1521 Ventures — Privitera Family Office

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A disciplined approach to capital across cycles.

Paolo Privitera — Founder, 1521 Ventures

1521 Ventures is the family office of Paolo Privitera — a global tech entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience, calling Silicon Valley home for the past 20 years. At 16, he founded his first internet company in Venice, Italy. He has founded 6 companies with 4 exits, invested in over 200 startups and funds, and raised over $300M.

Paolo earned his MIT MBA and U.S. citizenship in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the tech sector. His latest company Evensi, the world's largest events platform, was acquired by Events.com — now preparing for an IPO at Nasdaq. Paolo serves on the Board of Directors at Events.com (Nasdaq Pre-IPO, ticker RSVP) and Streamplay (public company ASX:SP8).

Beyond managing the family office (1521.Capital), 1521 Ventures creates syndicated investment vehicles — SPVs and funds — that allow a curated network of qualified investors to co-invest alongside Paolo. From venture-backed startups to pre-IPO secondaries, every deal offered is one where the Privitera family has committed its own capital first.

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Companies Founded

Successful Exits

200+

Investments Made

30+

Years in Tech

Investment Philosophy

Skin in the Game

Every opportunity offered to external partners is one where Privitera family capital has already been committed. We do not source deals for others — we open doors we have already walked through ourselves.

Long Horizons

We invest with a 7–15 year frame of reference. Exceptional compounding does not reward impatience. Our positions are sized for conviction and held with discipline, not traded for short-term performance.

Founder Proximity

Our edge is access — to deal flow, to operators, to emerging ecosystems in the US, Europe, and the Gulf. We invest where we can add strategic value beyond capital, not merely as passive allocators.

Co-Investment Opportunities

Select positions, open to qualified partners.

The following represent active holdings of the Privitera Family Office. Each opportunity is available for co-investment by qualified individuals and institutions on terms aligned with our own.

Privitera Family Office · Invested — all featured opportunities carry an active principal commitment

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This website is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. All investment opportunities referenced herein are available only to qualified investors in accordance with applicable law. By accessing this page, you acknowledge that you have actively solicited 1521 Ventures for investment opportunities at your own initiative. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Portfolio

A window into our portfolio.

Across venture, growth, and public markets — a selection of companies and funds in the 1521 Ventures ecosystem.

Venture & Growth Innovation

SpaceX OpenAI Anthropic Databricks Figure AI Groq Replit Lambda Boom Supersonic Zipline Radiant Industries Tenstorrent Ayar Labs Crusoe Canton Network

Principal-Led Opportunities · syndicated to LP network

1521 Fund 1 Class B1 / Lombardstreet Ventures Fund 2 1521 Fund 1 Class B2 / Events.com Series A Preferred 1521 Fund 2 / Rubedo Life Sciences 1521 Fund 3 / Lombardstreet Ventures Fund 3 1521 Fund SSV1 1521 Fund PV1 / Pachamama Ventures Fund 1 1521 Fund 6 1521 Fund 7 1521 Fund 8 1521 GISF 1521 IOTTY / IOTTY Smart Home 1521 Ederra / Ederra Cider 1521 Vispo.ai Syndicate VR1 / Vection Technologies Rubedo Life Sciences (Series A-2 Direct)

Fund LP Positions · third-party venture funds & YC Demo Day

SmartSociety Fund 1 The Council Fund 1 The Council Fund 2 Blitzscaling VC Decile Group Philip Winter YC Demo Day Fund F25 Nate Matherson YC Demo Day Fund F25 Benjamin Bryant YC Demo Day Fund F25 JJ Fliegelman YC Demo Day Fund F25 Rami Essaid YC Demo Day Fund X25 Philip Winter YC Demo Day Fund X25 Yahya Mokhtarzada YC Demo Day Fund X25 JJ Fliegelman YC Demo Day Fund X25 Benjamin Bryant YC Demo Day Fund X25 Ethan Perlstein Biotech YC Demo Day Fund S19 Christopher Golda YC Demo Day Fund S19 Global Markets Fund YC S19 Jude Gomila YC Demo Day Fund S19 Immad Akhund YC Demo Day Fund S19

Startup & Seed Investments · via SPVs and direct

Otis AI Perceptive Featherless AI Matternet Proclaim SoloSuit TENZR Health DroneSeed RoboTire The Essential StyleSeat GIST Maidbot Vivid Vision Tuned IdeaFlow Troy Medicare Diamond Age CareRev Sonavi Labs Caribou Cobu LocoNav Centered Riders Share Hannah Life Technologies Leena AI Kernal Biologics RingMD Lume Health Blackbird Foods Facet Tiliter Intelline Jobox.ai Bear Flag Robotics Finless Foods PepTales Chiper Tambua Health Barn2Door Brilliant Smart Home Yotta Hungry Coreshell Technologies Foodology Klue UrbanKisaan zeotap Genecis Bioindustries Zeta Foresight Elemeno Health FrescoFrigo EARTH AI Boost Biomes BillionToOne Safely Health Stache Medicast DOWN Dating

Diversified Public Holdings

Amazon Alphabet Meta Microsoft NVIDIA Broadcom Mastercard Visa Uber S&P Global ServiceNow TransDigm Thermo Fisher Charles Schwab GE Aerospace Fair Isaac Pure Storage Lumentum Ciena ASML LVMH Safran Micron Technology Analog Devices Carpenter Technology Moody's SS&C Technologies RTX Okta Oracle Canadian Pacific MercadoLibre First Citizens Bancshares Coherent Xometry iShares Bitcoin Trust iShares Ethereum Trust Uranium Energy Cameco Denison Mines NexGen Energy SPDR Gold VanEck Gold Miners Freddie Mac Fannie Mae Nu Holdings Banco Macro YPF Pampa Energia Vista Energy Grupo Supervielle AEVA Technologies Sprott Uranium Miners VanEck Junior Gold Miners

Alternative Strategies · private credit, real estate & fixed income

Carlyle Tactical Private Credit Apollo Diversified Real Estate Apollo Diversified Credit Vanguard Emerging Markets Vanguard Corporate Bond Vanguard TIPS iShares EM Bond iShares Japan KraneShares China Internet iShares S&P 500 iShares S&P Small Cap Goldman Sachs Treasury 0-1Y

Holdings shown are illustrative and may not reflect current positions. Not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security.

Building enduring
value across
generations.

A disciplined approach to capital across cycles.

Select positions, open to qualified partners.

A window into our portfolio.

Have a startup, fund, or opportunity worth exploring?

Serious capital deserves direct conversation.

Building enduringvalue acrossgenerations.

A disciplined approach to capital across cycles.

Select positions, open to qualified partners.

A window into our portfolio.

Have a startup, fund, or opportunity worth exploring?

Serious capital deserves direct conversation.

Building enduring
value across
generations.