Donatella Callegaris

Managing Partner

2019

Flashpoint Group is an international tech investment manager founded in 2012 with over $400m AUM backing founders from CEE and Israel building and scaling companies globally providing Venture Capital, Venture Debt and Secondary investments.

Investor, Board Observer

2023

Investor, Board Observer

2020

Investor, Board Observer

2019

Partner

2019 - 2019

Firenze Partners is a technology advisory firm that focuses on providing transactional advice to entrepreneurs building innovative startups, particularly SaaS solutions in the FinTech ecosystem, while working towards a rapid transformational change in preparation for an equity raise to accelerate growth.

Director

2014 - 2018

Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies. In prior roles, the team, have extended credit and managed portfolio relationships of greater than £300 million to over 100 companies. For more details please visit: www.clpgrowth.com I am involved in the entire deal life cycle including originating, assessing, evaluating and post investment monitoring, focusing particularly on managing CLP relationships with the equity sponsors ecosystem and on identifying high growth technology companies in need of growth financing that best suits CLP’s investment criteria.

Director

2013 - 2014

Involved in the launch, set up and planning of CLP as a new Venture Debt Fund in Europe. Responsible for launching and establishing CLP's branding and positioning within the startup and VC ecosystems in the UK, Ireland and continental Europe. Instrumental in building CLP's initial pipeline.

Consultant

2013 - 2013

Strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development and mentoring Advising on fundraising for first seed investment to get the company to the next value creation milestone

Portfolio Executive

2005 - 2012

Managed the Investment Process including due diligence, pre-investment proposals, drafting and agreeing term sheets on a number of investments Managed the Portfolio over the life of two funds Managed the relationships with CEOs and CFOs of the companies and respective equity sponsors, financial analysis, documentation, structuring and re-structuring. Managed several aspects of the Fund Corporate Governance

Client Manager

2002 - 2005

Whitefield Trust Management is a trust management company providing international tax advice for private Companies and high net worth individuals Managing business, administrative and banking operations on behalf of clients based in Italy, Switzerland, Israel, and the United States Registration of UK companies for VAT, full VAT compliance and KYC Application of Italian language skills