December 1–2 Helsinki, Finland
The comeback you’ve been waiting for.
Slush 2021 is safely bringing together the world’s leading founders, investors, executives, and media for a curated gathering of 8,800 attendees at Helsinki Expo and Convention Center. Doors will be open 8 am–6 pm on Dec 1 and 8 am–10 pm on Dec 2.
Welcome to the Entrepreneurial Renaissance.
How to Hack Slush 2021
1. Assign your tickets
If you have multiple tickets, they need to be assigned to those you wish to join you at Slush. Ticket assignment can be done on the Manage tickets view on the Slush Platform.
2. Read our COVID-19 guidelines
To access Slush 2021 and other events organized by Slush, you are required to present an EU Digital Covid Certificate (EUDCC) or a valid vaccination, recovery, or negative test result certificate issued by a third country for which the EU has adopted an equivalence decision (EUDCC Scheme). Read more here.
3. Sign up for Matchmaking
1,700 investors and 3,200 startup founders or operators are joining us at Slush this year. Make the most of this crowd by signing up for our Matchmaking Tool and book meetings with the people attending Slush.
4. Download Slush 2021 App!
The Slush 2021 has everything you need: a map of the venue, stage schedule, your own personalized calendar, and all event info. Download it here.
5. Pre-Claim your Slush badge and wristband
To avoid queuing, we highly recommend you claim your badge and wristband beforehand at one of our Pre-Badge Claim points. Please have your ID ready when you arrive at any Badge Claim point. You can only pick up your own badge and wristband.
6. Sign up for Side Events
We have a vast range of Side Events to sign up for here.
7. Get to know to our stage program
Pre-registration to Slush 2022 NOW OPEN
SPEAKERS
STEPPING ON STAGE THIS YEAR
Our stage program is all about providing concrete advice for founders and operators.
Tony Fadell
Tony is Principal at Future Shape, an investment and advisory firm coaching deep tech startups. Currently, Future Shape is coaching over 200+ startups innovating game-changing technologies.
Tony is an active investor and entrepreneur with a 30+ year history of founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives.
He is the founder and former CEO of Nest, the company that pioneered the “Internet of Things.” Tony was the SVP of Apple’s iPod Division and led the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. Throughout his career Tony has authored more than 300 patents. In May 2016, TIME named the Nest Learning Thermostat, the iPod and the iPhone as three of the “50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time.”
About Future Shape
Founded: 2014 | HQ: France | Stage: Series A–Series B
Renate Nyborg
Renate Nyborg is CEO at Tinder. With over 15 years experience building mobile and subscription businesses, Renate joined Tinder in 2020 to lead its European operations. Now Renate is the first female CEO at Tinder.
Renate joined Tinder from Headspace, where she built and led its first international product and marketing team. She previously spent four years at Apple, where she led the App Store subscription business in Europe. Renate is also the founder of Pleo, a human-centric app design studio, and was the first-ever Global Director of Mobile at Edelman.
Renate is of Norwegian and Dutch origin and has worked in London, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Paris, and Switzerland. She is a Philosophy graduate from the University of Cambridge. Renate currently lives in Europe with her husband, whom she met on Tinder and her three stepkids. She loves food, her piano, and music, and can often be found hiking or Nordic skiing around the Alps.
About Tinder
Founded: 2012 | HQ: United States | Funding: €682M | Industry: Social Media
Peter Carlsson
Peter Carlsson is Founder and CEO of Northvolt, a company on a mission to build Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery factory. Having raised €5.55 billion of funding to date, Northvolt works with the biggest automotive manufacturers in the world such as BMW and Volkswagen.
Before founding Northvolt, Peter worked as CPO and Head of Supply Chain at Tesla Motors. He left these positions at the end of 2015 to become an entrepreneur, advisor, and angel investor. Prior to Tesla, Peter worked as Chief Product Officer in several notable companies such as NXP (former Philips Semiconductors) and Sony Ericsson.
