High-tech Entrepreneurship: Lecture #8 – Business angels and venture capitalists: how do they decide about financing your start-up?

This course is designed to introduce participants, PhD and undergraduate students from different disciplines (STEM, but also Social Sciences and Humanities) and also young researchers and post-docs, to the basic knowledge and competences about high-tech entrepreneurship.

Topics: This will be the opportunity to meet an investor of early stage start up projects and to better understand what are the key issues of the proposal that investors analize to invest.

Speaker:

Nicola Redi  has 20+ years experience in translating innovations into the market through venture capital investments and corporate R&D responsibilities. He is currently managing the first ever technology transfer fund focused on Industry 4.0 technologies. His venture capital past appointments include Chief Investment & Technology Officer of TTVenture and member of the investment committees of the French lifescience fund Technologie et Santé I (Sofimac Partners) and Atmos II renewable energy fund.