Best Crowdfunding Companies in Italy
The 97 best Crowdfunding companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BacktoWork.
Italy's Crowdfunding sector gets a proper ranking here, 97 companies tracked, sorted by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. Total disclosed capital across the directory sits at $162M, and BacktoWork alone accounts for $118M of that, which tells you something about how concentrated this market still is. Mamacrowd follows at $18M, Treedom at $14M, then a sharp drop to the single digits. No unicorns yet, but the trajectory is real: the global crowdfunding market was valued at roughly $1.4B in 2022 and is forecast to reach $6.7B by 2031, a 15.82% CAGR that makes Italy's current scale look like early innings.
So what's moving the needle right now? Hot themes this quarter are charity transparency, online fundraising, and ethical philanthropy, and you can feel that in how platforms are positioning. Covenant House's rebranding push is a good read on how mission-driven campaigns are sharpening their donor narrative, while the TikTok-fueled Spirit Airlines pledge drive shows social media compressing the distance between viral moment and funding action. I'd watch how Italian platforms respond to both signals. Fraud and cybersecurity risk remain the structural drag worth monitoring, especially as retail participation grows.
Ranked: Best Crowdfunding companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BacktoWork Equity-based crowdfunding platform | $118M | 80 mo ago | Acquired | Alberto Bassi Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | PleskZohoPHP+12 | — |
| 2 | Mamacrowd Equity crowdfunding platform for startups | $18M | 30 mo ago | Series A | Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano Co-Founder | 2014 | SentryMUIJSS+17 | 1 job opening · 2 expansions · 1 award |
| 3 | Treedom Online platform for farmers and to increase carbon credits and obtain financial linkage | $14M | 33 mo ago | Series A | Tommaso Speroni Co-Founder | 2010 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+26 | 1 partnership |
| 4 | BlockInvest Provider of asset tokenization solutions | $5M | 2 mo ago | Series A | Lorenzo Rigatti Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | 1 internship |
| 5 | ClubDealOnline Crowdfunding platform that connects entrepreneurs with investors seeking to equity investments | $2M | 32 mo ago | Seed | Antonio Chiarello Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | 2 partnerships |
| 6 | DeRev A social enterprise that facilitates donation based crowdfunding for change. | $2M | 147 mo ago | Series B | Roberto Esposito Chief Executive Officer | 2012 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+35 | — |
| 7 | Ener2Crowd Crowdfunding platform for energy projects | $1M | 34 mo ago | Seed | Giorgio Mottironi Co-Founder | 2018 | PleskPHPLeaflet+30 | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 8 | Recrowd Crowdfunding platform focused on real estate projects | $461K | 34 mo ago | Seed | — | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 9 | Tip Ventures Crowdfunding platform for startups | $353K | 96 mo ago | Deadpooled | Matteo Masserdotti Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 10 | Bookabook Online pre-order based crowdfunding platform for books | $318K | 63 mo ago | Funding Raised | Tomaso Greco Co-Founder | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+39 | — |
| 11 | CrowdChicken White label crowdfunding solutions | $224K | 108 mo ago | Deadpooled | Marcello Coppa Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 12 | Equinvest Italy-based equity crowdfudnding platform | $170K | 128 mo ago | Deadpooled | Dario Giudice Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 13 | InfinityPad Decentralized fundraising platform | $100K | 56 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
Top 12 Crowdfunding companies in Italy
#1
Series A · Milano, Umbria · founded 2018 · 20 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Provider of asset tokenization solutions. It offers an AI and blockchain-based, zero-code platform. It enables users to transform real assets into tokens and helps in the management and exchange of tokens. Users can monitor their investments in real-time via the platform tracking system.
- Apr 2026Series A$4.7M
- May 2024Seed—
#2
Series A · Milano, Umbria · founded 2014$18.4Mraised▾
Equity crowdfunding platform for startups. All the startups listed on the platform are pre-selected from the expert partner network. Investors can view the listed startups and there is no minimum capital requirement for the investment. Investors will also get benefits from tax relief for investments in the startups.
