Chris Adelsbach

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Biography

Mr. Chris Adelsbach serves as Managing Partner at Outrun Ventures. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor. He is one of Europe's most prolific angel investors in Fintech companies. After a ten-year career at GE Capital, he co-founded a specialty finance company that became one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK, featuring in the Sunday Time Fast Track 100 for four consecutive years. In 2014, he and his partners sold the business to a NASDAQ-listed entity and specialist buy-out fund. After exiting he turned his attention to venture investing and mentoring founders, running London's leading fintech accelerator for five years. He has also invested personally, as a first cheque investor, into a further 175 fintech companies, many of them now notable, including Griffin Bank, Kuda Bank, Post Quantum, Quant Network, Marshmallow Insurance, Smart Pension, Cuvva, and Atom Bank. He formed Outrun Ventures to facilitate investment in the growth stage round of some of his most exciting growth stage portfolio companies.