We are delighted to announce that Giuseppe Zocco, Co Founder of Index Ventures is joining the VC Panel at the DD Summit Europe. Giuseppe co-founded Index Ventures in 1996 and is a Partner. His investment focus currently includes e-commerce and online services, software and advanced communication components.
Giuseppe serves as a Director of several companies including RPX, Privalia, Adconion, Mutui Online, Milestone Systems, Ozon.ru and Moleskine. He was involved with several prior investments, including Virata (acquired by Conexant), Ciao (acquired by Microsoft), Numerical Technologies (acquired by Synopsis), and Digiquant (acquired by Intec).
Prior to founding Index Ventures, Giuseppe spent five years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in several European offices. During his career at McKinsey, Giuseppe advised several major corporations on a number of strategic and organizational matters including European entry strategies, strategic positioning, marketing, and new product introductions.
Giuseppe holds a B.A. in Corporate Finance from Bocconi University in Milan and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a leading venture capital firm specializing in investments in information technology and life sciences companies. The firm invests in seed, early and growth stage start-ups across US and Europe.
Since its inception in 1996, Index Ventures has backed visionary entrepreneurs who have taken on incumbents and built seminal companies in a number of growth sectors including: open source software companies such as MySQL, Trolltech, Zend and Pentaho; broadband and VOIP companies such as Virata, Skype, FON and Rebtel; Internet service companies such as Dropbox, Path, Betfair, Oanda, Last.fm, SpotRunner, Lovefilm, Stardoll and Netvibes; and life science companies such as Genmab, ParAllele Biosciences, BioXell, 7TM Pharma, Addex Pharmaceutical and PanGenetics.
