Luciana Lixandru is a Partner at Sequoia, where she focuses on enterprise and consumer technology companies across Europe. She is passionate about helping founders at all stages unlock their potential and think on a global scale. Prior to becoming Sequoia’s first partner in Europe, Luciana worked at Accel for eight years, where she led investments in Deliveroo, Hopin, Miro and UiPath, among others. Luciana has also held positions at Summit Partners and Morgan Stanley. She has a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Georgetown, and resides in London.

Heini is Vivino’s Founder, Board Member, and Chief Evangelist. Credited with bringing a technologyrevolution to the wine industry, Heini founded Vivino because he was frustrated by not knowing whichwine to buy. It’s been his passion project ever since. During his tenure, Vivino has grown into a communityof 50 million users, raised $221 million in funding, and rolled out a worldwide wine marketplace. Beforestarting Vivino, Heini co-founded several startups, including global internet and mobile security companyBullGuard. Heini, who was named Entrepreneur of the Year by GP Bullhound in 2020, leads the team fromVivino’s European headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Heini and Vivino’s story is featured in anindependent documentary, “Disrupting Wine, The Life of an Entrepreneur.” Heini also hosts the YouTubeseries Raw Startup, which offers candid advice for entrepreneurs and startups.

Judith is a Partner at La Famiglia, a European VC investing into B2B technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. She focuses on the future of work, as well as data and ML-driven business models.

Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of his private investment firm, Apeiron Investment Group. With more than USD 3.5 billion under management and 50 FTEs across five international locations, Apeiron focuses on Life Sciences, FinTech/InsurTech/PropTech/Crypto, and FutureTech (e.g. SpaceTech, FoodTech, AI).Apeiron has a global approach and deploys its capital across the entire company lifecycle, from founding companies in-house, seed/startup investments to large-scale investments in listed companies. As Apeiron invests predominantly its own capital, the team is able to be highly entrepreneurial, reliable, and flexible.