Thomas Bigagli

Partner

2023 - Current

As Partner, my role is to empower our ventures team in over 30 different offices across EMEA, increase the number of investments, support our portfolio startups to reach new milestones, as well as to expand our operations in new geographical zones and support our EMEA offices and partners 🌍 Plug and Play is not only the largest open innovation platform, operating on 60+ offices globally and boosting the innovation capabilities of 600 partners, but also one of the most active early stage VC funds globally with multiple success stories and over 30 unicorns including PayPal, Google, Honey, Rappi, Dropbox, N26, SoundHound, Hippo, Applyboard, Guardant Health, Flutterwave, Einride, Shippo, Lending Club among others 🦄 Plug and Play Ventures team invests in highly scalable early-stage startups mostly from Pre-seed to Series A, industry and geographical agnostic. We love our founders and support them through our global ecosystem and strong portfolio promises, especially through the death valley until they found their PMF and are ready to scale 🚀

Director France & EMEA Investment Committee Member

2022 - 2023

Senior Associate

2020 - 2022

Associate

2018 - 2020

30 Under 30

2024

Guest Lecturer

2019

Guest lecturer and mentor at several high class business schools and universities such as ESADE, LBS, INSEAD, HEC, ESSEC among others on topics like VC, Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Investments, Strategy.

Investor and Advisor

2017

Supported and invested in several B2B and B2C startups from various industries in EMEA and USA by -Supporting founding teams in their pre-seed, seed and series A fundraising rounds by preparing business plans, startups’ valuations and respective data rooms on top of leading discussions and negotiations with investors. -Contributing to the development of future products and services in order to boost sales and create new revenue streams -Supporting business development efforts and defining new sales and marketing strategies as well as maximising the existing ones -Acting as a point of escalation and defining key milestones and growth plan with the founding teams. -Providing strategic oversight and guidance to ensure all project deliverables remain on strategy throughout the delivery process and respective growth plan. -Cultivating and sustaining relationships with clients beyond project delivery, and determining opportunities for growth, add-on value, and upsells. -Mentoring and Advising early stage startups to define and reach their milestones as well as avoiding costly mistakes by setting up the right execution and growth plans

Co-Founder

2017

Launched 2 startups : -Proprietary no-code tech solution for app creation within seconds for various use cases and industries -SaaS Enabled Dashboard & Platform for infrastructure management & monetisation More information on demand

Innovator

2017 - 2018

Selected by LVMH and prestigious high education establishments in Europe to work on an innovation project to deliver an innovative and impactful solution for LVMH. The future of luxury will emphasize on customer engagement and a more personalized journey. AVATAR ME creates a new in-store and online interaction between customers and their favorite products.

Product & Project Specialist

2016 - 2018

Working my way through college Brought to market various models, lines and projects as below: Models: DB11, DB11 Volante, Vantage, Rapide AMR, Vantage AMR, Vanquish Volante, DBX, DBS Lines: Q and AMR Projects: Valkyrie and Lagonda

Strategy Consultant

2015 - 2015

• Worked on the short, mid and long term strategy of the Paris 2024 OG • Collaborated with the MEDEF and Government on the inclusive goals of the Paris 2024 OG • C / officialization candidature ceremony of Paris as Host city of the 2024 OG with official OG partners, athletes, politicians and the gouvernement

M&A Analyst

2014 - 2014

(ACQUIRED) • Worked on several new ventures projects focusing on the £250bn global property market including private wealth, luxury and travel • Research, reporting and strategy of the short, mid and long term strategy of new ventures and M&A opportunities • Analysis of current portfolio

Entrepreneur in Residence

2014 - 2014

Incubated and worked hands-on on my entrepreneurial project thanks to the Moovje and their "100 days to start your startup" contest. Previous entrepreneurs in residence projects such as Ornikar (Unicorn), SensorWake, Blue Cargo, etc...