Lucio De Costanzo

Partner at Nextalia | Growth Investor & Former C-Level Operator | Technology | ex-Morgan Stanley | Columbia MBA

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
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Board Member
Jul 2026
Datapizza è una AI Transformation company. Aiutiamo aziende e istituzioni a trasformare l’Intelligenza Artificiale da sperimentazione a capacità operativa stabile. Non sviluppiamo demo isolate né integrazioni superficiali: progettiamo sistemi, costruiamo competenze e accompagniamo l’AI dentro i processi reali. Operiamo su tre dimensioni integrate. 1. Technology. Attraverso Dual Intelligence sviluppiamo Enterprise AI Systems pronti per la produzione. I Dual sono archetipi GenAI progettati per funzionare in contesti complessi e regolati, con governance, auditabilità e integrazione nativa nei workflow aziendali. Non chatbot generici, ma sistemi pensati per entrare nei processi core. 2. People. La tecnologia senza adozione non scala. Affianchiamo leadership e team nell’integrazione concreta dell’AI nei workflow quotidiani, con percorsi strutturati, assessment e programmi per ruolo. Con Datapizza Jobs connettiamo aziende e talenti Tech in modo trasparente e mirato, contribuendo a costruire capability interne durature. 3. Community. Con una community di oltre 500.000 professionisti Tech, contribuiamo alla diffusione di cultura, consapevolezza e competenze nel mondo AI. Perché la trasformazione non è solo tecnica, ma anche organizzativa e culturale. Datapizza lavora allintersezione tra tecnologia, persone e governance, perché è lì che nasce la vera AI Transformation. Se vuoi saperne di più, contattaci compilando il form che trovi sul nostro sito. Oppure alla mail: info@datapizza.tech
Board Observer
May 2026
Builder is the AI-powered visual development platform that turns ideas into production-ready web and mobile experiences in seconds, not sprints. Cross-functional teams use Builders visual canvas to generate, iterate, and ship experiences without the traditional bottlenecks of tickets, mockups, and coding handoffs. Everything integrates seamlessly with your existing tech stack, design system, and codebase. Whether youre an engineering leader eliminating dev delays, a design leader creating interactive prototypes with your design system, a product leader testing ideas faster, or a marketing leader launching campaigns without engineering dependencies - Builder accelerates every team.
Board Member
May 2026
hlpy, founded in May 2020, is a company reinventing the world of motor assistance through the extensive use of cutting-edge technologies. hlpy offers its services to motor companies as a TPA (third-party administrator) for both roadside assistance and repair network services. Thanks to its proprietary digital platform, which leverages the capabilities of AI and Machine Learning, hlpy can streamline the processes of assigning roadside assistance and repair activities, generating significant benefits for all parties involved. This results in a unique customer experience for drivers, reduced management costs for business partners, real-time information and data, and consistently monitored repair costs and timelines. hlpy operates in Italy, France, Spain and Germany - after the acquisition of Myschleppapp in 2024 - serving business partners from the insurance, leasing, OEM, and aftermarket sectors.
Investor
2025
Lingokids is the #1 entertainment platform for young kids. Enjoyed by over 20 million families each month, it offers more than 4000 interactive games, songs, and shows loved by kids and trusted by grown-ups around the world. Created by parents and educators, it stands as the ultimate destination for kids fun without compromise. Designed to be ad-free and age-appropriate, Lingokids delivers a premium, handcrafted experience that’s KidSAFE certified, with learning by default. More than 200 million downloads worldwide and over 50 awards have established Lingokids as the standard for kids entertainment.
 Partnerships with Disney, Blippi, NASA, BBC Earth, and more bring world-class content together, all in one trusted place for kids.
Investor, Board Member
Sep 2023
At Keyless, we’re on a mission to provide businesses with the smoothest, safest, and most private passwordless authentication possible. Passwords, one-time codes, and FaceID all have their drawbacks, whether its security risks, high costs, or poor user experience. We offer a simpler, safer, and more cost-effective alternative. Zero-Knowledge Biometrics (ZKB), our award-winning biometric system, is the only technology to date that combines the strengths of the two existing systems, providing the user experience of centralized biometrics with the privacy of local biometrics. Crucially, we authenticate users, not just their devices - something that sets us apart from legacy authentication and older biometric systems. In addition, ZKB does not store any biometric data anywhere, ensuring maximum privacy and security for our users. Keyless is also completely device-agnostic. Users can enroll on one device and authenticate on another. All users need is a front-facing camera. Keyless is available for both consumers and employees, dramatically reducing ATO fraud while enhancing the user experience. Our MFA technology is resistant to phishing and compliant with all major data protection and payment regulations. Our solutions are used to authenticate users during logins, transactions, step-up actions, and account recovery, delivering the most secure and frictionless passwordless MFA experience available. Our technology is widely recognized as the most privacy-focused passwordless authentication solution in the world. Dont take our word for it - check out our certifications and awards! Certifications FIDO2 and FIDO Biometrics Certifications ISO27001 Certification Non-Provisional Patent Grant for Privacy Technology Awards CyberTech 100 2023 | Most Innovative Companies Global InfoSec Awards 2023 | Hot Company Award, Biometrics 2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards | Best Passwordless Solution Join us on our mission to modernize authentication! https://careers.keyless.io/
Investor
Jun 2021
Since its inception, human life has kept evolving continuously, in a more and more unstoppable and global process. Anyways, behind every conquest there is and always will be a potential distorted use of what was thought to be created for the good. Today human life is way larger than what we can actually see. Our human digital and biological projection is infinitely broader than our physical existence: it begins even before we are born, and persists over time, even well beyond our biological life. Wallife is the first company in the world able to provide answers about safety and protection from still unknown risks. Our activity primarily consists in the identification of the new risks. Wallife studies and investigates the new boundaries of the risks, originated by the technological and scientific progress, linked to the existence of the human being itself, on both a biological and a digital level. Subsequently, we envision and design the ways people can be protected, through the use of currently available technologies or the development of new ones. Then, we analyze and assess the costs of receiving such protections. In the same way, we want to start researching and prototyping the future commercial development of insurance products for the protection from risks that already exist but are not guaranteed by the current products/offers.
