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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Munich, Germany
Office Locations
Munich, Germany
Founded
1986
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Strategic investment arm of
ProSiebenSat.1 Group
Key Portfolio
Companies
Valmano, Flaconi, moebel.de
Website
7commerce.de
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.
Through our participation model Media-for-Equity our portfolio companies receive advertising
time for an equity stake. With over 80 investments and partnerships in the past three years in
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,
as well as eCommerce process and project know-how. The marketing power of TV, as well as
crossmedia concepts, business operations, knowledge sharing, traffic-management and the
joint usage of infrastructures will help start-ups to grow and rise further and to become a
strong player in the market.
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Venture Capital
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Munich, Germany
Office Locations
Munich, Germany
Founded
1986
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Strategic investment arm of
ProSiebenSat.1 Group
Key Portfolio
Companies
Valmano, Flaconi, moebel.de
Website
7commerce.de
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.
Through our participation model Media-for-Equity our portfolio companies receive advertising
time for an equity stake. With over 80 investments and partnerships in the past three years in
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,
as well as eCommerce process and project know-how. The marketing power of TV, as well as
crossmedia concepts, business operations, knowledge sharing, traffic-management and the
joint usage of infrastructures will help start-ups to grow and rise further and to become a
strong player in the market.
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Venture Capital
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
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
New York, NY, USA
Office Locations
London, Moscow, New York
Founded
1986
Active Markets
US, Europe, South America
Business Overview
Industrial group with holdings worldwide
Key Portfolio
Companies
Lazada Group, Deezer, WestWing, Gett
Website
accessindustries.com
Access Industries is a privately held industrial group with long-term holdings worldwide. Fund’s
industrial focus spans three sectors:
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Natural Resources and Chemicals
Media and Telecommunications
Real Estate
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
South America. We have corporate offices in New York, London and Moscow.
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Advertising
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Mannheim, Germany
Office Locations
Berlin, Hamburg, Zurich
Founded
2009
No of Employees
70
Active Markets
DACH, Netherlands, UK
Business Overview
Marketing technology
Recent Milestones
World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
2014
Selected Clients
Vodafone, Opodo, Ebay, Zalando
Website
adtelligence.de
Adtelligence is a globally expanding, venture capital financed, ecommerce & marketing
technology company. The Adtelligence personalization and customer intelligence solutions
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
Economic Forum.
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
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
CRM-systems. The diverse team at Adtelligence, consisting of more than 80 employees with
over 30 different nationalities, supports the personalisation capabilities of clients worldwide.
The digital marketing specialists, innovators, developers, ecommerce and social media
experts work on sites in Mannheim (HQ), Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, London, New York and
Silicon Valley.
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Ecommerce & Retail
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Office Locations
Berlin, London, San Francisco, Stockholm,
Madrid, Paris, Singapore
Founded
2006
No of Employees
250
Active Markets
Worldwide
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
Key Investors
General Atlantic, Temasek,
Index Ventures
Website
adyen.com
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
experience, streamline processes and ultimately increase revenue, Adyen enables businesses
to process payments across online, mobile and Point-of-Sale (POS) with over 250 payment
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
3,500 businesses and four of the five largest U.S. Internet companies, including well-known
brands such as Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, Spotify, Groupon, Evernote, Booking.com,
Viagogo, Yelp, Vodafone, Mango, Netflix, O’Neill, SoundCloud, KLM and JustFab.
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Digital Services
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Herzliya, Israel
Office Locations
Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Sydney
Founded
2011
No of Employees
80
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Mobile advertising measurement platform
Recent Milestones
Became one of the first members of Fiksu's
Preferred Partner Program for Mobile Ad
Campaign Tracking
Selected Clients
Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, Bing, iAd
Website
appsflyer.com
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
user acquisition process across all media sources including paid, organic, viral and social.
AppsFlyer’s NativeTrack™ technology provides a universal, independent authority that is
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.
As an official Facebook Mobile Measurement Partner & Twitter Official Partner, AppsFlyer is a
one stop shop for any mobile advertiser providing unbiased attribution, mobile campaign
analytics, in-app user engagement, lifetime value analysis, ROI and retargeting.
AppsFlyer is passionate about building a technology that will enable marketers to get the most
out of their mobile marketing campaigns, allowing them to work their magic to the fullest.
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Advertising
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Tel Aviv, Israel
Office Locations
Delaware, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Riga, Latvia
Founded
2015
No of Employees
20
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
System for rating hospitals
Website
archimedicx.com
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
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
procedures and treatments.
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Venture Capital
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London, Beijing, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Istanbul
Founded
2006
Business Overview
Venture Capital Investor
Website
atomico.com
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
Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, Atomico has made over 50 investments over four
continents, including Skype, Supercell, Klarna, Truecaller, ZocDoc and The Climate
Corporation, with an exclusive focus on the technology sector.
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Ecommerce & Retail
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
2012
No of Employees
1,800
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Pan-European car market maker
Recent Milestones
$500m funding round to enter new markets
Selected Clients
N/A
Website
auto1-group.com
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
2014 former Groupon SVP Chris Muhr joined the team as co-founder and Chief Operating
Officer.
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
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.
The U.S. business which has been established in January is showing similarly strong traction
with USD 25M annualized run rate.
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.
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Classifieds
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
1946
No of Employees
13,917
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Media company engaged in publishing
newspapers, magazines and digital sales
channels.
Recent Milestones
Acquired Business Insider for $450m in
September 2015
Website
axelspringer.de
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.
One of Europe's largest media companies also started off in a kind of garage. Axel Springer
founded his publishing house in Hamburg in 1946; the editors spent the first year working
above a warehouse for tea and spices, often without electricity and using borrowed
typewriters.
As a result of consistent internationalization and digitization, Axel Springer SE today is not
only market leader in the German print business, but is also active in more than 40 countries
through subsidiaries, joint ventures and licenses.
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Dating
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London, Moscow, 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
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
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.
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Marketplaces
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
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Paris, France
Office Locations
Madrid, Milan, London, Hamburg, Warsaw,
Moscow, Istanbul
Founded
2006
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
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
entirely new, people powered, transport network. With a dedicated customer service, a state of
the art web and mobile platform, and a fast-growing community of users, BlaBlaCar is making
travel social, money saving and more efficient for millions of members around the world.
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Digital Services
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London, New York, San Francisco, Mountain
View, Los Angeles, Chicago, Amsterdam,
Istanbul, Delhi, Singapore, Tokyo
Founded
2011
No of Employees
250+
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Shaping the way people connect with the
world
Recent Milestones
Ranked number 19 in CNBC’s Top 50
Disruptor list in May 2015
Key Investors
Qualcomm Ventures
Selected Clients
Condé Nast, TIME Inc., Unilever, Procter &
Gamble, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Heinz, Coca-Cola,
Anheuser Busch, Disney, General Mills,
Website
blippar.com
Blippar is the leading visual discovery app, harnessing augmented reality and imagerecognition technology to bring the physical world to life through smartphones. Once the
Blippar app is downloaded, people can blipp ("scan") objects they’re curious about and unlock
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
world, including Condé Nast, TIME Inc., Unilever, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Heinz,
Coca-Cola, Anheuser Busch, L'Oréal, Universal Pictures and Jaguar.
