Top 5 Publishing Angel Investors in Italy in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Publishing Angel Investors in Italy in April 2025

Investor	Publishing Italy investments
Massimiliano Magrini	2
Gianni Papa	1
Federico Ghizzoni	1
Andrea Dusi	1
Matthias Hilpert	1

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Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.

Investment focus

Software, Network Security, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Series B
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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20lines — 20lines is a website and a mobile app where users write, read and share short stories.Their goal is to connect writers and readers around the concept of free short stories. They aim at becoming the “Instagram” for short stories. On 20lines everyone can easily share their stories, from the teenagers writing their daily journal for theirfriends to the important authors who want to share the preview of their next book with their audience.
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Gianni Franco Papa

Investment focus

Publishing
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

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Founder & CEO at UniCredit

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
Series A
Italy, San Marino

Portfolio highlights

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Entrepreneur and investor. After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.