SPEAKER BOOK
EDITION NOVEMBER 2015 Venture Capital
CLAAS VAN DELDEN | 7COMMERCE Managing Director
SPEAKER BIO
Claas van Delden joined the ProSiebenSat.1 Group in 2012 and was then Managing Director of the opportunistic investment arm SevenVentures. He serves now as Managing Director of 7Commerce where he drives the expansion of the strategic investment part in the digital eCommerce sector. From 2006 till 2012 Class van Delden worked for Holtzbrinck Digital, where he most recently served as Managing Director. After finishing his studies in Business Administration at St. Gallen and Stockholm he started as project manager at the Boston Consulting Group in 2002, including the Industrial Goods Division. At the same time, he was on the supervisory boards of several investment companies like bol.com, meinestadt.de and moebel.de.
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Headquarters Munich, Germany As a 100% subsidiary 7Commerce is the strategic investment arm of ProSiebenSat.1 Group, one of Europe's leading media companies and Germany’s biggest TV network. Office Locations Munich, Germany Through our participation model Media-for-Equity our portfolio companies receive advertising Founded 1986 time for an equity stake. With over 80 investments and partnerships in the past three years in Active Markets Europe various market segments, we are the leading media investor in Germany. Our strength lies in the bundling of media planning and media analytics, creative services and digital marketing, Strategic investment arm of Business Overview as well as eCommerce process and project know-how. The marketing power of TV, as well as ProSiebenSat.1 Group crossmedia concepts, business operations, knowledge sharing, traffic-management and the Key Portfolio Valmano, Flaconi, moebel.de joint usage of infrastructures will help start-ups to grow and rise further and to become a Companies strong player in the market. Website 7commerce.de
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DANIEL RAAB | 7COMMERCE Managing Director
SPEAKER BIO
Daniel Raab is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG since November 2013 and serves as Managing Director of SevenVentures since April 2014. Today he is acting as Managing Director of 7Commerce and is responsible for the expansion of strategic eCommerce investments. Before joining ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, he held several leadership positions with Amazon in Germany and the USA. Among others, he was responsible for the categories ‘Home Appliances’ and ‚Watches & Jewelry’. Prior to this, Daniel was working in the areas of Sales, Buying & Distribution for companies of the fashion / lifestyle industry like Gucci and Hermès.
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Headquarters Munich, Germany As a 100% subsidiary 7Commerce is the strategic investment arm of ProSiebenSat.1 Group, one of Europe's leading media companies and Germany’s biggest TV network. Office Locations Munich, Germany Through our participation model Media-for-Equity our portfolio companies receive advertising Founded 1986 time for an equity stake. With over 80 investments and partnerships in the past three years in Active Markets Europe various market segments, we are the leading media investor in Germany. Our strength lies in the bundling of media planning and media analytics, creative services and digital marketing, Strategic investment arm of Business Overview as well as eCommerce process and project know-how. The marketing power of TV, as well as ProSiebenSat.1 Group crossmedia concepts, business operations, knowledge sharing, traffic-management and the Key Portfolio Valmano, Flaconi, moebel.de joint usage of infrastructures will help start-ups to grow and rise further and to become a Companies strong player in the market. Website 7commerce.de
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JÖRG MOHAUPT | ACCESS INDUSTRIES Head of TMT
SPEAKER BIO
Jörg Mohaupt has been associated with Access Industries since May 2007, and heads Access' activities in the TMT sector. Jörg Mohaupt serves on the boards of Perform Group Plc., AINMT, Warner Music Group, Songkick, Ule, Sentient Deezer. He is also an easy stage investor in several private companies including Adyen, Soundtrack Your Brand, Emoticast, WeLab and Masomo gaming. Jörg Mohaupt graduated from Rijksuniversiteit Leiden with a degree in History and from Universiteit van Amsterdam with a degree in Communications Science. Key companies: Warner Music Group, Sentient, AINMT (Ice.net), Perform Group, Ule, Deezer
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Headquarters New York, NY, USA Access Industries is a privately held industrial group with long-term holdings worldwide. Fund’s industrial focus spans three sectors: Office Locations London, Moscow, New York • Natural Resources and Chemicals Founded 1986 • Media and Telecommunications Active Markets US, Europe, South America • Real Estate
Business Overview Industrial group with holdings worldwide Founded in 1986 by Len Blavatnik, an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Access is an international industrial concern with strategic investments in the United States, Europe and Key Portfolio Lazada Group, Deezer, WestWing, Gett Companies South America. We have corporate offices in New York, London and Moscow.
Website accessindustries.com
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MICHAEL ALTENDORF | ADTELLIGENCE Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Michael is the CEO & Co-Founder of ADTELLIGENCE. Co-Organizer of the Technology Ventures Program, the regional Entrepreneurship Club, TEDx, the Maifeld Derby Rock Music Festival & Member of the CEO collaborative Forum and Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum. Next to this Michael also speak regularly at different conferences and lectures on divers topics like entrepreneurship, internet trends or Venture Capital around the globe at different business schools. Holds a Diploma in Economics from University of Heidelberg.
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Headquarters Mannheim, Germany Adtelligence is a globally expanding, venture capital financed, ecommerce & marketing technology company. The Adtelligence personalization and customer intelligence solutions Office Locations Berlin, Hamburg, Zurich optimize the online offers of many renowned ecommerce sites around the globe. As a result of its technology, Adtelligence has been named “Technology Pioneer 2014” by the World Founded 2009 Economic Forum. No of Employees 70 Adtelligence leads the market in website optimization, landing page testing and ecommerce shop personalization. In the field of Big Data analytics, Adtelligence has developed new Active Markets DACH, Netherlands, UK solutions such as social CRM and customer Intelligence applications. As a partner of Google and Facebook, Adtelligence has been integrated in many leading ecommerce shops and Business Overview Marketing technology CRM-systems. The diverse team at Adtelligence, consisting of more than 80 employees with World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer over 30 different nationalities, supports the personalisation capabilities of clients worldwide. Recent Milestones 2014 The digital marketing specialists, innovators, developers, ecommerce and social media experts work on sites in Mannheim (HQ), Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, London, New York and Selected Clients Vodafone, Opodo, Ebay, Zalando Silicon Valley. Website adtelligence.de
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PIETER VAN DER DOES | ADYEN President & CEO – Netherlands
SPEAKER BIO
Pieter van der Does co-founded Adyen in 2006. Since launching Adyen, the business has grown from a startup into a global operation with over 3,500 customers, averaging double-digit annual growth since 2007. Prior to Adyen Pieter was CCO at Bibit, building the payment service provider into a global player before it was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2004, after which he served on the board until 2006.
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Headquarters Amsterdam, Netherlands Adyen is a leading payments technology company that provides businesses a single global platform to accept payments anywhere in the world. Driven by a vision to improve customer Berlin, London, San Francisco, Stockholm, Office Locations experience, streamline processes and ultimately increase revenue, Adyen enables businesses Madrid, Paris, Singapore to process payments across online, mobile and Point-of-Sale (POS) with over 250 payment Founded 2006 methods and 187 transaction currencies. Headquartered in Amsterdam and San Francisco, with offices across North America, South America, Europe and Asia, Adyen serves more than No of Employees 250 3,500 businesses and four of the five largest U.S. Internet companies, including well-known Active Markets Worldwide brands such as Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, Spotify, Groupon, Evernote, Booking.com, Viagogo, Yelp, Vodafone, Mango, Netflix, O’Neill, SoundCloud, KLM and JustFab. Business Overview Global platform for payments
Recent Milestones $25bn processed
KPI #1 80% y-o-y increase in transactions
KPI #2 100% y-o-y growth in revenues
KPI #3 40% y-o-y growth in customer base
General Atlantic, Temasek, Key Investors Index Ventures
Website adyen.com
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OREN KANIEL | APPSFLYER Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Before founding AppsFlyer, Oren held multiple engineering, research and management positions at Emerald Stage2 Ventures, Veraz Networks, Ltd., Avaya Communications Israel, Ltd. and Intel. Oren holds his B.A. Cum Laude in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, as well as his MBA from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, where he studied as part of an exchange with the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Headquarters Herzliya, Israel AppsFlyer is the leading mobile app tracking and attribution analytics platform that allows app developers, brands and ad agencies to manage, measure and optimize their entire mobile Office Locations Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Sydney user acquisition process across all media sources including paid, organic, viral and social.
Founded 2011 AppsFlyer’s NativeTrack™ technology provides a universal, independent authority that is No of Employees 80 integrated with more than 1000 ad-networks and media sources, and is now measuring billions of mobile actions and analyzing the drivers of these actions and conversions. Active Markets Worldwide As an official Facebook Mobile Measurement Partner & Twitter Official Partner, AppsFlyer is a Business Overview Mobile advertising measurement platform one stop shop for any mobile advertiser providing unbiased attribution, mobile campaign Became one of the first members of Fiksu's analytics, in-app user engagement, lifetime value analysis, ROI and retargeting. Recent Milestones Preferred Partner Program for Mobile Ad Campaign Tracking AppsFlyer is passionate about building a technology that will enable marketers to get the most Selected Clients Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, Bing, iAd out of their mobile marketing campaigns, allowing them to work their magic to the fullest.
Website appsflyer.com
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MONI MILCHMAN | ARCHIMEDICX CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Moni has long-standing history in establishing innovative projects and healthcare facilities. He has been involved in developing private hospitals and health insurance programs in Europe and Africa. Prior to that, he founded a large insurance sales organization and acquired a private insurance company. Moni is the founder of ARCHIMEDICX and has academic degrees in Economics and Business Administration.
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Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel ARCHIMEDICX is the first company to devise a system for rating hospitals based on dozens of variables comprising millions of data points in over 300 common medical procedures and Office Locations Delaware, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Riga, Latvia treatments. The company has acquired a wealth of up-to-date data from independent sources in order to calculate an objective, evidence-based hospital quality score for the given Founded 2015 procedures and treatments. No of Employees 20
Active Markets Worldwide
Business Overview System for rating hospitals
Website archimedicx.com
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NIKLAS ZENNSTRÖM | ATOMICO Partner and CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He is an experienced entrepreneur, previously co-founding and managing globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa, Joost and Joltid. In 2006 Niklas created Atomico to help entrepreneurs primarily outside Silicon Valley to scale their businesses domestically and globally. It has so far invested in more than 50 companies on four continents, and Niklas works closely with a number of leaders of portfolio companies so that they benefit from his own experience as an entrepreneur. Before starting Atomico, Niklas co-founded Skype, where he held the position of CEO from its inception until September 2007. In 2005, Skype was sold to eBay Inc for $3.1bn, the largest European venture capital exit to date. Subsequent to this, Skype was bought back by a consortium that included Niklas, and was sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion cash in 2011. Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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Headquarters London, UK Atomico is an international investment firm, focused on helping the world’s most disruptive technology companies scale and become global leaders. Founded in 2006 by Niklas Office Locations London, Beijing, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Istanbul Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, Atomico has made over 50 investments over four continents, including Skype, Supercell, Klarna, Truecaller, ZocDoc and The Climate Founded 2006 Corporation, with an exclusive focus on the technology sector. Business Overview Venture Capital Investor
Website atomico.com
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HAKAN KOÇ | AUTO1 GROUP Founder & Managing Director
SPEAKER BIO
Hakan Koç is a Founder and Managing Director of AUTO1 Group. He has previously worked at Rocket Internet SE and Home24 AG.
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Headquarters Berlin, Germany AUTO1 Group was founded by Christian Bertermann and Hakan Koç, both former Berlin based internet executives, in August 2012 to change the way cars are bought and sold. In Office Locations Worldwide 2014 former Groupon SVP Chris Muhr joined the team as co-founder and Chief Operating Officer. Founded 2012
No of Employees 1,800 AUTO1 Group buys used cars from OEMs, dealerships and its own business units and sells them into its global dealership network. Prices are determined by its proprietary CORE pricing Active Markets Worldwide algorithm. The entire service including inspection and valuation is free of charge. The company is turning over more than USD 850M annualized run rate and is growing 8x y-o-y. Business Overview Pan-European car market maker The U.S. business which has been established in January is showing similarly strong traction Recent Milestones $500m funding round to enter new markets with USD 25M annualized run rate.
Selected Clients N/A AUTO1 Group has raised over USD 200M so far, a major stake coming from DSTGlobal. Earlier investors in the company include DN Capital, Piton Capital and Mutschler Ventures. Website auto1-group.com
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DR. ANDREAS WIELE | AXEL SPRINGER President Marketing & Classified Ad Models
SPEAKER BIO
Andreas Wiele is the President of Marketing and Classified Ad Models at Axel Springer SE since April 2014. Andreas was in born 1962, he studied law at Dijon, Salzburg and Munich Universities. Andreas worked first of all as an editor at Hamburger Morgenpost, before he became assistant to the Chairman of the Gruner + Jahr management board in 1988. In 1990 Andreas took over responsibility for the "Capital" project at the Prisma Presse publishing company in Paris, where he became publishing manager of "Capital" and "Geo" in 1991. In 1994, Andreas moved to New York to join Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, initially as Senior Vice President and General Manager of "Family Circle" and "McCall's" and from 1997 onwards as executive vice-president and chief operating officer for the publishing company as a whole. Andreas Wiele was appointed member of the Executive Board responsible for International Affairs in October 2000 and has been head of the Magazines and International Affairs Division since November 2000. In January 2008, he was appointed President BILD Group and Magazines, since April 2014 he is President Marketing and Classified Ad Models.
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Headquarters Berlin, Germany Axel Springer SE wants to become the leading digital publisher. The digital media channels already contribute more than 50 percent of total pro-forma revenues today. Office Locations Worldwide One of Europe's largest media companies also started off in a kind of garage. Axel Springer Founded 1946 founded his publishing house in Hamburg in 1946; the editors spent the first year working No of Employees 13,917 above a warehouse for tea and spices, often without electricity and using borrowed typewriters. Active Markets Worldwide As a result of consistent internationalization and digitization, Axel Springer SE today is not Media company engaged in publishing Business Overview newspapers, magazines and digital sales only market leader in the German print business, but is also active in more than 40 countries channels. through subsidiaries, joint ventures and licenses.
Acquired Business Insider for $450m in Recent Milestones September 2015
Website axelspringer.de
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MICHELLE KENNEDY | BADOO Deputy CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya and biotech firm Quotient Bioscience. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev.
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Headquarters London, UK Badoo was launched in 2006, and is now one of the leading social networks in Europe and South America. Company reports 200 million users, with over 100,000 new sign-ups every Office Locations London, Moscow, San Francisco day. People use Badoo to find new friends in 191 countries and 44 languages. Badoo has 250 employees and is based in London, with offices in Moscow and San Francisco. Founded 2006
No of Employees 250
Active Markets Worldwide
Business Overview Social networking site focused on online dating
Recent Milestones N/A
Selected Clients N/A
Website badoo.com
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NICOLAS BRUSSON | BLABLACAR Co-Founder & COO
SPEAKER BIO
Nicolas is co-founder & COO of BlaBlaCar. He leads the company’s international growth and operations. Naturally pragmatic, he uses fast iteration to uncover high-growth opportunities. Nicolas is a strong advocate of local teams and acqui-hire, a strategy he implemented to expand BlaBlaCar’s footprint to a global scale. Nicolas holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in Optics from the Ecole Superieure d’Optique and an MSc in Applied Physics from Paris XI University. He’s a regular speaker on the theme of transport industry disruption and scaling innovative businesses
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Headquarters Paris, France BlaBlaCar is a trusted community marketplace that connects drivers with empty seats to passengers looking for a ride. Over 1 million people use BlaBlaCar every month creating an Madrid, Milan, London, Hamburg, Warsaw, Office Locations entirely new, people powered, transport network. With a dedicated customer service, a state of Moscow, Istanbul the art web and mobile platform, and a fast-growing community of users, BlaBlaCar is making Founded 2006 travel social, money saving and more efficient for millions of members around the world.
