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Top 10 Payments Angel Investors in Italy (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Italy Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Italy Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Luca Ascani
Angel
3 France, United Kingdom, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $553k–$31M
Pietro Invernizzi
Angel
2 France, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Payments $1.1M–$3.4M
Max Ciociola
Angel
2 Italy, Germany Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
Ray Iglesias
Angel
1 Italy, United States Seed, Series A Payments, Mobile Payments, Apps
Anna Siccardi
Angel
1 Italy Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Retail
Jonathan Weiner
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $800k–$60M
Nader Sabbaghian
Angel
1 Italy, France, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Calvin Liu
Angel
1 United States, China, Italy Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $1.8M–$12M
Lodovico Rosnati
Angel
1 Italy Seed SaaS, Retail, FinTech
Nick Carbonari
Angel
1 Italy, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Banking, FinTech
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Luca Ascani
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 3 investments in Italy Payments startups

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

  • 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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Pietro Invernizzi
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

Pietro Invernizzi is the Investor Stride.VC. Attended King's College London.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Max Ciociola
Angel · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy · 2 investments in Italy Payments startups

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

  • 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.
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Ray Iglesias
Angel · Guilford, Connecticut, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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.

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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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Anna Siccardi
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Anna Siccardi - Advisor & Investor @ GrowishPay

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • Algor Lab — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
  • Algor — La migliore app per le mappe concettuali
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Jonathan Weiner
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Jonathan Weiner - Venture Partner @ Oak HC/FT

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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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Nader Sabbaghian
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Nader Sabbaghian is the General Partner at 360 Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Italy, France, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • Buzzoole — Buzzoole is an Influencer Marketing platform for your social media campaigns. Find the best influencers on Instagram and Facebook to deliver succesfull campaigns with an effective impact.
  • Equixly — Equixly helps eliminate blind spots by testing your running APIs.
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Calvin Liu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer. He attended Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Lodovico Rosnati
Angel · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

Lodovico Rosnati works for Capital Markets based out of Italy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GrowishPay — GrowishPay is an online platform that enables individuals to raise money for personal causes from their social networks. Its users can raise money for births, education, birthdays, travel, parties, weddings, and more. We provive API and SaaS platform e-wallet based to enable sharing economy.Growish was founded by Claudio Cubito and Domingo S.Lupo in December 2011 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • Prestiamoci — Prestiamoci is the first community of loans between individuals born in Italy, allowing you to make profitable investment and to obtain loans with installments transparent.With Prestiamoci the providers invest and get Claimants, returning to its original role of the bank safe. Loans shall be paid by people to trustworthy people who want toachieve their life projects, grow their professional activity, better manage expenses and major purchases
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Nick Carbonari
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Italy Payments startups

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

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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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Payments Angel investor funding in Italy at a glance

Stats across 6 deals from 10 investors.

10
investors
in Italy Payments startups
6
deals
in Italy Payments startups
$23M
median round
in Italy Payments startups
0%
lead investors
lead at least one round
50%
Seed
most common funding stage

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