# Top 5 Legal Startup Investors in Italy in May 2026

## 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.

## Stefano Bernardi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Cryptocurrency

Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.

## Invitalia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning

Invitalia, the National Agency for inward investment promotion and enterprise development, is mandated by the Italian government to increase the country's competitiveness, particularly in the South, and to support strategic sectors for development. Its main objectives are: Supporting innovation and growth of the productive system - support theinvestment programs of new business or already underway through a package of instruments between them complementary, capable of increasing the competitiveness of companies.

## Andrea Di Camillo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Media and Entertainment

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).

## Valerio Caracciolo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Legal, Mobile

Entrepreneur and Business Angel. Valerio Caracciolo is Vice President of the Italian branch of AMREF (African Medical Research Foundation). You He was an entrepreneur in the field of technical gases and CEO of Linde AG in France and Italy. Between 1986 and 1994 he worked at the Industrial Union of Rome (U.I.R) as Vice President of the YoungEntrepreneurs, President of the Chamber of Chemists and Chairman of the Consortium of Innovation and Industrial Research (C.I.R.I.). He also professional experience in the field of real estate development. He graduated in Physics with major in Geophysics and holds a Master in Financial Management and Business Management. He attended courses in programming computers at OLIVETTI and HONEYWELL.

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