As a part of Black Leaders Month, Startup Grind London will host a panel discussion about "Learning for Founders" with panellists: Cliff Fluet - partner at Lewis Silkin, Kenneth Siber a Head of UK and Ireland, WeWork Labs, and Gary Stewart - CEO + Co-founder of The Nest.
We will follow up with a fireside chat including the Europes's youngest unicorn Markus Villig, CEO & Founder of Taxify.
Markus Villig is Founder and CEO of Bolt.eu, the leading transportation platform in EMEA. He founded the company in 2013, being just 19-years old. He is now the youngest founder of a billion dollar company in Europe as well as the youngest tech CEO in Forbes Europe 30 under 30.
Bolt is the leading European mobility platform that’s focused on making urban travel more affordable, convenient and responsible. The company’s services range from ride-hailing to micro-mobility with e-scooters and electric bikes to food and package delivery.
We invited Markus to share with us key learnings he learned while building Bolt and scaling it into a $2 billion unicorn.
Let's meet after the talk for a virtual business networking at the Remo platform.
Bolt
CEO & Founder
Markus Villig is Founder and CEO of Bolt.eu, leading transportation platform in EMEA. He founded the company in 2013, being just 19-years old, he is now the youngest founder of a billion dollar company in Europe as well as the youngest tech CEO in Forbes Europe 30 under 30.
Markus Villig is Founder and CEO of Bolt.eu, leading transportation platform in EMEA. He founded the company in 2013, being just 19-years old, he is now the youngest founder of a billion dollar company in Europe as well as the youngest tech CEO in Forbes Europe 30 under 30.
The Nest (ex-Wayra UK)
Founder & CEO
WeWork Labs
Head of UK and Ireland
Lewis Silkin
Partner
Gary is CEO of The Nest, a digital platform to improve diversity in entrepreneurship. Gary is ex-Director of Wayra UK and Telefónica Open Innovation. He co-founded Nuroa.es, a Barcelona start-up that raised over €4M in funding before being sold to an Australian competitor. Before becoming an entrepreneur. Gary was the Executive Editor of The Yale Journal at Yale Law School.
Kenneth Siber is a veteran of both the startup and corporate world. Having worked initially for companies such as Mckinsey and Unilever he then went on to start, exit and invest in a variety of startups. He has exited companies to the likes of Fujitsu and PE funds and worked with hundreds of startups as an investor and mentor.
Cliff joined Lewis Silkin LLP as a Partner in April 2006 after over a decade as in-house counsel in the music and broadcast industry. Cliff is now part of the team spearheading our Media & Entertainment sector for the firm and he now acts for some of the world’s largest names in mobile, brands, recorded music, mobile, live music, radio, audio-visual production and online. He also specialises in working with clients whom are embracing content-based entertainment for the first time such as FMCG and lifestyle brand owners, advertising agencies, digital agencies, investment funds and financial institutions. He has a passion for working on innovative new business models, advertiser-funded programming and in the monetisation of format rights.
The Media & Entertainment Group is ranked in the “Legal 500” and “Chambers” and Cliff is ranked as a ‘leading individual’ in both directories.
He is also the founder and a director of "Eleven", a business advisory company working with disruptive business models in the world of Digital Media, Film and Sport.
Director at Startup Grind London. Founding Partner at IPM Growth, a VC company investing in top tech companies from Central & Eastern Europe. Board member at Matsuko.com, Advisory board at Tachyum.com, Acquisition Committee at Tate (REEAC).
Founder of BrainTrust, a think-tank helping top tech CEOs and founders in Central Europe scale globally. Ex-Orange, ex-Reebok. Marian was featured in New Europe 100 (organised by Financial Times, Google, Respublica and Visegrad Fund), the list of outstanding challengers who are leading world class innovation from Central and Eastern Europe.
Petar Savic is an entrepreneur and super-connector with a key interest in acceleration within an Emerging Deep Technologies, bridging the gap between technical, creative and commercial requirements.
Moreover, he is the founder of a London based deep tech VC fund called Supreme Factory connecting the Balkans with the UK and beyond. Co-Director of Startup Grind London, the world’s largest startup community designed to educate, inspire and connect entrepreneurs.
Mentoring at over 20 accelerators, incubators, and corporate innovation programmes like One Tech by Capital Enterprise, P4 by UCL Precision Medicine, NatWest Accelerator, Newable, Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP) by DIT, Kickstart London, Hackney Business, Magic Village London, Acorn Aspirations, Teens in AI, Spark Mostar, Business Incubator Novi Sad, Founders4Schools, Swisscontact, Escape The City, WeWork Labs, Startup Grind, Google for Startups, cLab Ventures, Startup Campus, etc.
Petar is a board member of initiatives such as Serbian Entrepreneurs, European Blockchain HUB, London Tech Advocates Balkans.
He is a Trustee of Primrose HIll Community Association, with a mission to create the first London's smart village. In the local OnTheHill magazine he writes a monthly column about entrepreneurship and supports Primrose Hill entrepreneurs.
Petar is a visiting lecturer at the Imperial College London, and a mentor at the top UK universities including University College London, Russell Group, London Business School, Cambridge Judge School, Queen Mary University of London, Hult Business School...
He was a Marketing and Events coordinator at the UCL Advances, at the time the largest entrepreneurial department in the world, working with more than 400 entrepreneurs and over 500 community events on pro bono bases. He was an Envoy at the Department for International Trade UK working on Western Balkans summit project.
Petar’s previous experience includes more than 15 years as an Head of Digital in corporate, government and culture sectors, with experience in Marketing, Innovation, and emerging deep technologies such as Fintech, Health, Food, Immersive and Digital Media, including the role of Head of Digital at EXIT Festival, the largest music festival in South East Europe.
For the past 6 years he advised some of the best startups and investment funds in the UK.
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