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Scott Galloway is Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business and a serial entrepreneur. He was named one of the world’s best business professors by Poets & Quants. Scott has founded nine companies, including Prophet, RedEnvelope, L2, and Section, where he also teaches. He is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, Post Corona, Adrift: America in 100 Charts, and The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security. Scott has served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Urban Outfitters, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Panera Bread, and Ledger. He has won multiple Webby and Best Podcast awards, and his books have been translated into 28 languages. Across his Prof G, Prof G Markets, and Pivot podcasts, No Mercy / No Malice newsletter, and his YouTube channel, Scott reaches millions.

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Anu Gupta joined Signet in September of 2023 as Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer. She leads the development, evaluation and execution of strategic growth initiatives tied to Signet’s mid- and long-term goals. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of H&R Block, Inc., publicly traded global tax preparation, financial products, and small-business solutions company, since 2019. With over 25 years of transformative business experience in strategy, business development and operations, Anu has driven profitable growth with P&L responsibilities across Fortune 50, private equity, and early-stage entrepreneurial ventures, shaping a compelling strategic direction, building capabilities, and driving impact. She has deep experience in various strategic roles within Target, Inc., Safeway, The Michael’s Companies, Bed, Bath and Beyond Inc., Hellman and Friedman LLC and HCL Technologies. Most recently, Anu served as Chief Revenue Officer of Better Home & Finance, a digital-first fintech homeownership company.

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Nina is a Principal with Earlybird VC in Berlin where she focuses on early stage investments in B2B FinTech & InsurTech, and Enterprise Software. She is a well-known investor in the European Fintech market, having invested in and working with companies like Upvest, Flanks, Finmid, and Hakuna.

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Wesley Chan, co-founder and managing partner at FPV Ventures, is recognized for his pivotal role in founding Google Analytics and Google Voice during his 14-year tenure at Google, where he also developed 17 patents. His notable venture capital career includes early investments in over twenty unicorns and five decacorns, such as Canva and AngelList.

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Sohaila Ouffata is the Founder of African Tech Vision, a platform nurturing the next generation of climate entrepreneurs across Africa and empowering African women’s entrepreneurial potential. With over a decade of experience in international venture capital, Sohaila played a pivotal role in growing BMW i Ventures into one of the world’s most successful corporate venture funds. She currently serves on the Supervisory Board of Scout SE, a leader in digital real estate. Sohaila holds a degree in Media Management from the University of Applied Sciences RheinMain.

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Filip Dames, a founding member of Zalado, is a German entrepreneur and the Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures, known for his significant impact on Zalando's expansion and product development. Honored as "Investor of the Year 2022" and being featured on Forbes Midas List Europe, he actively engages in the startup community, serving on various boards, and lecturing at top business schools.

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Eva is the founder of Morphais, a data intelligence firm that empowers investors and corporations worldwide to make data-driven, efficient, and inclusive decisions when sourcing and screening new opportunities. Leveraging their AI-based platform, Morphais identifies exceptional startups in Europe at the time of incorporation. With over 7 years of experience in the tech and VC ecosystem, Eva has been recognized as one of Germany’s most influential women in tech.

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Raj Ganguly is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of B Capital, based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. His focus is connecting extraordinary entrepreneurs with the people, capital and support needed to drive exponential growth. Raj is a Senior Advisor to BCG, a strategic partner to B Capital that provides a unique value-add to founders in each stage of the investment lifecycle. Raj previously was at Bain Capital investing in technology-driven companies across the U.S. and Asia.

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Simon Hennes is the co-founder and CEO of Vivenu, a company that specializes in API-first ticketing for event organizers and venues, and is revolutionizing the future of ticketing.

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Frederic is Founder and Managing Partner at Felix Capital, a London-based venture capital firm for the Creative Class. Felix is a thematically focused firm, operating at the intersection of technology and creativity, with over $1.2 billion in venture and growth capital. Felix invests in fast-growing digital consumer brands, platforms and related enabling-technologies, with a focus on Europe and North America. At Felix, Frederic works closely with portfolio companies across the firm’s B2C and B2B focus areas, including Mejuri, a modern jewellery brand; Mirakl, a SaaS platform for marketplaces; Yoobic, a frontline SaaS solution; Effy, an energy renovation business; and AMI Paris, a contemporary luxury apparel brand. Recent exits for Felix include Peloton, a digital fitness business (IPO in 2020); Moonbug, a children’s entertainment platform, acquired by Candle Media in 2021; Highsnobiety, a digital media and lifestyle brand, acquired by Zalando in 2022; and in 2023, Felix exited its investment in Yfood to Nestlé. Frederic has worked in the technology industry for over 20 years, previously as a VC-backed tech entrepreneur, and as General Partner with Advent Venture Partners in London, where he was the first investor in global online fashion and luxury marketplace Farfetch. Farfetch IPO-ed at a $6 billion valuation in 2018 (NYSE: FTCH). Frederic was named “Investor of the Year” in Europe by his peers at the 2012 and 2019 Investor All Stars event. He has been on Forbes’ Midas List Europe every year since 2017

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Franziska Meyer is the Co-Founder of Edurino, an award-winning EdTech company revolutionizing education through digital play. Edurino’s flagship product is a hybrid learning app, combining digital content with haptic figurines and an ergonomic stylus to enhance children's learning experiences. Franziska began her career at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) before founding Edurino. She holds an MSc in International Management from Università Bocconi.

