Nicola Avi, MBA

Advisor & Investor - Private Equity | Impact & Sustainable Investing | Board Member | Operating Partner | C-level Expertise: Business Strategy, Change Management, Business Development, M&A

📍 Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2021
Angel investor🌍 Switzerland
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Apr 2021
Forma Vision provides a real-time volumetric video conferencing service for a truly natural collaboration experience.
Seed Investor / Shareholder
Jun 2014
Kacific is a next-generation broadband satellite operator. We are committed to providing universal, fast, high-quality broadband access at an affordable cost using robust technologies and an agile business model. Founded by Christian Patouraux, and developed in 2013 by a core team of senior satellite professionals, Kacific is backed by a group of investors with experience in global telecommunications and infrastructure. Our first Ka-band high throughput satellite, Kacific1, launched on 16 December 2019 to stream high-speed, affordable, ultra-reliable broadband to rural and suburban areas of Asia Pacific. Kacific is a wholesale business selling to telecommunications operators, internet service providers, governments, and other service providers.
Experience · 4 entries
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Investments (2)
2021
Investor
Apr 2021
Forma Vision provides a real-time volumetric video conferencing service for a truly natural collaboration experience.
2018
Partner
Jan 2018
Astraco is an independent, innovative platform combining the opportunity offered by the potential of Italian Lower Mid Market with the strategic benefits of a sustainability-based investment approach. Headquartered in Milan (Italy), founded in 2018, it is controlled and managed by four partners: Nino Dell’Arte, Bernardo Calculli, Laura Della Chiara and Gianni Dini, plus a team of investment professionals with a solid background of private equity, advisory and management. Astraco investors are successful entrepreneurs that have built their wealth in the Italian economy. They provide expertise, vision and relationships. The investment strategy is oriented toward sustainability across a variety of sectors. Target companies must fit at least into one of the following categories: environment, social and well being or companies facing business transitional risk. Astraco offers direct co-investment opportunities in the Italian Lower Mid Market to family offices and institutional investors with a flexible and transparent approach.
2014
Seed Investor / Shareholder
Jun 2014
Kacific is a next-generation broadband satellite operator. We are committed to providing universal, fast, high-quality broadband access at an affordable cost using robust technologies and an agile business model. Founded by Christian Patouraux, and developed in 2013 by a core team of senior satellite professionals, Kacific is backed by a group of investors with experience in global telecommunications and infrastructure. Our first Ka-band high throughput satellite, Kacific1, launched on 16 December 2019 to stream high-speed, affordable, ultra-reliable broadband to rural and suburban areas of Asia Pacific. Kacific is a wholesale business selling to telecommunications operators, internet service providers, governments, and other service providers.
2007
Director Marketing, Sales & New Products / Deputy Managing Director at SCHOTT Italvetro S.p.a.
Jan 2007
Pioneering – responsibly – together. These attributes characterize SCHOTT as a manufacturer of high-tech materials for specialty glass. Founder Otto Schott is considered its inventor and became the pioneer of an entire industry. Always opening up new markets and applications with a pioneering spirit and passion – this is what has driven the #glasslovers at SCHOTT for more than 130 years. Represented in 33 countries, the company is a highly skilled partner for high-tech industries: Healthcare, Home Appliances & Living, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors & Datacom, Optics, Industry & Energy, Automotive, Astronomy, and Aerospace. In the fiscal year 2022, its 17,200 employees generated sales of 2.8 billion euros. With the best teams, supported by the best digital tools, the group intends to continue to grow. SCHOTT AG is owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, one of the oldest foundations in Germany. It uses the Groups dividends to promote science. As a foundation company, SCHOTT has anchored responsibility for employees, society and the environment deeply in its DNA. The goal is to become a climate-neutral company by 2030. Imprint: https://www.schott.com/en-gb/imprint Data protection information: https://www.schott.com/en-gb/legal-social