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Slack
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Jenny Xiao
- OpenAI
- Former researcher
- Columbia
- PhD
- Leonis Capital
- Partner · Investing
Research-driven investing in AI-native companies at pre-seed and seed.
Leads European investing at
NEA
Philip Chopin
- SSENSE
- Senior Director of International
- BCG
- Project Leader
- NEA / 83North
- Investing experience
Led investments in Synthesia, Sana Labs, VAST Data and CuspAI.
Scaled GTM at
Miro & Segment
Zhenya Loginov
Led product at
Atlassian
Joff Redfern
- Atlassian
- Former Chief Product Officer
- Consumer product & mobile
- Flattenme
- Co-founder
Led Jira, Confluence and Trello; built LinkedIn’s mobile team.
Created
Glean Assistant
Deedy Das
- Glean
- Founding-team engineer
- Glean Assistant
- Creator & product lead
- Search & AI engineering
Built Google Search features, then Glean’s workplace AI assistant.
Led international growth at
Facebook
Laura González-Estéfani
- Growth · Europe & Latin America
- eBay / Siemens
- Earlier leadership roles
- TheVentureCity
- Founder & CEO
Joined Facebook in 2008; led growth across Europe and Latin America.
Co-built the London office of
IVP
Eric Liaw
- IVP
- General Partner
- London office
- European expansion (2023)
- Klarna / UiPath
- Investment relationships
Moved to London to help build IVP’s first office outside the Bay Area.
Negotiated Acompli’s sale to
Microsoft
Tamara Steffens
- Acompli
- Former SVP · Business Development
- Microsoft
- Office 365 business development
- Outlook mobile
- Mobile strategy
Negotiated Acompli’s Microsoft exit, then led Office 365 business development.
Worked with founders at
UiPath & Discord
Alex Lim
- IVP London
- General Partner · European team
- UiPath / Discord
- Investment relationships
- Supermetrics / Sorare
- Investment relationships
Helped build IVP’s London office and relationships with European founders.
Product & operations at
Zenefits
Adina Tecklu
- Zenefits
- Early team · Product & operations
- Oracle
- Enterprise sales
- Lovable / Basis / Aven
- Led KV investments
Early Zenefits operating experience; now backs Lovable at Khosla.
Scaled charging infrastructure at
Tesla
Juan Pablo Soulier
- Tesla
- Supercharger network & analytics
- Waymo / Rivian
- Infrastructure strategy / Data & AI
- Vammo
- Co-founder
Helped scale Tesla charging across 40+ countries (Prelude).
Built & deployed products at
Palantir
Mark Scianna
- Palantir
- Forward deployed engineer · 11 years
- Palantir Forward
- Product leadership & field deployment
- FDVC
- Founder & General Partner
Installed servers, integrated data and trained Palantir Forward users in Afghanistan.
Built anti-spam systems at
Twitter
Jamesin Seidel
- Technical lead · Platform manipulation
- Chapter One
- Built data & sourcing infrastructure
- The Engine Room
- Co-launched London builder programme
Built models processing billions of events; co-launched The Engine Room in London.
Built production AI at
Attentive
Siddharth Ramakrishnan
- Attentive
- AI products · Evaluation & targeting
- CoinList
- Product & engineering leadership
- Cyence
- Machine learning · Cyber risk
Built message evaluations, reinforcement learning and user-targeting models.
Former Vice President at
Etsy
Charles Smith
- Etsy
- Former Vice President · 3 years
- Tacoda / RealMedia
- VP Sales / EVP Corporate Development
- Extension Entertainment
- Founder · Music discovery
Sales at Tacoda, corporate development at RealMedia, and founder experience.
Built European partnerships at
Qualcomm
Boaz Peer
- Qualcomm
- Business development · Israel & Europe
- Qualcomm Israel
- Led R&D programme management
- Startup partnerships
- Proof of concept → Commercialisation
Built a startup ecosystem across mobile, automotive and IoT, from pilots to commercialisation.
Led European strategy at
eBay
Henri Jaanimägi
- eBay Europe
- Led European strategy
- eBay global
- Led inorganic strategy
- eBay Ventures
- Established unit · Global Head
Led eBay’s European strategy, then established its venture unit in 2022.
Built government partnerships at
Lime
Gabriel Scheer
- Lime
- Founding team · Government relations
- Lime
- Global data policy & transit partnerships
- Elemental Impact
- Early commercial project deployment
From Lime’s first government-relations hire to climate deployments including Europe.
Built personalisation at
Wayfair
Mia Lewin
- StyleGenome
- Founder & CEO · Acquired 2021
- Wayfair
- Led personalisation team
- TheFounderVC
- Founding Partner
Built StyleGenome through its Wayfair acquisition, then led personalisation there.
Scaled international revenue at
Outbrain
Eytan Galai
Built a cybersecurity business at
Databricks
Jesse Scott
- Databricks
- Former Global Head of Cybersecurity
- Opal Security
- Chief Security & Trust Officer role
- DV
- Venture Partner
Developed security products, partnerships and an enterprise customer community at Databricks.
Led B2B marketing at
Huddle & DataSift
Lucy Wimmer
- Huddle / DataSift
- Marketing leadership
- EQT Ventures
- Built marketing & communications
- EQT portfolio
- Marketing strategy & execution
Built EQT Ventures’ marketing function and helped portfolio teams define and execute their strategies.
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