Slide 3 — Experienced Venture Team

What this slide is

The four-partner roster: name, role, credentials, bio, and a logo strip of past affiliations. Source slide uses circular portrait photos for each.

Why it’s here

LP investing is, fundamentally, people-first. A €50M fund lives or dies on whether four partners can source, pick, win, and service deals for ten years. This slide proves the team has the right combination of experience: VC pedigree (Speedinvest, Inventure), operator credentials (Microsoft, Nokia, Playbrush), and academic/strategy stamps (Kauffman Fellow, BCG, Oxford).

Four partners is a deliberate size — small enough for cohesion, big enough for breadth. The mix is also deliberate: 2 partners + COO + venture partner. Not all four are the same archetype.

The “personal hooks” (Sailor / Ultimate Frisbee Champion / Tennis Player / Sailor) are doing brand work — they make the partners memorable AND keep the nautical/active brand voice consistent. Two sailors anchors the Calm/Storm metaphor as authentic, not a tagline.

What’s most important to surface

Lucanus’ Speedinvest pedigree — he’s the founder and the Speedinvest stamp is the LP-recognizable VC credential. Most important single line on the slide.

Stephanie as managing director / COO with Microsoft + Nokia operator background — rare for a small fund. Most pre-seed funds don’t have an operator-class COO. This is structural advantage.

Ekaterina’s 2024 Venture Partner addition — she’s the most recent addition. Inventure GP across Funds II-IV is a major credential. Her presence signals the firm is attracting senior talent, not just retaining founding partners.

Johannes’ Bitpanda + Ultromics deal experience — the named deals matter. Bitpanda (Speedinvest unicorn) and Ultromics (Oxford Sciences spinout) are both real, named outcomes.

The logos strip is the credential receipt. KPMG, BCG, Oxford, Speedinvest, Microsoft — all instantly LP-recognizable. The visual logo strip is more persuasive than the bio prose.

Composition risk

This slide is dense. Four people × ~5 fields each = 20 content blocks. The source slide handles it with photos doing visual lifting. Without photos (Phase 1), the bios + logos have to carry alone — risk is wall-of-text feel. Density management is the design challenge here.

Visual hierarchy I’d suggest

1. Headline + subhead
2. Names (display-weight, equal)
3. Roles (small caps, gray)
4. Bios (body weight)
5. Credentials (compact list or chips)
6. Affiliations / logos (smallest, but visually dense — the receipt)