Silicon Valley Bank invites you to join our first Meet The Investor series of 2022 in partnership with Next47 for a VC-led, investment focused, “Ask-Me-Anything” style webinar
We are delighted to welcome Micah Smurthwaite, the UK Partner of this global fund.
REGISTER TODAY to join us for this much-anticipated virtual event via Zoom.
Questions?
Please email your questions to the UK Events team at KayMagere@svb.com.
Micah Smurthwaite is a Partner at Next47 based in London. Next47 is a $1.2b VC fund that invests in b2b startups.
Before joining Next47, Micah was the first sales hire at Cloudflare where he was part of the team that grew revenue from $1M to over $100M. While scaling Cloudflare he opened Cloudflare’s EMEA sales office and established Cloudflare’s channel sales division.
Outside of the office, you can find Micah coaching youth basketball, glassblowing, or in a yoga class. Micah holds a BS from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Alex Threipland is Director at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). He is based in London and responsible for the Early Stage Practice, supporting equity backed clients from Seed to Series A.
Before joining SVB, Alex was a Relationship Director in the TMT team at Barclays where he worked for 9 years, and prior to that he has worked for a number of early-stage companies, including his own.
Sarah is Director of Next Gen Venture Capital Relationship Management at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). She is based in London and leads our relationships with the next generation of leaders in the Venture ecosystem.
Before joining SVB, Sarah has been an active member of the entrepreneurial ecosystem for many years, as an angel investor, adviser to early-stage founders and sector focused funds, and a founder herself of a mental health tech startup. Sarah began her career at Citi in the Global Markets team in Fixed Income sales and most recently was an investor at leading European EdTech VC, Brighteye Ventures.
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