Andrea Gurnari
Podcast appearances as guest
Episode 12 - Andrea Gurnari from 2100VC
In this episode, I sit down with Andrea Gurnari, partner and founder at 2100VC.
On the podcast
Andrea moved from Italy to the UK in 2010 and worked at Bloomberg, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs before leading product at a pre-seed B2B SaaS startup through its seed round and acquisition.
After an MBA at London Business School Andrea worked at Connect Ventures and Atomico before co-founding 2100 Ventures.
2100 Ventures has three partners, all named Andrea, two based in London; its main LP is Alessandro Benetton.
2100 Ventures started with 30 million of committed capital.
2100 Ventures' advisers include Luca Ascani, Raffaele Terrone and Stefano Bernardi.
2100 Ventures plans 60–70 investments and had made about 30.
Emerging managers in Europe typically raise between 10 and 30 million.
The Benetton family holding, about 15 billion across some 80 companies, gives 2100's portfolio a network to tap.
2100's B2B thesis covers digitising the old economy, decarbonisation and climate tech, and "new units of value" in infrastructure, data, AI and fintech infrastructure.
2100 invested in Swap, an e-commerce operating system with a fintech component, and in a company building AI agents for the buy side.