Fred Destin

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Founder at Stride.VC. Endlessly curious. @ Stride.VC
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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)

Fred Destin's Current Company Details
Stride.VC

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Founder at Stride.VC. Endlessly curious.
Fred Destin Work Experience Details
  • Stride.Vc
    Founder
    Stride.Vc Sep 2017 - Present
    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 ensure that every board meeting is a whiteboard meeting.
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  • Buena
    Board Member And Lead Investor
    Buena May 2023 - Present
    Berlin, De
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  • Kashmir Intelligence
    Board Member And Lead Investor
    Kashmir Intelligence Mar 2024 - Present
    London, London, Gb
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  • Conceivable Life Sciences
    Board Member And Lead Investor
    Conceivable Life Sciences Nov 2022 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
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  • Triver
    Board Member And Lead Investor
    Triver Dec 2022 - Present
    London, Gb
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  • Techwolf
    Board Member And Lead Investor
    Techwolf May 2022 - Present
    Gent, Vlaanderen, Be
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  • Unibuddy
    Board Member
    Unibuddy May 2019 - Present
    London, England, Gb
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  • Onsi
    Board Member
    Onsi Jan 2020 - Present
    London, England, Gb
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  • Hofy
    Board Member
    Hofy Aug 2021 - Jul 2024
    London, Gb
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  • Sedna
    Board Member
    Sedna Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
    London, England, Gb
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  • Strapi
    Board Member
    Strapi Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
    San Francisco, California, Us
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  • Wegift
    Board Member
    Wegift Apr 2019 - May 2022
    London, Gb
    Led Series A, April 2019.
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  • Jow
    Board Observer
    Jow Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
    Paris, Ile-De-France, Fr
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  • Pillpack
    Board Member
    Pillpack Jun 2013 - Dec 2017
    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.
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  • Accel Partners
    Partner
    Accel Partners Sep 2014 - May 2017
    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.
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  • Carwow
    Board Member
    Carwow Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
    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.
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  • Deliveroo
    Board Member
    Deliveroo Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
    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
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  • Zoopla Property Group Ltd
    Board Member
    Zoopla Property Group Ltd Jul 2007 - Jul 2014
    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.
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  • Atlas Venture
    Partner
    Atlas Venture Mar 2004 - Jun 2014
    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.
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  • Lagoa
    Board Member
    Lagoa Nov 2012 - May 2014
    Montreal, Quebec, Ca
    Seed investor and led Series A investment with Real Ventures. Acquired by Autodesk.
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  • The Currency Cloud
    Board Member
    The Currency Cloud Nov 2011 - May 2014
    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.
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  • Kinvey
    Board Member
    Kinvey Jul 2011 - May 2014
    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.
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  • Recorded Future
    Board Member
    Recorded Future 2011 - May 2014
    Somerville, Ma, Us
    Predictive analytics company. Partially buyout by Insight for $850M and acquired for $2.65BN by Mastercard.
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  • Integral Ad Science
    Board Member
    Integral Ad Science Jul 2010 - May 2014
    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.
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  • Secret Escapes
    Board Member Then Observer
    Secret Escapes Apr 2011 - Apr 2014
    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.
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  • Dailymotion
    Board Member
    Dailymotion Aug 2006 - Jan 2013
    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 Cedric Tournay. Sourced through proactive mapping of nascent video sharing market and direct approach.
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  • Seedcamp
    Board Member
    Seedcamp Feb 2008 - Feb 2012
    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.
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  • Kds
    Board Member
    Kds Aug 2005 - Jun 2011
    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.
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  • Priceminister
    Board Member
    Priceminister Feb 2007 - Jul 2010
    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.
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  • Online Markets Technology Investments
    Partner
    Online Markets Technology Investments Mar 2001 - Mar 2004
    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.
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  • Speed Ventures
    Investment Manager
    Speed Ventures Feb 2000 - Mar 2001
    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 March 2000 from marquee investors like Schroder Ventures, Soros, Blackstone, Chase, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Harvard Management, Interpublic and others.
  • Goldman Sachs
    Executive Director
    Goldman Sachs 1998 - 2000
    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
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  • J.P. Morgan
    Associate
    J.P. Morgan 1993 - 1997
    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)
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Fred Destin Skills

Venture Capital Entrepreneurship Start Ups E Commerce Strategy Investments Business Strategy Saas Digital Media Angel Investing Leadership Marketing Executive Management New Business Development Strategic Partnerships Management Mentoring Product Development B2b Ecommerce B2b Entrepreneur

Fred Destin Education Details

  • Hkust Business School
    Hkust Business School
    Master Of Business Administration (Mba)
  • Solvay Brussels School Of Economics And Management
    Solvay Brussels School Of Economics And Management
    Finance

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