With an educational background in Economics & Finance, I raised my first angel investment at 19 for a financial analysis startup Midas Trading. It failed, was a great experience, but failed nonetheless. With a few other humbling projects in the meantime, one that left particularly fond memories was Tell Your Startup, where we recorded fundraising videos with startups we found promising. This was my first real interaction with venture capital. By 21 I'd founded a subsidiary and run sales and marketing for a financial broker Errante, and worked with early-stage companies through a venture studio Evernomic. Evernomic is where I picked up my affinity towards media and building, along with getting to know how little I actually know. I then founded Patrons Group, my favourite project yet. I spend most of my time reading about European companies, writing about them, and figuring out which ones are built to last. I started The Venturist, first of many of our upcoming projects, because I wanted a publication that covered European venture the way I'd want to read about it: optimistic, opinionated, and useful to the people actually making decisions. My mission now is to build an ecosystem where quality, investing, and attention feed each other. I believe the best generation of European tech companies hasn't been built yet, and I plan to be involved when it happens. Because every great deal had a patron first.
