# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Italy in June 2026 ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017. ## David Clarke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip. David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993. ## Paolo Barberis - Type: Angel - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca. ## Joe Zadeh - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Personal Health Joe Zadeh ## Matteo de Brabant - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: News, Beauty, EdTech Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000. ## Gianluca Cocco - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Mobile Gianluca achieved two successful exits before founding his new fintech. The first exit occurred in 2018 in Italy when he served as the MD of the Italian branch of Delivery Hero. The second exit happened in 2022 in Spain when he sold Factory14, of which he was a co-founder. From 2011, he spent four years as one of the early managers at Amazon Italy,following the start of his career in strategic consulting at Roland Berger. He is angel investing in Fintech, SaaS and AI at pre-seed stage. ## Max Ciociola - Type: Angel - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Consumer 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. ## Duccio Vitali - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Focus: Freelance, Web Design, Web Development Duccio Vitali is a CEO at Alkemy digital_enabler. ## Francesco Beraldi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, SaaS, EdTech Francesco Beraldi ## Fabio Cannavale - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes ## Luca Rodella - Type: Angel - Location: Riva Del Garda, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, FinTech Luca Rodella is based out of Riva del Garda, Trentino-Alto Adige and is the CEO and Founder of Smartness. Luca previously worked at AlphaTeam.Net as a Co-Founder and CEO. Luca Rodella attended the University of Trento. ## Raffaele Terrone - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director. ## Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Machine Learning Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano ## Federico González Tejera - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Software, Travel Agency Federico González is the Founder at Radisson Hotel Group. ## Marco Di Pietro - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Advertising, Marketing Automation, SaaS Marco Di Pietro former director of Yoox. ## Diego Piacentini - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Human Resources, SaaS, Hardware Diego Piacentini has served as Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business, since February 2012. From January 2007 until February 2012, Diego Piacentini served as Senior Vice President, International Retail, from November 2001 until December 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing and, from February 2000until November 2001, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Piacentini was Vice President and General Manager of Apple Computer Europe, where he headed operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Piacentini joined Apple Computer in 1987. He held several financial management positions both in Apple Italy and at a European level through 1993. Piacentini served as Sales Director for Apple Italy in 1994 and was promoted to the post of General Manager for Apple Italy in May 1995.Piacentini holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University of Milan. An Italian national, he has traveled and worked across Europe, Asia and North America.n Senior Vice President of International Consumer at Amazon.com Inc. since February 2012. ## Marco Caradonna - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Advertising, PaaS, SaaS Marco Caradonna is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at BlackSheep Ventures at BlackSheep Ventures. He attended Catholic University of Sacred Heart. ## Marco Porcaro - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising Marco Porcaro - CEO & Founder @ Cortilia ## Giorgio Chiellini - Type: Angel - Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources Giorgio Chiellini ## Filippo Conforti - Type: Angel - Location: Florence, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Filippo Conforti is the Founder & CEO at Commerce Layer. Attended Università degli Studi di Firenze. ## Francesco Zaccariello - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising Francesco Zaccariello founder of eFarma. ## Stefano Bernardi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech. ## Francesco Starace - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries suchasUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987).In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).From 2014 to 2023, Francesco Starace worked as General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award. ## Maurizio Donadelli - Type: Angel - Location: Altino, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Analytics, Retail, Travel Maurizio Donadelli ## Pietro Invernizzi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop ## Giordano Martinelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Internet, Freelance Giordano Martinelli ## Giuseppe Donagemma - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, EdTech, Banking Giuseppe (Beppe) is a global executive, who has had leading positions during last 20 years of both large corporate organizations (>10.000 people) and entrepreneurial companies.Beppe has been successful in his career thanks to his flexible mindset and hands-on behavior, in addition to excellent relationships’ building capabilities.Hisexperience entails from management of B2B business around the world to responsibility of project management of networks’ operations, from P/L management of 4 billion euros region to fund raising in Asia for a start-up company, from achieving successful change management and revenue growth turnarounds in big corporates to ensuring strategic partnerships for new emerging ventures, from developing the strategy and vision for a new business unit to opening new markets for an expanding company.Beppe always builds high performing and diverse teams to work with, leading them with high energy, confidence