# Simone Brunozzi

> Simone Brunozzi is a seed investor at Mission and Market backing Banking and FinTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mission and Market](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mission-and-market)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonebrunozzi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/simon
- Website: http://www.brunozzi.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/simone.brunozzi

Simone Brunozzi is a seed investor at Mission and Market in San Francisco focused on Banking and FinTech. Past: Simone co-founded Fabrica.city, a software platform to digitize real estate assets.Simone Brunozzi served as a Vice President and Chief Technologist (global role) at VMware Inc., focusing on Cloud technology (vCloud Hybrid Services). Simone's role included public speaking, relationships with key clients, strategy and roadmap, drivinginnovation inside the company, managing a team of Solutions Engineers to drive adoption of VMware’s Cloud products. Simone is an Investor and Advisor of CloudAcademy.com (knowledge platform) and Synoptek, a Managed Service Provider.Simone has a technical background in Computer Science, experience as an entrepreneur, professor and has worked in the industry for 15+ years, focusing on Cloud Computing since 2006. Simone grew up in Italy and after having been a four-times entrepreneur in Italy, a University professor at the young age of 26, a Chief Technology Officer and after having written two technical books and two novels, he left Italy to join Amazon Web Services in March 2008 as the first Technology Evangelist for Europe (EMEA), to raise awareness about Cloud Computing and help developers build applications. Simone has been a very popular speaker in Europe, United States, Asia, Oceania and Africa, speaking at more than 600 events (and collecting a huge amount of airline miles).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Education | 1 | 33% |
| Developer Tools | 1 | 33% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pack | Great Resignations are killing the market. More than 40% of workers are not satisfied with their work and the GenZ starts to reclaim different work policies and a better environment. Companies are now starting to fight the challenge but they are losing it miserably. Mentoring is the game changer. We developed a scientific methodology based on datato run global mentoring programs with world star mentors from more than 10 countries. We are able to mix neuroscience, behavioural sciences and positive psychology to foster people growth and offer to HR departments a complete overview of performance and happiness of employees | $6.7M | Series A | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Platformatic | OpenSource Platform for ... | $4.3M | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| TrueLayer | TrueLayer is a fintech platform utilized to build financial apps that connect to bank data, verify accounts, and access transactions in real-time.It uses its toolkit to develop consumer and server message block (SMB) applications in the areas of payments, online lending, personal financial management (PFM), robot-advisors, insurance, investmentservices, p2p marketplaces, and cryptocurrencies. It aims to grow the open banking economy by creating a platform for companies to develop new financial services and products.In 2016, Francesco Simoneschi and Luca Martinetti established TrueLayer in London, England. | $1.3M | Seed | Feb 14, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acadian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acadian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aticco Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aticco-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Decibel Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/decibel-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Graph Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graph-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Moffu Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moffu-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mission and Market

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Mission and Market is a micro-venture capital firm focused on seed investments in many areas, including big data, software-powered biotech.

2 contacts available at Mission and Market.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Francesco Simoneschi | Co-Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesco-simoneschi |
| Simone Brunozzi | Founder, General Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simone-brunozzi |

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## FAQ

### What does Simone Brunozzi invest in?

Simone Brunozzi invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Simone Brunozzi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Simone Brunozzi closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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