Pavel Dolezal, Investor, Mentor, Entrepreneur and Partner at Keboola

Experienced early stage investor, mentor and operator in consumer goods and technology sectors

Pavel has been building companies since 1999, starting with the largest portal network, CEE, under the group name Atlas Portal. After the group was sold, he built Ataxo, one of the EU’s largest digital agencies in the performing media space. Ataxo serviced 15,000 customers and had almost 200 agents in Customer Support. In addition, Pavel actively invests in early-stage tech companies in the EU, Brazil and the USA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paveld

We have built the largest performance media company in Central Europe, servicing clients, creating own ad tech. Sold in 2008.

I was responsible for products at the largest Portal network Atlas in Czech, Slovak and Ukraine. I had led a group of product managers, created business partnerships, architected new products and business ways.  Later we sold the company to Warburg Pincus.

In 2002 I have created a mobile marketing company.

Specialities: Crazy ideas, drive, love for people, passion for projects.

Mentor at Seedcamp and Wayra

In 2014, Pavel became a partner at Keboola.com and is responsible for its international expansion and business development, currently focusing on UK and Singapore operations.

Ian Collins, Investor, Mentor, Entrepreneur, Business Development at Radium Services

Ian is a serial entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience of business development and general management in internet, technology and hi-tech industries, working for start-ups, SMEs and large corporates

In his career, he has started six companies, managed ten+ fund raises, two acquisitions, a merger, three JVs, an MBI, two corporate ventures, a disposal and an exit.

Currently Ian is an executive in a media publishing business, a mentor and NED to a number of start-ups and early stage, and an advisor at Radium Services which provides on-demand business development services for organisations that cannot afford a full time BD Director.

Ian tends to invest in internet/digital businesses where he is actively involved and can leverage his technical and commercial skills, business development experience and extensive network.

Urs Aebischer is Executive Director and co-founder of Swiss Innovation Partners, a Swiss based firm investing in early stage or growth stage private equity worldwide of businesses with a focus on fast growing markets such as China, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Brazil, and Russia. The speciality is to provide a dual investment in equity AND management. Providing executive management for equity helps the portfolio companies to accelerate faster with less liquidity needed, creating a maximum momentum and return for all involved investors.

Supporting this approach Urs has a background of both as private equity investor as well as innovative entrepreneur. Starting his career as management consultant he then co-founded one of the first VoIP providers in Europe and helped to develop it to become a 3 billion dollar company, being responsible for Marketing & Sales, later for Product Development. Thereafter Urs started to invest in several early stage companies.

Urs holds a Master in Physics and a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland.

Investment size: 

Seed stage: up to £50’000 in support making the idea investment ready (Lean Startup)

Early stage: up to £500’000 in cash and/or product development resources

Growth Funding: up to £2’000’000 in cash and management resources

Stages:

Seed: Outstanding idea by a fully committed founder with a scalable solution addressing and solving an evident pain with the potential to create a big market.

Early: Established Team, Beta/MVP phase reached, either clients signed or clear strategy and timeframe to getting first clients on board, can be pre-revenue.

Growth: Established leadership, existing revenue, significant traction, capital for either geographic expansion, scaling up user base, or team growth.

Industries:

Digital media/services and technology of any sector: Consumer/Retail/Commerce, Communications, Media/Entertainment/Gaming, Sports/Music, Hospitality/Events, Travel/Mobility/Leisure, Med/Health, Financial/Insurance, Logistics/Delivery, Cleantech, Hometech/SmartCity, Connected Cars, IoT, Augmented Reality, Security, ….

Mobile only approach preferred!

B2C or B2B2C creating stickiness

Guest speaker

Arina  Osiannaya, Director, Business Funding show

KPMG

Taylor Vinters, Law firm

Charlie Fletcher, Partner, Taylor Vinters

“I am a corporate lawyer with broad experience of corporate transactional and advisory work.

My goals – provide a first rate client service, deal with legal issues commercially, reduce complex problems to straightforward decisions and generally try to give lawyers a good name!

Specialties:Venture capital matters; advising technology and life sciences companies and investors; mergers and acquisitions; cleantech sector transactions.”

Format

• 2.00 pm to 2.30 pm: General networking;

• 2.30 pm to about 3.30 pm: Pitch to Investors

• 3.30 pm to 3.45 pm: Speaker

• 3.45 pm to 5 pm: Networking,

Pitch deck and pitching to Investor

All companies that pitch at the event will use the same pitch deck.  Each pitch is for 5 to 7 mins

If your company would like to pitch to the investors, then request the
“10 slide pitch deck ” template.

First, you will have to send me all 7 items/information about your company:

1.description, 2. age, 3. stage, 4. Team (no one man band), 5. investments, 6. Traction, 7. Website.

Recommendation

It is recommended you enrol on “Investment ready” workshops to obtain an understanding of what Investor are looking for:

http://www.meetup.com/TechCityCoffee/events/228179325/

Confidentiality

You are not required to submit information that is confidential. No documents will be distributed without the founders permission. Venture capital firms will not sign NDA

No documentation or pitch information in the event, is to be distributed or used outside of the event.
The provide pitch template must not be used, in part or whole, outside of the event without permission.

Investor meeting conduct

You will get to meet with many investors in this meet up group. Follow this code:
1. Primarily, research and read the Investors website, in particular their portfolio. 2. Investigate and check if the VC is a relevant fit for you and your company. 3. Be prepared to spend a percentage of your time on a regular basis to get investment. 4. There are no short/quick fixes to the investment process. It is a process and it has stages and can take time and lots of work 5. You will need to meet with several investors over a long period of time. 6. Do not form a queue in order to talk to a VC, during the networking session. As other members will want to speak to the Investor as well, spend a few minutes talking to the investor  7. Do not cold approach investors. It is better to get to know them by a warm introduction from a person within their network

You need to be able to deliver your pitch in 3 minutes.
This event is only for UK based companies.

Cafe conduct

You are required to:
1. buy an item from the cafe, if you attend the event. 2. keep the noise to a minimum. 3. keep within the reserved area of the venue at all times RSVP

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