The Qodeo story
Democratizing Venture
As entrepreneurs ourselves, we were frustrated to find how hard it was to raise funds and felt there must be a better way. Particularly for underserved entrepreneurs from regional and diverse communities, who struggle to access trusted venture networks. That’s why we created Qodeo – democratizing venture so that diverse entrepreneurs from across the world can rapidly connect, at low cost, with relevant venture capital and private equity firms. And for investors, Qodeo cancels the noise, helping them identify great businesses to fund and increase their returns.
Qodeo revolutionizes the way entrepreneurs find funding, and investors build pipelines. Our research found that entrepreneurs spend hundreds of hours trying to identify who might fund them, whereas investors struggle to create high-quality deal flow, filter opportunities and source diverse investments from beyond their traditional networks.
Qodeo gets entrepreneurs identifying and potentially speaking to the right venture capitalists – quickly. Our desktop tool and mobile apps automatically filter thousands of opportunities, providing alerts and the ability to connect directly with the qualified few that are most likely to materialize. Qodeo does the work for you, making it much easier to navigate through the global venture community.
Qodeo combines quantitative data from partners and the public domain with our own proprietary qualitative data. Working with teams from 30 of the world’s top business schools we interview leading private equity and venture firms in person, curating rich and dynamic insights that inform faster and better decision making.
We then apply Qodeo’s smart algorithms to the data, so that businesses of all sizes with Qodeo profiles can instantly be matched with pre-vetted, best-fit opportunities.
We have been called the eHarmony of the venture community, which is apt given that the average entrepreneur and investor relationship lasts longer than most marriages! Qodeo saves you time and money kissing frogs.
Entrepreneur, investor & educator.. Founder & CEO of CauseEDU, a college financial planning platform, and Cupcake Therapy, a premium nut/allergy-friendly cupcake co. Initiatives leader for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HBCU National Resource Center, Harvard University; featured in Forbes. Alumna of Spelman College & MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, where she coaches business plan teams. Harvard graduate citation in Non-profit Management. Shironda helps Qodeo access new markets and advocates for female and diverse entrepreneurs
Formerly Managing Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Duke University – The Fuqua School of Business Helping Qodeo on outreach to diverse and under-served entrepreneurs, including in the US south east. And to provide perspectives on business in Africa. Now Chief Brand Officer at North Carolina Central University, an historically black university. Stephen is now stepping up to Qodeo’s Main Board.
Anamaria Pantea
Innovation expert to various EU and governmental programs supporting
entrepreneurship and innovation. Former staff of European Institute of Innovation. Malta representative to the EU’s Competitiveness & Innovation Programme for SMEs. Anamaria helps Qodeo with our European, governmental and innovation strategies.
Leading European venture capitalist. Managing Partner at Voltaire SCA – Chairman of the Supervisory Committee at Advestis. Formally Managing Partner, Tempo Capital Partners LLP and Chairman VPSA (Vivendi Universal’s venture wing in Paris, Palo Alto & Singapore). Phillippe brings deep VC and European experience to Qodeo.
Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley & author ‘Global Clusters of Innovation’. Jerry offers significant insights and networks in Silicon Valley.
* Rahul Moodgal
* Harry Ballan
Recently appointed Managing Director and Head of M&A at Alliant in New York. Previously Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP. Senior Director at the Tikvah Fund & Tikvah Online Academy. Former Dean of Touro Law Center, New York. Harry assists with governance, commercial matters and networks.
* Christopher Clement-Davies
Investment banker, investor, director and lawyer. Ten years of VC experience and 25 years in the City. Former Director of SG Warburg and Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, Vinson & Elkins and Dentons. Career began at Linklaters. Helping Qodeo with networks, insight & strategy
* Mark Needham
Entrepreneur. Journalist for The [London] Times, PC Pro Magazine, the Telegraph. As
well as Entrepreneur in Residence at Queen Mary College, University of London and advisor to various early stage businesses, having exited his own venture. Expert on
the Nordic region.
