Marcos Battisti

Venture Capitalist turned Investment Banker | Deep Tech & Defence Technology

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 33 investments📅 27 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investments
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Nov 2018
4iQ and Alto Analytics have joined to become Constella Intelligence. Visit constellaintelligence.com to learn more. Constella Intelligence is a leading global Digital Risk Protection business that works in partnership with some of the world’s largest organizations to safeguard what matters most and defeat digital risk. Its solutions are broad, collaborative and scalable, powered by a unique combination of proprietary data, technology and human expertise—including the largest breach data collection on the planet, with over 100 billion attributes and 45 billion curated identity records spanning 125 countries and 53 languages.
Investor
May 2018
Founded in 2014, IronNet Cybersecurity is a global cybersecurity leader that is revolutionizing how enterprises, industries, and governments secure their networks. IronNet takes the skills of its top-notch cybersecurity operators with their real-world, public and private sector, offensive and defensive cyber experience, and integrates their deep tradecraft knowledge into its industry-leading products to solve the most challenging cyber problems facing industry today. IronNet’s solutions leverage behavioral analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques to help public and private enterprises across critical infrastructure detect unknown threats. Our ability to share the derived raw intelligence with peer enterprises in real-time and at machine speed, uniquely enables industries and governments to collectively defend against well-funded nation state and cyber criminal threats.
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Mar 2016
Ververica was founded in 2014 by the original creators of Apache Flink®, and it's headquartered in Berlin, Germany. We started Ververica because we saw the need for a large-scale data processing technology that is open source and at the same time properly rooted in long-tested principles and architectures from the database and distributed systems fields. From the very beginning, we developed Apache Flink® in the open source, and we witnessed and led Flink’s rapid community growth and industry adoption. Ververica provides Ververica Platform, with open source Apache Flink and Application Manager, to the enterprise. Ververica Platform enables high-throughput and low-latency solutions for event-driven applications.
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Sep 2015
what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique 3 word address. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using just three simple words. what3words is used by businesses and governments to operate more efficiently, and by individuals to find and share locations. Over 650 businesses, government organisations and NGOs in over 170 countries are using 3 word addresses.
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Aug 2015
Sckipio, the leader in g.fast modems. Based in Ramat Gan, Israel, Sckipio is the first company to announce and ship commercial G.fast chipsets that will deliver up to 1Gbp/s broadband over twisted pair. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Jan 2015
Who are we? We are onefinestay - a personal service for discerning guests who value exceptional quality homes, villas & chalets and experiences in the most desirable global destinations. What do we do? From beachside estates and historic homes to countryside villas and mountain chalets, we help our guests find their ideal home-from-home, whilst every stay is professionally managed to ensure an effortless and enjoyable rental experience. This includes a personal welcome, 24/7 guest support, extensive housekeeping and dedicated concierge services. Our unique approach to short and medium- term renting appeals to anyone looking for a vetted private place to stay and a premium hospitality experience to match. Book a stay: advisors@onefinestay.com Become a onefinestay homeowner : https://partners.onefinestay.com/register/ Join our team: See our job openings at onefinestay.com/jobs
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Aug 2014
Screenovate is a leader in multi-device experience. The company was acquired by Intel Corporation on December 2021.
Investor
Aug 2014
Stratoscale delivers AWS compatible infrastructure and services that can be deployed in any enterprise data center. Stratoscale’s solutions include EC2-compatible and Kubernetes applications, S3-compatible, EBS-compatible and EFS-compatible storage, RDS-compatible databases, ELB-compatible load balancers, and EMR-compatible Hadoop. Stratoscale enables multi-cloud and hybrid applications while maintaining a consistent management using AWS APIs.
Investor
May 2014
Zettle by PayPal is on a mission to help small businesses succeed in a world of giants. Founded in Stockholm in 2010, the financial technology company revolutionised mobile payments with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Joined PayPal in 2018. Today Zettle’s commerce platform for small businesses in Europe and Latin America provides tools to get paid, sell smarter and grow your business.
Board Member & Investor
Oct 2013
News Republic is the information platform that understands you the best. At News Republic, we believe that those who read better will know better. News Republic is a ByteDance product. Bytedances content platforms enable people to discover a world of content powered by AI technology, available in 150 countries through dozens of products like TikTok, Vigo or TopBuzz. For more information, visit www.news-republic.com Twitter: @NewsRepublic
Investor
Oct 2013
MariaDB is a new generation cloud database company whose products are used by companies big and small, reaching more than a billion users through Linux distributions and have been downloaded over one billion times. Deployed in minutes and maintained with ease, leveraging cloud automation, our database products are engineered to support any workload, any cloud and any scale – all while saving up to 90% of proprietary database costs. Trusted by organizations such as Bandwidth, DigiCert, InfoArmor, Oppenheimer, Samsung, SelectQuote and SpendHQ, MariaDB’s software is the backbone of critical services that people rely on every day. Learn more at mariadb.com.
Investor
Sep 2013
RocketSim™ solves functional verification bottlenecks by complementing simulators with a Multicore processor based acceleration solution that offers 5-10X faster simulations for complex designs. RocketSim solves the simulator’s bottleneck challenge by offloading most time-consuming calculations to an ultra-fast multithreaded engine. Unlike hardware based accelerators, RocketSim works from within the familiar simulator environment and runs alongside the existing test bench, eliminating ramp-up time while providing 4-state bit-precise results. RocketSim supports large and complex designs (over 10 billion gates), while offering full visibility of your design. RocketSim enables expending the verification scope to include larger designs and more complex tests.