Blippar now has 11 offices in the world including London, San Francisco, NYC, Istanbul, Delhi,
Singapore and Tokyo, and over 250+ employees.
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SaaS & Big Data
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
Office Locations
Hamburg, Germany, London, United Kingdom
Founded
2008
Business Overview
Enterprise SaaS
Active Markets
EMEA, US
No. of employees
150
KPI #1
99,5% automation for replenishment
processes
KPI #2
5%-10% lift for price optimization
KPI #3
6x reduction of out of stock rate
Selected
Clients/Partners
Customers: Otto, Kaufland, DM
Recent Milestones
September 2015: Technology Review: 50
smartest companies in Germany 2015
May 2015: Gartner Cool Vendor in Data
Science
Dec 2014: €75m Investment by Warburg
Pincus
Website
blue-yonder.com/en/
As a leading SaaS provider of predictive applications in the European market Blue Yonder
combines excellent software development with the latest data science and a unique cloudbased platform for predictive applications.
We enable companies to automate processes based on precise predictive decisions. Business
processes can be made considerably more effective, for example in sales planning,
dispatching, or pricing.
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Venture Capital
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, USA
Office Locations
San Francisco, New York, Tel Aviv
Founded
1991
Active Markets
US, Israel
Business Overview
Venture Capital Investor
Key Portfolio
Companies
Fairfly, Kreditech, Hootsuite
Notable Exits
Creo, DSP Group, Nolio
Website
blumbergcapital.com
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
markets through innovation and build successful companies. The team has extensive
experience collaborating with companies in Financial Services, Security, Enterprise Software
and SaaS, Digital and Social Media, Mobile and Consumer Internet. Relevant operational
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
members and advisors in Tel Aviv and New York.
Blumberg Capital specializes in leading Seed and Series A rounds in syndication with angels,
venture capital firms and strategic investors. Typical investments range from $500,000 to $3
million with additional amounts reserved for follow-on investments.
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Ecommerce & Retail
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Office Locations
Berlin, Munich, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles,
Paris, Barcelona, São Paulo, Mexico
Founded
2008
No of Employees
330
Active Markets
USA, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark,
Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile
Business Overview
Global shopping platform
Recent Milestones
Launched in Sweden, Denmark, Norway in Q3/2015
KPI #1
+3k active key account retailer relationships
KPI #2
+1k active retail key account clients
KPI #3
+1.2m qualified point of sale retail data points in
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 /
Partners
Media Markt, Saturn, Decathlon, Real, OBI, C&A, Netto,
Conrad, Hornbach, Target, Kohl’s, Toys “R” Us
Ownership Structure
27.5% Founders, 72.5% Axel Springer SE
Website
bonial.com
The Bonial.com Group is building the premier ecosystem to make shopping discovery easier
and more efficient for consumers and retailers. As the favorite shopping companion for
consumers to plan a trip to the store, Bonial.com created a global category with retail
promotions at its core. It has been offering professional solutions for high street retail in the
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
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
websites in USA, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Brazil, Mexico,
Colombia and Chile. With more than 22 million active users per month and 1,000 retail clients,
the Bonial.com Group is the global market leader in this category.
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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
Office Locations
Stuttgart, Berlin, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco
Founded
2005
No of Employees
+300
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Social media monitoring for online content
Key Investors
Highland Capital Partners Europe, Nauta
Capital
Selected Clients
Whole Foods, Whirpool, PepsiCo, Dell
Website
brandwatch.com
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
tools to analyze them, empowering brands and agencies to make smarter, data-driven
business decisions.
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
Brandwatch platform is used by over 1000 brands and agencies, including Whole Foods,
Whirlpool, Pepsico, British Airways, Papa John’s, and Dell.
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Digital Services
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London
Founded
2008
No of Employees
35
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
The language learning community
Business model
Freemium
Recent Milestones
Series B Round
KPI #1
Several Million Monthly Visits
Key Investors
Johann Hansmann, Rogan Angelini-Hurll,
Brent Hoberman, Martin Varsavsky, McGraw
Hill Education
Selected Clients
McGraw Hill Education
Website
busuu.com
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
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
allows members to improve their language skills. They can use an integrated video-chat
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.
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
TechCrunch.
The name busuu comes from a language of Cameroon: according to an ethnological study
from the 1980’s, only 8 people in the world speak Busuu.
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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
Office Locations
20 Countries in Asia, Africa, Middle East and
Latin America
Founded
2013
No of Employees
420
Active Markets
20
Business Overview
World’s Fastest Growing Car Classifieds
Recent Milestones
Launched an iOS app, secured a $25 million
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
Key Investors
Asia Pacific Internet Group (a joint venture
between Rocket Internet and Ooredoo),
Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures
Website
carmudi.com
Carmudi is an online car classifieds that allows you to sell or buy your car, motorcycle or
commercial vehicle in the fastest possible way. You can search, compare, and purchase over
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
Latin America.
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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
Office Locations
Karlsruhe
Founded
2003
No of Employees
50
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Internet marketplace for luxury watches
KPI #1
8m visits per month
Key Investors
Insight Venture Partners
Website
chrono24.com
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
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
previously-owned timepieces, from the traditional Omega costing a few hundred Euro, to the
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
establishment.
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SaaS & Big Data
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
Office Locations
New York, London, Sydney, Tel Aviv,
Barcelona
Founded
2012
No of Employees
100
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
SaaS-based big data platform for advertisers
Key Investors
Cedar Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Marker
Website
datorama.com
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
them up and provide advanced analytics / predictive analytics. By easily integrating marketing
channels and creating a Marketing specific data models, they offer a new way of Marketing
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,
discovery of new revenue streams, suggestions for action and discovery of wasted budget.
Datorama tracks the consumer’s touch points with the brand across channels, providing true
cross channel analytics.
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
Office Locations
Berlin, Zossen
Founded
2014
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Venture Capital Investor
Website
davidson-capital.com
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,
featuring both debt and equity components, customized for young and growing tech
companies
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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
Office Locations
Berlin, Madrid, Strasbourg, Warsaw
Founded
2006
No of Employees
200
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Online marketplace for handmade products
Recent Milestones
Undisclosed amount of funding in January
2015
KPI #1
3m members
KPI #2
10k daily new products
KPI #2
3.5m products for sale
Key Investors
Point Nine Capital, Piton Capital, Holtzbrinck
Ventures
Website
dawanda.com
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
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
220,000 designers offer over 3.5 million products for sale, with ca. 10,000 new products added
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
the German language Startup-Monitor of ethority GmbH & Co.KG, DaWanda was elected
several times as the favourite startup of internet users.
