Antonio Iannone | Foodtech Expert & ESCP Professor

Antonio Iannone, foodtech expert and founder of TheFoodCons — Antonio Iannone

The founder

Grew up with soil under his nails. Ended up with term sheets on his desk.

Antonio Iannone is the founder of TheFoodCons, the boutique agrifood-tech platform he started in 2017, and a co-founder of the Agrifood-Tech Italia Association, the network bringing Italy's food innovators, investors and institutions into the same room.

He advises startups, SMEs and corporates on growth, fundraising and M&A. He teaches agrifood-tech innovation at ESCP Business School. He writes, hosts and moderates, turning a sector full of jargon into stories people can actually act on.

His base is Como. His commute is the Alps: Zurich, Lausanne, Fribourg, Basel. Somewhere between Italian food heritage and Swiss deep tech, he found his job description: connecting dots that nobody else was looking at together.

"Food is the only technology every human uses three times a day. It deserves better questions."

The four chairs

Why listen to him? Because he has failed, cooked, invested and taught in this industry.

01 / The field

Roots

Family ties to farming. He knows that every elegant pitch deck ends, sooner or later, in mud, weather and margins.

02 / The kitchen

Hands

A food entrepreneur before he was an advisor, including a hospitality venture on Aruba. He has run a pass, not just a spreadsheet.

03 / The boardroom

Numbers

Advisory on fundraising and M&A, deal sourcing, investment analysis. The part of food innovation where enthusiasm meets due diligence.

04 / The classroom

Questions

Professor of agrifood-tech innovation at ESCP. Teaching the next generation is the fastest way to find out what you really know.

In good company

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Startups, investors, networks, universities and media. Different worlds that rarely talk to each other. Our job is to make sure they do.