Andrea Traversone

Managing Partner

Andrea Traversone was appointed Managing Partner at Jolt Capital in Sept. 2025.

Andrea has been investing in deeptech since 1998, participating to the fundraising of 7 funds, totalling more than $1B in commitments. During this period Andrea carried out 20 investments for a total deployment of $220m, with significant subsequent exits.

In 2023 he was part of the founding partners team that created the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) and was appointed its sole Managing Partner, building and running a team of 30 professionals, and opening offices in Amsterdam (HQ), London and Warsaw. In this context, Andrea supervised the relationship with more that 20 institutional LPs, and he carried out 4 of the first 10 direct investments in the fund.

Before leading the NATO Innovation Fund, Andrea had spent 25 years at Amadeus Capital Partners. From 1998 to 2009, he progressed from associate to partner, participating to the deployment of the vehicles Amadeus I, II and III, before being appointed to the board of the firm in 2009, a position he held until 2023. In 2013 he was promoted Managing Partner of Amadeus Capital and oversaw two different funds strategies: Amadeus Growth, where he led 4 generations of growth and secondary deeptech funds with total commitments of close to $400m, and Amadeus Digital Prosperity Fund (DPF) where he was in charge of $110m fund commitments. 

Andrea started his career as an Executive Vice President in charge of Finance of Villa Playa Dorada, a hospitality group in Costa Rica. Between 1993 and 1997 he was in charge of all financial operations of 2 hotel properties and their investment programmes and the operations of one of the two hotels.

Andrea graduated from the London School of Economics in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in  Economics, International Trade and Development. He also graduated from an MBA from Cambridge University in 1998.