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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
Office Locations
Europe, USA
Founded
2006
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Online platform and app that provides songs
from a variety of genres
Recent Milestones
Going public on 30th Oct 2015
KPI #1
40k news
KPI #2
35m music tracks
KPI #2
6.3m total subscribers
Website
deezer.com
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
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,
Deezer's global editorial team searches for the best music around the world and its algorithmic
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
or smart TV.
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
for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows devices or on the web at deezer.com globally outside
the US.
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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
Office Locations
London
Founded
2012
No of Employees
250
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Delivery platform forrestaurant meals
Recent Milestones
$70m Series C funding in July 2015
Key Investors
Accel Partners, Hoxton Ventures, Index
Ventures
Website
deliveroo.co.uk
Deliveroo is a technology company focused on marketing, selling and delivering restaurant
meals to the household or office.
Deliveroo’s technology platform optimizes food ordering and delivery by integrating web and
mobile consumers with restaurant tablet-based point-of-sale order management terminals and
our logistics optimization algorithm via our delivery driver smartphone software.
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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
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
2005
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Late-stage internetinvestment firm
Key Portfolio
Companies
AUTO1 Group, Slack, Xiaomi, Flipkart
Website
dst-global.com
DST Global (Digital Sky Technologies) is a growth focused investment company specializing
in late-stage, high-growth, private companies in the global Internet industry.
The company has pioneered a model to provide liquidity to founders, employees and early
investors through mixed primary and secondary transactions. These transactions are often
referred to as DST type deals in the Internet world.
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.
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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
Office Locations
Bonn
Founded
2011
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
European venture capital firm
Key Portfolio
Companies
Scanbot, The Golf App, Viovendi
Notable Exits
Wunderlist, myTaxi, kaufDA
Website
e42.com
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
Golf App and Viovendi.
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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
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
2004
No of Employees
1,000
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
The World Leader in Online Classifieds
KPI #1
990m monthly visits
Ownership Structure
Website
Owned by eBay
eBay Classifieds Group is an innovative leader in online classifieds, with twelve brands that
span the Globe.
Our sites help people find whatever they’re looking for in their local communities – whether it’s
a job, an apartment, a sofa, a car, a concert ticket, financial services or new friends. Every
connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share
more and waste less.
People who want to connect and trade visit our sites because they’re fun, easy to use and built
on trust. Twelve unique brands – 2dehands.be/2ememain.be, alaMaula, BilBasen, Close5,
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
around the world.
ebayclassifiedsgroup.com
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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
Office Locations
Istanbul
Founded
2008
No of Employees
55
Active Markets
Turkey
Business Overview
Flight ticket sales, finance products lead
generation
Recent Milestones
ENUYGUN became an IATA agency in summer
2015
KPI #1
Monthly flight ticket sales: 150k +
KPI #2
Daily airfare comparisons: 500k +
KPI #3
Monthly finance leads: 150k
Key Investors
R2 International (Rocket Internet, Investment
Kinnevik AB)
Selected
Clients/Partners
All airlines and GDSs, leading banks in Turkey
Ownership structure
51% Çağlar & Nihan Erol, 49% R2 International
Website
enuygun.com
Enuygun is the leading comparison site in Turkey focusing on travel and finance. With 7,5
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.
Enuygun is Turkey’s biggest OTA in number of online flight ticket sales per month, and also
the biggest finance comparison engine in number of leads.
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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
Headquarters
Brussels, Belgium
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
No of Departments
24
No of Employees
23 000
Website
ec.europa.eu
The European Commission (EC) is the executive body of the European Union responsible for
proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the
day-to-day business of the EU. Commissioners swear an oath at the European Court of
Justice in Luxembourg, pledging to respect the treaties and to be completely independent in
carrying out their duties during their mandate.
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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
Founded
2001
Exciting Commerce is dedicated to business innovation in e-commerce. We (dis)cover new
business models and exciting new e-commerce companies.
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Business intelligence platform for ecommerce
Website
excitingcommerce.de
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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
Office Locations
Milan
Founded
2008
No of Employees
+400
Active Markets
Italy
Business Overview
Italy's largest insurance aggregator
Recent Milestones
Purchase of Mutui.it (March 2015)
€34m refinancing (May 2015)
KPI #1
Monthly contracts: 80k- 90k contracts
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 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.
Facile.it is a customer acquisition channel for providers and offers Italian households a way to
save time and money.
Since beginning TV advertising in 2011, Facile.it has become a household brand that helps
customers to save money on household expenses.
facile.it
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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
Office Locations
Europe, North America, Australia
Founded
2009
No of Employees
250
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Multiple property services website
Website
fantasticservices.com
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
market grew. Initially, Fantastic focused on specialised cleaning jobs, which included seasonal
cleaning, end of tenancy, oven and upholstery cleaning.
Currently, the company already operates across three continents – Europe, North America
and Australia, although its main focus remains on London and the South East. In order to
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
franchisees alike.
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”.
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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
Office Locations
Berlin, Beijing, San Francisco, Bangalore, Sao
Paulo
Founded
2008
No of Employees
120
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Digital marketing and mobile advertising
Recent Milestones
Website
Acquired by Market Tech Holdings
in March 2015
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
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
and web users with our multichannel offerings driving quality engagement, increasing
customer lifetime value and impacting the bottom-line.
Since 2008, glispa has pioneered new technologies to achieve the highest levels of efficiency
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
and 24 languages.
glispa.com
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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
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
2011
No of Employees
10,000
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Fashion ecommerce for emerging markets
Selected
Clients/Partners
Key Investors
Website
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
market and over 2.5bn people who rapidly continue to move online and purchase via ecommerce. 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
experience, including last mile delivery networks where necessary. Global Fashion Group was
founded in 2011 by Swedish Investment AB Kinnevik and German Rocket Internet SE.
+3k international, regional and inhouse brands
Rocket Internet, Kinnevik
global-fashion-group.com
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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 startedoff 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
Office Locations
New York, Berlin
Founded
2015
No of Employees
120
Active Markets
USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
UK
Business Overview
Virtual assistant provider
Recent Milestones
$8m series A funding in July 2015
KPI #1
+250k users
KPI #2
+1m requests served
KPI #3
Growing >50% monthly
Key Investors
Website
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
takes the time and inconvenience out of everyday tasks, fulfilling on-demand requests, from
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
reasonable costs. The service saves users valuable time, getting them the things they need,
when they want them, all conveniently via text message. To start, simply text GO to 25400.
GoButler is currently available nationwide in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany,
Austria and Switzerland.
General Catalyst Partners, Lakestar, Global
Founders Capital, Slow Ventures, BoxGroup,
Sound Ventures and Cherry Ventures
gobutler.com
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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
Founded
2013
No of Employees
55
Active Markets
Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia
KPI #1
7.5m users
Key Investors
Website
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
to meet – yet! The homepage is a timeline of all the people you’ve encountered: every time
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
avoid all missed connections. It now boasts close to 8 million users on 4 continents.
