Great founders do not fit stereotypes of successful people: we look for those who are different
Marco TrombettI
Pi Campus CEO
Pi Campus was established with the profits generated by Marco Trombetti, Isabelle Andrieu, and Gianluca Granero from their previous businesses.
Initially, it was the investment arm of Translated, a translation service that pioneered the use of artificial intelligence to help professional translators. After a few years, things started growing very fast and the VC firm was created.
To date, we have 49 investments mostly in the AI field, 5 of which already successfully exited.
In designing Pi Campus, we’ve been lucky enough to get the contributions of people from world-class venture funds.
Twitch co-founder and
Y Combinator CEO
Michael introduced us to YC, our most important co-investor, and gave us the initial tips to start our venture.
Former Intel Capital and Benchmark Capital partner
As one of the fathers of VC in EU, George helped us understand how venture capital works in Europe.
Angel investor, Human Augmentation syndicate co-founder
As a leading angel investor in Silicon Valley, Ariel helps us focus and raise the bar in everything we do.
InReach co-founder, former partner at Balderton Capital
Roberto is building the future of VC, and we’re very proud to work with him on this challenge.
aiXplain founder, former AI director at eBay, Amazon and Facebook
With the experience in AI gained inside top companies, Hassan helps us connect AI and businesses. We’ve also funded his own startup.
Principal Applied Scientist at AWS, co-founder of ModernMT
Marcello is the leading MT researcher and a long-time friend and partner of Translated and Pi Campus.
Researcher at Google, Transformer neural network model co-inventor
Lukasz constantly supports us in understanding state-of-the-art projects in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Inventor of time-delay networks, serial entrepreneur and AI professor
When problems get too big for us, we ask Alex for help and he comes flying in with his helicopter.
BD at Octo Telematics, former Disney VP
With his experience and his extraordinary analytical skills, Paolo offers us a decisive contribution in assessing investment.
Fincantieri GM, former CDP and BNL CEO
Fabio is one of the world’s leading bankers: every time things get big, we ask for his advice.
Investor, former CVC Capital Partners co-founder
Roberto is our first and only investor. He taught us the incredible power of gut feeling.
Angel investor, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers
The most prolific angel in Italy, the fastest and most competent deal maker we know. When M&A is in the air, Daniele is already at the table.
Y Combinator co-founder
Paul inspired us to build Translated and Pi Campus. We wish he could have done more for us because we love Paul. It’s a long story.
We invest in Europe and the US, without any constraints regarding how much and when to invest. Nor do we plan to exit in advance. We invest mostly in AI, but if your startup is growing incredibly fast, it would be our pleasure to meet you anyway.
Usually, we invest from € 50k to € 500k in early-stage startups in exchange for shares from 1% to 10%. We love SAFE when there’s a short amount of time.
Send us your pitch: if there’s a fit, you will meet our investment team. Follow our pitching outline to help us give you a yes or no within 48 hours.
We are innovators, investors and creatives who believe in diversity