Pietro Dova
Founding Partner @ XG Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Pietro Dova is a Series A investor at XG Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Events and Mobile. Pietro Dova was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google’s operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietrowas VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies’ European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Pietro Dova invests in
Stages Pietro Dova invests in
Countries Pietro Dova invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $400k–$800k
- Series A
- $3M–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Events 1 (20%)
- Mobile 1 (20%)
- Sports 1 (20%)
- Travel 1 (20%)
- Bitcoin 1 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (60%)
- Seed 2 (40%)
Country
- United States 3 (60%)
- South Korea 1 (20%)
Investments
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Bluesmart
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Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California. | $12M / Series A / Jan 23, 2017 | |
Korbit
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Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017. | $3M / Series A / Aug 25, 2014 | |
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Korbit
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Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017. | $400K / Seed / Jan 20, 2014 | |
Pogoseat
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Pogoseat is an enterprise solution that develops cutting-edge technology company intended to enhance fan engagement with AI-driven personalization and a frictionless buying process. It creates new revenue streams and data for our partners by providing a white-labeled system and mobile ticketing tools such as seat upgrade technology, text-to-buy,and subscription pass, enabling sports teams, concert venues, ticket brokers, and promoters to increase engagement, monetize unused inventory, and gather data to improve the fan experience. | $800K / Seed / Sep 01, 2013 | |
Adility
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Adiility is a technology company based in San Francisco enabling online to offline commerce transactions. The Adility Gateway and Adility Cloud provide the infrastructure for brands, retailers and merchants to transact with each other, from campaign creation to redemption and settlement.Adility provides three core products:a) AdilityGateway, a RESTful API to create prepaid products and services, offers and coupons with rich attributes and transfers them into the Adility Cloud for controlled online distribution. The Adility Gateway is used within POS systems or any merchant dashboard and integrates in store redemption and provides settlement functionality.b) Adility Cloud, a cloud service to store prepaid products and services, offers and coupons for retailers, brands and merchants. Online publishers can query the Adility Cloud based on location, categories, demographics and other rich attributes to match the cloud inventory with their online audience.c) Adility Console, a visual interface for brands, retailers, merchant acquirers and publishers to manage their business development activities, connections and campaigns without the distraction of the underlying technical complexity. | Series A / Sep 06, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About XG Ventures
XG Ventures was founded by ex-Googlers, who were early hires in strategic roles at Google. This group is now dedicated to advising and investing in supremely talented early stage teams. One of XG's strengths is sharing their early experiences at Google, including how its unique culture shaped a dynamic and fun enterprise. The primary goalis to use their complementary expertise to help successfully guide the start-up teams to the next stage. XG's core assets include operational and strategic expertise, mentorship, global networking contacts, and access to seed capital and beyond.XG Ventures is focused primarily on the consumer internet, including the mobile, video, gaming, social media, and online media sectors.
XG Ventures Contacts
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Andrea Zurek
Founding Partner
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Pietro Dova
Founding Partner
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What does Pietro Dova invest in?
Pietro Dova invests primarily in Events, Mobile and Sports startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Pietro Dova's check size?
Pietro Dova typically joins rounds of $400k–$800k at Seed and $3M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pietro Dova participates in.
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When did Pietro Dova last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Pietro Dova closed in Jan 2017. Shizune tracks 5 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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