Daniel Ek

Daniel Ek is the Chairman and CEO of Spotify, where he sets the company’s overall vision. Daniel oversees Spotify’s business and product strategies and is responsible for building a progressive, forward looking global organization. Daniel was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden where he founded Spotify in 2006.

Pär-Jörgen Pärson

Pärson has been a general partner at Northzone since 2004. At Northzone, his primary areas of focus are disruptive businesses in consumer internet, health and fintech. His portfolio includes multi-billion dollar exits in market-defining companies such as Spotify, iZettle and Avito, as well as Pricerunner, Jasper, Videoplaza, and current companies like fuboTV, Spring Health, Play Dots and others. He appeared several times in Forbes’ Midas List. 

Before joining Northzone, Pärson ran his own investment firm and was a consultant at McKinsey. He holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Sasha Astafyeva

Sasha Astafyeva is a Partner at Atomico based in London where she leads on new investment opportunities in the consumer space. Prior to joining Atomico, Sasha spent three years as a Principal at Felix Capital in London. Before that she spent extensive time as an operator in startups in the UK and Brazil, including Lyst, a London-based online fashion marketplace, VivaReal, an online real estate marketplace in Brazil, and Dafiti, Latin America’s largest online fashion retailer. She is passionate about partnering with entrepreneurs who are building distinctive mission-driven consumer propositions with a strong brand identity and emotional connection with customers, and who are creating customer value through use of data and advanced technologies.

Jan Hammer

Jan focuses primarily on financial information and data services startups, investing across all stages from seed to venture to growth. He led Index investments in Adyen, Alan, Collibra, Robinhood, SafetyCulture and TransferWise.

Prior to joining Index, Jan worked at General Atlantic in London. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in M&A and capital markets. Jan holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD, and is a graduate of Oxford University.

According to Forbes Midas List, the annual ranking of venture investors, Jan is the top-ranked investor in Europe.

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Seth Pierrepont

Seth Pierrepont joined Accel in 2013 and focuses on enterprise software, cybersecurity, and fintech.

Seth helped lead Accel’s investments and ongoing work in Kry, PillPack (acquired by Amazon), WorldRemit, Soldo, Anyfin, Privitar, Snyk, Shift Technology, CallSign, Chainalysis, Carwow, and FRVR.

Prior to Accel, he invested in European companies with Vision Capital. He previously advised technology and media companies on strategy with Oliver Wyman in San Francisco.

Seth is from Chicago, IL and attended Dartmouth.

Fredrik Cassel

Fredrik is one Europe’s most experienced investors and one of the most trusted advisors to the Creandum portfolio companies. Fredrik is an early backer of several companies that have grown to dominate their respective markets, among others Spotify, KRY / LIVI, depop and Kahoot!.

In 2018, he was ranked #5 on the European Midas List and in 2020, he made it as one of the very few European investors to the global Midas List.

Faith Mustafa Celebi

Fatih was born in 1991 in Ankara, Turkey. He studied economics at Koc University, Istanbul. The fundamental principle of Fatih’s entrepreneurial path is to create products and services for mental health. He loves long-distance running, skiing, kitesurfing, and enjoys jazz music while reading books on history.

Kelly Griswold

Kelly has 10+ years of experience working with external counsel and internal legal teams. In previous roles at Axiom and Knowable, she’s worked alongside clients to implement parts of the ACC Maturity model and has a unique view of the challenges that legal teams and law firms face when it comes to implementing new technology for legal operations.

Kelly is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Onna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform. At Onna, she works directly with corporate clients and partners, like Slack, Dropbox, and Facebook, to make data accessible, useful, and private, for use cases like Compliance, Information Governance, and more.

Ilya Volodarsky

Ilya is co-founder and president of Segment, the world’s leading customer data platform. Segment’s platform democratizes access to reliable data for all teams and offers a complete toolkit to standardize data collection, unify user records, and route customer data into any system where it’s needed. Ilya works on infrastructure engineering, new products, and the Segment Startup Program, which is focused on helping early-stage startups implement analytics and reach product market fit from the get-go.

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Casey Winters

Casey Winters is a full time advisor and consultant to top tech companies like Eventbrite, Thumbtack, and Reddit. Casey recently was the growth advisor in residence at Greylock Partners, where he helped startups on their growth strategies and scaling challenges. Prior to Greylock, Casey led growth at Pinterest, helping kickstart international growth. Pinterest recently crossed over 200 million monthly active users. Yes, those annoying signup prompts are his fault.

Prior to Pinterest, Casey was the first marketer at Grubhub, helping the company grow from 30,000 users to over 3 million by leading acquisition and retention marketing. Casey is responsible for some of Grubhub’s worst performing ads, but definitely not its best. Grubhub went public in April 2014 and is now valued at $10 billion. Prior to Grubhub, Casey worked in online marketing at Homefinder and Apartments.com. Casey has a BBA in Marketing from Loyola University Chicago and an MBA from Chicago Booth, but he isn’t like those other MBA types. He blogs, not as well as most, at caseyaccidental.com.

Ross McNairn

Ross McNairn is the CPO at TravelPerk, a corporate travel management platform based in Barcelona. He is a qualified lawyer, self-taught engineer, and sold his first startup to Skyscanner, where he ran their business-travel products until they exited to CTrip in 2017 for $1.7BN.

 On route to TravelPerk he led Letgo’s production engineering organisation to a unicorn valuation through a $500M raise and when away from a keyboard you will find him on his mountain bike either in the hills of Catalonia or back in Scotland.

Mathilde Collin

Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front, which gives teams the power to meaningfully connect with customers and transform their work into impact. Front serves more than 6,000 businesses and has raised $138 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Threshold Ventures (fka DFJ), and Uncork Capital, as well as executives from Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, and Zoom. Mathilde mentors aspiring entrepreneurs through All Raise’s Female Founders Office Hours and the Pioneer Fund. She has been recognized in Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups 2019, Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Tech 2017 and Inc.’s Rising Stars 2018. Based in San Francisco, Mathilde is from Paris, where she earned her Masters in Entrepreneurship from the HEC School of Management in 2012.

Brad Bao

Brad Bao is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Lime. He recently served as the Managing Director of Kinzon Capital (Fosun Group), a cross-border fund that invests in early stage technology companies in both the US and China, focusing on mobile and internet related investments.

Prior to founding LIme, Brad served as the General Manager of Tencent America, and VP of BD of Tencent Games for over 8 years. During that time Brad built the Tencent US branch from scratch, and was responsible for the overall P&L including investments, strategy, globalization, BD, and operations. He led and participated in investments including Hi-Rez, Fireforge, Zam, and served as board member of several.

Alexander Vidiborskiy

Alexander (Sasha) Vidiborskiy is a Principal at Atomico. He is a quantum physicist by background and specialises in enterprise software including developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML applications among others.Before joining Atomico, Sasha was a Senior Associate at Runa Capital. Prior to that he ran Business Operations at Bitcalm, a 1-click backup and recovery SaaS for SMEs. Sasha started his career as a Research Associate at a theoretical physics lab where he built a first-in-class tunable superconducting metamaterials.

Jordi Romero

Jordi Romero is an entrepreneur and computer engineer from Barcelona. He’s the founder and CEO of Factorial, an HR Software startup with thousands of customers around the world, over a hundred employees and some of the world’s best investors. He’s also a partner at itnig, an early stage investment fund. Previously he was CTO and VP Business Development at Redbooth, a project management start-up that started in Barcelona and moved to San Francisco.