Before joining Seedcamp, Kirsten was Project Manager at E-Synergy where she managed Investment Readiness Programmes in London, Belfast and continental Europe, sourced dealflow for investment opportunities and managed the Company’s angel network. Kirsten has worked with over 200 start-up companies across Europe helping them prepare to take on equity investment and in many cases making the introductions that have led to successfully raising this finance.

Kirsten received a BA (hons) degree in Business Management from Buckingham University and went to school in Arnhem (The Netherlands) before that. She has also completed her IMC.

After work, she enjoys socialising with friends and family, watching or participating in various sports and loves good food and wine.

Originally launched in Zagreb, Croatia, Kolektiva was also the first group buying site in Serbia (www.kolektiva.rs) modeled after the Groupon concept.

Today, Kolektiva is the leading Internet couponing platform in the Adriatic/Balkan region and provides attractive vouchers for lifestyle and leisure activities at restaurants, spas, theaters and more. Kolektiva has recently announced it has secured multiple rounds of investments from Rebate Networks.

Headquartered in Belgrade, with offices in Tel Aviv and Dublin, Nordeus constantly engages with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Faculty of Mathematics providing students and graduates a unique chance of starting their professional careers among the rock-star development team that stands behind the World’s most popular multiplayer sports game – Top Eleven.

Branko has previously worked at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, the largest one in Europe, together with Milan Jovović and Ivan Stojisavljević, the co-founders of Nordeus.

Before starting vox.io, Tomaž was the main creative at MarandLab, a division of Marand, based in Ljubljana, where he used to contribute in form of ideas and product innovation. His work at Marand has been rewarded in Slovenia and abroad.

Tomaž is also the founding organizer of MobileMonday Slovenia, a monthly series of mobile related events.

In Germany he learned the great advantages of freedom and a multicultural environment.
After high school he decided to move back with the family to Serbia.
During studies in Serbia, he worked as a DJ in Germany and as a translator in Serbia.

Since he comes from an entrepreneurial family, he started together with his brother Nenad the internet company Limundo.
The goal was to give people in Serbia the great possibilities the internet and especially e-commerce was able to deliver in other countries.

In 2009-2010 the company, with Vladimir as chairman,
was able to attract investments now near 1mil EUR, having now over 30 employees.

Katy represents Eden Ventures, an early stage software fund investing in technology companies in the telecommunications software, enterprise software, SaaS, digital media, e-commerce, internet, social media and mobile sectors. Katy joined Eden in 2008 to bring product expertise to the team. This enables both Eden’s investment decisions and provides support to the portfolio.

She joined the Eden team from Orange, where she worked for 8 years in a variety of national and international marketing roles, from product development through to product marketing, product management and segment strategy.

Katy focuses primarily on b2b opportunities including SaaS, mobile, storage and virtualization, enterprise software and virtual worlds.

As well as editing TechCrunch Europe, Mike is involved in a project to bring European technology entrepreneurs and investors together in a club environment called TechHub (@TechHub), in London initially.

A long time journalist, Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the European edition of The Industry Standard magazine. Since 1996 he has launched or re-launched numerous media web sites and in 2000 he was nominated as NetMedia’s European Internet Journalist of the Year.

In 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club. In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was awarded the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine.

In 2009 it was named as one of the Top 10 blogs out of the UK. Also in 2009 he was named one of the Top 10 bloggers on Twitter in the UK. In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. In April 2010 he was named as one of Britain’s Top 100 “digital power-brokers” by Wired UK magazine. In April 2010 TechCrunch Europe was shortlisted in the Specialist Digital Publisher category of the prestigious UK-based Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards.

In November 2010 he was named as one of London’s most influential people in New Media and “king of dotcom commentators ” by The Evening Standard Newspaper. IN February he was listed as one of the Top 100 most influential people on Twitter in the UK. He’s ranked as in the top five of the UK’s 100 most influential journalists online. He has spoken at the prestigious Monaco Media Forum and Le Web, among many other conferences. Mike is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg.

Mike’s personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.