A Chat with Antonio Gambardella: Director, Geneva Foundation for Technology Innovation (Fongit), long time investor about startup success factors, public private partnerships in investments, founder startup journey, startup stages and right investors, partnering with startup founders

This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Antonio Gambardella.

Antonio Gambardella joined the Geneva Foundation for Technology Innovation (Fongit) in 2014 as its Director.

He was previously the founding partner of a venture capital fund investing in technology, with headquarters in Switzerland, Italy and California, United States. During this experience, he managed incubator activities for seed startups. Later, he made direct investments in innovative small-medium companies in Europe, with active roles in management and board of directors.

Antonio holds a degree in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) and he attended Singularity University in California.