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Federico Pirzio-Biroli

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Playfair Capital is run by founder Federico Pirzio-Biroli.

Federico is an active angel investor, London based, primarily investing in seed level, early stage technology-based startups. He is the Director of Playfair Capital, who’s current portfolio includes Duedil, Flattr, Mobius Motors, On Device Research and Mixlr. Before moving to London, he spent several years in Africa working for the UN, Oxfam and PharmaSecure, after which he lobbied government and large aid organisations to increase the transparency of aid flows. He is interested in big data, mobile, and developing country oriented, philanthropically minded ventures.

His capital comes from shares he sold from the family business.

Playfair has £3.3 million of capital and has invested £1 million.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/federicopirziobiroli https://twitter.com/fede_r1c0

Recent Milestones

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  Federico Pirzio-Biroli invested in Believe.in. (12/30/12)
  Posted 3/30/13 at 10:27am
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  Federico Pirzio-Biroli invested in Duedil. (8/14/12)
  Posted 8/28/12 at 9:27am via co.uk
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  Federico Pirzio-Biroli invested in Believe.in. (4/15/12)
  Posted 3/30/13 at 10:38am
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  Federico Pirzio-Biroli invested in Flattr. (2/16/12)
  Posted 7/6/10 at 1:38pm via finsmes.com
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  Federico Pirzio-Biroli added a position as Founder at Playfair Capital.
  Posted 4/9/13 at 1:09am

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2. Duedil backed to open up company information (telegraph.co.uk) [edit]
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4. Flattr Raises €1.6M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]