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Terese Hougaard

Partner, Investment Team at Atomico

United Kingdom

Investor
VC
Angel

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Skills

Strategic Planning
Due Diligence
Business Strategy
Payments
Management Consulting
Strategic Partnerships
Business Analysis
Business Development
Financial Services
Financial Modeling
Financial Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Mobile Payments
Portfolio Management
Credit Cards
Change Management
Valuation
Corporate Finance
Banking
Analytics

Education

Investments

Opna

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

All Gravy

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Vaayu

Seed

Total Funding: $14M

Abacum

Series A

Total Funding: $32M

Work Experience

Atomico

2020

  • Partner, Investment Team

    2020

    Currently focus on fintech and on climate, investing in late seed and s. A rounds. Led investments & board member in Abacum (finance b2b SaaS), Vaayu (carbon accounting) and Opna (carbon financing) and part of Atomico's investments in Y42 (data), Aplo (crypto) and Qatalog (collaboration). Ran Atomico's Angel Programme 2020-21.

CapitalG

2015 - 2020

  • Partner

    2017 - 2020

    CapitalG is Alphabet's growth equity investment fund. Worked with late stage investments incl. Stripe, Robinhood, Airbnb and UiPath. Board member & observer of India based Cuemath (edtech), Cardekho (car classifieds) and Practo (healthtech).

  • Vice President

    2016 - 2017

  • Growth Lead

    2015 - 2016

Grasshopper - The Coding App for Beginners (Google Area120)

2017 - 2018

  • Head of Marketing

    2017 - 2018

    Grasshopper is a coding app startup that is part of Google's Area120 incubator. Headed the 4-member marketing team, developing and launching the brand and marketing strategy. https://grasshopper.codes/

Google

2014 - 2015

  • Product Marketing Manager, SMB Marketing

    2014 - 2015

    Built the brand for The Digital Garage, Google's new UK SMB digital skills product. Also headed SMB co-marketing and education efforts for Google's SMB agency resellers.

American Express

2011 - 2014

  • Manager, Business Development and Marketing, Online Commerce

    2013 - 2014

    Drove business development for AXP in the online payments space, by launching marketing partnerships with payment start-ups, such as Braintree and PayPal.

  • Manager, The Strategic Planning Group

    2011 - 2013

    SPG is AXP's internal strategy consulting group. Worked on strategic projects for AXP's CEO and senior executives across the organization.