![](https://neoma-bs.com/sites/default/files/uploaded_images/profs-neoma_0.png)# MAUDONADO BISSOTO Luiz Ricardo { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://neoma-bs.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "MAUDONADO\u0020BISSOTO\u0020Luiz\u0020Ricardo", "item": "https://neoma-bs.com/node/9604944.md" } ] } - [Home](https://neoma-bs.com/) - MAUDONADO BISSOTO Luiz Ricardo ![](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/uploaded_images/photos_academ/674666-maudonado-bissoto-luiz-ricardo.jpg?itok=eBRhkXAO)MAUDONADO BISSOTO Luiz Ricardo Assistant Professor - About - Academic publications [Finance](https://neoma-bs.com/departements/finance) M.Sc. in International Finance Luiz Bissoto is an Assistant Professor of Finance at NEOMA Business School. Luiz's research interests span venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurial finance, and applied machine learning. His work studies the financing and performance implications of startups trading on private secondary markets, the persistence of predictability in startup performance, and the role of institutional venture capital firms in startup success. Luiz earned his Ph.D. in Finance from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Finance Institute. He also holds an M.Sc. in International Finance from HEC Paris, a Diplôme d'Ingénieur (M.Sc. in Engineering) from ENSTA Paris, and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas. He has presented his research at venues including the FMA Annual Meeting, the Cambridge Conference on Alternative Finance, and the Portuguese Finance Network Conference. Luiz also has extensive experience in machine learning competitions, having placed 16th out of more than 3,500 participants worldwide in the ADIA Lab Causal Discovery Challenge in 2024. During his doctoral studies, he was named Best Teaching Assistant in the Master in Financial Engineering section at EPFL (2023). Before his academic career, he worked in product management at technology startups (CityFalcon and Voltaware) and as an M&A analyst at Société Générale, and he passed all three levels of the CFA Program exams. ### Areas of research - Venture Capital - Private Equity - Entrepreneurial Finance - Machine Learning ## Recent academic contributions BISSOTO, L., "Predictability and Persistence in Deal Selection: Evidence from Venture Capital" in *EUROFIDAI–ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting*, 2026, Paris, France BISSOTO, L., "Private Firm, Traded Stock: The Case of Private Secondary Markets" in *FMA Annual Meeting — Doctoral Student Consortium and Special PhD Paper Presentation*, 2025, Vancouver, Canada BISSOTO, L., "Private Firm, Traded Stock: The Case of Private Secondary Markets" in *Rising Scholar Conference in Finance*, 2025, Zurich, Switzerland ## Conference contributions BISSOTO, L., "Predictability and Persistence in Deal Selection: Evidence from Venture Capital" in *EUROFIDAI–ESSEC Paris December Finance Meeting*, 2026, Paris, France BISSOTO, L., "Private Firm, Traded Stock: The Case of Private Secondary Markets" in *FMA Annual Meeting — Doctoral Student Consortium and Special PhD Paper Presentation*, 2025, Vancouver, Canada BISSOTO, L., "Private Firm, Traded Stock: The Case of Private Secondary Markets" in *Rising Scholar Conference in Finance*, 2025, Zurich, Switzerland BISSOTO, L., "Private Firm, Traded Stock: The Case of Private Secondary Markets" in *Dauphine Finance PhD Workshop*, 2025, Paris, France BISSOTO, L., "Private Firm, Traded Stock: The Case of Private Secondary Markets" in *EPFL–UNIL PhD Workshop*, 2025, Lausanne, Belgium BISSOTO, L., "Private Firm, Traded Stock: The Case of Private Secondary Markets" in *SFI Research Days, Swiss Finance Institute.*, 2025, Gerzensee, Switzerland