I am inspired by founders using technology to make the world a better place
Hi, I’m Toby. During my 25+ year journey in the tech industry, I have had the privilege to work with many inspiring entrepreneurs including Jerry Yang (Yahoo!) and Jack Ma (Alibaba). My formative professional years were spent working in Silicon Valley both as an investor and operator, including as Chief Strategy Officer at Yahoo!, where I led the team that invested $1 billion in Alibaba in 2005 for a stake ultimately sold for over $80 billion. I have been extremely fortunate to work closely with other incredible business mentors - Herb Allen (Allen & Company), Terry Semel (Yahoo) and Richard Branson (Virgin).
I love to partner with founders who aspire to positively change the world and support them and their teams through the ups and downs. As the co-founder of a venture firm, I also enjoy nurturing and developing our own incredible team of humans to enable us to find the most ambitious entrepreneurs in Europe and give them the help they need.
As a family man, nothing makes me happier than to hang out with my five Northern Irish-Moroccan-Israeli children and my superlative wife, reading, drinking wine, practising yoga and meditation and losing my voice at Arsenal football matches.
I am inspired by founders using technology to make the world a better place
Hi, I’m Toby. During my 25+ year journey in the tech industry, I have had the privilege to work with many inspiring entrepreneurs including Jerry Yang (Yahoo!) and Jack Ma (Alibaba). My formative professional years were spent working in Silicon Valley both as an investor and operator, including as Chief Strategy Officer at Yahoo!, where I led the team that invested $1 billion in Alibaba in 2005 for a stake ultimately sold for over $80 billion. I have been extremely fortunate to work closely with other incredible business mentors - Herb Allen (Allen & Company), Terry Semel (Yahoo) and Richard Branson (Virgin).
I love to partner with founders who aspire to positively change the world and support them and their teams through the ups and downs. As the co-founder of a venture firm, I also enjoy nurturing and developing our own incredible team of humans to enable us to find the most ambitious entrepreneurs in Europe and give them the help they need.
As a family man, nothing makes me happier than to hang out with my five Northern Irish-Moroccan-Israeli children and my superlative wife, reading, drinking wine, practising yoga and meditation and losing my voice at Arsenal football matches.
I am inspired by founders using technology to make the world a better place
Hi, I’m Toby. During my 25+ year journey in the tech industry, I have had the privilege to work with many inspiring entrepreneurs including Jerry Yang (Yahoo!) and Jack Ma (Alibaba). My formative professional years were spent working in Silicon Valley both as an investor and operator, including as Chief Strategy Officer at Yahoo!, where I led the team that invested $1 billion in Alibaba in 2005 for a stake ultimately sold for over $80 billion. I have been extremely fortunate to work closely with other incredible business mentors - Herb Allen (Allen & Company), Terry Semel (Yahoo) and Richard Branson (Virgin).
I love to partner with founders who aspire to positively change the world and support them and their teams through the ups and downs. As the co-founder of a venture firm, I also enjoy nurturing and developing our own incredible team of humans to enable us to find the most ambitious entrepreneurs in Europe and give them the help they need.
As a family man, nothing makes me happier than to hang out with my five Northern Irish-Moroccan-Israeli children and my superlative wife, reading, drinking wine, practising yoga and meditation and losing my voice at Arsenal football matches.
Our evolving thoughts on investing in AI applications
Mosaic’s co-founder and partner Toby Coppel shares his view on how the market volatility impacts venture capital and gives advice to founders on how to survive a bear market.
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Evgeny, Vadim, and Alexey have blown us away at every turn, with a powerful vision of creating the one-stop shop for DeFi. With a sharp eye for product and growth, they are rapidly bringing that vision to life.
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By now, most of us have used or been offered a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) option when we shop online. BNPL not only makes checkout experiences faster, but also drives consumers to spend more money.
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We continue to witness a Cambrian explosion of public blockchain development. In recent years, the fabric of the decentralised web has begun to be woven, and the social contract of money is being rewritten. Bitcoin and later Ethereum are the two platforms on this movement was catalysed. In this post, we explore what comes next.
We founded Mosaic as optimists who see technology as a force for good, and believe that the startup ecosystem will positively impact society.
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If you've ever sold to large enterprises, we suspect you've felt the pain of procurement...
Marcus Buckingham is well-known for his insightful books...
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At an event earlier this year, Mosaic founding partner Toby Coppel sat down with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman...
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Here at Mosaic, we have long been big believers in the power of decentralised infrastructure and applications, demonstrated by our past investment
It is with great pleasure that we welcome the latest addition to the Mosaic team, our new venture partner Dr Jack Kreindler
Talented entrepreneurs have the ability to transform the global economy at unprecedented pace
Daniel Hegarty is a smart, highly-driven renegade
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Recently we were thrilled to host a second fireside chat with Y Combinator President Sam Altman
One reason we are such passionate believers in the European startup ecosystem is the way success seeds further opportunity
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We wrote last April about the opportunity for habito to bring mortgages into the 21st century
With the holiday season fast approaching we thought we would share three books that we've been enjoying over the past couple of months
Jack Kreindler is an expert physician, physiologist and digital health entrepreneur
Fees are the first thing you should look at before choosing a pension manager and fund
We are thrilled to announce that Pascal Gauthier is joining Mosaic as a Venture Partner
We believe that trusted robo-advisors have a bright future
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At the end of Mosaic's first full year of operations, we continue to feel excited
Back to Glass Half Full: The New Fundraising Environment
Over the past year we've talked extensively about the unbundling of the banks
A giant and heavily regulated industry which many would argue has lost sight of its customers should be ripe for attack
Artificial intelligence has an intellectual lineage stretching back to the greats of computer theory, Turing and ultimately Babbage, inventor of the calculating machine
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In Britain users spend as much time on WhatsApp as they do on Facebook mobile and Snapchat
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We visit Silicon Valley regularly here's one of the most striking aspects we found during our recent trip
I have always thought that I would like my tombstone to be inscribed with the words above to be remembered as a great husband, loving father and successful entrepreneur...
We'd like to thank all of our friends, colleagues and supporters who joined us Monday night at the Institute for Contemporary Arts to celebrate
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Great founders are rare. Pioneers, geniuses, rule-breakers. Forging their own path with a drive to "make a dent in the universe."Like many great founders, you have some of the following traits in your DNA
We are optimists who believe that technology and the startup ecosystem are generally progressive forces in society
