Mauro Pretolani
General Partner @ TLcom Capital Partners
Milan, Italy
Mauro Pretolani is a Senior Partner at Fondo Italiano d' Investimento SGR SpA, which he joined in February 2015. He recently participated in the launch of the new FII Tech Growth fund, on behalf of which he is also a board member of the portfolio company BeMyEye, Everli, Healthware and Termo. Mauro has over 20 years of technology investmentexperience in Europe, USA, Israel and China. Since 1999, Mauro has served as a General Partner of TLcom Capital LLP, participating in the management of the company, fundraising and the management of TLcom I and II funds. Mauro was also an independent director of Seat Pagine Gialle (PG.MI) from 2012 to 2015. Since 2016 Mauro has been a board member of MotorK on a personal basis. Over the years Mauro has also been an operational role in technology companies, such as Executive Chairman, CEO and EVP sales. Mauro worked for Bain & Company as Manager for Proctor & Gamble in both Marketing and Finance. He graduated in Economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and obtained an MBA "with distinction" from Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Industries Mauro Pretolani invests in
Stages Mauro Pretolani invests in
Countries Mauro Pretolani invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (25%)
- Mobile 3 (19%)
- Wireless 2 (13%)
- E-Commerce 2 (13%)
- Information Technology 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (25%)
- Series C 4 (25%)
- Funding Round 3 (19%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
Country
- Italy 3 (19%)
- United States 2 (13%)
- United Kingdom 2 (13%)
- Israel 1 (6%)
- Ireland 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Termo, a leading Italian Greentech company, aims at reducing energy consumption of residential buildings by offering related high-value services. Termo businesses are based on Tax credits exchanges. Furthermore, technology and human capital are key to address this challenge, consolidate the Italian leadership and expand abroad.Termo installsenvironmental compliant HVAC systems and acts as general contractor to improve building energy efficiency ratios. Related invoices include the discounts related to tax credits. Furthermore, Termo is providing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to banks in order to facilitate the trade of environmental tax credits. | $8.5M / Series C / Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| Everli is a marketplace for online grocery shopping where customers can choose groceries from a variety of retailers. The company is on a mission to help people achieve peace of mind, simplifying life when shopping for groceries. It offers access to 300,000 products across 70 cities in Italy, France, Polan, and the Czech Republic, while it claimsthat it is the first marketplace to offer same-day grocery delivery services to many small and medium density areas. | $100.3M / Series C / Mar 29, 2021 | ||
| Termo, a leading Italian Greentech company, aims at reducing energy consumption of residential buildings by offering related high-value services. Termo businesses are based on Tax credits exchanges. Furthermore, technology and human capital are key to address this challenge, consolidate the Italian leadership and expand abroad.Termo installsenvironmental compliant HVAC systems and acts as general contractor to improve building energy efficiency ratios. Related invoices include the discounts related to tax credits. Furthermore, Termo is providing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to banks in order to facilitate the trade of environmental tax credits. | $10M / Series B / Dec 18, 2020 | ||
| Everli is a marketplace for online grocery shopping where customers can choose groceries from a variety of retailers. The company is on a mission to help people achieve peace of mind, simplifying life when shopping for groceries. It offers access to 300,000 products across 70 cities in Italy, France, Polan, and the Czech Republic, while it claimsthat it is the first marketplace to offer same-day grocery delivery services to many small and medium density areas. | $12.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 31, 2020 | ||
| Healthware is a next-generation integrated consulting group that for more than 20 years has been offering large companies and start-ups in the life sciences and insurance sectors a unique set of services and expertise in strategic consulting, communication, technology and innovation, to drive the digital transformation of health. It operates at theintersection of the transformation of commercial operations and digital health, offering a unique range of services combining design, strategy, communication and innovation with technology and corporate venturing. Founded in Italy, it is led by CEO and founder Roberto Ascione, an international entrepreneur and opinion leader with 20 years of experience in marketing and communication, business process transformation and innovation applied to health. Healthware, together with its joint venture partner Intouch Group, represents one of the largest independent global player with a combined team of over 1,000 people and a strong international presence with offices in New York, Boston, Kansas City, Chicago, London, Cologne, Milan, Rome, Salerno and Mumbai. | $11.5M / Private Equity / Jan 30, 2019 | ||
