2021 Startup Grind Europe

Name: 2021 Startup Grind Europe
Start: 2021-06-29T03:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-06-30T13:00:00-04:00

Santiago
Jun 29 - 30, 2021, 3:00 AM (GMT-4)

Startup Grind Europe: The marquee tech event for startup teams, founders, and innovators across Europe.

About this event

Held online this year, Startup Grind Europe will bring together thousands of startups, investors, and innovators for conversations around the future of startups, funding and technology. With our all new digital platform, attendees will have access to exclusive content, invaluable networking, partner perks, and more. Join us and the most innovative startup teams in Europe on June 30. If you're a startup, be sure to apply for startup summit on June 29.

Speakers

Yoni Assia

eToro

Co-Founding CEO

See Bio
Sacha Michaud

Glovo

Co-Founder + Head of Public Affairs

See Bio
Matt Miller

Sequoia Capital

Partner

See Bio
Bridget Perry

Contentful

CMO

See Bio
Sten Saar

Zego

CEO

See Bio
Ira Krachanovskaya

Launchpad

Sr. Marketing Partner

See Bio
Harrison Rose

Paddle

Co-founder + Chief Strategy Officer

See Bio
Erika Batista

On Deck

Head of International

See Bio
Christopher Herd

Fistbase

CEO

See Bio
Ben Marrel

Breega

Co-Founding Partner

See Bio
Kate Afanasyeva

Google

Growth Marketing

See Bio
Jason Williamson

Oracle

VP, Oracle for Startups & Oracle for Research

See Bio

Yoni Assia

eToro

Yoni is the CEO of eToro, the world's leading social investment network. Yoni showed great interest in finance and computer science since his youth, and so decided to merge his passions. In 2007, he founded eToro with the vision of opening up the global markets so that everyone can trade and invest in a simple and transparent way. Today, he oversees a multi-asset platform that enables a 20 million strong community to connect, share, trade and invest in the global financial markets. Yoni is a member of the YPO, and was included by Financial News in its prestigious Fintech 40 ranking and by City A.M. as a Fintech 100 top influencer. He was named as one of Fortune's 40 under 40 in 2020.

Sacha Michaud

Glovo

"Sacha Michaud is the co-founder and Vice-President of Public Affairs at Glovo, one of the world’s fastest-growing on-demand delivery players. After launching his first company at 25, LatinRed, which went on to become the world’s largest Spanish-speaking internet services provider, he then joined Betfair. He spent nine years leading the Iberia team for the online gambling giant and helping their global expansion. In late 2014, he decided to launch an ‘everything-on-demand’ service and began talking to investors. Soon after he was introduced to Oscar Pierre, who was about to launch a similar project, and he decided to join him. Together they founded Glovo."

Matt Miller

Sequoia Capital

Matt Miller is a partner at Sequoia focused on early and growth stage investments in technology companies. A self-proclaimed nerd from an early age, Matt started building computers and writing code at 12 years old in his mother’s kitchen. He has worked as an entrepreneur, an advisor and now an investor. At Sequoia, Matt has worked closely with companies like Carbon Black, Confluent, Docker, Fishtown Analytics, Graphcore, n8n, Simplisafe, Tecton and Tessian. Prior to Sequoia, Matt worked at Goldman Sachs and graduated from Brigham Young University. In his spare time, Matt is wrangling three young kids with his wife and looking for people with whom he can practice his Swedish.

Bridget Perry

Contentful

Bridget Perry spent the past 20 years leading marketing at established and early-stage technology companies. She led Adobe’s commercial marketing through its transition to SaaS and launch of a digital experience platform. Most recently, Bridget led Adobe’s marketing across EMEA. Bridget also held leadership roles at Microsoft across enterprise marketing, partnerships and sales. She got her start in technology at a digital agency, incubating early-stage ventures and helping established brands adopt digital. Bridget holds a BA from Boston College and an MBA from Yale School of Management. Outside of work, Bridget loves spending time with her family and outdoors.

Sten Saar

Zego

Sten Saar has been an entrepreneur and a leader since an early age, founding a number of companies and joining other notable UK-based start-ups such as One Fine Stay and Deliveroo, at a very early stage. Sten currently works as CEO (and is a Co-Founder) at insurtech company, Zego, presiding over a team of around 250 employees and counting, who use an innovative combination of best-in-class technology and sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money.

Ira Krachanovskaya

Launchpad

Results driven, growth focused marketing leader with 7 years of experience across B2C, B2B and D2C sectors at start-up and scale-up levels. Having worked as Head of Growth Marketing at Badoo/Bumble, Ira currently leads marketing for Launchpad and it’s portfolio of 5 technology-focused start-ups.

Harrison Rose

Paddle

Harrison Rose is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Paddle. Harrison first began working in software at the age of 16 while still in school, and at 18 co-founded Paddle. He leads Paddle's go-to-market and commercial efforts and has helped grow the business into a leading revenue delivery platform powering the growth of over 2000 software businesses in 245+ countries.

Erika Batista

On Deck

Erika Batista is the Head of International at On Deck. Before that, she was founding team member and director at the European accelerator The Family. She has been working with early stage founders for nearly a decade, and her specialties include fundraising, education, and community building.

Christopher Herd

Fistbase

Chris Herd is the Founder & CEO of Firstbase. Firstbase is an all-in-one provisioning platform for remote teams. Their platform lets companies setup, supply, maintain, manage and retrieve all the physical equipment remote workers need to do great work at home as a monthly subscription.

Ben Marrel

Breega

Ben's experience as a founder and his passion for entrepreneurship led him to co-found Breega, a founder-friendly European VC specialised in financing early-stage tech startups from PreSeed to Series B stage. Prior to that, Ben debuted his entrepreneurial journey by launching FiftyFour, the first financial rating platform for SME’s in Africa, and then Rugby Division, a disruptive rugbywear brand. He began his career in corporate finance, working on large cross-border M&A deals and Series D+ in tech for Macquarie Bank in London and Sydney.Today, Ben & Breega advise and finance highly promising startups such as Curve, Cuvva, Exotec, Ibanfirst, udelv or NinetyNine with the aim of propelling them to global success. #entrepreneur / #VC / #techlover / #sportaddict For more info : www.breega.com

Kate Afanasyeva

Google

Kate leads Growth Marketing for EMEA Google Store. She volunteers as Google for Startups Accelerator Mentor and Femtech Lab Marketing Advisor to mentor startups on go-to-market and marketing strategy. Kate is ex-Marketing Lead for Yandex Internal Incubator where she led marketing for new experimental products and has more than 5 years of experience with various marketing channels and tactics from paid media, to brand campaigns, to market research and positioning.

Jason Williamson

Oracle

Jason Williamson is vice president of the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem, Oracle’s startup program for entrepreneurs worldwide. In this capacity, he leads the business development initiatives and strategies across the program’s key audiences, including startups, customers, partners and Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Jason was at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he created and led several key initiatives within the investment and startup community. He has a background in both Fortune 500 firms and the startup world. Among his startup efforts, he co-founded the construction industry’s first CRM SaaS offering, an International NGO for Entrepreneurial Development, and is currently launching a company in the pediatric healthcare space. Jason also served as an assistant professor for five years at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and has authored three books. He served his country as a United States Marine and lives in Raleigh with his wife and four children, where he coaches high school girls’ basketball, drinks sweet tea and eats bbq as much as possible.