Successful investors must be agile partners.
Able to identify the next generation of industry
leaders and agile enough to capture the opportunity.
António Viana-Baptista
Former CEO of Telefónica Internacional, Telefónica Móviles and Telefónica Spain.
Former CEO of Credit Suisse, Spain and Portugal.
Worked with large PE companies (KKR, APAX, Anchorage, Mount Kellett) in the tech and telecom space.
Active in Silicon Valley space since 2009 with lead funds in companies such as JASPER (sold in 2016 to CISCO for $1,4Bn) and RUCKUS (sold in 2016 to Brocade for $1,5Bn)
MBA INSEAD
Louis Toth
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Comcast Ventures; Co-Founder of Comcast’s enterprise technology seed fund, Genacast Ventures.
Headed enterprise technology practice at Comcast Ventures and opened Silicon Valley Comcast Ventures office.
22 years of venture capital experience with over $300M in deployed capital.
Investments include Arroyo Video Systems, AtScale, BNI Video, Broadbus Technologies, CTI Towers, Datastax, EdgeConneX, Half.com, iControl Networks, Maginatics, NDS, Nuera Communications, Uptycs, and Vitrue.
Worked closely with senior Comcast & NBCUniversal executives to develop new products and services and to incubate new business units.
BS Economics Wharton, BS Materials Science & Engineering University of Pennsylvania, MA Lauder Institute, and MBA Wharton
Pedro Silva Pinto
Active start-up investor with past investments in Start-ups since 2014.
Former Director of Credit Suisse having worked in London, Madrid and Lisbon.
Over 18 years experience in investment banking transactions including M&A, IPO, DCM and Leverage Finance.
Former Director of Santander Fixed Income and Derivatives.
ISCTE Management with Major in Finance.
Andrew Cleland
Managing Partner of Comcast Ventures; founder of Comcast Ventures’ consumer seed strategy and entrepreneur-in-residence programs.
Managing Director of Time Warner Investments, leading deep tech investing. Prior to joining the Investments group, led critical strategy and corporate development projects for Time Warner, such as securing $1B investment into AOL from Google and building Time Warner Cable’s DVR strategy.
Previously, was the Chief Operating Officer of TrustTheDJ.com, a UK-based music start-up, and a consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton.
More than 16 years of venture investing experience, deploying over $130M in capital. Notable investments include Fanduel, Data + Math, Regatta Data, and Juganu.
Mentor to several seed stage funds (ERA and Techstars), and regular angel investor.
MA Economics from the University of Edinburgh (1st class honours), and MBA from INSEAD.
Jeff Karras
Managing Director Singtel Innov8, leading Silicon Valley VC fund backed by Singapore Telecom. Former General Partner Silicon Valley based Levensohn Venture Partners.
More than 18 years VC experience in the Silicon Valley with proven investment track record
Exits in companies generating over US$ 20B in market value including Arista, Atheros, Jasper, Ruckus, Maker Studios, Shotspotter, and Cardlytics.
Deeply engaged across the Silicon Valley ecosystem
BS University of Virginia and MBA Wharton
Proud Investors.
From international business leaders
to large foundations.
Our Core LPs are traditional institutional investors, Family offices, and strategic investors. (including Telefónica Group and a number of relevant European players in Retailing, Energy, Transportation, and Industrial groups).