Alven Capital, Idinvest, DN Capital, Raine
Ventures
happn.com
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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
Office Locations
Paris, Amsterdam, London
Founded
2014
No of Employees
Around 300 for Helpling, plus 50 for Hassle.com
Active Markets
France, Netherlands, Germany, UK
Business Overview
Online marketplace for household services
Recent Milestones
Acquisition of Hassle.com
Launch of cleaner app in Germany
Series B Funding
KPI #1
More than 150k households served
KPI #2
More than 10k cleaners receive cleaning jobs
through the platform
Key Investors
Lakestar, Kite Ventures, Mangrove Capital
Partners, Lukasz Gadowski, Rocket Internet,
Phenomen Ventures, Point Nine Capital
Selected
Clients/Partners
Unilever, PayPal, UBER, Vildea, VISA
Website
helpling.de
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
within a couple of clicks. For cleaners, the innovative online service makes it easier than ever
to access new clients and to manage when and where they want to work.
Helpling was founded by Benedikt Franke, Philip Huffmann and Rocket Internet in January
2014. Since then the company has raised 56.5 million Euros from investors such as Mangrove
Capital Partners, Phenomen Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Lukasz Gadowski, Lakestar and
Kite Ventures.
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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
Office Locations
Munich
Founded
2000
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
German early stage fund
Key Portfolio
Companies
Zalando, Auctionata, Carmudi, Lamudi, Wooga
Notable Exits
Groupon, CityDeal, DaWanda
Website
holtzbrinck-ventures.com
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
companies. Holtzbrinck Ventures seek founders who share their passion for growth and
innovation and who want to achieve excellence working as a team.
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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
Office Locations
London
Founded
2013
Active Markets
Canada, Sweden, UK, Germany, India, US
Business Overview
German early stage fund
Key Portfolio
Companies
Deliveroo, SuperAwesome, Yieldify
Notable Exits
Groupon, CityDeal, DaWanda
Website
hoxtonventures.com
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
industries and invent new ones.
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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
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
1995
No of Employees
5,000
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Media company with 150+ brands
Key Financials
Key Investments
Website
$3.1bn revenue (2014)
$379m operating income (2014)
LiveSafe, Aereo, HealthCentral, MerchantCircle
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
the areas of search, applications, online dating, media and eCommerce, IAC’s family of
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
December 2004, Expedia split from IAC as a separate publicly traded company. In December
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
Group and Tree.com.
IAC's notable acquisitions include, among others, The About Group, OkCupid, Meetic,
Connected Ventures, Ask Jeeves, TripAdvisor, LendingTree and remaining interest in
Ticketmaster, Expedia and Hotels.com, Expedia, Match.com, Citysearch.
iac.com
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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
Office Locations
Rome
Founded
2005
Active Markets
Italy
Business Overview
Network of property portal websites in Italy
KPI #1
5m monthly visitors
KPI #2
600k online ads
Website
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
of sites includes: Immobiliare.it , the leading property portal in Italy. eureKasa.it , specialized
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
House24ore.it , a specialist site for luxury homes, in partnership with the leading financial
newspaper IlSole24ORE
immobiliare.it
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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
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Multi-stage international venture capital firm
Key Investments
Adyen, BlaBlaCar, Criteo, Deliveroo,
Flipboard, Flipagram, Fon
Notable Exits
Facebook, King, last.fm
Website
indexventures.com
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
reshaping the world around us, including: Dropbox, Etsy, Sonos, SoundCloud, Flipboard, King,
BlaBlaCar, Squarespace, Just Eat, Lookout, Hortonworks, Nasty Gal, Pure Storage, Supercell,
Criteo, Funding Circle and many others.
Index is built on the sturdy foundation of a tight-knit collaborative partnership that retains a
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
partnerships’ collective experience and expertise to our portfolio entrepreneurs.
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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
Office Locations
New York
Founded
2007
No of Employees
200+
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
International online news website
KPI #1
1.2m Facebook fans
KPI #2
38k Twitter followers
KPI #3
35m monthly visits
Website
The Inquisitr is an internationally recognized news website read by more than 30 million
unique visitors each month.
We offer the latest trending news in an array of topics and are committed to excellence with
every piece we publish.
Our more than 1 million social media followers look to The Inquisitr for the latest news and
happenings every day.
Our management team is constantly looking for ways to make The Inquisitr your preferred
source for news.
inquisitr.com
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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
Office Locations
3
Founded
2003
No of Employees
About 400
Active Target
Markets
Europe
Target Segment
Bike and outdoor
Key Investors
EQT
Key Financials
Revenues €113.7m (2014)
Website
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,
CAMPZ, fahrrad.de, Brügelmann and Bikeunit make up internetstores comprehensive
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
VOTEC.
The company was founded by René Marius Köhler in 2003. Today the company employs
about 400 workers (=actual number of people) at its offices in Esslingen/Neckar, Berlin and
Stockholm and generated revenue of over €113 million in 2014. Revenue is expected to be in
the region of €140 million in 2015.
internetstores.de
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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
Office Locations
Madrid, Spain; Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded
2007
No of Employees
100+
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Financial news portal
Monthly Visits
22m
KPI #1
220m monthly page views
KPI #2
Top 10 in Finance & Investing category
globally
KPI #3
5.3m Unique visitors in 2014
(30% growth YoY)
Website
Investing.com
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
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,
Commodities, Currencies, Interest Rates, Futures and Options. Founded in 2007,
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 onestop source for its readers.
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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
Office Locations
Berlin, London
Founded
2008
No of Employees
300
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
B2B lead generation platform
Recent Milestones
KPglobal brand launch and expansion to other
European countries - UK, France, Belgium,
Austria and Switzerland
Key Financials
Revenues €21m in 2014
EBITDA €0.8m in 2014
Website
kaeuferportal.de
Kaeuferportal is a B2B Lead Generation platform targeting the German market for SMEs.
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
from independent local suppliers. This allows for a qualified purchasing decision, saving time
and money. This service is provided free of charge.
Leveraging the reach of the internet, procurement requests are aggregated. Suppliers pay per
lead with no fixed costs involved.
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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
Office Locations
Stockholm, Barcelona, Bucharest, Malmö,
London, San Francisco, Malta
Founded
2003
No of Employees
1,400
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Social games developer
KPI #1
Key Investors
Website
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,
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
serves as chairman. The company has 1400 employees and parcels development out to
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,
King completed its initial public offering (IPO). Priced at $22.50 a share, the middle of its
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.
324m average monthly unique users
Went public in March 2014
king.com
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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
Office Locations
New York, San Francisco, London
Founded
2011
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
RTB optimization platform
Key Clients
Moneysupermarket.com, RealitySteve.com,
Americanlivewire.com
Website
komoona.com
Komoona is a dynamic yield optimization platform working across all major RTB exchanges
and demand sources, to ensure maximum revenue for our publishers.
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
and optimize against, in order to maximize revenues in today’s programmatic environment.
Using a simple JS tag, our 360° platform connects you to the entire programmatic eco system,
so you don’t need to.