and ambiguity tolerance. He’s an attentive listener and an effective (public) speaker. He has a pragmatic and participative leadership style, and an excellent Board presence attitude.Beppe holds an engineering degree, a master (non-degree) in Strategy & Leadership. He is Fellow at Elis, a post-graduation faculty in Rome. He is an enthusiast sportsman, married with two daughters. ## Nico Rosberg - Type: Angel - Location: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Logistics Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion. ## Family, Friends & Angels - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce Family, Friends & Angels ## Simone Severini - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Hardware, Software Simone Severini is the Director, Quantum Computing at Amazon Web Services.He attended University of Bristol. ## Riccardo Schiavotto - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising Riccardo holds a master degree - cum laude - in Management Engineering from University of Padova and an MBA from Colleges des Ingenieurs. He joined Rocket Internet after his MBA, working on the launch of some of the biggest e-commerces in South East Asia, like Lazada (recently sold to Alibaba). He’s passionate about developing new ideas andcreating new companies, with a strong hands-on approach to problem solving, processes and strategy. He created the algorithms that allows Lanieri to achieve a perfect fit for its customer more than 90% of the times. ## Michele Attisani - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures ## Valerio Fonseca - Type: Angel - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Freelance, Web Design, Web Development Valerio graduated in Business Management from the Bocconi University. From 2004 to 2008, he was a manager in Tamburi Investment Partners S.p.A., an independent investment-merchant bank. From 2008 to 2010, he was an associate in Ambienta SGR, an European leading company in management of private equity funds. In 2007, he founded Reale Gest, nowDoveVivo, where he is currently CEO.In 2018, he joined the Endeavor Italia network, an international organization that supports high potential businesses and promotes the economic growth of scale-ups giving access to global markets, talent development programs and capital. ## Matthew Lunelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development Matthew Lunelli ## Roberto Magnifico - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Legal, Mobile With many years of experience in business finance and international financial markets, he is a collaborator with LUISS EnLabs, director at LVenture Group and a partner with InnovActionLab. Since 2008, he has occupied himself with startups, has acted as co-founder, business angel, advisor and mentor, focusing on turnover, internationalization andcrowdsourcing. He has worked in New York, Rome and London, filling important positions at Lehman Brothers, Banco di Roma, UBS, Barclays Capital and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He was co-founder and director of companies and associations, including Business Value, Agorà SGR, Atlas Capital (hedge funds) and Business Club Italia. He has led trainings at Banco di Roma, UBS and Barclays Capital on tools and capital markets and was co-editor of publications about markets, published by Euromoney Publications. He is an alumnus of the University of Bari. ## Andrea Dusi - Type: Angel - Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, CleanTech 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. ## Niccolò Colussi - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: EdTech, Corporate Training, Personal Development Niccolò Colussi is a Co-Founder of Flexitalian Srl. ## GianFilippo Cuneo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: SaaS, Software, Marketing GianFilippo Cuneo ## Fabio Tomassini - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, GreenTech, Information Services Fabio Tomassini is the Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder, and General Manager of Risparmio Casa. He previously worked at GAROFALO HEALTH CARE as a Group Chief Financial Officer. Fabio Tomassini attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. ## Giacomo Lorusso - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Sustainability Giacomo Lorusso is a general manager Jakala ## Guido Frisiani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Software, Sustainability Guido Frisiani is a senior partner Mc Kinsey. ## Marco Bragadin - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Sustainability Marco Bragadin is a CEO of ING Italy ## Nader Sabbaghian - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital. ## Andrea Di Camillo - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet Andrea has over 20 years of experience as a venture capital investor and entrepreneur. He has worked with Kiwi I, Cir Ventures, and Principia SGR, and invested in more than 40 companies – such as Yoox, Venere, Viamente – as well as being a founder of Vitaminic and Banzai. In 2013 he launched P101 SGR, of which he is Managing Partner, which todaymanages three investment funds (P101 – Programma 101; P102 – Programma 101 and Italia 500). ## Euan Lonmon - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, B2C, Retail Long years at the helm of transport and tourism companies, (Corsica Ferries, Nouvelles Frontiéres Reseau, Stradeblu) Deep insight in european cultures and languages, have found interest and pleasure in founding, mentoring and sponsoring start-up businesses in very diverse fields.Chairman of Restopolis , sold to La Fourchette, Tripadvisor inoctober 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV. ## Loris Gay - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Software, Education Loris Gay ## Lorenzo Lato - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics Lorenzo Lato ## Enrico Giacomelli - Type: Angel - Location: Ancona, Marche, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services Enrico Giacomelli Founder & Co-Owner of Namirial S.p.A. ## Carl Tremblay - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Procurement, Artificial Intelligence Carl Tremblay ## Gianni Tagliapietra - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Sales Automation, Internet of Things Gianni Tagliapietra