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Nuno Gonçalves Pedro
Nuno Goncalves Pedro is the founder and managing partner of Chamaeleon, a VC firm with a unique disruptive operating model and an AI, quantitative & technology platform - Mantis - developed and maintained fully in-house to augment its deal sourcing, due diligence, risk, portfolio management and liquidation activities, among others. While based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Firm also has offices in Europe, as well, and it focuses on series Seed and Series A investing. Nuno is particularly focused on consumer and consumer-like start-ups, e.g. gaming and social, as well as horizontal SaaS, e.g. consumerized Enterprise and bottom-up SaaS.
Before this, Nuno founded and was the managing partner of Strive Capital, the first quant VC firm in the US and in the San Francisco Bay area. The firm focused on consumer and enterprise software, with investments in DraftKings (IPO), Robinhood (IPO), Ohmconnect (Merger Google), Rubrik (IPO), Gusto, App Annie (Sold), Enish (IPO), Virta Health, among others.
He is the co-founder and co-host of decipheredshow.com, a top 2.5% podcast, globally, across all verticals, and the creator of the “Rejection & Adversity as a path to Growth” methodology. Nuno has served and continues to serve as a board member, advisor and coach to various start-ups, corporations and nonprofits in the US, Europe and Asia.
Nuno was a Senior Expert and member of APAC Technology, Media & Telecom leadership team for McKinsey, where he created impact for Fortune 500 clients, including consumer electronics, network equipment, carriers/operators, Internet players, sovereign wealth funds and private equity funds. Nuno was previously the Head of Strategy, Product, Corporate & Business Development for the GSM Association, where he created and executed, at its inception, the blueprint that led to the GSM Association becoming the leading non-profit for Mobile, as well as the top trade association, globally.
Nuno is a guest lecturer on product management and growth at Stanford GSB, and Haas School of Business and School of Engineering, University of California Berkeley. He is also a guest lecturer on Venture Capital and innovation topics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the College of Engineering of the University of California Berkeley. Nuno is an alumnus of Stanford, London Business School, and other world-renowned organizations.
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Clifford Cohn
Clifford Cohn
Jonah Surkes
Jonah Surkes
Jonah Surkes joined Generation Investment Management in 2021 and is a member of the Growth Equity strategy team, serving as an Investment Director. Previously, Jonah was an investment banking analyst at Greenhill & Co.
Jonah received a BA in Human, Social and Political Science from University of Cambridge, Clare College.
Udai Chopra
Udai Chopra
Udai joined FoW Partners as a legacy member of the Two Sigma Impact team. Prior to Two Sigma Impact, he served as an investment manager at Potentia Capital in Sydney, Australia. In this role, he was actively involved in transaction sourcing, due diligence, deal execution and portfolio management across software, technology and technology-enabled services businesses in Australia and New Zealand.
Udai previously worked at UBS AG in Sydney, Australia, as a director in the Investment Banking Division. He also has experience with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in international development, as well as with SGI Frontier Capital, in frontier markets investing.
Udai earned an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and both a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Lukas Huber
Lukas Huber
Based in Vienna, Lukas has been a part of Speedinvest since 2015. As the company’s deal flow manager, he is making sure that the thousands of leads which enter Speedinvest’s system every quarter are processed properly. His daily work with a host of data points also enables him to generate complex reports on our deal flow and beyond.
A Vienna native, Lukas also lived in Virginia Beach and London. He studied Economics and History and holds a Master’s degree in History with a special focus on global topics.
When not crunching numbers for Speedinvest, Lukas spends his time studying his favorite subject, the History of ideas and how the past shapes our understanding of the present and the future alike.
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