Top 5 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Italy (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Luca Ascani
Angel
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2 | France, United Kingdom, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $553k–$31M |
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Max Ciociola
Angel
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2 | Italy, Germany | Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, FinTech, Consumer | |
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Pietro Invernizzi
Angel
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2 | France, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Payments | $1.1M–$3.4M |
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David García
Angel
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1 | United States, Italy, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $15k–$4.5M |
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Calvin Liu
Angel
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1 | United States, China, Italy | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $1.8M–$12M |
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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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $553k–$5M; Series A $3.8M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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).
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
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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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Pietro Invernizzi is the Investor Stride.VC. Attended King's College London.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncapped — Uncapped is a provider of revenue-based financing that enables founders to raise growth capital without interest or equity.
- Typedream — Everything you need to create and sell online - websites, link in bios, forms, blogs, and payments - in one simple creators tool.
- 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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $15k–$15k
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
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 the innovative DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade and manage digital assets.
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, China, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ironblocks — Ironblocks is a cybersecurity solution that protects contracts with a tailor-made coverage suit.
- Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.
- Argus Labs — Argus is a game developer and publisher built around a collective of hackers and designers in pursuit of the next great paradigm shift in the video game industry. Our mission: Build the Internet of Games.
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