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Board Member
May 2021
Exoticca is a fast-growing online tour operator that’s been disrupting the travel tech sector since 2013. Today, over 400 passionate travel experts work with us every day to make exotic destinations accessible to more people than ever worldwide.
By developing innovative tech-based solutions and working directly with trusted local operators, Exoticca offers extraordinary travel packages at never-before-seen prices while ensuring that local communities prosper from our business. We place the world at your fingertips with an online booking system to reserve complex trips in just a few clicks, while our Traveler’s App helps give real-time itinerary updates plus a 24/7 direct line to multilingual customer support.
We’re a melting pot of cultures here, but we all share a strong set of core values that unite us all. Commitment, believing in both our mission and the transformative power of travel. Drive, constantly striving for improvement even at the forefront of the industry. Teamwork, knowing our strength lies in the sum of our parts. Resilience, seizing opportunities to grow in any context. And customer-centric, because making their dreams come true is our ultimate goal.
Itchy feet have taken us far at Exoticca, and weve landed at the forefront of travel tech!
Board Member
Dec 2018
K Health, headquarter in New York, is the AI-driven Primary Care company on a mission to give everyone access to high-quality healthcare. Our 24/7 virtual primary care solution is available to millions of people in the U.S. through leading health systems and insurers, as well as through a direct-to-consumer mobile app. The K Health platform includes a clinical grade medical chat and AI predictive models based on large datasets to help physicians optimize diagnosis and treatment, and focus on patient care.
Board Member
Aug 2018
Simple Feast is an organic, plant-based food company that delivers weekly boxes of ready-to-eat meals, straight to your doorstep. We started in Denmark and are now taking the Danish culinary experience global.
At Simple Feast we are a group of mission-driven entrepreneurs that want to use our skillset to advance a movement around the world. As a group of chefs, nutritionists, and organisers we understand that real change towards sustainability will only happen when the new alternative is far better than the old. As entrepreneurs we are too impatient to wait for others to do it for us.
Link to Simple Feast: https://www.simplefeast.com
Download our app here: https://simplefeast.com/en/apps
Board Observer
Jan 2017
Here at Glossier, beauty is about you. From our formulas to packaging, playful shades to seriously-great skincare—Glossier was built to make beauty accessible and uncomplicated. Before we launched Glossier in 2014, we started as Into The Gloss. A beauty website and community devoted to sharing real information with real people, about really amazing products. It’s where we realized that beauty shouldn’t be built in a boardroom—it should be built by you. This ethos gave birth to our philosophy: Skin First. Makeup Second™. We prioritize skincare because we believe that healthy skin is the best foundation.
We believe in thoughtful design and cultivating conversations. It’s at the core of everything we do—the starting point of all our makeup, skincare, bodycare, and fragrance products. At Glossier, beauty is about celebrating freedom of expression, individuality , and having fun. Our Skin First. Makeup Second™ approach ensures that every product supports your skin’s health, allowing your makeup to enhance rather than mask your natural beauty.
Board Observer
Sep 2016
goop is a lifestyle platform dedicated to exploration, curation, and groundbreaking conversation. From its award-winning beauty and fashion lines to its expansive editorial lens, goop invites women to embrace the process of becoming, and to discover deep joy in the pursuit of pleasure, beauty, and growth in all phases of life. Gwyneth Paltrow began goop in the fall of 2008 as a weekly newsletter. It has expanded into a beauty, fashion, and food business that’s also known for its products, curation, podcast, TV shows, live events, and retail stores.
Board Member
Jun 2016
letgo is one of the largest and fastest-growing app to buy and sell locally. With hundreds of millions of listings to date, letgo is among the top 10 apps in Turkey both in downloads and active users since its launch. letgo’s marketplace is filled with everything from electronics and cars to clothing and furniture. Listing something on letgo is as simple as taking a photo thanks to its advanced technology. It’s the only app of its kind that can automatically title and categorize an item using artificial intelligence. Plus, users can easily browse local listings, chat instantly in the app, and view each other’s profiles, ratings, and reviews.
letgo is also disrupting and unlocking the hidden potential of the second-hand car market in Turkey, with “otoplus”, a car buying and selling service. This is a one-stop solution for second-hand car buyers and sellers who are looking for trust, convenience, and peace of mind in their transactions. otoplus offers to buy and sell directly to or from consumers with a trouble-free experience.
We’re looking for people who are as passionate as we are about creating something our users love and - just as importantly - who are excited by the challenge.
We’ve built a company for people who want to do impactful work, surrounded by great people. We have a well-defined, mature culture — and we’re always making it better.
Board Member
May 2015
300 Entertainment is an Independent American Record Label founded by Lyor Cohen, Roger Gold, Kevin Liles and Todd Moscowitz.
Mission Statement: To create an enduring music-based content company that has a tradition of high quality and risk taking and a real commitment to artist development. A creative hub, that empowers artists and their partners beyond the creation of music, by giving them access to tools and knowledge to remain independent and to be active participants in artist development.
Board Member
Mar 2015
Fever is the leading global live-entertainment discovery tech platform with a clear mission: to democratize access to culture and entertainment.
Fever has developed a proprietary technology that inspires its global community of over 125M people through personalized and curated experiences in their local city whilst empowering entertainment and event creators to reach new audiences and enhance their experiences.
Some successful examples include the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 3 million guests last year, the Los Angeles-based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” co-produced with Netflix, or the “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” winner of USA Todays 10 Best Readers Choice award.
The company, present in over 100 major cities across the globe, is backed by leading investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alignment Growth (growth equity investor in global entertainment and consumer tech, led by former Warner Bros and Time Warner), Goodwater Capital (the largest dedicated consumer technology platform globally), Smash Capital (a late-stage venture capital firm led by former Disney and growth equity investors, backer of Epic Games), Eurazeo, Vitruvian Partners and Atresmedia among others.
