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11 FRANCISCO CORONEL Nxtp Labs Argentina Francisco is Co-founder, Managing Director and CFO of NXTP Labs, the most active early- stage investment fund and accelerator in Latin America. NXTP Labs has already invested in more than 150 companies and plans to complete a portfolio of 300 companies in the region. Moreover, NXTP Labs has been generating a large impact in the Latin American entrepreneurial community by helping to foster a fertile ecosystem for technology innovation, entrepreneurs and investors. Francisco actively participates in the fundraising process of NXTP Labs, receiving $28M from 120 investors worldwide to date, with the goal of raising a $60M fund. HERVE CUVILIEZ Leap Ventures Lebanon Herve is the CEO of Diwanee (Arabic for "e-gathering"), which seeks to bring the topics Arab women might discuss amongst themselves to the online platform. Diwanee's specialized web portals 3a2ilati.com (motherhood, health) and Yasmina.com (beauty, fashion, gossip) satisfy its readership with information tailored to their lifestyle and life stage. In just three years, Diwanee has become the market leader in women's lifestyle web content in the Arab language, attracting 4.8 million unique visitors a month with an average of three page views per visit. In 2014, Webedia acquired a majority stake of Diwanee. Leveraging his operational expertise, Herve rencently launched a Lebanon-based venture fund - Leap Ventures - a leading equity provider in the region. JEREMIAH DALY Highland Capital Partners United States Jeremiah is a Partner at Highland Capital Partners, a leading venture capital firm with a more than twenty year history of helping great people build great companies. Based in Highland's Cambridge office, Jeremiah focuses on identifying and leading later-stage investments in the information technology and digital media sectors. Jeremiah previously worked at Accel Partners, Summit Partners, Gold Hill Capital and Silicon Valley Bank. BASTIAAN DE GOEI AXA United States Bastiaan is the Business Development Manager at AXA Lab San Francisco. AXA is a French global financial services company present in 57 countries, with over 105 million customers, and about 157,000 employees. It is the second largest insurance group in the world and also has banking, investment banking, and asset management activities. AXA is interested in investment opportunities that could aid its strategic objectives around digitalisation and customer centricity, including big data analytics, crowd-sourcing and peer-to-peer lending and insurance, home automation, platforms that connect multiple devices, drones, automated cars, Artificial Intelligence, etc.