VC Mentors

Early validation by a fantastic range of investors, plus help refining your pitch.

• Adam Valkin, Accel Partners, (London 10)
• Adam Fisher, Bessemer, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Adam Smith, (San Francisco 11)
• Alain Caffi, Ventech, (Paris 09, Paris 09, Paris 10)
• Alain Rodermann, Sofinnova Partners, (Paris 09)
• Albert Wenger, USV, (New York 10)
• Alex Ferrara, Bessemer, (New York 10, Tel Aviv 10)
• Alex Gezelius, Index Ventures, (London 10, Silicon Valley 11, London 11, Tel Aviv 11)
• Alex Farcet, Startupbootcamp, (Copenhagen 10)
• Alexander Swoboda, Global Equity Partners, (SC08)
• Alexander Kolisch, Grassroot Media, (SC08, Berlin 08)
• Allan Martinson, MTVP, (Prague 10)
• Alok Agarwal, Striver Capital Advisors Pvt. ltd, (Mumbai 10)
• Amit Cherniak, Contendo, (Tel Aviv 10, Tel Aviv 11)
• Andre Winzer, Consult 21, (London 10, Berlin 11)
• Andrea Zurek, XG Ventures, (SC08, Valley 08, Silicon Valley 10)
• Andreas Schlenker, Partech International, (SC08, Paris 09, Berlin 10)
• Andrei Kolodyuk, Aventures, (Kiev 08)
• Andrew Nutter, InterResolve, (SC09, Paris 09, London 09, Paris 09, Barcelona 10, Paris 10)
• Andrew Weissman, Betaworks, (SC08, New York 10, New York 11 Tour)
• Andy Chung, Eden Ventures, (SC09, SC10, Helsingborg 09, Prague 10, San Francisco 11, Silicon Valley 11, San Francisco 11)
• Ankur Gulati, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, India, (Mumbai 10)
• Ann Scheman, IBM, (SC08, Tel Aviv 09, Paris 09, Tel Aviv 10, Tel Aviv 11)
• Anne-Valerie Bach, Banexi Ventures Partners, (Paris 09)
• Anton Wellenreiter, Freelance, (SC10)
• Artem Mikhlin, (San Francisco 11)
• Arve Johan Andresen, NorthZone Ventures, (Copenhagen 10)
• Ashish Puri, Partech, (SC08, SC09, Paris 09)
• Assaf Resnick, Sequoia Capital, (Tel Aviv 10, SC10, Tel Aviv 11)
• Aydin Senkut, Felicis Ventures, (SC08, Silicon Valley 10, SC10)
• Baris Aksoy, intel capital, (Silicon Valley 10)
• Ben Weiss, Greylock Ventures, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Ben Tompkins, Eden Ventures, (SC08, SC09, SC10, London 08, London 09, Tel Aviv 10)
• Bernard Liautaud, Balderton Capital, (SC09)
• Bert Navarrete, Internet Capital Group, (New York 10)
• BJ Park, DuMont Venture Holding GmbH, (SC10,, Berlin 11)
• Bo Ilsoe, Nokia, (SC08)
• Brad Burnham, USV, (New York 10)
• Brad Feld, Foundry Group, (Silicon Valley 10)
• Brandon Farwell, (San Francisco 11)
• Brian Singerman, Founders Fund, (SC09)
• Carlos Espinal, Seedcamp, (SC08, London 09, Barcelona 10, London 11)
• Charles Grimsdale, Eden Ventures, (SC08, SC09, SC10, London 08, Berlin 08, Berlin 09, London 11)
• Chieh Suang, IIPL, (Singapore 10)
• Chipper Boulas, Boulas Ventures, (SC08, SC09, SC10, Paris 09, Seedsummit 09, Paris 10, Berlin 10, London 11)
• Chris Mottes, Six Ravens Capital, (Copenhagen 10)
• Chris Morton, Lyst, (SC08, SC09, Berlin 09)
• Chris Dark, Atomico, (London 11)
• Christian Stein, CREATHOR VENTURE, (Berlin 08, Berlin 09, Berlin 10, Berlin 11)
• Christian Stein, CREATHOR VENTURE, (Berlin 08, Berlin 09, Berlin 10)
• Christian Kapteyn, IDA consult GmbH, (Berlin 09, Berlin 10)
• Christian Carrillo, Pond Ventures, (SC08)