Komoona optimizes billions of impressions for publishers in the US and globally and is
growing fast.
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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
Office Locations
Moscow
Founded
2008
Active Markets
Russia
Business Overview
Russian online fashion retailer
Recent Milestones
Key Investors
Website
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,
with 6 million customers. The online fashion retailer hosts up to 20 private online flash sales
every day.
KupiVIP was launched in 2008 by Vladimir Kholyaznikov, Mikhail Konoplev, and Oskar
Hartmann. It is based in Moscow, Russia.
Acquisition of footwear retailer Sapato.ru
Intel Capital, MCI Management
kupivip.ru
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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
No of Employees
5
Active Markets
US, Europe
Target Criteria
Internet companies in seed and early stages
that can achieve global scale quickly
Key Investments
Algomi, Taulia, Sofi, Onefootball
Notable Exits
Facebook, Spotify, Skype
Website
lakestar.com
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
marquee brand names, such as Facebook, Spotify, and Skype.
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
to investing alongside stellar management teams. Lakestar strongly believes that the key to
successful investing is not just in finding the next marquee Internet brand – but in helping
create it.
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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
Office Locations
34 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East
and Latin America
Founded
2013
No of Employees
600
Active Markets
34
Business Overview
Real estate advertising platform and property
portal
Recent Milestones
Latin America and Asia operations received
EUR 21 million in investment to date, including
EUR 16 million in February 2015; launched in
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
Website
Launched in 2013, Lamudi is a global property portal focusing exclusively on emerging
markets. The fast-growing platform is currently available in 34 countries in Asia, the Middle
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
secure and easy-to-use platform to find or list properties online.
Rocket Internet
lamudi.com
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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
Office Locations
Berlin, Dresden
Founded
2011
No of Employees
130
Active Markets
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, United
Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil
Business Overview
App for dating & meeting new people
Website
lovoo.com
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,
United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy and Brazil. About 20m users use Lovoo’s mobile
application on iOS and Android.
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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
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London, New York
Founded
2010
No of Employees
120
Active Markets
70% US, 20% Europe and 10% APAC
Recent Milestones
$40m Series C funding in April 2015
Key Investors
Accel Partners, Balderton, DFJ, 14W and the
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 /
Partners
Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander Wang, Burberry,
Saks, Lane Crawford, Neiman Marcus
Website
Launched in 2011 in London, Lyst connects 25 million shoppers globally with over 11,000
designers and stores. Significantly, Lyst was the first to launch a universal cart in the fashion
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
300% year-on-year for the past three years.
lyst.com
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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
Active Markets
Europe, US, Canada, India
Key Investments
Lesara, Happify, Apester
Website
mangrove.vc
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
growth. Its mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful
advice, relevant experience, and industry relationships to their portfolio companies.
Mangrove seeks to invest in internet and software businesses with a focus on online services,
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.
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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
Office Locations
Berlin, New York, Sydney
No of Employees
150
Founded
2014
Active Markets
Germany, Netherlands, UK, Austria, Australia,
USA
Business Overview
Ingredients and recipes delivery
Key Investors
Website
Global Founders Capital, Lakestar
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
to cook and we deliver the recipes and all the ingredients you need. We use technology to reinvent 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
problems in taste profiling, behavior prediction and real-time logistics.
But in the end it's simple: We started Marley Spoon because we love cooking and we love
eating.
Marley Spoon is currently serving customers in Europe, Australia and the USA.
marleyspoon.com
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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
Founded
1999
No of Employees
25
Active Markets
CEE, DACH countries, Russia and Turkey
Target Segment
E-commerce, digital entertainment, mobile
Internet, TMT, IoT, Fintech, BigData, Cloud
Computing, Infrastructure, debt financing
Business Overview
Private equity firm
Recent Milestones
Listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2001,
over 500 M EUR assets under management
Selected Clients /
Partners
Cooperation with several European investment
funds: Intel Capital, DN Capital, Mangroove, etc.
Ownership
50% Tomasz Czechowicz, 20% institutional
investors, 30% freefloat
Website
mci.eu
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
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
60 investment projects and near 30 full exits. Since 1999 MCI generated net IRR at the level
of 20-25%. MCI Management SA is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since February
2001.
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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
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
1926
No of Employees
~17,000
Active Target
Markets
Worldwide
Key Financials
$7.8bn revenues in 2013
Website
mckinsey.com
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm, the trusted advisor to the
world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions.
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
businesses, governments, and institutions. It also provides industry practice solutions and
functional practice solutions. Its industry practice solutions include advanced electronics,
chemicals, metal and mining, electrical power, consumer goods, and more. Its functional
practice solutions include business technology, corporate finance and sales, operations, and
other related areas.
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. Eightyseven years later, the firm has grown into a global partnership serving two-thirds of the
Fortune 1000.
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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
Office Locations
Paris; Le Havre; 223 franchise branches in
France
Founded
1999
No of Employees
150 in Paris & Le Havre, 764 in franchise
branches
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
comparison site, broker & financial advisor
KPI #1 (Avg.2015)
2m visitors on website per month with 90% free
traffic
KPI #2 (Est. 2015)
Credit production 7b€
KPI #3 (Est. 2015)
Consolidated Revenues well over 100m€ ; +50%
growth over 2014
Website
www.meilleurtaux.com
Meilleurtaux.com, created in 1999, is the leading web + mobile-focused comparison site,
broker and independent financial advisor for retail lending and related personal financial
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
combination of information, comparison, and brokerage services is provided to visitors and
clients.
Beyond web and mobile visits, applications and quotes, brokerage services are provided by 80
telephone financial advisors and 223 franchised branches throughout France.
Meilleurtaux.com has signed partnership agreements with over 110 banks and crowdfunders,
as well as 12 major insurance companies.
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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
Office Locations
More than 2,000 stores in 30 countries
Founded
METRO AG: 1996; METRO Cash & Carry: 1964
No of Employees
Around 230,000
Active Target Markets
30 countries in Europe and Asia
Target segment
Wholesale and Retail
Recent milestones
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
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
(Revenues, EBITDA)
Sales (FY 2013/14): €63.035 bn,
EBIT before special items (FY 2013/14): €1.727 bn
Ownership structure
Publicly listed company; major shareholders are the shareholder
groups Haniel with 24.996% of the voting rights, SchmidtRuthenbeck with 15.772% and Beisheim with 9.100% of the voting
rights. The remaining 50.132% are held in free float.
Website
metrogroup.de
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
more than 2,000 stores in 30 countries and has a headcount of around 230,000 employees.
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
international leader in self-service wholesale - Media Markt and Saturn - the European market
leader in consumer electronics retailing and Real hypermarkets.
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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
Headquarters
Madrid, Spain
Office Locations
Madrid, London, Melbourne, Bangalore,
Makati City, Singapore
Founded
2008
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Leading ‘vertical search’ website operator
KPI #1
50m visits
KPI #2
255m aggregated classifieds listings
Website
mitulagroup.com
The Mitula Group is a leading ‘vertical search’ website operator, with a current portfolio of
more than 140 websites in 50+ countries and in 15 languages. Following the acquisition of
Lokku Limited in May 2015, the Mitula Group operates its websites under two main brands,
‘Mitula’ and ‘Nestoria’.
