About
Carmelo Pistorio, Founder and Managing Partner of Upstream Ventures, has over 15 years international entrepreneurial experience across multiple high-tech industries including software, semiconductors, and environmental systems and solutions. His operational experience spans all stages of a startup: he has held positions ranging from founder and investor to senior executive for operations, and has served on the boards of a number of companies across Europe and Asia. The vision of Upstream Ventures is built on Carmelo's extensive experience as an Angel investor. In addition to his role at Upstream Ventures, Carmelo assumed the role of Executive Chairman of XiD Technologies, a portfolio company which he founded in 2003 and which aims to bring biometric technologies to the mainstream global markets. Carmelo has also served as a panel member of TEC (The Enterprise Challenge) which responded to the Prime Minister's Office, and SPRING Singapore's TECS (Technology Enterprise Commercialisation
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- • 1,303 investors hold the Managing Partner role in VCSift. Carmelo Pistorio is one of them.
- • 1,940 investors are based in Singapore, Central Region, Singapore.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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