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“The value of a company is the sum of all problems increased by 75% since 2016, and the combined value of solved. So, problems to me aren’t just bad, they are Europe’s billion-dollar tech companies is actually growing necessary to create value.” faster than the US or Asia.

Daniel Ek, 2017 This growth is being accelerated by increased Ever since the launch of software firm SAP in 1972, Europe appetite for risk amongst European entrepreneurs and has endured a long wait for the next tech company from unprecedented levels of investment. 2017 was the year of its ecosystem to take the world by storm. This year, Spotify the mega-round, with nine tech companies closing deals became that company - shining a spotlight on the huge worth $200m or more. strides that Europe’s tech ecosystem has made over the 16 years ago, our vision for Investor Allstars was to past few decades. create an event that would bring together all the Daniel Ek and his team at Spotify have revolutionised the critical elements of the financing chain, from the angel music industry and created over $30bn of value for their investors to the mega growth and buyout funds. Each employees and loyal investors. part is crucial in allowing our best entrepreneurs to build companies such as Spotify. One of our long-term judges at Investor Allstars, Pär-Jörgen Pärson from Northzone, was a key investor and board We know how frenetic your schedules are, so thank you member in Spotify. He provided some unique insight into for supporting the event and taking the time to enter. By the journey: collaborating and publicising the amazing success stories we are delivering, together we will take the ecosystem to “They embraced a highly-ambitious approach to the next level. building the company from day one: they took game changing risks that other companies would shy away Our deep gratitude must also go to our sponsors – from. Too often, European companies put Silicon Valley Orrick, Barclays, Berenberg, Bird&Bird, Calibre One, Dealmakers in Technology on a pedestal. However, the best tech companies take Cooley, Intechnica, Shoosmiths, Taylor Wessing, Wither inspiration from Silicon Valley, not dictation. The Spotify Tech, WIRED – and to our esteemed judges, who have team took inspiration from the likes of Apple’s iTunes and dedicated their time to debating the shortlists and Facebook and reiterated and reiterated the product until selecting the winners. We truly love what we do and look they simply had a better version.” forward to working with you to create even more global leaders of the future. There are also encouraging signs amongst the European LONDON | SAN FRANCISCO | STOCKHOLM | BERLIN tech companies trailing Spotify. The number of Europe’s IMAN CRISBY tech companies with a valuation of more than $5bn has Vice President, Marketing, GP.Bullhound MANCHESTER | PARIS | HONG KONG | MADRID | NEW YORK

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Cooley’s lawyers solve legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions and established companies. Clients Berenberg is the world’s second-oldest bank, founded in 1590. Headquartered in Hamburg, we have been partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, often where servicing clients for more than 420 years. We have a unique ownership structure, being family and privately innovation meets the law. The firm is known for working with startups to launch dynamic new ventures and take them owned and led by three managing partners who have unlimited liability which extends for a further five years forward. We have been at it since the venture industry began, having formed America’s first venture fund in Silicon after their retirement. Such a structure allows for long-term, entrepreneurial thinking aligned to our clients. Today, Valley in 1958 and having launched in Palo Alto in 1980. Though we started as a California firm, our roots extend deep Berenberg is a modern and full-service private, investment and corporate bank with an integrated approach into every single innovation centre in the United States and London, Shanghai and Beijing. We provide sophisticated to private and institutional clients. We are financially strong with a core capital ratio of 14.4 per cent and assets counsel to venture capital funds and VC-backed emerging companies in connection with their fundraising, under management of some €28.2 billion. Our 1,116 employees operate in 17 locations across eight countries: governance and investment activities. Cooley has 900 lawyers across 13 offices in the United States, China and Europe. Germany, France, the UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, China and the US.

