Startup Conference London 2016, May 18, London, United Kingdom

Venture Partner Adrian Colyer, Accel Partners

Venture Partner Adrian Colyer

Biography: Venture Partner Adrian Colyer

Adrian Colyer was born in London, England. Adrian has been involved in open-source infrastructure companies for more than 20 years, having previously held CTO roles with SpringSource, VMware and Pivotal. He joined Accel in 2014 as a venture partner in London working with software-based companies across Europe, and is a board member or observer for ClusterHQ, Skipjaq and Weaveworks. He writes “The Morning Paper”, a CS blog reviewing a mix of the latest research and foundational papers in computer science.

Presentation: A venture view of funding start-ups

Track: Keynotes / Time: Wednesday 09:10 - 09:30 / Location: To be announced

Adrian Colyer will give his view of what the venture capital community thinks of the current situation. What is the DNA of the venture market? Is it harder to get investment now than a year ago? How can you prepare your business to increase the chance of getting funding.