Toby Coppel
Toby Coppel is a co-founder and partner at Mosaic Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm focused on early stage investing across Europe. Toby has been investing and operating in internet startups since 1996. His investment career began at Allen & Company, before starting his first investment firm. He joined Yahoo!’s new management team in 2001 and spent 6 years as Chief Strategy Officer, leading over $5 billion of investments and acquisitions including $1 billion into Alibaba that is valued at over $80 billion. Then, both as an angel and alongside Richard Branson and Virgin, he made investments including Criteo, Pinterest, and Transferwise. At Mosaic, Toby is thematically focused on blockchain, machine intelligence, next-generation finance, digital health and marketplaces, and works closely with our portfolio companies Blockchain, Centrifuge, habito, Teemo and Vortexa. He is a graduate of Oxford University and Harvard University, and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
