Umberto Bottesini

Co-Founder & General Partner at BlackSheep Ventures. Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Professor, AI expert.

📍 Milan, Lombardy, Italy🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Italy
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Jun 2020
The first Italian Independent Alternative Investment Fund Manager for deep tech startups
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Oct 2018
GoVolt specializes in offering customized logistics services to corporate clients. The company provides three kinds of services: 1. Mobile app controlled electric moped and kick-scooter monthly rentals with logistics and maintenance services in the B2B segment. 2. Custom delivery services on an hourly basis; comprised of a driver with an electric scooter, an thermic backpack, a helmet and a smartphone. 3. Moped and kick-scooter sharing fleet logistics management for sharing operators: battery swaps, vehicle search and rescues, vehicle relocation, broken vehicle transport. We are working with top Italian and Multi-National brands to optimize logistics by providing a connected, green, synergistic and custom-made service that can serve small one-location companies as well as multi-city store chains. We render services to clients in the following industries: - Food & Beverage - Clothing - Pharmacy - Jewelry - Postage Visit our website to find out how our company can support your business needs!
Chief Digital & Data Officer - Executive Board Member
Jan 2016
We are dentsu. We team together to help brands predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. We know people better than anyone else and we use those insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. We are the network designed for what’s next.
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Sep 2015
Genenta (Nasdaq: GNTA) is a clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing a proprietary hematopoietic stem cells therapy for the treatment of a variety of solid tumor cancers. Genentas first in class product candidate is Temferon™, which is designed to allow the expression of immune-therapeutic payloads within the tumor microenvironment by bone marrow derived myeloid cells and enable a durable and targeted response. Genenta has completed a Phase 1 trial for newly diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme patients with an unmethylated MGMT gene promoter, which suggests the potential reprogramming of the tumor microenvironment and inhibiting of myeloid induced tolerance, while allowing the induction of T cell responses, potentially breaking immune tolerance. Genenta has initiated in Q4 2024 a Phase 1/2a metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma study that will also include combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Our treatments are designed as one-time monotherapies, but with the additional potential, when used in combination, to significantly enhance the efficacy of other approved therapeutics.
Experience · 12 entries
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2020
Co-Founder & General Partner
Nov 2020
BlackSheep is the first European venture capital fund with an entrepreneurial background that invests in high-potential technology-based companies focused on AI, Big Data, Automation, and its b2b applications for enterprises, from Seed to Round B. We are witnessing a major shift: the operational workforce of the future will increasingly be software — automated, intelligent, and effortless. Built by humans, and led by humans. We have the mission to invest in companies based on AI, Big Data, and RPA (namely robotic process automation) which are developing next-generation SaaS solutions that enable enterprises to plan, orchestrate, and optimize millions of personalized business decisions, in an explicit consumer’s consent framework. Europe is our playground.
Investor
Jun 2020
The first Italian Independent Alternative Investment Fund Manager for deep tech startups
2019
Qreative
Ceo & Founder
Sep 2019
2018
Rolling Pandas
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Nov 2018
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Oct 2018
GoVolt specializes in offering customized logistics services to corporate clients. The company provides three kinds of services: 1. Mobile app controlled electric moped and kick-scooter monthly rentals with logistics and maintenance services in the B2B segment. 2. Custom delivery services on an hourly basis; comprised of a driver with an electric scooter, an thermic backpack, a helmet and a smartphone. 3. Moped and kick-scooter sharing fleet logistics management for sharing operators: battery swaps, vehicle search and rescues, vehicle relocation, broken vehicle transport. We are working with top Italian and Multi-National brands to optimize logistics by providing a connected, green, synergistic and custom-made service that can serve small one-location companies as well as multi-city store chains. We render services to clients in the following industries: - Food & Beverage - Clothing - Pharmacy - Jewelry - Postage Visit our website to find out how our company can support your business needs!
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