No of Employees 160
Active Markets Europe
Business Overview Marketplace
KPI #1 1m monthly users
KPI #2 3bn miles shared
KPI #3 2m trips available at any given time
Key Investors Index Ventures, Accel Partners
Website blablacar.com
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AMBARISH MITRA | BLIPPAR CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Ambarish Mitra is one of the pioneers of augmented reality. Mitra started his tech career in 1997as a high school drop-out entrepreneur on a noble topic of Women Empowerment in India, which successfully IPO'd in 2000. Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blippar, the leading visual browser and fastest growing augmented reality player. Under his direction, Blippar has grown from groundbreaking idea to an industry leader with 250+ employees, 11 offices and 50million+ users. With a vision to create the ultimate physical world browser, Ambarish, has been widely recognized for his unconventional business thinking and people-driven philosophical approach to management.
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Headquarters London, UK Blippar is the leading visual discovery app, harnessing augmented reality and image- recognition technology to bring the physical world to life through smartphones. Once the London, New York, San Francisco, Mountain Blippar app is downloaded, people can blipp ("scan") objects they’re curious about and unlock Office Locations View, Los Angeles, Chicago, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Delhi, Singapore, Tokyo useful and entertaining content. Since launching in the UK in 2011, Blippar has expanded rapidly, partnering with some of the biggest and most exciting brands and media owners in the Founded 2011 world, including Condé Nast, TIME Inc., Unilever, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Heinz, Coca-Cola, Anheuser Busch, L'Oréal, Universal Pictures and Jaguar. No of Employees 250+ Blippar now has 11 offices in the world including London, San Francisco, NYC, Istanbul, Delhi, Active Markets Worldwide Singapore and Tokyo, and over 250+ employees.
Shaping the way people connect with the Business Overview world
Ranked number 19 in CNBC’s Top 50 Recent Milestones Disruptor list in May 2015
Key Investors Qualcomm Ventures
Condé Nast, TIME Inc., Unilever, Procter & Selected Clients Gamble, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Heinz, Coca-Cola, Anheuser Busch, Disney, General Mills,
Website blippar.com
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LARS TRIELOFF | BLUE YONDER Director Product Management
SPEAKER BIO
As Director of Product Management, Lars Trieloff is responsible for Blue Yonder’s product strategy and roadmap and drives Blue Yonder’s innovation towards creating predictive applications for retailers that take core processes like pricing, replenishment or marketing and automate and optimize through machine learning and artificial intelligence.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Karlsruhe, Germany As a leading SaaS provider of predictive applications in the European market Blue Yonder Office Locations Hamburg, Germany, London, United Kingdom combines excellent software development with the latest data science and a unique cloud- based platform for predictive applications. Founded 2008 We enable companies to automate processes based on precise predictive decisions. Business Business Overview Enterprise SaaS processes can be made considerably more effective, for example in sales planning,
Active Markets EMEA, US dispatching, or pricing.
No. of employees 150
99,5% automation for replenishment KPI #1 processes
KPI #2 5%-10% lift for price optimization
KPI #3 6x reduction of out of stock rate
Selected Customers: Otto, Kaufland, DM Clients/Partners
September 2015: Technology Review: 50 smartest companies in Germany 2015 May 2015: Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Recent Milestones Science Dec 2014: €75m Investment by Warburg Pincus
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DAVID BLUMBERG | BLUMBERG CAPITAL Managing Partner
SPEAKER BIO
David Blumberg is the Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital. David has been investing in early stage technology companies for more than 24 years. His current investment focus includes Digital Media, Social Media, Mobility, SaaS/Technology Enabled Services and Internet. Prior to founding Blumberg Capital in 1991, David managed technology investments with Claridge Investments, Adler & Co., Apax, and T. Rowe Price Associates. David earned his AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard College and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and INSEAD.
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Headquarters San Francisco, CA, USA Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs with transformative ideas. The firm partners with passionate founders to disrupt Office Locations San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv markets through innovation and build successful companies. The team has extensive experience collaborating with companies in Financial Services, Security, Enterprise Software Founded 1991 and SaaS, Digital and Social Media, Mobile and Consumer Internet. Relevant operational Active Markets US, Israel expertise and focused network enable us to be bridge-builders, connecting entrepreneurs with partners to drive success. Blumberg Capital is headquartered in San Francisco with team Business Overview Venture Capital Investor members and advisors in Tel Aviv and New York. Blumberg Capital specializes in leading Seed and Series A rounds in syndication with angels, Key Portfolio Fairfly, Kreditech, Hootsuite Companies venture capital firms and strategic investors. Typical investments range from $500,000 to $3 million with additional amounts reserved for follow-on investments. Notable Exits Creo, DSP Group, Nolio
Website blumbergcapital.com
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CHRISTIAN GAISER | BONIAL GROUP Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Christian Gaiser is CEO and founder of the Bonial.com Group, the leading network for local retail promotions on mobile devices in 11 countries. He is also an angel investor in 15+ companies in the U.S. and Europe. He has worked in various positions at Goldman Sachs Private Equity in London, at McKinsey & Company in Vienna and Zurich, at the Monitor Group/Ermgassen & Co in London and at SAP Investor Relations in Walldorf. Christian is a graduate of the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and HEC, Montréal.
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Headquarters Berlin, Germany The Bonial.com Group is building the premier ecosystem to make shopping discovery easier Berlin, Munich, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and more efficient for consumers and retailers. As the favorite shopping companion for Office Locations Paris, Barcelona, São Paulo, Mexico consumers to plan a trip to the store, Bonial.com created a global category with retail Founded 2008 promotions at its core. It has been offering professional solutions for high street retail in the
No of Employees 330 area of location-based services since the start-up of kaufDA in 2008 and defines the future of digital circular advertising as an innovation engine. In only six years the group became the USA, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Active Markets Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile leading network for location-based retail advertising on mobile devices. Today the Bonial.com Group reaches consumers on eleven markets around the world with its mobile apps and Business Overview Global shopping platform websites in USA, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Recent Milestones Launched in Sweden, Denmark, Norway in Q3/2015 Colombia and Chile. With more than 22 million active users per month and 1,000 retail clients, KPI #1 +3k active key account retailer relationships the Bonial.com Group is the global market leader in this category.
KPI #2 +1k active retail key account clients
+1.2m qualified point of sale retail data points in KPI #3 Bonial.com’s systems
Key Investors Axel Springer SE, T-Venture, e.ventures
Key Financials Total investment in group around $90m in 2015
Selected Clients / Media Markt, Saturn, Decathlon, Real, OBI, C&A, Netto, Partners Conrad, Hornbach, Target, Kohl’s, Toys “R” Us
Ownership Structure 27.5% Founders, 72.5% Axel Springer SE Website bonial.com 17 Advertising
GILES PALMER | BRANDWATCH CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Giles Palmer started Brandwatch after leaving BSkyB. Development on the product started in late 2005 and from its launch in August 2007, Brandwatch has grown to become one of the world’s leading Social Media Monitoring companies, serving businesses across the globe from FTSE 100 companies to SMEs. He is a regular speaker at Social Media conferences and also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Sussex University as well as the Social Media Committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Brighton, England Brandwatch is one of the world’s leading social media listening and analytics technology platforms. It gathers millions of online conversations every day and provides users with the Stuttgart, Berlin, New York, Chicago, San Office Locations tools to analyze them, empowering brands and agencies to make smarter, data-driven Francisco business decisions. Founded 2005 The company grew over 100% year-on-year in 2013, has won awards for its technology and renowned corporate culture, and regularly wins accolades for its impressive growth. The No of Employees +300 Brandwatch platform is used by over 1000 brands and agencies, including Whole Foods,
Active Markets Worldwide Whirlpool, Pepsico, British Airways, Papa John’s, and Dell.
Business Overview Social media monitoring for online content
Highland Capital Partners Europe, Nauta Key Investors Capital
Selected Clients Whole Foods, Whirpool, PepsiCo, Dell
Website brandwatch.com
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BERNHARD NIESNER | BUSUU CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Bernhard Niesner, originally from Vienna in Austria is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu.com, the world´s largest social network for language learning. Before starting his own company, Bernhard worked as consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in the area of consumer goods. Bernhard graduated with summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA with honors from IE Business School. In his free time, Bernhard relaxes while playing the piano; he loves skiing and enjoys spending time with his young daughter.
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Headquarters London, UK busuu is the world’s largest social network for language learning, providing audio-visual courses in 12 different languages to more than 55 million users worldwide. Users can sign up Office Locations London for free, or subscribe to a Premium Membership to unlock further features like grammar, video lessons or personalised study plans. Direct interaction with native speakers around the globe Founded 2008 allows members to improve their language skills. They can use an integrated video-chat No of Employees 35 application and peer-to-peer text corrections within the community. As a result, every busuu user is both a ‘student’ of a foreign language and also a ‘tutor’ of their own mother tongue. Active Markets Worldwide busuu has received various prestigious awards, including EdTech Winner 2014, BETT Innovator Award 2014 and has been named as 'Best Education Startup in Europe' by Business Overview The language learning community TechCrunch. Business model Freemium The name busuu comes from a language of Cameroon: according to an ethnological study Recent Milestones Series B Round from the 1980’s, only 8 people in the world speak Busuu.
KPI #1 Several Million Monthly Visits
Johann Hansmann, Rogan Angelini-Hurll, Key Investors Brent Hoberman, Martin Varsavsky, McGraw Hill Education
Selected Clients McGraw Hill Education
Website busuu.com 19 Classifieds
FRITZ SIMONS | CARMUDI Co-Founder & Managing Director
SPEAKER BIO
Fritz Simons is the co-founder and global managing director of Carmudi, the world’s fastest growing car classifieds. Prior to this venture, Fritz worked in Tirendo and McKinsey & Co. He received his education from University of Oxford, graduating from Economics and Management.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Carmudi is an online car classifieds that allows you to sell or buy your car, motorcycle or 20 Countries in Asia, Africa, Middle East and commercial vehicle in the fastest possible way. You can search, compare, and purchase over Office Locations Latin America 300,000 vehicles on your phone, making car shopping as easy as ever. In just under a year and a half, Carmudi has rapidly scaled to 20 countries across Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Founded 2013 Latin America. No of Employees 420
Active Markets 20
Business Overview World’s Fastest Growing Car Classifieds
Launched an iOS app, secured a $25 million Recent Milestones round of funding, set a record of over 400k downloads and expanded into 20 countries
KPI #1 5m monthly visitors
KPI #2 65% of traffic via mobile
KPI #3 10k Car Dealers
Key Financials $35m of funding
Asia Pacific Internet Group (a joint venture Key Investors between Rocket Internet and Ooredoo), Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures
Website carmudi.com 20 Marketplaces
TIM STRACKE | CHRONO24.COM Co-CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Prior to Chrono24.com, Tim Stracke founded mentasys, which became Germany’s leading online price comparison service provider and briefly served as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Buenos Aires. In 1999, he founded his first VC-financed company - a marketplace for gifts - at the age of 25. Since Tim’s exit from mentasys in 2008, he has taken stakes in 9 Internet companies in Europe and China. Tim holds a master degree in business engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Karlsruhe, Germany Chrono24.com was founded in 2003 and is the worldwide leading internet marketplace for the exclusive specialized luxury watch trade sector. More than 1500 professional retailers, as well Office Locations Karlsruhe as numerous private clients, utilize the platform to transact successful sales of a wide selection of high-end luxury watches. Customers have access to more than 180,000 new and Founded 2003 previously-owned timepieces, from the traditional Omega costing a few hundred Euro, to the No of Employees 50 exclusive Patek Philippe collectible in excess of a million Euro. With more than 8 million visits per month, Chrono24.com has demonstrated continual profitability and growth since Active Markets Worldwide establishment.
Business Overview Internet marketplace for luxury watches
KPI #1 8m visits per month
Key Investors Insight Venture Partners
Website chrono24.com
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RAN SARIG | DATORAMA Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Ran Sarig co-founded Datorama in 2012 and has been its Chief Executive Officer since June 2012. Prior to this he has worked for MediaMind as VP R&D. He has also served as a Director of Program Management and Product Manager for the same company. Ran Sarig is a former Israeli Navy naval oficer.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters New York, NY, USA Datorama is a software-as-a-service big data management platform for advertisers and ad agencies. Datorama integrates and track data from different advertising data channels, mash New York, London, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Office Locations them up and provide advanced analytics / predictive analytics. By easily integrating marketing Barcelona channels and creating a Marketing specific data models, they offer a new way of Marketing Founded 2012 Data management allowing the Advertiser to seize ownership of the data and increase visibility and control. Datorama allows better ROI optimization based on a holistic view, No of Employees 100 discovery of new revenue streams, suggestions for action and discovery of wasted budget.
Active Markets Worldwide Datorama tracks the consumer’s touch points with the brand across channels, providing true cross channel analytics. Business Overview SaaS-based big data platform for advertisers
Key Investors Cedar Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Marker
Website datorama.com
22 Venture Capital
ERAN DAVIDSON | DAVIDSON TECHNOLOGY GROWTH DEBT FUND Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Eran Davidson founded Davidson technology Growth Debt fund in 2014. Eran has 20 years of venture capital experience, raised and managed 6 funds with a volume of 260 Million Euro. From 2005 to 2013 Eran founded and managed Hasso Plattner Venture group of funds. From 1996 to 2005 Eran co-managed Inventech and Eurofund VCs and was CEO of Proseed Venture Capital fund. Eran is co-founder of Hasso Plattner Capital, the family office management company of Prof. Plattner, co-founder and Chairman of SAP. Eran led over a 100 investments in technology companies, which resulted in more than €1bn in exit volume.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Davidson Technology Growth Debt Fund provides debt financing to mid-late stage tech companies in Europe, with a focus on Germany. Growth Debt is a form of hybrid capital, Office Locations Berlin, Zossen featuring both debt and equity components, customized for young and growing tech companies Founded 2014
Active Markets Europe
Business Overview Venture Capital Investor
Website davidson-capital.com
23 Marketplaces
CLAUDIA HELMING | DAWANDA Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Claudia Helming is a Founder & CEO of Dawanda. Previously, Claudia has worked in Passado as a Director of Business Development as well as held a position of Head of Operations in Lastminute.com
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany DaWanda is the online marketplace for unique and handmade products. Going against the grain of industrialised mass production, DaWanda provides a meeting point for people who Office Locations Berlin, Madrid, Strasbourg, Warsaw know how to appreciate the special qualities of unique and handmade items, and are interested in buying fashion, jewellery and home items. At www.dawanda.com, around Founded 2006 220,000 designers offer over 3.5 million products for sale, with ca. 10,000 new products added No of Employees 200 daily. DaWanda was founded by Claudia Helming and Michael Puetz in December 2006, and today has over 3 million members. The company is based in Berlin. In studies undertaken by Active Markets Europe the German language Startup-Monitor of ethority GmbH & Co.KG, DaWanda was elected several times as the favourite startup of internet users. Business Overview Online marketplace for handmade products
Undisclosed amount of funding in January Recent Milestones 2015
KPI #1 3m members
KPI #2 10k daily new products
KPI #2 3.5m products for sale
Point Nine Capital, Piton Capital, Holtzbrinck Key Investors Ventures
Website dawanda.com 24 Digital Services
HANS-HOLGER ALBRECHT | DEEZER CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Hans-Holger Albrecht is CEO of Deezer, one of the largest music streaming services worldwide. Before that he was President and CEO of Millicom International, the international Telecom and media group. Before that, he was President and CEO at Modern Times Group MTG AB. Hans-Holger started his career at MTG in 1997 as head of the pay-TV operations within the business area Viasat Broadcasting. In April 2000, he was appointed Chief Operation Officer (COO) of MTG. He studied at the University of Freiburg in German received a Master of Laws degree (LLM) from the Ruhr University Bochum.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Paris, France Deezer is the first truly worldwide digital music streaming service in over 180 countries, with over 6 million subscribers worldwide. Deezer is at the forefront of a music revolution, allowing Office Locations Europe, USA fans instant access to the largest streaming music catalogue in the world, with more than 35 million songs and 20,000+ podcasts on any device. Combining the best of man and machine, Founded 2006 Deezer's global editorial team searches for the best music around the world and its algorithmic Active Markets Worldwide recommendations help fans discover music they will truly love. Deezer is available on your favorite device, including smartphone, tablet, PC, laptop, home sound system, connected car Online platform and app that provides songs Business Overview or smart TV. from a variety of genres
Recent Milestones Going public on 30th Oct 2015 Launched in 2007, Deezer is a privately held company, headquartered in Paris with offices in London, San Francisco and around the world. Deezer is currently available as a free download KPI #1 40k news for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows devices or on the web at deezer.com globally outside the US. KPI #2 35m music tracks
KPI #2 6.3m total subscribers
Website deezer.com
25 Marketplaces
WILLIAM SHU | DELIVEROO Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
William Shu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Deliveroo. Previously, he has worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley as well as ESO Capital and SAC Capital. In 2012 William has graduated from Wharton Business School Master of Business Administration program.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters London, UK Deliveroo is a technology company focused on marketing, selling and delivering restaurant meals to the household or office. Office Locations London Deliveroo’s technology platform optimizes food ordering and delivery by integrating web and Founded 2012 mobile consumers with restaurant tablet-based point-of-sale order management terminals and No of Employees 250 our logistics optimization algorithm via our delivery driver smartphone software.