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2013
Mobile Application Platform for Enterprise FeedHenry was acquired by Red Hat Inc. in 2014. The company provides a Mobile Application Platform that accelerates development & collaboration on enterprise mobility projects, giving organizations greater agility, visibility and efficiency. The platform offers a suite of features that embrace collaborative app development across multiple teams and projects, flexible and open development toolkits, centralized control of security & backend integration, and a choice of cloud and on-premise deployment options.. Utilizing open and highly scalable technologies, FeedHenry takes advantage of cloud and RESTful APIs, to deliver a faster return and sustainable mobile innovation. For more information visit us on www.feedhenry.com.
Investor
Mar 2013
Eko is a technology company that’s building a limitless platform for creating and publishing interactive, choice-driven video experiences. From commerce-connected creative to choice-driven narrative worlds, we enable our platform users to build experiences that engage their audiences more deeply and convert them more effectively. We license our platform to customers like retailers, agencies, and brands, and we help those customers achieve their dreams by supporting the experiences they build on our platform end-to-end We are building a software solution suite that currently consists of Discovery Engines, Try & Buys and Inspiration Hubs. At eko, we believe in a creative approach to everything, no matter what role we’re in. We believe in meaningful choice, at work and in life. We’re software developers and spray paint artists, poets and producers, fantasy sports fans and financial whizzes, chess-heads and UXperts, pop culture nerds and product managers, data wizards and yoga instructors. We’re from all over the world, and we have as many stories as we do people. We can’t wait to hear yours. Eko investors include Innovation Endeavors, Intel Capital, Marker, MGM, NEA, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, Sony, Warner Music Group, and WPP. The company is based in New York with an office in Tel Aviv. Visit our website to see our open positions, and head to eko.engineering to see developer jobs.
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Oct 2012
Indisys has successfully mirrored human intelligence, placing voice and natural language at customers' service. This new generation of intelligent agents provides affordable high-end solutions for intelligent customer relationship management. Indisys’ new breathtaking technology, has blown away the old existing barriers imposed by other dialogue systems. Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Science and User-Centered Design have been carefully combined into Indisys’ recipe for success. We are proud to provide high-end solutions in domains where Natural Language and Dialogue Intelligence may optimize the customer’s experience. ********************** Indisys ha desarrollado una tecnología única que rompe con muchas de las barreras actuales de otros sistemas de diálogo, aunando tecnología punta en Inteligencia Artificial, Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural y Ciencia Cognitiva, con el Diseño Centrado en el Usuario (UCD) y una gran experiencia en las necesidades de clientes y usuarios finales. Nuestra misión es proporcionar soluciones de calidad en entornos donde el Lenguaje Natural y el Diálogo Inteligente pueden facilitar enormemente la interacción de los usuarios con sistemas informatizados.
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2023
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Mar 2023
Kilonova Capital ("KC") is a San Francisco based asset manager that invests in special situation financings and buyouts of proven, private technology companies. KC provides structured, disciplined capital and invests across both the life-cycle and capital structure of a company. KC has a particular focus on non-conforming investment opportunities including recapitalizations, divestitures, MBOs and other special situations. KC structures its investments to align interests of shareholders and management and provides value added capital to operate and scale the company. KCs operating model leverages extensive institutional relationships and proprietary analytics and AI to originate target transactions, the investment team’s deep history in special situations structuring, and an deep roster of Silicon Valley veterans to rapidly enhance portfolio company value. KC invests across core technology sectors (software, internet & digital media, eCommerce, data & analytics, fintech and frontier technology), deploying $25-100mm checks over the life of a single investment.
2019
Skylake Capital
Founder & General Partner
Oct 2019
2018
Investor
Nov 2018
4iQ and Alto Analytics have joined to become Constella Intelligence. Visit constellaintelligence.com to learn more. Constella Intelligence is a leading global Digital Risk Protection business that works in partnership with some of the world’s largest organizations to safeguard what matters most and defeat digital risk. Its solutions are broad, collaborative and scalable, powered by a unique combination of proprietary data, technology and human expertise—including the largest breach data collection on the planet, with over 100 billion attributes and 45 billion curated identity records spanning 125 countries and 53 languages.
Investor
May 2018
Founded in 2014, IronNet Cybersecurity is a global cybersecurity leader that is revolutionizing how enterprises, industries, and governments secure their networks. IronNet takes the skills of its top-notch cybersecurity operators with their real-world, public and private sector, offensive and defensive cyber experience, and integrates their deep tradecraft knowledge into its industry-leading products to solve the most challenging cyber problems facing industry today. IronNet’s solutions leverage behavioral analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques to help public and private enterprises across critical infrastructure detect unknown threats. Our ability to share the derived raw intelligence with peer enterprises in real-time and at machine speed, uniquely enables industries and governments to collectively defend against well-funded nation state and cyber criminal threats.
2016
Managing Partner
Sep 2016
C5 Capital is a specialist Venture Capital Firm focused on cybersecurity, space and energy security.
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