Marcos Battisti

Marcos is one of the Founding Partners for Skylake Capital, a fund focusing in early stage VC investments in the Data Infrastructure Ecosystem (Cyber Security, Data Centre & Cloud Infrastructure, Data Analytics, AI, etc). Prior to Skylake, Marcos was the Managing Partner for a late stage London based fund called C5 Capital. Marcos stayed three years at C5, from 2016 till 2019, prior to founding Skylake Capital. Prior to C5, Marcos worked for 18 years at Intel Capital, an organization he joined in 1998. From 2010 until his leaving in 2016, Marcos was the Managing Director for Western Europe & Israel, as well as, a voting member of Intel Capital’s worldwide investment committee. In 2013 Marcos was appointed as Vice President for Intel Capital. During the past 20+ years Marcos worked on a substantial number of transactions, amongst which Azure Solutions (acquired by Subex), eTel (acquired by Telecom Austria), Imagination technologies (publicly listed in the LSE), Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel), IPTego (acquired by AcmePacket), Aldebaran Robotics (acquired by Softbank), Anobit (acquired by Apple), Indisys (acquired by Intel), Omek (acquired by Intel), Tribold (acquired by Sigma Systems), FeedHenry (acquired by Red Hat), Tobii (publicly listed in Nasdaq Stockholm), Amplidata (acquired by Western Digital), Velostrata (acquired by Google), iZettle (acquired by Paypal) and many others. Prior to Intel Marcos worked at BBA Creditanstalt, one of the leading investment banks in Brazil. Marcos is a Naval Architect and Marine Engineer having graduated from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo. Marcos holds an MBA from INSEAD