We are delighted to invite you to celebrate Christmas with us. We will host a fireside chat with General Partner at GV (Google Ventures), Tom Hulme. We will be talking about venture capital investing, how to find great companies to invest in, how to spot great startups, how GV invests and why. Tom is a General Partner of GV (Google Ventures), based in London. GV has $2.4bn under asset management; Tom's investments include Lemonade.com, Cambridge Epigenetix, Oxford Sciences Innovation, Weaveworks and Currency Cloud. Previously, while leading IDEO's startup efforts globally, he founded OpenIDEO, IDEOās open innovation platform that has over 150,000 users from more than 170 countries. The platform allows a global community of users to tackle challenges for social good. Tom has also been an Angel Investor in 21 startups; his seed investments include MileIQ (exited to Microsoft), Divimove (exited to Freemantle), GoCardless, Cliqz (exited to Burda), Smarkets, Llustre (exited to Fab), Massive Health (exited to Jawbone), LostMyName, Nested, Tray.io and MoveGuides. Tom's TED talk on design has been viewed over 1 million times, he has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is featured in WIRED UKās Top 100 Digital Power Brokers and the Evening Standard list of Londonās 1000 Most Influential People. Tom earned a first class bachelorās degree in physics from the University of Bristol, an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he received the Baker Scholar Award of high distinction and an Honorary Doctorate in design from University of the Arts London.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
5:15 PM ā 9:00 PM UTC
5:15 PM | Welcome |
5:30 PM | Fireside Chat |
6:30 PM | Christmas Party, Networking |
9:00 PM | Finish |
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