Peter holds an M.SC. in Economics, Production, and Quality Control from Luleå Technical University.
About Northvolt
Founded: 2016 | HQ: Sweden | Funding: €5,55B | Industry: Energy
April Koh
April Koh is Co-founder and CEO of Spring Health, a comprehensive mental health benefits platform for employers.
April has received honors from the American Psychiatric Association and has been featured in numerous news outlets such as Forbes 30 under 30. She is also a Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Fellow.
About Spring Health
Founded: 2016 | HQ: United States | Funding: €269M | Industry: Health
Guillaume Pousaz
Guillaume Pousaz, is Founder and CEO of Checkout.com, the leading payments technology firm he launched in 2012. Driven by the belief that financial complexity is a barrier to innovation—and, therefore, economic prosperity—he founded Checkout.com to cut through the complexity and empower businesses to change the world.
Checkout has since become one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the world. Its customers include Shein, Patreon, Moonpay, and Grab, as well as many of the largest fintech companies such as Wise, Tansfergo, and Curve.
About Checkout.com
Founded: 2012 | HQ: United Kingdom | Funding: €755M | Industry: Fintech
Luciana Lixandru
Luciana Lixandru is Partner at Sequoia, where she focuses on enterprise and consumer technology companies across Europe. Luciana works closely with companies like Xentral and Getir, and is passionate about helping founders at all stages to unlock their potential and think on a global scale.
Prior to becoming Sequoia’s first partner in Europe, Luciana worked at Accel for eight years, where she led investments in UiPath, Deliveroo, Miro and Hopin. She has also held positions at Summit Partners and Morgan Stanley.
Luciana holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Georgetown, and currently resides in London.
About Sequoia Capital
Founded: 1972 | HQ: United States | Stage: Seed–Growth
Sarah Wang
Sarah Wang is Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she focuses on late stage venture investments across enterprise, consumer, FinTech, and bio.
Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, she was a Vice President at TA Associates, a global growth equity firm that has raised €27.4B since 1968. Sarah also served on the board of DiscoverOrg/ZoomInfo, which scaled to €295M of revenue in the enterprise sales and marketing intelligence sector. Before TA, Sarah was an early stage investor at DCM Ventures and Radicle Impact. Her career started at Boston Consulting Group and Morgan Stanley Global Capital Markets.
Sarah holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where she was a Siebel Scholar and Arjay Miller Scholar. She holds a BA in Economics from Harvard. Sarah grew up in the midwest across North Dakota and Chicago.
About Andreessen Horowitz
Founded: 2009 | HQ: United States | Stage: Seed-Growth
Taavet Hinrikus
Co-founder and Chairman of Wise. Prior to starting Wise, Taavet was director of strategy at Skype, where he’d started as its first employee. One of the World Economic Forum’s Tech Pioneers, Taavet has acted as adviser to the Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda, one of the European Commission’s High Level Group of Innovators and a member of the WEF’s Europe Policy Group. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; his investments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Cleo.
Sonali De Rycker
Sonali De Rycker is Partner at Accel. She joined the VC firm in 2008 and focuses on consumer (especially marketplaces), next-generation financial services and software companies.
Sonali led Accel’s investments in Avito (acquired by Naspers), Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), Primer, MerxU, Calastone, Monzo, Shift Technology, Letgo (acquired by Naspers), Kry/Livi, Soldo, Hopin, and Sennder. Prior to Accel, Sonali was with Atlas Venture (now Accomplice). She also previously served on the board of Match.com (NASDAQ:MTCH).
Sonali is from Mumbai and graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Harvard Business School.
About Accel
Founded: 1983 | HQ: United States | Stage: Seed–Growth
Miki Kuusi
Miki Kuusi is Co-founder and CEO of the Helsinki-based company Wolt. Founded in 2014, Wolt is Europe’s second fastest growing technology company focused on making it easy to discover and get the best restaurants and shops delivered home & to the office. Wolt operates in 23 countries and 200+ cities.
