Where does Giulio Brugnaro work?

Giulio Brugnaro is Venture Designer at Founders Factory.

Where did Giulio Brugnaro go to school?

Giulio Brugnaro studied at UCL (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Design to Manufacture); Fulbright BEST Program (Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies); University of Stuttgart (Master of Science (M.Sc.), ITECH: Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research).

Giulio Brugnaro

Investor

Venture Designer at Founders Factory

Greater Venice Metropolitan Area

About

Giulio Brugnaro is a Founding Partner at Production Capital, an investment and deployment platform for physical AI that finances and operates autonomous hardware in industrial and infrastructure sectors. He leads product and technology initiatives focused on demand surfacing, deal structuring, risk underwriting, and asset tracking. Brugnaro holds a Ph.D. from University College London in robotic manufacturing applied to construction and has previously served as Venture Design Lead at Founders Factory and Director of Product & Engineering at Mind the Bridge.

Experience

Production CapitalFounding Partner, Product & Technologycurrent2026 — present
Founders FactoryVenture Design Lead2024 — 2026Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Mind the BridgeDirector of Product & Engineering2020 — 2024Milan, Lombardy, Italy
500 StartupsVenture Data Analyst2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College LondonTeaching Fellow2018 — 2019London, United Kingdom
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College LondonMarie Curie Fellow (ESR)2015 — 2019London, United Kingdom
Institute for Computational Design (ICD)Research Assistant2015Stuttgart, Germany
MAN MADE LANDIntern Architect2012Berlin Area, Germany

Skills & more

User Experience (UX)1User-centered Design2Project Management1Design SystemsDesign1Coaching & MentoringProduct ManagementSoftware DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesProduct StrategyProduct AnalyticsProduct Road Mapping

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ScrumData AnalysisUser Experience Design (UED)Customer ResearchMachine LearningMLOpsScientific ResearchFront-end DevelopmentPythonJavascriptSQLNoSQL

Languages English · Italian

KUKA Basic Robotic Programming — KUKA

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Colleagues at Founders Factory

Alex Daish

Venture Design Lead at Founders Factory

Bianca Furtuna

Head of Data Science at Founders Factory

Brent Hoberman

Executive Chairman, Founder at Founders Factory

Camila Zattar

Associate at Founders Factory

Charlotta Kemp

Program & Community Lead, Perth at Founders Factory

Claire Morris

Chief Studio Officer at Founders Factory

Conny Reh

Studio Lead at Founders Factory

Damian Routley

Chief Operating Officer at Founders Factory

Frequently asked questions

Who is Giulio Brugnaro?: Giulio Brugnaro is a Founding Partner at Production Capital, an investment and deployment platform for physical AI that finances and operates autonomous hardware in industrial and infrastructure sectors. He leads product and technology initiatives focused on demand surfacing, deal structuring, risk underwriting, and asset tracking. Brugnaro holds a Ph.D. from University College London in robotic manufacturing applied to construction and has previously served as Venture Design Lead at Founders Factory and Director of Product & Engineering at Mind the Bridge.
Where does Giulio Brugnaro work?: Giulio Brugnaro is Venture Designer at Founders Factory.
Where did Giulio Brugnaro go to school?: Giulio Brugnaro studied at UCL (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Design to Manufacture); Fulbright BEST Program (Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies); University of Stuttgart (Master of Science (M.Sc.), ITECH: Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research).

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