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Maniv Mobility is an Israel-based venture capitalist firm, focused mainly on mobility, automotive, transportation and logistic solutions. The fund is backed by venture arms of BMW, Hyundai, LG Electronics, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, Shell and Valeo amongst others. Headquartered in Isreal, in Tel Aviv a city that is growing in the mobility space with an increasing number of automotive venture arms.Maniv Mobility operates since 2016 with an initial funding capital of $44mn and a further capital injection in 2019 of $100mn. With an international investment portfolio and global ambitions, the firm has built over the years strategic partners in Europe, North America, Israel looking for long term expansion in Asian markets.The company has been within the VCs that backed Drive.ai, the autonomous vehicle startup later acquired by Apple.  

EMBA, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. A founder of China’s intelligent speech recognition industry, owns many patents. Liao was director of 863 Program (National High-tech R&D Program). Prior to WeDoctor, Liao founded enterprise communications company China Gtel, once worth RMB 300 million. 

Agustín Tourón Gil is a physicist from Galicia. He was the founder of Streaming Galicia, an online event broadcaster. He has also co-founded and become the COO of Councilbox, a blockchain-powered legal tech SaaS that registers and validates certifications and remote corporate meetings.

With a PhD in molecular biology from NUS, Bao Shengjie, CEO and co-founder of Singrow, is a plant physiology expert who has been focusing his research for more than six years on expediting growth and improving yields. He grew up in Ningbo, a coastal city of China’s eastern Zhejiang Province. In 2011, he graduated from esteemed Zhejiang University with a bachelor's degree. He also studied bioinformatics at North Carolina State University, followed by studies at NUS. Since 2017, he has been an NUS research fellow. Strawberry has his favourite fruit since childhood. After moving to Singapore, he found that strawberries from the local supermarket were nothing close to those he had been eating for years. That sparked his study into the problem of Singapore’s local strawberry market, which in turn caused him to explore the urban farming industry with his plant physiology and molecular biology knowledge. Besides founding Singrow, he is the breeder of the company’s signature White Crystal Strawberry and invented the Fast Cultivation Method.

Long Long Yu graduated from the University of Siena in Italy with a degree in Software Engineering, later specializing in Computer Vision and AI at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2013, he co-founded Wide Eyes, a visual search engine for the fashion and retail industry, where he is its head of research.  His technical interests include biometric pattern analysis, visual object tracking, machine learning and object detection. Originally from China, Yu speaks Chinese, Italian, Spanish and English. 

Marc Millet Solanellas is the Spanish-born CEO and co-founder of Evix Safety, designers of an algorithm-controlled airbag for cycling helmets, where he has worked since 2017. Prior to this, Millet achieved both a master's degree in Sports Management and a first degree in Law, both from the University of Barcelona. Millet also holds certification in entrepreneurship from Santander Bank's International Entrepreneurial Center, as well as a license in Football Training at the UEFA B level from the Catalonian Football Federation.

OneRagtime is a platform that brings together ventures, startups and advisory services, providing access to capital, industry expertise and operational resources. It also uses a fully-digitalized investment process for its users to carry out due diligence and negotiations. Founded in 2014 by Stéphanie Hospital and Jean-Marie Messier, One Ragtime is headquartered in London with offices in Paris and Barcelona. The company’s mentors include Josep Solé and Laurence Bret, who advise Spanish/Latin American and European technology companies, respectively.

Adevinta Ventures is the investment arm of the Norway-based Adevinta, a local digital marketplace group operating in 15 countries in Europe, Latin America and North Africa, with 1.5bn monthly visitors. Its leading local brands include Leboncoin in France, InfoJobs in Spain, Subito in Italy and Jofogás in Hungary. In Spain, where its headquarters is in Barcelona, the company includes an umbrella of successful online classified platforms such as Infojobs, Fotocasa, Habitaclia, Milanuncios and Vibbo, counting over 18m active users.Adevinta Ventures invests in startups focused on marketplace and platform space specifically in verticals such as mobility, education and real estate. The fund typically invests in Series A and B rounds backing them also with marketing and data support as well as mentorship. Initial investments go up to €5m with follow-on capacity. 

Co-founder and COO of Arkyne Technologies, Javier Rodríguez Macías was listed as one of the most promising young people in Forbes 30u30 Europe in 2017. He attended Colegio de San Francisco de Paula, the same high school as co-founder Pablo Manuel Vidarte Gordillo who was also named in Forbes 30u30.Graduating in 2018, with a degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Rodríguez is also one of the developers of Bioo, an Arkyne Technologies project. In 2015, he also co-founded Geoo that produced geolocation tracking stickers.

Pablo Manuel Vidarte Gordillo is the co-founder and CEO of Arkyne Technologies. Graduating in 2018, the Multimedia Engineering student at Universidad Ramón Llull (La Salle University BCN) in Barcelona was named as one of the most promising young people in Forbes 30u30 Europe in 2017. Vidarte is an energetic serial entrepreneur and has won several awards for his endeavors. Besides co-founding Bioo and Geoo, he also founded AI and video game software Aioo. He was also a speaker at the 2017 South Summit.

Philippe Gelis is a co-founder and CEO of Kantox, a foreign currency exchange management platform. Born in Narbonne, France, in 1979, he now lives in Barcelona where the company's main offices are located. Prior to setting up Kantox in 2011, Gelis worked as a strategy and management consultant at Deloitte and as a financial consultant at Axis Corporate. His first job was as financial controller at Renault, Switzerland. Gelis holds a master's in Business Strategy and an MBA in Corporate Finance, both from Toulouse Business School, France. 

John Carbajal is a co-founder and CTO of Kantox, a foreign currency exchange management platform. He is currently based in Barcelona. Carbajal is a software engineer by profession, having previously worked at Intel in the US and HP in Spain and later as Vice President of Engineering at Digital Vision. Prior to Kantox, he set up Fotocodex, a self-publishing service. Carbajal holds an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and a first degree in Physics from Reed College, Oregon. 

Bernat Farrero is a co-founder and Head of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Revenue Officer at Spanish human resource startup Factorial. He is also the Founder and CEO of Itnig, a venture builder based in Barcelona, the founder and chairman of Quipu, an account management platform and Camaloon, which offers online designing and printing of commercial products. Trained as a computer science engineer, Farrero is also an experienced entrepreneur and investor, involved in the successful exits of Playfulbet, which was acquired by Exoclick and GymForLess, which was acquired by Sodexo.

Ramón Voces Merayo is a co-founder of AEInnova, serving as its Communications Officer. He is also a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and the Salesians School. Voces began his career as a web developer before joining the UAB team. His major research interests are related to Internet technologies, in particular KM, UX, SEO/SEM and Accessibility. Voce holds a bachelor's degree and PhD in Information Science and a bachelor's in Telecommunication Engineering. 

Guillem Ysàs Miralles holds a degree in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is currently lead programmer for the Atomian cognitive core technology. He was one of the developers of the Atomian (product) architecture and the Atomian Modeling Language (AML). He is also lead programmer for Atomian's medical products and is responsible for Atomian's ETL software. He previously worked as analyst and web developer at Elecnor and Teytel, as a first level operator in NextReT and as a Specialist in B. Braun Medical. 

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