Gianluca Cocco
About Gianluca Cocco
Gianluca Cocco is based in Milan. Crunchbase says he started his career in strategic consulting at Roland Berger, and that from 2011 he spent four years as an early manager at Amazon Italy. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Pavia and Politecnico di Milano, according to his Tech Emotion speaker biography.
He later became Managing Director of Delivery Hero's Italian branch, and Tech.eu dates his first exit to 2018. In 2020 he co-founded Factory14, which acquired and scaled e-commerce brands. It was sold in 2022 to Razor Group.
In 2023 he co-founded Qomodo with Gaetano De Maio, and he is its CEO. Qomodo is an Italian payments company that lets merchants offer one-off and Buy Now Pay Later payments for essential, often unplanned expenses.
Tech.eu describes him as an active angel investor in early-stage fintech, SaaS and AI startups, alongside running Qomodo. Crunchbase gives his angel focus as fintech, SaaS and AI at pre-seed stage.
Tracxn lists three investments: compri (March 2025), Tot (September 2025) and TextYess (September 2025). Crunchbase also lists him as an investor in CommerceClarity's pre-seed round. Round details are third-party data, and his personal check sizes are not public.
His AI-related investment on the Lounge deals desk is JustSolve, a Milan startup building agentic AI infrastructure for credit management and debt collection. It closed a €3.7M pre-seed round in September 2026. Base10 Partners led the €3M equity portion, and €0.7M came from grants. Cocco is named among the participating business angels. TextYess, which Tracxn lists as a September 2025 seed investment, is also in his portfolio. The sources reviewed do not describe what TextYess does.
Public profiles describe him as backing the earliest stages, pre-seed and seed, in fintech, SaaS and AI. The investments Tracxn lists are all in Italian companies. He has not published a check size or a formal investment thesis in the sources reviewed. In a Tech.eu interview he said Italy's startup ecosystem is still at an early phase compared with France, Germany and the UK.
- JustSolve: agentic AI for credit management and debt collection; €3.7M pre-seed led by Base10 Partners, September 2026.
- Tot: financial tools for Italian SMEs; seed round with CDP Venture Capital and Azimut, September 2025.
- TextYess: seed round in September 2025, listed by Tracxn.
- compri: Italian startup; round in March 2025, listed by Crunchbase as pre-seed and by Tracxn as seed.
- CommerceClarity: pre-seed round listed on Crunchbase; date not confirmed.
- Qomodo: payments company he co-founded in 2023 and leads as CEO.
- crunchbase.com/person/gianluca-cocco
- tech.eu/2025/03/18/italy-s-startup-renaissance-closing-in-on-spain-s-l
- tracxn.com/d/people/gianluca-cocco/__RaCjpKI_d-S8NShmJAlh2vAghvY9w_EGb
- finsmes.com/2026/09/justsolve-closes-e3-7m-pre-seed-funding.html
- techemotion.com/speaker-gianluca-cocco
- techemotion.com/tech-emotion-summit-2024-gianluca-cocco
- cdpventurecapital.it/en/news.page?contentId=COM51936
- crunchbase.com/funding_round/commerceclarity-pre-seed--4c85eaf8
Investing activity
Gianluca Cocco appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Pre-seed, with a median round size of $4M. The most recent is JustSolve (Pre-seed, €3.7M, Sep 2026).
Gianluca Cocco most often invests alongside Base10 Partners, Joe Zadeh, Daniele Francescon and Matteo Frigerio, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Gianluca Cocco
Who is Gianluca Cocco?
He is a Milan-based entrepreneur and angel investor. He is co-founder and CEO of Qomodo, and he previously co-founded Factory14 and ran Delivery Hero's Italian branch.
What stage does Gianluca Cocco invest in?
Crunchbase describes his angel focus as pre-seed. Tracxn lists his recent investments as seed and pre-seed rounds.
What sectors does Gianluca Cocco back?
Tech.eu and Crunchbase list fintech, SaaS and AI. His known investments include credit-collection AI (JustSolve) and SME finance (Tot).
What is Gianluca Cocco's check size?
It is not public. We found no statement from him on his check size.
Has Gianluca Cocco invested in AI startups?
Yes. He is listed as an angel in JustSolve's €3.7M pre-seed round (September 2026), an agentic AI company for debt collection.
Does Gianluca Cocco only invest in Italy?
Tracxn lists only Italian portfolio companies, but he has not stated a geographic limit publicly.
Is Gianluca Cocco an angel investor?
Yes. Gianluca Cocco invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Gianluca Cocco invested in?
Gianluca Cocco's AI investments include JustSolve. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Gianluca Cocco invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Gianluca Cocco has invested at Pre-seed, with a median round of $4M.
Who does Gianluca Cocco co-invest with?
Gianluca Cocco's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Base10 Partners (1 deal), Joe Zadeh (1 deal), Daniele Francescon (1 deal), Matteo Frigerio (1 deal) and Ithaca Investments (1 deal).