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Connect Ventures

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Connect Ventures invests in seed, startup, series A, and early-stage companies with a focus on product-led founders.

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01.01.2012

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Description

Connect Ventures is a pan-European pre-seed and seed stage VC that invests in opinionated products, crafted with love, and loved by many. They specialize in SaaS, fintech, consumer, digital health, and Web3 sectors. They are passionate about the power of product to transform people’s lives and back companies that help create the world we want to live in. Their goal is to invest in outlier companies with the potential to create impact on a massive scale, and they promise to give tough love, hard truths, and solid backup to their founders.
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Pietro Bezza
Pietro Bezza

Pietro Bezza

Pietro is a tech founder turned early-stage venture capitalist. Pietro co-founded in 2011 Connect Ventures, a London-based Venture Capital firm who backs product-obsessed, mission-driven entrepreneurs at their seed stage. Investments Pietro led and work actively with include Citymapper, Typeform, Soldo, TrueLayer, Side and Forest. Before starting Connect Ventures, he was co-founder and CEO of Neo Network, mobile applications and content provider, acquired by Zodiak Media (De Agostini Group) in 2007. Pietro’s expertise is in category design, growth and branding. When he is not wrestling with his two kids, he plays ping-pong and tries to learn how to code.

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Toby Moore

Toby Moore

Connect Ventures

Federico Miguens

Federico Miguens

Managing Partner

Mark Pettit

Mark Pettit

Chief Financial Officer

Kitty Goodwin

Network and operations manager

Rory Stirling

Rory Stirling

Partner

Keji Mustapha

Keji Mustapha

Head of Network and Operations

Sitar Teli

Sitar Teli

Founder & Managing Partner

Pietro Bezza

Pietro Bezza

Co-Founder and General Partner

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