The Red Chair Indico Capital

Ricardo Torgal co-founded Indico Capital Partners in 2017, where he is General Partner and CFO. Prior joining Indico, Ricardo worked at Caixa Capital (2010-2017) leading VC and Private Equity investments. His previous experience includes work at Centrocar, Ascendum Group (2006-2010), helping to set up the reporting and management control unit, and was also responsible for the ERP implementation. From 2000 to 2006, he worked at BPI Private Equity, monitoring a PE/VC portfolio.

Mohan Iyer is a General Partner at SOSV and a Partner at IndieBio. Mohan carries deep operational experience with more than 25 years as an entrepreneur and leader at several life science startups where he enjoyed developing strategy, building successful teams, executing against complex operational goals, fundraising in good times and bad, and forging creative sell-side strategic partnering and M&A deals. Having walked in these shoes, he is passionate about serving genius entrepreneurs to realize their mission of a better world by creating, scaling, and exiting meaningful new companies.

Christoph Janz is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded Point Nine in 2011 and is today one of the most well-known SaaS influencers and investors in Europe and worldwide. Having founded and exited multiple companies himself, Christoph's first venture deal was an angel check to Zendesk, which was acquired by an investor group led by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman and Permira for $10.2 billion. His most notable deal was his 2017 investment of about $1 million in video recording tool Loom, which was acquired by software firm Atlassian for $975 million in 2023.

🤓 About our Guest:
Kelly Perdew is the Managing General Partner of Moonshots Capital - a VC fund that invests in early-stage technology companies and leans in heavily in veteran founded companies. He was a co-founder and Managing Partner at DuMont Project - a consultative agency sold to Cart.com in 2021. Prior, he was the CEO of Fastpoint Games, a leading developer of live data-driven games sold to WePlay. After winning Season 2 of the NBC hit show The Apprentice, Kelly served as an Executive Vice President in the Trump Organization in New York, where he worked for Donald Trump for one year following the show. Kelly is a nationally recognized speaker on leadership, technology and entrepreneurship.

Itxaso del Palacio is a General Partner at Notion Capital. Since moving to London in 2010, Itxaso has been an entrepreneur, investor and educator. Having invested in more than a dozen businesses and taught entrepreneurship to around 2,000 students at UCL and Imperial. Itxaso has a passion for helping entrepreneurs build their businesses, supporting them with her network, knowledge and positive attitude. Itxaso joined Notion in 2018 from M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures) where she launched their UK office and led investments in Onfido, Beamery and Unbabel, a company we are also investors in.

Bjorn Tremmerie is Head of Technology Investments at the European Investment Fund, which he joined in 2002. With his team, he invests and monitors investments in VC funds and is in charge of a portfolio of over 250 European VC funds (including ours!). Bjorn sits on the Investment Committee of the Dutch Venture Initiative Fund-of-Funds and is also a member of KfW Capital's Advisory Board.