Managers To Watch: SyndicateRoom's de Vasconcelos on being a 'serial entrepreneur'

Focus on early-stage companies

Gonçalo de Vasconcelos, co-founder of SyndicateRoom, an online investment platform which focuses on early-stage private companies, talks to Jayna Rana about why his career history gives him an "edge" over other fund managers.

A self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneur", 36-year-old Gonçalo de Vasconcelos spent much of his early career working for and establishing start-up companies before becoming involved with business angels and venture capital, while doing his MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School in 2010. "That is when I noticed a gap in the market when it came to these types of companies," he said. "With early-stage companies you have a real opportunity to mould the business and help the entrepreneur, which can create a huge amount of value. "Because I have been there myself I have an understanding of...