About
Francesco Monaca is an investor at Giant Ventures, which focuses on frontier technology companies. The firm conducts early-stage investment evaluation.
Experience
- Giant VenturesInvestorcurrent2026 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
- Earlybird Venture CapitalInvestment Team2025London Area, United Kingdom
- The Francis Crick InstituteResearch (PhD)2019 — 2024London, United Kingdom
- Calm/StormInvestment Team2024
- LocalGlobeInvestment Team2023London, England, United Kingdom
- UCLTeaching2021 — 2023London, England, United Kingdom
- University of OxfordResearch2018Oxford, United Kingdom
- The University of AucklandResearch2018Auckland, New Zealand
Skills & more
Languages English · Italian
- Venture Fellow — Newton Venture Program
- Nova Talent — Nova
- Full Switch™ - Research Consultancy Programme — Code-Switch Consultants
- Diploma - Nordic World Health Organization — World Health Organization Office at the EU
- Certificate of Completion — Imperial College London
From Francesco's professional profile.
Colleagues at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Alasdair Mitchell
Portfolio Support at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Alice Steenland
CSO, Signify at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Amanda Berinson
Executive Assistant at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Barry Eggers
Co-Founder, Lightspeed at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Ben Urwin
Senior Data Engineer at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Cameron McLain
Building things that endure, and living fully along the way.
Connor Whiting
Finance Associate at Giant Ventures Global Llp
David Miliband
Former British Foreign Secretary at Giant Ventures Global Llp
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Francesco Monaca?
- Francesco Monaca is an investor at Giant Ventures, which focuses on frontier technology companies. The firm conducts early-stage investment evaluation.
- Where does Francesco Monaca work?
- Francesco Monaca is Investor at Giant Ventures Global Llp.
- Where did Francesco Monaca go to school?
- Francesco Monaca studied at UCL (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience); University of Southampton (Bachelor of Science (Hons), Biomedical Sciences); University of Auckland (International Exchange - Biomedical Sciences).
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