Tommaso Di Bartolo [Entrepreneur. Faculty. Author. Investor. Philanthropist] Information

Serial Entrepreneur and Startup Investor, Author, Advisor, and Faculty at the University of California Berkeley. Tommaso has built four tech startups from scratch and has two exits under his belt. Tommaso is passionate about sharing his lessons learned from nearly two decades of entrepreneurial tech expertise as a frequent global keynote speaker and as an advisor to some of Silicon Valley's most renowned startup accelerators such as Google Launchpad, Draper University, and The Alchemist. He is a faculty member at UC Berkeley running a class on entrepreneurship in the field of Robotics and Autonomous Systems and serves the roles of guest lecturer at Stanford University. Based in Silicon Valley, Tommaso’s current firms include Awesm Ventures, an early-stage investment firm that, unlike others, partners with mobility corporations to drive external innovation by leveraging data-driven startups. And The SiliconVal.ly Institute, that provides immersive educational courses and MBAs to corporate executives focusing on digital transformation and corporate innovation, in collaboration with global top universities. "My current mission is to contribute to reducing the failure rate for innovation! I do this by helping corporates to systematically innovate & startups to capitalize in traditional industries"