Active Markets Europe
Business Overview Delivery platform forrestaurant meals
Recent Milestones $70m Series C funding in July 2015
Accel Partners, Hoxton Ventures, Index Key Investors Ventures
Website deliveroo.co.uk
26 Venture Capital
THOMAS STAFFORD | DST INVESTMENTS Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Thomas Stafford is a Partner at DST Global, an internet focused investment firm with a global focus. He has previously worked in Goldman Sachs as an Executive Director. Tom graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Hong Kong, Hong Kong DST Global (Digital Sky Technologies) is a growth focused investment company specializing in late-stage, high-growth, private companies in the global Internet industry. Office Locations Worldwide The company has pioneered a model to provide liquidity to founders, employees and early Founded 2005 investors through mixed primary and secondary transactions. These transactions are often Active Markets Worldwide referred to as DST type deals in the Internet world.
Business Overview Late-stage internetinvestment firm The company was founded by Yuri Milner, and after building Mail.ru Group, DST gained international prominence through its investments in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. Key Portfolio AUTO1 Group, Slack, Xiaomi, Flipkart Companies
Website dst-global.com
27 Venture Capital
FRANK THELEN | E42 CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Frank is a European serial founder and seed investor. In his role as the CEO of venture capitalist e42 he focuses on seed and early-stage. His track record of founding disruptive companies now scales across two decades. His products have reached 100+ million consumers in 60 countries, gathering prestigious awards along the way like the Innovate4Society award, presented to him by Angela Merkel and he is a „Hidden Campion“. In 2014 Frank joined Sonys prime-time TV show „Dragons Den“, broadcasted in Germany on VOX as „Die Höhle der Löwen“.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Bonn, Germany E42 is an European venture capital firm led by Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. The company invests in Europe-based startups, its selected investments include Scanbot, The Office Locations Bonn Golf App and Viovendi.
Founded 2011
Active Markets Europe
Business Overview European venture capital firm
Key Portfolio Scanbot, The Golf App, Viovendi Companies
Notable Exits Wunderlist, myTaxi, kaufDA
Website e42.com
28 Classifieds
ALESSANDRO COPPO | EBAY CLASSIFIEDS GROUP General Manager
SPEAKER BIO
As Vice President and General Manager, Alessandro is responsible for the world-leading classifieds portfolio available in more than 1000 cities around the globe. In his previous role he was responsible for Marktplaats, the largest Dutch ecommerce and horizontal classifieds site, and DBA and BilBasen, the top horizontal classifieds and autos sites in Denmark. Alessandro joined eBay Italy in 2004 as head of category management Alessandro holds a bachelors degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Turin and a masters in Economics from Oxford.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Amsterdam, Netherlands eBay Classifieds Group is an innovative leader in online classifieds, with twelve brands that span the Globe. Office Locations Worldwide Our sites help people find whatever they’re looking for in their local communities – whether it’s Founded 2004 a job, an apartment, a sofa, a car, a concert ticket, financial services or new friends. Every No of Employees 1,000 connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less. Active Markets Worldwide People who want to connect and trade visit our sites because they’re fun, easy to use and built Business Overview The World Leader in Online Classifieds on trust. Twelve unique brands – 2dehands.be/2ememain.be, alaMaula, BilBasen, Close5, KPI #1 990m monthly visits DBA, eBay Classifieds (eBay Classifieds and eBay Kleinanzeigen), Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, mobile.de, and Vivanuncios – offer online classifieds in more than 1,000 cities Ownership Structure Owned by eBay around the world.
Website ebayclassifiedsgroup.com
29 Travel
CAGLAR EROL | ENUYGUN Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Caglar Erol is the Chief Executive Officer of Enuygun, Turkey’s leading comparison site focusing on travel and personal finance. He is also an active angel investor, having invested in various internet companies in Turkey, US, and the middle east. Before founding Enuygun in 2008, Caglar founded Turkey’s first online business networking platform cember.net, which was later acquired by XING AG. Prior to cember.net, he worked at Accenture GmbH as an IT Consultant. Caglar holds a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, and an MBA degree from the same university.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Istanbul, Turkey Enuygun is the leading comparison site in Turkey focusing on travel and finance. With 7,5
Office Locations Istanbul million monthly visitors, Enuygun offers users choose and easily purchase the best airfares, apply for the cheapest personal loans and mortgages, and get the best insurance quotes. Founded 2008 Enuygun is Turkey’s biggest OTA in number of online flight ticket sales per month, and also No of Employees 55 the biggest finance comparison engine in number of leads.
Active Markets Turkey
Flight ticket sales, finance products lead Business Overview generation
ENUYGUN became an IATA agency in summer Recent Milestones 2015
KPI #1 Monthly flight ticket sales: 150k +
KPI #2 Daily airfare comparisons: 500k +
KPI #3 Monthly finance leads: 150k
R2 International (Rocket Internet, Investment Key Investors Kinnevik AB)
Selected All airlines and GDSs, leading banks in Turkey Clients/Partners
Ownership structure 51% Çağlar & Nihan Erol, 49% R2 International
Website enuygun.com 30 Others
ISIDRO LASO | EUROPEAN COMMISSION Head of Sector –Startup Europe
SPEAKER BIO
Isidro Laso is the Head of Startup Europe Sector, European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (EC DG-Connect). After graduating as an Engineer from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, he moved into engineering activities, working with Geographic Information Systems and design tools before becoming a strategic consultant to high-level executives (CEOs of large corporations), mainly in the telco and media sector. Since becoming a Commission official he has managed research projects and drafted research strategy objectives.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Brussels, Belgium Headquarters The European Commission (EC) is the executive body of the European Union responsible for Luxembourg, Luxembourg proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the No of Departments 24 day-to-day business of the EU. Commissioners swear an oath at the European Court of No of Employees 23 000 Justice in Luxembourg, pledging to respect the treaties and to be completely independent in carrying out their duties during their mandate. Website ec.europa.eu
31 Ecommerce Services
JOCHEN KRISCH | EXCITING COMMERCE CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Jochen Krisch is a web analyst and strategy consultant with the retail and media industry. He founded Exciting Commerce in 2001 to explore new business models in the online retail industry. Among his clients are some of the largest and most successfull online retailers and some of the most innovative startups. Until 2001 Jochen was VP Planning & Analysis at Germany's first shopping channel HSE24. Jochen holds a degree in Computer Science and resides in Munich, Germany.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Germany Analyzing, exploring and creating the exciting future of ecommerce
Office Locations Germany Exciting Commerce is dedicated to business innovation in e-commerce. We (dis)cover new business models and exciting new e-commerce companies. Founded 2001
Active Markets Europe
Business Overview Business intelligence platform for ecommerce
Website excitingcommerce.de
32 Marketplaces
MAURO GIACOBBE | FACILE.IT CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Mauro Giacobbe joined Facile.it in 2009. Since January 2014, Mauro is the Chief Executive Officer of Facile.it, the leading insurance aggregator in Italy. Before joining Facile.it, Mauro worked at The Boston Consulting Group in the Financial and Media Practices. Mauro holds an MBA from SDA Bocconi.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Milan, Italy Facile.it is the leading insurance aggregator in Italy. Facile.it also compares mortgages, loans, broadband, utilities, with a #1 or #2 position in each vertical covered. Office Locations Milan Facile.it is a customer acquisition channel for providers and offers Italian households a way to Founded 2008 save time and money.
No of Employees +400 Since beginning TV advertising in 2011, Facile.it has become a household brand that helps Active Markets Italy customers to save money on household expenses.
Business Overview Italy's largest insurance aggregator
Purchase of Mutui.it (March 2015) Recent Milestones €34m refinancing (May 2015)
Monthly contracts: 80k- 90k contracts KPI #1 sold/month (including renewals)
KPI #2 Database: 6m users
KPI #3 Brand awareness: 80% prompted
Key Investors Oakley Capital (majority shareholder), Real Web
Key Financials €34m revenues, €8m EBITDA (2014)
Website facile.it 33 Marketplaces
RUNE SOVNDAHL | FANDUEL Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Rune Sovndahl is a Danish-born entrepreneur with over 15 years' experience in the the IT, dot-com and telecommunications industries. He is the founder of Briing.com, Polish portal Gadatka.com and Victor Connect Ltd. He is currently the co-owner and CEO of international SEO agency First Online Solutions as well as Co-Founder and CEO of Fantastic Services
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters London, UK Fantastic Services started life as a small London-based carpet cleaning company in 2009. The company saw an opportunity for expansion into other disciplines as the domestic services Office Locations Europe, North America, Australia market grew. Initially, Fantastic focused on specialised cleaning jobs, which included seasonal Founded 2009 cleaning, end of tenancy, oven and upholstery cleaning. Currently, the company already operates across three continents – Europe, North America No of Employees 250 and Australia, although its main focus remains on London and the South East. In order to Active Markets Worldwide preserve its healthy growth rate, Fantastic Services has chosen the franchise business model, restructuring the work process to make it simplistic and enjoyable for customers and Business Overview Multiple property services website franchisees alike. Website fantasticservices.com This self-sustaining and durable business standard is the foundation on which Fantastic Services is built. It allows the company to deliver the same high level of service with every booking. With the value of the London domestic services market currently estimated at £12bn, Fantastic Services has ambitious plans to further lead and expand into 4 new markets and 5 more sectors, with its goal being to become the “Amazon of services”.
34 Advertising
GARY LIN | GLISPA CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Gary has over 15 years of online marketing experience, helping leading clients worldwide harness the Internet’s potential as an advertising medium. As CEO, he leads growth strategy, operations, and product innovation. He has worked globally and held several leadership roles at one of the very first global digital agencies, Beyond Interactive Inc - now part of MediaCom (WPP). He was General Manager in Sao Paulo Brazil and head of business development in China before becoming one of the first hires in NYC. Gary holds a Marketing and International Marketing degree from the University of Michigan Business School.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany glispa is a high-performance, digital marketing pioneer empowering our clients to activate global audiences, reach growth objectives and move markets. glispa provides a full suite of Berlin, Beijing, San Francisco, Bangalore, Sao Office Locations Paulo acquisition and monetization solutions (gBoost, gPerform, gNative and Media Services) for global advertisers like Baidu, Nexon, OLX, Flipkart and Gumi. glispa reaches billions of mobile Founded 2008 and web users with our multichannel offerings driving quality engagement, increasing No of Employees 120 customer lifetime value and impacting the bottom-line.
Active Markets Worldwide Since 2008, glispa has pioneered new technologies to achieve the highest levels of efficiency Business Overview Digital marketing and mobile advertising and optimization for our clients and partners. With offices in Berlin, Beijing, San Francisco, Bangalore and Sao Paulo glispa’s multinational, client-focused team boasts 39 nationalities Acquired by Market Tech Holdings Recent Milestones and 24 languages. in March 2015
Website glispa.com
35 Ecommerce & Retail
ROMAIN VOOG | GLOBAL FASHION GROUP CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Romain has 13 years of online and offline retail experience and a background as a strategy consultant. Prior to GFG, he spent seven years with Amazon, his latest role being President and Managing Director for Amazon France. Prior to joining Amazon, he spent six years at Carrefour in various leadership roles and is a former strategy consultant from Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company in Europe and Asia. Romain holds a General Engineering Diploma from École Centrale Paris.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters London, UK Global Fashion Group (GFG) operates across four continents and 27 countries, employing over 9,500 people. With a focus on emerging markets, GFG targets a EUR 630bn fashion Office Locations Worldwide market and over 2.5bn people who rapidly continue to move online and purchase via e- Founded 2011 commerce. GFG offers a wide assortment of leading international and local fashion brands, as well as a selection of internal brands. GFG invests consistently in delivering the best customer No of Employees 10,000 experience, including last mile delivery networks where necessary. Global Fashion Group was Active Markets Worldwide founded in 2011 by Swedish Investment AB Kinnevik and German Rocket Internet SE.
Business Overview Fashion ecommerce for emerging markets
Selected +3k international, regional and inhouse brands Clients/Partners
Key Investors Rocket Internet, Kinnevik
Website global-fashion-group.com
36 Marketplaces
NAVID HADZAAD | GOBUTLER Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Navid is the Founder & CEO of GoButler, an automated digital assistant service. Prior to founding GoButler, Navid worked for Rocket Internet where he served as a Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet, an urban pickup & delivery service for laundry in London and Berlin. Previously, Navid built-up Helpling as the Global CMO across 12 countries. Prior to Rocket Internet, he worked as an Investment Manager at the Volaris Group, an operating group of Constellation Software, one of the world's largest software companies. While at Volaris Group, he was responsible for managing all existing and new investments in Europe. Navid started- off his professional career at The Boston Consulting Group and holds a B.B.A (Hons) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters New York, NY, USA Founded in February 2015, GoButler is an automated digital personal assistant that uses Human Assisted Artificial Intelligence (HAAI) to fulfill requests 24/7, 365 days a year. GoButler Office Locations New York, Berlin takes the time and inconvenience out of everyday tasks, fulfilling on-demand requests, from Founded 2015 food delivery and travel bookings to restaurant reservations and more. GoButler searches the web, compares prices, reads reviews and orders, using the best services at the most No of Employees 120 reasonable costs. The service saves users valuable time, getting them the things they need, USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, when they want them, all conveniently via text message. To start, simply text GO to 25400. Active Markets UK GoButler is currently available nationwide in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Business Overview Virtual assistant provider Austria and Switzerland.
