Amol and Inaki are both scientists turned serial tech entrepreneurs.
We are a rare breed. As tech entreprepreneurs, former scientists, fundraisers, global operators, M&A dealmakers, and CEOs, we can relate to most other entrepreneurs. Founders call us when they have a complex CEO decision.
A Scientist turned
3x Tech Entrepreneur
Master MIT
Master and PhD Cambridge
A Scientist turned
3x Tech Entrepreneur
Master MIT
Master and PhD Cambridge
Inaki has been a 3x CEO/entrepreneur in NYC: Pixable, acquired by SingTel in 2012 for $30M; Contactive, acquired by Fuze; and CoverWallet, which raised $60M, with over 500 employees and close to $1B in premium revenue, and acquired by Aon in 2020. He has worked at McKinsey & Company and Microsoft Corporate Strategy. He is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and has personally invested in over 100 startups, cofounding Agentero and iPronics. He is a 14x marathon finisher (7x NYC).
Inaki earned Master and PhD degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and an MBA from MIT. He was also a two-year Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University and a postdoc at the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
A Cognitive Scientist
turned 6x Entrepreneur
BA Columbia, PhD Stanford
A Cognitive Scientist
turned 6x Entrepreneur
BA Columbia, PhD Stanford
Amol co-founded several startups including Virgin Mobile USA (raised $550M, IPO 2007), Peek (raised $12M), Halo Neuroscience (raised $10M), Knotable, and Knotel (raised $350M). He has also worked at McKinsey and is a Global Vanguard at the World Economic Forum. He has personally invested in over 50 startups. He studied cognitive science for his PhD at Stanford University and holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, where he also teaches.
CFO
Investment banking
Private equity
CFO
Investment banking
Private equity
Amalia has built a global business experience working as an advisor, investor, fundraiser and CFO to a wide range of companies.
She began her financial career at Lehman Brothers in New York and later joined the M&A team at Arcano (Madrid) and HSBC (London). Later she worked for ICG, where she led the fundraise of over $2bn and invested in primary, secondary and co-investments in US, Europe and Asia. Most recently, Amalia was the CFO of a sustainable tech startup in China.
Trustee to GIST Cancer UK and professor at various programs at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Amalia holds a BS in International Business from ICADE and Northeastern University with an Erasmus at ESSEC.