20 VC 087: From The Investors Of Spotify, TrustPilot and Klarna with Jeppe Zink, General Partner @ Northzone

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🗓️ 11 November 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jeppe Zink is the General Partner at Northzone, who have investments in the likes of Spotify, Bloglovin and TrustPilot, just to name a few. Jeppe himself established the London office of Northzone and his primary areas of focus are fintech, SaaS, marketplaces and mobile and has made investments in Wallapop, SpaceApe Games and many more.

Before we delve into the show today, our dear friend and kind donator, Brad Feld has agreed to do a competition giveaway featuring signed copies of his amazing book, Venture Deals, all you have to do to be in with a chance is headover to the website at www.thetwentyminutevc.com and sign up for our newsletter. It’s that simple.

In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Hussein mad his way into the wonderful world of venture?

2.) What was it like to start a new fund with Hoxton and why did Hussein leave the security of Accel to start his own?

3.) Why did Hussein believe this was the stage with the most opportunity? Does he think there is too much capital chasing too few deals?

4.) With DarkTrace (portfolio company), Hoxton were the only VC money in at the early stage? How did that come about and what was it about Hoxton that made Mike take your money?

5.) Why did Hussein choose to setup the fund in London? What does he think is driving the surge in European tech with the rise of the Nordics etc?

6.) With Steve O’Hear Hussein stated he looks for brand new markets that are going to be formed (Playfish)? What does he think those are?

Items Mentioned In Today's Show:

Jeppe's Fave Book: Zero To One, Startup Growth Engines

Jeppe's Fave Blog: Strictly VC

Jeppe's Productivity Tools: CityMapper, Genius

Jeppe's Most Recent Investment: CrossLend

As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Jeppe on Twitter here!

If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session you can follow him on Instagram here!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Harry Stebbings and this is the 20 minute VC and do you know this is the 87th episode
0:06.0	and if each interview was 20 minutes long as we really say they are then you would have 29
0:13.1	hours of me talking to incredible VCs for you to listen to in our back catalogue but now it's
0:18.7	time to carry on with today's show and I'm so
0:21.0	thrilled to welcome a phenomenal guest today in the form of Yeppe Zink. Yeppe is the general
0:26.9	partner at North Zone who have investments in just some of the most unbelievable companies,
0:32.8	including the likes of Spotify, Trust Pilot and Blog Lovin. Just to name a few. Yepay is himself an incredible VC
0:41.7	and has established the London Office of North Zone and his primary areas of focus are FinTech,
0:48.3	SaaS, marketplaces and mobile and he himself has made investments in Wallopop and SpaceApe games, including
0:55.4	many, many more. But before we delve into the show today, our dear friend and kind
0:59.7	donor, Brad Feld, has agreed to do a competition giveaway, featuring signed copies of his
1:04.9	amazing book, Venture Deals. All do you have to do to be in with a chance is head over to the website
1:10.0	at www.the 20-minutevc.com, all in letters, and sign up for our newsletter. It is that simple. But now it's time to dive into the interview, so ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Yeppe Zink, general partner at North Zone.
1:32.4	You have now arrived at your destination.
1:36.7	Yepay, welcome to the 20 minute VC. It's absolutely fantastic to have you on the show. Thank you so
1:42.0	much for joining us today. Great to be here.
1:49.2	Now, let's kick off today's show by discussing your route into venture. I mean, how did you become a day in living in London investing in tech? Yeah, I probably had a slightly unusual way in.
1:55.7	I was working as a junior analyst in corporate finance at Deutsche Bank, and we just had this hugely successful Frank Cotron, who probably still is the most
2:04.7	successful tech banker who today runs Catalyst.
2:08.1	But at the time, he was a Deutsche Bank.
2:09.7	He just left with 90% of the team.
2:12.9	So we were a few new joiners scratching our heads how to win any business.
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