Recent Milestones $8m series A funding in July 2015
KPI #1 +250k users
KPI #2 +1m requests served
KPI #3 Growing >50% monthly
General Catalyst Partners, Lakestar, Global Key Investors Founders Capital, Slow Ventures, BoxGroup, Sound Ventures and Cherry Ventures
Website gobutler.com
37 Dating
DIDIER RAPPAPORT | HAPPN CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Didier Rappaport is the CEO and co-founder of Happn, the new buzz app that is turning the dating industry upside down. Before Happn, Didier was already a serial entrepreneur, developing B2B online services in the 2000s. Didier was co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of the second largest video-sharing website in the world, Dailymotion.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Paris, France Happn is the first dating app starting from a real-life experience. Using hyper-location, Happn gives you the power to find the people you’ve crossed paths with but haven’t had the chance Founded 2013 to meet – yet! The homepage is a timeline of all the people you’ve encountered: every time No of Employees 55 you cross paths with another Happn member, their profile appears on your app in real-time, giving you the chance to discover and to find that person that has caught your eye, and to Active Markets Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia avoid all missed connections. It now boasts close to 8 million users on 4 continents. KPI #1 7.5m users
Alven Capital, Idinvest, DN Capital, Raine Key Investors Ventures
Website happn.com
38 Marketplaces
PHILIP HUFFMANN | HELPLING Co-Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Philip Huffman, age 31, is the CoFounder of Helpling. He is responsible for product, IT and operations management. He grew up in Cologne and has lived for several years in Madrid and Sao Paulo. Ever since Philip was a teenager, he knew that he wanted to become an entrepreneur one day. Witnessing the evolution of the New Economy, he was inspired by the strong development of the Ecommerce and the tech industry. Most recently, he was interim Head of Product at StyleHaul, which is the leading YouTube network for fashion and lifestyle. In early 2010, Philip and Benedikt, the second Co-Founder of Helpling, both founded the Latin American Media Group. He previously supported various startup founders as an angel investor and worked as Head of Sales at Gimigames. Before Philip started his career, he gained his first work experience during two six month internships in entrepreneurial companies. Philip holds a double degree in European Business, where he studied in Munster and Madrid. He speaks fluent German, English and Spanish.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Helpling is the leading online platform for on-demand home services outside the U.S. On the website or via app, customers can book a vetted and insured cleaner and gain back free time Office Locations Paris, Amsterdam, London within a couple of clicks. For cleaners, the innovative online service makes it easier than ever Founded 2014 to access new clients and to manage when and where they want to work. No of Employees Around 300 for Helpling, plus 50 for Hassle.com Helpling was founded by Benedikt Franke, Philip Huffmann and Rocket Internet in January Active Markets France, Netherlands, Germany, UK 2014. Since then the company has raised 56.5 million Euros from investors such as Mangrove Business Overview Online marketplace for household services Capital Partners, Phenomen Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Lukasz Gadowski, Lakestar and Kite Ventures. Acquisition of Hassle.com Recent Milestones Launch of cleaner app in Germany Series B Funding
KPI #1 More than 150k households served
More than 10k cleaners receive cleaning jobs KPI #2 through the platform
Lakestar, Kite Ventures, Mangrove Capital Key Investors Partners, Lukasz Gadowski, Rocket Internet, Phenomen Ventures, Point Nine Capital
Selected Unilever, PayPal, UBER, Vildea, VISA Clients/Partners
Website helpling.de 39 Venture Capital
RAINER MAERKLE | HOLTZBRINCK VENTURES General Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Rainer Maerkle has been a member of the Holtzbrinck Ventures team since 2008 and played a significant role in the sale of Brands4Friends to Ebay. Rainer is responsible, among other things, for Holtzbrinck Ventures' investment in Zalando. Before coming to Holtzbrinck Ventures, Rainer played an entrepreneurial role as Head of Business Development 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 e-commerce sector.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Munich, Germany Holtzbrinck Ventures have been supporting founders in developing their Internet companies for over a decade. During this time, Holtzbrinck Ventures as a team have financed over 100 Office Locations Munich companies. Holtzbrinck Ventures seek founders who share their passion for growth and innovation and who want to achieve excellence working as a team. Founded 2000
Active Markets Europe
Business Overview German early stage fund
Key Portfolio Zalando, Auctionata, Carmudi, Lamudi, Wooga Companies
Notable Exits Groupon, CityDeal, DaWanda
Website holtzbrinck-ventures.com
40 Venture Capital
HUSSEIN KANJI | HOXTON VENTURES Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Hussein Kanji is a Partner in Hoxton Ventures. Previously, he has worked in Accel Partners, Microsoft, Safe-View (acquired by L-3), Radiance (acquired by Comcast), Sun Microsystems and Studio Verso (acquired by KPMG). He has received his education from London Business School and Stanford University
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters London, UK Hoxton Ventures is an early-stage, $40 million early stage technology venture capital firm investing in companies across Europe. The company helps entrepreneurs disrupt existing Office Locations London industries and invent new ones.
Founded 2013
Active Markets Canada, Sweden, UK, Germany, India, US
Business Overview German early stage fund
Key Portfolio Deliveroo, SuperAwesome, Yieldify Companies
Notable Exits Groupon, CityDeal, DaWanda
Website hoxtonventures.com
41 Media
JOEY LEVIN | INTERACTIVE CORP. CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Joey Levin is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IAC. Appointed to the position in June 2015, Mr. Levin is responsible for the strategic leadership of IAC and its operating businesses. In addition, he serves on the board of IAC. Prior to this, Joey Levin was the CEO of IAC Search & Applications, CEO of Mindspark Interactive Network and SVP Mergers & Acquisitions and Finance for IAC. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A.S. in Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters New York, NY, USA IAC is a leading media and Internet company comprised of more than 150 brands and products, including Ask.com, About.com, Match.com, HomeAdvisor and Vimeo. Focused on Office Locations Worldwide the areas of search, applications, online dating, media and eCommerce, IAC’s family of Founded 1995 websites is one of the largest in the world, with over a billion monthly visits across more than 100 countries. The Company is headquartered in New York City and has offices worldwide. In No of Employees 5,000 December 2004, Expedia split from IAC as a separate publicly traded company. In December Active Markets Worldwide 2011, TripAdvisor spun out from Expedia. In August 2008, IAC split into five separate publicly traded companies. The four spun-off companies were HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval Leisure Business Overview Media company with 150+ brands Group and Tree.com. $3.1bn revenue (2014) Key Financials $379m operating income (2014) IAC's notable acquisitions include, among others, The About Group, OkCupid, Meetic, Connected Ventures, Ask Jeeves, TripAdvisor, LendingTree and remaining interest in Key Investments LiveSafe, Aereo, HealthCentral, MerchantCircle Ticketmaster, Expedia and Hotels.com, Expedia, Match.com, Citysearch. Website iac.com
42 Classifieds
SILVIO PAGLIANI | IMMOBILIARE.IT Co-Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Silvio Pagliani is a co-founder of Immobiliare.it. He has previously worked as a Marketing Director at eBay as well as eBusiness Strategy & Project Manager in Fiat Auto. Prior to that, he was a Process & Strategy Analyst in Accenture.
Silvio is an Engineering gradute from Politecnico di Milano and holds MBA title from Università di Bologna
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Rome, Italy Gruppo Immobiliare.it is the largest network of property portal websites in Italy with an audience of over 5 million visitors per month and more than 600.000 online ads. The network Office Locations Rome of sites includes: Immobiliare.it , the leading property portal in Italy. eureKasa.it , specialized Founded 2005 on "for sale by owner" ImmobiliCommerciali.it , leading site in commercial properties NuoveCostruzioni.it , leading site in new homes Affitti.it , specialist site for renting Active Markets Italy House24ore.it , a specialist site for luxury homes, in partnership with the leading financial Business Overview Network of property portal websites in Italy newspaper IlSole24ORE
KPI #1 5m monthly visitors
KPI #2 600k online ads
Website immobiliare.it
43 Venture Capital
DOM VIDAL | INDEX VENTURES Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Dom joined Index in 2007. His current investments include Criteo, Metapack, Navabi, Outbrain and Squarespace. Dom led the investment in ASOS. Previously Dom ran Yahoo Europe and led Kelkoo from inception to the sale to Yahoo in 2004.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland Index Ventures is a multi-stage international venture capital firm that backs the best and most ambitious entrepreneurs. These leaders are building truly transformative companies that are Active Markets Worldwide reshaping the world around us, including: Dropbox, Etsy, Sonos, SoundCloud, Flipboard, King, Business Overview Multi-stage international venture capital firm BlaBlaCar, Squarespace, Just Eat, Lookout, Hortonworks, Nasty Gal, Pure Storage, Supercell, Criteo, Funding Circle and many others. Adyen, BlaBlaCar, Criteo, Deliveroo, Key Investments Flipboard, Flipagram, Fon Index is built on the sturdy foundation of a tight-knit collaborative partnership that retains a Notable Exits Facebook, King, last.fm shared mission of putting entrepreneurs first. To us, full-service means the full attention of our partnership. We structurally de-emphasize individual partner achievements and provide the full Website indexventures.com partnerships’ collective experience and expertise to our portfolio entrepreneurs.
44 New Media
DANIEL TREISMAN | INQUISITR Editor-In-Chief
SPEAKER BIO
Daniel Treisman is an Editor in Chief and Managing Director of Inquisitr. Prior to that, he held a position of CEO in Dream and Guru Media.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters New York, NY, USA The Inquisitr is an internationally recognized news website read by more than 30 million unique visitors each month. Office Locations New York
Founded 2007 We offer the latest trending news in an array of topics and are committed to excellence with every piece we publish. No of Employees 200+
Active Markets Worldwide Our more than 1 million social media followers look to The Inquisitr for the latest news and happenings every day. Business Overview International online news website
KPI #1 1.2m Facebook fans Our management team is constantly looking for ways to make The Inquisitr your preferred source for news. KPI #2 38k Twitter followers
KPI #3 35m monthly visits
Website inquisitr.com
45 Ecommerce & Retail
RENÉ KÖHLER | INTERNETSTORES Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
René Marius Köhler (33) is the founder and CEO of internetstores. At the age of 20, he founded fahrrad.de, marking the start of a unique career as an entrepreneur. Not only does he know how to motivate people, he has also remarkable professional skills and capabilities. René is a born entrepreneur who is able to identify trends early and draw the right conclusions for internetstores. His exceptional entrepreneurial achievements have been honored with multiple industry and national awards.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Esslingen am Neckar, Germany internetstores Holding is a major European retailer for bicycles and outdoor equipment. The group operates a number of shops across ten European countries. Bikester, Addnature, Office Locations 3 CAMPZ, fahrrad.de, Brügelmann and Bikeunit make up internetstores comprehensive Founded 2003 portfolio. The company’s main focus is Western Europe and the Nordic countries. Since 2012 internetstores has begun selling high-end mountain bikes and race bikes under the name No of Employees About 400 VOTEC. Active Target The company was founded by René Marius Köhler in 2003. Today the company employs Europe Markets about 400 workers (=actual number of people) at its offices in Esslingen/Neckar, Berlin and Target Segment Bike and outdoor Stockholm and generated revenue of over €113 million in 2014. Revenue is expected to be in the region of €140 million in 2015. Key Investors EQT
Key Financials Revenues €113.7m (2014)
Website internetstores.de
46 Digital Services
DROR EFRAT | INVESTING.COM Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Dror Efrat is the CEO & Founder of Fusion Media Limited, owner of investing.com
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Nicosia, Cyprus Investing.com is a global financial portal and internet brand composed of 23 editions in 19 languages and mobile apps for Android and iOS that provide news, analysis, streaming quotes Office Locations Madrid, Spain; Tel Aviv, Israel and charts, technical data and financial tools about the global financial markets. Each edition covers a broad variety of local and global financial vehicles including Stocks, Bonds, Founded 2007 Commodities, Currencies, Interest Rates, Futures and Options. Founded in 2007, No of Employees 100+ Investing.com has a growing readership worldwide and is now a leading global financial portal committed to constantly launching innovative features and sections to ensure an optimal one- Active Markets Worldwide stop source for its readers.
Business Overview Financial news portal
Monthly Visits 22m
KPI #1 220m monthly page views
Top 10 in Finance & Investing category KPI #2 globally
5.3m Unique visitors in 2014 KPI #3 (30% growth YoY)
Website Investing.com
47 Marketplaces
MARIO KOHLE | KÄUFERPORTAL Co-Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Mario Kohle is one of the co-founders and CEO of Käuferportal, German B2B Lead Generation platform.
He is WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and ESSEC Business School graduate.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Kaeuferportal is a B2B Lead Generation platform targeting the German market for SMEs.
Office Locations Berlin, London Kaeuferportal facilitates business purchasing of products and services for SMEs, which do not belong to the main area of expertise of the respective enterprise. The buyer obtains 3 offers Founded 2008 from independent local suppliers. This allows for a qualified purchasing decision, saving time No of Employees 300 and money. This service is provided free of charge.
Active Markets Europe Leveraging the reach of the internet, procurement requests are aggregated. Suppliers pay per lead with no fixed costs involved. Business Overview B2B lead generation platform
KPglobal brand launch and expansion to other Recent Milestones European countries - UK, France, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland
Revenues €21m in 2014 Key Financials EBITDA €0.8m in 2014
Website kaeuferportal.de
48 Social & Games
RICCARDO ZACCONI | KING.COM Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Riccardo Zacconi is the CEO and co-founder of King, the world’s leading cross-platform social games developer. Prior to establishing King, Zacconi was vice president of sales and marketing in Europe for the successful dating service, uDate.com, and was instrumental in driving the market penetration and partnerships which led to the eventual buyout by InterActive Corporation (IAC). Before that, he was CEO for Spray Network, the online portal in Hamburg, with presence in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters London, UK King.com, is a social games company, and the largest game developer ever in the history of the website Facebook.com. King develops games for the web, for mobile (iOS, Android, Stockholm, Barcelona, Bucharest, Malmö, Office Locations London, San Francisco, Malta Windows Phone), Facebook, and Windows 10. King is led by Riccardo Zacconi, who has served in that role since co-founding the company in 2003. Founding partner Melvyn Morris Founded 2003 serves as chairman. The company has 1400 employees and parcels development out to No of Employees 1,400 small, autonomous teams of designers working with a "startup" mentality. In 2013, it spent $110.5 million on research and development, roughly 6 percent of sales. On 26 March 2014, Active Markets Worldwide King completed its initial public offering (IPO). Priced at $22.50 a share, the middle of its Business Overview Social games developer projected price range, the IPO valued the company at US$7.08 billion. About $500 million was raised through the sale of 22.2 million shares. KPI #1 324m average monthly unique users
Key Investors Went public in March 2014
Website king.com
49 Advertising
AMIAD SOLOMON | KOMOONA Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Amiad is an Internet entrepreneur with a passion to disruptive business models and products in Internet advertising, mobile and e-commerce. Amiad is a currently active chairman and co-founder of Komoona, a fast growing RTB ad optimization platform serving thousands of publishers and billions of impressions every month. Previously Amiad was a venture partner at Sequoia Capital and founder Peer39, the world's leading semantic ad-targeting company.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel Komoona is a dynamic yield optimization platform working across all major RTB exchanges and demand sources, to ensure maximum revenue for our publishers. Office Locations New York, San Francisco, London Optimizing publisher revenues is harder than ever - SSPs, DSPs, Display, Mobile, Video… Publishers are overwhelmed by the amount of technologies and providers they must work with Founded 2011 and optimize against, in order to maximize revenues in today’s programmatic environment. Active Markets Worldwide Using a simple JS tag, our 360° platform connects you to the entire programmatic eco system, so you don’t need to. Business Overview RTB optimization platform Komoona optimizes billions of impressions for publishers in the US and globally and is growing fast. Moneysupermarket.com, RealitySteve.com, Key Clients Americanlivewire.com
Website komoona.com
50 Ecommerce & Retail
OSKAR HARTMANN | KUPIVIP Founder & President
SPEAKER BIO
In 2006 Oskar joined Russian office of Boston Consulting Group, where he was responsible for developing business strategy for international companies. In 2008 Oskar founded KupiVIP.ru – Russia’s leading online shopping club offering special online sale events every day on a great selection of fashion brands. In 2010 Oskar became the founder and co-investor of Fast Lane Ventures - Russia’s leading company in internet business and he joined the list of TOP-30 people in Russian internet business by Forbes magazine in 2011.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Moscow, Russia KupiVIP is a Russian online fashion retailer selling discounted fashion and home goods from high-street and luxury brands. It has grown rapidly to become a household name in Russia, Office Locations Moscow with 6 million customers. The online fashion retailer hosts up to 20 private online flash sales Founded 2008 every day.
Active Markets Russia KupiVIP was launched in 2008 by Vladimir Kholyaznikov, Mikhail Konoplev, and Oskar Business Overview Russian online fashion retailer Hartmann. It is based in Moscow, Russia.
