Her work in the automotive industry began with Volkswagen Wolfsburg in 2001, and continues to this day with DRIVE Software Solutions which she acquired in 2019. It is now part of Microsoft following its $8.5 billion acquisition in 2011.Īs a result of these achievements, Dr Meyer was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (DAVOS) in 2001, and attended DAVOS for 3 years as a speaker thereafter. Skype was acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Meyer contributed early team members to Skype as well as advice which helped them to scale. She was sought out by Howard Hartenbaum, now at August Capital, then at Draper Richards, to work with the founders of Skype. She was an Advisory Board member of New Media Spark at the time of its IPO in 2000, having joined Tom Teichman in September 1998 at New Media Ventures on Berkeley Square.ĭr Meyer closed out the Millennium by establishing Ariadne Capital in December 2000, immediately starting work with Bill Gross’ Idealab where she helped to scale several businesses. True to form, she invested her own money in the Company’s IPO of 14 March 2000.Īt the same time, Dr Meyer funded Rob Lewis’ in 1999, and Jez San’s ARC Cores in 19. In so doing, Dr Meyer played a key role in positioning Lastminute as one of the Internet 1.0 success stories. She backed the founders of in April 1998, and managed their Series A funding round. In her first year in London, Dr Meyer demonstrated two tenets of what would become her approach to supporting entrepreneurs: a sense of what was to come and a capacity for the hard work to achieve it. Then, Julie Meyer arrived in London after graduating from the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), the leading European business school. She has been identifying the entrepreneurs and companies which would build the future of industries since 1998. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker, the “founder of modern management.”ĭr Julie Meyer, MBE has invested and/or secured more than £880 million of finance for technology firms in a career which started just before the Millennium.
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