Dr. iur Cansu Burkhalter
Anouk Veber
Full of energy and ideas, with a strong interest in the fight against climate change and therefore in the agri-food sector.
With an international background in 6+ countries, Anouk is a top tier business school graduate with degrees from Bocconi, ESCP Europe, and a non-executive program at IE. After a first experience at Pernod Ricard, she worked for 3+ years at Capagro, a VC fund dedicated to Ag-tech and Food-tech in Paris with a great exposure to portfolio companies, LPs and co-investors. Beginning of 2023, she moved to Portugal to structure the venture’s strategy of Sparkfood and kicked off the construction of Sparkfood early stage’s portfolio with 4 investments up to date.
Roope Vahahyyppa
Investment Manager at Slingshot Ventures since 2022. Background in Investment Banking at Lazard and Corporate Development at Heineken.
Slingshot is an Early-Stage Consumer VC based in Amsterdam. We invest tickets of EUR 0.5-2m in promising consumer propositions across Europe, both as a lead and as a co-investor.
Within the Consumer space we’re flexible, but do actively look at the pet care space with a recent investment in Hey Holy.
Leon Hughes
Alexander Scharzenberger
Alex is an Investment Director of Movendo Capital, a family backed long-term investor headquartered in Amsterdam that provides minority growth equity capital to consumer and retail businesses that are headquartered in Western Europe and the US. Alex leads Movendo Capital’s Amsterdam team and recently led their Series B investment in Petfolk, a high-growth, next-generation veterinarian company.
Prior to joining Movendo Capital, Alex spent over six years at Virgin, Sir Richard Branson’s family office, where he managed a portfolio of Virgin branded consumer growth equity investments. Alex started his career at Citigroup in their London EMEA consumer and retail team and holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Alex is the proud owner of Hapa, a miniature Goldendoodle.
