Michal Nešpor is a Partner at Crowdberry, an alternative investment platform, and at CB Investment Management, where he manages a seed VC fund. Crowdberry has more than €100 million in assets under management, with investment tickets ranging from €0.1 to €5 million and driving the growth of more than 70 pre-seed, seed and growth-stage companies in Czechia and Slovakia. Michal has 17 years of experience working with start-ups, from both the investors’ and founders’ sides of the negotiation table. He prepared and accompanied tech start-ups through fundraising and negotiation with VCs and Business Angels, bringing hands-on experience from the tech VC firm GCP Gamma Capital Partners based in Vienna. At GCP, Michal was dealing with apprais…

Podnikateľ, ekonóm, akademik a konzultant, štátny tajomník Ministerstva práce, sociálnych vecí a rodiny SR (2002-2006), výkonný riaditeľ Inštitútu pre dobre spravovanú spoločnosť (2001-2002, 2006-2009), poslanec parlamentu SR (2010 -2020), Senior Research Fellow, Center for European Policy Studies, Belgicko (2010-2019), CEO, CB ESPRI Impact One + Zhiva (2021-)  

Co-founder of Impact Nation Institute - 15 years of experience in IT, business and management consulting. He has helped hundreds of companies expand and innovate their business. He is personally involved in investing himself, is a startup enthusiast and the owner of several companies.

Michal is a seasoned investor, acquiring his first professional exposure to venture capital more than 20 years ago. He is a founding partner of Limerock, a transaction advisory, and venture capital firm. Apart from being a key executive of the VC fund managed by Limerock, Michal co-managed also Zero Gravity Capital’s VC fund, Wood&Co’s PE fund, and worked at Slovak American Enterprise Fund. He has also prior working experience from Citigroup and Deloitte. Michal is a PhD in finance from Masaryk University in Brno.

Sandra Karabelli manages the startup accelerator PERRY TALENTS, which she co-founded in 2018. In the past, she worked in Slovak and foreign startups operating on the global market, where she focused on the creation and implementation of growth strategies. Before returning to the private sector, she worked under the first Slovak Chief Innovation Officer at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic, where she participated in the establishment of the Research and Innovation Authority with the aim of creating innovation policies and simplifying access to financing the innovation ecosystem. At the same time, she focuses on direct assistance to Slovak and Czech startups based on her experience in the areas of sales, marketing and management…