Top 10 Web3 Angel Investors in Italy in July 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Italy. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Italy. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Web3 Angel Investors in Italy in July 2025
Investor | Web3 Italy investments |
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Rosario Bifulco | 2 |
Luca Ascani | 2 |
Pietro Invernizzi | 2 |
Max Ciociola | 2 |
David García | 1 |
Marco Filippi | 1 |
Federico d'Annunzio | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Roham Gharegozlou | 1 |
Calvin Liu | 1 |
Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A.
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Investment focus
- Art, Medical, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- I-VASC — I-VASC has developed the VELEX device using new technology to treat CVI and varicose veins.
- Reasoned Art — Reasoned Art is the Italian gallery dedicated to CryptoArt. it selects the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions, and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFT.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
Pietro Invernizzi - Founding Partner @ firedrop
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
- Dimension — Dimension is an all-in-one ecosystem for product development built for a better developer experience, enabling developers to plan, build, and deploy their project in one place.
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.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- 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).
- Young Platform — Il crypto exchange italiano dove puoi acquistare e vendere Bitcoin e le migliori altcoin del mercato. Accumula criptovalute e costruisci il tuo futuro finanziario giorno dopo giorno.
Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- Toket — Toket provides user-friendly APIs & no-code tools that empowers teams with no blockchain experience to easily create NFT-based applications
- Kibo Finance — Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
I'm a committed and energetic person, fascinated by new knowledges and stimulated by new challenges. My area of interests are: Startups, Blockchain & ICO, Sharing economy, Sport, Food & Wines. Text me if you want to talk about the last DLT development as well as the best restaurant you have been in!
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Investment focus
- Apps, Blockchain, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- volvero — Condividi la tua auto, noleggia veicoli in modo semplice e affidabile. Mettiamo in contatto proprietari e conducenti per un'esperienza unica!
Federico d'Annunzio
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Consulting
- Pre-Seed
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Traent — Traent has developed an hybrid blockchain upon which we have built:- a web3 infrastructure of connected sovereign nodes, forming billions of private blockchains- a collaboration platform on blockchain, boosting organizations’ discipline and transparency- a customizable web3 new media to broadcast authentic data, facts and figures directlyfrom immutable blockchain ledgersWith and intuitive user-friendly interface and fast and predictable deployment (reducing implementation time from months to weeks)
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
- Open Social — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Pi Squared — Pi Squared enables trustless remote computing, AI, and interoperable smart contracts for any blockchain or dApp.
- Valhalla — Valhalla is a decentralized exchange platform provider that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets without relying on intermediaries.
- Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications
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