Francesco Maio
Founder of Fashion Capital Partners
Francesco Maio
Founder of Fashion Capital Partners
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Overview
Work Experience
Co Founder & CEO
2013 - Current
Fashion Capital Partners is an investment company based in Paris, dedicated to Fashion and Technology investing in early-stage Fashion-Tech start-ups and innovative high-end designers.
Board Member & Chief Network Officer (CNO)
2017
Board Member as well as Contributor of Forbes France
Member
2015
FrenchFounders is the first francophone community dedicated to CEOs, founders and business leaders. The community is aimed to share, develop business and give the members the opportunity to be connected with other members according to their needs, to participate to all the FrenchFounders' events (networking, workshop and webinars) and to get benefits specifically negotiated with prestigious partners (business, travel and lifestyle). https://www.frenchfounders.com/
Partner & Board Member
2014
5M Ventures is a Media for Equity Fund. It is the only French actor to aggregate different types of media in its fund. A high-growth company can therefore benefit from a pool of powerful media groups, covering all 4 major offline media channels : TV, radio, press, and OOH. 5M Ventures allows high-growth companies to benefit from a diverse choice of media space, that can be deployed nationally as well as in specifically targeted local areas. 5M Ventures has been supported by more than 20 different shareholders, coming from France and Germany, who have invested or developed, as business angles or as principals in Funds and Media companies, in hundreds of companies, including Zalando, E-Darling, Drivy, Attractive World, Adopteunmec, Melty, Trivago and many others...
Founding Partner
2012
50 Partners is a mix between an Investment Fund & a Business Angel's Network that accompanies Start-Ups by incubating them and accelerating them with the help of 50 Entrepreneurs. 50 Partners provides the company founders of early-stage projects with mentoring, office space, financing and Networking. 50 Partners is based in Paris. http://www.50partners.fr/#section_mentors
Partner & Board Member
2010
NowFashion is the 1st Online magazine to publish Fashion Shows REAL time. NowFashion is vastly gaining audience and during the shows is classified in the top 25,000 websites in the world that classifies it in the top 10 Fashion websites worldwide. http://nowfashion.com/
Shareholder & Board Member
2008
Attractive World is a pioneer and leader in the field of on-line dating with selective admission. The entry selection is performed by community members, this selection brings together a community of members in affinity in a world of trust and friendliness unique. Company is growing very fast since the launch in 2007. http://www.attractiveworld.net/
Business Angel, Board Member & Consultant
2007
Active Business Angel in early stage French startups Invested & Board member of most of following : www.nowfashion.com/ www.attractiveworld.net/ www.plyce.com/ www.instantluxe.com/ www.eyespleasure.com/ www.biomouv.com/ www.leblogauto.com/ www.cyphoma.com/ www.loungeup.com/en www.carnetdemode.com www.greensolar.fr/ www.indianenergy.in/
Lead Mentor
2011 - 2013
Le Camping is a French based startup Accelerator program launched by Silicon Sentier. The Accelerator is a 6-month program with an acceleration phase followed by a special growth phase. 60 mentors will come together to support, advise, critique and ultimately position the startups to write their own success story. http://accelerate.numa.paris/
Senior Vice President, Co-Head of France & Head of Sales
2006 - 2008
- Co-Head of France - Head of Institutional Equity Sales Team in Paris - Created Paris Office for the Bank in Jan 2007 - In charge of hiring the Equity Sales team, as well as Research Team
Education
IBA
1985 - 1989
High School Diploma
1982 - 1985