Yusuf is a London based Partner at QED Investors with a focus on European financial technology and consumer fi- nance companies. Yusuf joined QED in 2017, and his career has spanned roles as an operator, advisor, entrepreneur and investor. His current portfolio of investments include Wage- stream, Zopa, and GAIN Credit.

Hussein is a partner at Hoxton Ventures. He currently represents Hoxton on the boards of Biotx, Giraffe360, Kbox Global, Skin Analytics, SOC.OS, TourRadar, XYZ Reality and Yieldify, and serves as a board observer on Behavox, Darktrace, Fy!, Karakuri, Loveshark and Panakeia. He previously served on the boards of Babylon Health, bd4travel (acquired by Dnata), Campanja (acquired by 24/7 Media) and Deliveroo.

Triin is investing in fast-growing, early-stage technology companies at The Venture Collective. Before joining TVC, she was Investor at Founders Factory, a highly active early-stage investor, where she worked closely with corporates such as easyJet, The Guardian, and Aviva by looking after Travel, Media, FinTech, and AI investments. Prior Founders Factory she was heading the ecosystem at Startupbootcamp FinTech. She has previously established a handful of technology businesses, and has years of experience building and supporting startups and providing them access to growth and finance. She was also recognized by Innovate Finance's 2018 and 2019 Women in FinTech Powerlist.

Malin Holmberg, Partner at Target Global, works with inspirational startups, challenging old industries and building new category leaders. Her role is both to find and invest in the right entrepreneurs, as well as support them post investment. Prior to this, Malin was the CEO of large subscription-based businesses and has experience in scaling up teams and processes, driving hyper-growth and restructuring/pivoting businesses. 

Daniel Glazer is an American technology lawyer, strategic business advisor, and the founding partner of WSGR's London office. Since the 2010 launch of the UK Government's "Tech City" initiative, he has focused on supporting high-growth UK and other European companies with U.S. expansion and fundraising, and connecting the UK and wider European tech communities with U.S. investors, corporates, advisors and other stakeholders.

Archie is Director at retail and consumer innovation and in- vestment firm True. Archie works with True’s global Partners, including M&S, John Lewis Partnership, TJX and Shell Retail, to provide sustained, filtered, pre-emptive access to a flow of relevant technology innovation supporting their most materi- al corporate priorities. Archie previously lead JLP Ventures, the innovation team of the John Lewis Partnership, and prior to that, was a Strategy Consultant at at PwC.

Jenny Tooth has since July 2012 taken the role of CEO of the UK Business Angels Association, the trade body for angel and early stage investing, which superseded the British Business Angels Association. Jenny provided strategic support to BBAA since its establishment in 2004, supporting both policy and interfacing with Government, as well as developing the trade body’s major annual events, before becoming the founding CEO of UKBAA. Jenny has over 20 years’ experience of supporting SMEs access to investment, both in the UK and internationally.

Hannah is an Investment Manager at M7 Structura, a European focused Property Technology Venture Capital firm. Hannah sources and invests in young technology companies who are tackling problems and creating innovative solutions across the real estate sector. Prior to this, she spent 10 years in advisory positions at Savills and PwC and two years in operational and business development roles in PropTech start-ups.

Zoe is an experienced tech entrepreneur turned VC investor for Ananda Impact Ventures. She has over 20 years operating and board experience in technology companies and currently sits as Ananda Board Observer for Dr Doctor and Arbor Education. She co-founded one of the UK’s top grossing assistive technology apps back in 2010  and now spends her time looking for Europe’s most impactful tech entrepreneurs to invest in. Zoe is also a Visiting Lecturer at Cass Business School and founder of FutureWorldVC a community of diverse, impact minded VCs.

David is a Principal at Brighteye Ventures (EdTech focused VC). David comes from an operational and consultancy background. He previously ran the marketing efforts at a leading healthcare start-up in Mexico, and worked as a management consultant in LATAM.

Miguel Nigorra is a Principal and Head of Europe Strategic Ventures at Fifth Wall, where he focuses on technology and innovation, and drives value creation transformations with startups and corporate partners in Europe. Prior to joining Fifth Wall, Miguel worked at McKinsey for over nine years in the Madrid and London offices. As part of the digital practice, he led teams across Europe in numerous real estate engagements. He also was a Business Development & Strategy Manager at Fon Wireless, the largest WiFi network in the world. Miguel started his career at The Coca Cola Company and Diageo. Miguel is from Madrid, and currently lives in London. 

Charles is a London-based partner at LEGO Ventures investing along the LEGO mission of Learning through Play, and focusing on EdTech and Digital Play (Gaming) across Western Europe and the Nordics. Prior to LEGO Ventures, Charles worked in London at Atami Capital investing in consumer-facing startups in Europe and Southeast Asia, and in Montreal in the investment divisions of TD and RBC. Charles started his career at iSentium Technologies, a fintech startup also based in Montreal.

Peter is currently an associate at Smedvig Capital, having joined in 2018. He is currently a board observer at Capify and Xeneta. Peter is excited by finding innovative founders using tech to disrupt the status quo. Peter has previously also worked as a consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants, and he holds an MSc in Management from Imperial College London.

