Founder of Stride.VC, artisan capital. Proudly made in London.I help build companies. Follow me on Medium (https://medium.com/@fdestin) and Twitter (@fdestin).Bio:Fred is the founder of Stride.VC, a seed fund operating out of London and currently investing out of its second £123M fund. He served on the boards of Collective Benefits, Silverbird, Hofy, Unibuddy, Cord, SEDNA and others.Prior to Stride, Fred was a General Partner at Accel and Accomplice (f.k.a. Atlas Venture). His portfolio has a total enterprise value of more than $20BN and he has generated in excess of $1.4BN in value to investors for a blended multiple in excess of 7X.Fred was a General Partner with Accel and was the lead investor and board member at Deliveroo (c. $7BN), Pillpack (acq. AMZN for $1BN) and Carwow. Prior to Accel, he was a General Partner at Atlas Venture (now Accomplice) where he invested in and served on the board of Pillpack (acq. by AMZN for $1BN), Zoopla (IPO, $3BN sale), Secret Escapes, Integral Ad Science (partial exit to Vista), TheCurrencyCloud, Kinvey (acq Progress), Lagoa (acq. Autodesk) Dailymotion (acqu. Orange), PriceMinister (acqu. Rakuten) and others. Fred is also a noted blogger and conference keynote, was a founding investor of Seedcamp and on its board for the 4 years and featured on all of Forbes “European Midas List”.Fred grew up in Belgium and graduated from the Solvay Business School (University of Brussels). Find his blog here: https://medium.com/@fdestinShort bio:Fred is the founder of Stride.VC, running two £100M seed stage funds based in London. He was the lead investor and board member for companies such as Cazoo, Zoopla, Deliveroo, Pillpack, Integral Ads, Secret Escapes and others. His portfolio has a total enterprise value of more than $20BN and he has generated in excess of $1.4BN in value to investors for a blended multiple in excess of 7X.Some of my investments:Digital media (DailyMotion, Zoopla, Carwow, Unsplash)E-commerce (Cazoo, Deliveroo, Pillpack, Secret Escapes, PriceMinister)SaaS (Unibuddy, CollectiveBenefits, WeGift, Kinvey, Lagoa)Adtech (Integral Ad Science)Fintech (CurrencyCloud, Silverbird, Triver)Past:Networking Infrastructure (Rainfinity, Kasenna)Entreprise SW (Inxight), FinTech (CapitalIQ), Wireless Apps (Realeyes3D), Security (Vordel)
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