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Carl Fritjofsson
Carl Fritjofsson is a General Partner at Creandum based in San Francisco, where he focuses on AI infrastructure, vertical AI, and consumer bets. A Swede who co-founded the rewards startup Wrapp and the bootstrapped ad network AdProfit before turning investor, he built Creandum's Silicon Valley office and has backed companies including Cornershop (sold to Uber for $3.5B), Pipe, GoPuff, Cast AI, Planhat, SafetyWing, and H Company.
Nicolas Meunier
Nicolas Meunier is the Founder and CEO of talent.io, a Paris-based reverse recruitment platform that flips the traditional hiring model on its head - instead of candidates chasing companies, vetted tech companies apply to pre-screened software engineers. A Stanford-trained computer scientist and Ecole Polytechnique alumnus, Meunier co-founded talent.io in 2015 after previously co-founding CruiseWise (acquired by TripAdvisor) and working as a senior software engineer at Cruise Critic. Under his leadership, talent.io has grown to serve 2,000+ tech companies and 150,000+ developers across 8+ European cities, raising $11M in funding from top investors including Alven Capital and Ventech.
Adrian Radu
Adrian Radu is a Partner at Khosla Ventures, focused on early-stage investing from New York. Born in the UK to Romanian immigrant parents - his father worked in the satellite industry - he built his career from investment banking at Qatalyst Partners in London (advising on landmark European tech M&A) to helping establish Lightspeed Venture Partners' European presence and later opening their New York office. His portfolio spans frontier companies including Stripe, Anduril, Wiz, ClickUp, Flex, and Lightyear. A self-described top 0.1% Daft Punk listener and lifelong Chelsea FC supporter, he plays 100+ padel games a year and channels an obsession with technology that began watching his father work in satellites.
Julien Bek
Julien Bek is a Partner at Sequoia Capital's London office, one of the most storied venture capital firms in the world. A Geneva native who studied at Warwick Business School and the University of Cambridge, he started his career as an entrepreneur — founding one of Europe's first e-cigarette companies at age 18 — before transitioning into venture capital at Global Founders Capital and then Accel Partners. At Accel he backed breakout companies like Revolut, Melio, Miro, and BeReal. He joined Sequoia in September 2023 as a London-based partner focused on early-stage European and global tech companies. In March 2026, he published the widely-read thesis 'Services: The New Software,' arguing that the next trillion-dollar company will sell outcomes rather than software tools, using AI to automate service delivery at scale.
Lea Bajc
Lea Bajc is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and board member with over two decades of experience spanning Silicon Valley and Europe. Born in Croatia and raised in Sweden, she holds degrees from Stockholm School of Economics, HEC Paris, and Harvard Business School. At Northzone Ventures, she co-led landmark investments in iZettle ($2.2B exit to PayPal) and Trustpilot (LSE IPO). She later co-founded Averon in Silicon Valley, raising $20M from Marc Benioff. Now based in Paris, she invests through Blue Horizon and Ozone X Ventures (backing underrepresented founders), serves on corporate boards, and is authoring 'Love After Love' — a forthcoming book reframing divorce as an opportunity for reinvention. A Kauffman Fellow and Forbes Technology Council member, she speaks six languages and is a certified nutritionist.