Recent Milestones Acquisition of footwear retailer Sapato.ru
Key Investors Intel Capital, MCI Management
Website kupivip.ru
51 Venture Capital
DR. KLAUS HOMMELS | LAKESTAR Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Klaus is one of the leading European business angels and is or has been involved in numerous successful internet investments including QXL/Tradus, Skype, Facebook, king.com, StarDoll, Xing and spotify. He invests in promising start-ups that have the potential to become major players in the internet space. Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann. He joined AOL Germany in 1995 where was as board member responsible for business development, content and advertising sales. He was also involved in the establishment of Freenet, worked for Apax Partners and was a partner of Benchmark Capital before founding Hommels Holding.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Zurich, Switzerland Lakestar invests in Internet companies, with a specific focus on business models that can achieve global scale quickly. Lakestar has had tremendous success investing early in No of Employees 5 marquee brand names, such as Facebook, Spotify, and Skype. Active Markets US, Europe In addition, Lakestar has invested at the founding stages of over 25 early stage companies. In each of these companies Lakestar takes an extremely hands-on, or entrepreneurial, approach Internet companies in seed and early stages Target Criteria to investing alongside stellar management teams. Lakestar strongly believes that the key to that can achieve global scale quickly successful investing is not just in finding the next marquee Internet brand – but in helping create it. Key Investments Algomi, Taulia, Sofi, Onefootball
Notable Exits Facebook, Spotify, Skype
Website lakestar.com
52 Classifieds
KIAN MOINI | LAMUDI Co-Founder & Managing Director
SPEAKER BIO
Kian Moini (28) is the co-founder of Lamudi, an online real estate platform in the emerging markets. Within the past two years, the company has expanded to 34 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Kian splits his time between Lamudi’s head office in Berlin and the local markets in Asia and Latin America, where he focuses on developing the business, working with the teams on the ground and continuously adapting product market fit per country. Kian holds a Masters in global entrepreneurship from the joint program of EM Lyon, Babson College and Zhejiang University. Prior to building Lamudi, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Germany.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Launched in 2013, Lamudi is a global property portal focusing exclusively on emerging 34 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East markets. The fast-growing platform is currently available in 34 countries in Asia, the Middle Office Locations and Latin America East, Africa and Latin America, with more than 800,000 real estate listings across its global network. The leading real estate marketplace offers sellers, buyers, landlords and renters a Founded 2013 secure and easy-to-use platform to find or list properties online. No of Employees 600
Active Markets 34
Real estate advertising platform and property Business Overview portal
Latin America and Asia operations received EUR 21 million in investment to date, including EUR 16 million in February 2015; launched in Recent Milestones 34th country (the UAE) in August 2015; acquired competitor MyProperty.ph in the Philippines in May 2015; acquired competitor Propertykita.com in Indonesia in June 2015
KPI #1 More than 800k active property listings
KPI #2 More than 5m monthly visits
Key Investors Rocket Internet
Website lamudi.com 53 Dating
BENJAMIN BAK | LOVOO CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Benjamin Bak is a CEO of Lovoo, the social dating app. Prior to that, he co-founded Smstrade and Mobile Heroes.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Lovoo is the only social app in the world with the live-radar used daily by millions and with tens of thousands joining every day. The company operates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Office Locations Berlin, Dresden United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy and Brazil. About 20m users use Lovoo’s mobile Founded 2011 application on iOS and Android.
No of Employees 130
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, United Active Markets Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil
Business Overview App for dating & meeting new people
Website lovoo.com
54 Ecommerce & Retail
CHRIS MORTON | LYST Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Chris is the founder and CEO of Lyst, the fashion ecommerce destination used by 25 million shoppers a year from 180 countries across the world. Prior to founding Lyst, Chris was an investor at Benchmark Capital and Balderton Capital in London, focusing on the early-stage consumer internet space. Before that, he spent four years in the renewable energy sector, at a startup and government agency, after receiving an MA in Physics and Philosophy from Cambridge University, where he was a DERA scholar. Chris is a member of the Executive Council of Internet Week New York and has been a speaker at Harvard Business School, Cambridge University and Oxford University, as well as a number of industry events globally in technology and fashion. He has also been a startup mentor at programmes including Seedcamp, Launchpad and Launch48.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Launched in 2011 in London, Lyst connects 25 million shoppers globally with over 11,000 Headquarters London, UK designers and stores. Significantly, Lyst was the first to launch a universal cart in the fashion Office Locations London, New York space, enabling shoppers to check out from multiple retailers in a single, unified checkout. Lyst now generates hundreds of millions in sales for the fashion industry and has grown over Founded 2010 300% year-on-year for the past three years. No of Employees 120
Active Markets 70% US, 20% Europe and 10% APAC
Recent Milestones $40m Series C funding in April 2015
Accel Partners, Balderton, DFJ, 14W and the Key Investors investors behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta.
Key Financials Triple digit growth every year since 2011
KPI #1 $400 average order value
KPI #2 3m products from 11,557 designers and stores
KPI #3 100m data points processed every hour
Selected Clients / Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander Wang, Burberry, Partners Saks, Lane Crawford, Neiman Marcus
Website lyst.com 55 Venture Capital
MICHAEL JACKSON | MANGROVE CAPITAL PARTNERS Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Formerly COO of Skype, Michael Jackson is a General Partner at Mangrove Capital Partners. Active across all of Europe, Russia and Israel, Michael spends his time looking for investable projects and advising portfolio companies as they grow into significant operations. His professional life always involved scaling and operating large consumer focused communications businesses. From development of mobile telephone operations, through the roll out of Tele2 in Europe to 26 million customers, to creation and establishment of 9 MVNO operations in Europe, Michael hopped over to Chief Operations Officer role at Skype.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Luxembourg, Luxembourg Mangrove Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on early-stage, mid venture, startups, expansion stage, growth capital investments, buyouts, and emerging Active Markets Europe, US, Canada, India growth. Its mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful advice, relevant experience, and industry relationships to their portfolio companies. Key Investments Lesara, Happify, Apester Mangrove seeks to invest in internet and software businesses with a focus on online services, Website mangrove.vc marketplaces, application service providers, multimedia services, communications, wireless, infrastructure, media, network, and services. The firm is also focused on peer-to-peer computing, gaming, e-commerce, security, mobile, mobile value-added services, network management, urban mobility, SaaS-based businesses, and automotive industry. It primarily invests in greater Europe, including Russia, Benelux, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain, and Israel. It may also invest in United States, Canada, and India.
Mangrove Capital Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
56 Marketplaces
FABIAN SIEGEL | MARLEY SPOON Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Fabian Siegel built European payment service ClickandBuy (sold to Deutsche Telekom) where he served as CTO for 7 years, founded personal finance startup Strateer, ran operations at browser technology company kikin.com, was Co-CEO at Delivery Hero, a global leader in online food ordering, from 2010 to 2013 before becoming a partner at Global Founders Capital. In May 2014, Fabian Siegel founded Marley Spoon, bringing delightful, market-fresh and easy cooking back to the people.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Marley Spoon is bringing delightful, market fresh and easy cooking back to the people. Our chefs create inspiring and mouthwatering recipes every week. You select what you would like Office Locations Berlin, New York, Sydney to cook and we deliver the recipes and all the ingredients you need. We use technology to re- No of Employees 150 invent the food supply chain while reducing unethical food waste and directly connecting consumers with quality producers. In order to achieve this, we are solving challenging Founded 2014 problems in taste profiling, behavior prediction and real-time logistics. Germany, Netherlands, UK, Austria, Australia, Active Markets USA But in the end it's simple: We started Marley Spoon because we love cooking and we love Business Overview Ingredients and recipes delivery eating.
Key Investors Global Founders Capital, Lakestar Marley Spoon is currently serving customers in Europe, Australia and the USA.
Website marleyspoon.com
57 Venture Capital
TOMASZ CZECHOWICZ | MCI MANAGEMENT Managing Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Enterprenuer since 1985. In 1990-1998 Co-founder and CEO of JTT Computer SA - leading CE computer manufacturer with USD 100M+ revenue. Since 1998 Venture Capital/Private Equity investor, founder and Group Managing Partner @ MCI Management. In 2000 one of the TOP-10 most influential people in the European Internet by Business Week. In 2001 the World Economic Forum award with the title of Global Leader for Tomorrow.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Warsaw, Poland MCI is one of the most dynamic private equity groups in Emerging Europe. MCI invests in digital disruption, adaptation and ecosystem through early stage, growth stage and Founded 1999 expansion/buy-out stage investments in CEE, Germany and Austria (DACH), Russia and Turkey. The value of AUM reaches above 500 M EUR. The MCI Group has so far closed over No of Employees 25 60 investment projects and near 30 full exits. Since 1999 MCI generated net IRR at the level Active Markets CEE, DACH countries, Russia and Turkey of 20-25%. MCI Management SA is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since February 2001. E-commerce, digital entertainment, mobile Target Segment Internet, TMT, IoT, Fintech, BigData, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, debt financing
Business Overview Private equity firm
Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2001, Recent Milestones over 500 M EUR assets under management
Selected Clients / Cooperation with several European investment Partners funds: Intel Capital, DN Capital, Mangroove, etc.
50% Tomasz Czechowicz, 20% institutional Ownership investors, 30% freefloat
Website mci.eu
58 Others
PHILIPP NATTERMANN | MCKINSEY & COMPANY Senior Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Philipp Nattermann is Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company and is a Head of UK and Ireland Telecoms, Media and Technology Practice.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters London, United Kingdom McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm, the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. Office Locations Worldwide
Founded 1926 McKinsey & Company provides solutions for issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. It provides advisory services to the world's leading No of Employees ~17,000 businesses, governments, and institutions. It also provides industry practice solutions and Active Target functional practice solutions. Its industry practice solutions include advanced electronics, Worldwide Markets chemicals, metal and mining, electrical power, consumer goods, and more. Its functional Key Financials $7.8bn revenues in 2013 practice solutions include business technology, corporate finance and sales, operations, and other related areas. Website mckinsey.com McKinsey & Company was established in 1926 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It operates additional offices in each continent. When James O. McKinsey founded McKinsey in 1926, he could not have imagined the reach his small firm would eventually have. Eighty- seven years later, the firm has grown into a global partnership serving two-thirds of the Fortune 1000.
59 Marketplaces
HERVE HATT | MEILLEURTAUX.COM CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Hervé Hatt has been Chief Executive Officer of Meilleurtaux since June 2011. He organised a major turnaround 2011-2012; buyout by Equistone & management team in 2013; and accelerated growth since then. Prior to that, Hervé was CEO of AXA Bank Europe, headquartered in Brussels; CEO of AXA Banque France, based in Paris; and head of AXA Group’s Strategic Planning. Before AXA, Hervé was a senior consultant at McKinsey & Company in London and Paris. Hervé holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Master degree from HEC in Paris.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Paris, France Meilleurtaux.com, created in 1999, is the leading web + mobile-focused comparison site, Paris; Le Havre; 223 franchise branches in broker and independent financial advisor for retail lending and related personal financial Office Locations France services in France. Products include mortgage and consumer loans; debt consolidation; mortgage, homeowner and car insurance, as well as bank account fee comparisons. A unique Founded 1999 combination of information, comparison, and brokerage services is provided to visitors and 150 in Paris & Le Havre, 764 in franchise No of Employees clients. branches
Active Markets Europe Beyond web and mobile visits, applications and quotes, brokerage services are provided by 80 Business Overview comparison site, broker & financial advisor telephone financial advisors and 223 franchised branches throughout France. Meilleurtaux.com has signed partnership agreements with over 110 banks and crowdfunders, 2m visitors on website per month with 90% free KPI #1 (Avg.2015) as well as 12 major insurance companies. traffic
KPI #2 (Est. 2015) Credit production 7b€
Consolidated Revenues well over 100m€ ; +50% KPI #3 (Est. 2015) growth over 2014
Website www.meilleurtaux.com
60 Ecommerce & Retail
OLAF KOCH | METRO GROUP Chairman of the Board of Management
SPEAKER BIO
Olaf Koch has been with METRO GROUP since 2009, when he was appointed a member of the Management Board of METRO AG and served as CFO until December 2011. As of January 2012, he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board. Prior to joining METRO GROUP, Olaf was Managing Director Operations at the Private Equity company Permira Beteiligungsberatung GmbH, which he joined after a tenure at Daimler Chrysler AG, where he occupied a number of managerial positions: from 2002 to 2007 he was Member of the Board of Management of the Mercedes Car Group, where he was responsible for Finance, Controlling and Strategy. Prior positions at DaimlerChrysler included an appointment as Vice President for Corporate e-Business, and Director of Corporate e-Business Strategy and Corporate War Room. Before, he founded the IT company IT-Networks GmbH which he led as CEO from 1996 to 1998.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Düsseldorf, Germany METRO GROUP is one of the largest and most important international retailing companies. In the financial year 2014/15 it generated sales of around €59 billion. The company operates Office Locations More than 2,000 stores in 30 countries more than 2,000 stores in 30 countries and has a headcount of around 230,000 employees. Founded METRO AG: 1996; METRO Cash & Carry: 1964 The performance of METRO GROUP is based on the strength of its sales brands that operate independently in their respective market segments: METRO/MAKRO Cash & Carry - the No of Employees Around 230,000 international leader in self-service wholesale - Media Markt and Saturn - the European market
Active Target Markets 30 countries in Europe and Asia leader in consumer electronics retailing and Real hypermarkets.
Target segment Wholesale and Retail
METRO GROUP successfully concludes sale of Galeria Kaufhof (Sept. 30), METRO GROUP acquires leading Asian food service distribution player Classic Fine Foods (August 6), Franz Markus Recent milestones Haniel proposes Jürgen Bernard Steinemann as successor for the Supervisory Board chair (August 4), METRO Cash & Carry gives country divisions more entrepreneurial freedom (May 7), Pieter Boone becomes new CEO of METRO Cash & Carry (May 5)
Key Financials Sales (FY 2013/14): €63.035 bn, (Revenues, EBITDA) EBIT before special items (FY 2013/14): €1.727 bn
Publicly listed company; major shareholders are the shareholder groups Haniel with 24.996% of the voting rights, Schmidt- Ownership structure Ruthenbeck with 15.772% and Beisheim with 9.100% of the voting rights. The remaining 50.132% are held in free float.
Website metrogroup.de
61 Classifieds
GONZALO DEL POZO | MITULA Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Gonzalo del Pozo was appointed CEO of the Mitula Group in April 2015. Prior to this, Gonzalo was the co-founder and CEO of Mitula Classifieds S.L. and also a member in its advisory Board. Gonzalo is the co-founder and former CEO of Ediciones Globaliza S.L., a leading property portal operating in Spain established in 1998. Gonzalo is a Director and major shareholder in Inception Capital S.L., an investment fund with over 10 investments in internet companies. Gonzalo holds a Bachelor of Science with a major in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Suffolk University.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
The Mitula Group is a leading ‘vertical search’ website operator, with a current portfolio of Headquarters Madrid, Spain more than 140 websites in 50+ countries and in 15 languages. Following the acquisition of Madrid, London, Melbourne, Bangalore, Lokku Limited in May 2015, the Mitula Group operates its websites under two main brands, Office Locations Makati City, Singapore ‘Mitula’ and ‘Nestoria’. Founded 2008 The Mitula Group’s vertical search functionality gives its website users the ability to search Active Markets Worldwide across listings from multiple segments, being real estate, automotive, employment, and, in
Business Overview Leading ‘vertical search’ website operator some countries, holiday rentals, and obtain search results from multiple advertisers with one search query. With access to the search results of multiple advertisers, users are offered a KPI #1 50m visits more convenient and efficient search experience than performing a search on a single advertiser’s website. In September 2015, the Mitula Group’s websites received more than 50 KPI #2 255m aggregated classifieds listings million visits and featured 255 million aggregated classifieds listings from over 13,000 Website mitulagroup.com advertisers.
62 Marketplaces
PETER PLUMB | MONEYSUPERMARKET CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Peter was appointed to the Board in January 2009 and became Chief Executive Officer in February 2009. Prior to joining the Group, Peter was the UK managing director of dunnhumby Limited between 2006 and 2008. Before that, he was general manager of Europe Disney Consumer Products, international director of Dyson Appliances Limited and held senior commercial roles at PepsiCo International. Peter has an MBA from IMD in Switzerland.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Moneysupermarket.com Group is a British price comparison website-based business Headquarters London, UK specialising in financial services. The website enables consumers to compare prices on a Office Locations Worldwide range of products, including mortgages, credit cards and loans. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Founded 1999 The Company derives its revenues from three main sources: money vertical, insurance No of Employees 500 vertical, travel vertical.
