# Andrea Baronchelli

> Andrea Baronchelli is a seed investor at Aspire backing Information Technology and FinTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aspire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspire-singapore)
- Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-baronchelli%EF%BC%88%E5%AE%89%E7%91%9E%EF%BC%89-0979a541/

Andrea Baronchelli is a seed investor at Aspire in Jakarta focused on Information Technology and FinTech. Y-Combinator & Rocket Internet Alum. Financial and Technology background. I love finding solutions to challenging problems and getting things done. I excel at managing hyper growth products, developing and implementing tech solutions.Currently CEO and Co-Founder of Aspire. Previously EVP Lazada (Alibaba Group), Chief Marketing Officer atLazada in Singapore. I spent the last five years developing marketplace platforms across South East Asia, covering multiple roles within Lazada Group including co-founding and managing Lazada's C2C platform Lamido, setting up Home vertical in key South East Asian markets. Prior, I was part of the founding team of Lazada Crossborder Hub in Hong-Kong.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $6M–$8.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 100% |
| FinTech | 2 | 67% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 67% |
| B2B | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 1 | 33% |
| Canada | 1 | 33% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brick | Brick builds financial APIs for fintech products. They give convenience to processing end-users' financial data digitally for every personalized need of fintech companies, with data such as transaction data spanning multiple platforms across telcos, e-wallets, e-commerce, and super apps. | $8.5M | Seed | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| Pluto | Pluto is the most comprehensive & powerful corporate card and spend management platform built for MENA businesses. From small businesses to the largest multi-national group holdings, businesses such as Property Finder, Knight Frank and Swissport have trusted Pluto with all of their non-payroll spending.Pluto combines the power of gettingaccess to instant issuance unlimited corporate cards, full end-to-end reimbursements, petty cash & account payables management all within one platform. No more chasing for receipts, manually approving invoices on long e-mail threads or sharing one corporate card with several people. Pluto's enterprise platform brings control back to complex finance and accounting business processes and creates a streamlined approach to controlling your company's spending. | $6M | Seed | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Sweetguest | We manage the whole process of short-rental, giving to our clients and their guests a high quality service. We enhance our client to earn money and time. Reservations, checkin, checkout, laundry and cleaning. We deal with just about anything! |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2016 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adapt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adapt-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Better Tomorrow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-tomorrow-ventures-bebf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flourish Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flourish-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GFC Rocket Internet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gfc-rocket-internet) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aspire

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Aspire is the finance stack that helps global founders build fast and scale freely—with no minimum balance, no borders, and nonstop support. Aspire has supported over 50,000 businesses worldwide, helping them save time and money across international payments, treasury, expenses, payables, and receivables—all managed through a single, intuitiveaccount. To date, Aspire has powered over US$25 billion in payments across 30+ countries, enabling the next generation of global founders to scale without the friction of borders. Founded in Singapore, Aspire has 600+ employees across nine countries. The company has raised over US$300 million from world-class investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, and PayPal, and has been recognised as one of the world’s Top Fintechs by CB Insights and CNBC for two consecutive years.

5 contacts available at Aspire.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrea Baronchelli | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-baronchelli |
| David Harris | U.S. Country Head | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-harris-a6bd |
| Giovanni Casinelli | Co-Founder and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giovanni-casinelli |
| Gokul Jayaram | Talent Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gokul-jayaram |
| Hammad Jilani | Lead Product Designer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hammad-jilani |

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## FAQ

### What does Andrea Baronchelli invest in?

Andrea Baronchelli invests primarily in Information Technology, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Andrea Baronchelli's check size?

Andrea Baronchelli typically joins rounds of $6M–$8.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Andrea Baronchelli participates in.

### When did Andrea Baronchelli last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andrea Baronchelli closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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