Francesco De Liva

CEO & Founder at Kruncher AI

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Francesco De Liva is the founder and CEO of Kruncher, the adaptive intelligence layer that private market investors use to turn fragmented company information into signals, rankings, and conviction. A computer science engineer from Politecnico di Milano who began his career working on neural networks and predictive systems, Francesco has spent more than a decade on one hard problem: extracting trustworthy, structured information from messy documents at scale.

At Accenture he led banking transformation across Southeast Asia, building digital lending and knowledge management solutions for institutions including Siam Commercial Bank and Deutsche Bank, processing millions of documents, and delivering a mobile banking app that reached 10 million monthly active users. At Microsoft, he led OpenAI adoption for financial institutions including GIC and Standard Chartered. He founded Kruncher in 2023, now used by 40+ investment firms across three continents. At SuperReturn, Francesco argues that as frontier models converge, data, not the model, is the moat that remains.