Active Markets Worldwide
Business Overview Comparison site for financial products
Key Financials Revenues $377m (2014)
Website moneysupermarket.com
63 Digital Services
NIR EREZ | MOOVIT CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Nir Erez, a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience leading technology startups, is the CEO and co-founder of Moovit. Prior to Moovit, Nir was also founder and CEO of both ActionBase and Eyron Software Solutions. Nir is also co-owner and co-founder of Eyron Group which invests in early-stage software companies. Nir graduated from the Mamram Academy and holds a degree in Physics
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Moovit is a local public transit planner which features live arrival and departure times, updated Headquarters Ness Ziona, Israel line schedules, local station maps, service alerts, and advisories that may affect someone's Office Locations Israel current trip. Moovit is available across more than 500 cities around the world including New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Founded 2011 Bogota, Santiago de Chile, Mexico D.F., Sydney, Toronto, Istanbul, Cape Town and Tel Aviv. Active Markets Worldwide The app is free for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone. As of June 2014, the app had 6.5 million users. Business Overview Local public transit planner
Sequoia Capital, BRM Group, Gemini Israel Key Investors Funds, LVMH, BMW
Website moovitapp.com
64 New Media
EFE CAKAREL | MUBI Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Efe founded MUBI, a video on demand platform, after he discovered that he couldn't watch 'In the Mood for Love' in a café in Tokyo. Previously, Efe was with Goldman Sachs in London and New York, where he worked on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investments. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and MBA from Stanford. Efe ranked 3rd in the 1994 European Math Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. He currently advises Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament, on Turkey’s accession negotiations with EU. If he were to give you directions, you'd never get lost, and you'd arrive at least 5 minutes early.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
MUBI is a subscription video on demand service that took film curation to thebnext level by offering just Headquarters London, UK 30 handpicked gems online. Every day one is addedbto the list, and one drops off the bottom. The London, San Francisco, New York, Berlin, quality of the choices means itsbmembers can watch a masterpiece or take a confident chance on a film Office Locations Istanbul and Mexico D.F. theybmay not have heard of.
No of employees 50 MUBI is centred around a philosophy of curated quality, rather than excessive choice. It believes Exclusively showing Paul Thomas Anderson’s everyone should be watching great cinema and not just be searching for it. MUBI streams everyday cult, latest film Junun on MUBI; Studio classic and award winning films to members in over 200 territories. Having recently signed deals with Business Overview agreements with Sony Pictures and Sony Pictures and Paramount Studios, MUBI recently made ‘Arabian Nights’ its first theatrical Paramount; acquisition following its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival.
Website mubi.com MUBI are currently preparing to launch Paul Thomas Anderson’s JUNUN as part of a global exclusive. JUNUN is a film about the musical collaboration between Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur. The MUBI subscription plans are £4.99 / $4.99 / €4.99 a month, or £39.99 / $39.99 / €39.99 for 12 months and available on the web, iPad, iPhone, Android, PlayStation, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TVs and other internet-connected devices.
MUBI has offices in London, San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Istanbul and Mexico D.F.
65 Ecommerce & Retail
JOHN KRIEF | MY-STORE.CH CEO
SPEAKER BIO
John Kried is CEO of my-store.ch, Swiss online outlet shop website
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
www.my-store.ch is a Swiss private sales website belonging to the company My-Store SA. Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland
Office Locations Geneva Webstie offers private sales of major brand names at highly discounted prices (up to 80% off the retail price). Founded 2009
Active Markets Europe These sales are for a limited time only (2 to 7 days for each sale). They offer an exclusive variety of products in the following domains: fashion items, accessories, shoes, perfumes, Business Overview Private sales website watches, home decoration, design, items for children, travels, fine dining, etc.
Website my-store.ch
66 MARCO RODZYNEK | NOAH ADVISORS Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
In 2009, Marco Rodzynek founded NOAH Advisors, a Pan-European Internet-focused corporate finance boutique. Marco has over 16 years of investment banking experience covering the Internet and media space, having started his career at Lehman Brothers where he was the Head of European Internet Investment Banking. Since early 1998, he has been involved in 50 announced M&A deals with a total transaction value of over $100 billion and worked on 10 capital market transactions which raised $16 billion
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Headquarters Pan-European NOAH Advisors is a leading corporate finance boutique focused on sizable European Internet companies. The NOAH team advises on secondary sell-side transactions, as well as selected Founded 2009 buy-side mandates and private debt and equity capital raisings for mature Internet companies. Since its foundation in 2009, NOAH has completed 22 transactions. In 2014, NOAH Advisors No of Employees 14 most notably closed the $800m sale of Fotolia to Adobe, the sale of Facile.it to Oakley Capital, Active Markets Europe the $230m sale of Yad2 to Axel Springer and the €80m sale of Trovit to Next Co.
Business Overview Internet-focused corporate finance boutique
Recent Milestones $800m sale of Fotolia to Adobe in Dec 2014
KPI #1 22 completed transactions
Ownership Private
Website noah-advisors.com
67 Venture Capital
BO ILSOE | NOKIA GROWTH PARTNERS Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Bo has more than two decades of experience in venture capital, investment management, fundraising, organizational and strategic development as well as sales and marketing. Having lived and worked in the UK, Italy, France, Switzerland, Finland, Spain and Singapore, he comes with a global view to business. Bo graduated with honors with a Masters in Electronics Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark.
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Headquarters Palo Alto, CA, USA Nokia Growth Partners (NGP) is an independent fund sponsored solely by Nokia backing entrepreneurs focused on building a connected world. NGP offers industry expertise, capital No of Employees 20 and an extensive network, enabling entrepreneurs to build disruptive, industry-changing companies and take them to the global market. With offices in the US, Europe, India and Active Markets Europe, USA, India, China China, NGP extends the reach of companies making their products and services local Connected Enterprise, Connected Car, Mobile everywhere. Target Segment Consumer, Data & Analytics, Local Commerce
Business Overview VC fund sponsored solely Nokia
Key Investments UCWeb, Rocket Fuel, Fyber
Website nokiagrowthpartners.com
68 Social & Games
BRANKO MILUTINOVIC | NORDEUS CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Branko is co-founder and CEO at Nordeus, one of the leading social and mobile games companies. As a college hire he joined Microsoft Dev Center Copenhagen, the largest one in Europe, to build business software. Impressed with the growth and potential of social networks, led by a boy’s dream to build games, together with his friends and colleagues from Microsoft he returned home to build Nordeus, company behind World’s most popular online sports game.
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Headquarters Belgrade, Serbia Nordeus is a leading and award-winning European game developer, and officially the best European gaming start-up of 2011. Nordeus provides a seamless gaming experience to Office Locations London millions of people, regardless of the devices they are using. That is why Nordeus makes online games that are free and accessible to a wide range of people. Founded 2010 Every day, Nordeus team of more than 100 people in Belgrade puts all of their talent into No of Employees 100 making 5-star games. Every day, millions of people enjoy what we have created.
Active Markets Worldwide
Recent Milestones Top Eleven reached 100m users in May 2015
KPI #1 Best gaming start-up at Europas awards
Top eleven is Facebook’s most played sports KPI #2 game
Ownership Management
Website nordeus.com
69 Venture Capital
RAPHAEL STRAUCH | NOVA FOUNDERS CAPITAL Managing Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Before founding Nova Founders, Raphael was a Global Partner and Managing Director of Rocket Internet and a Managing Director at Groupon in Asia. Before this Raphael has been in Investment Banking with Goldman Sachs and Lazard in London and Frankfurt where he worked on major European IPOs and equity transactions. Raphael holds a Master in Business Administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Raphael has started over 30 companies, with a combined funding of hundreds of millions USD.
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Headquarters Hong Kong, Hong Kong Nova Founders Capital invests in and builds sustainable large-scale business models in rapidly growing internet markets. Nova is very disciplined company builders and investor and Founded 2012 understands how to efficiently grow companies. Nova’s companies receive the continuous financial and operational support they need to be successful. No of Employees 30
Active Markets Asia-Pacific, LATAM, Europe Examples of companies we have founded include www.compareasiagroup.com (the leading financial platform in Asia), www.lionandlion.com (leading digital agency in South East Asia), Target Segment FinTech www.glassesgroupglobal.com (leading online eyewear retailer in Asia-Pacific).
Business Overview Builds startups in emerging markets
Key Investments CompareAsiaGroup, Glasses Global Group
Website novafounders.com
70 Ecommerce & Retail
DR. ROBERT SÜNDERHAUF | NU3 CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Robert Sünderhauf is the Founder and CEO of nu3. Prior to that, he has been an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co.
He graduated from EDHEC Business School.
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Headquarters Berlin, Germany Nu3 is the fastest growing online brand for healthy nutrition. We develop intelligent nutrition solutions for healthy living, weight management, and sports and distribute our products Office Locations Berlin, Sao Paulo through own online platforms. Furthermore, our nutrition experts offer personal nutrition advice and motivate you to reach your goals. Founded in 2012, we are now covering 10 countries Founded 2012 directly. No of Employees 250
Active Markets GE, CH, AT, Brazil, FR, BE, NO, DK, SE, FI
KPI #1 2 million visitors
KPI #2 650k customers
Key financials $45m in revenue
Selected B2C business clients/partners
Lakestar, Project-A, Alstin, Jahr Key Investors Assetmanagement, Black River Ventures
Website nu3.com
71 Travel
GREG MARSH | ONEFINESTAY Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Prior to founding onefinestay in 2009, Greg spent 3 years on the technology investment team at Index Ventures, the venture capital firm behind Skype and MySQL. Previously he had management roles in operations, business development and product development at logistics marketplace start-up GF-X, latterly as the firm’s Product Manager. Greg has an MA from Christ’s College, Cambridge, and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright Scholar and graduated top of his class. He also works with Amnesty International and is elected to the charity’s Finance and Audit Committee
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Headquarters London, UK onefinestay is new category of upscale city accommodation that offers visitors the chance to stay in a distinctive home while the owner is out of town, with the services and amenities of a Office Locations London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles. hotel. It allows homeowners to earn an extra, hassle-free income from their house or apartment at times when it would otherwise stand vacant. Founded 2010
No of Employees 200 Guests range from regular business travellers to families, and are people who might otherwise stay in a boutique hotel but are seeking an authentic, new experience when visiting a city. Active Markets Europe, USA They can book a home instantly online or over the phone. The company cleans the home before they arrive, provides hotel-grade linens, towels and toiletries, and even lends them an Recent Milestones $40M Series D funding in June 2015 iPhone stocked with detailed local tips from the hosts. PROfounders Capital, Intel Capital, Index Key Investors Ventures The company selects homes carefully, based on their location, availability, character and Website onefinestay.com amenities. They are typically primary or secondary residences that are available for upwards of four weeks a year. For homeowners, onefinestay provides a full service enabling them to have house guests at those times when they’re away. The company takes care of photography, marketing, cleaning, managing bookings and insurance.
onefinestay first launched in London in May 2010 and now operates in London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles.
72 Ecommerce & Retail
JULIA BÖSCH | OUTFITTERY Co-Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Julia Bösch is a Founder & Managing Director of Outfittery. She has graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as well as from Technical University of Munich.
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Headquarters Berlin, Germany OUTFITTERY offers stress-free shopping Fashion for men. With us you get your personal style expert who selects from now you according to your preferences, the most beautiful Office Locations Europe pieces for your wardrobe and comfortable leisure sends home. Our service is free and we also assume the shipping costs. You only pay for the pieces that you like and want to keep. Founded 2012 OUTFITTERY is the leading European Curated Shopping Service and is shipping to 8 No of Employees 150 countries.
Business Overview Personal shopping services for men
Recent Milestones $20m Seriec C funding in March 2015
Holtzbrinck Ventures, Mangrove Capital Key Investors Partners, Highland Capital Partners Europe
Website outfittery.de
73 SaaS & Big Data
RAGNAR SASS | PIPEDRIVE Co-Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Ragnar Sass is serial startup entrepreneur and co-founder of Pipedrive and a startup boot camp Garage48.
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Headquarters New York, NY, USA Pipedrive makes sales CRM for companies with big ambitions. The software is used by fast growth companies such as such as Postmates, Fortumo, Blippar and Falcon Social as well as Office Locations New York, Tallin SMBs like 360 Services and Richland Source.
Founded 2010 Pipedrive's roots are in direct sales. As sales managers and trainers, two of the co-founders No of Employees 100 experienced an increasing amount of pain with CRM software. There simply was no good solution for managing the company's sales pipeline. Active Markets Worldwide So in 2010 they teamed up with talented developers to create Pipedrive, a simple and yet Business Overview CRM software provider powerful tool for managing sales. Recent Milestones $9M Series in May 2015 Pipedrive is used by over 10,000 companies in 100+ countries worldwide. Bessemer Venture Partners, Rembrandt Key Investors Venture Partners, Storm Ventures
Selected Clients Postmates, Fortumo, Blippar
Website pipedrive.com
74 Venture Capital
ANDRIN BACHMANN | PITON CAPITAL Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Andrin was a co-founder of Glocalnet, which became Sweden’s 3rd largest consumer telecom service provider and was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange before being acquired by Telenor. He was a partner at M/C Venture Partners, one of the leading private equity investors in the US telecom services space. He was also one of two principals establishing an investment company that became QXL Ricardo PLC’s largest shareholder in 2005, and was instrumental in the transformation of QXL leading to its sale to Naspers for around $1.9 billion. He holds an MSc degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
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Headquarters London, UK Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm based in London. It focuses on investments in online companies with network effects, such as marketplaces and exchanges. Founded 2010 Its founding partners have deep entrepreneurial and investment experience, and have been instrumental investors in Betfair and QXL Ricardo, amongst others. Piton’s current portfolio No of Employees 5 includes Quandoo, BullionVault, DaWanda, videdressing, docplanner, dutycalculator and Active Markets Worldwide FanDuel.
Online companies with network Target Segment effects
Business Overview Venture capital and growth equity firm
Key Investments FanDuel, Quandoo
Website pitoncap.com
75 Social & Games
SHAUL OLMERT | PLAYBUZZ Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Shaul Olmert is the founder and CEO of Playbuzz. He has more than 15 years’ experience in digital media and publishing. Prior to starting Playbuzz, he was vice president of digital products at MTV Networks, responsible for the network’s online gaming content. He also spent time as president of SundaySky, a video marketing company, and was chief marketing officer of the online and mobile marketing company Conduit.
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Headquarters New York City, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel Playbuzz is a content publishing platform used by tens of thousands of publishers, marketers, bloggers and brands to connect with millions of users through interactive storytelling in Office Locations New York City, Tel Aviv, London, Hamburg snackable formats that are tailored for the way audiences consume and discover content in Founded 2012 today’s digital world. Playbuzz empowers anyone to seamlessly create, embed and distribute No of Employees 85 content on any website, mobile app or social page, amplifying reach and audience engagement via formats that are optimized for a cross-platform, mobile-first experience and Global – highly active throughout North Active Markets social sharing. America, Europe, LATAM, Middle East, Asia
Series B funding round; launched pilot campaigns with programmatic advertising and sponsored content (rev share with Recent milestones publishers/advertisers); launching several new products and formats with major publishers and brands; named top startup company in Europe at eWeek Amsterdam
Business overview Advertising and sponsored content
KPI #1 +80m monthly visits across the network
Carmel Ventures, 83North, TheTime, Firstime Key Investors Venture Capital, Rutledge Vine Capital, Saban Capital Group, Oded Vardi
Website playbuzz.com 76 Travel
GLENN FOGEL| PRICELINE Head of Worldwide Strategy
SPEAKER BIO
Glenn Fogel is currently Priceline’s Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning. He is also Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, and is responsible for the company’s worldwide mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances. He also heads up Priceline Ventures, the Group’s corporate VC efforts. Prior to joining Priceline in February 2000, he was a trader at a global asset management firm and prior to that he worked as an investment banker specializing in the air transportation industry. Glenn holds a BSc in Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School, and a JD from Harvard Law School
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Norwalk, USA Founded in 1998, the Priceline Group is a leader in global online travel, including hotel reservations, car rentals, and travel metasearch. Priceline is composed of five primary brands Founded 1998 - Booking.com, priceline.com, Agoda, Kayak and Rentalcars.com, as well as a number of ancillary brands. The Priceline Group provides online travel services in over 180+ countries No of Employees 800 across the globe. Booking.com is the leading online hotel reservation service in the world, Active Markets Worldwide offering over 330,000 hotels and accommodations, and is available in 41 languages. Priceline. com gives leisure travelers multiple ways to save on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, Business Overview Online travel vacation packages and cruises.