| Everli is a marketplace for online grocery shopping where customers can choose groceries from a variety of retailers. The company is on a mission to help people achieve peace of mind, simplifying life when shopping for groceries. It offers access to 300,000 products across 70 cities in Italy, France, Polan, and the Czech Republic, while it claimsthat it is the first marketplace to offer same-day grocery delivery services to many small and medium density areas. | $15.1M / Series B / Jun 20, 2018 | ||
| BeMyEye is a leading crowdsourced perfect store data as a service (DAAS) provider. Operating in 21 countries, the company tracks Perfect Store execution metrics, such as share of shelf, promotional compliance, peak trading out of stock and brand recommendation, by deploying more than 1.5 Million on-demand data gatherers using the BeMyEye App, andleveraging cutting-edge neural-network Image Recognition technologies to analyse the data. The company works with more than 300 leading FMCG, Consumer Durables and Pharmaceutical companies, such as Nestle, PepsiCo, Ferrero, Samsung, Heineken and Bayer.BeMyEye operates in the UK, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Russia, and CIS. The company is headquartered in London with offices in Milan, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Barcelona, and is backed by Europe's leading venture capitalists Nauta Capital, P101 Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and FII Tech Growth. | $10.6M / Series C / Nov 21, 2017 | ||
| Persado provides the only Motivation AI Platform that enables hyper-personalized communications at scale, inspiring each individual to engage and act. Persado delivers hundreds of millions in incremental value to some of the largest brands in banking, insurance, retail, telecom, and healthcare—such as Ally Bank, Dropbox, JPMorgan Chase, Marks &Spencer, Tapestry, and Verizon.Persado AI and machine learning technology is trained on more than 100 billion digital language impressions across industries, enabling marketers to generate powerful, on-brand content and communications that motivate customers and drive significant value. Persado uses generative AI, machine learning, natural language generation, and experimental design to deliver a 41% average lift in conversion across customer engagement channels—helping top brands achieve more than $1.5B in incremental revenue. | $15M / Series A / Feb 13, 2013 | ||
| Upstream is accelerating mobile commerce in high growth markets. Their software and infrastructure platform already enables 1.2 billion people to effortlessly receive and pay for the most relevant and affordable digital subscription services on their mobile devices.They reach more than one billion consumers in high growth markets, through theirmarketing and billing integration with more than 50 mobile operators in 43 markets across Latin America, Africa, Middle East, CIS and South East Asia. They select high value digital services, adapt them to local market specificities, market them through digital and operator channels and monetise them through their direct carrier billing capabilities.To-date, Upstream has engaged half a billion consumers over mobile and converted 65 million of them into paying customers, typically through a subscription micro-payment model. They offer truly global coverage with offices in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Johannesburg, London, Milan, Bucharest, Greece, Dubai and Malaysia. | $12.1M / May 27, 2009 | ||
| CommProve develops real-time Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring for wireless networks.CommProve was founded in 1996 by specialists in network operations and advanced software engineering. Their initial Tier 1 customer engagements, involving GSM network deployment, identified a need for efficiently measuring, analyzing and reporting the qualityof the subscriber’s experience as delivered by the radio link. | $14M / Sep 15, 2008 | ||
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Co-Investors
About TLcom Capital Partners
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
TLcom Capital Partners Contacts
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Andreata Muforo
Partner
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Maurizio Caio
Founder and Managing Partner
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Omobola Johnson
Senior Partner
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What does Mauro Pretolani invest in?
Mauro Pretolani invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Wireless startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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