early stageInsurance
Investor
Apr 2021
Red 6 is a veteran founded business that has re-defined the future of advanced training and interaction with digital content, by developing a revolutionary augmented reality technology that works outdoors, and in the most dynamic of environments.
Investor, Board Member
May 2018
Homepanda è l’agenzia di nuova generazione che unisce tecnologie digitali ad una rete di esperti immobiliari locali per seguirti in ogni fase della tua avventura nel mercato immobiliare, in modo efficace ed intelligente.
early stageReal Estate
Experience · 13 entries
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2026
Board Member
Jul 2026
Datapizza è una AI Transformation company. Aiutiamo aziende e istituzioni a trasformare l’Intelligenza Artificiale da sperimentazione a capacità operativa stabile. Non sviluppiamo demo isolate né integrazioni superficiali: progettiamo sistemi, costruiamo competenze e accompagniamo l’AI dentro i processi reali. Operiamo su tre dimensioni integrate. 1. Technology. Attraverso Dual Intelligence sviluppiamo Enterprise AI Systems pronti per la produzione. I Dual sono archetipi GenAI progettati per funzionare in contesti complessi e regolati, con governance, auditabilità e integrazione nativa nei workflow aziendali. Non chatbot generici, ma sistemi pensati per entrare nei processi core. 2. People. La tecnologia senza adozione non scala. Affianchiamo leadership e team nell’integrazione concreta dell’AI nei workflow quotidiani, con percorsi strutturati, assessment e programmi per ruolo. Con Datapizza Jobs connettiamo aziende e talenti Tech in modo trasparente e mirato, contribuendo a costruire capability interne durature. 3. Community. Con una community di oltre 500.000 professionisti Tech, contribuiamo alla diffusione di cultura, consapevolezza e competenze nel mondo AI. Perché la trasformazione non è solo tecnica, ma anche organizzativa e culturale. Datapizza lavora allintersezione tra tecnologia, persone e governance, perché è lì che nasce la vera AI Transformation. Se vuoi saperne di più, contattaci compilando il form che trovi sul nostro sito. Oppure alla mail: info@datapizza.tech
Partner
May 2026
Nextalia is a unique investment platform in the Italian market, promoted by Francesco Canzonieri together with leading Italian institutional investors (Intesa Sanpaolo, Unipol Assicurazioni, Aurelia, Finprog, Fondazione Enpam, H14, Istituto Altoatesino di Sviluppo, Massimo Moratti Sapa, Confindustria, Bonifiche Ferraresi and Micheli Associati) and featuring a team of highly qualified professionals. Nextalia is the reference platform for private market investments in Italy, leveraging our in-house professional capabilities and our strong network of relationships with entrepreneurs, companies and institutions, providing preferred access to proprietary investment opportunities. The firm currently manages c. €2 billion across Private Equity, Private Credit and Venture Capital. Nextalia has developed a proprietary approach – ESGNext – to actively promote ESG factors throughout the investment and portfolio management process, making it a distinctive player in the Italian market.
Board Observer
May 2026
Builder is the AI-powered visual development platform that turns ideas into production-ready web and mobile experiences in seconds, not sprints. Cross-functional teams use Builders visual canvas to generate, iterate, and ship experiences without the traditional bottlenecks of tickets, mockups, and coding handoffs. Everything integrates seamlessly with your existing tech stack, design system, and codebase. Whether youre an engineering leader eliminating dev delays, a design leader creating interactive prototypes with your design system, a product leader testing ideas faster, or a marketing leader launching campaigns without engineering dependencies - Builder accelerates every team.
Board Member
May 2026
hlpy, founded in May 2020, is a company reinventing the world of motor assistance through the extensive use of cutting-edge technologies. hlpy offers its services to motor companies as a TPA (third-party administrator) for both roadside assistance and repair network services. Thanks to its proprietary digital platform, which leverages the capabilities of AI and Machine Learning, hlpy can streamline the processes of assigning roadside assistance and repair activities, generating significant benefits for all parties involved. This results in a unique customer experience for drivers, reduced management costs for business partners, real-time information and data, and consistently monitored repair costs and timelines. hlpy operates in Italy, France, Spain and Germany - after the acquisition of Myschleppapp in 2024 - serving business partners from the insurance, leasing, OEM, and aftermarket sectors.
2025
Investor
2025
Lingokids is the #1 entertainment platform for young kids. Enjoyed by over 20 million families each month, it offers more than 4000 interactive games, songs, and shows loved by kids and trusted by grown-ups around the world. Created by parents and educators, it stands as the ultimate destination for kids fun without compromise. Designed to be ad-free and age-appropriate, Lingokids delivers a premium, handcrafted experience that’s KidSAFE certified, with learning by default. More than 200 million downloads worldwide and over 50 awards have established Lingokids as the standard for kids entertainment.
 Partnerships with Disney, Blippi, NASA, BBC Earth, and more bring world-class content together, all in one trusted place for kids.
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