Slush 2023 - Sesamers

Speakers at Slush 2023

Claire Hughes Johnson

Advisor

Claire Hughes Johnson serves as a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe. Claire previously served as Stripe’s chief operating officer from 2014 to 2021, where she helped the company grow from fewer than 200 employees to more than 6,000.

Elad Gil

Partner

Entrepreneurship Investment Advice

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Gusto, Instacart, Navan, Notion, Pinterest, Retool, Rippling, Square, Stripe and others.

Tony Xu

Founder and CEO

Food Delivery Entrepreneurship International

Tony Xu is the CEO and Co-founder of DoorDash, a technology company that connects consumers with their favorite local businesses in 27 countries across the globe.

Peter Peter Fenton

General Founder

Partnerships Venture Capital Business Development

Peter Fenton has served as one of the 5 equal General Partners at Benchmark Capital since 2006.

Mar Hershenson

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Venture Capital Investment Asset Management

Mar Hershenson is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage venture firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health(NASDAQ: GH)

Pieter Van der Does

Co-founder and CEO

Payments Entrepreneurship Operating Systems

A leading expert with over 20 years experience in the payments industry, Pieter van der Does, was CCO at Bibit before co-founding Adyen in 2006.

Danny Rimer

Investor

Danny Rimer is an investor and partner at Index Ventures. He opened the firm’s London office in 2002 and the San Francisco office in 2012, before returning to London in 2018.

Asha Sharma

COO

Grocery Technology Retail

Asha is the COO of Instacart, North America’s leading grocery technology company and works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop.

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Participants at Slush 2023

odette yang

investor - Radian Capital

Software

I'm an investor at Radian Capital, where we invest in Series A and later technology companies.

Frederick Stokkelaar

VC Analyst - Airbridge Equity Partners

SaaS E-Commerce Marketplace

Petr Palan

Growth@Fibery.io - Fibery Limited

Product Marketing Product Management Business Strategy

I do product & strategy with focus on solving real customers' and teams' problems. I love building and solving hard business problems. Expert in setting up systems for success and growth.

Celin Phoen

VC Investor - Redline Capital

B2B VC in London

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

CEO - FWPA Avocats

#venture capital

Jean-Baptiste Soufron is a lawyer. He has been the first chief legal officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, an advisor to the French government and the former general secretary of the French National Digital Council.

Keir Hutton Ferris

Innovation Manager - Kindred Group

Gambling Marketing Automation Gaming

Innovation and startup partnerships @ Kindred Group

Sigvards Krongorns

Associate - Verge HealthTech Fund

3D Printing Impact Investing

Associate @ Verge HealthTech Fund

Erki Mölder

Managing Partner - Verge Healthtech Fund

Health Tech Electronic Health Record (EHR) Health Care

HealthTech. Impact. Global. 40+ million lives and counting ? We are the world's first VC fund investing exclusively, and globally, in impactful healthcare technologies at the earliest stages.

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