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Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Italy in September 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Fintech startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Italy in September 2025

Investor FinTech Italy investments
Luca Ascani 4
Pietro Invernizzi 3
Marco Valta 3
Stiven Muccioli 2
GianFilippo Cuneo 2
Lodovico Rosnati 2
Raffaele Terrone 2
Max Ciociola 2
Paolo Barberis 2
Paolo Galvani 2
Michele Attisani 2
Maria Scarcella 1
Andrea Pernigo 1
Luigi Belluzzo 1
Sergio Rossi 1
Luca Fabio Giacometti 1
Mariano Spalletti 1
Alexandre Campra 1
Matteo Carbone 1
Calvin Liu 1
Giulio Valiante 1
Francesco Medda 1
Lorenzo Pellicioli 1
Antonio Zotti 1
Duccio Galletti 1
Niccolo Maisto 1
Lorenzo Calcagni 1
Alcide Leali 1
Alessandro Petazzi 1
Ray Iglesias 1
Stefano Miccinelli 1
Giuseppe Donagemma 1
David García 1
Nick Carbonari 1
Francesco Beraldi 1
Marco Campagnacci 1
Andrea Dutto 1
Jonathan Weiner 1
Marco Bicocchi Pichi 1
Mark Ransford 1
Kai Hansen 1
Andrea Dusi 1
Sandeep Nailwal 1
Cristina Pozzi 1
Alessandro Mina 1
Roham Gharegozlou 1
Marco Pescarmona 1
Cristiano Esclapon 1
Fabio Chinaglia 1
Riccardo Triolo 1
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Luca Ascani Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
Pietro Invernizzi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
  • 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.
Marco Valta Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 15 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.
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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.
Stiven Muccioli Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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 Angel
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.
Lodovico Rosnati Angel
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
Raffaele Terrone Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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 enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Max Ciociola Angel · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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.
Paolo Barberis Angel · Firenze, Toscana, Italy
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.
Paolo Galvani Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Tot — Meglio di un conto corrente aziendale: scopri Tot, il conto aziendale 100% online che semplifica la tua gestione amministrativa e contabile. Aprilo ora online.
  • 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.
Michele Attisani Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Michele Attisani
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Bankaya — Bankaya is the first fintech startup in Mexico built through a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Bankaya's purpose is to empower everyone with the financial and digital freedom to break through barriers and achieve more.
  • Hastee — Hastee is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their workforce. It empowers employees to receive their earned pay immediately to increase their choice and financial wellbeing. Companies profit from the improved productivity, engagement, recruitment & retention of their workforce, with zero cost or impact on company cash-flow.Thecompany was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.
Maria Scarcella Angel
Maria Scarcella
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Andrea Pernigo Angel
Andrea Pernigo
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Investment focus
  • InsurTech, Insurance
  • Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Wopta Assicurazioni — Wopta Assicurazioni is the first Italian phygital insurtech which, thanks to a digital platform and a network of tied specialist throughout the country, was created to protect artisans, SMEs and freelances from everyday risks.
Luigi Belluzzo Angel
Luigi Belluzzo is the Founding Partner at Belluzzo International Partners.
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Investment focus
  • InsurTech, Insurance
  • Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Wopta Assicurazioni — Wopta Assicurazioni is the first Italian phygital insurtech which, thanks to a digital platform and a network of tied specialist throughout the country, was created to protect artisans, SMEs and freelances from everyday risks.
Sergio Rossi Angel
Sergio Rossi
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Investment focus
  • Banking, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Luca Fabio Giacometti Angel
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
Mariano Spalletti Angel
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
Alexandre Campra Angel
Alexandre Campra
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Real Estate, Online Portals
  • Pre-Seed, Private Equity
  • 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!
  • Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
Matteo Carbone Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Matteo Carbone, who is currently ranked as #1 influencer by insurtechnews is Founder and Director of the Connected Insurance Observatory and a global insurtech thought leader. He is an author and public speaker who is internationally recognized as an insurance industry strategist with a specialization on innovation. Matteo has advised manyinternational insurance companies and has wide experience that includes set up of industrial and commercial plans, growth strategy definition and support in the start-up of new initiatives, digital strategy development, insurance products development, channel strategy and commercial model definition, startups mentorship and M&A advisory. Before creating the Connected Insurance Observatory, he spent 11 years in Bain & Co.’s Financial Service practice.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Calvin Liu Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Pi Squared — Pi Squared (Proof of Proof) enables trustless remote computing, AI, and interoperable smart contracts for any blockchain or dApp.
  • Valhalla — Valhalla is a decentralized exchange platform provider that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets without relying on intermediaries.
  • Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
Giulio Valiante Angel · Napoli, Campania, Italy
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.
Francesco Medda Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy
CEO at scloby, father of welco, Web & Mobile Developer, I love cooking, diving, travel and change perspective
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Investment focus
  • Point of Sale, Developer APIs, Retail Technology
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Scloby — Scloby is an innovative cloud POS with advanced features suitable for any type of business.Created for shops, restaurants, bars and beauty salons, it can be customized for every need.With the Scloby Cloud POS, managing your business will be simpler, more practical and faster. All you need is a tablet or a computer and you are ready to go!Moreinfo at https://scloby.com
Lorenzo Pellicioli Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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.
Antonio Zotti Angel
Antonio Zotti
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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.
Duccio Galletti Angel
Duccio Galletti
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Niccolo Maisto Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Niccolo Maisto is the chief executive officer of ESL FACEIT Group.Niccolo Maisto attended Bocconi University.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, FinTech, eSports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Stelia — Stelia builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
Lorenzo Calcagni Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Lorenzo Calcagni is a Partner at MIP. He Attended King's College London during 2009-2010.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Perpethua — Perpetua is an Italian fintech company specializing in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (PMIs) through the critical phase of generational transition, especially when there is no clear successor within the business operates primarily as a digital platform that automates the M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) process for SMEs,connecting entrepreneurs without successors with qualified investors interested in ensuring business continuity and growth.
Alcide Leali Angel
Alcide Leali is the CEO at LeFay Resorts.
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Investment focus
  • InsurTech, Insurance
  • Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Wopta Assicurazioni — Wopta Assicurazioni is the first Italian phygital insurtech which, thanks to a digital platform and a network of tied specialist throughout the country, was created to protect artisans, SMEs and freelances from everyday risks.
Alessandro Petazzi Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Alessandro has almost 15 years of experience in the telco, pay-TV and Internet industries.As the CEO of Musement (http://www.musement.com) he is leading the launch of an online B2C platform focused on the art sector, aiming to offer a one-stop destination for info and tickets on the world's top500 museums, art exhibitions andopera theatres ("the Booking.com of arts & culture")As the Managing Partner of ON CUBED he has led a number of strategy and marketing projects for pay-TV and telco clients across the globe such as Starhub, SiOL, Nova, Swisscom and SKY Italia. He has also supported Philips, LG and Panasonic in launching OTT services on TV sets and BluRay players across Europe.Prior to founding ON CUBED, he was the MD of the IPTV & Digital Media business unit of FASTWEB, a company he had joined at its start-up. He has been featured in Cable & Satellite's Euro50 list of the individuals who have made the greatest contribution in broadband and pay-TV across EMEA.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care
  • Pre-Seed
Portfolio highlights
  • Serenis Health — Serenis is a mental health platform that provides psychotherapy with a strong focus on science & impact measurement
  • TrueScreen — Certify photo, video, screenshot, document and audio recording with legal value. Prevent fraud and disputes obtaining indisputable evidences
Ray Iglesias Angel · Guilford, Connecticut, United States
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: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
Stefano Miccinelli Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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.
Giuseppe Donagemma Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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
David García Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Nick Carbonari Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
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!
Francesco Beraldi Angel
Francesco Beraldi
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Investment focus
  • Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
  • EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.
  • AzzurroDigitale — AzzurroDigitale accompagna le aziende manifatturiere in un percorso di digital transformation per migliorare e velocizzare i processi grazie alla tecnologia
Marco Campagnacci Angel · Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Marco Campagnacci
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Investment focus
  • Software, GreenTech, Consulting
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • TAC S.r.l. — Entra nel futuro del networking con Smart Card personalizzate. Tecnologia NFC e QR. Porta il tuo Business con te.