- Dec 2023Series A$4.4M
- Jul 2023Series A$14M
#3
Series A · Florence, Tuscany · founded 2010 · 142 employees$14.4Mraised▾
Online platform for farmers and businesses to increase carbon credits and obtain financial linkage. The platform connects farmers and businesses and assists them in obtaining financial capital for running agroforestry plantations. The businesses can get a plantation tagged in the name of their company and can reduce their carbon footprint. Photographs of the planted trees are uploaded by the farmers on the platform. The platform can also be used by individual users to reabsorb carbon emissions. Users or businesses can choose among the various agroforestry projects listed on the platform.
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)$429.9K
- Sep 2021Series A$11.7M
- Mar 2017Seed$2.7M
#4
Acquired · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2012 · 29 employees$118.3Mraised▾
Equity-based crowdfunding platform. Platform is for startups, SMEs, and real estate projects. Users can invest in multiple sectors in exchange for shares in the company. Offers campaign management, analysis, and marketing solutions to users.
- Oct 2019Series B$4.4M
- Jun 2019Series B$113.9M
#5
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2016 · 19 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Crowdfunding platform that connects entrepreneurs with investors seeking to equity investments
- Oct 2023Seed$1.6M
#6
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2018 · 24 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Crowdfunding platform for energy projects. Companies submit their projects and projects are posted online after the validation from the platform. Investors invest in the projects in exchange for a fixed return paid after a set duration of time.
- Aug 2023Seed$1.3M
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$195.1K
#7
Seed · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2008 · 16 employees$461.4Kraised▾
Crowdfunding platform focused on real estate projects. The company offers a platform to invest in real estate projects. It allows private investors to participate in a project to obtain remuneration.
- Aug 2023Seed$461.4K
- Sep 2021Seed—
#8
Series B · Naples, Campania · founded 2012 · 15 employees$1.6Mraised▾
De-Rev is a donation based crowdfunding platform from Italy. The portal brings together project owners that want to bring about a change in society and donors that wish to back projects. The portal works on a campaign based model and offers fixed and flexible funding. De-Rev charges a commission of 5% on successful campaigns and 9% on flexible campaigns that were unsuccessful for raising funds.
- Mar 2014Series B—
- Aug 2012Seed$1.6M
#9
Funding Raised · Milano, Umbria · founded 2014 · 7 employees$318.2Kraised▾
Bookabook is an online pre-order based crowdfunding platform for books. All the projects are pre-vetted by the editors before publishing on the platform. The project will be completed only if it gets more than 50 pre-orders. Bookabook is also a publishing agency which edits and publishes the book, and the authors earn 10% on copies sold during the campaign.
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$318.2K
#10
Deadpooled · Brescia, Lombardy · founded 2013 · 4 employees$352.5Kraised▾
200crowd is an equity-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Companies can post the projects after the approval of the platform. Investors invest in the project in exchange for a share in the company. The minimum investment amount is € 500. The companies offer rewards related to the projects to the investors after the completion of the campaign. The investors get an early access to the products and services of the platform. The platform follows "All or nothing" model of fundraising. The company earns a commission on the total raised funds from successful campaigns.
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$120.5K
- Nov 2017Seed—
#11
Seed · Italy · founded 2021 · 6 employees$100Kraised▾
Decentralized fundraising platform. It offers a solution that enables users to raise funds for projects by connecting with communities. It features a chain agnostic structure, tri pool mechanism, OTC pools and whitelisting, and more.
- Oct 2021Seed$100K
#12
Deadpooled · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2013 · 4 employees$224Kraised▾
CrowdChicken offers white-label crowdfunding solutions. It provides tools to present and analyse the project, as well as solutions to raise funds. Each supporter can edit the information, view the history of donations, and download the donation receipts for tax-deductions.
- Jun 2017Seed$224K
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