Paolo Gesess

Founder and Managing Partner at United Ventures

📍 Milan, Lombardy, Italy🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Italy
8
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4
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4
Mid stage
0
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15y
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Board Member
Apr 2023
Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform optimizes your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individual needs.
Board Member
Nov 2020
BOOM is a Saas company that powers smart solutions for visual asset collaboration, management and production.
Board Member
Feb 2020
Noi siamo Fiscozen. Vogliamo cambiare il modo in cui 3 milioni di persone vivono la Partita IVA. Per questo diciamo basta allo stress da tasse, scadenze e burocrazia, dando ai liberi professionisti il pieno controllo del proprio business e la libertà di scegliere il proprio stile di vita. Fondata nel 2018 da Enrico Mattiazzi e Vito Lomele, Fiscozen oggi conta più di 40.000 clienti e un team di oltre 250 persone.
Board Observer
Mar 2019
Equalum is trusted by the worlds leading companies to stream data to the cloud in real-time, powering data warehouse modernization, real-time analytics, AI/ML, and more. Backed by industry-leading change data capture (CDC), our platform helps you deliver critical business data across your organization with more speed, reliability and accuracy than ever before. • Optimized for leading cloud data warehouses • Enterprise-grade monitoring, alerting, and data ops • Exactly once guarantee & end-to-end workflow management • Leverage Kafka and Spark under the hood, built in and fully configured. No coding required.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Founded with the mission of simplifying credit access for Italian SMEs, Credimi is the fintech leader in digital financing for businesses in Europe. Since 2017, they have achieved record results with 100k financial requests processed, and over €2billions in funds granted across all Italian industries. Credimi is a financial intermediary monitored and supervised by Banca dItalia (Testo Unico Bancario, art. 106).
Board Member
Aug 2018
Nato nel 2016, brumbrum è il primo e-commerce italiano di auto usate. Grazie alla nostra vetrina virtuale su brumbrum.it e a tecnologie innovative, offriamo un’esperienza d’acquisto intuitiva, semplice, pratica e a prezzi competitivi. brumbrum lavora con impegno e passione per dare al mercato dell’auto usata un’immagine nuova, sicura e tecnologica, mettendo a disposizione del cliente i vantaggi di un e-commerce, la convenienza di un acquisto tra privati e la qualità garantita dai concessionari. Da novembre 2022 brumbrum è parte di Aramis, il gruppo leader in Europa per la vendita online di auto usate.
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Board Member
Apr 2014
Musixmatch is the global leading music and audio data company based in Bologna, London and San Francisco. The company focuses on building the world's largest music metadata and lyrics database using latest AI & machine learning technology. Musixmatch has +70M users worldwide throughout all consumer platforms: iOS, Android, Web, and TV. Musixmatch has global agreements with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Google Search and Spotify with the goal of enhancing the global consumer music experience. Musixmatch also license rights from all major music publishers like Universal, Sony-EMI, Warner Chappell and BMG Rights plus 10K independent music publishers around the world. Awards: Best App Apple Store 2013, Best App Google Play 2014, 2015, 2018, Google i/O 2016 Google Award Nominee, FB Start Europe Winner.
Board Member
Feb 2011
Moneyfarm is an award-winning pan-European digital wealth manager with 167,000 active investors and more than £5.5 billion in total assets on the platform. Launched in 2012 and headquartered in the UK, Moneyfarm has a vision to help more people improve their financial wellbeing by making personal investing simple and accessible through technology. We do this by offering investment solutions that are designed to meet a wide range of needs and goals, backed by our smart technology and the expertise of our dedicated consultants. We are regulated by the FCA and backed by Allianz Asset Management, M&G plc, Cabot Square Capital, Poste Italiane S.p.A and United Ventures.
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2023
Board Member
Apr 2023
Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform optimizes your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individual needs.
2020
Board Member
Nov 2020
BOOM is a Saas company that powers smart solutions for visual asset collaboration, management and production.
Board Member
Feb 2020
Noi siamo Fiscozen. Vogliamo cambiare il modo in cui 3 milioni di persone vivono la Partita IVA. Per questo diciamo basta allo stress da tasse, scadenze e burocrazia, dando ai liberi professionisti il pieno controllo del proprio business e la libertà di scegliere il proprio stile di vita. Fondata nel 2018 da Enrico Mattiazzi e Vito Lomele, Fiscozen oggi conta più di 40.000 clienti e un team di oltre 250 persone.
2019
Board Observer
Mar 2019
Equalum is trusted by the worlds leading companies to stream data to the cloud in real-time, powering data warehouse modernization, real-time analytics, AI/ML, and more. Backed by industry-leading change data capture (CDC), our platform helps you deliver critical business data across your organization with more speed, reliability and accuracy than ever before. • Optimized for leading cloud data warehouses • Enterprise-grade monitoring, alerting, and data ops • Exactly once guarantee & end-to-end workflow management • Leverage Kafka and Spark under the hood, built in and fully configured. No coding required.
2018
Board Member
Sep 2018
Founded with the mission of simplifying credit access for Italian SMEs, Credimi is the fintech leader in digital financing for businesses in Europe. Since 2017, they have achieved record results with 100k financial requests processed, and over €2billions in funds granted across all Italian industries. Credimi is a financial intermediary monitored and supervised by Banca dItalia (Testo Unico Bancario, art. 106).
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