Edoardo Gentili

Investor

2022 - Current

Pre-Seed and Seed Investments (13 investments to date)

Venture Portfolio Associate

2021 - 2022

End-to-end Fundraising support for portfolio founders (Pre-seed - Series B) Support on B2B business development/partnerships & talent for portfolio

Strategic Partnerships Lead

2021 - 2021

We operate sector-focused Accelerator programmes and Venture Funds for Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups, investing in talented and diverse founding teams across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Fintech, Health, Climate, and Deep Tech. We are live in London, Berlin, Bratislava, Johannesburg, Milan and NYC.

Co-Founder

2022

Italians in VC is a community of Italian VC operators around the world 🌎. With a mission to connect, share and educate the next generation of Italian Investors and founders

Crowdfunding Investor

2018

Personally invested in 8 startups through crowdfunding campaigns since 2018. investments include Monzo (2018), HyperSciences (2019), Small Robot Company (2019), Lucky Trip (2019), True Royalty Television (2020) Not active anymore: Recycling Technologies (2019), Water To Go (2019) and, Clim8 (2020).

Innovation Manager

2020 - 2020

- Exploring new business development ideas to offer innovative solutions for our existing and new clients including startups, corporates, Investors, academia, and governments. - Researching, scouting, and running corporate innovation programmes across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. - Bringing together and enabling the connection between the players of the innovation ecosystem, with my primary focus on helping corporates establish partnerships with startups.

Digital Account Executive- Unilever Client

2018 - 2019

(Programmatic team)- for Unilever brands (FMCG)

Corporate Innovation & Project Management

2016 - 2017

*Placement Year as part of my undergraduate studies*- Enterprise Product team @ Vodafone Group Enterprise

Financial Analyst Summer Intern

2016 - 2016

Match Operations Assistant Summer Intern

2015 - 2015

Match Competitions & Anti-Drugs Department