The Mitula Group’s vertical search functionality gives its website users the ability to search
across listings from multiple segments, being real estate, automotive, employment, and, in
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
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
million visits and featured 255 million aggregated classifieds listings from over 13,000
advertisers.
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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
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
1999
No of Employees
500
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Comparison site for financial products
Key Financials
Website
Moneysupermarket.com Group is a British price comparison website-based business
specialising in financial services. The website enables consumers to compare prices on a
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.
The Company derives its revenues from three main sources: money vertical, insurance
vertical, travel vertical.
Revenues $377m (2014)
moneysupermarket.com
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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
Headquarters
Ness Ziona, Israel
Office Locations
Israel
Founded
2011
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Local public transit planner
Key Investors
Website
Moovit is a local public transit planner which features live arrival and departure times, updated
line schedules, local station maps, service alerts, and advisories that may affect someone's
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,
Bogota, Santiago de Chile, Mexico D.F., Sydney, Toronto, Istanbul, Cape Town and Tel Aviv.
The app is free for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone. As of June 2014, the app had 6.5
million users.
Sequoia Capital, BRM Group, Gemini Israel
Funds, LVMH, BMW
moovitapp.com
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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
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London, San Francisco, New York, Berlin,
Istanbul and Mexico D.F.
No of employees
50
Business Overview
Exclusively showing Paul Thomas Anderson’s
latest film Junun on MUBI; Studio
agreements with Sony Pictures and
Paramount;
Website
mubi.com
MUBI is a subscription video on demand service that took film curation to thebnext level by offering just
30 handpicked gems online. Every day one is addedbto the list, and one drops off the bottom. The
quality of the choices means itsbmembers can watch a masterpiece or take a confident chance on a film
theybmay not have heard of.
MUBI is centred around a philosophy of curated quality, rather than excessive choice. It believes
everyone should be watching great cinema and not just be searching for it. MUBI streams everyday cult,
classic and award winning films to members in over 200 territories. Having recently signed deals with
Sony Pictures and Paramount Studios, MUBI recently made ‘Arabian Nights’ its first theatrical
acquisition following its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival.
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.
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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
Founded
2009
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Private sales website
Website
my-store.ch
Webstie offers private sales of major brand names at highly discounted prices (up to 80% off
the retail price).
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,
watches, home decoration, design, items for children, travels, fine dining, etc.
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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
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Pan-European
Founded
2009
No of Employees
14
Active Markets
Europe
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
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
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
most notably closed the $800m sale of Fotolia to Adobe, the sale of Facile.it to Oakley Capital,
the $230m sale of Yad2 to Axel Springer and the €80m sale of Trovit to Next Co.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA, USA
No of Employees
20
Active Markets
Europe, USA, India, China
Target Segment
Connected Enterprise, Connected Car, Mobile
Consumer, Data & Analytics, Local Commerce
Business Overview
VC fund sponsored solely Nokia
Key Investments
UCWeb, Rocket Fuel, Fyber
Website
nokiagrowthpartners.com
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
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
China, NGP extends the reach of companies making their products and services local
everywhere.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Belgrade, Serbia
Office Locations
London
Founded
2010
No of Employees
100
Active Markets
Worldwide
Recent Milestones
Top Eleven reached 100m users in May 2015
KPI #1
Best gaming start-up at Europas awards
KPI #2
Top eleven is Facebook’s most played sports
game
Ownership
Management
Website
nordeus.com
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
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.
Every day, Nordeus team of more than 100 people in Belgrade puts all of their talent into
making 5-star games. Every day, millions of people enjoy what we have created.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Founded
2012
No of Employees
30
Active Markets
Asia-Pacific, LATAM, Europe
Target Segment
FinTech
Business Overview
Builds startups in emerging markets
Key Investments
CompareAsiaGroup, Glasses Global Group
Website
novafounders.com
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
understands how to efficiently grow companies. Nova’s companies receive the continuous
financial and operational support they need to be successful.
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),
www.glassesgroupglobal.com (leading online eyewear retailer in Asia-Pacific).
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Office Locations
Berlin, Sao Paulo
Founded
2012
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
clients/partners
B2C business
Key Investors
Lakestar, Project-A, Alstin, Jahr
Assetmanagement, Black River Ventures
Website
nu3.com
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
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
directly.
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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
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles.
Founded
2010
No of Employees
200
Active Markets
Europe, USA
Recent Milestones
$40M Series D funding in June 2015
Key Investors
PROfounders Capital, Intel Capital, Index
Ventures
Website
onefinestay.com
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
hotel. It allows homeowners to earn an extra, hassle-free income from their house or
apartment at times when it would otherwise stand vacant.
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.
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
iPhone stocked with detailed local tips from the hosts.
The company selects homes carefully, based on their location, availability, character and
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.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Office Locations
Europe
Founded
2012
No of Employees
150
Business Overview
Personal shopping services for men
Recent Milestones
$20m Seriec C funding in March 2015
Key Investors
Holtzbrinck Ventures, Mangrove Capital
Partners, Highland Capital Partners Europe
Website
outfittery.de
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
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.
OUTFITTERY is the leading European Curated Shopping Service and is shipping to 8
countries.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
New York, NY, USA
Office Locations
New York, Tallin
Founded
2010
No of Employees
100
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
CRM software provider
Recent Milestones
$9M Series in May 2015
Key Investors
Bessemer Venture Partners, Rembrandt
Venture Partners, Storm Ventures
Selected Clients
Postmates, Fortumo, Blippar
Website
pipedrive.com
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
SMBs like 360 Services and Richland Source.
Pipedrive's roots are in direct sales. As sales managers and trainers, two of the co-founders
experienced an increasing amount of pain with CRM software. There simply was no good
solution for managing the company's sales pipeline.
So in 2010 they teamed up with talented developers to create Pipedrive, a simple and yet
powerful tool for managing sales.
Pipedrive is used by over 10,000 companies in 100+ countries worldwide.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Founded
2010
No of Employees
5
Active Markets
Worldwide
Target Segment
Online companies with network
effects
Business Overview
Venture capital and growth equity firm
Key Investments
FanDuel, Quandoo
Website
pitoncap.com
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.
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
includes Quandoo, BullionVault, DaWanda, videdressing, docplanner, dutycalculator and
FanDuel.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
New York City, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel
Office Locations
New York City, Tel Aviv, London, Hamburg
Founded
2012
No of Employees
85
Active Markets
Global – highly active throughout North
America, Europe, LATAM, Middle East, Asia
Recent milestones
Series B funding round; launched pilot
campaigns with programmatic advertising and
sponsored content (rev share with
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
Key Investors
Carmel Ventures, 83North, TheTime, Firstime
Venture Capital, Rutledge Vine Capital, Saban
Capital Group, Oded Vardi
Website
playbuzz.com
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
snackable formats that are tailored for the way audiences consume and discover content in
today’s digital world. Playbuzz empowers anyone to seamlessly create, embed and distribute
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
social sharing.
