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Paolo Pio

Investor

Co-Founder & General Partner at Exceptional Ventures

United Kingdom

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

About

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Exceptional Ventures. Previously Managing Director for Europe at Joyance Partners, where he led 25 investments; earlier a software engineer and product manager at Cisco. Holds an MS Engineering from Turin and an Executive MBA from London Business School.

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Invests in

AgTechBiotechConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTechHealthtech

Experience

  1. Exceptional VenturesCo-Founder and General Partnercurrent2022 — presentLondon, England, United Kingdom
  2. Urban Tribe LifeCo-Founder and Trainercurrent2015 — presentLondon, England, United Kingdom
  3. QomodoInvestorcurrent2023 — present
  4. UnfabledInvestorcurrent2023 — present
  5. AmateraInvestorcurrent2023 — present
  6. BonusXInvestorcurrent2023 — present
  7. RogaInvestorcurrent2023 — present
  8. Pacifico BiolabsBoard Membercurrent2023 — present
  9. Clerkenwell HealthInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  10. The REAL Drinks Co.Investorcurrent2022 — present
  11. Jove InsuranceInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  12. EvaroBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
  13. Bon VivantInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  14. Bio&Me I Certified B CorpInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  15. GlycanAgeInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  16. CurioInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  17. Net PurposeInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  18. Rest Less UKInvestorcurrent2022 — present
  19. planetaryInvestorcurrent2021 — present
  20. Bar.on - molecular beerInvestorcurrent2021 — present

Education

  1. London Business SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA
  2. Politecnico di TorinoBS and MS - Master of Science, Telecommunications Engineering

Skills & more

P2PCisco Technologies23Linux6Cisco Systems Products2Product Management62Network Architecture49Cloud Computing45Routing28Data Center25Ethernet18Virtualization16IP14
+12 morePre-salesGo-to-market StrategyFCoEQoSStorageTCP/IPWirelessComputer ScienceFibre ChannelFinTechCrowdfundingInternational Business Development

Languages English · French · Italian · Spanish

From Paolo's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended London Business School460

Patrick ClaessenPartner at Cottonwood Technology FundDominic JacquessonInvestor at Index VenturesSandra SchwarzerInvestor at Index VenturesMatt CherianVenture Partner at Monta Vista CapitalAkshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesGiuseppe IademarcoHead of Global Partnership at P101 Ventures

+ 454 more

Also attended Politecnico di Torino33

Antonio TurroniOperating Advisor at P101 VenturesStefano GaliassoVice President at Energy Capital VenturesMattia MrvosevicGeneral Partner at Eterna CapitalÁlvaro GonzalezSenior Manager at Axon Partners GroupGabriele TinelliInvestments at FoundamentalNicola LambertPartner at Oltre Impact

+ 27 more

Shared employers

Also worked at The REAL Drinks Co.1

Matt CooperCo-Founder and Executive Chairman at Exceptional Ventures

Also worked at Rest Less UK3

Tosin AgbabiakaInvestor at Octopus VenturesMatt CooperCo-Founder and Executive Chairman at Exceptional VenturesJo OliverPartner at Octopus Ventures

Also worked at Here We Flo1

Matt CooperCo-Founder and Executive Chairman at Exceptional Ventures

Also worked at Cisco263

Cyan BanisterCo-founder & General Partner at Long Journey VenturesMike VolpiInvestor at Index VenturesAdamAdvisor at Clear VenturesHowardAdvisor at Clear VenturesWendy XiaoPartner at NorthzoneClay RobbinsForward Deployed Partner at Slow Ventures

+ 257 more

Colleagues at Exceptional Ventures

Alex Laterza
Advisor at Exceptional Ventures
Alex Söderman
CFO & Compliance Officer at Exceptional Ventures
Anna Fortuny-Gomez
Head of Platform, Science, & Reputation at Exceptional Ventures
Doug Kerr
Science Advisor at Exceptional Ventures
Federica Pio
Scout at Exceptional Ventures
Federico Raoul Cucchi
Partner at Exceptional Ventures
Frederica Dick-Read
Executive Assistant at Exceptional Ventures
Jason Foster
Scout at Exceptional Ventures