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Massimo Sgrelli

Founding Partner at Lombardstreet Ventures

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

Massimo Sgrelli is a Partner and Founder at Lombardstreet Ventures in Menlo Park, California, with a background in seed capital, start-up ventures, and entrepreneurship. With a strong track record in angel investing and co-founding successful ventures like Sysdig, Massimo has invested in notable companies such as Sunlight and Kong, focusing on sectors like Developer Tools and AI in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2016 - Current

    Lombardstreet Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm.

Lombardstreet Ventures operates as a pre-seed/seed venture capital firm.

  • Coding CEO

    2016 - 2019

    A distributed team of Italian developers and designers. Follow us here https://medium.com/12parseclab-journey (in Italian)

  • Angel Investor

    2010 - 2017

    Mashape is a frustration-free online marketplace for developers that want to consume or generate and distribute any kind of service via APIs.

Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer productivity, automating security, and microservices.

Raised $344,101,000.00 from CRV, Tiger Global Management, Notable Capital, Balderton Capital, 137 Ventures, Teachers’ Venture Growth, Index Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Angel Investor

    2010 - 2017

    Fund raising

  • Founder

    2014 - 2016

    --- Company merged into LombardStreet.io --- Nurture Venture is an advisory boutique for startups initiatives. Our focus it to work alongside the Italian founders on their next big thing.

  • Software Engineer

    2014 - 2016

    Working on a new product using Meteorjs.

  • Mentor

    2011 - 2016

  • Co-Founder & former COO

    2013 - 2014

    Sysdig is a fast growing high-tech company operating in the cloud performance management space.

The leader in cloud security powered by runtime insights

Raised $729,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, Guggenheim Partners, Accel, PremjiInvest, Glynn Capital Management, Next47, DFJ Growth, Third Point Ventures and Permira.

  • Advisor

    2010 - 2014

    I'm one of the first advisor of this startup

Pick1 offers a survey and marketing intelligence suite to deliver actionable data for businesses.

Raised $1,940,000.00 from 500 Global, SierraMaya360, ChileGlobal Angels, Bedy Yang, Scale Capital and Start-Up Chile.

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