Previously, Miki ran Slush as co-founder & CEO, where he oversaw the event’s growth from a local, 300-person gathering in Helsinki to one of the leading tech and investor events in the world attended by more than 25,000 people annually, expanding across Europe and Asia.
Wired listed Miki as #32 on their top technology influencers in Europe for 2015, while Forbes featured Miki on their 30 under 30 list for 2016.
About Wolt
Founded: 2014 | HQ: Finland | Funding: €705M | Industry: Food Delivery
Max Rhodes
Max is Co-founder and CEO of Faire. As a former small business owner, Max is passionate about the positive impact of local commerce on society, and has made it his mission to help independent retailers and brands build thriving businesses and grow stronger communities.
Prior to co-founding Faire, Max was Founding Member at Square Capital and Early Product Lead at Square, where he worked on Cash App, a product that helped more than 230,000 merchants access capital to grow their businesses.
Max holds a BA in history from Yale.
About Faire
Founded: 2017 | HQ: United States | Funding: €596M | Industry: E-Commerce
Lila Ibrahim
Lila Ibrahim is COO at DeepMind, a London-based research community building safe AI systems. At DeepMind, Lila oversees both technology and organizational infrastructure including Engineering, Operations, and People.
Originally a microprocessor engineer, Lila has helped grow some of the world’s leading technology companies including Intel, venture firm Kleiner Perkins, and Coursera, where she was the first executive hire.
Lila is Co-founder and Chair of education technology non-profit Team4Tech. She has previously served on the Board of Gannett, helping it become the largest US print media company. Her exceptional impact has been recognized by a Henry Crown Fellowship from the Aspen Institute and the Anita Borg Institute Award for Social Impact.
About DeepMind
Founded: 2010 | HQ: United Kingdom | Funding: Acquired by Google | Industry: Enterprise Software
Markus Villig
Markus is the Founder and CEO of Bolt, a transportation platform providing ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services.
Having founded Bolt in 2013 at the age of 19, he is the youngest founder of a billion-dollar company in Europe and has been featured as the youngest tech CEO in Forbes Europe 30 under 30 list.
When Markus is not working, he enjoys reading, hiking and playing chess. He doesn’t have a driving license.
About Bolt
Founded: 2013 | HQ: Estonia | Funding: €1.1bn | Industry: Mobility &Delivery
Jessica Schultz
Jessica is General Partner at Northzone, where her main focus is DTC and consumer internet. Her portfolio includes Red Points, Na-Kd, Matsmart, Klarna, Outfittery, Flink and Fyndiq.
Prior to joining Northzone, Jessica co-founded and was CMO of market-leading meal-kit service HelloFresh, spearheading the global marketing operations.
She started her career in consulting at LEK, and holds an MSc, Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics.
About Northzone
Founded: 1996 | HQ: United Kingdom | Stage: Seed-Series B
Hanno Renner
Hanno Renner is co-founder and CEO of Personio, Europe’s leading HR software company for small and mid-sized businesses. More than 5,000 customers digitise and automate their people processes with the help of Personio, using software that is tailored specifically to the needs of SMEs, the backbone of the European economy.Co-founded by four friends out of university in 2015, Personio now has a team of more than 1,000 people across five European offices and ranks among Europe’s most valuable tech startups with its latest valuation at $6.3B.
Prior to co-founding Personio, Hanno studied in Munich, Auckland and New York and worked as a skipper on sailing yachts. He was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2020.
About Personio
Founded: 2015 | HQ: Germany | Funding: €478M | Industry: HR Tech
Sujata Bhatia
Sujata Bhatia is COO at Monzo, the UK neobank on a mission to make money work for everyone.
Before joining Monzo, Sujata was a Senior Vice President & GM for Global Merchant Services Europe at American Express. In her early career, she was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in London and worked at Goldman Sachs and Ernst & Young.
Sujata holds her MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business. Originally from Boston, Sujata resides in London. Even so, she remains an avid Boston sports fan.