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Shoosmiths LLP is one of the most active law firms in the VC market, advising on more than 100 VC deals across the UK in WIRED is recognised as the multimedia authority on the future, delivering to smart, intellectually curious readers the latest thinking the past 12 months, including the Octopus Ventures led $26m investment in Digital Shadows and Matillion’s $20m series and developments in science, technology, culture and business with ground-breaking photography and design. Since launch in B financing. What sets us apart is our national VC coverage with expert teams in the major regional markets of London, 2009, WIRED has won a host of awards including BSME Editor of the Year for Technology 2017, Technology Magazine of the Year, Oxfordshire and Thames Valley, Birmingham and the Midlands, Leeds, Manchester, the South Coast, and Scotland, Cover of the Year and overall Magazine of the Year at the Digital Magazine Awards for two consecutive years in 2014 and 2015, giving our clients the benefits of accessibility, strong market connections, and fresh thinking across the UK tech scene. PPA Media Brand of the Year for Consumer Magazines in 2013, the BSME Art Director of the Year for Consumer Magazines in 2013 We also benefit from our market-leading EIS and VCT tax advisory experts working as an integrated team with our and the BSME Editor of the Year Award for Special Interest Magazines in 2012. The WIRED enhanced digital edition iPad app was focused VC transactional lawyers. This combination enables us to provide intuitive and commercial legal solutions in the top five ranked titles in the consumer magazine lifestyle category as selected by iMonitor in 2013. WIRED has a combined to meet clients’ exact aims and helps to make Shoosmiths ‘invested’ – developing bespoke solutions for investors, print and digital circulation of 50,024 (ABC Jul-Dec 2017) and unique users to the website total 2,888,075 (Google analytics Jan-Mar entrepreneurs and management teams which others assume are not achievable. 2018). WIRED Events is designed to cut through the noise and deliver insights into what’s coming next across a range of areas. www.shoosmiths.co.uk Events include WIRED Health, WIRED Smarter, WIRED LIVE and WIRED Next Generation. WIRED Consulting uses the collective power and intelligence of WIRED’s network to help organisations adapt to the fourth industrial revolution.

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Jean Bourcereau - Ventech

Jean is a Managing Partner with Ventech, and has been investing in the Internet, Mobile and Communication Infrastructure sectors since 2000. He brings to the team his expertise in this area as well as knowledge of these industries’ business models and key actors. Jean serves as a board member for Crocus Technology, Ekinops (EKI), Intercloud, Ogury, and Unilend. He was instrumental in many of Ventech’s investments, including Altitude Télécoms (ILD), Arteris (QCOM), Ateme (ATEME), Musiwave (MSFT), Muzicall (RNWK), Wengo (VIV) or Withings (NOK). Richard Brass - Berenberg

Richard Brass is the head of Wealth and Asset Management UK at Berenberg. He joined Berenberg from Schroders Private Banking, having started his career in corporate finance after qualifying as a chartered accountant at KPMG. He is the founder of Impact Ventures UK, a collaborative social impact fund focused on the UK. He is the chairman of the Arts Impact Fund Investment Committee, a board director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Montpelier Foundation and a member of the Institute for Family Business Advisory Council. James Brocket - Calibre One

James is a co-Founder and Managing Partner of Calibre One and manages the firm’s activities in the EMEA region, based in London. With over 20 years of experience, his major focus has been on recruiting at Board and C-level for businesses headquartered in Europe. He works closely with the private equity community and is a trusted advisor to a number of funds. He has also managed a vast number of leadership assignments for US companies across the EMEA region. Outside of work he is an active angel investor in tech companies, a parent to twin boys and an avid sports enthusiast (anything, but especially golf and rugby). George Coelho - Astanor Ventures Taylor Wessing is delighted to sponsor George Coelho is Co-Founder of Astanor Ventures, an investment manager specialized in FoodTech venture finance. Previously he was Chairman of Octo Telematics, Ltd. Coelho also co-founded the European arm of Benchmark Capital, the Investor Allstars 2018 now known as Balderton Capital, a leading venture capital firm. Before Benchmark, he was a founder of Intel Capital, the strategic venture capital arm of Intel Corporation.

Coelho has wide investment experience ranging from early-stage start-ups to public companies and has been involved in more than 100 investments worldwide. Sample transactions where he has been an early investor include: Broadcom and Citrix (US), PCCW (China), Trend Micro (Japan) and Betfair, LoveFilm, ZOPA and Wonga (UK). Coelho has successfully brought companies to flotation on stock exchanges throughout the world. Today these companies represent over $50 Billion in market capitalization.

