Greg McLoughlin

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Flashpoint is an international tech investment firm with approximately $600 million in assets under management (AUM), focusing on U.S. and Western European tech companies originating from Europe and MENA. Flashpoint manages seven funds across three products: Venture Growth, Growth Debt, and Direct Secondary. The firm is headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Tel Aviv, Budapest, and Riga. Investors in Flashpoint’s funds include Széchenyi Funds, a Hungarian fund manager, and more than 180 major family offices and high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). The funds have invested in 80 companies, including Guesty, Chili Piper, and OfficeRnD. Flashpoint has completed 28 exits, such as the sale of its stakes in Shazam (to Apple), Chess.com (to PokerStars founders and General Atlantic), Marketman (to PSG), Gurushots (to Zedge), Comeet (to Boathouse Capital), and OfficeRnD (to Blue Star Innovation Partners), among others. At Flashpoint, our mission is to bring together capital, knowledge, people, and best practices to foster socially responsible development. While monetary returns are important, the intangible aspects of our work are equally significant to our team. We have invested a third of our capital in themes that aim to make the world a better place, including e-learning, telemedicine, and online job platforms.

Elysia is a world-leading battery intelligence software offering from Fortescue, designed for the mass automotive, e-mobility and stationary energy storage markets.  Drawing on more than a decade of high-performance battery expertise from WAE - which has designed, developed, and manufactured the world’s most advanced batteries for multiple sectors, from global electric motorsport programmes to electric hypercars and mining trucks - Elysia brings game-changing insight to the burgeoning global electric vehicle space. 

 Combining a quantum leap in battery software embedded in the vehicle, which features best-in-class BMS algorithms, with a powerful cloud product, delivering standard-setting insights, Elysia not only gives OEMs, fleet operators and battery asset financiers unprecedented access to battery insights but the opportunity to enhance life, safety, and performance during the battery’s life. Together, Elysia’s unique software and cloud offering has the potential to unlock longer battery life, faster charging speeds along with increasing battery power and range, while at the same time leveraging never-before-seen through-life monitoring. This newfound transparency on battery health gives certainty to battery warranties, accuracy for residual value calculations and supports new models of battery financing. Elysia: Potential, unlocked. Advantage, delivered. Get in touch: elysia.co/contact

We are One Trading, a European digital asset trading venue. One Tradings goal is to bridge the gap between crypto and traditional asset trading with one regulated platform for all customer types and all products. While being a regulated virtual asset service provider at present providing spot and OTC trading, the company aims to shortly provide listings of financial instruments, adding derivatives and structured products as a regulated MiFID trading venue, all using our proprietary institutional grade technology. We want to offer the highest customer protections and leverage innovations in crypto markets to drive advancement in traditional finance products.

Bitpanda is on a mission to reinvent the world of finance and bring investing closer to everyone, everywhere. Today’s financial ecosystem is complex, exclusive and expensive, and we’re here to change this as the #1 investment platform in Europe and beyond. Our platform is rooted in the belief that investing should be safe, easy and accessible to all. With Bitpanda, everyone has the freedom and flexibility to invest in what they believe in — commission-free stocks, cryptocurrencies or even precious metals — starting from as little as $1. Our story started in 2014 with our founders, Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer. Since then, we’ve grown to a powerful and diverse team of over 550 people who represent more than 50 nationalities. Headquartered in Vienna, we’re proud to be Austria’s first unicorn and one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe. Our innovative technology serves over 5 million users and operates across multiple hub locations. Our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. If you’re someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team.

CEMS Entrepreneurs is a global non-profit platform that connects founders and entrepreneurial-minded students/ alumni with mentors across a network of 31 universities, 70 corporate partners and 13,000 alumni. Our mission is to connect the startup ecosystem within CEMS and unleash brilliant ideas with strong potential by connecting students and alumni with relevant mentors and corporate partners. Our platform has helped startups in the CEMS ecosystem finding new customers or accessing first class incubator/ accelerator programs worldwide. We are a de-centralised community led by CEMS alumni based in different cities.