About Monzo
Founded: 2015 | HQ: UK | Funding: €622M | Industry: Fintech
Arvind Gupta
Arvind Gupta is Partner at Mayfield. He co-leads Mayfield’s Engineering Biology practice, investing in transformational companies. Arvind was the first investor in breakout companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite, and Upside Foods.
As Founder of IndieBio, Arvind redefined early stage biotech, investing in over 136 companies, growing the IndieBio portfolio’s value into billions of dollars. Prior to founding IndieBio, Arvind was Design Director at IDEO in Shanghai. Arvind is also the author of Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner.
Arvind is a BASE jumper and big wall climber, and now fights submission grappling. Arvind holds 8 patents and is married to an Icelander and has two daughters. He holds a BSs in Genetic Engineering from UCSB.
About Mayfield
Founded: 1969 | HQ: United States | Stage: Early Stage
Christina Cacioppo
Christina Cacioppo is Founder and CEO of Vanta, a leading security and compliance platform backed by Sequoia Capital.
Born in the Midwest and based in Silicon Valley, Christina Cacioppo sits at the intersection of security, tech, and business. After starting her career in early stage VC at Union Square Ventures, Christina went on to lead product management for Dropbox Paper, bringing the product to market. With Vanta, the Y Combinator alum is pioneering a continuous, automated approach to security monitoring.
Christina received her Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and has taught Entrepreneurial Design courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In her spare time, she reads books, runs with no destination, and cooks Sunday dinners for friends.
About Vanta
Founded: 2017 | HQ: United States | Funding: €48M | Industry: Cybersecurity
Andrey Khusid
Andrey Khusid is Co-founder and CEO of Miro, a collaborative whiteboard platform. Miro currently has over 20M users around the world, including 95% of the Fortune 100 companies.
Prior to Miro, Andrey was Founder of Vitamin Group, an award-winning creative agency.
About Miro
Founded: 2011 | HQ: United States | Funding: €68M | Industry: Enterprise Software
Linnéa Kornehed
Linnéa Kornehed is Co-founder and CMO of Einride, a Swedish company focusing on all-electric autonomous transport vehicles. Their mission is to design and develop intelligent technologies for movement. Einride has worked with several companies such as Coca-Cola, Oatly, Lidl and Electrolux, helping them switch to sustainable transport.
Einride has been recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies according to Fast Company.
Prior to founding Einride, Linnéa worked as a Business Solutions Consultant at Forefront Consulting. Linnéa has twice been on Forbes’ prestige list of Europe’s hottest entrepreneurs and is also a TEDx speaker.
About Einride
Founded: 2016 | HQ: Sweden | Funding: €138M | Industry: Transportation
Avinash Rugoobur
Avinash is President of Arrival, joining the company following a successful career at General Motors, Cruise Automation, and his own award winning ventures Curve Tomorrow and Bliss Chocolates.
As Arrival’s President, Avinash is responsible for Arrival’s business and product strategy and international expansion. In his role, he oversaw Arrival’s public listing in March 2021, which was the UK’s biggest ever IPO with a €11.1 billion float on Nasdaq. He also led over €257.7 million in investment from blue-chip investors including Hyundai, Kia, UPS and funds managed by BlackRock.
Avinash has international experience in leading and growing businesses across multiple segments. During his time at GM, Avinash was responsible for the ~€1 billion acquisition of Cruise Autonomous and part of the team which saw its subsequent valuation increase to €12Bn. This work was pivotal in accelerating the delivery of AVs as well as creating the OEM – Startup ecosystem.
Avinash has a passion for projects with positive social impact and is focused on bringing affordable zero emission transportation to everyone.
About Arrival
Founded: 2015 | HQ: United Kingdom | Funding: Publicly listed | Industry: Transportation
Osnat Michaeli
Osnat is Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Infarm. Alongside her Co-Founders Erez and Guy Galonska, Osnat is building a global network of urban vertical farms to sustainably grow and distribute fresh produce in cities.