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Kerstin Cooley - Brightly Ventures Chris Grew - Orrick

Kerstin Cooley is Managing Partner of Brightly Ventures. Before launching Brightly Ventures, she co-founded Chris Grew heads up the London technology practice at Orrick, a leading US law firm. Orrick has one of the foremost and headed MOOR, a leading Nordic early stage investment company. At MOOR, Kerstin oversaw all the firm’s practices for emerging growth technology companies in the US, Europe and Asia. Chris is recognised for his expertise investments, and served as a board member at Acast, Attach, Buildsafe, FirstVet, Mitigram and Universal Avenue. in advising technology and emerging growth companies in venture capital transactions, IPOs and cross-border M&A Prior to MOOR, Kerstin worked on SEB investment teams in Sweden and the U.S., investing in start-up hedge funds and is one of the foremost authorities on European venture capital transactions having completed more than 50 and developing and selling alternative investment products for institutional clients. With 20 years of experience in venture investments in the last year alone. the financial and IT industries, she started her career at Silicon Valley based Echelon, which was listed at Nasdaq in 1998. In the late 1990’s, Kerstin co-founded global integrated communications agency Cognito and was at Edwin Hengstemengel – Endeit Trema for eight years in diverse positions ranging from M&A transactions to leading the company’s consulting organization in the U.S. Kerstin holds a Masters from Umeå School of Business and Economics. Edwin is partner at Endeit Capital, a venture capital firm with offices in Amsterdam and Hamburg. Late investments include Virtuagym (Amsterdam), Chronext (Zurich) and Tourradar (Vienna). Prior to joining Endeit, Edwin was at Cyrte Investments, a family office of John de Mol, co-founder of Endemol. Edwin’s background is in New Media, Sophie Dingreville - HSB Ventures Private Equity and M&A. He studied aviation economics and holds a Masters Degree in Financial Economics and Sophie Dingreville has more than 25 years’ experience in high tech of which 16 years in the Venture Capital Business Administration but showed real perspiration by running the Athens marathon, 2500 years after Greek soldier Industry. Mrs. Dingreville serves as Investment Director at Munich Re/HSB Ventures. She leads the European VC Pheidippides was sent for a message. Edwin is board member at Real Impact Analytics and Quadia. Edwin is activities of Munich Re Group investing in the insurance sector. Previously, Mrs. Dingreville was a Partner at Iris director of the LOEY foundation, a Dutch initiative to stimulate Entrepreneurship. Capital Management for 14 years and served as a member of the Investment Committee of Capnamic in Germany. She was previously on the boards of Let It Wave (acquired by Zoran Corp), OpenTrust (acquired by Karen McCormick - Beringea Keynectis), iAdvize and Agorize. Prior to joining Iris, Sophie Dingreville had served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Previously she was a Project Manager at satellite digital TV platform TPS (acquired by Canal+ Group). Karen is Chief Investment Officer at Beringea, responsible for making new investments and working with portfolio Mrs. Sophie Dingreville started her career as an academic in Digital Image Processing working at the CISRO in companies through to exit. Her investments include Watchfinder, Thread, Blis, Monica Vinader, and MatsSoft Australia and at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in Spain. Received the Award for Best Woman in Venture amongst others. Karen was previously with the Boston Consulting Group and ran the Watch division of Swiss Army/ Capital from “Women In Private Equity Awards” in November 2015. Selected as a “Rising Star” at the Global Wenger. She also has experience with start-ups as both a founder and advisor. Karen has lived and worked in the US, Corporate Venturing Awards in January 2018. Europe, and Asia, and has an MBA from INSEAD and a BSBA from Boston University. John Doran - TCV

John is a General Partner in London and a founding member of TCV’s European investment efforts. He focuses on investments in the software, internet, and fintech sectors. John’s current investments include Believe, Brillen. de, NewVoiceMedia, Perfecto, The Pracuj Group, and WorldRemit. John was previously an investor at Summit Partners, where he focused on investments across software, internet, and financial technology. He started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and later moved to New York. John left his native Ireland more than 20 years ago and has lived and worked in the U.S, Asia and now Europe. Prior to joining the investment world, John competed on the men’s ATP Tennis Tour and was a member of the Irish Davis Cup team between 1996 and 2004. He is a sports fanatic and has competed in tennis, rugby, football, squash, and Gaelic football. These days, John mostly plays on the playground with his young family and enjoys watching the occasional Manchester United match. John received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and graduated with a B.A. in Economics (with honors) from Harvard College.

