# Adeo Ressi

> Adeo Ressi is a seed investor at Founder Institute (Palo Alto) backing News and AgTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Founder Institute](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-institute)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adeoressi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/adeoressi

Adeo Ressi is a seed investor at Founder Institute in Palo Alto focused on News and AgTech. Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute (http://FI.co), a pre-seed startup accelerator that operates in nearly 200 cities worldwide. Adeo has founded or run ten technology businesses, and he has developed a number of innovations that help startup companies. He is passionate about mentoring Founders, space exploration and inspiringpeople to achieve their greatness.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| News | 1 | 50% |
| AgTech | 1 | 50% |
| Aerospace | 1 | 50% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 50% |
| Consulting | 1 | 50% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| INTERSTELLAR LAB | Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to help its customer produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Its bio-farming technology combines automated farms (Biopods), AI and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. Its considerably accelerates plantgrowth while optimizing plant molecular composition. Interstellar Lab provides sustainable plant-based ingredient solutions to large health, beauty and F&B companies. Its bio-farming technology has also convinced NASA and ESA, which contracted with the company to adapt the system for space deployment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists and researchers located between its flagship 65,000SF BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), its SpaceLab at NASA KSC Florida (USA) and its Business Hub in San Francisco (USA). | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 21, 2020 |  |
| Tech.eu | Tech.eu is the premier online publication dedicated to the growing European technology ecosystem(s), delivering a range of editorial products with a clear focus on curated news, actionable information and educational interviews with movers and shakers from across Europe, combined with insightful market intelligence reports based on our proprietarydatabase, events, a jobs platform and a variety of other services. | $159K | Seed | Apr 23, 2014 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wind](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wind-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Founder Institute

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

The Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, having helped launch over 3,500 companies across 180+ cities and six continents.The company was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi and his colleague, Jonathan Greechan. The idea for the program spawned from operating TheFunded.com, where it becameapparent that most entrepreneurs at the idea and launch stages lacked the structure, feedback, and support network needed to be successful.News of the launch was announced on TechCrunch, the first Founder Institute program methodology was crowdsourced by over 10,000 CEO members of TheFunded.com, and the inaugural program started in May 2009 in a small classroom at Stanford University. There were originally no plans to expand beyond Silicon Valley, but upon receiving immense inbound interest to launch the program in other cities, the Founder Institute began to expand. Today the program operates across 180 + cities and is localized into 9 languages.In total, Founder Institute Alumni have raised over $800M and are worth an estimated $20B.

5 contacts available at Founder Institute.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adeo Ressi | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adeo-ressi |
| Eino-Antti Kuuskoski | Founder and Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eino-antti-kuuskoski |
| Paul Krajewski | Co-Director for Founder Institute Australia | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-krajewski |
| Ryan Micheletti | Head of Global Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-micheletti |
| Urs Rothmayr | Director of Barcelona chapter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/urs-rothmayr |

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## FAQ

### What does Adeo Ressi invest in?

Adeo Ressi invests primarily in News, AgTech and Aerospace startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Adeo Ressi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adeo Ressi closed in Dec 2020. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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