Francesco Perticarari @ Co-Founder of Silicon Roundabout and Managing Partner of Silicon Roundabout Ventures | Leveraging FounderTech To Now Launch A Community Driven Fund

In this episode of FounderTech Decoded, we are excited to talk to Francesco Perticarari about his experience of leveraging Silicon Roundabout -  the largest Deep Tech founder meeetup and community in Europe - into a new sister venture fund Silicon Roundabout Ventures. A fund he is currently in the process of launching, aimed at identifying and investing in early stage tickets in DeepTech European startups.

We discuss how in framing and designing the fund FounderTech like Vauban (whilst also evaluating market alternatives like Odin) is enabling him to launch the fund in a rapid and agile way that would have simply not been possible even just a few years ago. Particularly for an outsider entering the venture space for the first time, looking to leverage a community driven perspective, backed by their particular market insight and sector point of view.

We also explore how the fund aligns with a potential parallel diminishment of low hanging B2B and B2C SaaS opportunities in the venture space. Where even in relatively recent dynamically backed VC sectors like FinTech, previous startup winners like Monzo and Revolut are now much more quickly replicable and therefore harder to differentiate and distinctly defend going forward. Given this, why Francesco believes the next big market opportunity for early stage venture is in Deep Tech. Backing startup challenges which can only be solved by founders leveraging deep R&D and complex Innovation or by exploiting valuable algorithmic niches.

Finally we discuss how FounderTech when leveraged properly, works brilliantly when it replaces low value functions in the ecosystem, in order to then elevate and amplify high value founder insights and investor interactions. Seen in this way FounderTech might essentially represent the new APIs of the venture system, that fluidly enables really advanced startup and funding innovation through a mixture of now better amplifying access to capital, deep founder driven insight and aligned community.

 

Explore further and connect with Francesco: 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/fperticarari/ 

• https://siliconroundabout.ventures/

• https://siliconroundabout.tech/ 

• https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/silicon-roundabout-16832027154 

• https://blog.francescoperticarari.com/