# Giuseppe Donagemma

> Giuseppe Donagemma is a seed investor at Avanseus backing Apps and EdTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Avanseus
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/giuseppe-donagemma/15/834/853

Giuseppe Donagemma is a seed investor at Avanseus in Milan focused on Apps and EdTech. Giuseppe (Beppe) is a global executive, who has had leading positions during last 20 years of both large corporate organizations (>10.000 people) and entrepreneurial companies.Beppe has been successful in his career thanks to his flexible mindset and hands-on behavior, in addition to excellent relationships’ building capabilities.Hisexperience entails from management of B2B business around the world to responsibility of project management of networks’ operations, from P/L management of 4 billion euros region to fund raising in Asia for a start-up company, from achieving successful change management and revenue growth turnarounds in big corporates to ensuring strategic partnerships for new emerging ventures, from developing the strategy and vision for a new business unit to opening new markets for an expanding company.Beppe always builds high performing and diverse teams to work with, leading them with high energy, confidence and ambiguity tolerance. He’s an attentive listener and an effective (public) speaker. He has a pragmatic and participative leadership style, and an excellent Board presence attitude.Beppe holds an engineering degree, a master (non-degree) in Strategy & Leadership. He is Fellow at Elis, a post-graduation faculty in Rome. He is an enthusiast sportsman, married with two daughters.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $219k–$2.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 50% |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| Banking | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lifeed | Lifeed (powered by Life Based Value) is a digital learning platform that unlocks life’s learning potential, transforming employees’ life transitions into professional growth. Companies that adopt Lifeed have access to a set of training and communications resources, a hub for sharing experiences and a dashboard with updated data on employees’experiences. By using a strength-based approach, the Life Based Learning method demonstrates how life events can be maximised to improve the corporate environment, empowering parents, caregivers and transitioners to fully engage and reveal their value within the company, reducing stress and helping them to excel in their careers.Since launching in 2015, Life Based Value has worked with over 80 firms and is being piloted in 23 countries and 218 cities across the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Over 20,000 people have participated and the results indicate that the program can improve soft skills by up to 35%. | $219K | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| Satispay | Satispay is a thriving European payment network with the goal to change the way people pay in stores and online, and exchange money between friends.Launched in 2015, Satispay is independent from debit and credit cards. Easy and cost-convenient for businesses–who can accept payments from clients with a click on their smartphone, tablet, orpc–Satispay is also a simple and secure app for consumers, simplifying the way they pay, as well as a range of other services. | $3.5M | Series A | Sep 18, 2015 |  |
| Inbot | Inbot makes business a more emotionally intelligent activity. We built technology that maps trust in a global scale. We then created a community of caring business people to make trusted connections. We offer a better alternative to hustling, spamming and cold calling. Inbot algorithms find trusted connections to relevant customers, andprovides entrepreneurs warm introductions to customers. It is a simple solution to a complex problem that removes all the unnecessary steps between creating a lead and meeting a customer. Inbot was founded by veteran entrepreneurs to help B2B companies do more emotionally intelligent business. The company operates in 8 cities across the planet, including San Francisco, Berlin, Copenhagen and Helsinki. | $2.6M | Seed | Jan 14, 2014 |  |
| Linko Inc. | Linko Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has the main development studio in Berlin, Germany. Linko Inc. was founded by veteran entrepreneurs Mikko Alasaarela and Vesa Per | $2.6M | Seed | Jan 14, 2014 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [U-Start](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/u-start) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Avanseus

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Avanseus was incorporated in mid 2015 and is headquartered in Singapore. The Company develops Artificial Intelligence driven Enterprise Applications and is focused on predictive maintenance for telecommunications networks and enterprise IoT. Our ground breaking Avanseus Cognitive Assistant is a non-intrusive solution that predicts faults formobile, fixed, IP/MPLS backbone, transmission networks and enterprise IoT. Technology and network vendor agnostic, it is suitable for Managed Services Providers, Communication Service Providers, Tower Companies, Broadband Providers and enterprises using IoT. The solution can be cloud based or installed on-premise, with a typical integration time of just 4 weeks. Customers enjoy significant reductions in maintenance costs and increased uptime. In 2016 Avanseus signed it first commercial contract, and invoiced US$30k. By 2017, invoicing had increased to US$400K along with additional contracts. As of August 2018, the Company has invoiced more than US$1M, with over 40 customer engagements at various stages from Discussion/POC/Trial to signed active customer contracts.Avanseus enjoys a good profile in the industry and has appeared in a number of articles/reports in relation to our solutions e.g. Gartner, Microsoft and Light Reading. Currently the Company has 2 US patents granted, 4 other patents pending/published with 2 more patent applications in the pipeline.

5 contacts available at Avanseus.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Giuseppe Donagemma | Chairman of the Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giuseppe-donagemma |
| Bhargab Mitra | CEO and Board Member | — |
| Chiranjib Bhandary | Co-founder & CTO | — |
| Mei Lan Ng | Head of Finance | — |
| Rajendra Panda | Founder, Head of Strategy and Business Development | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Giuseppe Donagemma invest in?

Giuseppe Donagemma invests primarily in Apps, EdTech and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Giuseppe Donagemma's check size?

Giuseppe Donagemma typically joins rounds of $219k–$2.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Giuseppe Donagemma participates in.

### How do I contact Giuseppe Donagemma?

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### When did Giuseppe Donagemma last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Giuseppe Donagemma closed in Dec 2017. Shizune tracks 4 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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