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Mario Branciforti

Senior Partner, CDP Venture Capital

London, England

VC
Investor
Founder

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

Locations:

London

  • Min Investment:

    $301,116.00

  • Max Investment:

    $1,003,720.00

  • Target Investment:

    $652,418.00

Skills

Corporate Development
Strategic Planning
Venture Capital
Angel Investing
Entrepreneurship
SaaS
Cloud Computing
Cross-cultural Teams
Strategy
Start-ups
Corporate Finance
Semiconductors
Business Strategy
Management Consulting
Mergers & Acquisitions
E-commerce
Enterprise Software
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Product Development
Management

Education

Investments

Arduino

Series B

Total Funding: $22M

Grover

Series A

Total Funding: $190M

Re:infer

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $12M

import.io

Series A

Total Funding: $34M

Work Experience

Nozomi Networks

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    CDP Large Ventures

CDP Venture Capital SGR - Fondo Nazionale Innovazione

2022

  • Senior Partner

    2022

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

Arduino

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

D-Orbit

2023 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2023 - 2023

Lunar Ventures

2021 - 2022

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2022

Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR

2020 - 2021

  • Senior Advisor, Tech Growth

    2020 - 2021

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

Samsung NEXT

2018 - 2020

  • 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)

IP Group plc

2014 - 2018

  • 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).

AngelLab VC

2012 - 2014

  • 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).

Symantec.cloud

2011 - 2014

  • 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.