Venture Capital MICHAEL JACKSON| MANGROVE CAPITAL PARTNERS Partner SPEAKER BIO Formerly COO of Skype, Michael Jackson is a General Partner at Mangrove Capital Partners. Active across all of Europe, Russia and Israel, Michael spends his time looking for investable projects and advising portfolio companies as they grow into significant operations. His professional life always involved scaling and operating large consumer focused communications businesses. From development of mobile telephone operations, through the roll out of Tele2 in Europe to 26 million customers, to creation and establishment of 9 MVNO operations in Europe, Michael hopped over to Chief Operations Officer role at Skype. KEY CORPORATE FACTS& KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters Luxembourg, Luxembourg Mangrove Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on early-stage, mid venture, startups, expansion stage, growth capital investments, buyouts, and emerging Active Markets Europe, US, Canada, India growth. Its mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful Key Investments Lesara, Happify, Apester advice, relevant experience, and industry relationships to their portfolio companies. Website mangrove.vc 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,andIndia. Mangrove Capital Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 51
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