• Christian Nagel, Earlybird Capital, (Berlin 10)
• Christoph Buelow, Catcap, (SC08)
• Ciaran O’Leary, Earlybird Venture Capital, (Berlin 09, Berlin 11)
• Claudio Siniscalco, HarbourVest, (SC08)
• Clemens von Bergmann, High-Tech Grunderfonds, (Berlin 09, Seedsummit 09, Berlin 10, SC10, Berlin 11)
• Coen Ven Duiven, HENQ, (Berlin 11)
• Damir Sabol, CRANE – Croatian Business Angel Network, (Ljubljana 09, Zagreb 10)
• Dan Porter, OMGPOP, (SC08, New York 10)
• Dan Lupu, Intel Capital, (SC09, SC10, Ljubljana 09, Barcelona 10)
• Daniel Waterhouse, Wellington Partners, (SC10)
• Daniel Thalhammer, Meltwater | New Ventures, (Valley 08)
• Danny Rimer, Index Ventures, (London 08, SC08, SC09, London 11)
• David Leftley, Vodafone, (SC09)
• David Lee, Google, (Valley 08, Silicon Valley 11)
• Davor Hebel, Fidelity Ventures, (SC10, Paris 09, Paris 09, Paris 10)
• Deborah Magid, IBM Venture Capital Group, (SC08, Paris 09)
• Denis Dovgopoliy, BayView Innovations, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Devtosh Khare, (Silicon Valley 11)
• Diana Saraceni, 360 capital partners, (SC09)
• Dirk van Quaquebeke, Brandmile Pvt Ltd, (SC09)
• Dominique Vidal, Index Ventures, (Paris 08)
• Don Dodge, Google, (New York 10)
• Dr. Hendrik Brandis, Earlybird Venture Capital, (Berlin 10, London 10)
• Ed Mlavsky, (Tel Aviv 11)
• Einat Metzer, Gemini, (Tel Aviv 10, Tel Aviv 11)
• Eric Plantier, Blueprint Advisors, (Paris 10)
• Erik Rannala, (San Francisco 11)
• Eyal Lifshitz, Greylock Partners, (Tel Aviv 11)
• Eyal Gura, (Tel Aviv 11)
• Felix Schollmeier, Target Partners, (Berlin 10, Berlin 11)
• Florence Ribes, Parner Iris Finance, (Paris 09)
• Francois-Xavier Dedde, Credit Agricole Private Equity, (Paris 10)
• Frank Boehnke, Wellington Partners, (SC10)
• Fred Humbert, Innovacom, (Paris 08, Paris 09)
• Fred Destin, Atlas Venture, (SC08, SC09, SC10, London 08, Barcelona 10, Paris 08)
• Frederic Court, Advent, (SC10)
• Fredrik Cassel, Creandum, (SC08)
• Gabriel Matuschka, OliveTree GmbH, (London 10)
• Gayatri Shah, BSG Team Ventures, (SC09)
• George Powlick, (San Francisco 11)
• George Karaargirov, Strata Partners, (London 10)
• Gil Dibner, Genesis Partners, (Tel Aviv 10, Tel Aviv 11)
• Gilad De Vries, Carmel Ventures, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Gilad Raichshtain, Genacast Ventures, (New York 11 Tour)
• Gilles Hawkins, Emerging Companies Group, (SC10)
• Greg Marsh, OneFineStay, (SC08, SC09, SC10, Kiev 08, Paris 09, Paris 09)
• Gregers Kronborg, NorthZone Ventures, (Copenhagen 10)
• Guillaume Lautour, AGF Private Equity, (SC09, Copenhagen 10, SC10)
• Hadar Avtalion, Jerusalem Venture Partners, (SC08, SC09, Tel Aviv 10)
• Hannes Schwetz, Austria Wirtschaftsservice, (Ljubljana 09)
• Hansjoerg Sage, Gimv NV, (Berlin 11)
• Harry Briggs, Balderton Capital, (SC10, London 10, London 11)
• Helen Alexander, Diverse Abilities Plus, (SC10)
• Herman Hintzen, HENQ, (Berlin 11)
• Hillel Zidel, ETV Capital, (SC08)
• Igor Semenov, Aventures, (Kiev 08)
• Illi Edry, Guru NewMedia, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Inna Proshkina, go2market, (Kiev 08)
• Irena Goldenberg, Highland Capital Partners, (SC08)
