Co-Founder & General Partner play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Co-Founder & General Partner role. We have selected these Co-Founder & General Partner’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Co-Founder & General Partner’s. The list is in no particular order!
Frank Meehan
Co-Founder & General Partner @ SparkLabs Global Ventures
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Tommy Stadlen
Co-Founder & General Partner @ Giant Ventures
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Tommy Stadlen is the Co-Founder of Swing, which exited to Microsoft in 2017. Swing, chaired by Twitter founder Biz Stone, created the #1 App Store app Polaroid Swing. Tommy is the author of the international bestseller ‘Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically With Society’, written with former BP CEO Lord Browne. He is a frequent media commentator and speaker on technology and long-term capitalism, including as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times and Financial Times, and guest on CNBC, Bloomberg and BBC. Tommy is a former McKinsey consultant with global experience advising leading companies and governments. He previously worked for President Obama. He graduated with First Class honours from Oxford, and holds an MSc (Distinction) from the London School of Economics. He is an advisor to NYU Stern School of Business and a One Young World Ambassador. Tommy has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 Global Ally Executives and by Entrepreneur magazine’s Best Companies in America awards. He is an LP and venture partner at firstminute capital, an international seed fund.
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Spencer Crawley
Co-Founder & General Partner @ Firstminute Capital
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Spencer Crawley is General Partner at firstminute capital. Launched in June 2017 and co-founded with Brent Hoberman, firstminute is a $100m global seed-stage fund, it is proud to count two institutional investors (Atomico and Tencent) and 29 founders of billion dollar technology businesses amongst its investors. Previous roles include Business Development at AppDirect (a San Francisco-based cloud commerce platform provider), Investment Associate at DMC Partners (Goldman Sachs spin-out Special Opportunities fund), and Analyst in the Moscow office of Goldman Sachs (in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities division). Spencer studied History at Oxford University, did his MBA at INSEAD, and speaks fluent Russian and pidgin French.
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Alan Hudson
Co-founder & General Partner @ GMG Ventures
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GMG Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in companies related to media-tech. Read more about GMG Ventures on Crunchbase…
Max Mersch
Co-founder & General Partner @ Fabric Ventures
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Jai Juneja
Co-Founder & General Partner @ Seek Ventures
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Jai is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Seek Ventures. He previously served as Head of Tech Investments at Seek Holdings (Simon Nixon’s private investment office), where he advised and invested in a range of software and internet businesses through their growth phase. In this capacity he has deployed over $200m globally. Prior to that, Jai was a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, advising clients across TMT and industrial goods on M&A, growth and pricing. He started his career as a software engineer at Peerindex, a London-based social analytics company that was acquired by Brandwatch in 2014. Jai graduated top of his class in Engineering, Economics & Management from Oxford University.
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