Claudia de Antoni

Claudia De Antoni joined PICO Venture Partners as a Partner and is involved with both new deals execution and portfolio value-creation initiatives.
She currently serves on the boards of Affogata and Vault AI.
Before joining PICO, Claudia worked for more than seven years at Virgin Management, the family office of Sir Richard Branson, where she played a major role in leading new investments and brand licensing activities and in informing the overall investment strategy for the firm.
During the last two years of her tenure at Virgin, Claudia took on the role of Chief Commercial Officer of a new NY-based Virgin branded real estate platform and was in charge of concept development, operations and go-to-market strategy.
Prior to Virgin, Claudia founded an online marketplace for catering and entertainment services in London.
Earlier in her career, Claudia worked at two different private equity firms executing and managing investments from startup to mature stage after spending four years at Morgan Stanley as an associate in the TMT Mergers & Acquisitions practice between London and New York.
Claudia is a native Italian speaker and holds a bachelor degree in finance and business administration from Bocconi University in Milan.
Favorite Restaurant: MáLà Project (New York) Life Mantra: “Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero” -Horace Outside Work: Indoor landscaping, triathlon training, snowboarding, tiramisu making Favorite Book: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin