Pascal Finette

Pascal Finette is a technology executive, entrepreneur, author, advisor, and investor based in Boulder, Colorado. His current personal site describes him as Co-Founder and Chief Heretic at radical, a boutique advisory firm that helps organizations turn disruption into competitive advantage. Singularity lists him as Co-Founder of be radical, Chair at Singularity University, and Venture Partner at BOLD Capital Partners.

Earlier in his career, Finette founded eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, led Mozilla’s Open Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s WebFWD accelerator program, and headed Mozilla’s Office of the Chair. Mozilla’s archived profile identifies him as Director of Mozilla’s WebFWD accelerator, working with the community on the future of the web.

Finette also worked at Google.org as Principal, where his bio says he invested in social impact organizations globally. At Singularity University, he served as faculty chair for entrepreneurship and open innovation, taught leaders and entrepreneurs, and built startup initiatives including the SU Accelerator and Venture Fund. His education includes business administration with economics and psychology at Universität zu Köln, Singularity University’s Executive Program in exponential technologies and future forecasting, and Co-Active executive coach training through CTI.

He is the author of *Disrupt Disruption* (2023), *GYSHIDO* (2025), and *OUTLEARN* (2026), and writes the radical Briefing, which his site says reaches more than 10,000 readers.

• BOLD Capital Partners describes its core thesis as “Investing in People and Technologies that Transform the World,” with a focus on emerging science and technologies that can disrupt and democratize massive markets.
• BOLD states it is particularly interested in two areas: health & life sciences and deep tech & productivity.
• The firm’s health thesis emphasizes convergence across the physical, digital, virtual, and biological worlds, including longevity, patient-enabled health management, synthetic biology, and intelligent data collection and synthesis.
• The firm’s deep-tech thesis emphasizes exponential technologies such as AI, blockchain, sensors, VR, and 3D printing, with a view that these technologies can create better, faster, more personalized products and services at lower cost.
• Finette’s own writing and speaking repeatedly emphasize entrepreneurship at the intersection of technology, global impact, culture, open innovation, rapid prototyping, and practical futurism.
• His investor-facing Signal profile lists a $100K-$5.0M investment range and a $1.5M sweet spot as Venture Partner at BOLD Capital Partners.