Silicon Roundabout Ventures

    <Who We Are/>

    We are a Community-Driven VC firm backing Deep Tech founders with extreme conviction at pre-seed and seed stages.

    We back founders starting out in Europe who are "sub-0.1% of the population" type of exceptional, obsessively building novel technology companies for the long term in critical areas like Computing, Defence, and Energy.

    <Team/>

    General Partner

    Francesco Perticarari

    Francesco Perticarari

    General Partner

    I'm a computer scientist who built the largest European deeptech meetup (15k members) and ended up investing as an angel in the sector. Some of my angel portfolio companies are now clocking £40m+ in revenue or part of national security contracts, but in deeptech that's still early days. In total I wrote 17 personal cheques including the likes of edge & GPU cloud leader Ori Industries, Quantum Photonics pioneer Aegiq, or holography world-leader Vivid-Q.

    In 2023 I launched Silicon Roundabout Ventures as a soloGP fund in the UK from which I'm now investing from. We focus on writing first cheques in pre-seed and angel rounds (which we sometimes lead). I closed the fund at just over its £5m target and got backing by the likes of Molten Ventures (LSE:GROW), Multiple Capital, and exited founders and operators including 1 Nasdaq listed & 3 unicorn companies.

    My mission? To build Europe's first community-driven and truly pan-European VC firm built by technical folks exclusively for deeptech pre-seed and seed founders.

    Public keynote speaker and guest lecturer on deeptech and VC at the likes of Super Venture / Super Return (Berlin), Mobile World Congress (Barcelona), Hello Tomorrow (Paris), London Tech Week, The London Institute of Banking and Finance (London), ASP (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), the European GNSS Agency (Prague).

    Venture Partners

    Olivia Nicoletti, PhD

    Olivia Nicoletti, PhD

    Nanophysicist and Spinout Expert

    Ex Cambridge Enterprise
    Ralph King

    Ralph King

    Exited CTO & Tech Whiz

    Building our VC superpowers
    Maria Grazia Vigliotti, PhD

    Maria Grazia Vigliotti, PhD

    AI & Cybersecurity Expert

    Angel investor & Entrepreneur

    <Our Story/>

    2011

    Silicon Roundabout Begins

    First Silicon Roundabout meetup of engineers, scientists, builders and founders near the Old Street Roundabout in London.

    2016

    First Pitching Event

    First main show and tell pitching event for the community.

    2017

    DeepTech Focus

    Community focus specialises on deeptech, from advanced software to hardware and science startups.

    2019

    First Investment

    Francesco's first angel cheque into a community startup.

    2020

    Going Hybrid

    Community goes hybrid because of Covid forcing it online and its doors suddenly open to the whole of Europe.

    2022

    Fund Vision

    Francesco drops his engineering career and pursuits to focus entirely on investing and launching 'a deeptech fund as a business soul for our community'.

    2023

    Our Fund Launches

    Silicon Roundabout Ventures starts operations with a warehoused investment and a first closing in December 2022.

    2024

    Fund 1 Closes

    Silicon Roundabout Ventures fund 1 closes just above its £5m target and its first investment, Anaphite, closes its Series A follow on round.

    Now

    Building the Future

    We continue our journey building a new kind of financial institution at the intersection of Venture Capital, Science and Community!

    Check out our Build in Public blog The people we backed so far