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.
* Rahul Moodgal
* Harry Ballan
Senior Counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; Senior Director at The Tikvah Fund, Founding Dean of Tikvah Online Academy, Former Dean of Touro Law Center. New York, USA. (Key shareholder)
* Christopher Clement-Davies
Investment Banker, Private Equity/M&A Lawyer. Formerly S G Warburg;
Partner Fulbright & Jaworski.
* Mark Needham
Entrepreneur. Journalist The Times, The Telegraph, PC Pro Magazine.
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.
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.
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
Founder of highly successful Cobra Beer. President of the UK Confederation of British Industry 2020-2, founding member of the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council. Chancellor of Birmingham University (UK). Awarded the Pravasi Bharti Samman by the President of India. Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, Visiting Fellow at Centre for Corporate Reputation University of Oxford & Chair of the Advisory Board of the Judge Business School, Cambridge University from 2015-2020
* 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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