Kevin Colas

Mentor

2025 - Current

INNOVIT’s mission is to facilitate the integration between the Italian and US tech ecosystems. The Steering Committee, led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Rome, oversees INNOVIT’s strategy and results. It includes a wide range of Italian stakeholders, including other ministries, academia, and financial entities. The Italian Embassy in Washington and the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco provide operative guidance and ensure that INNOVIT performs according the expectations.

Managing General Partner

2025

At Snatched Ventures, we invest in DeepTech, in the invisible yet powerful forces driving the next era of sustainable innovation and operational transformation in six thematics we know, invested and brought value in for founders, strategics and investors: transportation & logistics, energy & water, food & agriculture, fashion & beauty, precision medicine & aging, and retail & e-commerce. And we apply strict minimum undewriting criteria to make sure the startups we partner with can scale profitably and are resilient to economic cycle. We start at the foundation: DeepTech to redefine the future of sustainable innovation and operational efficiency. This isn’t about a single brand or fleeting trend; it’s about building the infrastructure that moves markets and transforms everyday life. By investing in the core technologies driving sustainable operational transformation, we create value that scales across industries; reaching deep into the systems that shape how people live, work, and engage with the world. At Snatched Ventures we look beyond hype cycles and market noise. From cutting-edge AI to next-generation materials, we back the technologies and founders reshaping industries, supply chains, and the foundational systems behind tomorrow’s most transformative products, brands, and services. And we don’t just invest; we partner. With decades of experience at the intersection of technology, industry, and consumer insight, we go beyond capital to connect founders with first customers, transformative partnerships, valuable strategic and financial investors, game changing recruits, and build the momentum to scale fast and scale strong. We roll up our sleeves, and not just on paper. Now, it’s DeepTech that is eating the world; and across sectors, corporations must keep pace to redefine the future. We back the visionaries building that future, ensuring they have the support they need.

Managing Partner

2020

• EAC is a pro-active angels syndicate combining executives of consumer brands, consulting and alternative investments investing in series pre-seed to C opportunities we source, screen and due diligence together. Channel agnostic, we focus on deeptech, consumer brands and tech, and software for brands, impacting the daily lives and future of the planet of the new, large, and influential generations of New Conscious Consumers (Millennials, Gen Z, Alpha) driven by their core values of wellness, sustainability, and community. How they discover & buy, eat & drink, dress & look, care & heal, move & ship, play & exercise, at home, work and on the go. • Self-led and collectively invested since 2020 through tickets of $50 to $700K averaging 125k: pre-seed to B in Alleyoop (write off), AmpUp, Ancilia Biosciences, Another Tomorrow (AT), Arevo (write off), Beanstalk Farms, Buywith, Canix, Cambrean (acquired), Clevon (acquired), Crypto 1 Acquisition (write off), DAI Wear (write off), DrnxMyth, Eat Just, Epic Games, Fabacus, Forme Life (IPO), FiresideChat, Gatik, GreenPark Sports, Habitus Health, Heat.io, Humanoid Labs, Indigo Tech, Kura Technologies, Lingrove, Loci Footwear, MarketerHire, Metadata, Miros.ai, Nucleus Genomics, One Earth Rising, Solarcore/Oros, Queens Gaming Collective (acquired), Relish.Life, SciFi Foods (write off, partial recovery in liquidation), Simbe Robotics, Superplastic, Syrup Tech, Tidal Vision, Unless Collective (acquired), XSet. Follow on investments in Alleyoop, AmpUp, Arevo, AT, Buywith, Epic Games, Heat.io, Solarcore/Oros, and MarketerHire. • Advisor of Adeptmind, AmpUp, Gozem and Simbe Robotics. • Deal flow sourcing, screening and due diligence, facilities visits, experts, investors and partners calls, memo writing, negotiations and closing. • Proactive hands-on support to portfolio companies in strategy advisory, commercial, hiring, and fundraising to drive their growth and enhance our returns.

Advisor

2023

Sporadic exchanges on growth and late stage deal flow, fundraising process support and introductions to selected family offices and foundations.

GP Anchor Partner & Advisor

2023

Bay Bridge Ventures is a purpose-built venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in disruptive technology startups addressing Climate Change. Weekly exchanges on deal flow, industry and private markets trends, co-screening and co-due diligence in a co-investment perspective, introductions to investors, founders, and professional services partners.

Portfolio Manager

1997

• Public assets: 2024: 11.4%, 2023: 24.5%, 2022: -19.3%, 2021: +30.1%, 2020: +13.2%, 2019: +26.1% 2018: +1.7% 2017: +10.3% 2016 +12.5%, 2015 +18.0%, 2014 +6.4%, 2013 +7.1%, 2012 +16.5%, 2011 -17.5%, 2010 +14.8%, 2009 +8.6%, 2008 -19.9%, 2007 +3.9%, 2006 +24.5%, 2005 +7.8%, 2004 +8.9%. Beating since 2004 a benchmark set at 1/3rd CAC 40, 1/3rd Euro Stoxx 50 and 1/3rd MSCI World EUR. • Private assets: invested in pre-seed to E in Airbnb, Alleyoop (write off), AmpUp, Ancilia Biosciences, Another Tomorrow, Arevo (write off), Beanstalk Farms, Buywith, Canix, Cambrean (acquired), Clevon (acquired), Chime, Crypto 1 Acquisition (write off), Joanna DAI (write off), DrnxMyth, Eat Just, Epic Games, Fabacus, Figma, Forme Life (IPO after not followed pay to play, considered as write off), FiresideChat, Gatik, GreenPark Sports, Heat.io, Humanoid Labs, Indigo Tech, Kura Technologies, Lingrove, Loci Footwear, MarketerHire, Metadata, Miros.ai, Nucleus Genomics, One Earth Rising, Queens Gaming Collective (acquired), Relish.Life, SciFi Foods (write off), Simbe Robotics, Solarcore/Oros, Superplastic, Syrup Tech, Tidal Vision, Unless Collective (acquired), XSet. Follow on investments in Alleyoop, AmpUp, Arevo, AT, Buywith, Epic Games, Heat.io, Solarcore/Oros, and MarketerHire. • Portfolio construction focusing on long term asset and sector diversification of a global multi-asset/multi-currency portfolio of EUR 1.25M+ (started at EUR 132K) in direct cash equities, fixed income funds, commodities ETFs, and non-listed venture. • Proprietary stock screening of a rotational global selection of 176 best-in-sector stocks rated through a combination of fundamental, market and graphic indicators with quick target pricing and valuation model (DCF, multiples and DDM).

Advisor

2021

Gozem is Africa's Super App. Operational across Francophone West and Central Africa, we provide various on-demand transportation, delivery, and cashless payment solutions in one app to hundreds of thousands of users in the region. Investors and partners introductions and startegic advisory.

Private Investor & Advisor

2021

Private Investor & Advisor

2020

Private Investor

2020