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Nate Maier, CAIA is an Investment Officer at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board focusing on the fund’s growth equity and venture capital portfolio. Nate is focused on sourcing, underwriting, and managing the best direct and fund investments. Nate holds a B.S in Economics from University of Wisconsin – Madison and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Steve founded Activant Capital in 2015 and is the firm’s general partner. He has a long track record of investing in disruptive technology companies and has extensive experience as a board director in high-growth B2B platform businesses. He has since grown the firm to $1.0bn+ in AUM, and drives Activant’s long-term strategy.

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Max joined Activant in March 2021, and leads investing efforts in Europe from the firm’s Berlin office. He is focused on enterprise software and commerce infrastructure technology with over a decade of experience as an investor and entrepreneur.

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Andrew joined Activant in Fund I and has played a key role in all aspects of firm building as one of the firm’s longest-serving investors. He focuses primarily on fintech and commerce infrastructure software.

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Scalable tech-startups are Helmut’s passion as co-founder and CEO of Unternehmertum, the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at Technische Universität München (TUM). He is especially interested in startups in the field of smart enterprises, additive manufacturing as well as smart city and mobility solutions. With his background as a founder, aerospace engineer and venture capitalist he loves to help new ventures solve strategy, recruiting, business development and future financing challenges.

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Billy brings over 20 years of operating, investment banking and corporate finance experience across technology, consumer and retail industries, spanning multi-billion dollar enterprises to start-ups. Billy joined Turvo in 2019 as Chief Financial Officer, where he developed the Company’s financial organization, secured financing from strategic partners, and led the sale of Turvo to Lineage Logistics and Bay Grove. Prior to joining Turvo, Billy was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Securities and at Morgan Stanley in the Global Consumer Retail Investment Banking Group. Billy began his investment banking career at Citi in 2007. Additionally, Billy worked at Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ: “CENT”) where he was the Manager of Corporate Finance & Treasury. Billy holds a BA in Political Science from UCLA, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Sarah Guemouri has been building the Intelligence function at Atomico for the past 5 years and is the co-author of the State of European Tech report. She is responsible for various tech and data initiatives at Atomico, such as developing Atomico's long-term DDVC & insights strategy, intelligence generation to support decision-making across key functions, investment activities programmatic support, etc... Prior to joining Atomico, she worked 2 years in business development at data.ai [data.ai], a mobile data intelligence scaleup and 4+ years in Investment Banking and Private Equity at J.P.Morgan & BNP Paribas respectively.

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Don is passionate about working with entrepreneurs who build durable, generational businesses. The GFC portfolio features over a dozen multi-billion dollar disruptors. Previously, he co-founded CityDeal, which was exited to Groupon in the early days, then built and ran Groupon's international offices with 500+ employees spanning Europe and Asia. He subsequently led BD at Airbnb globally and launched multiple offices both organically and through M&A. He constructed and ran the original high end listing and long term stays initiatives, which are multi-billion dollar revenue generating product categories today - LTS now accounts for 20%+ of Airbnb's revenue. Simultaneously, Don advised a variety of high growth startups such as Handy, which was an early Airbnb partner and made a marked impact on global listing quality. He has a track record of succeeding in highly competitive markets. While an investment banker at Credit Suisse tech M&A group in San Francisco, Don worked on George Boutros' team on multiple blockbuster multi-billion dollar deals, including Submarino/Lojas Americanas (B2W), Google/Youtube, Google/DoubleClick, and many more. During his junior and senior years in high school, Don ran a six figure online marketplace, which sold virtual and real world goods to Ultima Online and Everquest gamers. He went to the University of Minnesota for the majority of his high school course load and while in college at the University of Chicago, he attended courses with Nobel Laureate professors Robert Fogel and Gary Becker. His honors thesis surrounded the economic, anthropological and cultural impacts of the reunification of Germany.

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Dominik Obermaier is the CTO at HiveMQ. He is the lead architect of the HiveMQ Enterprise MQTT Broker, which is used in the largest commercial IoT deployments in the world with multiple millions of connected devices. Dominik is co-author of the book “The Technical Foundations of IoT” and is a technical expert for IoT protocols and highly scalable cloud software. He is a member of the OASIS Technical Committee and standardized MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT 5 and a frequent speaker on IoT and Java topics.

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Steve Jacobs is a Partner and Chief Product Officer at Lakestar, leading the Deep Tech investing team, where he focuses on identifying companies built on novel scientific or engineering breakthroughs. He brings over a decade of experience in product management, design, and development from Silicon Valley, working at industry giants like Apple, HP, Facebook, and Google. Additionally, Steve founded and exited his own startup, Olio Devices. He holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford.

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Scott is the co-founder and CEO of Metronome. He previously led Dropbox's Growth & Monetization engineering team, where he drove new product launches and helped the company scale to 10M+ paying customers.

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Shane Curran is the Founder and CEO of Evervault, a pioneering encryption infrastructure platform designed to provide flexible payment security solutions for developers. A recipient of the prestigious Thiel Fellowship, he has been recognized as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30. Shane’s journey in tech began early when he won the 53rd BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2017 at the age of sixteen.

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Neil Shah is the Co-Founder of Tilt, a real-time shopping application, where he played a key role in bringing this innovative concept to mainstream western markets. Prior to Tilt, Neil was one of the earliest employees at Revolut, joining as the 5th team member and serving as the Global Head of Expansion and Authorizations. In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, Neil serves as a mentor at Seedcamp, guiding the next generation of startup founders. He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Manchester.