# Alessandro Sordi

> Alessandro Sordi is a grant investor at Nanabianca backing B2B and SaaS. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nanabianca](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nanabianca)
- Location: Firenze, Italy
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sordialessandro
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/alesordi
- Website: https://x.com/alesordi
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ale.sordi

Alessandro Sordi is a grant investor at Nanabianca in Firenze focused on B2B and SaaS. Alessandro studied architecture at University, but quickly moved in to the digital world. His first business was Dada, Europes leading domain and hosting business, incorporated in 1995. In 2000 Dada went public on italian Stock Exchange market and has grown to a business with more than 600 employees marketing in over 30 countries. With his businesspartners Paolo Barberis and Jacopo Marello the Dada business has generated more than one billion Euro revenues over 12 years.Alessandro was CEO and Vice President of Dada and President of Register Spa, Italy’s leading domain and hosting business. Over time he launched a number of successful online business units within Dada including Dada.net, Play.me, Supereva.com, Simply.com, Register.it, Peeplo.com.In 2013 Alessandro, along with long term friends and business partners Paolo and Jacopo, founded a new business Nana Bianca designed to help and nurture new digital start-ups. Successful start ups include Instal, Viralize Vino75, Hoopygang, Listupp, Salesoar. and Freapp.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 100% |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 100% |
| Developer APIs | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Equixly | Equixely aims to help developers and organizations create more secure applications, increase their security posture, and spread knowledge of new vulnerabilities.Equixely makes available a SAAS platform that allows integrating the API security testing within the software development lifecycle (SLDC) to detect flaws, reduce bug-fixing costs andexponentially scale penetration testing upon every new functionality released.The platform can automatically perform several API attacks leveraging a novel machine learning (ML) algorithm trained over thousands of security tests. Then, Equixely returns near-real-time results and a predictive remediation plan that developers may use to fix their application issues autonomously.The Equixely advanced platform and its innovative security testing approach take an organization's API security maturity to the next level. | $61.2K | Grant | Nov 10, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fondazione CR Firenze](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fondazione-cr-firenze) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nanabianca

VC Fund · Florence, Italy

Nanabianca is a startup accelerator based in Florence and founded by the former founders of Dada.Nanabianca in Italian means white dwarf, a small star but with very high density and gravity. We use this definition as a metaphor for our mission, to create a space with high technological density and people gravity where entrepreneurs can find allthey need to startup their companies.Startup in the space is not just a slogan, we have built a physical space in the heart of Florence where entrepreneurs can work in a startup-friendly environment.We believe that a hi tech space where ideas and business models can mash up is one of the most important element in the growth process of a startup and that this, together with knowledge, low management costs and our network, will allow us to help startups becoming successful.

5 contacts available at Nanabianca.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alessandro Sordi | Founder | — |
| Jacopo Marello | Founder | — |
| Paolo Barberis | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paolo-barberis |
| Filippo Satolli | Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/filippo-satolli-2 |
| Jacopo Sebastio | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacopo-sebastio |

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## FAQ

### What does Alessandro Sordi invest in?

Alessandro Sordi invests primarily in B2B, SaaS and Cyber Security startups, most often at Grant stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Alessandro Sordi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alessandro Sordi closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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