# Top 15 Payments Angel Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## Pietro Invernizzi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop ## 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. ## 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. ## Anna Siccardi - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Retail Anna Siccardi - Advisor & Investor @ GrowishPay ## Lodovico Rosnati - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Retail, FinTech Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy. ## Jonathan Weiner - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ## 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. ## 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. ## Ray Iglesias - Type: Angel - Location: Guilford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Payments, Mobile Payments, Apps 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. ## 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. ## Stefano Meloni - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Lending Stefano Meloni - Director of Innovation and Human Resources Development, Organization & QAS @ Brivio & Viganò ## Stiven Muccioli - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## 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. ## 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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