• Ivan Farneti, Doughty Hanson, (SC08, SC10, Berlin 09, Berlin 11, London 11)
• Izhar Shay, Canaan Partners, (Tel Aviv 09)
• Jacob Bratting Pedersen, Northcap Partners, (Helsingborg 09, Copenhagen 10)
• Jacques Froissant, Altaide, (Paris 08)
• James Routley, LetMagic, (SC08, Warsaw 09, Helsingborg 09, SC09, Zagreb 10, Tel Aviv 10, Berlin 10)
• James Chan, Neoteny Labs, (Singapore 10)
• Jan Habermann, Credo Ventures, (Prague 10)
• Jan Beckers, Team Europe, (Berlin 08, SC08)
• Jan Borgstaedt, Bertelsmann AG / Digital Media Investments, (Berlin 09)
• Jason Ball, Qualcomm Ventrures, (SC10)
• Jason Whitmire, Earlybird Venture Capital, (SC10)
• Jean Marie Chauvet, LC Capital, (Paris 08)
• Jeff Coe, Linden Ventures, (Copenhagen 10, London 11)
• Jeffrey Paine, Battle Ventures, (Singapore 10)
• Jeffrey Goh, usbaecker capital GmbH, (Singapore 10)
• Jens-Philipp Klein, Atlantic Ventures, (Berlin 11)
• Jeremy Oinino, OCP Finance, (Mumbai 10)
• Jerry Ennis, Transept Technologies, (London 11)
• Jimmy Fussing Nielsen, Sunstone Capital, (Helsingborg 09)
• Jiri Benes, 3TS Capital Partners, (Prague 10)
• Jochen Klueppel, Grazia Equity GmbH, (Berlin 11)
• Joe Neale, M8 Capital, (SC10, Berlin 10, London 11)
• Joerg Binnenbruecker, DuMont Venture Holding, (Berlin 11)
• Johanna Kollar, Google, (Johannesburg 10)
• John Stokes, Montreal Start Up, (SC09, Paris 09, London 09, Paris 09, Seedsummit 09, New York 10)
• Jon Kingsbury, NESTA, (London 09)
• Jonathan Pacifici, JP & Partners, (Tel Aviv 11)
• Jorgen Bladh, NorthZone, (SC08)
• Jos White, Notion Capital, (SC10)
• Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital, (San Francisco 10)
• Jure Mikuz, RSG Capital, (Ljubljana 09, Zagreb 10)
• Justin Spratt, Quirk, (Johannesburg 10)
• Karambir Singh, (London 10, SC10)
• Karan Mohla, IDG Ventures India, (Mumbai 10)
• Karoly Dr.Horvath, Estag capital AG/solarvalue, (Berlin 11)
• Katy Turner, Eden Ventures, (SC08, Zagreb 10, Berlin 10, SC10, London 11, Berlin 11)
• Koen Lenssen, axel springer, (Berlin 11)
• Lars Langusch, Holtzbrinck Ventures, (Berlin 09, Berlin 10)
• Laurent Laffy, ( London 11)
• Lea Bajc, Northzone, (SC09, SC10, London 09, London 11)
• Leo Huixian, Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd, (SC10)
• Liad Agmon, Bessemer, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Maksim Shkol’nik, Tehnobridge, (Kiev 08)
• Mandar Kulkarni, SBI Capital Markets, (Mumbai 10)
• Manik Arora, IDG Ventures India, (Mumbai 10)
• Manoj Gupta, Nexus Ventures, (Mumbai 10)
• Marc Samwer, European Founders Fund, (SC07, SC08)
• Marc Brandsma, Netvibes, (Paris 10)
• Marcel Otto Yon, Odeon Venture Capital AG, (Berlin 08)
• Marcin Matuszewski, Future Invest, (Warsaw 09, SC09)
• Marie Christine Levet, JAINA CAPITAL, (Paris 10)
• Mario Orasche, Eagle Ventures, (SC09, Ljubljana 09, Seedsummit 09, Zagreb 10)
• Mark Farmer, Eden Ventures, (SC08, Paris 08)
• Mark Esiri, Venrex, (London 08, London 09, SC09, Paris 09, Paris 10, SC10)
• Mark Gracey, SEP, (SC10)
• Mark Jacobsen, OATV, (Silicon Valley 10)
• Markus Wagner, i5invest, (SC08)
• Martin Kelly, IBM, (SC08, SC09, Seedsummit 09, SC10)
• Matej Kurent, Poteza Ventures Advisory, (Ljubljana 09, Zagreb 10)
