Max Bautin

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Treasurer

Invest Europe

Jun 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Board Member

Virti

Jan 2021 - Current (5 years 7 months)

Improving human performance by making experiential training affordable and accessible for everyone... using XR, artificial intelligence, gamification tech and decades of data

Board Member

AccelerComm Ltd

Sep 2020 - Current (5 years 11 months)

AccelerComm is a semiconductor IP-core company that provides channel coding solutions for communication standards for 5G, Satellites, Drones etc. Its innovative turbo coding technology enables 10X throughput and 10X latency improvement over existing products. Led Ser A round.

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Audit & Finance Committee Member

Invest Europe

Dec 2019 - Jun 2024 (4 years 7 months)

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Board Member

Invest Europe

Jul 2019 - Jun 2024 (5 years)

Invest Europe (ex EVCA) is the world’s largest association of private capital providers and investors. It represents Europe’s venture capital, private equity and infrastructure investment firms, as well as their investors, including some of Europe’s largest pension funds, insurers and family offices, with over 60% of EU managers as members and collectively over $1 trillion AUM.

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Steering Committee Member

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs

Jun 2019 - Jun 2023 (4 years 1 month)

Since 1999, CUE has been supporting and accelerating entrepreneurship and providing grants and training for hundreds of students, staff and alumni at the University of Cambridge.

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Board Member

MQUBE

Apr 2019 - Current (7 years 4 months)

Re-engineered the mortgage process using AI.. leading to legally binding offers within 24 hours. Co-led seed round, supported follow-on into Ser B and beyond.

Board Member

Concirrus

Jul 2018 - Mar 2023 (4 years 9 months)

An InsurTech company that developed Quest, an integrated behavioural analytics toolset, with multiple integrated IoT feeds, for the commercial insurance market. Quest applies ML techniques to live data to massively improve the pricing and loss ratios for insurers through superior risk pooling, real time management of loss and predictive risk & claim management. Sold to Applied Underwriters.

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Board Member

Audio Analytic

Dec 2016 - Oct 2022 (5 years 11 months)

"Shazam for real-world sounds". AI for sounds - detects a wide variety of sounds to enable appropriate responses by devices in the Smart Home, Car, Wearables/Earables etc. Co-led Ser A and participated in all follow-on rounds, exited to a FAANG

Board Member

Thought Machine

May 2016 - Current (10 years 3 months)

Cloud-native core banking system. First institutional investor, led pre-seed, seed/A and participated in every round since, with c £50m invested by IQC over life. Amazing journey with Paul Taylor, with a few bumps and challenges helping from seed to now scale up with a number of large banks and fintechs as customers.

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Board Member

Spectral Edge Ltd Acquired by Apple

Oct 2015 - Nov 2019 (4 years 2 months)

Led seed, co-led Ser A. Computational photography company, acquired by Apple in Dec 2019.

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VC Council Member

InvestEurope exEVCA

Mar 2015 - Jun 2024 (9 years 4 months)

InvestEurope (EVCA) VC Council is the governing body for the association of European VCs.

Board Member

Fluidic Analytics

Jan 2015 - Oct 2023 (8 years 10 months)

Led seed and Ser A round. Fluidic is proteomics / interactomics company revolutionising our understanding of disease by developing devices that enable easier, faster, more convenient and more accurate protein characterisation and protein-to-protein interactions, in near real time, in native environments.

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Member

Cambridge Angels

Dec 2012 - Current (13 years 8 months)

Cambridge Angels is a syndicate of highly successful tech entrepreneurs investing in deep tech start-ups. CA have backed some of the most successful tech companies in Cambridge and broader UK, several of which reached multi-$bn exits. Investments typically of £100k-£2m.

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Board Member

Stillfront Group AB

Nov 2012 - May 2016 (3 years 7 months)

Stillfront Group develops, publishes and operates browser-based, mobile and console games. Listed on NASDAQ First North, current EV c $1bn.

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Board Member

Neul Ltd acquired by Huawei

Jun 2011 - Sep 2014 (3 years 4 months)

Neul develops innovative & disruptive wireless network technology to enable the use of unlicensed spectrum for IoT communications. Co-lead Ser A and follow-on rounds. The business was acquired by Huawei Technologies in Sept 2014.

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Investor NED

Sirigen Group Ltd acquired by Becton Dickinson

Oct 2010 - Aug 2012 (1 year 11 months)

Develops highly sensitive assays for med devices / testing. Acquired by Becton & Dickinson in Aug 2012

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Board Member

Power Challenge acquired by Stillfront

Jan 2010 - Oct 2012 (2 years 10 months)

Developer of browser-based sports games. Acquired by Stillfront Group in Nov 2012.

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Board Member

Grapeshot Acquired by Oracle

Jun 2009 - May 2018 (9 years)

Grapeshot supplies next-generation keyword-contextual technology for precision targeting and brand safety in on-line display advertising. Led seed and Ser A, participated in every round after, culminating in a highly successful exit to Oracle in May 2018, delivering a 'double-dragon' return to Fund I.

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Board Member

Phonetic Arts acquired by Google

May 2008 - Dec 2010 (2 years 8 months)

Speech-synthesis software engine for the computer games and entertainment industries. Acquired by Google in Dec 2010

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Managing Partner, co-founder

IQ Capital

Sep 2006 - Current (19 years 11 months)

IQCapital is a London/Cambridge based early stage deep-tech VC. We invest into 'deep tech' start-ups including Novel AI, confidential computing/cyber, tech-bio/syn-bio as well as hardware-driven innovation with next gen computing/ interfaces, new energy, robotics and space tech. UK and EU focus. IQ Capital has over $1B assets under management, including our latest $200m early stage fund, and is actively looking for new investment opportunities.

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Fund Manager

NW Brown Company

Jul 2001 - Sep 2006 (5 years 3 months)

An asset management company, where I originated and run the seed VC business, investing into over 30 tech seed stage companies in Cambridge and beyond.

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Investment Executive

Metrosvyaz

Jul 1999 - Sep 2000 (1 year 3 months)

A telecoms holding acquiring/building CDMA networks in CIS. Backed by Leap/Qualcomm & ITAR-TASS

acting CFO, Deputy CFO of CSK (a subsidiary)

Millicom

Jun 1997 - Jul 1999 (2 years 2 months)

MIC is a NASDAQ-listed global mobile telecoms holding.

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