Accelerating Returns

Diego Calligaro CEO of ICEO Technologies, interviews Jon Staenberg, who has made more than 350 angel investments and managed portfolios exceeding $400 million. He is the Founder of Agate Hound Fund, the world’s first Fund of Funds investing in search funds. In this conversation, Jon Steinberg discusses his journey in the investment world, focusing on search funds and entrepreneurship through acqui...

Diego Calligaro interviews Patricia Pastor, a General Partner at NextTier Ventures, and discusses her experience managing over €150 million in VC funds, including a new €50 million AI-focused fund. The conversation covers the evolution of AI investment from a niche field to a booming industry, her process for identifying red flags and promising startups, and key traits for successful founders. Pat...

Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Kartik Gada, a renowned futurist who teaches finance and technology at Stanford University, has raised $800 million in investments, and has managed many M&As. In this conversation, Kartik explores how accelerating technological change is reshaping the economy and society. He highlights the deflationary impact of technology and the growing role of...

Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Mirco Patroncini, the Chief Technology Officer of Lastminute.com, a publicly traded company in the traveltech industry with over 1.400 employees. Mirco has also held leadership positions in several corporations, like the 1.2 billion dollar YOOX-Net-a-Porter. Mirco shares insights into his leadership philosophy, the importance of people in technology,...

Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Roland Austrup, the Chairman and Co-founder of a $1.7 Billion hedge fund, and Chief Growth Officer of Innventure, a public conglomerate listed on NASDAQ that creates billion-dollar companies by using the uncommercialized technologies of multinationals. He discusses the systemic process to identify opportunities and build billion-dollar companies, the...

Diego Calligaro of ICEO Technologies interviews Andriy Burkov, one of the most influencial AI expert in the world. He is the author of several AI best-selling books like The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book, and has over 1 million AI enthusiasts who follow his insights in his LinkedIn newsletter and social media platforms. In this conversation Andriy discusses the limitations of Large Language M...

Diego Calligaro, CEO of ICEO Technologies, interviews Xavier Castellana, the CFO of Amenitiz, and former CFO of Typeform (almost $1 billion valuation), and Travelperk ($2.7 billions valuation). Xavier has raised more than $350 million in equity investments and financing for his startups and has managed 3 exits in his career. In this episode, Xavier shares his valuable insights on leadership, fundr...

Diego Calligaro interviews Antonio Avitabile, the Managing Director Europe of Sony Innovation Fund, the Venture Capital arm of Sony. In this conversation, Antonio discusses the importance of responsible investing, particularly in the context of venture capital. He emphasizes the need for investors to consider the impact of their investments on future generations and the world at large. Antonio out...

Thomas Bigagli has invested in 200+ startups from pre-seed to Series A as venture capitalists and angel investors, helping them scale and achieve key milestones. Thomas is a Partner at Plug and Play, one of the world’s most active Venture Capital funds with 2% of global unicorns in its portfolio and the largest Open Innovation Platform. He oversees investments and empowers teams across 30+ Plug an...

Stephane Nasser is the founder of the investment platform OpenVC. The startups using OpenVC have raised over $1 billion from major investors such as Google, Sequoia, and NASA. In this interview we delve into the structure of Venture Capital funding, psychological triggers, ROI expectations, how to win VCs, the role of AI in VCs, harsh realities, poverty and investment scams. 00:00 Introduction to...

Diego Calligaro interviews Serap Zel. Serap Zel has been the HR Director of Maersk, BIC, and HR Partner of Meta in Europe, US and Middle East. She is now CEO of Uplift People Consulting which have hired top talent across 50 countries and 27 industries. Serap has run many leadership programs within major multinationals and she has personally hired over 700+ employees and 100+ C-level executives in...

Diego Calligaro interviews David Adams. David drives the energy transition by leading multi-billion-dollar investments in the energy supply chain for Gotion, one of the world’s largest energy storage companies with over $5 billions in revenue. Over his career, David has also founded 3 successful companies, raised $90 million in venture capital, early investor of 2 public companies, involved in 20...

Diego Calligaro interviews Enrico Milovan, the Scaleup Acceleration Head of the incubator dedicated to helping PIF's companies launch and scale in their first year of life. The PIF is the 925 Billions dollars public investment fund of Saudi Arabia and one of the largest funds in the world. Follow us: Instagram: @accelerating.returns Linkedin: Diego Calligaro X: @DiegoCalligaro

Diego Calligaro interviews Kevin Henshaw, our first guest on the Accelerating Returns podcast. In today's episode we're going to talk about his experience in business, what it was like to scale the world's largest web3 metaverse to 300M users. How he scaled the company from start-up to over 400 employees, generating over 1 billion dollars in revenue, raising over 70 million dollars in funding and...

In this episode I will present you why we are launching Accelerating Returns and what you can expect from this.