2020 required a level of constant adaptation, grit and even creativity to push through and keep going. In the final #EcosystemGiants session of the year, a chance to hear from a leader with extensive experience navigating new, challenging environments - growing a team from 0 to 80, scaling business operations across regions and being a supportive board member to close to 20 companies.
It is beyond exciting to have Jan Miczaika (Partner at HV Capital) as the closing #EcosystemGiants guest of 2020. RSVP here to join us at 5pm GMT on Tuesday 15 December 2020.
Jan Miczaika is a partner at HV Capital, formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, one of the most successful and financially strongest early-stage and growth venture capitalist in Europe. The firm has backed Internet and technology companies through various generations of funds((and most recently announced its new, 8th fund at €535 million euro!). Jan caught the entrepreneurship bug early, setting up his first “real” company at 15 and never really worked in a major company. During a PhD at WHU (which remains uncompleted), Jan started an e-commerce marketplace, Hitmeister, which was later sold to the METRO group. Today Hitmeister is one of the leading German marketplaces, with over €600m in GMV.
Then Jan became active as an angel investor, supporting fellow entrepreneurs. A couple of years later Jan joined one of his investments, Wooga, as COO. During his seven years at Wooga the company grew from 30 to over 300 people; and he ran various teams at the company, with a strong focus on Marketing and Growth, and also HR (and was responsible for a €20m+ annual, platform partnerships with Apple, Facebook and Google, building the ad monetization business, opening an office in Tokyo). One of Jan's career highlights was launching a game called Jelly Splash at Wooga. In 2013, the game received over 1 million downloads in its first week, and more than 10 million in the first two months. It reached the #1 spot in the download charts in nine countries, including the US. This success made Jan fall in love with the power of software products and instant global distribution.
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The next 'Ecosystem Giants' - Jan Miczaika (Partner, HV Capital) on Tuesday, 15 December 2020!
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2020 required a level of constant adaptation, grit and even creativity to push through and keep going. In the final #EcosystemGiants session of the year, a chance to hear from a leader with extensive experience navigating new, challenging environments - growing a team from 0 to 80, scaling business operations across regions and being a supportive board member to close to 20 companies.
It is beyond exciting to have Jan Miczaika (Partner at HV Capital) as the closing #EcosystemGiants guest of 2020. RSVP here to join us at 5pm GMT on Tuesday 15 December 2020.
Jan Miczaika is a partner at HV Capital, formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, one of the most successful and financially strongest early-stage and growth venture capitalist in Europe. The firm has backed Internet and technology companies through various generations of funds((and most recently announced its new, 8th fund at €535 million euro!). Jan caught the entrepreneurship bug early, setting up his first “real” company at 15 and never really worked in a major company. During a PhD at WHU (which remains uncompleted), Jan started an e-commerce marketplace, Hitmeister, which was later sold to the METRO group. Today Hitmeister is one of the leading German marketplaces, with over €600m in GMV.
Then Jan became active as an angel investor, supporting fellow entrepreneurs. A couple of years later Jan joined one of his investments, Wooga, as COO. During his seven years at Wooga the company grew from 30 to over 300 people; and he ran various teams at the company, with a strong focus on Marketing and Growth, and also HR (and was responsible for a €20m+ annual, platform partnerships with Apple, Facebook and Google, building the ad monetization business, opening an office in Tokyo). One of Jan's career highlights was launching a game called Jelly Splash at Wooga. In 2013, the game received over 1 million downloads in its first week, and more than 10 million in the first two months. It reached the #1 spot in the download charts in nine countries, including the US. This success made Jan fall in love with the power of software products and instant global distribution.
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