# Giorgio Riccò

> Giorgio Riccò is a pre-seed investor in Correggio backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Correggio, Italy
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giorgioricco

Giorgio Riccò is a pre-seed investor in Correggio focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Giorgio Riccò - Head of Sales and Tech @ Carlo Riccò & F.lli

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 50% |
| B2B | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Payments | 2 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arcadium | Arcadium is a digital platform that structures, supervises, and supports amateur players in the practice of esports. They train and supervise amateur players. They provide support for participating in tournaments and training. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 04, 2020 |  |
| Swan | Swan is a European fintech and innovation leader in embedded finance. Swan’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is the easiest way for companies to embed banking features. Via Swan’s simple APIs, European companies can integrate banking services (accounts, cards, and payments) quickly and easily into their own product.Founded in 2019, the fintechprocesses over 200 million euros of transactions per month, for 60+ companies across ten European countries. Swan has over 100 employees and is led by fintech experts and experienced entrepreneurs: Nicolas Benady, Nicolas Saison and Mathieu Breton. The company was founded together with the startup studio eFounders and has received growth capital from leading VC investors such as Creandum and Accel. Swan is a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the ACPR. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 03, 2019 |  |
| Swan | Swan is a European fintech and innovation leader in embedded finance. Swan’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is the easiest way for companies to embed banking features. Via Swan’s simple APIs, European companies can integrate banking services (accounts, cards, and payments) quickly and easily into their own product.Founded in 2019, the fintechprocesses over 200 million euros of transactions per month, for 60+ companies across ten European countries. Swan has over 100 employees and is led by fintech experts and experienced entrepreneurs: Nicolas Benady, Nicolas Saison and Mathieu Breton. The company was founded together with the startup studio eFounders and has received growth capital from leading VC investors such as Creandum and Accel. Swan is a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the ACPR. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 03, 2019 |  |
| Upflow | Upflow is a software company building a payment platform for B2B businesses. The platform help companies manage their unpaid invoices and improve their cash collection by using the company's SaaS-based payment platform. In 2018, Alexandre Louisy, Barnaby Malet, and Thibaud Elziere established the company in Paris, Ile-de-France. |  | Seed | Jun 12, 2019 |  |
| Pepette | Pepette provides food products and recipes intended to serve cats and dogs. They offer organic gourmet chicken, beef parameters, and fillets of pollock developed by a veterinary nutritionist, providing customers with recipes as per the requirements of pets. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2019 |  |
| Spendesk | Spendesk is smart to spend management software designed for both finance teams and employees. With flexible payments, approvals, automated receipt capture, and real-time spend insights, finance can decentralize operational spending across the business without any loss of control or visibility. Employees benefit from streamlined expense and invoicemanagement through the Spendesk website and app.Their tool helps companies save time on spend management. They empower finance teams with visibility across the entire spending process and wow employees with a streamlined experience for all spending at work.The company was established in 2016 and is based in Paris, France. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 24, 2017 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hexa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/efounders) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AA Sons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aa-sons) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Giorgio Riccò invest in?

Giorgio Riccò invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and B2B startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Giorgio Riccò last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Giorgio Riccò closed in Feb 2020. Shizune tracks 6 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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