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Manish Madhvani - GP Bullhound Alastair Peet - Shoosmiths

Manish Madhvani is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound. Manish has executed M&A and Alastair Peet is a corporate partner leading the national Venture and Growth Capital team at Shoosmiths. He capital raising transactions since 1997, involving some of the best known global internet, software and media advises founders and companies as well as institutions such as Octopus Ventures, Oxford Capital, Triple Point, Amber companies, including: Spotify, King.com, The Telegraph, WPP, Concentrix, Fjord, eCommera, Handbag, Hearst Digital, and Livingbridge. He has led more than 50 VC deals in the past twelve months, many involving EIS/VCT Corporation, Accenture, Newscorp and Experian. Manish who was selected as one of the top 40 dealmakers investment, from seed deals, series A, B, C, and on through to exit. He recently advised Octopus Ventures on the globally by M&A Advisor, started his career at Barclays Capital’s Private Equity team. He has advised the Treasury acquisition of Tails.com by Nestlé. In Chambers UK, clients describe Alastair as “very technically sound, commercial” on Entrepreneurship and graduated from Southampton University with an LLB in Law / MA in Marketing. Manish and praise his ability to constructively foster collaboration and compromise. is currently Chairman of the Investor Allstars and Media Momentum judging panels and is a regular speaker / panellist at conferences including Digital Hollywood, The Global E-commerce Summit, TiE, Internet World, Red John Rosenberg - Technology Investor and Advisor Herring, BVCA and EVCA. Bio to come Rainer Maerkle - Holtzbrinck Ventures

Rainer has been a member of the Holtzbrinck Ventures team since 2008. He was responsible for the firms investments in Zalando (IPO 2014), Quandoo (sold to Recruit in 2015), Stylight (sold to Pro7 in 2016), HelloFresh (IPO 2017), Home24 (IPO 2018) and brands4friends (sold to eBay in 2010) and led investments in Scalable Capital, Alexis Scorer – GP Bullhound Outfittery, and many others. Alexis is an Executive Director at GP Bullhound. He has broad experience across the technology industry and has led Before coming to Holtzbrinck Ventures, Rainer played an entrepreneurial role as Head of Business Development successful M&A transactions in sectors including software, IT services, telecoms, internet and digital media. at 123people.com. The business was sold successfully to Pages Jaunes in 2010. Prior to that, Rainer worked for five years in the venture capital field at 3i and Siemens Acceleration, where he was involved in investments in the Prior to joining GP Bullhound, Alexis was Director of corporate development at Experian where he was responsible e-commerce sector. Rainer started his career at Siemens in 2000. for deal origination and execution for the EMEA region. He previously spent more than 10 years working in the technology sector and held international Corporate Development roles at HP Enterprise Services and EDS, where he Rainer studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and received his MBA at INSEAD, worked on numerous acquisitions and divestments across Europe. graduating both with honors. Alexis holds a BSc Joint Hons. in International Management and Modern Languages from the University of Bath and Hans Otterling - Northzone an MBA from Imperial College Business School.

Hans Otterling is General Partner of Northzone since 2006. Prior to joining Northzone, Mr Otterling was active as an entrepreneur in Europe and USA. He founded StreamServe Inc. in 1997, (backed by Apax London) grew to become one of the largest privately held software companies in Europe before it was sold to OpenText (Nasdaq). Mr. Otterling is also the founder of Waymaker which revolutionized the field of Investor Relations in Scandinavia sold to Cision (NasdaqOMX).

Hans holds an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics and University of Massachusetts (Fulbright scholar). You are most likely to find him in London, Stockholm or Berlin.

