Fred Destin
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Founder at Stride.VC. Endlessly curious. at Stride.VC
Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom 33 work roles 2 schools
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Founder at Stride.VC. Endlessly curious.
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United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

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Fred Destin is listed as Founder at Stride.VC. Endlessly curious. at Stride.VC, based in United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at drkw.com, phone signal with area code 788, 650, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Fred Destin.

Fred Destin previously worked as Founder at Stride.Vc and Board Member and Lead Investor at Buena. Fred Destin holds Master Of Business Administration (Mba) from Hkust Business School.

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About Fred Destin

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)

Listed skills include Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, E Commerce, and 17 others.

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Stride.VC
Stride.Vc
Founder at Stride.VC. Endlessly curious.
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33 roles · 33 years

Fred Destin work experience

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Founder

Current

London, England, GB

Artisan venture capital, UK + France focused. First fund closed 2018.We’re easy to approach but tough to get money from. We favour prototypes over powerpoints. We write meaningful cheques at the stage it really matters.. We respect the journey and embrace the chaos. We’re hands on where it really counts and keep our distance when the time is right. We.

Sep 2017 - Present

Board Member And Lead Investor

Current

Berlin, DE

May 2023 - Present

Board Member And Lead Investor

Current

London, GB

Dec 2022 - Present

Board Member And Lead Investor

Current

Gent, Vlaanderen, BE

May 2022 - Present

Board Member

Current

London, England, GB

May 2019 - Present

Board Member

Current

London, England, GB

Jan 2020 - Present

Board Member

London, GB

Aug 2021 - Jul 2024

Board Member

London, England, GB

Feb 2020 - Jan 2023

Board Member

San Francisco, California, US

Aug 2019 - Jul 2022

Board Member

London, GB

Led Series A, April 2019.

Apr 2019 - May 2022

Board Observer

Jow

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

Aug 2019 - Oct 2021

Board Member

Led early Series A with Founder Collective in Summer 2013 for Atlas Venture as the company exited Techstars. Partner to management from day one. Led Series B on behalf of Accel in 2014. Exited to AMZN for $1BN in 2018.

Jun 2013 - Dec 2017

Partner

Palo Alto, CA, US

General Partner at Accel London Raised $500M Accel London V. Lead investor in Deliveroo, Pillpack (AMZN), Carwow. Took board position at GoCardless, KNC. Left to create Stride.VC.

Sep 2014 - May 2017

Board Member

London, London, GB

Led Series B. Company recently raised a significant growth round from Vitruvian. Leader in new car sales in the UK by market share.

Jan 2015 - Apr 2017

Board Member

Blackfriars, England, GB

Global leader in food-on-demand. Led series B when the company was 23 people, joined Martin Mignot from Index on the board. IPO

Nov 2014 - Apr 2017

Board Member

London, England, GB

I seed funded the company and attracted well know angels eg Sherry Coutu or Andy Phillips. Led every round of financing. Only VC board member from foundation to IPO in 2014, after exactly 7 years. $3BN exit to Silverlake.

Jul 2007 - Jul 2014

Partner

Cambridge, MA, US

Early stage VC. Ten great years. Drove the reinvention of the tech franchise with my awesome partners Jeff Fagnan and Ryan Moore into what is today Accomplice. Delivered great numbers.

Mar 2004 - Jun 2014

Board Member

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Seed investor and led Series A investment with Real Ventures. Acquired by Autodesk.

Nov 2012 - May 2014

Board Member

London, England, GB

I worked with founder Nigel Verdon after meeting him in April 2010 to clean up his capital structure and recruit a great CEO (Michael Laven) to fill out the team. I invested in November 2011 and brought in Notion Capital in 2012 to augment the Series A. Raised from GV and Sapphire and sold for $1BN to VISA.

