# Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017. ## Marco Valta - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace 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. ## Pietro Invernizzi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop ## Paolo Barberis - Type: Angel - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca. ## GianFilippo Cuneo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: SaaS, Software, Marketing GianFilippo Cuneo ## Lodovico Rosnati - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Retail, FinTech Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy. ## Max Ciociola - Type: Angel - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Consumer 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. ## Michele Attisani - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures ## Paolo Galvani - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Paolo Galvani is based out of Milan, Lombardy and is the Co-Founder of Moneyfarm. Paolo previously worked at Sardex SpA as the Chairman. Paolo Galvani attended the University of Padua. ## Stiven Muccioli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking Tech Entrepreneur and investor. The Financial Technology Report awarded him as one of the Top 25 CTOs of the world in the FinTech industry and he was selected as one of the Top 150 FinTech Leaders and Influencers in Italy. Founder and CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service startup BKN301 and founder of the VC firm SM Capital.Founder of Ventis, Fintechcompany sold to Iccrea Banca Group and co-founder of the multi-awarded SportTech startup Golee and the sustainable fashion startup KNIIT Milano. He founded Libertas, the first widely used news App in the Republic of San Marino and founded and later sold the e-commerce company Tippest. Early investor in SpaceX and Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) and Angel Investor of the Founder Institute of San Francisco, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, based in Silicon Valley, through which he invested in startups like Realty Mogul, Andalin and MallIQ. ## Raffaele Terrone - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director. ## Lorenzo Calcagni - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Lorenzo Calcagni is a Partner at MIP. He Attended King's College London during 2009-2010. ## Alcide Leali - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: InsurTech, Insurance Alcide Leali is the CEO at LeFay Resorts. ## Alessandro Petazzi - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care 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. ## Nick Carbonari - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Banking, FinTech Nick Carbonari is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman at eezylife Inc. ## Marco Campagnacci - Type: Angel - Location: Perugia, Umbria, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, GreenTech, Consulting Marco Campagnacci ## Giordano Martinelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Internet, Freelance Giordano Martinelli ## Will Neale - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). 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Prior to founding the company,Freddy was first engineer at cloud-computing startup, Bitnami (YC W13) and A16z-backed transaction analytics platform, TXN. ## Raffaele Mauro - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Hardware, Robotics 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”. ## Loris Lanzellotti - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: SaaS, Retail, FinTech Loris Lanzellotti is the cofounder of Boost Heroes attended London Business School. ## Jack Greco - Type: Angel - Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, SaaS Jack Greco ## Giorgio Tinacci - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Finance Giorgio graduates in International Management at Bocconi University in 2015, starts working at BCG where he remains for two years looking after the technological transformation projects in banking and industrial sector. Decides to leave BCG and co-founds Casavo with the support from Picus Capital with an idea to develop a tech-enabled platformcapable of operating as a market maker in the residential property market, purchasing properties in 30 days and taking a risk of finding a final purchaser. ## Alberto Mussinatto - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Alberto Mussinatto ## Andrea Giardino - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Andrea Giardino ## Pietro Menghi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance Pietro Menghi is a CEO at Neosurance. He Attended LUISS Business School. ## Giuseppe Recchi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 Giuseppe Recchi was born in Naples, in1964. He is now Deputy Chairman of Telecom Italia and he has been Executive Chairman of the Group from April 2014 to June 2017.He was Chairman of the Board of Eni SpA from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the Board of Directors of UnipolSai Assicurazioni SpA.He is also a member of the General Committeeof Confindustria (where he chaired the Foreign Investment Committee); the Italian Institute of Technology; the Corporate Governance Committee and of the Board of Assonime (Italian Joint Stock Companies).He is Chair of the B20 Task Force on Improving Transparency and Anti-Corruption.Until 1999 he was an entrepreneur with Recchi Costruzioni Generali, a general contractor active in 25 Countries in the construction of high-tech public infrastructure, spending most of his professional life in the United States. In 