  • Ventive Group — Ventive Group is a venture capitalist that provides personalized advice to support innovative startups and SMEs.
Andrea Dutto Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
London based professional with international experience in alternative investments ( seed VC | Small Cap PE| Real Estate| Crypto Hedge Fund| . Currently working as investment professional for Aleph Finance Group PLC a holding company based in London gathering investment and financial advisory services of high net worth individuals and institutionalinvestors in UK, Italy, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Demonstrated ability of collaborating with executive leadership to nurture top-performing businesses within competitive markets. Multilingual communicator, native in Italian, fluent in English and business knowledge of French and Spanish Languages.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Pre-Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • ViteSicure — Vite sicure is the first insurtech broker selling life insurance policies in Italy (soon in Europe) that transforms the policy purchase experience by making it simple and instant.ViteSicure offers insurance products that guarantee safe lives, because our mission is going straight to the heart of our customer, who with a great sense ofresponsibility are looking for financial security for the most difficult, unpredictable moments of life. ViteSicure fill the protection gap by identifying trigger points in the life of the target and proposing specific solutions to guarantee safe lives in under-insured markets.With an innovative user experience based on growth hacking techniques, ViteSicure bridge the distance between customers and insurance through:• Digitization of the marketing funnel • Digital Customer onboarding • Online download of the Policy • Educational Online Systems • Protection Calculator • Comparison on the need • customer relationship API • Marketing Automation • Digital Customer ServiceThe business model is based on removing the intermediation of insurance products and enabling clients to access to best tailormade insurance solutions based on the specific need.
Jonathan Weiner Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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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 250,000 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.
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Marco Bicocchi Pichi Angel
Co-Founder and Marketing Director at WIB.After a successful career as an executive at the intersection of digital technology and business with international leading companies such as EDS, Ernst & Young, Etnoteam, Booz Allen Hamilton (Professional Excellence Award in 2004) and AT Kearney, Marco has funded and has participated in founding since2008 several technology startups including Nextome named the most awesome startup of the Year by on-line vote at Web Summit 2014 in Dublin. Member of the association Italia Startup from the foundation in 2012, he has been elected to the Board of Directors and in 2014 to the newly formed Executive Committee with the delegation for International Affairs. Marco was named Italian Business Angel of the Year 2014 by the Italian Business Angel association and has contributed from 2009 to 2013 the development of the largest angel club in Italy : IAG Italian Angel for Growth. Marco collaborates with several business accelerators, startup competitions, schools, and institutions on the topics of startup and innovation.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Marketing, Accounting
  • Seed, Angel
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Nomesia — NOMESIA is one of the major Web Agency in Milan, focused onOnline Marketing for Professional Services whose aim is the acquisition of new business opportunities and new customers.Nomesia offers services relating to SEM, SEO, email marketing, website development and social media.We also give support to customers on the conversion rateoptimisation, providing them with all the necessary tools, resources and skills to achieve their goals.
  • 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
Mark Ransford Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Damisa — Highly Secure Business to Business Transactions. Smarter, Safer, and Cost-Effective Global Payments. Eliminating delays, reducing costs, and simplifying global transactions with stablecoins.
  • Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
  • Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Kai Hansen Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
  • 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.
  • Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
Andrea Dusi Angel · Verona, Veneto, Italy
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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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
Sandeep Nailwal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
  • Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
  • RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
Cristina Pozzi Angel · Verona, Veneto, Italy
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).
Alessandro Mina Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy
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!
Roham Gharegozlou Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Code — This is Digital Cash
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
  • Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
Marco Pescarmona Angel
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
  • Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
  • Holidoit — Holidoit is a marketplace to book local outdoor experiences such as horse riding, truffle hunting and sailing – or even heliski flights.
Cristiano Esclapon Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy
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.
Fabio Chinaglia Angel
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
Riccardo Triolo Angel · Torino, Piemonte, 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.
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