Robin Klein

Robin Klein General Information

Description

Mr. Robin Klein is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at LocalGlobe. He also serves as Board Member at Streetbees. He serves as Senior Advisor at Future Positive Capital. Klein serves as Chairman & Co-Founding Partner at The Acceleration Group. He also served as Board Member at Osper. He served as Venture Partner at Index Ventures. He also serves as Advisor at Seedcamp. He is Board Observer at Skimbit. He joined the London office of Index Ventures in April 2010. He is currently Chairman of Quickbridge (Wonga) and MyBuilder and sits on the boards of Moo, Clippings, Bill Monitor, EDITD, Farfetch, FreeAgent, LevelBusiness, OneFineStay, Stylistpick and Zoopla. Robin is a governor of Rhyl primary school and a past Chairman of Great Ormond Street hospital's funding company. Robin has 25 years of operating experience, 20 years of which as entrepreneur and 14 years of investing experience and he has been on the boards of three publicly quoted companies. In his last operating role as Chairman and CEO of Innovations, he conducted the very first UK ecommerce transaction in May 1995. Since starting his investment career in earnest in 1998 by co-founding The Accelerator Group (TAG) with his son, Saul, they have made over sixty investments. Some of TAG's ten exits include Agent Provocateur (3i) where Robin was Chairman for five years, Sit Up TV (Virgin Media), board member for 4 years, Lastminute (IPO), Last.fm (CBS), Dopplr (Nokia), Lovefilm (Amazon), Fizzback (Nice Systems) and Tweetdeck (Twitter). Robin is passionate about helping to build the European technology start-up ecosystem and actively supports Saul in the promotion of Seedcamp and OpenCoffee. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Industrial Engineering.