1999 he joined General Electric, where he held several managerial positions in Europe and in the USA. He served as Director of GE Capital Structure Finance Group; Managing Director for Industrial M&A and Business Development of GE.EMEA, Chairman & CEO of GE Italy. Until May 2011 he was Chairman & CEO of GE South EuropeHe was a member of the Board of Directors of Exor SpA.He served in several boards among which the European Advisory Board of Blackstone; the Advisory Board of Invest Industrial (private equity); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology E.I. Advisory Board.He graduated in Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He has been visiting Professor in Corporate Finance at Turin University (2004-2006). ## Attilio Mazzilli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: News, FinTech, Finance 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). ## Anna Siccardi - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Retail Anna Siccardi - Advisor & Investor @ GrowishPay ## Enrico Arietti - Type: Angel - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services Enrico Arietti ## Andrea Gennarini - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Andrea Gennarini is Co-Founder & Managing Partner at 2100 Ventures and an angel investor. ## Julien Roux - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Julien Roux ## Fabio Nalucci - Type: Angel - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Advice, Internet, Accounting Fabio Nalucci - CEO & Founder @ GELLIFY ## Serge Chiaramonte - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology Serge Chiaramonte ## Alex Paolo Legler - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Crowdfunding, Funding Platform Alex Paolo Legler ## Maria Scarcella - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Consulting, Incubators, Venture Capital Maria Scarcella ## Andrea Pernigo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: InsurTech, Insurance Andrea Pernigo ## Luigi Belluzzo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: InsurTech, Insurance Luigi Belluzzo is the Founding Partner at Belluzzo International Partners. ## Sergio Rossi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Payments Sergio Rossi ## Alexandre Campra - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Retail, Real Estate, Online Portals Alexandre Campra ## Calvin Liu - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University. ## Giulio Valiante - Type: Angel - Location: Napoli, Campania, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Video, Software, Recruiting Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis ## David García - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital. ## Andrea Dutto - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance 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. ## Alessandro Mina - Type: Angel - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Online Portals, Real Estate Investment Alessandro Mina ## Stefano Miccinelli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Pet, Gift, Retail Stefano Miccinelli works in venture capital and private equity in Italy. He is currently the Proprietario of SRM Holdings. ## Giuseppe Donagemma - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, EdTech, Banking Giuseppe (Beppe) is a global executive, who has had leading positions during last 20 years of both large corporate organizations (>10.000 people) and entrepreneurial companies.Beppe has been successful in his career thanks to his flexible mindset and hands-on behavior, in addition to excellent relationships’ building capabilities.Hisexperience entails from management of B2B business around the world to responsibility of project management of networks’ operations, from P/L management of 4 billion euros region to fund raising in Asia for a start-up company, from achieving successful change management and revenue growth turnarounds in big corporates to ensuring strategic partnerships for new emerging ventures, from developing the strategy and vision for a new business unit to opening new markets for an expanding company.Beppe always builds high performing and diverse teams to work with, leading them with high energy, confidence and ambiguity tolerance. He’s an attentive listener and an effective (public) speaker. He has a pragmatic and participative leadership style, and an excellent Board presence attitude.Beppe holds an engineering degree, a master (non-degree) in Strategy & Leadership. He is Fellow at Elis, a post-graduation faculty in Rome. He is an enthusiast sportsman, married with two daughters. ## Marco Bicocchi Pichi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Marketing, Accounting 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. ## Marco Pescarmona - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, Finance, Internet Mr. Pescarmona graduated cum laude with a degree in electrical engineering from the Turin Polytechnic Institute in 1993, and holds a second degree in information sciences from the University of Turin, from which he graduated cum laude in 1996. He also earned in 1998 an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Heworked as a consultant in the Milan office of McKinsey & Company, focusing on the insurance and banking industries. Formerly he worked in the Fixed Income Derivatives desk of Morgan Stanley in London. In 2000, Mr. Pescarmona founded Gruppo MutuiOnline together with Alessandro Fracassi, and is currently Chairman of the Board, as well as CEO of the Broking Division. Gruppo MutuiOnline was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange on 6 June 2007.