The Future of Venturing Models with Adeo Ressi

About Adeo Ressi

Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute, an idea-stage incubator for high-tech entrepreneurs with chapters in over 200 cities worldwide. The Founder Institute will help launch 2,000 companies worldwide over the next 12 months, and the Founder Institute has been doubling in size every year. Mr. Ressi has pioneered a number of advances in the field of venture capital and fundraising. He developed “convertible equity,” which has been renamed as the SAFE Note, along with Yokum Taku, Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He developed the Founder Advisor Standard Template (“FAST”), which provides a standardized equity sharing arrangement for early-stage companies to retain key strategic advisors. He has also created Class F, a founder-friendly incorporation structure that is adopted by many successful technology companies in Silicon Valley. As a serial entrepreneur for 22 years, Mr. Ressi has founded a total of 7 previous companies, which have generated approximately $2 billion in shareholder value, including Total New York (sold to AOL), methodfive (taken public with XCEED) and Game Trust (sold to Real Networks). Adeo serves as the Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online resource for CEO's to research, rate, and review venture firms worldwide, and Mr. Ressi has also served on the Board of the X PRIZE foundation, a non-profit chartered to inspire human achievements through competition.

About Celso Martinho

Celso Martinho is a challenge-driven, optimistic geek technologist, product person, and entrepreneurial soul, eventually thrown into a management career. Founder of SAPO, the largest Internet project in Portugal. Furthermore, he is the CEO & Founder of Bright Pixel, a company builder studio providing professional advice on innovation and aiming the creation of new ventures. It is a group of experienced builders, creative thinkers and investors wanting to transform the way innovation meets companies and new ventures are born.