Headline

Co-founder and partner of IVC, also a partner and founder at Headline Asia. Formerly headed Adobe Asia's venture investment program and served as CTO of Macromedia Japan.

Andreas Haug is a hands-on founding partner with 25+ years' investing experience, ex-founder of several online companies who co-founded European operations and serves as a UK Trustee for Founders Pledge.

Christian Leybold brings one of the longest continuous U.S.–Europe cross‑border VC track records among Berlin investors and educates founders through his ongoing Inside VC series with digital kompakt.

Christian Miele, former chair of the German Startup Association and public commentator, champions founders across Europe, runs a DeepTech syndicate for B2B/industrial AI, and backed Sorare and PlanRadar.

Dominic Wilhelm is a Partner at Headline, where he focuses on seed and Series A stage investments in B2B software companies.

Gabriel Alves — 15+ years in banking, corporate law, capital markets and VC experience; guides M&A/public-market processes and taps XP Asset’s 26,000-advisor network for regulated legal tech and financial services.

Jonathan Becker, a computer scientist and ex‑Otto engineer, has rare technical background among European VCs, lived in Tokyo, San Francisco and Indonesia, and angels European subscription, creator and climate apps.

Jonathan Userovici, a General Partner, built an unusually structured apprenticeship—based on his first 100 founder meetings—to recognize exceptional teams and authored a rare, data‑driven Series B playbook with concrete benchmarks.

Mathias Schilling brought Sand Hill Road–style VC to Germany, deliberately based in Santa Barbara, and built a 20‑engineer, 8‑million‑company AI and signal‑processing data engine to spot early hyper‑growth with hedge‑fund‑like repeatability.

Romero Rodrigues is Managing Partner at Headline and co-founder of Buscapé, which he started in 1998 and sold in 2009 for $374 million. He holds degrees from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Poli-USP, and has experience as a mentor, angel investor, and board member across NGOs and established companies.

Thomas Gieselmann, an early European founder-turned Silicon Valley GP who built a data-driven platform, discovers startups by becoming a customer and favors teams creating full-stack operating systems for complex workflows.

Jett Fein is a Founding Partner at Broadway Venture Partners, where he invests in technology businesses globally. Previously, he served as a General Partner at Headline from 2014 to 2025, investing in early-stage companies including Gopuff, NomNomNow, Honeycomb.io, Root, and others across the US and Europe. His earlier experience includes roles at Fung Capital, Palantir Technologies, and Cambridge Associates, along with a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.

Toshiaki Shimakawa is a Principal at Headline Asia. He holds a degree from the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences at Osaka University and joined Infinity Ventures in 2017, where he contributed to investment activities and helped establish the Infinity Ventures Summit, an invitation-only conference for IT executives. He was a founding member of 17LIVE Japan, a live-streaming application, and served as CEO of IVS Inc. beginning in January 2020.

Andrei Mart is Global Head of Finance for the management companies at Headline, a venture capital firm, where he oversees the financial platform, FP&A function, and operational systems supporting the firm's global strategy. His career spans finance leadership roles at Amazon, L1 Health, Quintet, and other organizations, with expertise in accounting frameworks, FP&A, governance, and operations in regulated environments including private equity and banking. He works with CEOs and investors on financial strategy and scaling technology-focused companies.

Calogero Sutera is a Fund Controller at Headline with experience in private debt fund management. He has proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Efront, and BOB50, along with accounting and team management capabilities.

Christine Betar is a Fund Controller at Headline with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Saint Joseph's University. She previously held positions as an Audit Senior at Deloitte in Philadelphia and as Fund Controller at Standish Management LLC in Denver.

Claire Liau is Chief of Staff at Headline Asia, where she focuses on fundraising and supports growth initiatives across the region. She brings business development experience in e-commerce and consumer goods sectors, and holds an MBA from IESE. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English, and Japanese at JLPT N1 level.

Dorothee Poetter is Chief of Staff at Headline, a global venture capital firm, where she partners with founding and executive leadership on organizational scaling, platform development, and team culture. She joined the firm's operating team in an office operations capacity and progressed into U.S. finance leadership before transitioning to her current Chief of Staff role as the organization expanded internationally. Her work focuses on translating strategic priorities into actionable plans, supporting decision-making across teams, and maintaining operational effectiveness at scale.

Guillaume Defer is Marketing Director at Headline Asia. Previously based in Belgium where he worked as an architect, he relocated to Taiwan in 2016 and subsequently founded a brand agency focused on visual and verbal communication strategy for leaders and companies. His background spans architecture, brand strategy, and supporting founders across marketing and communications roles.

