Being an engineer with a technical background, my mission is to make venture capital from technologist to technologist. Having in-depth knowledge to understand the technology involved in a company is one of the most significant gaps often separating founders from investors. 

My journey is about reducing this gap. 

I work as a fractional leader for startups and gaining my way in Venture Capital with Venture Institute by VC Lab. 

My expertise spans in:

 🌍  Geospatial analytics
 🌱  Climate science
 🚲  Mobility
 🌉  Civil Engineering, Infrastructures and Construction


Beyond my professional journey, the great outdoors calls to me. I'm there, whether it's mountain biking trails, catching waves while surfing, scaling peaks in climbing, or exploring snowy terrains through ski mountaineering. For this reason, I am in business to preserve our playground and I work with companies with a positive outcome on the planet.

Eugenio Doglione

From November I went back to my "old job".

Old because my "new job" or what it was supposed to be came after an MBA title, a bloody resing, being a freelance, being hired in a software startup as Chief Commercial Officer, took a VC course in the meanwhile.

But still I realised how something was missing. Back in my university days, I decided to enroll for a civil engineering course because I wanted to do "concrete" thing (please excuse my joke). And that's probably what I was missing in my "new job": creating something that you can see and touch. Something as dirty as the ground I always worked with.

So basically, I made my "old job" my "new job" again. New because I transferred everything I learned for Marketing, GTM and s*t like that to my very unsexy, unglamorous, dirty old job. 

So here I am. Geotechnical engineer by trade, with a slightly unusual backstory. Let's see where this goes.

Civil Engineering | Wastewater and Envirorment | |Tech

When I started my freelance business, I built it over three pillars: autonomy, independence, and at least one day a week in nature.

I've always been passionate about outdoor sports. I could easily say that most of my life has revolved around them. When my daughter was born, I had a brutal wake-up call — it was almost impossible to reconcile a regular 9-to-5 job, a newborn, and being outdoors on weekends.

That's why, when I took the step to leave a salaried job, I decided that my working life should be calibrated around this standard.

One day in nature means many things: when I can, it's at least one day off during the week; if I'm busy, it could be a quick MTB ride in the morning. Sometimes it's none of that — but that's my KPI that something has gone off track.

And so far, the score is good.

In the past few months, I took a break from the LinkedIn game.

Due to my previous role at SWITCH, I massively used LinkedIn for reaching out to people, and despite that actually working, I was exposed for several hours a day to the content published here.

In November, I stepped back as Chief Commercial Officer at SWITCH to dedicate full time to my Civil Engineering consulting business. Since then I barely touched or opened LinkedIn, as I was fed up with it. Luckily, a coincidence — an iOS update was required to log in again on my phone, which I never did, and so I was cut off on mobile too.

What I realise in general is how toxic the culture here is, and how much relief I felt not spending my time reading about some dude's bragging.

But I do recognise how powerful this tool is for talking to people, so right now I am trying to get back in the game. There will be no consensus talk, not grammatically or politically correct, and definitely no "stay consistent", no high conversion headlines.

I will run this experiment and keep you updated xxx

Generally speaking, light-asset enterprise is dead—which is why I think I made a smart move getting back into Civil Engineering (as long as I won't be replaced by a robot).
In my last post, I talked about my decision to return to the Civil Engineering business, despite the world seemingly moving in another direction
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Civil Engineering speaks the language of the heavy-asset economy, and that's exactly why I think we're so far behind in the AI hype cycle.

First: the AI revolution is a heavy-asset economy. You have to BUILD datacenters. You have to BUILD energy infrastructure. There's no cloud without concrete.

Second: Civil Engineering has a unique edge—it certifies safety. And safety certification is very hard to outsource to a machine. You need a third party that can take legal responsibility for failure, and that cannot (yet) be a machine.

The future is physical. Always has been. We just forgot for a decade.

Very interesting reading about how data centres are really built. 

