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Each year, The Europas invites Europe's all-star VCs along with up-and-coming ones to judge the awards.

CARLOS EDUARDO ESPINAL
SEEDCAMP

RAINER MÄRKLE (Speaker)
HV CAPITAL

Julia Apostle (Speaker)
Orrick

RICK HAO
SPEEDINVEST

KERRY BALDWIN
IQ CAPITAL

KINGA STANISLAWSKA
EXPERIOR VENTURE FUND

PIPPA LAMB
SWEET CAPITAL

GUILLAUME FOURNIER
CREDO VENTURES

EKATERINA ALMASQUE (Speaker)
OPENOCEAN

EILEEN BURBIDGE
PASSION CAPITAL

SONALI DE RYCKER
ACCEL

FREDERIC COURT
FELIX CAPITAL

Monik Pham (Speaker)
PACT VC

SURANGA CHANDRATILLAKE
BALDERTON

ASH ARORA
LOCALGLOBE

STEVE SCHLENKER
DN CAPITAL

SOPHIA BENDTZ
FELIX CAPITAL

SACHIN DEV DUGGAL
BUILDER AI

JANEKKE NIESSEN
CAPITAL T

CHRISTIAN DORFFER
DEFIANCE CAPITAL

ANDREW J SCOTT
7 PERCENT VENTURES

ISABEL FOX
MOLTEN VENTURES

PHILLIP THURN UND TAXIS
CNB CAPITAL

Adam Shuaib
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ISABELLA YAMAMOTO
VISIONARIES CLUB

JENNY RUTH HRAFNSDOTTIR
CROWBERRY CAPITAL

Stephen Nundy
LAKESTAR

Peter Specht
CREANDUM

Kirsten Connell
OCTOPUS VENTURES

Jon Soberg
MS & AD VENTURES

Yannick Oswald
MANGROVE CAPITAL PARTNERS

Sitar Teli
CONNECT VENTURES

Shawn Atkinson
Orrick

Kerstin Cooley
COURSE CORRECTED VC

Cem Sertoglu
Earlybird Capital East

Rodolfo Condessa
Armilar Venture Partners

Raph Crouan
Orrick
JUDGES 2024

Frederic Court
Managing + Founding Partner, Felix Capital

Itxaso del Palacio
Partner, Notion Capital

Steve Schlenker
Managing Partner, DN Capital

Julia Hawkins
Partner, Local Globe

Reshma Sohoni
Managing Partner + Co-Founder, Seedcamp

Sonia Fernández
Partner, Kibo Ventures

Oliver Holle
Partner, SpeedInvest

Pippa Lamb
Partner, Sweet Capital

Gabbi Cahane
General Partner, Stride VC

Carina Namih
Partner, Plural

Davor Hebtel
Managing Partner, Eight Roads

Amelia Armour
Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners

Rainer Markle
General Partner, HV Capital

Sitar Teli
Managing Partner, Connect Ventures

Christoph Janz
Managing Partner, Point Nine Capital

Kinga Stanislawska
Founder and General Partner, Experior Venture

Jon Soberg
Managing Partner, MS&AD Ventures

Sophia Bendz
Partner, Cherry Ventures

Yahel Halamish
Principal, Nina Capital

Kerry Baldwin
Co-founder + Managing Partner, IQ Capital

Ekaterina Almasque
General Partner, OpenOcean VC

Anna Stodolkiewicz
Head of the Fund Investment Advisory Unit, European Investment Bank

Jacqueline Ruedin Rüsch
Founding General Partner, Privilège Ventures

Cynthia Jurytko
Founder, S2S Ventures

Klaus Hommels
Founder + Chairman, Lakestar

Sachin Dev Duggal
Founder and Chief Wizard, Builder.ai

Tanya Horowitz
Partner, Butterfly VC

Yana Abramova
Managing Partner, Pretiosum Ventures

Sean Seton Rogers
Founding Partner, PROfounders Capital

Yannick Oswald
Partner, Mangrove Capital Partners

Keith Rigg
Vice President, Technical Services and Field CTO, EMEA

Eva-Valérie Gfrerer
CEO + General Partner, Morphais Venture Capital

Gregory Dewerpe
Founder + CIO, AO PropTech
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Hanel Baveja
Principal, Creandum

Sebastien Michaud
Investor, Foundamental

Janneke Niessen
Founding Partner, Capital T

Viktoriya Tigipko
Founding and Managing Partner, TA Ventures

Andrew J Scott
Founding Partner, 7 Percent Ventures

Sohaila Ouffata
Director of Platform, BMW i Ventures

Guillaume Fournier
Partner, Credo Ventures

Taavet Hinrikus
Co-founder and Partner, Plural

Christian Dorffer
Founder + Managing Partner, Defiance Capital

Cem Sertoglu
Co-founder + Managing Partner, Earlybird Digital East

Andrey Kolodyuk
Managing and Founding Partner, AVentures

Ella Goldner
Co-founder + General Manager, Zinc VC

Alexandre Barbosa
Managing Partner, Faber VC

Borys Musielak
Managing Partner, Smok Ventures

Pedro Ribeiro Santos
Partner, Armilar Venture Partners
MEET THE 2023 JUDGES

DIANNE SEE MORRISON
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CARLOS EDUARDO ESPINAL
MANAGING PARTNER , SEEDCAMP
PREVIOUS JUDGES

Mike Butcher
Founder, The Europas / Editor-at-Large, Techcrunch

Viktoriya Tigipko
Founding and Managing Partner, TA Ventures

Andrey Kolodyuk
Managing and Founding Partner, AVentures

Jenny Ruth Hrafnsdottir
Founding Partner, Crowberry Capital

Rainer Markle
General Partner, HV Capital

Pippa Lamb
Partner, Sweet Capital

Ekaterina Almasque
General Partner, OpenOcean VC

Ryan Heath
Global Technology Correspondent, Axios

Leo Schwartz
Crypto, Regulation, Cybercrime Reporter, Fortune Magazine
SPEAKERS
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