Startup Grind Christmas Party: Fireside Chat with Tom Hulme, General Partner at GV (Google Ventures)

Dec 13, 2017, 5:15 – 9:00 PM (UTC)

London

Wework Moorgate, 5 Fore Street, London, EC2Y 5EJ

We are delighted to invite you to celebrate Christmas with us. We willl to 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 Google invests and why.

In-person event

About this event

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, IDEO’s 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 UK’s Top 100 Digital Power Brokers and the Evening Standard list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People.

Tom earned a first class bachelor’s 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.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Tom Hulme

    Google Ventures

    General Partner

When

When

Wednesday, December 13, 2017
5:15 PM – 9:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

Welcome
Fireside Chat
Christmas Party, Networking
Finish

Organizers

  • Prem Sangeet

    Supreme Factory

    London Director

  • Sam Adekunle

    Grone Collective

    Co-Director

  • Gabriel Pizzolante

    UK GAP Consulting

    Ambassador

  • Matt Lamb

    Howard Kennedy

    Ambassador

  • James Lethem

    Nascence

    Ambassador

  • Elinor Honigstein

    Ambassador

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