Market Cap $64bn
Achieved revenues of $8.4bn and EBITDA of Key Financials $3.5bn in 2014
Ownership Public
Website priceline.com
77 Digital Services
DENYS ZHADANOV | READDLE Co-Founder & CMO
SPEAKER BIO
Denys spent the last 5 years transforming Readdle from a “garage start-up” into a leading iOS company that creates productivity and business apps. He has been successfully leading marketing activities and initiatives at Readdle from day one. As a head of marketing responsible for growth, business development and revenue for Readdle consumer products. Now Readdle apps such as Scanner Pro, PDF Expert, Documents and others have more than 40 million downloads. All of them are in top charts on the App Store and reviewed by all major press, as well as featured by Apple.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Odessa, Ukraine Readdle’s mission is to make people more productive. Apple has crowned many of its apps as Best New Apps and Editors’ Choice, they have often hit Top Charts in dozens of countries. Office Locations Considering openings in EU and USA Applications such as Scanner Pro, Spark, Documents, PDF Expert and Calendars were Founded 2007 downloaded more than 40 million times and continue to deliver innovative personal productivity experience. No of Employees 82
3 apps are preinstalled on Demo devices in retail Apple Stores, Recent Milestones Featured by Apple as apps for iOS 9, Top charts on the App Store in Productivity and Business categories.
KPI #1 40+ million downloads
770K units downloaded in September 2015 KPI #2 alone
KPI #3 8 million monthly active users
Selected Clients / Apple, Siemens Partners
Ownership Privately owned
Website readdle.com
78 Marketplaces
LAWRENCE LEUSCHNER | REBUY Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Lawrence Leuschner, born 1982, first made money as a nine year old boy at a local flea market. He sold returned goods from the trading business which was owned by his stepfather. Bargaining for every penny created a fascination within this nine year old boy, which would ultimately lead to his million „euro“ future vision. Later on as a teenager, Lawrence was active in different business fields and together with a school friend he came up with the idea of dealing with second-hand videogames. Still attending school, time was limited and therefore they decided to open up an online store.The business strategy was drawn in the basement of Lawrences’ family house, investor calls were held during his time at German Armed Forces (2003-2004) and finally the reBuy reCommerce GmbH (formerly trade-a-game GmbH) was founded in 2004. Even during his studies the development of the reBuy.de business model was the main focus. In order to focus on his live project as an entrepreneur, Lawrence took the decision to quit university and pursue his passion with utmost dedication. In 2006 Lawrence and his four co-founders moved to Berlin and after a few years the start-up team achieved different important milestones in their persecution of the company. In 2009 influenced by the documentary, an inconvenient truth by Al Gore, reBuy was born, as the answer for sustainable consumption with a clear vision: “becoming the most successful retailer of pre-owned goods in the world.” Since 2009 the rebuy has grown into a powerful company with 500 employees.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany reBuy was launched in 2009 as the first online shop for pre-owned goods in Europe. reBuy is
Office Locations Berlin, Germany going to be the destination for all kind of pre-owned goods. It offers the most convenient way to buy and sell pre-owned electronic and media items. reBuy is taking advantage of online Founded 2004, launched 2009 shoppers and sellers who are completely disillusioned with the eBay C2C experience. Instead No of Employees 500 of offering a marketplace, reBuy offers a single point brand for selling and buying pre-owned Active Markets Germany, Austria goods itself. ReBuy buys articles directly from customers for a fix price and sells these with an 18-month guarantee up to 50% cheaper than the original price. The current portfolio consists Buy and sell of preowned goods directly from and to Busines overview customers of 11 categories with strong focus on electronic gadgets. At the moment the company
KPI #1 3.5m monthly visits operates only in Germany and Austria with an annual sales growth rate of 30% and forecasts for total net sales of over 70m € in 2015. In 2016 reBuy will reach 100m € of net sales, by KPI #2 +4m customers extending its product portfolio and expanding into new countries. KPI #3 + 2.5m articles in +11 categories
KPI #4 60% CAGR (since Launch 2009)
Selected Clients / Business model is mainly C2B2C, but strong focus on Partners B2B for the future
September´15 EBITDA breakeven; Recent Milestones implementation of dynamic pricing;
+ 70m € revenues in ’15 (30% annual sales growth Key Financials YoY), EBITDA on Budget Level
Ownership structure Venture capitalists, founders, business angels
Website rebuy.de 79 Ecommerce & Retail
OLIVER SAMWER | ROCKET INTERNET Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Oliver Samwer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1972. He holds a degree in business administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Oliver founded Alando.de in 1999. After the sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., he was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2000, Oliver and his two brothers founded Jamba! AG, which was acquired by Verisign. In 2007, he founded Rocket Internet. Since 2014, Oliver has served as Rocket’s CEO. He is responsible for strategy development and implementation, business development and investor relations.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Berlin, Germany Rocket Internet is an internet platform that identifies and builds proven internet business models and transfers them to new, underserved or untapped markets where it seeks to scale Founded 2007 them into market leading online companies. The platform is focused on proven online business models that satisfy basic consumer needs 30k+ employees across its network of No of Employees companies across three sectors: e-commerce, marketplaces, and financial technology. It has more than 20,000 employees across its network of companies which operate in more than 100 countries Active Markets 110 countries on five continents.
Business Overview Platform that builds internet businesses
Recent Milestones Went public in Oct 2014
Key portfolio Delivery Hero, Foodpanda, Helpling companies
Market €6.9bn Capitalization
Ownership Public
Website rocket-internet.com
80 Advertising
FRED JOSEPH | S4M COO
SPEAKER BIO
Fred Joseph is regarded as a leading figure in digital media, both as a serial “intrapreneur” within the Publicis Group, and as an “entrepreneur”. Fred started Publicis Group Media’s first interactive division in Paris back in 2000. He relocated to London in 2005 to found and launch Zed Digital in the UK, and over the next few years rolled out the brand across more than 30 markets in EMEA and APAC. He then became Managing Director of the Vivaki Nerve Centre (tech engine for all Publicis digital agencies) which he launched across EMEA, before being promoted to Global Chief Digital Officer of ZenithOptimedia WW. After Publicis acquired Performics, a US digital Performance Marketing agency part of Double Click/Google, Fred scaled out the operation outside the US, and served as CEO of Performics EMEA until March 2015. In April 2015, Fred decided to deep dive into the start-up world, following his passion for Mobile and Tech, joining S4M. With offices in in Paris, London, Berlin, NYC, Singapore and San Paulo, S4M is a fast growing Analytics & Programmatic Mobile start up, providing complete and flexible solutions to manage Mobile ad campaigns.
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Headquarters Paris, France S4M is an Analytics & Programmatic Mobile start up created in 2011, providing complete and
Office Locations Paris, New York, London, Berlin, Singapore, Sao Paulo flexible solutions to manage Mobile ad campaigns. With its Mobile native technology stack, including Intelligent Bidding, Mobile Adserving, AdTracking, Media Buying Optimization and Founded 2011 Purchase Funnel Management, S4M identifies the highest yielding ad network, ad placement No. of employees +75 or format and generates full analytics for both paid media and organic mobile actions. S4M’s France, USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, proprietary Mobile Native stack delivers unique capability in charging clients only for Viewable Active markets APAC markets Impressions, and Full Transparency on Targeting and Brand Safety. S4M just released its Ad Business overview Mobile ad campaigns analytics platform Verification score which factors the 3 key ares of Viewability/Targeting/Brand Safety into a
$8m Series A in May 2015, running for MRC accreditation metric to become a market reference. S4M’s technology stack is currently under audit by the Recent milestones (due in January 2016) US MRC (Media Rating Council) with an aim to become fully accredited in Jan 2016 for
KPI #1 +1k mobile campaigns per year impressions, click and post click conversion. Once review is completed, S4M will be the only Mobile tech provider in the World to have the MRC accreditation across the above 3 KPIs. KPI #2 +100% growth every year for the last 4 years. With offices in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Singapore and San Paulo, S4M is a trusted KPI #3 180+ Fortune 500 companies as clients third-party mobile solution that effectively enables brands, agencies and publishers to more Clients: Renault, McDonald’s, Audi, Orange, L’Oreal, Axa, effectively create, deliver and measure mobile and tablet marketing campaigns. Selected Clients / O’Boticario, Subway, Coca Cola Partners Partners: 800+ certified Adnetworks
Key Investors BPI, Entrepreneurs Venture
Key Financials $15m / profitable in France.
Ownership Structure Founder (Christophe Collet) Website s4m.io 81 Classifieds
ROLV ERIK RYSSDAL | SCHIBSTED MEDIA GROUP CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Rolv Erik Ryssdal joined the Schibsted Group in 1991 and has held several management positions including CEO of Aftonbladet (1999-2005), CEO of VG (2005-2008) and CEO of Schibsted Classified Media, the holding company for international online classifieds operations (2008-2009). Rolv Erik Ryssdal holds an MA in Business and Economics from the BI Norwegian School of Management and an MBA in Business and Administration from INSEAD, France.
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Headquarters Oslo, Norway Schibsted is an international media group with approximately 7,800 employees. Schibsted has operations in 29 countries. Schibsted’s strategy comprises two main objectives: further Office Locations Worldwide development of media houses and establishment of online classifieds services. Strong media houses represent the core of Schibsted’s activities, and its corporate growth Founded 1839 strategy is based on close collaboration between different media channels. Schibsted’s 7No of Employees 7,800 objective is to develop its business activities so that it can offer its users a wide range of services, irrespective of which channels they choose to use. The diversity of Schibsted’s Active Markets Worldwide product range is closely aligned with its strong tradition of editorial freedom and ability to adapt
Blommenholm industrier (26.1%), numer of to a media market that is constantly undergoing rapid change. Ownership financial companies
Website schibsted.com
82 Classifieds
GREG ELLIS | SCOUT24 CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Gregory Ellis is responsible for all commercial operations of Scout24. Gregory has more than 20 years of international business experience within the digital media industry. He joined from REA Group where he was Managing Director and CEO for more than five years. In his years at REA, Ellis and his team achieved outstanding growth rates and a share price increase of more than 350% over the course of 5 years. Prior to joining REA Group he was Marketing Director for Online Services at Microsoft Asia. Previous roles included MD for Truvo BV, as well as MD and Manager positions for Telstra Corporation.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Munich, Germany Scout24 provides user orientation and support by making information of relevance to their specific situation accessible to them when they have to reach decisions on the place to live, Office Locations Europe mobility, partnership or finance. Scout24 bundles offers in its marketplaces, provides a clearer overview and in doing so creates market transparency and comparability. These services are Founded 1998 seamlessly integrated in everyday life and available anywhere and at any time: from the No of Employees 1,200 AutoScout24 YouTube channel to the ImmobilienScout24 iPhone app – Scout24 is there where its users are. As a reliable partner Scout24 safely and autonomously guides its users to Active Markets Europe the best result.
Business Overview Digital marketplaces and lead generation
Website scout24.com
83 SaaS & Big Data
PERE VALLES | SCYTL CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Pere joined Scytl in March 2004 after spending most of his professional career in the United States. Prior to joining Scytl, Pere was Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of GlobalNet, a NASDAQ publicly-traded telecommunications company headquartered in Chicago. Pere assisted GlobalNet in becoming one of the leading providers of Voice-over-IP in the world and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to the Titan Corporation, a NYSE defense company.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Barcelona, Spain Scytl is the global leader in providing state-of-the-art electronic voting and electoral modernization solutions. Its groundbreaking electoral security technology is protected by Canada, US, Peru, Greece, UK, Ukraine, Office Locations Malaysia, Brazil South Korea, Australia international patents and enables Scytl to carry out electronically all types of electoral processes in a secure and auditable manner. Scytl's solutions incorporate unique Founded 2001 cryptographic protocols that ensure maximum security, transparency and auditability in all types of electoral processes and elections. No of Employees 150
Active Markets Worldwide Founded in 2001 as a spin-off from a university research group, Scytl has a strong commitment to R&D. Scytl's current patent portfolio is the largest in the industry and is Business Overview Electronic voting solutions composed of more than 40 international patents in the area of security applied to election Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, Spinnaker processes, trailblazing standards and the direction of the election modernization industry. Key Investors Invest, Vulcan Capital, SAP Ventures, Vy Capital, Industry Ventures
Website scytl.com
84 Digital Services
OR OFFER | SIMILARWEB Co-Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Or Offer is the CEO and co-founder of SimilarWeb. Or was also a founding partner at AfterDownload, a company that was acquired by IronSource in 2013. He is an active investor in the high-tech world with startups such as MoonActive and Spot.IM.Or started SimilarWeb as a website recommendation technology that analyzed and compared the data from all websites. Eventually the company grew to become SimilarWeb’s measurement platform in 2011.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel SimilarWeb measures the digital world, offering business professionals and executives access to competitive market intelligence to make better decisions. Our competitive market Office Locations London, New York, Dubai, Tokyo intelligence platform reveals the marketing strategies for any website or app, and provides benchmarks for online industries. Our market intelligence platform provides organizations of all Founded 2009 sizes with actionable insights that empower them to identify new opportunities while gaining an No of Employees 150+ edge over the competition.
Active Markets Worldwide Established in 2009, SimilarWeb is headquartered in the UK, with offices across the globe, has raised over $40M in funding and has over 150 employees. Web Measurement & Online Competitive Business Overview Intelligence
Selected as one of the fastest growing 100 Recent Milestones startups in Europe by RedHerring
KPI #1 3m monthly visits
KPI #2 Received $40m in funding
Axel Springer, Google , eBay, Nike, Eagle Selected Clients Alpha
Key Investors Naspers, Lord David Alliance
Website similarweb.com 85 Digital Services
ROBERT LANG | SOCIALBAKERS CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Robert is the CEO of Socialbakers. Before joining Socialbakers, Robert was in charge of scaling and rolling out Criteo in several regions across the Globe. Prior to his time at Criteo, Robert Lang was the CEO of Result, which followed a position as Head of Europe and Country Manager Germany for fon.com - the world's largest WiFi community. Before fon, Robert was founder and CEO of Germany's largest WiFi operator: WLAN AG, acquired by Swisscom Group in 2003 and renamed to Swisscom Eurospot, Prior to that, Robert was VP Business Development and Finance for iobox Germany.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters Prague, Czech Republic Socialbakers is one of the world’s largest social marketing & analytics suites, with over 2,700 clients in 100 countries - including half of the Global Fortune 500. In addition to offering one of Prague, London, San Francisco, New York, Plzeň, Split, Singapore, Sydney, Paris, the largest databases of free social media statistics and insights in the world, we provide user- Office Locations Munich, São Paulo, Mexico City, Dubai, friendly social media solutions that allow brands to measure, compare, and optimize their Istanbul social campaigns with competitive intelligence that is second to none.
Founded 2008 With the only analytics platform that provides global industry benchmarking and local No of Employees 350 categorization in social media, Socialbakers is the most versatile, complete service of its kind. Facebook has awarded Socialbakers 3 Preferred Marketing Developer badges in recognition Active Markets Worldwide of its capabilities. Since 2008, Socialbakers has grown from a small office in Pilsen, Czech Business overview Social marketing and analytics suite Republic, to a global entity with nearly 400 employees of 32 nationalities, working in 14 offices across the globe. Our developers have put in nearly 400,000 hours of product development in Key Investors Index Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital order to make sure that Socialbakers products are constantly improving.
Website socialbakers.com
86 Digital Services
DR. FRIEDRICH SCHWANDT | STATISTA Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Friedrich Schwandt studied Economics with a specialization in Econometrics. He has been the CEO of Statista GmbH since 2007. Furthermore, he has worked at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
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Headquarters Hamburg, Germany Statista.com is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000
Office Locations New York, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, Founded 2007 and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, No of Employees 200 finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, The data sources include market research reports, such as the Ipsos Affluent Survey Active Markets Scandinavia, America, Canada published annually by Ipsos Media, Simmons National Consumer Studies and Consumer Business overview Statistics portal Insights from Scarborough Research, as well as trade publications, scientific journals, and
2015: 600k registered customers and branch office in government databases. Recent milestones London 2016: Branch office in Madrid
KPI #1 4m monthly unique visitors
KPI #2 600k registered users
KPI #3 1m statistics
Selected Clients / Clients: Google, ESPN, P&G, Panasonic Partners Partners: Forbes, Mashable, The Independent
Key Financials Revenues $16m (2015)
Key Investors Grazia Equity
Ownership Structure 70% founders, 30% VC Website statista.com 87 Advertising
ADAM SINGOLDA | TABOOLA Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Adam Singolda is founder and CEO of Taboola, the leading discovery platform, serving 300B recommendations to over 550M unique visitors every month. Previously, Adam served as an officer in an elite mathematical unit of the Israeli National Security Agency. Recently named “Entrepreneur of the Year" by Geektime, Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, and more.
