VB

Virginia Bassano

Principal @ Italian Founders Fund (IFF)

Milan, Lombardy

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Lists including Virginia

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2025

    $100m fund launched in 2023 and Italy’s first founder-backed VC. IFF invests from Pre-Seed to Series A in companies with an Italian DNA: born in Italy, expanding here, or founded by Italians globally.

2021 - 2025

  • Vice President

    2021 - 2025

    Eight Roads is a $11bn global VC firm with 300+ portfolio companies including 33 unicorns and 54 IPOs. Early growth-stage technology investing ($10-30m checks, Series A to C) across the US (e.g. Toast, Flywire), Europe (e.g. Appsflyer, Neo4j, Lighthouse, Hibob, Fever) and Asia (e.g. Alibaba, Paidy)

2025 - 2025

  • Investor

    2025 - 2025

2024 - 2025

  • Investor

    2024 - 2025

2022 - 2025

  • Investor

    2022 - 2025

2018 - 2021

  • Co-Founder

    2018 - 2021

    Social Recruiting and Talent Discovery platform with a matching algorithm connecting students and companies for internship and entry level positions - 100k+ students subscribed from more than 800 Universities in Europe - Collaborated with more than 250 companies - 2millions+ monthly impressions Exited to an HR-tech player

2018 - 2021

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2018 - 2021

    FinTech EMEA

2017 - 2017

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2017 - 2017

2016 - 2016

  • M&A Summer Analyst

    2016 - 2016