• Matthieu Baret, AGF Private Equity, (Paris 09)
• Mattias Ljungman, Atomico, (SC07, SC09, London 08)
• Max Niederhofer, Atlas Venture, (Kiev 08, Warsaw 09, Paris 09, SC10)
• Maximilian Claussen, Earlybird Venture Capital, (SC09, Berlin 11, London 11)
• Michael Weitzel, Capital US Baecker, (Berlin 11)
• Michael Backes, eVenture Capital Partners, (SC09, Berlin 10)
• Mike Volpi, Index Ventures, (SC09, SC10)
• Natasa Tomic, RSG Capital, (Ljubljana 09, Zagreb 10)
• Nenad J Marovac, DN Capital, (Berlin 11)
• Nic Brisbourne, DFJ Esprit, (SC07, Berlin 09, SC09, Paris 10, SC10)
• Nicolas Celier, Alven Capital Partners, (Paris 09, Paris 09)
• Nicolas Autret, Sofinnova Partners, (London 10)
• Niels Vejrup Carlsen, Seed Capital, (Copenhagen 10)
• Nikhil Nath, Usbaecker capital, (Mumbai 10)
• Olaf Cordt, DuMont Venture, (London 11)
• Oliver Beste, FoundersLink, (Berlin 08, SC08, Berlin 09, Berlin 10, SC10, Berlin 11)
• Olivier Cahane, OCP Finance, (Mumbai 10)
• Olivier Schuepbach, ex Wellington-Partners, (Paris 08, Kiev 08, Berlin 08, SC08, Paris 09)
• Olivier Sichel, Sofinnova, (Paris 08)
• Ondrej Bartos, Credo Ventures, (Prague 10)
• Ophir Reshef, Bessemer, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Pamir Gelenbe, Big Bang Ventures, (SC09, London 08, London 09)
• Pascal Mercier, Aelios Finance, (Paris 09)
• Pascale Dixon, Nauiokas Park, (SC10)
• Patrick Coquet, Cap Digital, (Paris 09)
• Patrick Paulisch, Austin Park Capital, (Berlin 08, SC08, Berlin 09, SC09, SC10, Berlin 11)
• Paul Degueuse, 360 Capital, (London 10, Berlin 11)
• Paul Vickery, NESTA, (London 09)
• Pawel Chudzinski, Team Europe Ventures, (SC09, SC10, Warsaw 09, Prague 10, Berlin 10)
• Peter Ribaric, Poteza Group, (Ljubljana 09)
• Peter Van der Zee, Industrial Development Corporation, (Johannesburg 10)
• Peter Hellmers, Catcap, (SC08)
• Peter Wittmann, Fraunhofer Venture, (Berlin 10, Berlin 11)
• Phil Balderson, Index Ventures, (SC10)
• Philipp Butscher, Ventegis Capital AG, (Berlin 11)
• Philippe Collombel, Partech International, (Paris 08, Paris 09)
• Philippe Herbert, Banexi Ventures, (Paris 08, Paris 09, Paris 10)
• Phillip Wickham, The Kauffman Fellows Program, (London 09)
• Pierre Sapin, Digitalents Capital, (SC08)
• Pietro Dova, XG Ventures, (Valley 08, Silicon Valley 10, Silicon Valley 11)
• Piotr Klodnicki, MCI Management SA, (Prague 10)
• Pratik Singhi, Lakshya Consulting, (Mumbai 10)
• Raffi Kamber, Gimv, (London 11)
• Rahul Khanna, Clearstone, (Mumbai 10)
• Rainer Schwarz, Conmeta Venture, (Barcelona 10, Berlin 10)
• Rasmus Bjerngaard, Seed Capital, (Copenhagen 10)
• Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp, (SC10)
• Rob Hayes, First Round Capital, (San Francisco 10)
• Robert Goldberg, Zynga, (Valley 08)
• Robert Verwaaijen, Prime Ventures, (London 11)
• Robert Moffat, Balderton Capital, (Berlin 10, Berlin 11, London 11)
• Robert Markwick, Goldman Sachs, (SC10)
• Robin Klein, Index Ventures, (London 08, SC08, Ljubljana 09, Seedsummit 09, SC10)
• Rodolphe Menegaux, XAnge Private Equity, (Paris 09)
• Roman Hartmann, eVenture Capital Partners, (Warsaw 09)
