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Stockholm, Sweden
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IoT (& Wearables) • Online Social
General Partner at Creandum
Staffan Helgesson serves as General Partner at Creandum. Helgesson serves as the board member at Edgeware, KnCMiner, itslearning, Epidemic Sound, Vigour.io. Previously he served as Managing Partner at Startupfactory. He also has extensive international management experience from McKinsey & Company, Procter & Gamble and IKEA, in Europe, USA and Asia. Staffan was previously founder and Managing Partner of Startupfactory and started Creandum in 2003. He serves as Advisor Board Member at SUP46.
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
Partner at Balderton Capital, the leading early stage VC focussed on Europe
Most Interested In
Insurtech, fintech, crypto
Not Interested In
hardware, ecommerce, silicon
Austin - San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles - New York - Miami - Seattle - Durham - Boulder - Denver - Boston - Washington - San Diego - Orange - Texas, U.S.A. - U.K. - Sweden
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Future Of Work • Real Estate (& Construction) • Woman Focused
General Partner Rubicon Venture Capital / Author The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital (McGraw Hill) Twitter: @RomansVentures www.linkedin.com/in/romans/
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution)
Founding Partner Episode 1 Ventures
Munich, Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Mobility • Consumer
B2B SaaS expert ▪ Mentor & Coach ▪ Active Angel Investor ▪ Owner of The SaaSgarage
Investor at Point Nine Capital
Angel investor and mentor for those having exciting business ideas, ready kicking off their company. Core competency and areas of interest: SaaS (eg. @freeagent @geckoboard @positionly @riskmethods @minubo @contentful @softgarden )
Melbourne, Australia - U.K.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Entrepreneur and Investor
Owner Yellowfin Media, Director Good Insurance
Start ups, investing, angel investing Property investment, real estate development Food, drink, tech, consumer internet, mobile Ecommerce, retail Media, New Media & Internet Advertising Insurance Trading, Broking, Execution
New York, U.S.A. - U.K.
Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Online Social • Consumer
David Hirsch serves as Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Compound. He is the Board Member at Paice. He previously served as the Board Member and an Advisor at Post Intelligence. He is a digital media veteran with 15 years of business development & operational experience. Google brought on David as employee #2 in the New York HQ with just $3m in revenue. David then launched and spearheaded the company's monetization strategy by co-founding Google's Vertical Markets Group and wiring the regional sales team structure. For eight years, he oversaw cross-functional and cross-business responsibilities, all of which helped him to lead both Google's culture committee and its recruiting initiative and subsequently hire many of the people who lead Google's sales and business teams today. David's earlier experiences handling business development for Adsmart and Snowball during their critical growth stages have contributed to his sincere understanding of common founder challenges. David actively employs this empathy when helping young companies with monetization, BD, acquisition, hiring, and corporate culture development. An active board member of Girls Who Code, The River Fund and The Sonima Foundation, David is also an advisor to the Israeli startup accelerator program IDC Elevator, the premier in-image advertising platform GumGum, and the content recommendation and monetization platform Taboola. David graduated with a BA degree from the University of Maryland in 1992.
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)
Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners
Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Partner at Accel
Most Interested In
Early stage investments in the data-driven software, automation, collaboration, security, and fintech categories.
Paris, France
BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools
Cyril Bertrand is a Partner at Xange Captial where he is responsible for core-technology investments and for the German-speaking area. Cyril has prior venture capital experience at DVC (Munich, Germany) where is was responsible for the Telecom & Semiconductor investments, and at TeleSoft Partners (San Mateo, CA). Prior to that, his 7-year tenure at Alcatel brought him to the position of Director in charge of creating and growing Alcatel’s first generation of 802.11 products across France, Spain and Israel in 2000. Cyril is also a non-exec board director of Apertio (UK), MergeOptics (Germany), Panoratio (Germany), Powerlase (UK) and is an observer at BigMachines (US).
Paris, France - Denmark
Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Food & Beverage • Consumer
Yacine Ghalim serves as Principal at Sunstone Technology Ventures. He joined Sunstone in 2013 from Goldman Sachs, where he was an analyst in the firm's London office. At Goldman, he was focusing on investments in European listed companies across multiple industries, including Technology. He was born in Brussels and has lived in Belgium, Morocco, France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, and Denmark. He holds an MSc in Management from HEC Paris, and an MSc in Finance from Bocconi University in Milan.
Istanbul, U.S.A. - Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
Most Interested In
Consumer-facing e-businesses, including marketplaces, e-tailers, SaaS and SME-focused software companies targeting local markets in CEE & Turkey. Enterprise technology innovators with roots in CEE & Turkey.
Not Interested In
Life sciences, material science, clean tech
Cem Sertoglu serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. He has several years of experience as an Investor, focusing web-enabled services and consumer internet. Previously, he was a Partner at iLab Ventures, Co-Founder and CEO at Mondus.com, Founder & CEO at SelectMinds and Vice President at Farmer & Company. Pioneering the technology investment sector in Turkey since its inception with his personal investment vehicle Young Turk Ventures, his investments include propertyfinder.ae, Wikimart.ru, Civic Solar, Gittigidiyor.com (Turkey's leading online auctions portal), Yemeksepeti.com (Turkey's leading food order platform) and Grupanya (Turkey's leading daily deal website). He holds a BA in Economics from University of Texas (Austin). He served as Board Member at Fite and Grupanya.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Consumer
Dr. Jyri Engestrom is a Co-Founder and serves as the General Partner at Yes VC. Dr. Engestrom served as Advisor at True Ventures. Engestrom is also a Co-Founder at Yes VC. He was a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Jaiku, which grew into the leading European mobile social network and pioneered the sharing of location information, status updates and activity streams on smartphones. Prior to Jaiku, Jyri worked at Nokia, and holds patents in remote content delivery, content prioritization and RF-tag-reading capabilities in mobile devices. A sociologist by training, Jyri coined the term "social object" to refer to photos, links and other shareable Web content. After Google acquired Jaiku in 2007, Jyri was responsible for mobile applications and Google's efforts to become a social destination on the Web and mobile. He left Google to found Ditto.me, a mobile local recommendations business, which was acquired by Groupon in 2012. At Groupon, Jyri served as the Director of Product Management responsible for Breadcrumb by Groupon, an iPad point-of-sale system that replaces traditional cash registers at restaurants and other local businesses. Born in Helsinki, Finland, Jyri graduated with a Master's degree in Social Science from the University of Helsinki in 2002 and pursued Ph.D. studies at Lancaster University Management School in the UK. He is the Co-Founder of Drone Games, a programming competition advancing the ethical use of autonomous flying drones, and Sesat School, a micro-school in San Francisco. He serves on the board of the Rare Cancer Research Foundation.