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PROfounders Capital

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Ofounders Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that invests in technology-enabled businesses across Europe.

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01.06.2009

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Established in 2009, PROfounders Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund for founders, backed by founders. They invest in disruptive European companies that leverage technology to transform and improve customer experiences, with a focus on sectors including Mobile, Travel, E-Commerce, FinTech, and B2B SaaS. They invest at the early venture phase, typically when the company is raising £/€ 1-3m to scale, and aim to be efficient and productive with entrepreneurs' time.
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Brent Hoberman
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Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip & made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world's top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List.

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Jonathan Goodwin
Jonathan Goodwin

Jonathan Goodwin

Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham.

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Jonathan Goodwin

Sean Seton-Rogers
Sean Seton-Rogers

Sean Seton-Rogers

Sean is a founding Partner at PROfounders Capital. Since 2000, Sean has been investing in technology companies across both the US and Europe at both Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe) and Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Boston. In addition to the PROfounders portfolio companies, he has in the past worked closely with others such as Bebo, Wonga.com, and ConstantContact. Sean has also worked as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company, in both the US and Europe. Sean received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. In addition, Sean graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.

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Peter Dubens
Peter Dubens

Peter Dubens

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Andreia Campos

Andreia Campos

PROfounders Promoter

Venkat Kondragunta

Venkat Kondragunta

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Joe Bond

Joe Bond

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Mark Zaleski

Mark Zaleski

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Peter Dubens

Peter Dubens

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Michael Birch

Michael Birch

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Rogan Angelini-Hurll

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