Carlotta 'Lotti' Siniscalco is a General Partner at Emergence Capital in San Francisco, the first woman partner in the firm's two-decade history. She backs early-stage enterprise software and fintech founders, with board roles at Federato, Whistic, and High Alpha. Milanese by birth, Wharton and Stanford by training, she sent cold emails to every AIFI member as a teenager to break into venture and hasn't slowed since.
Adeo Ressi — full name Adeodato Gregory Ressi di Cervia — is an Italian-American entrepreneur, systems architect, and the man who has been manufacturing founders and venture capitalists at scale for over two decades. Born in New York City in 1972, he co-founded one of the internet's first commercial websites (Total New York, sold to AOL), built and sold methodfive for $88 million, created TheFunded to democratize VC transparency, founded the Founder Institute (7,000+ companies across 250+ cities), launched VC Lab (responsible for ~50% of all new VC firms in 2023), and now leads Decile Group as CEO. He pioneered free legal frameworks used by millions of founders (FAST Agreement, Class F Shares, Convertible Equity). He was Elon Musk's college roommate at Penn, tried and failed to talk him out of SpaceX, and has been publicly wrong about exactly one thing. He calls himself a 'societal engineer.' He means it.