Michael Stothard Email & Phone Number

Michael is an early-stage VC investor at firstminute capital, a $500m seed fund investing across Europe backed by a network of 130+ unicorn founders. He spends most of his time on looking for outlier-brilliant founders using AI to improve very manual workflows, but also invests across the AI stack. He has led investments and worked closely with companies including Nabla, ai.work, Agemo, Maihem, Lupa, Holdbar, Ontik, Granola, Claimsorted, Toongether, Layla, Revyze, Mistral and Teero. He also leads on French investment for the fund and is on the board of Typology. Before firstminute, he spent more than a decade as a journalist, which is unusual in venture and gives him a unique and differentiated perspective. Most recently he was founding editor of Sifted.eu, and before that as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. At Sifted, he helped scale the company from an idea to a media platform with a team of 80 journalists and engineers producing world-class, in-depth coverage of the European technology landscape. At the Financial Times, he was senior correspondent and bureau chief in Paris, Madrid, Stockholm and New York. As a foreign correspondent, he interviewed break-through founders, anonymous hackers, rogue traders, presidents, military dictators, global CEOs, and quirky billionaires. He has a first-class degree from Cambridge University.

Listed skills include Online Journalism, Business Journalism, Journalism, Newspapers, and 4 others.

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