# Paolo Barberis

> Paolo Barberis is a seed investor at Nanabianca (Firenze) backing Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nanabianca](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nanabianca)
- Location: Firenze, Italy
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pbarberis
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/paolo_barberis
- Website: http://www.paolo.it
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/paolo.barberis

Paolo Barberis is a seed investor at Nanabianca in Firenze focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Paolo Barberis is the Founder of Nana Bianca. He previously worked at Presidency of the Council of Ministers as an Innovation Adviser to the Italian Prime Minister - Digital Transformation Team. Paolo Barberis attended the University of Florence.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $165k–$2.9M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 38% |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Grant | 1 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

## 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 |  |
| faire.ai | faire.ai is a data centric fintech company that provides B2B2C digital solutions to transform access to consumer credit.We built an advanced Platform to analyse customers’ financial behaviour, leveraging Open Banking. faire.ai empowers clients and partners with digital products that simplify processes. We employ Machine Learning to deliver humancentred solutions. We aim to improve customers’ lives and simplify access to credit by innovating traditional paradigms. | $2.9M | Seed | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| EPICODE | Epicode is the online career accelerator that offers training and coaching for ICT professionals and talent recruitment for ICT companies | $11.1M | Series A | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Musixmatch | 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 | $6M |  | Mar 28, 2014 |  |
| Siamosoci | Siamosoci is the directory for italian start ups. Siamosoci srl Italy provides transparency to the market of italian start ups. the new companies can list in the directory including videos and multimedia support. they can include capital request for their own financing needs.Siamosoci srl Italy facilitate the matching between local investors andthe start ups. | $1.4M | Series A | Sep 30, 2013 |  |
| Musixmatch | 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 | $2.7M |  | Mar 31, 2011 |  |
| Musixmatch | 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 | $165K | Seed | Mar 03, 2010 |  |
| Inspector | Inspector is a Code Execution Monitoring tool that helps software developers identify bugs and bottlenecks in their application, reduce time spent on reactive support and application debugging. We won't give you 1,000 dashboards that you don't know what to do with.Fix fast every release and spot new weak points in real-time as yourcode evolves. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fabrick](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabrick) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fondazione CR Firenze](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fondazione-cr-firenze) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [P101](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/programma-101) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [United Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/united-ventures) — 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 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alessandro-sordi |
| Jacopo Marello | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacopo-marello |
| 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 Paolo Barberis invest in?

Paolo Barberis invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Paolo Barberis's check size?

Paolo Barberis typically joins rounds of $165k–$2.9M at Seed and $1.4M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paolo Barberis participates in.

### When did Paolo Barberis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paolo Barberis closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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