Venture Capital MANU GUPTA | LAKESTAR General Partner SPEAKER BIO ManuGupta is a General Partner at Lakestar and invests in technology companies worldwide. In the last 15 years, he has worked as a Java coder, software product designer, enterprise marketer, tech banker, and venture capitalist. Previously, Manu was an Executive Director and Head of the European Internet coverage at Goldman Sachs London, as well as a tech M&A and IPO advisor in San Francisco. Initially he grew up in San Francisco and was a Product Manager at Oracle, and coder at Sun Microsystems. KEY CORPORATE FACTS& KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters Zurich Switzerland Lakestar invests in Internet companies, with a specific focus on business models that can achieve global scale quickly. Lakestar has had tremendous success investing early in No of Employees 10 marqueebrand names,suchas Facebook, Spotify, and Skype. In addition, Lakestar has invested at the founding stages of over 25 early stage companies. In Active Markets US, Europe 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 Internet companies in seed and early stages successful investing is not just in finding the next marquee Internet brand – but in helping Target Criteria that can achieve global scale quickly create it. Key Investments Algomi, Taulia, Sofi, Onefootball Notable Exits Facebook, Spotify, Skype 105