How to Assess a Tech Venture

Thursday 16 April at 10.30am, in room N34 at the Velodromo, Ferdinando Pennarola will be conducting the seminar Assessing and Financing IT Based Innovative Ventures, during which two experienced guests in technology management and financing will share their personal history of running IT companies.

Following a long career in investment banking in London Marco Peluso, Bocconi alumnus, moved to the Silicon Valley and founded Qardio, a healthcare tech company of wearable cardiac monitoring devices. Taking an opposite professional path, Franco Gonella had long been working as an entrepreneur before he became the vice-president of dPixel, a venture capital firm.

Thanks to the evidence of the guests' experience, assessing and financing strategies for IT innovative ventures in Italy, in Europe and in the US will be illustrated. Over the past two decades IT based businesses have become increasingly attractive, as a consequence of mitigated capital requirements along with faster investment recovery, as the case of Qardio shows.

Assessing and Financing IT Based Innovative Ventures is the second meeting of the three-seminar-series Digital Responsible Leadership, organized by the Department of Management and Technology. The round of conferences, centred on the trends and developments of the companies opting for innovative network and IT solutions, started on 2 March with Real Time Analytics. In the course of the meeting Guido Pezzin, HP Regional Sales Director, described the business analytics tools used and developed by HP, including sentiment analysis.

On 4 May the last seminar, The Drone Economy, will host Matteo Dini, Dronepoint General Manager, Michele Feroli, Skyrobotic General Manager, and Massimo Canducci, Engineering Innovation Director.