Northzone has raised 8 funds to date, and has some €900 million under management. Portfolio includes companies like Spotify, Trustpilot, MarketInvoice, Klarna and iZettle. The fund has a team of 10 investment professionals and offices in London, Stockholm, New York and Oslo.

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Rory Stirling - BGF Ventures

Rory Stirling(@rorystirling) is a founding Partner of BGF Ventures, the UK’s largest fund dedicated to backing early stage UK technology companies. Launched in 2015, BGF Ventures’ current investments include NewVoiceMedia, ROLI, Gousto and Marvel.

Before launching BGF Ventures, Rory was a partner at MMC Ventures where he invested in software companies including Masabi and Reevoo, marketplace companies including Appear Here and Love Home Swap, and consumer internet companies such as Pact and Tyres on the Drive. Before becoming an investor Rory had his own angel-backed start-up and before that, was an investment banker at Greenhill & Co. Lucian Schönefelder - KKR

Lucian Schönefelder (London) is a Member at KKR and part of the European Technology, Media, & Telecommunications team. Mr. Schönefelder focuses on growth equity and technology private equity investments in Europe and Israel. Since joining KKR in 2007, he has played an important role in KKR’s investments He is currently serving on the boards of Ivalua, Trainline, Arago, Clicktale and Optimal+. Mr. Schönefelder also spent one year with KKR Capstone where he worked on various assignments at ProSiebenSat.1. Before joining KKR, Mr. Schönefelder worked in the M&A department of J.P. Morgan in London. He holds a MSc in Economics as well as a PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Matthew Weigand – Accel

Matt Weigand focuses on enterprise software, consumer internet and security businesses. Matt works closely with Accel’s investments in Cornershop, G2Crowd, MessageBird, Xero and GoFundMe. Prior to joining Accel, Matt worked with William Blair’s technology investment banking group. Matt is from Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from Miami University.

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Charlotte Hawkins

Charlotte Hawkins is one of the anchors on ITV’s breakfast show Good Morning Britain, joining the show when it launched. Charlotte has also appeared on several other TV shows including Celebrity Juice, Britain’s Got End Youth Homelessness EYH is a UK-wide network of local charities working with over 26,000 More Talent, Pointless and Tipping Point. She is also one of the presenting team for ITV Racing on major race homeless young people. It provides a national platform to raise awareness, share experience days. Before joining ITV, Charlotte worked at Sky News for seven years on Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes. She also and generate income. Funds raised help charities improve sustainability, capacity and services in hosted Sky News at 9am with Charlotte Hawkins, her own daily show of breaking news and interviews. Charlotte extremely challenging times. EYH knows that if you stop young people from becoming homeless anchored Sunrise live at the Olympics and presented coverage of the Diamond Jubilee and Royal Wedding. today, you stop them becoming the rough sleepers of tomorrow. EYH and its Members do this She also hosted Sky’s BAFTA’s show and presented live from LA on the Oscars red carpet. because they know that homeless young people can be future entrepreneurs, innovators and investors, if they get the right help at the right time. EYH Member charities work in their own ways to ensure young people: 1) Have a home 2) Get and stay healthy 3) Get into work, education and Training 4) Move on into accommodation of their own KEYNOTE SPEAKER Find out more about EYH’s work and how you can get involved at: www.eyh.org.uk

Tom London

Social engineering: the use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information At 15 Tom hacked into his school’s computer network and uncovered students who were downloading illegal and damaging content into the school’s computers. Tom revealed the systems’ weaknesses to his headmaster and was rewarded with a bursary and administrative right to the school computers. This was the beginning of Tom’s love affair with coding. A hooded coder by day and thrilling stage performer by night, Tom simultaneously resides in two conflicting worlds. Part dystopian black mirror-esque visionary, part charming entertainer and story-teller. Tom is able to connect and inspire both the worlds most senior web security officials and the average Candy-Crush addict leaving both with jaws dropped. Online his performances have amassed over 40 million views, and at just 25 he has performed keynote addresses in over 30 countries on behalf of brands such as Microsoft, HP, Snapchat and Instagram.

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