Slack
Slack is part of Cal Henderson’s operating background. As a co-founder and former CTO, he led its engineering, research and design teams from the company’s beginnings through its public listing and acquisition by Salesforce.
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Find investors through the companies and firms in their operating, research and investing backgrounds.
NEA
Philip Chopin is Managing Director and Head of Europe at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Based in London, he leads the firm’s European investing efforts.
OpenAI
Jenny Xiao worked as a researcher at OpenAI before becoming a Partner at Leonis Capital. Her background brings a research perspective to this investor directory.
Accel
Zhenya Loginov is an Accel investor with Miro and Segment operating experience. Lucy Wimmer leads Accel’s marketing, brand and communications programmes from London.
Miro
Zhenya Loginov was Chief Revenue Officer at Miro before joining Accel. In its October 2023 announcement, Accel reported that he had run a go-to-market team of more than 700 people across 12 offices.
Segment
Zhenya Loginov served as Chief Operating Officer at Segment before his CRO role at Miro. According to Accel’s October 2023 announcement, he built and ran a global go-to-market team of more than 200 people at Segment.
Flickr
Before co-founding Slack, Cal Henderson built and led the engineering organisation at Flickr. His public biography describes work from its founding through its acquisition by Yahoo.
Leonis Capital
Jenny Xiao is a Partner at Leonis Capital, a research-driven investor in AI-native companies at pre-seed and seed. She previously worked as a researcher at OpenAI.
Menlo Ventures
Joff Redfern and Deedy Das are Partners at Menlo Ventures. Their operating backgrounds span Atlassian, LinkedIn, Glean and Google.
Atlassian
Joff Redfern was Chief Product Officer at Atlassian, where he led a product portfolio including Jira, Confluence and Trello.
Glean
Deedy Das was on Glean’s founding team and progressed from engineer to engineering manager and creator and product lead of Glean Assistant.
Laura González-Estéfani led international growth across Europe and Latin America at Facebook. Deedy Das also held technical roles at Facebook before Glean.
TheVentureCity
Laura González-Estéfani is Founder and CEO of TheVentureCity. Her operating background includes Facebook international growth across Europe and Latin America.
IVP
Eric Liaw and Alex Lim are General Partners at IVP who helped establish the firm’s London office in 2023.
Microsoft
Tamara Steffens joined Microsoft following its acquisition of Acompli, a sale she negotiated as Acompli’s SVP of Business Development.
Thomson Reuters Ventures
Tamara Steffens is Managing Director at Thomson Reuters Ventures. Her operating background includes Acompli and Microsoft.
Khosla Ventures
Adina Tecklu is a Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she has led investments including Lovable, Basis and Aven.
Zenefits
Adina Tecklu worked on Zenefits’ early team during rapid growth. Her background includes product and operations before venture investing.
Prelude Ventures
Juan Pablo Soulier is a Partner at Prelude Ventures, following operating experience at Tesla, Waymo and Rivian and co-founding Vammo.
Tesla
Juan Pablo Soulier helped scale Tesla’s Supercharger network and charging analytics across more than 40 countries, according to Prelude Ventures.
Forward Deployed VC
Mark Scianna founded Forward Deployed Venture Capital after eleven years of forward deployed engineering at Palantir.
Palantir
Mark Scianna built and deployed software at Palantir, including leading Forward and implementing it alongside military users.
Chapter One
Jamesin Seidel is a General Partner at Chapter One. She initially built its data and sourcing infrastructure after working on Twitter’s anti-spam systems.
Jamesin Seidel was a technical lead working on platform manipulation at Twitter, building systems to detect fake accounts and large-scale abuse.
Scale Venture Partners
Siddharth Ramakrishnan is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners, with hands-on AI product and engineering experience.
Attentive
Siddharth Ramakrishnan led AI products at Attentive, developing evaluation systems, reinforcement learning and user-targeting models.
Joyance Partners
Charles Smith is a Managing Partner at Joyance Partners. His operating background includes Etsy, Tacoda, RealMedia and founding Extension Entertainment.
Etsy
Charles Smith spent three years as an Etsy Vice President, according to Joyance Partners. His profile also covers sales and corporate-development roles elsewhere.
Qualcomm Ventures
Boaz Peer is Managing Director for Israel and Europe at Qualcomm Ventures, following commercial and R&D programme-management roles at Qualcomm.
Qualcomm
Boaz Peer led Qualcomm business development in Israel and Europe and built startup partnerships from proof of concept to commercialisation.
eBay Ventures
Henri Jaanimägi established eBay Ventures in 2022 and leads it globally, following eBay European and global inorganic strategy roles.
eBay
Henri Jaanimägi led eBay’s European strategy and global inorganic strategy before establishing eBay Ventures.
Elemental Impact
Gabriel Scheer leads transportation, energy, built-environment and water investing at Elemental Impact. His work includes early commercial projects in Europe.
Lime
Gabriel Scheer was on Lime’s founding team as its first government-relations hire. His responsibilities included government relations, global data policy and transit partnerships.
TheFounderVC
Mia Lewin is a Founding Partner at TheFounderVC. Her operating background includes founding StyleGenome and leading personalisation at Wayfair.
Wayfair
Mia Lewin led Wayfair’s personalisation team after the company acquired StyleGenome, the AI-commerce startup she founded.
Twelve
Eytan Galai is CEO of Twelve, a credit-focused firm providing marketing-linked growth finance. His operating background includes international revenue leadership at Outbrain.
Outbrain
Eytan Galai was Outbrain’s Chief Revenue Officer and previously led its international business. Outbrain credits him with helping it exceed $1bn in revenue and complete its IPO.
DV
DV lists Jesse Scott as a Venture Partner. His operating background includes leading Databricks’ cybersecurity business and a Chief Security & Trust Officer role at Opal Security.
Databricks
Jesse Scott was Global Head of Cybersecurity at Databricks, building its cybersecurity business, product offering, partnerships and enterprise customer community.
Opal Security
Jesse Scott held the Chief Security & Trust Officer role at Opal Security. His published work there addresses identity, authorisation and access governance.
Huddle
Lucy Wimmer held a marketing leadership role at online collaboration platform Huddle before EQT Ventures and Accel.
EQT Ventures
Lucy Wimmer built EQT Ventures’ marketing and communications function and helped portfolio companies define and execute their marketing strategies.