12Mar

Christian Hernandez, Managing Partner @ White Star Capital

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  • enterprise software, international expansion, scale-up, startup, VC, venture capital
Christian Hernandez is a co-founder & Managing Partner at White Star Capital, where he draws on his extensive experience in developing and scaling products & platforms internationally.  Christian discusses: *How regulation and regulators, rather than being a challenge to overcome, can be a huge opportunity for start-ups to create differentiators and barriers to entry  *How to co-develop enterprise technology solutions with clients – helps with funding, customer feedback, etc *How to effectively price innovative enterprise software & Saas products
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19Feb

Zack Urlocker: ZenDesk & MySQL – how to ensure your US software venture succeeds in Europe

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Zack Urlocker helped grow a number of software companies to billion dollar exits - including Active Software, MySQL, Zendesk and most recently Duo Security. And he’s been an advisor and board member for many other successful venture-backed software companies including HubSpot and SugarCRM. He’s also written a rock opera! Zack’s worked with many Tier 1 VCs including Benchmark Capital, CRV, Index Ventures and Matrix Partners and he now lectures at the University of Michigan on Entrepreneurial Leadership.
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13Feb

Steve Hoffmann, Captain & CEO @ Founders Space – an innovation toolkit for your start-up

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  • accelerator, incubator, innovation, startup, unicorns
Steve Hoffmann AKA “Captain Hoff” is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, partner at Founders Fund, An LP in August Capital, and author of the book “Make Elephants Fly”. Steve is also the Captain & CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading incubators and accelerators, with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Steve’s trained hundreds of startup founders and corporate executives in the art of innovation.
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11Feb

StartUp to ScaleUp Game Plan #13: Steve Collins – Partner at Frontline Ventures

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  • scaleup, startup, VC, venture capital
Steve Collins is a Partner at Frontline Ventures - a VC fund investing in early stage B2B software ventures across Europe. Prior to becoming a VC, Steve founded Havok, an animation middleware company for console game development, Kore, developer of the Kore Virtual Machine, and most recently Swrve, the mobile marketing automation platform used by some of the world’s leading brands including Disney, Conde Nast and Ryanair. 
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07Feb

Frederic Halley, NextWorld Capital – How to scale a software venture globally

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  • enterprise software, entrepreneurs, international expansion, talent attraction, venture capital
Frederic Halley is a London-based Partner at NextWorld Capital, a leading Venture Capital fund from Silicon Valley focusing on early revenue investments across the US and Europe. He has a long track record of success in the technology sector both as a senior manager/executive and as an advisor/NED. 
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16Jan

Neil Ryland, CRO @ Peakon – “StartUp, GrowUp, ScaleUp”

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  • enterprise software, international expansion, SaaS, Scale-ups, Start-up Culture
Neil Ryland is the CRO at Peakon - funded by EQT Ventures, Sunstone Capital, IDInvest and Tommy Ahlers – who's SaaS platform helps companies maximise their employee engagement, retention and productivity.  Prior to Peakon, Neil was the Chief Revenue Officer at Huddle, one of Britain’s most successful VC funded enterprise software ventures - Neil re-located to San Francisco to spearhead Huddle’s US market entry.
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13Dec

StartUp to ScaleUp Game Plan #8 – Jon Prideaux, CEO @ Boku on scaling a UK enterprise software venture globally & leading a £125m IPO

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  • CEO, enterprise software, entrepreneurs, international expansion, IPO, mobile technology, Scale-ups
Jon Prideaux is the CEO at BOKU who, on 20 November 2017, went public on AIM at an initial £125m valuation and quickly popped to £160m. Boku’s platform brings merchants and mobile operators together to transform 5 billion mobile phone subscribers into the world’s largest pool of customers. That’s more users than Visa and Mastercard combined! 
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