Nov 2011 - May 2014

Board Member

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Data Backend as a Service, focused on Mobile. I backed Sravish out of Techstars, helped him syndicate our $2M Series Seed and assist in setting strategy and recruiting talent. Avalon which we had invited into the seed led the Series A round for Kinvey. Sold to Progress Software for $49M in cash.

Jul 2011 - May 2014

Board Member

Somerville, MA, US

Predictive analytics company. Partially buyout by Insight for $850M and acquired for $2.65BN by Mastercard.

2011 - May 2014

Board Member

New York, NY, US

Adtech company based in New York. Led $7M investment in July 2010, pre commercial launch. Personally recruited CEO Scott Knoll. Partial sale to VISTA for $850M followed by $4.5BN IPO. My largest cash exit.

Jul 2010 - May 2014

Board Member Then Observer

London, GB

Investor and board member on seed and Co-Lead with Octopus Ventures on Series A. Switched to observer after Index-led Series B. Company reportedly planning IPO.

Apr 2011 - Apr 2014

Board Member

Paris, Ile De France, FR

DailyMotion is the #1 independent video sharing websiteCo-led early Series A with Partech, backing a team of 5 at the time. Played a very active role throughout the company's early days, from structuring processes to recruitment (e.g. sourced US VP Joy Marcus) to strategic deals negotiation. Partly negotiated exit to Orange / France Telecom with new CEO.

Aug 2006 - Jan 2013

Board Member

GB

Seedcamp is a seed funding initiative started by Atomico, Index and Atlas Venture and a few others to support European innovation. The programme is now backed by most of the market's VCs and has become a leading light in showcasing European innovation. Co-founding investor with Index, Atomico, angels; active board member for 4 years.

Feb 2008 - Feb 2012

Board Member

Kds

Issy-les-Moulineaux, Idf, FR

SaaS Leader in travel and expense management for corporates. Co-led first VC round with Accel Partners (Harry Nelis). Sourced through Luc Hardy. Sold to AMEX.

Aug 2005 - Jun 2011

Board Member

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

PriceMinister was a top 3 French e-commerce site based on a trusted marketplaceconcept. Company sold to Rakuten for $250M in July 2010.

Feb 2007 - Jul 2010

Partner

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

DKW backed fund focused on early to mid stage software investments in entreprise IT and communications. I co-ran the OM Technolgy Investments portfolio and sat on the Boards of, among others, Inxight Software, Kasenna Inc, Vordel Ltd. & Capital IQ.

Mar 2001 - Mar 2004

Investment Manager

Speed Ventures

Rode The Great Bubble in one of the most exhilarating vehicles to do it in. Discovered how much I loved innovation and how hard it is to build real businesses. Reviewed about 50 business plans a week, did one investment, refinanced once then bust. Speed Ventures itself was a lab of all that was good and bad about the era. Speed Ventures raised EUR70M in.

Feb 2000 - Mar 2001

Executive Director

New York, New York, US

Derivatives Structuring and Marketing for weird and wonderful creidt, FX and interest rate driven tax derivatives on the European market

1998 - 2000 ~2 yrs

Associate

New York, NY, US

Derivatives marketing (interest rates, credit, FX) and hybrid capital and balance sheet structuring(including risk management, credit derivatives, other off-balance sheet securitisation mechanisms)

1993 - 1997 ~4 yrs
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Fred Destin education

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Hkust Business School

Ma, Finance

Solvay Brussels School Of Economics And Management
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Fred Destin works for Stride.VC.

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Fred Destin is listed as Founder at Stride.VC. Endlessly curious. at Stride.VC.

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Fred Destin is based in United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United Kingdom while working with Stride.VC.

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Fred Destin has worked for Stride.Vc, Buena, Kashmir Intelligence, Conceivable Life Sciences, and Triver.

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Fred Destin holds Master Of Business Administration (Mba) from Hkust Business School.

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Fred Destin is listed with skills including Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, E Commerce, Strategy, Investments, Business Strategy, and Saas.

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