Best Investment Tech Companies in Italy
The 154 best Investment Tech companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BacktoWork.
Italy's Investment Tech sector has 154 companies on the board, and if you're trying to figure out who's actually capitalizing on the momentum, this directory ranks them by disclosed equity funding and recent funding activity. Total disclosed capital sits at $203M, no unicorns yet, but the trajectory is real.
Mamacrowd leads the pack at $18M raised, followed by CardoAI at $15M and Axyon at $8M. That's a pretty concentrated top tier in a market where the global Investment Tech opportunity is valued around $127B and compounding at 15.6% annually. And the app-layer data backs the momentum: median install growth is running at roughly +25% year-over-year across investment management and banking apps. So the consumer pull is there. The conversation is getting louder internationally too, from Nordic-China tech exchange discussions to open letters pressing governments on Investment Tech policy. Italy's players, backed by names like Digital Magics and Fin + Tech, are building into a sector where data security compliance and evolving regulatory pressure will separate the durable firms from the rest.
- IDC Financial Insights
Our analysis of 229 Investment Tech companies
$28.6b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Investment Tech companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BacktoWork Equity-based crowdfunding platform | $118M | 80 mo ago | Acquired | 29 | 2012 | Alberto Bassi Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| 2 | Mamacrowd Equity crowdfunding platform for startups | $18M | 30 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano Co-Founder | 1 job opening · 1 partnership · 2 expansions |
| 3 | CardoAI Portfolio management solutions for alternative investment | $15M | 19 mo ago | Series A | 110 | 2018 | Daniele Forza Co-Founder | 1 award |
| 4 | Treedom Online platform for farmers and to increase carbon credits and obtain financial linkage | $14M | 33 mo ago | Series A | 142 | 2010 | Tommaso Speroni Co-Founder | 1 partnership |
| 5 | Axyon Developer of solutions based on Deep Learning for various industries. 60AI top 22%Innovation top 23%Product top 36%Talent top 38% All 11 signals ▾AItop 22% Innovationtop 23% Producttop 36% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 39% Techtop 43% Moattop 48% Growthbottom 40% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 35% Newsbottom 21% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based, deep learning, machine learning Innovation: 4 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $8M | 14 mo ago | Series A | 28 | 2015 | Giacomo Barigazzi Head of Corporate Development & Co-founder | 1 award |
| 6 | BlockInvest Provider of asset tokenization solutions | $5M | 2 mo ago | Series A | 20 | 2018 | Lorenzo Rigatti Co-Founder & CEO | 1 internship |
| 7 | Switcho App-based expense management platform | $2M | 57 mo ago | Acquired | 45 | 2018 | — | 1 partnership |
| 8 | TimeShuffle Online gaming platform that enables players to trade in in-game assets | $2M | 49 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | Konstantin Dinev CEO | — |
| 9 | SpazioDati Developer of sales intelligence products and semantic text analytics services | $2M | 89 mo ago | Series A | 66 | 2012 | Michele Barbera Co-founder & CEO | — |
| 10 | Reasoned Art Online marketplace for multiple NFTs | $2M | 37 mo ago | Seed | 5 | 2019 | Giulio Bozzo Founder & CEO | — |
| 11 | Kellify AI-based research platform | $2M | 95 mo ago | Deadpooled | 28 | 2017 | — | — |
| 12 | Lovelace World Online marketplace for NFT metaverse | $2M | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2021 | Jarryd Visick Co-Founder | — |
| 13 | ClubDealOnline Crowdfunding platform that connects entrepreneurs with investors seeking to equity investments | $2M | 32 mo ago | Seed | 19 | 2016 | Antonio Chiarello Founder & CEO | 2 partnerships |
| 14 | modeFINANCE Provider of credit ratings, ESG assessments, and risk management solutions | $1M | 60 mo ago | Seed | 64 | 2009 | — | — |
| 15 | Ener2Crowd Crowdfunding platform for energy projects | $1M | 34 mo ago | Seed | 24 | 2018 | Giorgio Mottironi Co-Founder | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 16 | CoreStarter Multi-chain IDO platform with NFT marketplace | $1M | 55 mo ago | Seed | 9 | 2021 | Umesh Gupta CEO | — |
| 17 | FinScience AI-based research platform | $1M | 103 mo ago | Seed | 18 | 2017 | — | — |
| 18 | Together Price Online platform offering group subscription plan for digital services | $1M | 65 mo ago | Seed | 14 | 2015 | Luca Ugolini Co-Founder & CFO | — |
| 19 | Mercurius Provider of AI-based sports trading platform | $885K | 78 mo ago | Seed | 2 | 2017 | — | 1 partnership |
| 20 | Collecto Online platforms providing co -ownership of multi category luxury products | $809K | 16 mo ago | Series A | — | 2022 | Matteo Costantini Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer | 1 partnership |
| 21 | Piece Real estate investment platform | $731K | 14 mo ago | Seed | 3 | 2023 | — | — |
| 22 | DeusTechnology Software solutions for asset management firms | $626K | 77 mo ago | Acquired | 42 | 2010 | Pasquale Orlando Founder | — |
