name

Robin Klein

HQ Location: UK

RANK #42

Robin Klein is a co-founder and general partner of Phoenix Court. He has served on the board of directors of Eporta. He is also a member of the board of directors of Streetbees. He is a senior advisor at Future Positive Capital. He is chairman and founding partner of The Acceleration Group. He was also a member of the board of directors at Osper. He was a venture partner at Index Ventures. He is also an advisor at Seedcamp. He has served as an advisor at Kano. He is a board observer at Skimbit. He joined Index Ventures' London office in April 2010. He is currently chairman of Quickbridge (Wonga) and MyBuilder, and serves on the boards of Moo, Clippings, Bill Monitor, EDITD, Farfetch, FreeAgent, LevelBusiness, OneFineStay, Stylistpick and Zoopla. He is a governor of Rhyl Elementary School and is a past chairman of Great Ormond Street Hospital Funding Company. He has 25 years of experience, including 20 years as an entrepreneur, 14 years of investment experience and has served on the boards of three publicly traded companies. In his most recent operational role as chairman and CEO of Innovations, he led the very first e-commerce transaction in the UK in May 1995. Since beginning his investment career in 1998, when he and his son Sol founded The Accelerator Group (TAG), they have made more than sixty investments. Among the ten companies that have exited TAG are Agent Provocateur (3i), where he was chairman for five years, Sit Up TV (Virgin Media), a board member for four years, Lastminute (IPO), Last.FM (CBS), Dopplr (Nokia), Lovefilm (Amazon), Fizzback (Nice Systems) and Tweetdeck (Twitter). He is passionate about helping build Europe's tech startup ecosystem and actively supports Saul in promoting Seedcamp and OpenCoffee. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering. He has served on the board of directors of Second Home. Served on the board of directors of JustPark.

Numbers of Unicorns

4

4875

Rank (Xs)

#42

Investments

61

Exits

34

Numbers of Unicorns

4

4875

Rank (Xs)

#42

Investments

61

Exits

34

All Unicorns

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Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

Public.com

Public.com

$5M

240

$1200M

Riskified

Riskified

$3.31M

1000

$3310M

Wise (Financial Software)

Wise (Financial Software)

$3.87M

3152

$12200M

TravelPerk

TravelPerk

Series A

$15.4M

84

$1300M

All $100M+

Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

1004

Cleo

$5M

44

$220M

5005

Signal AI

$3.08M

64

$196.19M

3084

LoveFilm International

Series A

$4.5M

120

$539.01M

974

Citymapper

$4.73M

58

$275.68M

5099

SlideShare

Series A

$5.21M

23

$119M

2078

Getaround (Automotive)

$5.99M

67

$400M

3212

Mashery

Series B

$18M

10

$180M

38

Academia

Series A1

$21.14M

11

$223M

3494

MyOptique Group

Series C

$89.2M

2

$156.92M

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