Top 20 Mobile Angel Investors in Italy (May 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Legal, Mobile
Stage:Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Round size: Seed $32k–$321k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

NetLex — NetLex is a cloud-based legal practice management software and SaaS for the law firm and lawyers. It also offers legal information management products and services for commercial law firms and in-house lawyers. Currently developing and serving the Italian market, with approximately 250,000 lawyers. This allows the legal profession to finally reachproductivity and client servicing levels unthinkable before.Netlex was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Velletri, RM, Italy.

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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.

Investment focus

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.

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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!

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Blockchain, Mobile Apps
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

Volvero — Drive the power of sharing with Volvero. Set up an account in minutes and start sharing vehicles with our community of users.

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Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
Viceversa — Viceversa provides capital to European digital businesses to support companies in sustainable and ethical growth. The company was founded in 2021 and has locations in Milan and Dublin.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Legal, Mobile
Stage:Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

NetLex — NetLex is a cloud-based legal practice management software and SaaS for the law firm and lawyers. It also offers legal information management products and services for commercial law firms and in-house lawyers. Currently developing and serving the Italian market, with approximately 250,000 lawyers. This allows the legal profession to finally reachproductivity and client servicing levels unthinkable before.Netlex was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Velletri, RM, Italy.

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Mario Mariani - Partner @ United Ventures

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

marinanow — With Marinanow you can hire boats and rent berths throughout Europe. Book your next adventure online in only a few clicks of a mouse!
AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.

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Matteo Riffeser is the Founder of Tate.

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Wireless
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Wiman — Find all the Free WiFi hotspots available in your travel destination and elsewhere in the world.

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Bonnet joined BlaBlaCar in 2017 following a leadership role at Apple, where he spent more than a decade as a software engineer manager. In 2012, he made the move from Paris to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, leading the Operating System teams charged with the development of iCloud. Bonnet joined Apple in 2004 as an engineer afterearning a master’s degree in engineering from École Polytechnique and Telecom ParisTech.

Investment focus

Industry: CRM, Pet, Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: France, Italy, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
Crew.work — All-in-one recruiting platform that helps you hire the A players your moonshot mission needs.
Commune —

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Fabio Pezzotti is the Founder and CEO at Iconium.

Investment focus

Industry: iOS, Mobile, Hospitality
Stage:Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Cibando — Cibando is an iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, EdTech, Banking
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $214k–$2.6M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

Life Based Value — Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%.
Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
Linko Inc. — Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per

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Nick Carbonari is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman at eezylife Inc.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.
eezylife Inc. — A proactive life navigator dedicated to maximizing your life by bringing you personalized solutions based on your character, mood and preferences – enjoy more and share your experiences!

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Alberto Cresto is the General Partner at Lunar Ventures.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Teta — Design subscriptions for everyone.

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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

Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Cloud Computing
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

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.
AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

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I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 32
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $14M–$24M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

DGG — 3D production teams rely on RapidCompacts speed, quality, and scalability to meet the growing demand for 3D content.
Giskard — Deliver AI products, better & faster. Deploy automated tests to eliminate regression and biases. Collaborate faster with feedback from business stakeholders and more.
Growblocks — Manage your Revenue Engine with Growblocks - one connected RevOps platform giving you insight from traffic to churn.

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Ray Iglesias is the executive chairman of Ubiquity. He has deep leadership experience, having previously held key roles in several successful startup organizations. Ray most recently served as the chief financial officer for TxVia, Inc. At TxVia, Ray raised more than $55 million in funding from top-tier investors including Oak Investment Partnersand Bain Capital before helping to close the sale of TxVia to Google in 2012. He previously co-founded Prepaid Media (2005) and Clarity Payment Solutions (2000), the latter of which was sold to S&P 500-listed corporation Total System Services (TSYS) in 2004. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Law, Ray previously worked as an associate at Dewey & LeBoeuf.

Investment focus

Industry: Payments, Mobile Payments, Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Italy, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

FreshPay — FreshPay is a U.S.-based company that operates a payment processing platform for digital currencies. The company was fpunded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Satispay — Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS. Satispay is able to process all payments with a structural cost advantage by connecting directly tothe consumer and merchant bank accounts. As a result, consumers can pay friends and stores without any charges while merchants can finally accept payments with a cost-effective, convenient, and easy-to-use solution.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Milan, Lombardy.

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Jonathan Weiner - Venture Partner @ Oak HC/FT

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 52
Round size: Seed $800k–$21M; Series A $2.4M–$25M; Series B $9.5M–$60M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kompliant — Kompliant’s configurable, purpose-built workflow is fully integrated with best-in-class data providers to address the entire compliance lifecycle through embedded compliance management.
FairPlay — The first Fairness-as-a-Service solution for fair lending compliance. Assess your automated decisioning models in minutes to increase fairness and profits.
Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

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Francesco Zaccariello founder of eFarma.

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.
Hale — Hale is the digital solution supporting people with genito-pelvic pain, helping them live better with their condition. Download our app now!

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Marco Di Pietro former director of Yoox.

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Software, Advertising
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.

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Marco Porcaro - CEO & Founder @ Cortilia

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, Advertising
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Italy

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

TextYess — Increase your eCommerce Retention with a Frictionless Experience.

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