We're excited to announce our investment in Silicon Roundabout Ventures, a £5 million SuperAngel Deep Tech pre/seed fund by Francesco Perticarari. Backing Silicon Roundabout Ventures is a bet on Francesco. We’ve known Francesco for three years now and following his journey, unwavering hustle and community grow has been an inspiration. Francesco brings a strong technical background as a former CTO/Lead Software Engineer at deep tech startups and the University of London and has made 15 angel investments, 12 of which are within Deep Tech/Big Data and are progressing well. We love Francesco for his community-driven approach leveraging his community of 15,000+ founders and engineers, built through more than 600 deep tech meetup events held in London since 2011. As an example of the opportunity this community presents, the 26 pitch competition winners from 2016 - 2020 have a combined enterprise value of £6.3 billion. The ecosystem Francesco has built around himself and plugged the fund into clearly provides unique access for SRV. Francesco and the team at Silicon Roundabout Ventures invest in "Next-Generation technology startups" across five categories: Technical: Leveraging in-house science and engineering expertise Infrastructural: Solving large-scale global problems at the infrastructure level Defensible: Building fundamental hardware or low-level software with strong IP Trend-Setting: Disrupting industries with 1B+ revenue potential in 10+ years Global Impact: Addressing key challenges in Computing, Climate, Health, and Defense With this investment, we cement and announce to the world that we believe Silicon Roundabout Ventures is well-positioned to build one of Europe’s new truly meaningful deep tech firms. If you'd like an intro to Francesco, don't hesitate to reach out 💌 Chapters: 02:32 Francesco's Journey into Venture Capital03:27 Building Silicon Roundabout Ventures05:50 Defining Deep Tech08:20 Challenges of Being a Solo GP15:58 Leveraging Community for Investment Success20:44 The Origin and Growth of the Tech Meetup Community27:06 Impact and Achievements of the Community29:02 Understanding Enterprise Value29:09 Challenges of Raising a Fund30:18 Angel Investing and Fund Commitments31:11 Evaluating Early-Stage Companies32:08 The AI Investment Landscape33:01 Sector-Specific AI Investments33:51 Fund Size and Investment Strategy36:51 Deep Tech and Emerging Sectors43:24 Fund Economics and Allocation Strategy50:11 Vision for Silicon Roundabout Ventures