VC Night

Name: VC Night
Start: 2021-02-24T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2021-02-24T19:30:00+01:00

Barcelona
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 6:30 PM (CET)

About this event

Following our tradition of having our VC Night every February during the MWC week, we bring you this online panel with some of the best international VCs. We'll have Allie Burns (CEO @ Village Capital), Borja Breña (Investment Manager @ Nauta Capital) and Farhan Lalji (Principal @ Anthemis) and Olivier Gemayel (AWS) to talk about the changes we've seen in VC last year and what's expected to come from 2021 onwards.

This event will be online and conducted in English.

Follow #SGBCN; the official Startup Grind Barcelona hashtag.

See you there and happy grinding!

Panelists

Allie Burns

Village Capital

CEO

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Borja Breña

Nauta Capital

Investment Manager

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Farhan Lalji

Anthemis

Principal

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Olivier Gemayel

AWS

Senior Business Development Manager

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Allie Burns

Village Capital

Allie brings nearly two decades of experience working with entrepreneurs and innovators at the intersection of tech and social change to her role as CEO of Village Capital. Prior to joining the organization in 2016, she served as a senior executive at Revolution and the Case Foundation, the venture capital firm and private family foundation created by former AOL executives Jean and Steve Case. In that role, she led the organizations’ communications and marketing teams, and was instrumental in the development of major initiatives including the Rise of the Rest, the Startup America Partnership and the Be Fearless campaign.

Borja Breña

Nauta Capital

Borja Breña is an investment manager at Nauta Capital’s Barcelona office focussed on Spanish and Portuguese opportunities.

Borja is recognised as a venture capital investor with international experience in finance, technology, and innovation. Prior to joining Nauta in 2018, he was a senior investment manager at Telefónica’s corporate venture capital fund. Previously, Borja worked at Kennet Partners, at Barclays Capital as an analyst in the credit trading desk, and as a business consultant at Deloitte UK and Deloitte Spain.

Borja holds an MBA from London Business School, graduated as a Telecommunications Engineer from Seville University (Spain) and is an Associate Chartered Accountant of the ICAEW (UK). He currently resides in Madrid.

Farhan Lalji

Anthemis

Farhan is a Principal at Anthemis, where he leads the BBVA & Anthemis Venture Creation Partnership. He works with companies that are focused on evolving the digital finance and banking experience for consumers and companies. Previously, Farhan was a Partner at Rokk3r Labs, a global venture builder. He was also an executive at PeerIndex, a social media analytics platform that was acquired by Brandwatch in 2014, Yahoo! and various other startups and later-stage private companies. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at King’s College London and a part-time lecturer in managing digital organizations at London Business School.Farhan holds an undergraduate degree from McMaster University in Canada and an MBA from London Business School. When he is not geeking out on technology trends and their impact on society he’s listening to old school hip hop and watching or reading about NBA basketball.

Olivier Gemayel

AWS

Olivier leads AWS business development activities for Game Tech in France & Southern Europe. This means he gets to spend most of his days helping creators, developers, studios and publishers make and distribute amazing games with AWS! Having been passionate about video games for all his life, this is a dream job for him.Prior to this role, he was in charge of Amazon Web Service’s relationship with Venture Capital firms in France and the startups they back, helping them to build great business. In his previous lives, he's also been a multiple-time startup Founder, CEO, Chief Business Development Officer, Business Angel, Hospitality Operator and Restaurant Owner.

When

Wednesday, Feb 24
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM (CET)

Brought to you by

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

MarsBased

CEO & Founder
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Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

MarsBased

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Marc Miralda

TechBuddy Spain

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Victor Horcasitas

American Society of Barcelona

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Stela Z.

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Nasia Kudaibergen

Content Marketer

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Leire Oiarbide

MarsBased

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FERRAN MARTINEZ

Director Startup Grind Andorra

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Francesca Cavanna

Mind the Bridge

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VC Night

Barcelona
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 6:30 PM (CET)

About this event

Panelists

Allie Burns

Borja Breña

Farhan Lalji

Olivier Gemayel

When

Brought to you by

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Brought to you by

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Marc Miralda

Victor Horcasitas

Stela Z.

Nasia Kudaibergen

Leire Oiarbide

FERRAN MARTINEZ

Francesca Cavanna

Global sponsors

Local sponsor

Partners

VC Night

Barcelona Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 6:30 PM (CET)

About this event

Panelists

Allie Burns

Borja Breña

Farhan Lalji

Olivier Gemayel

Allie Burns

Village Capital

Borja Breña

Nauta Capital

Farhan Lalji

Anthemis

Olivier Gemayel

AWS

When

Brought to you by

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

MarsBased

Brought to you by

Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

Marc Miralda

Victor Horcasitas

Stela Z.

Nasia Kudaibergen

Leire Oiarbide

FERRAN MARTINEZ

Francesca Cavanna

Global sponsors

Novel Capital

CMS

Local sponsor

MarsBased

Partners

Talent Garden

Bumerang

Ruckus

Necesitaria.es

Barcelona
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 6:30 PM (CET)