Alessandro Vigilante leads the team responsible for originating startups’ partnerships and strategic investments at Fidelity, which involves identifying startups worldwide that best match Fidelity’s strategic growth initiatives.
He holds a Master of Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from SDA Bocconi, which included an exchange at London Business School.
VC Unlocked had a massive impact on starting my career as an early stage investor: I knew nothing about executing early stage deals ahead of the class, and in 4 days I gained the knowledge, and confidence, to be able to understand the mechanics of the entire process. I don’t feel I can lead an investment process yet, but I’ve learnt what questions to ask, and I have a good understanding of the terms of a deal from a legal and a financial point of view.
The principles of stage investing (vs investing in the public market) have made a tremendous impact on how I think about the venture asset class.
The collection of possible clauses and options in a term sheet, and their impact on the cap table throughout funding rounds, gave me a mental structure that is of tremendous value from the first deal, and that I think will progressively make decisions more intuitive.
Whether you’ve never done early stage investment deals (which is where I was), or you’ve done a few, the mental framework that you’ll get in just 4 days (in particular the connection between deal terms and cap table) will build confidence and automatism that will help you make better and faster deal decisions.
VC Unlocked had a massive impact on starting my career as an early stage investor: I knew nothing about executing early stage deals ahead of the class, and in 4 days I gained the knowledge, and confidence, to be able to understand the mechanics of the entire process. I don’t feel I can lead an investment process yet, but I’ve learnt what questions to ask, and I have a good understanding of the terms of a deal from a legal and a financial point of view.
The principles of stage investing (vs investing in the public market) have made a tremendous impact on how I think about the venture asset class.
The collection of possible clauses and options in a term sheet, and their impact on the cap table throughout funding rounds, gave me a mental structure that is of tremendous value from the first deal, and that I think will progressively make decisions more intuitive.
Whether you’ve never done early stage investment deals (which is where I was), or you’ve done a few, the mental framework that you’ll get in just 4 days (in particular the connection between deal terms and cap table) will build confidence and automatism that will help you make better and faster deal decisions.