Seedcamp is where Europe’s top young founders can come together in one place.
From securing funding to developing the right network, young entrepreneurs in Europe face challenges in building globally competitive technology businesses. Through the provision of seed capital and a world class network of mentors, we want to provide a catalyst for Europe’s next generation of entrepreneurs.
What we believe
- Europe has all the right ingredients environment, talent, capital and role models – to build world beating technology businesses
- It’s hard for young entrepreneurs to secure funding, develop the right connections and build teams to supercharge their business
- Once a year, we will bring together Europe’s top young founders and a world class network of mentors in one place
- We will provide seed funding, but more importantly we will expose these teams to the collective experience of people who can help inspire the next generation of Europe’s future serial entrepreneurs Some of the projects and posts we feel close to and which have inspired us:
Paul Graham’s YCombinator
Post on Y Europe can seed
OpenCoffee Club network
Executive Team
Saul Klein
Saul is currently a venture partner at Index Ventures. Before joining Index, he served as the global VP of marketing and e-commerce for Skype (recently purchased by eBay), where he is currently still an advisor. Prior to Skype, Saul co-founded and served as CEO for Video Island, an Index-funded venture that recently merged with LoveFilm to become Europe’s leading online DVD rental and movie download service. For more on Saul’s background please go to www.localglobe.blogspot.com
Reshma Sohoni
Reshma joins Seedcamp from the Venture team at 3i. Prior to 3i, Reshma spent over 3 years at Vodafone in their Commercial Strategy team, working across the Europe and Japan footprints in marketing strategy and pricing functions. Reshma started her career in the US in investment banking (Broadview) and venture capital (Softbank). For more on Reshma’s background please go to www.3i.com
Board
Jason Goodman
Jason is Founder and Managing Director at Albion. Albion is one of the UK’s hottest advertising agencies and their Clients include Skype, Innocent Drinks, eBay, Joost, Fon, Blackberry and Dyson. Albion have a strong record in working with entrepreneurial brands and helping build businesses with new approaches to communications. Jason has previous experience gathered in management at BMP DDB and he previously launched interactive marketing agency Tribal DDB. For more on Jason’s background, please go to www.albionlondon.com
Mattias Ljungman
Mattias is the co-founder of Atomico set up together with Niklas Zennstrom (co-founder of Joost, Skype and Kazaa). Atomico is a different kind of early stage investor that exists in the space between angel investors and venture capitalists. Some of Atomico’s investments include Joost, Last.fm, FON, Technorati and WunderLOOP. Prior to Atomico, Mattias headed up the investment team at CLS Capital Partners, and has worked for strategy consultancy LEK Consulting and Valu-Trac, a fund management company. For more on Mattias’ background, please go to www.atomicoinvestments.com
Robin Klein
Robin has been a significant angel investor in Europe for several years through The Accelerator Group. Robin’s operational expertise comes from having ran and successfully sold three companies: Berda Electric (1976), Salton (1985) and Innovations (1996) and as MD of Arcadia Marketing and Home Shopping. He is currently a director of the following companies: Digivate Ltd, Agent Provocateur Ltd, MooCards Limited, Koodos Ltd, Instant Market Intelligence Ltd, The Moving Service Ltd. For more on Robin’s background please go to www.the-accelerator.blogspot.com
Paul Birch
Paul is a serial internet entrepreneur based in London. He co-founded BirthdayAlarm and helped found Bebo.com. Paul’s previous life was as as an accountant (briefly) and Data/Systems analyst. Currently spending almost all his time on Cominded which will launch a range of social networking centric websites. Paul has a wide range of interests which are reflected in his book collection available at librarything. For more on Paul’s background please go to www.cominded.com/paulbirch
Sara Murray
Sara’s latest venture is buddi an innovation in personal safety. Sara is a seasoned entrepreneur having started her first business, Ninah Consulting in 1992, which was sold to a Publicis Groupe company in 2002. In 2000, Sara founded inspop.com, an online insurance marketplace and sold it within 18 months to the Admiral Group. For more on Sara’s background, please go to www.buddi.co.uk
Sumon Sadhu
Sumon is passionate in changing the ecosystem for young technology entrereneurs, having founded Imperial Entrepreneurs, Zenopy, and being an alum of Oxford Entrepreneurs. He is also the CEO & Co-founder of Jobably and has consulted on enterprise policy for the UK and Welsh governments. Prior to this, he was part of the team at Library House in Cambridge which delivered the first ever census study of UK venture capital spending. For more on Sumon’s background, please go to www.sharpshoot.blogspot.com
Selection Panel
Andreas Schlenker
Andreas is currently with Partech International in Paris. For more on Andreas’ background please go to www.partechvc.com
Avid Larizadeh
Avid is currently with Accel Partners in London. For more on Avid’s background please go to www.accel.com
Greg Marsh
Greg is currently with Index Ventures in London. For more on Greg’s background please go to www.indexventures.com
Irena Goldenberg
Irena is currently with Highland Capital Partners in Geneva. For more on Irena’s background please go to www.hcp.com
Nic Brisbourne
Nic is currently with DFJ Esprit in London. For more on Nic’s background please go to www.dfjesprit.com and www.theequitykicker.com
Olivier Schuepbach
Olivier is currently with Wellington Partners in Germany. For more on Olivier’s background please go to www.wellington-partners.com
Paul Fisher
Paul is currently with Advent Ventures in London. For more on Paul’s background please go to www.adventventures.com and www.thecoffeeshopsofmayfair.com
Pierre Festal
Pierre is currently with Atlas Venture in London. For more on Pierre’s background please go to www.atlasventures.com
Sean Seton-Rogers
Sean is currently with Balderton Capital in London. For more on Sean’s background please go to www.benchmark.com
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