Julian Ha
Partner with global top tier, C suite search firm Heidrick & Struggles. Active early-
stage company investor/advisor. Julian assists VC and PE-backed companies,
Fortune 100 & trade associations. Board member of Public Affairs Council, and
US-ASEAN Business Council. BA from Cornell University and Masters degrees from London School of Economics and Harvard University, JD from The NYU School of Law. Julian holds an NACD Directorship Certification. Assisting Qodeo with organizational strategy, funding and networks
Prof Gregory Stoller
Actively involved in building entrepreneurship, experiential learning and international business programs at Boston University. Also mentor to student teams which participate in business plan & VC competitions. Owner of a commercial real estate holding company and speaks, reads and writes 7 different languages. A BS from
Cornell University & MBA from Harvard Business School. Assists Qodeo with
academic networks & funding strategy
Vicky Pryce
Pryce, a Greek-born British economist, was Deputy Head of the UK Government Economic Service Joint Head from 2007-10 & was Chief Economist at KPMG. As well as academic roles at Oxford University and Imperial College, Pryce is the successful author of ‘Women Versus Capitalism’ ‘Greekonomics’ & ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. Pryce serves on the Economic Advisory Council of the British Chambers of Commerce, a member of International Women’s Forum & London Chapter of Women Corporate Directors
* Giles Everist
An engineer and PWC trained accountant by background, Giles is Qodeo’s second largest shareholder & first angel investor. Giles was Financial Controller of Rio Tinto’s Hamersley Iron, has served on ASX and FTSE boards, including Austal Ships. Giles has broad entrepreneurial, strategic & board governance experience, from his background as an investor & CFO,, having grown an engineering & construction business organically, from $50m to $1bn market cap and sales. Giles helps Qodeo on strategy and investor relations.
Lord Bilimoria
A proven entrepreneur – founder of highly successful Cobra Beer, Lord Bilimoria
has just rotated off his role as President of the UK Confederation of British Industry, is founding member of the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council and the Chancellor of Birmingham University (UK). In 2008 he was PRYCEawarded the Pravasi Bharti Samman by the President of India. An Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation University of Oxford & Chair of the Advisory Board of Judge Business School, Cambridge University 2015-2020.
The Jacob H Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School. Josh graduated from Yale College with a special division major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private taskforce in Chicago and on Capitol Hill. Josh earned his PhD from Harvard’s Economics Department and is the author of
many leading book and articles about venture & entrepreneurship.
Jamillah Lodge
Communication and Development Director of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, a government agency. Jamillah also has over 15 years’ business
experience, including in the US. Jamillah holds a BA from Clark Atlanta University, an AA from the Fashion Institute Los Angeles and an MBA. Jamillah champions female and diverse entrepreneurs’ financing and growth needs with Qodeo.
With deep tech, and especially AI, experienced at Meta, Amazon, Scale AI and now Centrific. José advises and works closely with Qodeo’s team on AI integrations and opportunities. José worked with Qodeo as a researcher whilst studying for his MBA IE Business School in Madrid; and has in impeccable academic background, with an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School, an MS in Technology Commercialization from Texas McCombs School of Business, BS from Pepperdine and AAS from Community College of the (US) Air Force. Plus, AI Product Certification from Product School and Brainstation
Outgoing DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University. Now joining Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey USA. Doug first collaborated with Qodeo when at York University Toronto’s Schulich School of Business. A leading, highly published academic. Doug helps Qodeo with research and insights; having most recently been interviewed on Qodeo’s 11 ‘fundraising myths’ busted video series.
Gretta is an accredited company NED, including by European Women on Boards. Formerly with Credit Suisse for 18 years in Zurich and New York. Mostly recently
as Head e-Sales & COO Global Trading Solutions Switzerland. Gretta provides leadership, corporate governance, marketing credentials to QAB. Gretta has
undertaken Executive education at both UPenn Wharton and Yale School of Management and holds an MSc from Bayes Business School in Banking & International Finance.
Simon is Qodeo’s CEO, founder and chief advocate. Simon leads the Qodeo team, technical, operations, partnering and strategic initiatives. Simon holds BA, MA and MBA degree from University of Cambridge, and trained in Corporate Finance at London Business School. Previously, Simon led over $400m originations in banking, including securitisation, asset finance, M&A and project finance; worked with the CFO of Roy Hill on a $9bn project finance for the world’s largest private iron ore mine and ran entertainment & media businesses globally.
* Also shareholder
Director Primewest.
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Qodeo marks the end of the needle-in-a-haystack approach to finding investment. It increases the odds of a perfect match, cutting through the noise to connect the smart money to the right opportunities in record time.
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