# Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Italy in June 2026

## Paolo Barberis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

## Fernando Diana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: News, Local, Fitness

Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews

## Massimiliano Magrini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at  Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant  appointed by  the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently  Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.

## Rosario Bifulco
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Art, Medical, Blockchain

Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A.

## Elena Mirandola
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Education

Elena Mirandola is an individual investor

## Duccio Vitali
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Freelance, Web Design, Web Development

Duccio Vitali is a CEO at Alkemy digital_enabler.

## Nicola Volpi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment

Nicola Volpi (born in 1961 in Milan) is an Italian entrepreneur and manager with a deep knowledge of financial matters and more than 25 years of experience in Private Equity. He has been Member of the Board of Directors of several companies. After graduating in Business Administration at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, he earned a Master inFinance at SDA Bocconi. His professional career started as a Financial Analyst at Sefimeta S.p.A. (Financial Services Department of Montedison Group). In 1987 he joined Sanpaolo Finance, the Investment Bank of San Paolo Group (now Banca Intesa). As Head of Leverage Finance until 1995, he structured the first buyouts ever in Italy. In 1997, Nicola Volpi was a founding Partner of Permira– one of the leading and most successful Private Equity firm in Europe and worldwide with over 40 billion euros under management. In 2005 he was appointed CEO of the Italian branch, Permira Associati SpA, and then Member of Permira Executive Committee which run operations worldwide. Under his leadership, Permira successfully executed several acquisitions and disposals of Italian sector-leading companies, such as Ferretti Yacht, Marazzi, Valentino, Sisal, TFL, and Veneta Cucine. His professional experience at Permira lasted until 2013, when he joined the luxury sports cars manufacturer Pagani Automobili Group as a direct Investor and Member of the Board, a position he is currently holding. In 2014 he was appointed by Erick Thohir, the President of FC Internazionale S.p.A., as Member of the Board of Directors: Nicola Volpi held this position until 2018, with a focus in the area of finance and strategic planning.

## Utsav Somani
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Financial Services

Looking for - Passionate founders looking to target a market with tremendous future potential and stands to be disrupted by a new entrant. Crucial that the product / service is not easily replicable and the domain expertise of the company is a deterrent to fresh entrants.Keen interest in - Clean Technology, Consumer Internet, EnterpriseSoftware, Health Care, Mobile, SaaSSkills - Angel Investing, Financial Modelling & Valuation, Information Technology, Portfolio Management, Risk Management

## Matthias Hilpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

## Nader Sabbaghian
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital.

## Ciro Immobile
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Fashion, Internet

Ciro Immobile

## Alessandro Rimassa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Industrial

Author of "It's easy to change Italy, if you know how to do it" and "Thousand Euro Generation", director of the school of management and communication of IED.

## Roberto Condulmari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Music

Roberto Condulmari is a portfolio manager at Kairos.

## Jacopo Paoletti
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Mobile

Digital Marketer, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor.

## Nathaniel Barling
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media

Nathaniel Barling joined Knowhere as Co-Founder, CEO in 2015.

## Giulio Valiante
- Type: Angel
- Location: Napoli, Campania, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video, Software, Recruiting

Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis

## Simone Cimminelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Analytics, Real Time, Social Media

Simone Cimminelli is a Founding Partner at Cimminelli Holding. He attended ESCP Business School.

## Daniel Cremers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media

Daniel Cremers is the Chief Science Officer and Co-Founderat Artisense Corporation.

## Oscar Farinetti
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Education

Oscar Farinetti is the Co-Founder & Owner of Eataly. He attended the University of Turin.

## Marco Fassone
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Education

Marco Fassone is an individual investor

## Henri Moissinac
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Content, Lifestyle, Digital Media

Henri Moissinac is the CEO and Co-Founder of dott. He previously worked at ofo UK as a Head of Business Europe. Henri Moissinac attended Télécom Paris.

## Khaled Helioui
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Software

Khaled Helioui is a Partner at Plural, an early stage investment firm founded & led by entrepreneurs. We invest serious time & early stage venture capital to back the next generation of iconic founders. Plural lead investors have the scar tissue & reach to best support founders & tilt the odds for them to build legendary companiesthat can have a GDP-level impact in Europe, tackle systemic risks & address opportunity gap.

## Sebastian Picardo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, Content, Lifestyle

Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for
over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and
Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a
leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing,
customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised
companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store
Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior
management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy,
underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless
customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing
Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had
helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as
Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had
held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in
Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he
attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced
Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish,
English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.

## Andrea Incondi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Education

Andrea Incondi is an individual investor

## Paolo Tramonti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Content, Software

Paolo Tramonti is the founder of Bios Line.

## Paolo Basilico
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, Music, Music Streaming

Paolo Basilico is the Product Manager at SIA-SSB.

## Gianni Papa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Publishing

Gianni Franco Papa

## Marco Moschini
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Content, Software

Marco Moschini

## Lucio Gomiero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Content, Software

Lucio Gomiero

## Jacopo Pertile
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Content, Software

Jacopo Pertile

## Nicolas Ott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Art, Fashion, Lifestyle

Nicolas Ott

## Jenny Lefcourt
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle,and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.

## Luca Lani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Local

Luca Lani is a Founder & CEO at CityNews.

## Francesco Beraldi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech

Francesco Beraldi

## 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.

## 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

## Federico Ghizzoni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Italy, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Blockchain

Founder & CEO at UniCredit

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe /
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment

## Andrea Dusi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Fabio Chinaglia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Accounting, Social Media, Information Technology

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.

## Emanuele Visconti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media

Emanuele Visconti is an angel investor.

## Franco Fogliato
- Type: Angel
- Location: Richardson, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Printing, 3D Technology, Digital Media

Franco Fogliato is based out of Richardson, Texas, and is the CEO and Board Member of Fossil Group. Franco previously worked at Salomon Group as a President and CEO. Franco Fogliato attended Open University Business School. Franco Fogliato has received the Certificate in Corporate Governance.

## Lucia Predolin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, Wedding, Logistics

Lucia Predolin - Global Business Development Executive @ Lightstreamer Srl

## Antonio Zaccheo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mason, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment

Antonio Zaccheo is the CEO at BIC Capital. Antonio Zaccheo attended at University Bocconi.

## Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Industrial

Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos

## Marco Valta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

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.

## Serena Granziera
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Content, Software

Serena Granziera is the Coordinator of the Communication and Training Subgroup - Environment, Sustainability, and Transition Technical Group at Confindustria.

## Francesco Zucchetta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Content, Software

Francesco Zucchetta is the Chief Innovation Officer at Serenis Health. He has studied at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and ESCP Business School.

## Lorenzo Lagorio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Education

Lorenzo Lagorio is an individual investor.

## Giacomo Trovato
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Gaming, Education

Giacomo Trovato is an individual investor