Ines Kopácsi is a Senior Growth Marketing Manager at Headline, a global early-to-growth-stage venture capital firm, where she leads portfolio support focused on digital marketing, tech stack optimization, and team building. With over 12 years of experience in the startup and venture capital ecosystem, including previous work at Rocket Internet, she has partnered with founders across various industries and company stages. Her marketing expertise spans performance marketing and SEO, with a focus on go-to-market strategy and organizational scaling.

Isamu Nishijima is an Associate at Headline Asia, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups in Japan. He has backed over 20 startups including STRACT, Tradom, Newmo, at FOREST, and Things, and has overseen LAUNCHPAD, the pitch competition at IVS, Japan's largest startup conference, which has featured companies such as Freee, MoneyForward, WealthNavi, and Plaid. Nishijima graduated from Waseda University and completed a year of study abroad at Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Luis Schmitz is an investor at Headline who focuses on technologies that transform processes through analytics, automation, and AI, including applications within venture capital. His interests span engineering and economics.

Matt Brown is a Principal at Headline focusing on investments in consumer technology, marketplaces, and product-led growth software companies. Previously, he served as Vice President at The Chernin Group, where he sourced and led investments in consumer internet and technology companies including Headspace, Barstool, and Ro, and held roles as Chief of Staff at Wag and investor at Stripes Group. Brown is a University of Virginia graduate who founded the Virginia Venture Fund, an early student-run venture capital fund.

Michael Kent is a fintech entrepreneur and investor who founded Azimo, which was acquired by Papaya Global, as well as Tandem Bank and Small World Financial Services, which was sold to Equistone Partners. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Coda and has experience in payments, banking, and fintech across startup, scale-up, and private equity environments. He holds degrees from INSEAD and Cambridge University and has a background in corporate development and technology strategy consulting.

Nikki Farb is a Founding Partner at Power of N, where she invests in early-stage founders working in blockchain and related sectors. Her portfolio includes positions in Consensys (Metamask), AfterParty, Fractal, Wander, and SandBar. Previously, she co-founded Darby, a video shopping platform that grew to 50,000 creators and approximately 5 million viewers before being acquired by Grove; prior to that, she worked in the Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs and began her career as an English teacher.

Pietro Caiafa is a Venture Capital Analyst at Headline, the venture capital fund of XP Asset. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Link School of Business and serves as a board member and co-founder of Link Finance, the school's financial markets league, where he previously served as president.

Sai Sood is Global Vice President of Accounting, Reporting, and Portfolio Management at Headline, a global venture capital firm. Previously, he worked in venture capital and Big Four roles, including positions at Sapphire and MDV. His experience spans venture capital finance, accounting, valuations, tax, investor relations, and internal controls.

Tomokazu Okada serves as Community Manager at Headline Asia. He has organized IVS, Japan's largest startup conference, including IVS2024 Kyoto, which attracted over 12,000 participants and 300 side events. His background encompasses marketing, sales, planning, corporate development, and operations.

Wenceslas Moussa is Head of Risk & Compliance and Conducting Officer at Headline, where he oversees risk management, compliance, and anti-money laundering functions for venture capital investment funds. With over 13 years of experience in risk management, compliance, and real estate valuation, he has completed the regulatory licensing process for Headline's Luxembourg-regulated AIFM manager and contributed to the firm's regulated investment activities. His background includes expertise in regulatory affairs and operational procedure development.

Nicolas von Blottnitz is a Vice President at venture capital firm Headline, where he sources early-stage investments in B2B SaaS, AI-enabled solutions, and PropTech for the firm's US fund. He has sourced investments including Grin, Flockjay, Tabnine, Tokensoft, SolidFi, Trellis, and Polygon, and holds board observer positions at these companies. Von Blottnitz has built data-driven investment processes at Headline since 2018 and created a junior investment team program; he also contributes to Deepdive, the firm's in-house analytics platform designed to assess product-market fit and unit economics.

Caroline Jacobs serves as Head of Business Development and Strategy & Operations at Promise AI, a generative AI studio backed by Google's AI Futures Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, where she leads platform strategy and has built the company's creator and IP ecosystem. She also invests through 528 Hz and as a Scout at Headline, focusing on AI, creative platforms, and consumer software. Previously, she co-led the venture fund at United Talent Agency, where she deployed capital across 30+ investments in creator and consumer platforms and managed product and creator strategies for portfolio companies.