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The first invitee for the VC Talks serie @Station R on March 7th at 6PM.
Let’s participate to an open-discussion serie of events that will permit you to be and stay connected with the VCs of the region.
Olivier Laplace is a Venture Capital investor, board member and advisor for technology startups and scaleups.
VI Partners tech team invests at Seed and Series A stage as lead or co-lead investor.
Previously, Olivier built Swiss Post Ventures, where he led investments in 14 early stage startups including Metaco (acquired for $250 million by Ripple), TestingTime (acquired by Norstat Group), Bring! (acquired by Swiss Post) and Hacknowledge (acquired by Swiss Post).
A former tech entrepreneur, software developer, investment banker, he also worked as an intrapreneur, built strategic initiatives and executed M&A transactions for a global technology player.
A daily meditator (thanks to Yuval Harari), he looks for different perspectives and « give before you take » relationships (thanks to Adam Grant).