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Akihiko Okamoto is a Partner from the Japanese office of the global venture capital firm Headline. His focus is on FinTech, the passion economy, and sports.

Akihiko Okamoto | Headline

Akihiko Okamoto is a Partner from the Japanese office of Headline. His focus is on FinTech, the passion economy, and sports. He lives by Master Yoda's quote: "Do or do not. There is no try."

The most important trait in an investor is well-informed intuition.

Akio Tanaka is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the Asia office. His focus is Consumer Internet, Fintech, and SaaS.

Akio Tanaka | Headline

Akio Tanaka is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the Asia office. His focus is Consumer Internet, Fintech, and SaaS. He invests in geeks who are obsessed with making change.

The most important trait in an entrepreneur is founder’s paranoia – the sense that at any moment, someone might come out of the woods and try to beat you at your game. It’s never safe, especially not at the top.

Christian Leybold is a Founding Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Europe. His focus sectors are Consumer Marketplaces and SaaS.

Christian Leybold | Headline

Christian Leybold is a Founding Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Europe. His focus sectors are Consumer Marketplaces and SaaS. His investment philosophy is about teams and working with great people.

Christian Leybold

Christian Miele is a General Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the European office. His investment focus is everything B2B. He leads multiple initiatives to turbo-charge entrepreneurship in Europe.

Christian Miele | Headline

Christian Miele from Headline

The most important trait in an entrepreneur is having conviction against all odds. And being a great story-teller.

Dominic Wilhelm is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the European office. His focus sectors are Fintech and SaaS companies.

Dominic Wilhelm | Headline

Dominic Wilhelm is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the European office. His focus sectors are Fintech and SaaS companies. The most important investor trait for him? "Having no ego and listening well. Also, endless curiosity and respect for other people."

Knowing when to trust the gut and when to trust the data is the most important trait for an investor!

Gabriel Alves is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Latin America. His focus is on Fintech, Ecommerce, SaaS, Health and Media.

Gabriel Alves | Headline

If you take the safe path, you’re probably not going to end up doing something special.

Jonathan Becker is a General Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline, based in the European office. His investment focus sectors are SaaS, Developer Tools, Mobile, and Digital Health.

Jonathan Becker | Headline

Jonathan Becker is a General Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the European office. His investment focus sectors are SaaS, Developer Tools, Mobile, and Digital Health. In his words: "I work for founders that are optimists and visionaries, not the other way around. Their hustle and drive humbles me daily."

Jonathan Becker from Headline

I like to say that founders can trust us as family. We're in this together.

Jonathan Userovici is a General Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the Paris office. His investment focus is on SaaS and Fintech products.

Jonathan Userovici | Headline

Jonathan Userovici is a General Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the Paris office. His investment focus is on SaaS and Fintech products. He looks for customer-centric founders capable of building incredible company cultures.

Jonathan Userovici from Headline

The most important trait in an investor is the ability to continually looking for new angles.

Joseph Huang is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the Asia office. He focuses on Consumer Internet, Fintech, and SaaS.

Joseph Huang | Headline

Joseph Huang is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the Asia office. He focuses on Consumer Internet, Fintech, and SaaS. He believes the most important trait in an investor is the ability to continually looking for new angles.

Joseph Huang

The most important trait for an investor is the ability to give constructive feedback in a way that is productive and not personal.

Lauren Lyon is an Operating Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office. She is obsessed with being a voice and go-to resource for Limited Partners, Corporate Partners, and the Community.

Lauren Lyon | Headline

Lauren Lyon is an Operating Partner from Headline's US office. She is obsessed with being a voice and go-to resource for the Limited Partners, Corporate Partners, and Community.

For me, courage, curiosity, and core values are the most important traits in an investor.

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Mathias Schilling is a Founding Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the US. His focus sectors are Ecommerce, Media, and Fintech.

Mathias Schilling | Headline

Mathias Schilling is a Founding Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the US. His focus sectors are Ecommerce, Media, and Fintech. He describes his career leading up to Headline as "Clueless with baseless confidence, but open-minded and determined by intuition."

Mathias Schilling from Headline

The most important traits in an entrepreneur are coachability and emotional intelligence.

Romero Rodrigues is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in LatAm. His focus sectors are Fintech, E-commerce, Software, Digital Health, and Media.

Romero Rodrigues | Headline

Romero Rodrigues is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in LatAm. His focus sectors are Fintech, E-commerce, Software, Digital Health, and Media. He considers coachability and emotional intelligence as the most important traits of an entrepreneur.

If you're in her portfolio and she doesn't answer your call in under an hour, her phone is probably broken.

Taylor Brandt is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office. Taylor specializes in vertical SaaS investments, looking for companies and products that reshape antiquated industries and processes.

