TiE Vancouver - Fireside Chat with Hannes Blum
TiE Vancouver - Fireside Chat with Hannes Blum
Thursday, May 20, 2021 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) (PDT)
Description
TiE Vancouver is thrilled to host Angel Investor Hannes Blum, in conversation with Maninder Dhaliwal, chair TiE Angels Vancouver.
Hannes will be speaking about building startups and fundraising.
Register >> https://hannes-blum.eventbrite.ca
Schedule:
- Fireside Chat 9:30am - 10:15am
- Q&A 10:15am - 10:45am
Speaker Bio:
Hannes is Venture Partner North America for Acton Capital, a Munich based growth VC fund focused on consumer internet. His angel investments include Knix Wear, Maple Telehealth, Indochino, Teampages (sold to Active Network), Authy (sold to Twilio). His board memberships include Eloquii (sold to Walmart for US 100M), Chef’s Plate (sold to publicly listed HelloFresh) and Vancouver based Mobify (sold to Salesforce).
He started his career with the Boston Consulting Group in Germany and founded his first company JustBooks which was acquired by AbeBooks. He served as CEO of AbeBooks in Victoria, Canada till it was acquired by Amazon and then served as VP for Amazon till 2015. He won several industry awards during his tenure at AbeBooks and Amazon, such as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Consumer category for Pacific Canada.
Free
Victoria, BC
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