables continuous data generation for small satellites by rethinking their critical components. The company solves problems by designing, manufacturing, and testing the next generation of critical components enabling continuous payload operations and full monetization of space assets.
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
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: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- SAPI — SAPI provides capital access to payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
- Dora Factory — Dora Factory is the digital infrastructure builder of the Global Hacker Movement. It creates protocols, toolings, and public good infrastructures that help open source communities and frontier tech builders to thrive.
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
Fabio Chinaglia is the Chief Operation Officer at InfoCert. Msc with honours in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Fabio’s area of expertise is the development of software applications that integrate physical devices, sensors and wearable devices with smartphones and cloud services. Fabio is also founder of Eco-Mind, a companyfocused on developing innovative and eco-friendly devices for smart companies and devoted to be the perfect partner for R&D projects and innovative “in-cloud” solutions. In Eco-Mind Fabio developed a specific competence in user computer interaction, and a fast prototyping approach to software development that has been applied in creating the first release of Eye4Flight.
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Investment focus
- Accounting, Social Media, Information Technology
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Condomani — Condomani é il social network gestionale ideato per rivoluzionare il modo di vivere il condominio. Con Condomani finalmente potrai avere il condominio nelle tue mani e gestire dovunque avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc. Sei pronto a rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condominio? Iscriviti gratisCondomanié il social network per il rivoluzionare gestionale ideato di vivere il mode condo. With Condomani finally potrai avere il nelle tue condo peanuts and dovunque gestire avvisi, contabilità, assemblee condominiali, monitorare i lavori in corso, etc.. Sei soon rivoluzionare insieme a noi il tuo condo? free iscriviti
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.
Riccardo Triolo is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner at Legacy Partners Search Fund. Riccardo attended UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Università degli Studi di Torino.
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Investment focus
- Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
Angel Investor
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
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- Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- 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.
Sergio Rossi
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- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
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- FlowPay — Open banking & payment solutions. FlowPay supporta la tua azienda nei flussi di incasso e pagamento con soluzioni innovative integrabili via API.
- Ventive Group — Ventive Group is a venture capitalist that provides personalized advice to support innovative startups and SMEs.
Stefano Meloni - Director of Innovation and Human Resources Development, Organization & QAS @ Brivio & Viganò
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- FinTech, Finance, Lending
- Funding Round
- Italy
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- 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.
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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- Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
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- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- 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.
Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings.
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- 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.
Nick Carbonari is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman at eezylife Inc.
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- 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!
Fabio Sbianchi
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- InsurTech, Insurance, Risk Management
- Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
Jan Sprengnetter is the CEO of Sprengnetter. Jan Sprengnetter attended the University of Trier.
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- FinTech, Leasing, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany, Italy
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- onyo — The future of work is hybrid. onyo provides a one-stop solution to create and ensure a healthy working environment for your team at home. We help you consolidate the individual needs of your employees, match them with products and provide an attractive leasing solution. Via a digital platform, you can track and manage the home-office equipment withone click, 100% transparency, 100% cost control.
- VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
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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- E-Commerce, SaaS, Pharmaceutical
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States
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- 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.
Maria Scarcella
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- Consulting, Incubators, Venture Capital
- Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Ventive Group — Ventive Group is a venture capitalist that provides personalized advice to support innovative startups and SMEs.
Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano
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- EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci
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- Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
- Angel, Series A
- Italy
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- 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.
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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- B2B, SaaS, Sales
- Seed, Angel
- Italy, United States
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- 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.
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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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- Italy
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- 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.
Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Enrico Arietti
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- Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
- Seed
- Italy
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- Fitex Capital — Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries.
Pietro Menghi is a CEO at Neosurance. He Attended LUISS Business School.
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- FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Italy
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- Neosurance — Neosurance is an insurtech company that provides insurers with customer insight and a profiling platform. Its platform enables the sale of instant micro-policies through push notifications. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
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.
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- Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
- Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Italy
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- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
- Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.
Fabio Nalucci - CEO & Founder @ GELLIFY
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- Advice, Internet, Accounting
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Italy
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- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Limolane — Limolane is a chauffeur service designed to meet the mobility needs of users. They offer a variety of vehicles, transparent pricing, and an easy booking process. They streamline user travel interactions and provide users with private car rentals with drivers.
- FidoCommercialista — FidoCommercialista is a team of accountants to offer tax support. They use digital technologies to save customers time and money. They provide tax advice for their clients. They respond to customer inquiries by phone, contact form, and email.
Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Italy, France
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- Toket — Toket provides user-friendly APIs & no-code tools that empowers teams with no blockchain experience to easily create NFT-based applications
- Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is the innovative DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade and manage digital assets.
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