Akribian, former known as Scientific EdTech, is an award-winning Swedish company that focuses on science and learning. Its first product is called "Chasing Planets"​ (Planetjakten in Swedish), and it helps primary school students learn curricular math. Chasing Planets is scientifically validated, tested in Swedish schools and based on real student & teacher feedback. In the doctoral thesis 'Closing the Gap'​, author and founder of the company, Martin Hassler Hallstedt, proves that the product substantially improves the results of students struggling with math. Akribian makes learning fun, easy and effective, and its long-term goal is to help children succeed in math so that they can live better lives.

Ansofy is a revolutionary app where you build your own newspaper based on locality, subject, category and publication source. It should be simple, smooth and easy to create an overview of all the news in the world. Ansofy is a space for you to do that – where you decide.  How you want to read the news should be up to you. Whether you want top news from Europe, sports from Sweden or international financial news from Asia. It’s your choice.

AVA is a place for women to indulge in eroticism and sex. It is a place for the exploration of sexual fantasies and desires, either alone, or together with someone else. It is also a place for women to learn more about their bodies, hear from others, and indulge in steamy articles and podcasts.

AVA was created with women’s health and happiness in mind. It encourages women to explore their sexual desires, shame-free, by celebrating female sexuality, and normalizing female pleasure.

BMP is a tech company founded in 2016 by a group of friends with complementing and extensive industrial experience with the mission to provide non-invasive, innovative Test and Measurement systems to the modern agricultural market and food industry using high end cameras, embedded solutions, Image processing and AI/ML. Acknowledged by EIP-Agri and LRF-Macklean as one of Sweden's most innovative agritech companies, Seal of Excellence EU Commission (H2020-SME).

Boostified helps companies create traffic and boost their brand with Boostified Pay. They believe in the marketing of the future, that marketing should be genuine and tailored for you as an individual. Instead of ads, Boostified let people recommend their favourite products to their friends and get products in return. By becoming a member of Boostified, you spread authentic marketing on products you love.

Custodi was started in January 2019 by Jesper Zandin and Peter Östling, two entrepreneurs with experience from both IT and the construction industry. They had repeatedly encountered situations where a conflict between two parties had arisen due to a lack of common structure. There was a lack of tools and technical solutions to support the special relationship that is built between two parties in a temporary business exchange. Custodi's goal is to offer appropriate platforms in areas where today's solutions leave room for uncertainty and insecurity.

Fenix offers caring support for funeral planning and estate issues, made easy and affordable online. Customers may take their time to review options discreetly, and remotely, and at a lower cost.

memmo is a platform that offers personalised video messages from well-known profiles to their fans and follower. The next generation of fan experiences, available for everyone. Book unique messages by the people you admire, unique to only you and the ones you share it with. Connect to your most dedicated fans on a more personal level than ever before, in only 30 seconds. With a mission to make memories, memmo is a new form of communication between icons and their admirers. 

Smart Visualizer is an AI web-based 3D visualisation platform. They visualize anything with a maximum toolset and features. Online collaboration and teamwork from different industries and data sources. They publish or share the visualisations to Smart Visualizer is an AI web-based 3D visualization platform, for complete collaboration between data and users, as in digital twins and for smart cities. In Smart Visualizer you can import data from more or less any data source and any data file. The AI engine translates and corrects the files and imports them directly into Smart Visualizer. A collaboration platform for data delivery and for visualization, online and live. Create, modify, develop and analyze the imported data, and in the next unique step, export to any data file and data source. Share links with customers, citizens who can visually see and take part in information, visual effects and give opinions, vote or create dialogues with citizens. Data service providers can use our platform as part of their own data delivery to their customers, where they can work and export their visually created data to their customers. or citizens and allow them to use toolsets in their visualisation.

Did you know that 9 in 10 children in the UK, in the age of 6 to 16, want learn a musical instrument? Our vision is to be the leader in music edtech. SoundLily is a fantastic and ground-breaking software for anyone who would like to enhance their musical skills. By using SoundLily the end user can practice playing an instrument to backing tracks synchronised with sheet music, with great functionalities to change the pitch and speed of the music. Including original content and content from music publishers. Furthermore, SoundLily distributes music learning material perfectly suited for distance learning, thus safeguarding public health during the coronavirus outbreak.

Target Aid offers a SaaS solution to corporations, associations and NGOs communicating their social engagement by implementing a broad and sustainable content base through our unique platform. Target Aid's digital tool, the impact profile enables corporations to visualize, communicate and nourish engagement, while the platform allows NGOs and associations to expose themselves to donors and initiate crowd funding as well as establish various partnerships. Target Aid is growing exponentially. Today more than 150 organizations with over 300 projects have chosen to join the platform spread over 30 countries and relating to all of the 17 SDGs.

Wiser is a subscription-based social network that connects intelligent, curious individuals – providing a platform for them to discover and stream podcasts and videos or read articles based on the recommendations of one another.

Zesec is a digital platform that manages and distributes access in a building, the mobile becomes a keychain. This opens up for a lot of new opportunities for all involved parties. Zesec handles the access and makes sure it’s a seamless customer journey for everyone.

Katarina is Head of Communications at Apax Partners. She has more than a decade of experience advising financial services and investment firms on reputation management and strategic communications, particularly around corporate positioning, financial transactions and crisis situations.