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Sebastian Lombardo

Financial Entrepreneur in Tech & BioTech

📍 Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg🔄 Updated November 2026💼 7 investments📅 28 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2019
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Founding Investor and Strategic Advisor
Jan 1999
Founding shareholder and strategic advisor of Emailvision
Oct 1998
Marketers spend billions on attracting customers and yet more than 70% of first time interactions with a brand are also the last. At SmartFocus, we understand that every customer is on a unique journey. Motivations to try, buy or stay loyal change depending on the individual making the choice. Trusted by over 600 customers, Message Cloud by SmartFocus sends out 60 billion personalized interactions and 7 million email campaigns annually – the customer has control, but you have the power to influence. Message Cloud encompasses everything marketers desire with their digital strategies – enabling them to own every customer moment, with a decisioning engine that creates contextualized messages triggered by customer behavior, not by the marketers guess. It allows businesses to eradicate conversion kerbing obstacles, through smart and crowd insights, email and personalization across any device – all on one powerful platform. SmartFocus empowers businesses to influence their valuable customer journeys, connecting and engaging with them at every treasured touch point. At SmartFocus, we created Message Cloud to redefine context-driven marketing and put an end to marketers asking the common questions, why aren’t our campaigns engaging our customer base? Why is our revenue decreasing when marketing efforts have doubled? Mobile commerce is becoming the norm, how can we keep up? Using our software will bring customers into contact with your brand, whatever the device, whatever the channel. It’s a personalized and unforgettable experience. - Forrester Research, Inc. cited the SmartFocus Message Cloud as a Strong Performer among real-time interaction management suites in its inaugural Wave report on the fast growing RTIM market - Forrester Research, Inc. named The Message Cloud as a Strong Performer in their Wave report The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management, Q2 2016, with the highest score possible in five criteria
Experience · 16 entries
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2024
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Oct 2024
Sigma Nova is a Gen AI lab focused on developing foundation models that will power scientific breakthroughs. We aim to foster a partnership model to unlock diverse data sets from institutions, corporations and academics while building interdisciplinary teams to tackle complex challenges.
2023
Founder, Chairman
Jan 2023
See that logo up there? The one that looks kind of like a dollar sign with an exclamation mark? That’s our commitment right there. Capital $ and "action" ! Not one or the other. Both. Because when we invest, we not only invest capital, we throw in our own time and expertise, our experience and our network of people. We create bridges, shortcuts, nuts and bolts to the engine room. When we invest, we’re part of the action. Capital on a mission is Sebastian Lombardo and Canel Frichet-Lombardo Family office.
early stage
2022
Limited Partner
Jun 2022
Planet First Partners is a growth equity platform that invests in and partners with disruptive entrepreneurs to scale tech-enabled businesses that combine a purpose-driven mission, profitable growth, and a people-centric culture. As an Article 9 fund, Planet First Partners applies rigorous methodology for sustainable investing and commits to always follow the highest standards and strictest criteria. Founded in 2020, Planet First Partners is made up of a highly experienced, qualified team of investment and sustainability experts focused on maximising and optimising sustainability. The team is complemented by a mission-aligned advisory board, made up of global business and political leaders.
early stage
2021
Co-Founder & Chairman
Oct 2021
A new model of development based on a regenerative and positive footprint engagement. Our project is supported by an active community in the heart of nature. Our shared goal to regenerate the land for the future of our planet.
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