With a background in film, advertising, journalism and communications, Osnat is responsible for Infarm’s brand and communications strategy.
From Infarm’s Berlin headquarters, Osnat has built a world-class team that collaborates with retailers, chefs and other partners to showcase the freshness, transparency, sustainability and quality at Infarm’s core.
About Infarm
Founded: 2013 | HQ: Germany | Funding: €340.7M | Industry: Agriculture
Patrick Nathen
Patrick is Co-founder and VP Product of Lilium, where he leads the global physical and digital product strategy, as well as product design. Patrick leads the technical operation readiness of the serial aircraft and all relevant mobility services needed at Lilium. Prior to that, he led the calculation and design team, shaping the architecture of the aircraft.
Patrick holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Munich.
About Lilium
Founded: 2015 | HQ: Germany | Funding: €322M | Industry: Transportation
Olivia Nottebohm
Olivia Nottebohm serves as the Chief Revenue Officer at Notion, where she partners with sales, marketing, customer experience, and customer success to grow the business and extend the tool’s reach around the world.
Prior, she was Dropbox’s COO, running go-to-market teams, and spent six years with Google Cloud, where she was VP of SMB Sales and GTM Operations. In that role she led go-to-market efforts and drove revenue for a portfolio of business products that included G Suite. She also helped build and scale Google Cloud’s business.Before that, Olivia was a partner at McKinsey, where she worked with companies to build and execute successful go-to-market strategies at scale.
Olivia has a reputation for setting a high bar, focusing on impact, and building trust within her organization. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
About Notion
Founded: 2012 | HQ: United States | Funding: €294M | Industry: Enterprise Software
Nazim Salur
Nazım Salur is Founder of Getir, a rapid delivery service company that distributes approximately 2,000 everyday items within minutes. With an established status in Turkey, where the company trends towards a super-app, and a United States launch behind it, Getir has expanded across 3 continents and delivers in 9 countries, making them the benchmark brand in the industry.
Prior to Getir, Nazım launched his first tech startup in 2012, BiTaksi, which brought people taxis in three minutes.
Nazım holds a BBA from Bogazici University.
About Getir
Founded: 2015 | HQ: Turkey | Funding: €924M | Industry: Delivery
Sophia Bendz
Sophia is Partner at Cherry Ventures. Sophia is based in Stockholm, where she brings her expertise in the Nordics, femtech, and marketing to the Cherry network. As a passionate advocate for diversity, Sophia also works to enhance diversity and inclusion across European tech.
Before joining Cherry Ventures Sophia played a pivotal role in the early days of Spotify as the audio platform’s Global Marketing Director. She helped launch the company in 56 markets. At the time, Sophia began shifting to VC and also began angel investing, having now over 45 companies in her portfolio. Eventually she joined Atomico, where she created their angel program.
About Cherry Ventures
Founded: 2013 | HQ: Germany | Stage: Early Stage
Michael Acton Smith
Michael Acton Smith is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Calm, the leading digital health brand for mental fitness, meditation, and sleep. Calm has grown to over 100 million downloads, was the Apple 2017 app of the year, and is the world’s first mental health unicorn.
Long fascinated by neuroscience, flow states, and mental fitness, Michael is passionate about spreading meditation as a simple yet valuable skill around the world.
Prior to Calm, Michael was Founder of Ping Pong Fight Club, and Berwickstock music festival. In 2014, he was awarded an OBE for services to the Creative Industries.
About Calm
Founded: 2012 | HQ: United States | Funding: €198M | Industry: Health & Wellbeing
Nicolas Julia
Nicolas Julia is Co-founder and CEO of Sorare, the fantasy football platform building a revolutionary gaming experience that sets a new standard for how fans worldwide connect to the clubs and players they love.
Prior to co-founding Sorare, Nicolas was the VP of Operations at Stratumn – a SaaS software developer for large companies. He holds an MSc in Management from EM Lyon and an MSc in Economics from the Hanken School of Economics.
