About the Author | Ken Valledy is the Director of Startup Ecosystems at the Anthesis Group, the world’s leading purpose driven, digitally enabled, science-based activator. Ken provides mentorship support across a range of Startup Accelerator programmes, including; Techstars, BlockDojo, EASI, Baltic Venturest, Mass Challenge and LMarks. He is a regular panelist / speaker at startup related conferences and hosts the popular ‘The Catalysts’ podcast, which focuses on the key benefits of corporates and start-ups working together Before venturing into the world of startups, Ken had over 15 years FMCG/CPG Brand Marketing experience and was a former Brand Director / Consumer Connections Director (Western Europe) at ABInBev. Eamonn Carey is a general partner at Tera Ventures and an investor in 90+ companies across Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States. He started his first company in 2005 and has gone through the ups, downs, highs and lows of the founder journey on three occasions – at least two of which he’ll happily talk about. He’s a regular speaker at major global conferences such as SXSW, Web Summit, Mobile World Congress, Slush and many others, and a contributor to Wired, Techcrunch, the BBC and other media outlets on topics such as technology, entrepreneurship and more. |