Marcello Battista

Pre-seed & seed @CrosslinkCap. CS @ucdavis, @HarvardHBS 2+2.

Building something early? DM me.

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

Interesting point I heard from a leading deep tech investor:

The best technology doesn’t always win by being the furthest ahead.

Deep tech founders often build products that are years beyond the status quo. But if the leap is too large, customers can struggle to understand, trust, or adopt it.

You have to be ahead of the market, just not too far ahead that the market can’t follow.

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

If you’re a founder, engineer, VC, involved in startups or just want to hang out, you should come by :)

Excited to host our first dinner soon - reach out if interested!

[Davud Khalilov @davudkhalilov]

Looking to host small dinner parties in sf soon. 6-8 ppl. Let me know if you are interested.

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@tmrohan and so arrived the decacorn 😍

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@PavanKumarNY send it!

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

In my head there are two types of the pitch decks:

1. The Teaser: barely anything on the slides, nice looking, punchy sentences

2. The Dictionary: dense slides, lots of info, fleshes out most questions

No preference, just don't be in between.

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@ItzSuds Super impressive, 10x in legacy is epic!

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

Most of my best meetings lately haven't been "AI for X."

It's founders live inside a boring industry and are rebuilding one painful workflow or component

Manufacturing, construction, logistics, power electronics, chemicals

If you're building in a legacy vertical - let's talk!

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@letsbuilddd and it includes 2 pairs of crocs haha

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@FrancisPSantora 42 slides is wild !!

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@adamshuaib I agree speed matters but I think it's difficult to truly assess "spikiness" in one meeting with a founder

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@jasonlk difficult reality that's true in venture as well

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@johnfelix123 love some serious caper action

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@brettcalhounn traction sells

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@neuralunlock everyone loves an obsessed founder

[Crosslink Capital @CrosslinkCap]

Congratulations to the Intermezzo team on this incredible milestone and $10M seed round! We’re thrilled to see what’s ahead as they build the next generation of global payroll infrastructure. https://t.co/Q5pjlRE6Vm

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@jarydesign no

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@davudkhalilov i never recline haha

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@jerrychen @GoldmanSachs @glennsolomon @guruchahal @saranormous oscars selfie vibes

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@VinIyengar Another thing I'd note from my friends graduating college - students joining high-growth tech firms want to work in product over SWE

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@alexiskold scrolling reels

[Marcello Battista @mbattista]

@96hoya doomsday flashback