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Francesco Mantica

Principal, Silicon Valley

Francesco Mantica has 13 years’ experience in technology investing.  Since joining Kennet in 2008, Francesco has assisted with Kennet’s investments in Revolution Prep, Prolexic, Conversica, Impartner, ThinkHR, SocialSurvey and Spatial Networks. Francesco leads Kennet’s deal sourcing and investment diligence process.

Prior to joining Kennet, Francesco worked as a data analyst at Kinetic Networks where he did consulting work for Google. His experience in data analytics/data science has helped Kennet augment and automate the sourcing process, and now leveraging our proprietary software called SaleSavant to help portfolio companies with sales and marketing.

Francesco also joined portfolio company Conversica as a product manager / business development associate from 2013-2014 as part of a secondment. He was instrumental in helping the company break into new verticals/platforms such as the Salesforce AppExchange ecosystem and grow the company’s customer base.

Francesco holds a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania.  

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