Lorenzo Niola Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Ge, Ch

Lausanne Metropolitan Area

✔️ Boosting Go-To-Market, fostering collaboration with logistic and mobility corporations, fundraising, and strategic business development. Emission free logistics and mobility, energy efficiency, sustainability and cost reduction, Swisspod drivetrain technology is designed in a modular way enabling different system configurations.✔️ Commercial strategy and plans roll-out for business expansions, exploring future growth opportunities for additional value generation in freight and passengers transportation. ✔️ Capturing customer & market insights interacting with key logistic customers and governments to gain valuable insights on customer needs, use cases, ROI models and gaps in the PMF. ✔️ Improving value proposition & working collaborate closely with product development to ensure that customer insights are reflected in product roadmaps.✔️ Designing and executing fundraising + sales strategies but also building up/managing the ecosystem including industry partners and engage with stakeholders.

Lausanne Metropolitan Area

✔️ Exploring GTM strategies✔️ Designing and executing strategic business and corporate development plans ✔️ Fundraising support

Helping define the strategic direction, act as ambassadors for open source cause and for the association, and advise on policy and legal issues.

Geneva, Switzerland

✔️ Helping emerging fintech and health tech VC funds in managing deal flow and investment opportunities✔️ Building and nurturing startup communities around emerging VC funds✔️ Advising M&A Boutiques on climate/construction/mobility/logistics and renewable tech deals✔️ Supporting regulated industries startups in building partnership and fundraising

Geneva Area, Switzerland

✔️ Designed/implemented and managed 3 startup programs/cohorts✔️ Built a 4k members community and ecosystem across the globe including VCs, Family Offices, Corporations, UN agencies, NGOs, Foundations among all stakeholders✔️ 29 portfolio companies raised over $35M increasing the valuation by 70% before/after the program✔️ 92 countries of origin of screened ventures (2400 companies in the pipeline)✔️ Created +350 jobs, reached 110M people and positively impacted✔️ Reduced k tons of CO2

Kuwait City (Kuwait) / Milan (Italy)

Accelerator Associate:✔ Launched a startup acceleration program in Kuwait✔ Managed 2 ventures incubation programs in Italy✔ Worked with donors, development banks and international agencies to support entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan and Sierra Leone, such as World Bank, Ministries of Finance and Economy✔ International cooperation projects to develop the private sector and the entrepreneurial ecosystemMarket Development:✔ Launched a SaaS platform to support high-school teachers and students to fill the tech gap (Abylia)✔ Market analysis and in-depth research to assess the edtech scene in Italy✔ Strong collaboration together with the Italian Ministry of Education✔ Co-create content and track students KPIs

Launched and sold a marketplace in the automotive space with a focus on OEM-ODM car spare parts (mainly fast moving components).

Milan Area, Italy

International M&A operations within the medical sector, environment, mechanical and diagnostic technology.✔ Market analysis and in-depth research to assess strategic opportunities✔ Strong collaboration along with clients both on sell-side and buy-side✔ Financial and investment readiness with several clients mainly in Pharma, Mechanical, Biotech, Health sectors✔ Financial metrics and due-diligence with clients✔ Building spin-off with a focus on Venture Capital Investments, later Growth Capital

Varese Area, Italy

Helped students to learn and discover entrepreneurship from a different perspective.✔ Coordinating projects solving real startup issues✔ Design thinking to support students in their path✔ Monitoring progress and coach them to boost innovative solutions

Brussels Area, Belgium

Open innovation with large corporations from all over the world, connecting them with EU scaleups. ✔ Engagement of entrepreneurs, innovation managers, C-level✔ Fostering collaboration and innovation in tech, energy, banking, telco, insurance✔ Community building and connecting the dots within the ecosystem (deal-flow of +2000 scaleups and +30 corporates)✔ Co-create content/events and partnerships development

San Francisco (Us) / Milan (Italy)

Accelerated +70 startups from all over the world.✔ Coach and mentoring, connection with investors ✔ Access to a unique ecosystem and network in Silicon Valley✔ Co-create content/events and partnerships development

Århus Area, Denmark

Financial analysis and evaluation of the expansion plan✔ Monitoring current processes and financials✔ Value Stream Mapping✔ Analyzing different options to outsource part of the production and reduce costs✔ Optimization of internal procedures and assets

Venture Capital, Business Angels & Start Ups

Workshop with Prof. Henning Piezunka

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Business Administration, Management And Operations

Activities and Societies: Aiesec at UnipmnMaster thesis "Informal investor as major driver of innovation, Business angels' criteria.

Global Business Engineering, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Odder Rugby Klub

B.Sc., Financial Markets And Intermediaries

Bachelor's Thesis "Analysis and Reclassification of the Consolidated Annual Report 2008-2010 DiaSorin".