About Sorare
Founded: 2018 | HQ: France | Funding: €671M | Industry: Gaming
Rebeca Minguela
Rebeca Minguela is Founder and CEO of Clarity AI. She is also former Founder and CEO of Blink Booking, acquired by Groupon.
Previously Rebeca has worked in tech and digital at large corporations such as Santander Bank as Global Head of Digital Transformation and Groupon as Senior Director of Product and Ops. She has also worked with private equity at Bain Capital, in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, and in engineering at German Aerospace Agency, Siemens and IBM. Rebeca is also Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, European Young Leader, and Advisor at several startups. Additionally, she and her ventures have been featured in top publications, such as Forbes, The Economist, and FT.
Rebeca holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Politécnica in Madrid, both with Distinction.
About Clarity AI
Founded: 2017 | HQ: United States | Funding: €54M | Industry: FinTech
Quinn Slack
Quinn Slack is Co-founder and CEO of Sourcegraph, the company pioneering universal code search for dev teams and making coding more accessible to more people. Many of the world’s leading companies are Sourcegraph customers, including 3/5 FAANG, PayPal, Uber, Plaid, GE, Yelp, and Atlassian. The company is valued at €2.22B from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint, and Craft Ventures and other leading investors.
About Sourcegraph
Founded: 2013 | HQ: United States | Funding: €210M | Industry: Software
Ekaterina Malievskaia
Ekaterina is Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of COMPASS Pathways, a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
Ekaterina founded COMPASS Pathways with her husband George Goldsmith in 2016, after having experienced first-hand the challenges in accessing evidence-based and effective mental health care for a family member. The first major initiative of COMPASS Pathways is to develop psilocybin therapy through late-stage clinical trials in Europe and North America for people with treatment-resistant depression.
Ekaterina completed her medical training in St. Petersburg, Russia before moving to the USA, where she worked in private practice, academic medicine and public health for 15 years.
About COMPASS Pathways
Founded: 2016 | HQ: United Kingdom | Funding: Post IPO | Industry: Health Care
Ravi Gupta
Ravi is Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he focuses on consumer, fintech, mobile and internet investments. He serves on the boards of Acelerate, Faire, Noom, Remote and Vise, and is also involved with our investments at Fireblocks, Front and Instacart.
Prior to joining Sequoia, Ravi served as COO and CFO of Instacart from 2015 to 2019. Before joining Instacart, Ravi also spent a decade at KKR after starting his career at McKinsey.
Ravi holds a BS in Economics from Duke University and lives in Woodside with his wife and three sons.
About Sequoia
Founded: 1972 | HQ: United States | Stage: Seed-Growth
Eileen Burbidge
Eileen Burbidge is Partner at Passion Capital, the pre-eminent early-stage technology venture fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere. On behalf of Passion, Eileen serves as non-executive director on a number of fast growing SMEs including Monzo Bank, Digital Shadows, Marshmallow and Butternut Box among others.
Eileen is also HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for FinTech appointed by the Chancellor, Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London’s office and served on former UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group as well as Chair of Tech Nation for 5 years. Eileen is also a member of the board of Dixons Carphone.
She was made an MBE for services to Business in June 2015 and holds a BSc Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
About Passion Capital
Founded: 2011 | HQ: United Kingdom | Stage: Seed and Early Stage
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill is Co-founder of Jennis. She is not only Olympic Champion and 3 x World Champion heptathlete but also a campaigner for women’s equality and body literacy. Through the Jennis CycleMapping programmes in the Jennis Fitness app – Jess is spearheading a drive to help women understand their hormones and how they can work with their bodies to achieve better health and fitness. Our aim is to empower women to become body literate.
Jessica is using her public profile to drive the conversation around the gender data gap – particularly in terms of women’s health. Jennis is working to find ways to provide women with clear and accessible information on the physiology of a woman’s body and how working in line with our hormones and recognising the uniqueness of our own bodies we can make a real difference to our fitness, reduce PMS symptoms and increase our body literacy.