• Ronen Nir, Carmel Ventures, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Ruby Chen, Amdocs, (Tel Aviv 09, Tel Aviv 10)
• Salman Malih, Index Ventures, (Berlin 08, SC08, SC09)
• Samir Housri, Rho Ventures, (New York 11 Tour)
• Sani Sanilevich, Yatir, (Tel Aviv 10)
• Satish Kataria, Springboard Ventures Private Limited, (Mumbai 10)
• Saul Klein, Seedcamp, (Valley 08, SC09, Barcelona 10, SC10)
• Saurabh Agarwal, Springboard Ventures Private Limited, (Mumbai 10)
• Sean Seton-Rogers, PROfounders, (SC08, SC10, London 08)
• Sebastian Kwiecien, Venture Incubator S.A., (Warsaw 09)
• Shailesh Lakhani, Sequoia Capital, (Mumbai 10)
• Shay Hasson, 8328-2005-7195, (Tel Aviv 11)
• Shyam Kamadolli, Fidelity Growth Partners India, (Mumbai 10)
• Sim Blaustein, High Line Venture Partners, (New York 11 Tour)
• Simon Schneider, High Tech Gruenderfonds, (Berlin 08, Seedsummit 09, Berlin 11)
• Simon Levene, Squarespace, (SC10)
• Sitar Teli, Doughty Hanson, (SC08, SC09, SC10, Berlin 10, London 11)
• Sonali De Rycker, Accel (ex-Atlas), (SC07)
• Soren Nielsen, NorthCap Partners, (Copenhagen 10)
• Stefan Menden, Straub Ventures, (SC08)
• Stefan Tirtey, Doughty Hanson, (London 09, Paris 10, Berlin 10, SC10, Berlin 11)
• Sujay Jaswa, NEA, (Silicon Valley 10)
• Tal Barnoach, Speed Up, (SC08)
• Tariq Dag Khan, Turnstone Capital LLC, (London 10)
• Tatjana Zabasu, RSG Capital, (Ljubljana 09, Zagreb 10)
• Terrence Rohan, Index Ventures, (London 10)
• Thai Tran, Lightbox, (SC10, Copenhagen 10, Berlin 10, London 11)
• Theo Poursanidis, Warburg Pincus Deutschland GmbH, (Berlin 09)
• Thomas Preuss, Neuhaus Partners, (Berlin 10, Berlin 11)
• Thomas Grota, T-Venture, (SC09, Copenhagen 10)
• Tilli Kalisky, Greylock, (Tel Aviv 11)
• Tobias Schirmer, Bertelsmann Digital Media, (Berlin 10, Berlin 11)
• Tom Bradley, DN Capital, ( London 11)
• Tom Fleming, Venrex, (SC07, SC08, SC09, SC10, Seedsummit 09, London 11)
• Tomas Orlik, Credo Ventures, (Prague 10)
• Tony Mak, O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures, (Silicon Valley 10, Silicon Valley 11)
• Tony Kypreos, UKTI, (Zagreb 10, Prague 10, SC10)
• Torleif Ahlsand, Northzone Capital, (SC09)
• Tristen Langley, Southern Cross Venture Partners, (SC10)
• Ulf Baecker, Usbaecker capital, (Berlin 08, Berlin 09, Berlin 10, Berlin 11)
• Ulrik Jorring, V_kstfonden, (Copenhagen 10)
• Victor Christou, Venergise, (SC09)
• Vineet Buch, BlueRun Ventures, (Valley 08)
• Will Dawson, Amadeus Capital Partners, (London 08, SC09)
• William Reinisch, Paladin Capital Group, (New York 11 Tour)
• Wolfgang Seibold, Earlybird, (Berlin 08)
• Xavier Brunaud, Crédit Agricole Private Equity, (Paris 10)
• Xavier Lazarus, Elaia Partners, (SC09, SC10, Paris 09, Paris 09, Paris 10, Paris 08)
• Yael Havassy, IVC – Israel Venture Capital Research Center, (Tel Aviv 11)
• Yann Mauchamp, Cercle des Investisseurs Priv?å’†s, (Paris 09, Paris 10)
• Yao Huang, The Hatchery, (New York 10, New York 11 Tour)
• Yaron Valler, Hasso Plattner Ventures, (SC10)
• Yoav Leitersdorf, YL Ventures, (Berlin 09, SC09, Tel Aviv 10)
• Yoni Cheifetz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, (Tel Aviv 10, Tel Aviv 11)
• Artem Mikhlin, ER Accelerator, (NY 11, SF 11)