Claudia Iannazzo (pictured) said she had set up a US-based venture capital firm, AlphaPrime, with a strategic limited partner in an undisclosed European bank.
Iannazzo is managing partner and co-founder of New York City-based AlphaPrime with Alessandro Piol, who helped run US phone operator AT&T’s corporate venturing unit in the early 1990s but for the past decade has been president of Vedanta Capital.
Their partner on the west coast of the US is Joseph Rothman.
Iannazzo had been a general partner at Pereg Ventures, which had been founded by Itzhak Fisher with television ratings agency Nielsen as a cornerstone investor.