| 23 | Recrowd Crowdfunding platform focused on real estate projects | $461K | 34 mo ago | Seed | 16 | 2008 | — | — |
| 24 | Tip Ventures Crowdfunding platform for startups | $353K | 96 mo ago | Deadpooled | 4 | 2013 | Matteo Masserdotti Founder & CEO | — |
| 25 | YouInvest Financial education and solutions provider for institutions | $337K | 138 mo ago | Seed | 1 | 2011 | — | — |
| 26 | IllumyFi Fintech platform that aggregates and tracks financial portfolios across multiple institutions | $235K | 36 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | Luigi Mastromauro Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| 27 | Equinvest Italy-based equity crowdfudnding platform | $170K | 128 mo ago | Deadpooled | 4 | 2014 | Dario Giudice Co-Founder & CEO | — |
| 28 | Crowdway Financial news and analysis platform using crowd sourcing | $158K | 114 mo ago | Seed | 2 | 2015 | Davide Spina Founder & CEO | — |
| 29 | Dr.Wolf Provider of bespoke software, knowledge management, research, and testing and validation | $106K | 93 mo ago | Funding Raised | 19 | 2002 | — | — |
| 30 | InfinityPad Decentralized fundraising platform | $100K | 56 mo ago | Seed | 6 | 2021 | — | — |
Top 12 Investment Tech 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 · Modena, Emilia Romagna · founded 2015 · 28 employees$8.1Mraised▾
Axyon is a company that creates solutions based on Deep Learning for various applications and industries. It was created as a spin-off of DM Digital, a developer of AI-based applications. The company currently has 2 products out: Axyon Syn Finance for investment banks, and Axyon Stocks Analyst that helps in identifying stock trading strategies based on Deep Learning. Apart from these products, Axyon also offers solutions around credit risk assessment, wealth management, fraud detection and sales. Axyon provides a machine learning platform for developing and training machine learning algorithms. Users can access the platform via a easy to use interface where they can select the machine learning models, training data sets, no of CPUs and GPUs the process needs to be distributed on, and deploy trained models to predict new outcomes from data.
- Apr 2025Series A$4.6M
- Oct 2024Series A$2.3M
- Jan 2024Series A$2.5M
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)—
#3
Series A · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2018 · 110 employees$15Mraised▾
Cardo AI provides AI-based data analytics and portfolio management solutions for alternative investments. It features algorithms for portfolio diversification, portfolio optimization, and risk & return management. Also offers due diligence, market surveillance, order management, and securitization reporting solutions for investors.
- Nov 2024Series A$15M
#4
Seed · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2023 · 3 employees$730.5Kraised▾
Real estate investment platform. Digital real estate investment platform that enables users to invest in income-producing properties.
- Apr 2025Seed$3.1M
- Jul 2023Seed$730.5K
#5
Series A · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2022$808.8Kraised▾
Online platforms providing co -ownership of multi category luxury products. It allows users to purchase fractions of luxury goods, such as watches, art, and wine. The application is available on iOS and Android platforms.
- Feb 2025Series A$2.9M
- Feb 2024Seed$808.8K
#6
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
#7
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
#8
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
#9
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2016 · 19 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Crowdfunding platform that connects entrepreneurs with investors seeking to equity investments
- Oct 2023Seed$1.6M
#10
Seed · Recco, Liguria · founded 2019 · 5 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Online marketplace for multiple NFTs. It enables users to trade NFTs such as digital collectibles, arts, crypto arts, and more. It also provides a gallery and exhibition for displayed arts.
- May 2023Seed$1.5M
- Sep 2021Seed$360.9K
#11
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
#12
Seed · Saint Vincent, Aosta Valley · founded 2021$2.1Mraised▾
Online gaming platform that enables players to trade in in-game assets. The game features different battlefields, balanced factions, and heroes, in-game items and consumables as well as team swaps and various engaging game modes.
- May 2022Seed$2.1M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Investment Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Fintech is moving in Italy
A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 70 Italy-affiliated papers.
- Bocconi University7
- University of Bergamo4
- University of Turin3
- University of Messina3
- Roma Tre University3
- Blockchain3
- Financial services3
- Sustainability3
- Payment2
- Transparency (behavior)2
- Financial services9
- Financial inclusion5
- Corporate governance3
- Financial literacy3
- Financial stability2
- Financial services2→7
- Financial inclusion1→5
Where fintech is researched across Italy
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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