Fred Destin

Current

• Board Member at Inspirational Stores
• Board Member at NTR
• Board Member at Seedcamp

• Board Member at Zoopla
• Board Member at Sporever
• Board Member at PriceMinister
• Board Member at Dailymotion
• Board Member at Seatwave
• Board Member at KDS
• Board Observer at Realeyes3D
• Partner at Atlas Venture

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Fred Destin’s Summary

I am a venture capitalist focusing on early and mid stage investment opportunities. I look for high potential entrepreneurs who want to build great companies to support them in their project.

Venture investing is a long-term business, and so is company creation, therefore I only seek to work with real professionals who are dedicated to building sustainable companies.

I do this job because I get a real kick out of chasing the best opportunities, getting to meet great entrepreneurs and facing the challenges of growth with them.

In a bid to help entrepreneurs get into the minds of VCs, I write an entreneurship focused blog @ www.freddestin.com

Fred Destin’s Specialties:

Digital media, from creation to consumption (DailyMotion, Zoopla, Sporever)
E-commerce (Seatwave, PriceMinister)
Enteprise apps and SaaS (KDS, NTR Global, Inxight)
Networking Infrastructure (Rainfinity, Kasenna)
FinTech (CapitalIQ), Wireless Apps (Realeyes3D), Security (Vordel)

Fred Destin’s Experience

• Board Member

  Inspirational Stores

  (Retail industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  InspirationalStores is the strategic partners to high end and niche brands such as Laduree or Antik Bantik for all their online needs.

• Board Member

  NTR

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  SaaS leader in remote access, support and admin. Participated in Series C alongside Kennet Partners (Max Bleyleben)

• Board Member

  Seedcamp

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Seedcamp is a seed funding initiative started by Atomico, Index and Atlas Venture and a few others to support European innovation. The programme is now backed by most of the market's VCs and has become a leading light in showcasing European innovation

• Board Member

  Zoopla

  (Real Estate industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Zoopla is a disruptive real estate play started by Alex Chesterman and Simon Kain. I seed funded the company and attracted some well know angels such as Sherry Coutu or Andy Phillips. The company is a top 10 real estate site in the UK 5 months after launch.

• Board Member

  Sporever

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Sports industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Sporever is a publicly quoted digital publisher based in France.

• Board Member

  PriceMinister

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  PriceMinister is a top 3 French e-commerce site based on a differentiated "trusted marketplace" concept.

• Board Member

  Dailymotion

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  DailyMotion is the #1 independent video sharing website
  
  Co-led Series A funding with Partech International (Philippe Collombel). Led recruitment of Mark Zaleski as Exec Chairman (now CEO). Played a very active role throughout the company's early days, from structuring processes to recruitment (sourced US VP Joy Marcus) to strategic deals negotiation

• Board Member

  Seatwave

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  Seatwave is the European leader in secondary ticketing. The company was seed funded by Atlas Venture (Sonali de Rycker and I drove that transaction) and subsequently raised over' $35M from Mark Tluszcz @ Mangrove, Simon Clark and Davor Hebel Fidelity Ventures, Holtzbrinck and others.

• Board Member

  KDS

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  SaaS Leader in travel and expense management for corporates. Co-led first VC round with Accel Partners (Harry Nelis)

• Board Observer

  Realeyes3D

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Realeyes3D provides a range of mobile imaging applications designed to make your camera phone truly useful, from mobile document scanning to barcode reading.

• Partner

  Atlas Venture

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)

  Software investing across Europe.
  
  Atlas manages $2.2bn and is currently investing Atlas Venture VI ($600m) in life sciences, communications and IT
  
  I currently sit on the boards of Realeyes3D, a visual intelligence company (with Partech and iSource) and KDS, a corporate travel software business (wuth Accel).