Carlo Purassanta
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development @ ION
Paris, France
Carlo Purassanta is a seed investor at ION in Paris focused on Apps and Education. Carlo Purassanta is currently the Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, for ION Group. He is also an Investor and an Advisor, with a focus on the Tech industry, and the author of the book "A Crucial Impetus". He has previously been the President of Microsoft France (2018-2021), and the CEO of Microsoft Italy(2013-2017); he joined Microsoft in 2011 to lead the Enterprise Service Business Unit, after 15 years of career in IBM France and EMEA in Consulting, Management and Executive roles. During his tenure in Italy he has been a member of the General Council of Confindustria Digitale as well as the President of the Workgroup on SMEs value chains. He has been in the Advisory Board of Confindustria’s Foreign Investors Committee with a responsibility on “Research, innovation and education”. He currently is a Board Member of “Only The Brave” and “Diesel” in the fashion industry, he is Board Member for “CEDACRI”, a Fintech company owned by ION Group. He also is member of the Strategy Advisory Board of the “Graduate School Management”, the Business School of Politecnico di Milano, and member of the Investment Committee of the “French Touch Fund” focused on SMEs acceleration. Mr. Purassanta holds an Engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano in Italy and a Master of Business Administration from Henley Business School in the UK.
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Industries Carlo Purassanta invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 1 (100%)
- Education 1 (100%)
- Private Social Networking 1 (100%)
Investments
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ExtraStudent
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ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another. | $1.6M / Seed / Jun 08, 2023 |
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About ION
Automation positively transforms the lives of people and business. Their software helps you improve decision-making, increase efficiency, simplify complex processes and empower your people. They enable financial institutions, central banks and corporations to digitize and automate their most business critical processes. They are reinventing the waybusiness is done through innovations in automation technology.
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Carlo Purassanta
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Andrea Pignataro
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Rich Grossi
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Ryan Terpstra
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What does Carlo Purassanta invest in?
Carlo Purassanta invests primarily in Apps, Education and Private Social Networking startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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