Mario Branciforti

Investor

2024 - Current

CDP Large Ventures

Senior Partner

2022

Large Ventures €450m+ Growth Fund D-Orbit, Arduino, Nozomi Networks

Board Member

2023

Board Member

2023 - 2023

Venture Partner

2021 - 2022

Senior Advisor, Tech Growth

2020 - 2021

$150m Tech Growth Fund Led deep tech opportunities Inxpect $20m+ B round

Managing Director

2018 - 2020

Member of the Global Investment Committee European investments: Grover (circular economy, Berlin), Unbabel (SaaS/AI, Lisbon), Beekeeper (mobile SaaS, Zurich). Portfolio: Covariant (robotics, AI), Healthy.io (digital health, AI), Nexar (mobility, AI), Dapper Labs (blockchain), ZenGo (blockchain), Rezilion (cyber), Packet (sw, acquired), Volterra (sw, acquired)

Investment Principal, Technology Ventures

2014 - 2018

Part of Imperial Innovations' investment team, acquired by IP Group Venture Capital Evergreen fund with >£500m AUM covering deep tech and science from London, Cambridge and Oxford New investments re:infer (board member, acquired, UiPath), Waveoptics (acquired, Snap), import.io (board member, acquired), Garrison Technologies, ieso digital health, GlassAI (board member), SAM Labs Portfolio Featurespace, Cortexica (acquired, Zebra Technologies), Semetric (acquired, Apple), Acunu (acquired, Apple), Permasense (acquired, Emerson) Deep Science Ventures Spin-out/investment, supported operationally as VP and IC member. Venture studio with exceptionally diverse and talented cohorts tackling some of the greatest challenges we face. Curative therapeutics (Pharma), Restorative cultivation (Agriculture), Scaling intelligence (Computation), Reversing global heating (Climate).

Co-founder

2012 - 2014

London-based syndicate of experienced seed tech investors, entrepreneurs and geeks. Selective personal investments: Move Guides/Topia (SaaS, global mobility), Ometria (SaaS, predictive e-commerce marketing), Retechnica (SaaS, machine learning, NLP), Stamplay (SaaS, development platform), Mainframe (Blockchain, messaging).

Director, Strategy and M&A

2011 - 2014

Member of Symantec.cloud management team, direct report to the divisional VP&GM and the group VP strategy and operations. Responsible for Strategy and M&A, liaising with the Corporate Development team for identification, sourcing and execution of acquisitions/strategic partnerships. Expanded role after promotion, including: business development, strategic planning, market analysis/benchmarking and investment appraisals. Symantec.cloud: formerly MessageLabs, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) security startup acquired by Symantec in 2008 for approx $695M. Key market segments: SaaS email and web security, cloud computing.