Different Approaches to Venture Capital

Kerry co-founded IQ Capital in 2006 and has over 20 years deep-tech venture capital experience. Originally with BDO Stoy Hayward, she joined Venture Technologies in 1998, a $50m deep-tech family office venture capital firm investing in the first wave of UK internet companies. She has focussed on early stage technology investing ever since. Kerry specialises in GTM, Strategic Marketing, Competitive Intelligence and board dynamics. She sits on several boards including FNA, Cybersmart, BMLL, Divido, Apperio, Neurovalens and Synthesized and has conducted several IPOs and exits. She is known as a contributor to best practice in venture capital following her studies, including an in-depth study on Investment Committee best practice and decision making. She is the Vice-Chair of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School).

Key member of the TMT investment team sourcing start up opportunities • 25 years in the US high-tech, including as a senior executive at a Microsoft portal •Experienced VC /angel with 100+ investments and 18 successful exits • Taught at UC Berkeley, New York University, and UCSF • MBA from Boston University, PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences

George is a serial entrepreneur, gaining operational experience as part of the founding teams at three tech companies, all of which are still live and successful today. George went on to become an investor at a London based VC for several years, where he was responsible for deal flow and sourcing, as well as providing a strong insight into their MADTech investments Greg is deeply embedded in the European Fintech ecosystem having notably built the U.K. Treasury’s first Fintech programme at Tech Nation, where he also focused on Cybersecurity and AI. Prior to this he was an investor in a Silicon Valley-based VC fund. Greg spent the first few years of his career at Deutsche Bank having completed a degree in Economics

Edward Knight has had a multi-decade career as a leader in European banking. Most recently, he worked at Goldman Sachs for just under fifteen years where he was a partner in the equities division, establishing the disruptive technology practice, before retiring at the end of 2018. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director at Citigroup Global Markets for just under a decade. Edward works on Antler’s capital strategy and fund structuring globally, amongst other things.