# Carlo Purassanta

> Carlo Purassanta is a seed investor at ION (Paris) backing Apps and Education. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: ION
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/purassan
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/purassan
- Website: https://x.com/purassan

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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 100% |
| Education | 1 | 100% |
| Private Social Networking | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ExtraStudent | 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 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Groupe M6](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/groupe-m6) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ION

VC Fund · New York, United States

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.

4 contacts available at ION.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carlo Purassanta | Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carlo-purassanta |
| Andrea Pignataro | Founder & CEO | — |
| Rich Grossi | Chief Executive Officer | — |
| Ryan Terpstra | Chief Product Officer | — |

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## FAQ

### 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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### When did Carlo Purassanta last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carlo Purassanta closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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