Marcos Battisti

VC & Growth investor focused on Deep Tech. I have extensive experience in Deep Tech investments in Europe, Israel and the United States. I am a Partner at Kilonova Capital ("KC") , a San Francisco headquartered asset manager that invests in special situation financings and buyouts of proven, private technology companies. KC provides structured, disciplined capital and invests across both the life-cycle and capital structure of a company. KC has a particular focus on non-conforming investment opportunities including recapitalizations, divestitures, MBOs and other special situations. KC structures its investments to align interests of shareholders and management and provides value added capital to operate and scale the company. KC's operating model leverages extensive institutional relationships and proprietary analytics and AI to originate target transactions, the investment team’s deep history in special situations structuring, and an deep roster of Silicon Valley veterans to rapidly enhance portfolio company value. KC invests across core technology sectors (software, internet & digital media, eCommerce, data & analytics, fintech and frontier technology), deploying $25-100mm checks over the life of a single investment. Prior to KC, I held a number of senior positions in the venture and growth capital market including General Partner of a fund I co-founded. Most notably, I was the Managing Director for Intel Capital for Western Europe & Israel. Amongst the investments I worked on in my career were: Azure Solutions (acquired by Subex), eTel (acquired by Telecom Austria), Imagination technologies (listed in the LSE), Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel), IPTego (acquired by AcmePacket), Aldebaran Robotics (acquired by Softbank), Anobit (acquired by Apple), Indisys (acquired by Intel), Omek (acquired by Intel), Tribold (acquired by Sigma Systems), Movea (acquired by InvenSense), FeedHenry (acquired by Red Hat), Amplidata (acquired by Western Digital), Tobii (publicly listed in Nasdaq Stockholm), Ascending Technologies (acquired by Intel), OneFineStay/Lifealike (acquired by Accor SA), Rocketick (acquired by Cadence), News Republic (acquired by Cheetah Mobile), Fortscale (acquired by RSA Security), Velostrata (acquired by Google), iZettle (acquired by PayPal), AlienVault (acquired by AT&T), Data Artisans (acquired by Alibaba) and others.