EQT Ventures T Ventures is a multi-stage €566m VC fund fuelled by some of the world’s most obsessive company builders & scalers from success stories EQ like Booking.com, King, Spotify & Hotels.com. Operational experts are on hand to advise & support ambitious founders.
Founded: 2016
http://www.eqtventures.com See More at NOAH Connect SPEAKER INFORMATION KEY CORPORATE FACTS Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden Tom Mendoza Other Offices Berlin, Germany Deal Partner London, United Kingdom San Francisco, United States Amsterdam, Netherlands Luxembourg, Luxembourg Employees 26-50 PRESENTATION TOPIC Investment VC Stage Fireside chat with Richard Hartley, co-founder and CEO, Cytora Current Fund €m 566 Size SHORT BIOGRAPHY Total AUM €m 566 Investment Style Active Tom is a Deal Partner at EQT Ventures, based in London and focusing on the UK and Southern European markets. Prior to joining EQT Ventures he led HotelTonight's TARGET INVESTMENT CRITERIA international expansion across the UK and Ireland, and founded Tep Wireless, a global and profitable mobile internet service for travellers. Geographies Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden Before venturing into technology, Tom was a hedge fund investor at PSAM and ING STP where he led and managed event-driven investments within the technology, Verticals Revolutionary Consumer Products, Cognitive Computing, Digital Health, Mobility & Travel of the Future, Edutech, Fintech & Insurtech, Ecommerce, Marketplaces & Classifieds, B2B Software & Services, Industrial Digitisation financial services and alternative energy sectors. Industries PaaS, Engineering, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Human Resources, Accommodation, Accounting, Advertising, He was born in the UK, grew-up in Venezuela, studied in Boston (U.S.) and has lived in Analytics, Apps, Artificial Intelligence / AI, Augmented Reality, Automation, B2B, B2C, Banking, Big Data, Business London for the past 12 years.He loves electronic music (amateur DJ), yoga, football Insurance, Casual Gaming, Cloud, Cloud Services, Collaboration, Construction, Customer Intelligence, Cyber Security, Data, Digital Health, Digitalisation, Direct-to-Consumer, E-Commerce, EduTech, Electro-Mobility, FinTech, Food Delivery, (Man Utd fan) and spending time in nature. Gaming, Gaming Platforms, Healthcare / Pharma, InsurTech, Internet of Things / IoT, Mobile, Mobile App Development, READ MORE Mobile Gaming, Remote Access / Screen Sharing, Security, Social Gaming, Transportation, Venture Capital, Virtual Reality, Wearables, Mobility, SaaS INTERNET PORTFOLIO HIGHTLIGHTS Transaction Venture Capital Structures BUSINESS OVERVIEW EQT Ventures is a multi-stage €566m VC fund fuelled by some of the world’s most obsessive company builders, engineers, designers, marketers, data scientists and scaling experts from success stories such as Booking.com, King, Spotify, Huddle and Hotels.com. Recognising that building NOAH LONDON SPEAKER BOOK 91 a global success story takes more than just capital, EQT Ventures' operational experts are on hand to advise and support ambitious founders on their journeys to building global winners. Launched in May 2016 with the mission of being the kind of VC the team would have wanted on their start-up journeys, EQT Ventures had its first exit just two and a half years later with Small Giant Games. In December, 2018, the Helsinki-based mobile game studio entered into an agreement to be acquired by Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) in a deal worth $700m. A different kind of VC, EQT Ventures has built a proprietary AI platform - Motherbrain - in-house to help the team source and prioritise deals. So… READ MORE