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Cristobal Alonso

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Cristobal Alonso

General Partner at Vest Ventures

General Partner with a background as a serial entrepreneur and three-time CEO, with 15 successful exits. Active early-stage investor in more than 450 startups, focused on Cyber Security, SaaS, and XR. INSEAD MBA and book author.
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Local Money, Global Ambition: Can Regional Funds Build Ecosystems?

2026

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Edge Stage

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55 minutes
Every regional ecosystem eventually asks the same question: does local capital create companies, or just follow them? Big foreign investors mostly want mature startups, not first-cheque risk, which leaves the earliest, hardest stage to funds based here. And the question is getting sharper: when code is cheap and a small team can ship in weeks, a first cheque buys something very different from what it did five years ago. Three investors operating at different scales, from one Romanian region to CEE to pan-European, discuss what regional money can actually build, what it can't, and what has to come from somewhere else.
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Duration: 55 minutes

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European market: rough diamonds or valuable products?

2025

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Edge Stage

25 minutes
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Duration: 25 minutes

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Edge Stage