It's a long post, so don't expect quick answers or a TLDR — you have to dive in.
My key takeaways:

- the real bottlenecks are physical: hyperscalers are placing multi-billion dollar capex orders, but actual deployment takes years
 - we can't defy thermodynamics — we'll probably melt the processor before reaching AGI

Two interesting aspects for us geotechnical nerds:

- to reduce land acquisition costs, developers are purchasing acres of swampland. This requires extensive geotechnical study, since the soil there is closer to the marmalade you spread at breakfast than to proper ground. Expect every type of ground improvement intervention (rigid inclusions, stone columns... you name it)
 - increasing computing capacity means denser racks, which translates to higher loads on your slab — and hence more sophisticated structural studies (read: FEM models)

We are so back

Open article: The Datacenter Bible - From Layman to Expert in 100 Pages by open.substack.com

The Datacenter Bible - From Layman to Expert in 100 Pages

Università degli Studi di Padova

Prof. Paolo Moro appointed me as lecturer in the Advanced Program in Legal Technology and Metaverse of the University of Padua.

https://uel.unipd.it/master-e-corsi/mig-metaverso-e-informatica-giuridica/

Lecturer

Università degli Studi di Genova

I was appointed as Adjunct Professor of Digital Forensics at the University of Genoa c/o STELMILIT (Scuola di Telecomunicazioni delle Forze Armate).

https://www.difesa.it/SMD_/EntiMI/STELMILIT/Pagine/corsi.aspx

Adjunct Professor

Legal Tech Italy

Co-founder

Università degli Studi di Milano

Prof. Giovanni Ziccardi and Prof. Pierluigi Perri appointed me as lecturer in the Advanced Programs in Legal Technology and Cybercrime and Digital Investigation of the University of Milan.

https://islc.unimi.it/

Legal Tech Forum

Legal Tech Forum is the first Italian conference about legal technology at its seventh edition and still bringing together top national lawyers talking about the latest TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications), IP (Intellectual Property) and Data Protection law issues.

https://forum.legaltechitaly.com/

Co-founder and Event Manager

Kopjra

Kopjra is a cyber intelligence company specialized in online investigation, OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and network forensics, advising top clients and law firms on OBP (Online Brand Protection) operations before and during litigations. As CEO and product picker, I am first of all in charge of strategic, product and sales management. I have also been invited several times as speaker on OBP trends and related topics.

https://www.kopjra.com/

Co-founder and CEO

NeuroTrading

After taking part at the Algorithmic Trading Course held by Prof. Emilio Tomasini in 2010, I had the opportunity to collaborate with him on the design, development and deployment of algorithmic trading strategies with genetic programming executed through well-known broker-neutral trading platforms. I also took part at ITForum 2011 and other conferences as speaker, talking about these topics.

Freelance Quantitative Developer

MercatinoLibri.it

MercatinoLibri.it is a marketplace to buy and sell used textbooks, still used in Italy by thousands of students. It was my first entrepreneurship project, tested during high school and then launched during university in collaboration with Matteo Scapin, Andrea Pigato and Diego Giorgini.

https://www.mercatinolibri.it/

KsyTech

KsyTech was a digital strategy boutique specialized in full-stack design and development, started with Matteo Scapin and then joined by Emanuele Casadio, both co-founders of Kopjra. I served as project manager, user experience designer and front-end developer, having the opportunity to shape my skills on business, creative and technological sides.

Freelance User Experience Designer and Front-end Developer

I am a 36 years old entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Kopjra, a cyber intelligence company backed by some venture capital funds and specialized in OBP (Online Brand Protection). I am also the co-founder of Legal Tech Italy, the permanent observatory on the evolution of the Italian legal tech sector.

I studied Business Informatics at the University of Bologna, in 2018 I attended the General Management Executive Program at the SDA Bocconi School of Management and, in 2019, I attended the Cyber Security Management Executive Program at the MIP Politecnico di Milano School of Management.

In 2017 I won the award Millennial Startup from Bocconi University assigned to the best young Italian entrepreneurs.

In 2019 I joined the ISLC (Information Society Law Center) of the University of Milan "La Statale" as Fellow and Legal Technology Expert.

In 2020 I was appointed as lecturer of Legal Technology at the University of Milan "La Statale" and lecturer of Cybercrime and Digital Investigation in 2021.

In 2023 I was appointed as Adjunct Professor of Digital Forensics at the University of Genoa c/o STELMILIT (Scuola di Telecomunicazioni delle Forze Armate).

In 2024 I was appointed as lecturer of Legal Technology and Metaverse at the University of Padua.

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