Speaker Details
Julie Meyer
Founder & Chief Executive, Ariadne Capital
Julie Meyer has 18 years of investment and advisory experience, helping start-up businesses and industry standards to emerge and become established.
She is Chief Executive of Ariadne Capital, the investment and advisory firm she founded in August 2000. Ariadne backs entrepreneurs in the life services (consumer financial services, e-health, digital home), media (music, broadcast, publishing, advertising, gaming), communications and net development sectors. Ariadne's strength is in advising on the 'Go To Market' strategies of hyper-growth companies.
Julie is well-known for founding First Tuesday, the largest global network of entrepreneurs, which many credit for igniting the Internet generation in Europe. It was sold for $50million in cash in and shares in July 2000. Julie has raised hundreds of millions in capital for start-ups, in addition to overseeing another $150million in seed capital found for start-ups through First Tuesday.
Named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum and one of the top 30 most powerful women in Europe according to the Wall Street Journal, Julie's mission is to back the best entrepreneurs in Europe with global ambitions. She was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in October 2000 by Ernst & Young U.K.
