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Co-founder and Investment Partner at InReach Ventures the first software powered investment firm to be fully focused on the early stage European sector.
Previously Roberto spent 8 years as a partner at Balderton Capital (Benchmark Europe), one of the largest European venture funds with $2.3bn under management. During his tenure at Balderton, Roberto invested in European and US companies such as: Wooga, SaatchiArt (acquired by DemandMadia), Mixtent (acquired by Facebook), Blingnation, Banjo, Friend.ly (acquired by Facebook), Vivino, Lifecake (acquired by Canon), Depop, Tictail and Adludio. 
I am not an average Mechanical Engineer.
Of course, I know how to calculate heat, design with a factor of safety, analyzing processes and develop a maintenance plan for mechanical systems. However, I'm also an entrepreneur, without fear of new challenges, who loves innovation, multicultural, highly motivated and with excellent communication and interpersonal skills (and also good organizing parties, I've been told).
In middle school I started to explore the internet, in high school took some web design classes. In uni during my engineering courses, I designed a couple of websites, participated in the creation of a car for Formula SAE, part of AIESEC and the student government. Worked at Schlumberger where I managed operations of 7-8 digits USD each, created maintenance manuals for all the parts used in the Rig-Up. After I went to France, where I studied French and also created some websites before starting to work at Jumia.
At Jumia (backed by Rocket Internet, Goldman Sachs, Orange, AXA, MTN) I worked in the SEM and Metasearch teams that were responsible for +35% of the bookings and had a growth of 350% for SEM & 230% for Tripadvisor, reducing the cost by 55.92%. After that period, the CMO allowed me to lead the Mobile team and manage a significant budget for launching apps and ensure a high retention of the acquired users.
After few months, I realized that I wanted to move to Europe's Silicon Valley (Berlin) & I started working at Jobpal (500 Startups) where I had the opportunity to learn about AI, set all the marketing strategy for both B2B & B2C side. Few months after, I landed @Medlanes where I managed the marketing (B2B & B2C), BI team and product. I got super interested in web3 when the DAO came out and started to contribute to the ecosystem. I joined as CMO & CIO @Brickblock a platform for tokenizing Real World assets (RWA), there I managed the fundraising campaign (ICO + VC), product and our portfolio. After, I joined the MetaCartel one of the first grants DAO on Ethereum, contributed to ETHBerlin, devcon and major web3 events, joined multiple teams for helping them with fundraising, hiring, product, go to market strategies, growth, tokenomics and others. Launched an NFT platform (currently closed). Since then I have been an operator, advisor, investor and event producer in the web3 space.
In a nutshell, my passion for innovation and entrepreneurship is coupled with a good sense of humor, love for my family and friends and great motivations for improving day over day while doing what I love.
ManuAlzuru 
