Kruncher wins Best Team Award by The Ventures

The Kruncher team is proud to announce that we were selected as the Best Team Award in The Ventures' Global Startup Award: San Francisco!

We were selected for this award for our powerful team and leadership, consisting of veterans and brilliant minds in the AI, technology, banking, and investment categories:

Francesco De Liva: Founder & CEO, 20+ YoE in AI and finance. Ex-Microsoft, ex-Accenture. Stanford Business School. Serial Entrepreneur.

Eugene Kim: CTO, 15 YoE of AI solutions for finance. Ex-VP of GIC (Singapore's sovereign wealth fund), ex-Accenture. 

Laura Lugaresi: CDO, 10+ YoE of product design and user experience. Ex-Grab (Southeast Asia's $25B super-app)

Andrea Gagliardi La Gala: Director of Customer Success, 20+ YoE in Software and Technical Architecture. Ex-Microsoft, ex-AWS, ex-IBM. 

Simone Rizzetto: Senior AI Researcher, 15 YoE in data science, AI research, and Big Data. Serial Entrepreneur.

Thank you for The Ventures for seeing the capability of the team to bring Kruncher's vision for private market investing to reality!

This award is part of SF Tech Week 2025.

About The Ventures

The Ventures Award is a global startup competition hosted in cities like San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and Singapore. The Ventures Award identifies high-potential startups and connects them with a network of 250+ VCs, angels, and top business mentors.