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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
1998
No of Employees
800
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Online travel
Market Cap
$64bn
Key Financials
Achieved revenues of $8.4bn and EBITDA of
$3.5bn in 2014
Ownership
Public
Website
priceline.com
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
- 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
across the globe. Booking.com is the leading online hotel reservation service in the world,
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,
vacation packages and cruises.
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
Office Locations
Considering openings in EU and USA
Founded
2007
No of Employees
82
Recent Milestones
3 apps are preinstalled on Demo devices
in retail Apple Stores,
Featured by Apple as apps for iOS 9,
Top charts on the App Store in
Productivity and Business categories.
KPI #1
40+ million downloads
KPI #2
770K units downloaded in September 2015
alone
KPI #3
8 million monthly active users
Selected Clients /
Partners
Apple, Siemens
Ownership
Privately owned
Website
readdle.com
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.
Applications such as Scanner Pro, Spark, Documents, PDF Expert and Calendars were
downloaded more than 40 million times and continue to deliver innovative personal
productivity experience.
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
Office Locations
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2004, launched 2009
No of Employees
500
Active Markets
Germany, Austria
Busines overview
Buy and sell of preowned goods directly from and to
customers
KPI #1
3.5m monthly visits
KPI #2
+4m customers
KPI #3
+ 2.5m articles in +11 categories
KPI #4
60% CAGR (since Launch 2009)
Selected Clients /
Partners
Business model is mainly C2B2C, but strong focus on
B2B for the future
Recent Milestones
September´15 EBITDA breakeven;
implementation of dynamic pricing;
Key Financials
+ 70m € revenues in ’15 (30% annual sales growth
YoY), EBITDA on Budget Level
Ownership structure
Venture capitalists, founders, business angels
Website
rebuy.de
reBuy was launched in 2009 as the first online shop for pre-owned goods in Europe. reBuy is
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
shoppers and sellers who are completely disillusioned with the eBay C2C experience. Instead
of offering a marketplace, reBuy offers a single point brand for selling and buying pre-owned
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
of 11 categories with strong focus on electronic gadgets. At the moment the company
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
extending its product portfolio and expanding into new countries.
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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
Founded
2007
No of Employees
30k+ employees across its network of
companies
Active Markets
110 countries
Business Overview
Platform that builds internet businesses
Recent Milestones
Went public in Oct 2014
Key portfolio
companies
Delivery Hero, Foodpanda, Helpling
Market
Capitalization
€6.9bn
Ownership
Public
Website
rocket-internet.com
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
them into market leading online companies.
The platform is focused on proven online business models that satisfy basic consumer needs
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
on five continents.
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Paris, France
Office Locations
Paris, New York, London, Berlin, Singapore, Sao Paulo
Founded
2011
No. of employees
+75
Active markets
France, USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico,
APAC markets
Business overview
Mobile ad campaigns analytics platform
Recent milestones
$8m Series A in May 2015, running for MRC accreditation
(due in January 2016)
KPI #1
+1k mobile campaigns per year
KPI #2
+100% growth every year for the last 4 years.
KPI #3
180+ Fortune 500 companies as clients
Selected Clients /
Partners
Clients: Renault, McDonald’s, Audi, Orange, L’Oreal, Axa,
O’Boticario, Subway, Coca Cola
Partners: 800+ certified Adnetworks
Key Investors
BPI, Entrepreneurs Venture
Key Financials
$15m / profitable in France.
Ownership Structure
Founder (Christophe Collet)
Website
s4m.io
S4M is an Analytics & Programmatic Mobile start up created in 2011, providing complete and
flexible solutions to manage Mobile ad campaigns. With its Mobile native technology stack,
including Intelligent Bidding, Mobile Adserving, AdTracking, Media Buying Optimization and
Purchase Funnel Management, S4M identifies the highest yielding ad network, ad placement
or format and generates full analytics for both paid media and organic mobile actions. S4M’s
proprietary Mobile Native stack delivers unique capability in charging clients only for Viewable
Impressions, and Full Transparency on Targeting and Brand Safety. S4M just released its Ad
Verification score which factors the 3 key ares of Viewability/Targeting/Brand Safety into a
metric to become a market reference. S4M’s technology stack is currently under audit by the
US MRC (Media Rating Council) with an aim to become fully accredited in Jan 2016 for
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.
With offices in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Singapore and San Paulo, S4M is a trusted
third-party mobile solution that effectively enables brands, agencies and publishers to more
effectively create, deliver and measure mobile and tablet marketing campaigns.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Oslo, Norway
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
1839
7No of Employees
7,800
Active Markets
Worldwide
Ownership
Blommenholm industrier (26.1%), numer of
financial companies
Website
schibsted.com
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
development of media houses and establishment of online classifieds services.
Strong media houses represent the core of Schibsted’s activities, and its corporate growth
strategy is based on close collaboration between different media channels. Schibsted’s
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
product range is closely aligned with its strong tradition of editorial freedom and ability to adapt
to a media market that is constantly undergoing rapid change.
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
Office Locations
Europe
Founded
1998
No of Employees
1,200
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Digital marketplaces and lead generation
Website
scout24.com
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,
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
seamlessly integrated in everyday life and available anywhere and at any time: from the
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
the best result.
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
Office Locations
Canada, US, Peru, Greece, UK, Ukraine,
Malaysia, Brazil South Korea, Australia
Founded
2001
No of Employees
150
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Electronic voting solutions
Key Investors
Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital, Spinnaker
Invest, Vulcan Capital, SAP Ventures,
Vy Capital, Industry Ventures
Website
scytl.com
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
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
cryptographic protocols that ensure maximum security, transparency and auditability in all
types of electoral processes and elections.
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
composed of more than 40 international patents in the area of security applied to election
processes, trailblazing standards and the direction of the election modernization industry.
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
Office Locations
London, New York, Dubai, Tokyo
Founded
2009
No of Employees
150+
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Web Measurement & Online Competitive
Intelligence
Recent Milestones
Selected as one of the fastest growing 100
startups in Europe by RedHerring
KPI #1
3m monthly visits
KPI #2
Received $40m in funding
Selected Clients
Axel Springer, Google , eBay, Nike, Eagle
Alpha
Key Investors
Naspers, Lord David Alliance
Website
similarweb.com
SimilarWeb measures the digital world, offering business professionals and executives access
to competitive market intelligence to make better decisions. Our competitive market
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
sizes with actionable insights that empower them to identify new opportunities while gaining an
edge over the competition.
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.