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Headquarters New York, NY, USA Taboola is the leading discovery platform, serving over 300 billion recommendations to over 550 million unique visitors every month on some of the Web’s most innovative publisher sites, New York City, Pasadena, London, Tel Aviv, Office Locations New Delhi, Bangkok including USA TODAY, Business Insider, Chicago Tribune, and The Weather Channel. Headquartered in New York City, Taboola also has offices in Pasadena, London, Tel Aviv, Founded 2007 New Delhi, and Bangkok. Publishers, marketers, and agencies leverage Taboola to retain No of Employees 280 users on their sites, monetize their traffic, and distribute their content to drive high-quality audiences. Learn more at www.taboola.com and follow @taboola on Twitter. Business overview Content discovery platform
Taboola made news earlier this year after raising $117M in a Series E investment round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, joined by Comcast Ventures, Recent Milestones Yahoo! Japan, among others. Taboola also announced a multi-million dollar strategic investment partnership with Chinese search giant Baidu and a $3M strategic investment from DailyMail.com.
Business Insider, The Atlantic, Tribune, USA Selected Clients / TODAY, Yahoo! Japan, Time Warner Cable, Partners Mail Online, NBC News
Website taboola.com 88 Ecommerce & Retail
CHRISTIAN DEILMANN | TADO Managing Director
SPEAKER BIO
Christian co-founded tado° in 2011 together with Johannes and Valentin. Previously he worked with the venture capital firm Target Partners, co-founded the mobile telecommunication company BellPepper, and worked with the consulting firm A.T. Kearney. Christian holds a M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from MIT (Cambridge, MA) as well as a Dipl.-Ing. in engineering & management from Technical University of Munich. At tado° Christian is in charge of product, production, financing, sales, and partnerships. His passion is cutting edge energy technology and its application in successful products.
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Headquarters Munich, Germany tado° is The Heating App for private homes and small businesses. It adjusts to the residents' behavior in real time and also takes current weather forecasts and building characteristics into Founded 2011 account. tado° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, Johannes Schwarz, Valentin Active Markets Europe Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has Business Overview Smart thermostat been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
Launch of second product - tado° Cooling in June 2014. Recent Milestones In September, launched a new service for all tado° customers – tado° Care
KPI #1 Raised $16.2m
Key Investors Shortcut Ventures, Target Partners
Website tado.com
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ADRIEN ROOSE | TAKE EAT EASY CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Adrien Roose is the CEO & Co-Founder at Take Eat Easy. He has previously worked at Saatchi & Saatchi as well as at BNP Paribas investment banking group. Adrien graduated from Université Catholique de Louvain and did his Masters at Louvain School of Management.
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Headquarters Brussels, Belgium Launched in 2013 in Brussels, Take Eat Easy is a food-tech startup connecting fresh and popular restaurants, passionate bike couriers and food-loving customers through an Founded 2013 application and website, providing a reliable and eco-friendly way to deliver great meals.
Active Markets Europe Take Eat Easy boasts a unique business model offering restaurants a delivery solution and Business Overview European Restaurant Delivery Service expanding the revenue potential. Food delivery is complex, and very different from the traditional restaurant business. With Take Eat Easy, restaurants can now increase their Recent Milestones $11m Series B funding in September 2015 revenue per square meter, by offering a flawless delivery service, with no risk and no additional costs. KPI #1 Raised $18m
Rocket Internet, DN Capital, Piton Capital, Take Eat Easy goes a step further by allowing customers to follow their courier in real time Key Investors Eight Roads and to know the exact arrival time of their food. The unique dispatching algorithms developed by the team, allow the company to deliver meals in as little as 17 minutes. Website takeeateasy.be
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GERARD GRECH | TECH CITY UK CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Gerard is CEO of TechCity UK in London. Prior, he headed up global marketing for Blackberry World (e-commerce store for apps music & film), in New York. Before that, he was with Nokia, where, in New York and London, he led the app store's marketing operations, ran the app strategy and portfolio development team and, most recently, identified and assessed equity investment opportunities for Nokia Growth Partners, Nokia's venture arm, with $600M under management in the mobile space.
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Headquarters London, UK Tech City UK was launched in Shoreditch in 2010 by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron to support the East London tech cluster known as Silicon Roundabout. Office Locations London Tech City UK is publicly funded non-profit team with a private sector mentality. Firm’s focus is Founded 2010 on creating the optimum conditions for digital technology businesses and entrepreneurs to Active Markets London thrive across the UK. Through programmes and policy work, Tech City UK accelerates the growth of digital businesses in London and across cities at all stages of their development. Non-profit organization to support Business overview entrepreneurship
Website techcityuk.com
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ANDREAS KOENING | TEAMVIEWER CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Andreas Koenig is a CEO of TeamViewer. Prior to that, as a Head of Swisscom IT Services AG, successfully merged two business units with 4,500 employees. Before joining Swisscom in 2012, the Austrian worked at NetApp for 16 years, a leading American provider of storage solutions and data management. As Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA, he was instrumental in the company's establishment and expansion in the European market. Under his leadership, this business grew to 2,000 employees, with revenues increasing to about 2 billion dollars.
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Headquarters Uhingen, Germany TeamViewer is a proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. TeamViewer GmbH Office Locations Worldwide was founded in 2005 in Uhingen, Germany. UK-based private equity firm Permira acquired TeamViewer GmbH from Durham, North Carolina-based software developer GFI Software in Founded 2005 2014. The company also hosts an online backup cloud service called Airbackup. Active Markets Worldwide
Business overview Software packages for remote administration
Ownership Acquired by Permira
Website teamviewer.com
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ANDER MICHELENA | TICKETBIS Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Ander Michelena Llorente (Bilbao, 28 years) graduated in Business Administration and Finance in the Universidad Pontifica de Comillas ICADE (Madrid). He started his career in Morgan Stanley London, where he specialized in merger, acquisitions and IPOs of European financial institutions. In 2009 he left the bank to create Ticketbis.com, a market where fans can buy or sell tickets, with his partner Jon Uriarte.
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Headquarters Madrid and Bilbao, Spain Ticketbis is an online platform where users can buy and sell tickets to events. Founded in Spain in 2009 by two young entrepreneurs, Ander Michelena and Jon Uriarte, the company Office Locations Worldwide operates under the secondary ticketing market (or ticket resale market) alongside several others including industry giant Stubhub, Ticketbis is currently present in over 30 countries. Founded 2009 Ticketbis works as an intermediate between individuals who want to resell or buy tickets to Active Markets Europe, LATAM, Asia music, sports, theatre and cultural events. The seller determines the price of the tickets. Like the majority of secondary ticketing platforms, Ticketbis charges a commission from each party No of Employees 350 involved in the exchange. After the buyer purchases the tickets, the seller must send them out before the event. Tickets are sent to Ticketbis who is in charge of delivering them to the seller. Business overview Software packages for remote administration If buyers do not receive their tickets in time for the event, Ticketbis must refund the amount KPI #1 162k listings paid. Ticketbis connects buyers to sellers, where the ticket price is set freely by the seller. In exchange for a percentage of commission from each party involved, Ticketbis ensures that the Website ticketbis.com transaction is done safely and correctly.
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JON URIARTE | TICKETBIS Founder & CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Jon Uriarte has a Bachelor in Business Administration and a Masters degree in Financial Management from La Comercial (Deusto Business School). He worked for seven years at leading investment banks, such as Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in London, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, LBOs and private banking. In 2009 he foudned Ticketbis together with Ander Michelena. He is currently CEO and founder of Ticketbis.
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Headquarters Madrid and Bilbao, Spain Ticketbis is an online platform where users can buy and sell tickets to events. Founded in Spain in 2009 by two young entrepreneurs, Ander Michelena and Jon Uriarte, the company Office Locations Worldwide operates under the secondary ticketing market (or ticket resale market) alongside several others including industry giant Stubhub, Ticketbis is currently present in over 30 countries. Founded 2009 Ticketbis works as an intermediate between individuals who want to resell or buy tickets to Active Markets Europe, LATAM, Asia music, sports, theatre and cultural events. The seller determines the price of the tickets. Like the majority of secondary ticketing platforms, Ticketbis charges a commission from each party No of Employees 350 involved in the exchange. After the buyer purchases the tickets, the seller must send them out before the event. Tickets are sent to Ticketbis who is in charge of delivering them to the seller. Business overview Software packages for remote administration If buyers do not receive their tickets in time for the event, Ticketbis must refund the amount KPI #1 162k listings paid. Ticketbis connects buyers to sellers, where the ticket price is set freely by the seller. In exchange for a percentage of commission from each party involved, Ticketbis ensures that the Website ticketbis.com transaction is done safely and correctly.
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KRISTO KÄÄRMANN | TRANSFERWISE Co-Founder
SPEAKER BIO
Kristo Käärmann is the co-founder of TransferWise, a peer-to-peer international money transfer business. Prior to starting TransferWise, Kristo was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Kristo started his first business, an online investments tracking portal Investor.ee in 1999, when he was 19. Kristo is also involved in the organisation of Young Scholar Grant, where grants are given out to the brightest prospective university students of Estonia to study abroad in Europe’s best universities.
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Headquarters London, UK TransferWise lets expats, foreign students and businesses move money globally. The firm's pricing and operating model are a substantial departure from standard practice in the money Office Locations London, Tallin, New York transfer sector, providing customers with a lower-cost alternative to traditional means of moving money internationally. Founded 2010
Active Markets Worldwide TransferWise was founded in London in March 2010 by Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann. Taavet was part of the small team that started Skype in 2003 and has recently worked with a No of Employees 300 number of startups as an angel investor and advisor. Kristo had a financial services background from Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Business overview Peer-to-peer money transfer service
IA Ventures, Index Ventures, Seedcamp and Key Investors Kima Ventures. Strategic angels include Virgin Group Sir Richard Branson
Website transferwise.com
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MATTHIAS STEINBERG | UNISTER CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Matthias Steinberg has been the Chief Executive Officer of UNISTER since April 2015. Between 2011 and 2013, he managed the business activities of Lokad, a Big Data technology company, as the Chief Executive Officer. He previously worked as the Vice President at Summit Partners Limited in London and was responsible for investment in technology and internet in the German-speaking regions for three years. He has completed his engineering studies at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, in Aachen, Germany and holds a MBA which he obtained at the Business School INSEAD.
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Headquarters Leipzig, Germany The business areas adjacent to the division trips including finance, insurance, shopping, cars, real estate, media and community. Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden, Chemnitz, Jena, Office Locations Hamburg, Magdeburg, Floh-Seligenthal
Founded 2002
Active Markets Germany
No of Employees 1,500
Business overview German ecommerce company
KPI #1 10m monthly unique users
Website unister.com
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ABE FINKELSTEIN | VINTAGE INVESTMENT PARTNERS General Partner
SPEAKER BIO
Before joining Vintage Investment Partners in 2003, Abe was an equity analyst with Goldman Sachs covering Israel-based technology companies in a wide variety of sectors. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Abe was Vice-President at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Before joining Piper, he was an Associate at Brown Brothers Harriman covering the enterprise software and Internet sectors. Abe began his career at Josephthal, Lyon and Ross. Abe graduated Magna Cum Laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics and concentration in Finance.
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Headquarters Herzliya, Israel Founded in 2003, Vintage Investment Partners is a leading technology-focused secondary, fund-of-funds and late-stage firm in Israel, Europe, and the U.S.. Founded 2003 Vintage actively buys shares of private technology companies from angels, ex-founders and Active Markets Europe, Israel, US ex-employees, and provides companies with liquidity schemes for their existing managements Business Overview Fund-of-funds and late-stage fund and employees. Vintage also purchases limited partnership interests in venture capital funds.
Key Investments Yotpo, Samanage In addition, Vintage invests in leading venture capital funds and co-invests in high-growth late- stage companies. Website vintage-ip.com
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MIGUEL MCKELVEY | WEWORK Co-Founder & CCO
SPEAKER BIO
Miguel McKelvey is a Chief Creative Officer & Co-Founder at WeWork. Earning his degree in architecture and graduating Magna Cum Laude from The University of Oregon, McKelvey has had a successful track record as both a designer and entrepreneur.
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Headquarters New York, NY, USA WeWork is an American company which provides shared workspace, community, and services for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and small businesses. Founded in 2010, it is New York City, Brooklyn, London, Los Office Locations Angeles, Austin, Amsterdam, Chicago, Miami headquartered in New York City. As of March 2015, WeWork had 29 coworking locations in 10 cities around the world with plans to expand to 60 locations by fall 2015. Founded 2010 WeWork designs and builds physical and virtual communities in which entrepreneurs share space and office services and have the opportunity to work together. The company’s 20,000- Active Markets US, Europe some members have access to health insurance, an internal social network, social events and No of Employees 250 workshops, and an annual summer retreat.
Business overview Space, community and services for business
Website wework.com
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PETER SCHMID | WERLIEFERTWAS CEO
SPEAKER BIO
Since August 2012 Peter F. Schmid has been CEO and shareholder of “Wer liefert was”. He brings more than 17 years of Internet experience gained in various leading positions. He was CEO of PARSHIP GmbH, the leading online matchmaking service in Europe. From 2006 to 2009, as CEO of mobile.international GmbH, he led, among others, Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace mobile.de. At the same time, Schmid acted as Vice President and Member of the management team at eBay Classifieds Group, which supports classified advertising markets in over 20 countries. From 2001 to 2005 he was Managing Director of AutoScout24 and founded Scout24 Media. Schmid started his career at the end of the nineties with Procter & Gamble and holds an MBA from LMU in Munich.
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Headquarters Hamburg, Germany “Wer liefert was” is the leading supplier search engine in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 24 million visits (IVW checked) making it the most-visited website for B2B purchases. About Office Locations Hamburg 530,000 suppliers, producers, distributors and service providers get in touch with 1.6 million Founded 1932 genuine buyers every month on wlw.de, wlw.at and wlw.ch. Being a specialist in searching for suppliers wlw saves buyers and others looking for suppliers in the B2B segment additional Active Markets Europe time-consuming research. The range of wlw services is free of charge for buyers and as a No of Employees 200 basic profile for advertisers.
Business overview Supplier search engine for B2B products
KPI #1 1.6m monthly genuine buyers
KPI #2 24m website visits a year
KPI #3 530k suppliers categorized by 47k categories
Growing Revenue: Between €35m – €40m in Key Financials 2015, EBITDA: Double digit profitability rate
Key Investors Paragon Partners / Nordic Mezzanine
Ownership Paragon Partners / Nordic Mezzanine Structure
Website wlw.com 99 Social & Games
JAN MICZAIKA | WOOGA COO
SPEAKER BIO
Jan is COO at Wooga, one of the most popular developers of mobile games in the world. Together with his team he is responsible to grow Wooga’s games to become global successes, which includes Marketing, PR, Media Sales, Business & Corporate Development, Platform Partnerships, Operations and Internationalisation. Jan has always been passionate about the startup scene, worked at various startups, venture capitalists and a private equity fund before he joined and today still serves as board member of Hitmeister, an e-commerce marketplace he co-founded in 2004.
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Headquarters Berlin, Germany Founded in 2009, Wooga has become one of the most popular developers of mobile games in the world. Based in Berlin, employees from more than 40 nations develop high quality free-to- Office Locations Berlin, Tokyo play games for a global audience. Wooga’s focus is on creating regular hits such as Jelly Splash, Pearl’s Peril and Diamond Dash. Over 50 million people play Wooga’s games every Founded 2009 month across multiple platforms. No of Employees 300
Active Markets Worldwide
Business Overview Game developer
Recent Milestones Opened Tokyo office in 2014
KPI #1 50m monthly average users
Highland Capital, Balderton Capital, Key Investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tenaya Capital
Website wooga.com
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