Jessica is a mother of two children.
About Jennis
Founded: 2019 | HQ: United Kingdom | Funding: €1.17M | Industry: Health
Gustav Söderström
Gustav Söderström is Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify. He oversees the product, design, data, and engineering teams, and is also responsible for Spotify’s product strategy.
Gustav is also an entrepreneur and investor who has founded and sold startups in the technology space, including 13th Lab, a computer vision startup that he co-founded which was acquired by Facebook’s Oculus in 2014. He has co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of messaging startup Kenet Works which was acquired by Yahoo!. Gustav holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and was voted the KTH Alumni of the year in 2019.
Gustav is also the podcast host for the podcast mini-series — Spotify: A product story — which offers a glimpse into the decisions that have guided Spotify’s product evolution.
About Spotify
Founded: 2006 | HQ: Stockholm | Funding: Public | Industry: Entertainment & Media
Albert Wenger
Albert Wenger is Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor, for example, Etsy, Tumblr.
Albert has previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company.
Albert graduated from Harvard College in Economics and Computer Science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.
About Union Square Ventures
Founded: 2003 | HQ: United States | Stage: Seed-Growth
Bucky Moore
Bucky is Partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he focuses on software and infrastructure investments. He is a board member and early investor in companies like Netlify, Materialize, Labelbox, Teleport, Rudderstack, Open Raven, Prisma, Calixa, and Codesandbox.
Prior to entering the venture capital business in 2014, Bucky was a member of Cisco’s Corporate Development team, where he executed on various M&A, investment, and partnership opportunities on behalf of its Data Center and Cloud Business Units.
Bucky holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Southern California.
About Kleiner Perkins
Founded: 1972 | HQ: United States | Stage: Seed-Growth
Eccie Newton
Eccie Newton is Co-founder of Karma Kitchen and Karma Cans. Eccie and her sister Gini founded Karma Cans, the office lunch delivery company in 2014. They have since expanded to incorporate Karma Kitchen, delivering co-working and commercial kitchen spaces to other companies in the food and drink industry. Karma Kitchen made headlines in 2020 as they raised their €290m Series A round.
Karma Kitchen runs 22000sq ft of kitchen space in London and is opening 50 new sites in the next five years to provide affordable workspace to over 5000 startups and SMEs in the food industry across Europe.
About Karma Kitchen
Founded: 2018 | HQ: United Kingdom | Funding: €290M | Industry: Food and Beverage
Gini Newton
Gini Newton is Co-founder of Karma Kitchen and Karma Cans. Gini and her sister Eccie founded Karma Cans, the office lunch delivery company in 2014. They have since expanded to incorporate Karma Kitchen, delivering co-working and commercial kitchen spaces to other companies in the food and drink industry. Karma Kitchen made headlines in 2020 as they raised their €290m Series A round.
Karma Kitchen runs 22000sq ft of kitchen space in London and is opening 50 new sites in the next five years to provide affordable workspace to over 5000 startups and SMEs in the food industry across Europe.
About Karma Kitchen
Founded: 2018 | HQ: United Kingdom | Funding: €290M | Industry: Food and Beverage
Jonathan Lai
Jonathan Lai is Partner on the consumer investing team at Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on games, crypto, and social. Today, Jon serves on the board of Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Mountaintop, Singularity 6, and StarStock.
Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a product manager at Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot API and Merch Store before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley.
Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.
About Andreessen Horowitz
Founded: 2009 | HQ: United States | Stage: Seed-Growth
Andrew Reed
Andrew Reed is Partner at Sequoia, where he focuses on product and design-driven software and consumer companies around the world. Andrew represents Sequoia on its investments in Bolt, Figma, Loom, Productboard, Rappi, Snapdocs, Sourcegraph, Tourlane, Vanta, and Zapier, among others. He was also involved with Sequoia’s investment in GitHub that was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
Before joining Sequoia Andrew has worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Andrew has graduated from Amherst College with distinction as a Bachelor of Arts.