About
Antonio Rinaldi
Hello, my name is Antonio Rinaldi, and I’m a 26 years old full-stack developer, fintech expert, entrepreneur, and angel investor. I have more than 5 years expertise in collaborating with world-leading startups, co-founded 2 of mine, patented a physical product, and hacking since 14, I have invested in 3 startups and realized an exit with an annualized return of 25% after tax.
Early Life
Born in Southern Italy, raised in a small town, Antonio has always been proactive since his early days.
Antonio started his first ventures by exploring his fathers improt and export warehouses, still while being a toddler.
Antonio moved his first steps as entrepreneurs while trying selling everything he came in contact with, starting from pasta resembling raw materials traded by his father’s company, up until toys and videogames in his more mature year as a child.
Antonio is so passionate about videogames he started playing to them at the age of 7, when installation and setup had to be done manually. Soon Antonio began confident in the different steps to follow to proceed with games installation (PC mostly).
Amongst other things, Antonio started his own YouTube channel in 2014 with his friends to keep track of memorable games sequences and fantastic motorbike rides, he belonged to the valedictorian of the class of 2017 at his local high school, and won the participation to the Erasmus+ 2016 program.
Professional Life
Antonio started studying as programmer, and later combined it with a Finance degree as he completed his Bachelor of Business Administration.
Antonio managed files management of a local association since age 14 through Adobe Dreamviewer. Antonio started programming at 15 years old.
Antonio soon became fascinated about finance and stock markets. He began trading with his father’s trading account at age 16 and at that time he set up his first virtual machine in order to operate his father’s trading account operating on an earlier Windows version.
In 2016 Antonio got C1 CEFR English Certified after completing IELTS and was accepted by King’s College and in 2016 he got the full-European IT license (ECDL).
Antonio completed his studies in 2019 at Hult International Business School in only 2 years of study with a Distinction in the Bachelor of Business Administration.
During his university studies, he was elected member of the student body for Academics, president of the Trading and Investment Society, and Board Member of the Mathematical Finance, Banking and Law Societies of the university.
In 2018 he completed 5+ applications for grants, successfully raising a combined value of around £1m, from the Horizon 2020 EU Funding Scheme for a start-up he was working while completing his studies, attending a London School of Economics Finance Course and subsequently attending Columbia and Fordham Universities in the City of New York. In 2018, he obtained a Certificate from Oxford Saïd Business School on Fintech technologies.
Antonio graduated in 2019. Earlier in his career, he was employed by KPMG UK in 2019. He was responsible for customers from different countries, leveraging his bilingual status. Customers included entities listed on the FTSE 100 and 250, as well as on the NYSE.
In 2020 returned to his family business where he currently is Finance Manager, CTO, and COO. He has since overseen the international expansion of the company, an investment project of more than €5m and over €100m in debt financing on a daily basis.
In 2021 completed his first Real-Estate Investment with a current ROI of more than 10% annualized return rate and concluded his first angel investment. In the same year Antonio became part of A4I of Milan and prospective member of Alliance of Angels of Seattle.
In 2022 he concluded his 2nd Angel Investment in a friend’s startup and concluded the Real Estate Investment begun the previous year.
In 2023 he co-founded YouTrade (UK) with his university roommate from Hult (2018) a startup that helps content creators raise finance by finding new capital from our investors pool and establishing new partnerships with SMEs.
In 2024 he deposited a patent for an innovative material with a team of 2 other co-founders in Italy while consulting for another friend’s startup, named Weter with its sales and IT department setup. YouTrade became LetoYouRise and posted his first revenue transaction.