Wolfgang Männel is the Head of Venture Capital at Blockchain Founders Group. His job is to figure out where the world will be in 5 to 10 years and advise on the right teams and ideas to back today. In over 30 years of his international career, he has combined experience as a venture capital and private equity investor, consultant, and entrepreneur. He considers it his greatest privilege to talk to brilliant founders every day.
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Dr. René Andres is an investment manager at European Investment Fund (EIF) with a focus on venture capital fund investments in tech as well as business angels co-investments. He has a background in data science and IT. Furthermore, he works as
Advisory Board Member at Cavalry Ventures since 2021.
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Dr. Elad Verbin is a Berlin-based Computer Scientist. He invests in pre-seed deep-tech software startups across Europe: in cryptography, machine learning, decentralization, databases, and more. His fund, Lunar Ventures, invests in horizontal algorithm-based European moonshots.
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Olaf Hannemann is a Co-Founder of CV VC AG, an early-stage VC investor in startups that build applications based on blockchain technology. Based out of Zug, Switzerland, the heart of the "CryptoValley", CV VC also operates its own ecosystem business CV Labs, with blockchain dedicated co-working spaces, summits & events, startup competitions, advisory and running the incubation program for early-stage investments for CV VC. Before co-founding CV VC, Olaf spent 20 years at JPMorgan in Investment Banking & Corporate Finance in Frankfurt, London, and Zürich.
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Simon Leicht is Partner at Possible Ventures. Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology (web3, bio, climate) to positively impact people and the planet. Possible invests in the early stages, actively supporting founders via their collective of global entrepreneurs. Before founding Possible, Simon built multiple tech companies and was active as an angel investor, mostly in fintech and crypto. Simon spends most of his time on web3 and the intersection of web3 with other frontier technologies.
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Patrick Van de Mosselaer discovered crypto in 2016 and was immediately intrigued with the potential of the technology, and how it could be shaping the future of money, finance, media, data etc. Patrick is a serial entrepreneur and investor. After successfully starting, scaling, and exiting multiple ventures in Western Europe, Patrick co-founded Tioga Capital. Earlier in his career, Patrick worked as a strategy consultant at Roland Berger.
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