Tommy Italia
Investor
Based in Los Angeles, Tommy Italia focuses on early-stage investments in AI infrastructure and vertical SaaS.
Prior to joining Mucker, Tommy was an Analyst at Composite Ventures and has worked with early-stage startups as a venture scout, advisor, and founder. His background includes roles supporting company building, product development, and go-to-market strategy.
Tommy will hold a BS in Economics and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley
Tommy can be reached at tommy at Mucker dot com.
Articles by Tommy Italia
Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft
Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students,...
Founder Interview: Susanne Mitschke, co-founder and CEO, MindMate
Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living...
Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark
If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...
How to Become a Midas VC: Just The Data
By William Hsu The annual Forbes Midas list just came out. Which reminded me that I put together the following data for last years list for a blog post...
Encyclopedias are moving to the blockchain. Everipedia, joined by Wikipedia’s co-founder, is leading the charge.
Mucker portfolio company Everipedia, the “encyclopedia of everything,” announced today that it is creating the world’s first encyclopedia on the blockchain, and that Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger has joined...
5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph
by Erik Rannala Real innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, a lesson that the famed inventor Thomas Edison understood better than most. Throughout his life, Edison revealed that great ideas...