To pursue our objective, we are looking for bar-raisers who want to work hard, have fun, and make history with us.
Board Member
Oct 2014
Maven is the worlds largest virtual clinic for women and families on a mission to make healthcare work for all of us. Mavens award-winning digital programs provide clinical, emotional, and financial support all in one platform, spanning fertility & family building, maternity & newborn care, parenting & pediatrics, and menopause & midlife. More than 2,000 employers and health plans trust Mavens end-to-end platform to improve clinical outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and provide equity in benefits programs. Recognized for innovation and industry leadership, Maven has been named to the Time 100 Most Influential Companies, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fast Company Most Innovative Companies, and FORTUNE Best Places to Work. Founded in 2014 by CEO Kate Ryder, Maven has raised more than $425 million in funding from top healthcare and technology investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia, Dragoneer Investment Group, Oak HC/FT, StepStone Group, Icon Ventures, and Lux Capital. To learn more about Maven, visit us at mavenclinic.com.
Board Member
Oct 2014
Jukely is a monthly subscription service for going to concerts in 16 cities worldwide.
Board Member
Sep 2014
Food52 is a next-generation cooking and home company that was named one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company in 2022, with a monthly reach of more than 30 million people. From the beginning, the brand challenged the models of traditional media companies and retailers, combining content, commerce, and community around the belief that the kitchen is the heart of the home and food is the center of a well-lived life. Food52 connects a global community of experts and amateurs, supporting them with inspirational, useful content — recipes, videos, podcasts, cookbooks and more — and outfitting them with products that make them happy. In addition to a highly curated Shop representing hundreds of makers, the Food52 community of brands includes its in-house product line Five Two, lighting and lifestyle goods company Schoolhouse, and the heritage home brand DANSK.
Board Member
Sep 2014
Wallapop is a Barcelona-based scale-up driven by the purpose of empowering people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where a collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us. 💫
Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy, and Portugal, offering a catalog of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach.
Backed by top investors such as Accel, Insight Partners & Naver Corp we bring our total valuation to 806 million EUR embarking on our international journey to become the world’s best unique goods trading platform.
➡️ Check more about our culture and opportunities: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/wallapop
Investor
May 2009
Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience.
Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.
Board Member
2009
Lyst is a global Fashion Tech company and premium shopping app, founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 200M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion items & products in one place, via an assortment of 8.5M+ items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands. We are a scale-up business with a current team size of c. 160 people in London, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.
At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn’t, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. Lyst has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.
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Board Member
May 2021
Exoticca is a fast-growing online tour operator that’s been disrupting the travel tech sector since 2013. Today, over 400 passionate travel experts work with us every day to make exotic destinations accessible to more people than ever worldwide.
By developing innovative tech-based solutions and working directly with trusted local operators, Exoticca offers extraordinary travel packages at never-before-seen prices while ensuring that local communities prosper from our business. We place the world at your fingertips with an online booking system to reserve complex trips in just a few clicks, while our Traveler’s App helps give real-time itinerary updates plus a 24/7 direct line to multilingual customer support.
We’re a melting pot of cultures here, but we all share a strong set of core values that unite us all. Commitment, believing in both our mission and the transformative power of travel. Drive, constantly striving for improvement even at the forefront of the industry. Teamwork, knowing our strength lies in the sum of our parts. Resilience, seizing opportunities to grow in any context. And customer-centric, because making their dreams come true is our ultimate goal.
Itchy feet have taken us far at Exoticca, and weve landed at the forefront of travel tech!
2018
Board Member
Dec 2018
K Health, headquarter in New York, is the AI-driven Primary Care company on a mission to give everyone access to high-quality healthcare. Our 24/7 virtual primary care solution is available to millions of people in the U.S. through leading health systems and insurers, as well as through a direct-to-consumer mobile app. The K Health platform includes a clinical grade medical chat and AI predictive models based on large datasets to help physicians optimize diagnosis and treatment, and focus on patient care.
Board Member
Aug 2018
Simple Feast is an organic, plant-based food company that delivers weekly boxes of ready-to-eat meals, straight to your doorstep. We started in Denmark and are now taking the Danish culinary experience global.
At Simple Feast we are a group of mission-driven entrepreneurs that want to use our skillset to advance a movement around the world. As a group of chefs, nutritionists, and organisers we understand that real change towards sustainability will only happen when the new alternative is far better than the old. As entrepreneurs we are too impatient to wait for others to do it for us.
Link to Simple Feast: https://www.simplefeast.com
Download our app here: https://simplefeast.com/en/apps
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Board Member
Feb 2018
2017
Board Observer
Jan 2017
Here at Glossier, beauty is about you. From our formulas to packaging, playful shades to seriously-great skincare—Glossier was built to make beauty accessible and uncomplicated. Before we launched Glossier in 2014, we started as Into The Gloss. A beauty website and community devoted to sharing real information with real people, about really amazing products. It’s where we realized that beauty shouldn’t be built in a boardroom—it should be built by you. This ethos gave birth to our philosophy: Skin First. Makeup Second™. We prioritize skincare because we believe that healthy skin is the best foundation.
We believe in thoughtful design and cultivating conversations. It’s at the core of everything we do—the starting point of all our makeup, skincare, bodycare, and fragrance products. At Glossier, beauty is about celebrating freedom of expression, individuality , and having fun. Our Skin First. Makeup Second™ approach ensures that every product supports your skin’s health, allowing your makeup to enhance rather than mask your natural beauty.
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