Almost Founders

Ivan Fernandez Lucas is just 22 years old, but has already founded and sold a startup and started his own VC fund Enzo Ventures.  They invest into young founders working pre-seed SaaS, marketplaces and e-commerce startups.  If this sounds like you, email Ivan at [email protected].

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Fred Destin is the founder of £100m seed-stage tech VC fund Stride.VC.  Before Stride, he was partner at Accel and Atlas Venture. He has been the lead investor and served on the board of some of the world's most exciting startups, including Deliveroo, Cazoo, Zoopla, Unibuddy, PillPack, Secret Escapes, Dailymotion, and more.

Fred is a true visionary and shared with us his thoughts on early traction and investing in student founders.

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Meet and network with Alexander Buzin, Computer Science student, Senior Software Engineer and Founder & CEO of Projectium.Network.

Projectium.Network is a networking platform that helps early-stage startups connect with co-founders and contributors community.  Sign up here for Projectium.Network.
Sign up here for the Projectium Discord Community.

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Matt Clifford, Co-Founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, the world's leading talent investor. They literally pay you to quit your job, find a co-founder and start a tech startup. The total value of the companies created through Entrepreneur First is around $3b.

Listen to Matt's Podcast here. Sign up to Matt's Newsletter here.

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Learn how Rahul Rana got his internship at Lux Capital through his book Making Moonshots, a deep-dive into the mindsets, philosophies, and strategies that are conducive to building moonshot companies. He's incredibly driven and ambitious, and only 20 years old!


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Daniel Schreiber, Co-founder and CEO of Lemonade, $6 B Market Cap. 

What you'll learn:

• The trifactor of industry attractiveness
• How to re-imagine an entire industry
• Can ignorance be valuable?
• Setting & managing expectations

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Meet and network with Michael Sikand, all the way from the University of Michigan, Michael is the founder of the exciting media brand OurFuture. Check out the OurFuture Podcast and Newsletter!


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Fredrik Gernandt Segerby - Co-Founder at Tailify, influencer marketing platform serving 30% of all Fortune500 companies across 100 countries.

• Friends as co-founders. Smart or dumb?
•  Why you should avoid using paid advertising in your early days
• When can it actually be helpful?

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Meet and network with Filippo, a last-year business student at Cass Business School that has built and grown massively his digital advertisement company Ares Advertising.

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