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
Office Locations
Prague, London, San Francisco, New York,
Plzeň, Split, Singapore, Sydney, Paris,
Munich, São Paulo, Mexico City, Dubai,
Istanbul
Founded
2008
No of Employees
350
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business overview
Social marketing and analytics suite
Key Investors
Index Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital
Website
socialbakers.com
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
the largest databases of free social media statistics and insights in the world, we provide userfriendly social media solutions that allow brands to measure, compare, and optimize their
social campaigns with competitive intelligence that is second to none.
With the only analytics platform that provides global industry benchmarking and local
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
of its capabilities. Since 2008, Socialbakers has grown from a small office in Pilsen, Czech
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
order to make sure that Socialbakers products are constantly improving.
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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).
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Hamburg, Germany
Office Locations
New York, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid
Founded
2007
No of Employees
200
Active Markets
UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain,
Scandinavia, America, Canada
Business overview
Statistics portal
Recent milestones
2015: 600k registered customers and branch office in
London
2016: Branch office in Madrid
KPI #1
4m monthly unique visitors
KPI #2
600k registered users
KPI #3
1m statistics
Selected Clients /
Partners
Key Financials
Statista.com is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000
topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21
market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions,
and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business,
finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
The data sources include market research reports, such as the Ipsos Affluent Survey
published annually by Ipsos Media, Simmons National Consumer Studies and Consumer
Insights from Scarborough Research, as well as trade publications, scientific journals, and
government databases.
Clients: Google, ESPN, P&G, Panasonic
Partners: Forbes, Mashable, The Independent
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
New York, NY, USA
Office Locations
New York City, Pasadena, London, Tel Aviv,
New Delhi, Bangkok
Founded
2007
No of Employees
280
Business overview
Content discovery platform
Recent Milestones
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,
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.
Selected Clients /
Partners
Website
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,
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,
New Delhi, and Bangkok. Publishers, marketers, and agencies leverage Taboola to retain
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 Insider, The Atlantic, Tribune, USA
TODAY, Yahoo! Japan, Time Warner Cable,
Mail Online, NBC News
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Munich, Germany
Founded
2011
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
Smart thermostat
Recent Milestones
Launch of second product - tado° Cooling in
June 2014.
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
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
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
Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has
been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
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Ecommerce & Retail
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Brussels, Belgium
Founded
2013
Active Markets
Europe
Business Overview
European Restaurant Delivery Service
Recent Milestones
$11m Series B funding in September 2015
KPI #1
Raised $18m
Key Investors
Rocket Internet, DN Capital, Piton Capital,
Eight Roads
Website
takeeateasy.be
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
application and website, providing a reliable and eco-friendly way to deliver great meals.
Take Eat Easy boasts a unique business model offering restaurants a delivery solution and
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
revenue per square meter, by offering a flawless delivery service, with no risk and no
additional costs.
Take Eat Easy goes a step further by allowing customers to follow their courier in real time
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.
90
Media
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London
Founded
2010
Active Markets
London
Business overview
Non-profit organization to support
entrepreneurship
Website
techcityuk.com
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.
Tech City UK is publicly funded non-profit team with a private sector mentality. Firm’s focus is
on creating the optimum conditions for digital technology businesses and entrepreneurs to
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.
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SaaS & Big Data
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Uhingen, Germany
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
2005
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business overview
Software packages for remote administration
Ownership
Acquired by Permira
Website
teamviewer.com
TeamViewer is a proprietary computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing,
online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. TeamViewer GmbH
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
2014. The company also hosts an online backup cloud service called Airbackup.
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Marketplaces
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Madrid and Bilbao, Spain
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
2009
Active Markets
Europe, LATAM, Asia
No of Employees
350
Business overview
Software packages for remote administration
KPI #1
162k listings
Website
ticketbis.com
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
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.
Ticketbis works as an intermediate between individuals who want to resell or buy tickets to
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
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.
If buyers do not receive their tickets in time for the event, Ticketbis must refund the amount
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
transaction is done safely and correctly.
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Marketplaces
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Madrid and Bilbao, Spain
Office Locations
Worldwide
Founded
2009
Active Markets
Europe, LATAM, Asia
No of Employees
350
Business overview
Software packages for remote administration
KPI #1
162k listings
Website
ticketbis.com
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
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.
Ticketbis works as an intermediate between individuals who want to resell or buy tickets to
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
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.
If buyers do not receive their tickets in time for the event, Ticketbis must refund the amount
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
transaction is done safely and correctly.
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Ecommerce & Retail
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
London, UK
Office Locations
London, Tallin, New York
Founded
2010
Active Markets
Worldwide
No of Employees
300
Business overview
Peer-to-peer money transfer service
Key Investors
IA Ventures, Index Ventures, Seedcamp and
Kima Ventures. Strategic angels include Virgin
Group Sir Richard Branson
Website
transferwise.com
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
transfer sector, providing customers with a lower-cost alternative to traditional means of
moving money internationally.
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
number of startups as an angel investor and advisor. Kristo had a financial services
background from Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Travel
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Leipzig, Germany
Office Locations
Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden, Chemnitz, Jena,
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
The business areas adjacent to the division trips including finance, insurance, shopping, cars,
real estate, media and community.
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Venture Capital
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Herzliya, Israel
Founded
2003
Active Markets
Europe, Israel, US
Business Overview
Fund-of-funds and late-stage fund
Key Investments
Yotpo, Samanage
Website
vintage-ip.com
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..
Vintage actively buys shares of private technology companies from angels, ex-founders and
ex-employees, and provides companies with liquidity schemes for their existing managements
and employees. Vintage also purchases limited partnership interests in venture capital funds.
In addition, Vintage invests in leading venture capital funds and co-invests in high-growth latestage companies.
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Ecommerce & Retail
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
New York, NY, USA
Office Locations
New York City, Brooklyn, London, Los
Angeles, Austin, Amsterdam, Chicago, Miami
Founded
2010
Active Markets
US, Europe
No of Employees
250
Business overview
Space, community and services for business
Website
wework.com
WeWork is an American company which provides shared workspace, community, and
services for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and small businesses. Founded in 2010, it is
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.
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 20,000some members have access to health insurance, an internal social network, social events and
workshops, and an annual summer retreat.
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Marketplaces
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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Hamburg, Germany
Office Locations
Hamburg
Founded
1932
Active Markets
Europe
No of Employees
200
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
Key Financials
Growing Revenue: Between €35m – €40m in
2015, EBITDA: Double digit profitability rate
Key Investors
Paragon Partners / Nordic Mezzanine
Ownership
Structure
Paragon Partners / Nordic Mezzanine
Website
wlw.com
“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
530,000 suppliers, producers, distributors and service providers get in touch with 1.6 million
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
time-consuming research. The range of wlw services is free of charge for buyers and as a
basic profile for advertisers.
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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.
KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Office Locations
Berlin, Tokyo
Founded
2009
No of Employees
300
Active Markets
Worldwide
Business Overview
Game developer
Recent Milestones
Opened Tokyo office in 2014
KPI #1
50m monthly average users
Key Investors
Highland Capital, Balderton Capital,
Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tenaya Capital
Website
wooga.com
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-toplay 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
month across multiple platforms.
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