Number of Portfolio Companies 1
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed

Francesco Cesarini is the founder and technical director of Erlang Solutions Ltd. He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang.He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to

turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in five countries, they have become the world leaders in Erlang based support, consulting, training, certification, systems development and conferences. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming,a book published by O’Reilly and is currently co-authoring Designing For Scalability With Erlang/OTP. He lectures the graduate students at Oxford University.

Number of Investments 1
Francesco Cesarini invested in Den on Jun 23, 2015. This investment - Angel Round - Den - was valued at
£500K
.
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Jun 23, 2015
Den
Angel Round - Den
£500K
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 2
Francesco Cesarini is the Founder & Technical Director at Erlang Solutions. Additionally, Francesco Cesarini has had 2 past jobs including Founder & CTO at Erlang Solutions.
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Erlang Solutions
Founder & CTO1999Nov 1, 2009
University of Oxford
LecturerOct 2010
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Francesco Cesarini is the Author at O'Reilly.
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Contentful
Advisor2013
Number of Events 3
Francesco Cesarini has participated in 3 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, O'Reilly Open Source Convention on May 16, 2016.