Top 10 Music Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Music startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Music Startup Investors in Italy in January 2026

Investor	Music Italy investments
VAM Investments	4
Paolo Barberis	3
Pi Campus	2
Rancilio Cube	2
P101	1
Paolo Basilico	1
United Ventures	1
Matthias Hilpert	1
CDP Venture Capital	1
UniCredit	1

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VAM Investments is a private equity company focused on growth and buyout investments.

Investment focus

Fashion, Music, Dental
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Slam — Sail beyond the horizon with SLAM: high-quality technical sailing apparel, tested by athletes and experienced sailors.
Soundreef — Soundreef ltd is an Independent Management Entity (EU Directive 2014/26/EU) listed in the Intellectual Property Office in the United Kingdom and can operate throughout Europe including Spain. Soundreef was founded to offer a viable alternative to the traditional Collective Management Organisation by combining innovative technology withpersonal customer service. Soundreef manages the rights of over 25,000 authors and publishers worldwide rewarding them with the fair, transparent and quick payment they deserve for the use of their musical works. Business users such as radio and tv broadcasters, digital service providers, live event organisers, theatres and cinemas, business establishments and music labels can obtain a mandatory license for the use of musical works managed by Soundreef.Soundreef ltd is incorporated in U.K. and owned by Soundreef S.p.A. , a company incorporated in Italy. Soundreef S.p.A. is the company that develops the technology and the content management platform used by Soundreef ltd to audit, collect and maximize royalties for Soundreef authors and publishers. The company process billions of transactions with a focus to improve data security and efficiency in the music industry.Soundreef S.p.A. controls also 100% of Soundreef publishing srl and 100% of Soundreef Media Services srl.
Supermoney — Supermoney is an online broker which helps to compare costs of electricity and gas.

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

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.

Pi Campus is a startup district and a venture fund that invests in talent. We provide startups with money, mentorship and the best work environment for growth.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Loquis — La prima piattaforma per ascoltare e raccontare il mondo tramite podcast geolocalizzati
Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from brokers across the nation.
FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Toduba — Toduba is a digitalization company that provides shopping vouchers, food stamps, gift cards, and travel expense management.
Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.

Paolo Basilico is the Product Manager at SIA-SSB.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Music Streaming
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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

We are an independent Venture Capitalfirm supporting visionary entrepreneurs toreinvent industries through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Akamas — Akamas uses advanced application-aware AI to optimize performance, reduce cloud costs, and ensure reliability
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
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CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.