#7 Deep tech & community-led VCs - Francesco Perticarari, Silicon Roundabout Ventures

Francesco Perticarari is the founder and Managing Partner of Silicon Roundabout Ventures. Silicon Roundabout began as a community of 15,000 founders and engineers who love Deep Tech. Today, Francesco invests in the most promising founders within this community through the Silicon Roundabout Venture fund, primarily focusing on post-MVP pre-seed and post-commercialisation seed teams.

Francesco will be sharing why he’s so excited about Deep Tech and why he thinks many traditional funds are afraid of investing in early-stage Deep Tech start-ups.

In this episode you’ll learn:
– Why he loves investing in DeepTech
– Key trends in DeepTech
– Why he thinks many traditional funds are afraid of investing in early-stage DeepTech start-ups
– How DeepTech companies should be assessed differently to other start-ups