# Max Ciociola

> Max Ciociola is a pre-seed investor at Musixmatch (Bologna) backing SaaS and FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Musixmatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/musixmatch)
- Location: Bologna, Italy
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/massimociociola
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/maxciociola
- Website: http://www.musixmatch.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/musixmatch

Max Ciociola is a pre-seed investor at Musixmatch in Bologna focused on SaaS and FinTech. 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Consumer | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 2 | 50% |
| Germany | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jet HR | Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc). | $5.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 26, 2023 |  |
| Dance | Dance is an e-bike subscription service where users pay a monthly fee that covers their bikes and provides an all-inclusive support package. The subscription includes a bike concierge, maintenance, and theft replacement insurance, via the company’s own hardware and software which allows for fast repairs through its warehouse and logistics setup.Through its subscription service, they want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. The company's electric bike transforms their daily commute from frustration to joy. Save time with no traffic jams, no waiting for departures, no searching for parking, and all without even breaking a sweat. Its frictionless subscription model includes a fully assembled, state of the art e-bike delivered to their door within 24 hours.Dance is based in Berlin, Germany. | $12.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Young Platform | Young Platform is a brand-new cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy and sell digital assets (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum) with FIAT money (Euros and Pounds) safely, quickly and easily! | $4.3M | Series A | May 22, 2021 |  |
| Young Platform | Young Platform is a brand-new cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy and sell digital assets (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum) with FIAT money (Euros and Pounds) safely, quickly and easily! | $3.8M |  | May 22, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [United Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/united-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2100 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2100-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B Heroes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-heroes) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlueYard Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blueyard-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Club degli Investitori](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/club-degli-investitori) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eurazeo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurazeo-com) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Musixmatch

VC Fund · Bologna, Italy

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

5 contacts available at Musixmatch.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Max Ciociola | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massimo-ciociola |
| Rio Caraeff | Chief Business Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rio-caraeff |
| Adrian Sarosi | Chief Revenues Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-sarosi |
| Francesco Delfino | API Engineer- Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesco-delfino |
| Gianluca delli Carri | Founder & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gianluca-delli-carri |

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## FAQ

### What does Max Ciociola invest in?

Max Ciociola invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Consumer startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Max Ciociola last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Max Ciociola closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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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