Taylor Brandt | Headline

Taylor Brandt is a Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office. She specializes in vertical SaaS investments, looking for companies and products that reshape antiquated industries and processes.

The most important trait in a founder is agility.

Thomas Gieselmann is a Founding Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the US office. He focuses on Software, Developer Tools, and Open Source. His curiosity led him to start his first paper publishing & distribution company as a fourteen-year-old. That same curiosity led him to the Internet, starting and running aol.de in Germany before co-founding Headline in 1997.

Thomas Gieselmann | Headline

Thomas Gieselmann is a Founding Partner from Headline's US office. He focuses on Software, Developer Tools, and Open Source. His curiosity led him to start his first paper publishing & distribution company as a fourteen-year-old. That same curiosity led him to the Internet, starting and running aol.de in Germany before co-founding Headline in 1997.

Nancy Xiao is a Growth Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline.

Nancy Xiao | Headline

Shalini Rao is a Growth Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline.

Shalini Rao | Headline

Trevor Neff is a Growth Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline.

Trevor Neff | Headline

The most important trait in an investor is adapting to the learning curve.

Jonathan M. Hayashi is a Venture Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. His favorite sectors are Fintech, Blockchain, and E-commerce.

Jonathan M. Hayashi | Headline

Jonathan M. Hayashi is a Venture Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. His favorite sectors are Fintech, Blockchain, and E-commerce. He describes himself as a "multilingual capitalist who grew up and worked at Greater China, Japan, and the US."

Michael Kent is a Venture Partner from Headline's Europe office. His focus is on Fintech, having bought, built and invested in financial services for two decades.

Michael Kent | Headline

Michael Kent is a Venture Partner from Headline's Europe office. His focus in on Fintech, having bought, built and invested in financial services for two decades. The most important trait in an entrepreneur? "The rare ability to get reasonable people to do unreasonable things."

The most important trait in an entrepreneur is a combination of fearless and totally paranoid

Nicole Farb is a Venture Partner at the venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office. Nikki focuses on FinTech, the creator economy, and E-commerce enablement.

Nicole Farb | Headline

Nicole Farb is a Venture Partner at the venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office. She focuses on FinTech, the creator economy, and E-commerce enablement.

The most important trait in an entrepreneur is a  deep need to create, often driven by dissatisfaction with the world.

Thomas Jeng  is a Venture Partner at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. His favorite sectors Fintech, B2B software and services, EdTech

Thomas Jeng | Headline

Growth

Anna Faulkner is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the London office. Anna specializes in growth-stage companies across all sectors.

Anna Faulkner | Headline

There are tons of different types of excellent investors. You just have to find your personal tone of voice. The only two common qualities are unbounded curiosity and passion.

Astrid Moullé-Berteaux is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Europe. She focuses on B2B software, especially vertical SaaS and AI products.

Astrid Moullé-Berteaux | Headline

Astrid Moullé-Berteaux from Headline

The most important trait in an investor is belief in long-termism.

Brian Yen is a Principal at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. His focus is on Enterprise Solutions, Fintech, and Semi-Conductors.

Brian Yen | Headline

Brian Yen is a Principal at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. His focus is on Enterprise Solutions, Fintech, and Semi-Conductors. He considers the the bility to learn from mistakes and recalibrate immediately the most importan founder trait.

Cesar Bteish | Headline

Cesar Bteish is a Growth Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline.

Cyprien Benoist is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Europe. He focuses on everything early-stage.

Cyprien Benoist | Headline

Humility and curiosity is the most important trait for an investor

Daniela Carneiro is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Latin America. Her focus is on Healthtech, Agtech, Logtech, Foodtech and Comex industry.

Daniela Carneiro | Headline

Georgina McMillan is an Investment Researcher at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office.

Georgina McMillan | Headline

Isabel Wrubel is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Europe. She focuses on high tech SaaS - be it data, open source, or vertical AI and ML.

Isabel Wrubel | Headline

The most important trait in an investor is building relationships.

Toshiaki Shimakawa is a Principal at the globla venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. His focus sectors are Fintech, AI & Software, Mobile, SaaS, Biotech, and Entertainment.

Toshiaki Shimakawa | Headline

Toshiaki Shimakawa is a Principal at the globla venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. His focus sectors are Fintech, AI & Software, Mobile, SaaS, Biotech, and Entertainment. Prior to Headline, he was a biology researcher and organizer of one of the largest startup events in Japan.

Jackson Loo is a Principal from Headline's Asia office and focuses on early investments in Fintech.

Jackson Loo | Headline

Jackson Loo is an Principal from Headline's Asia office and focuses on early investments in Fintech.

The most important trait in an investor is to learn like crazy, have original insight, and be willing to take a risk.

Isamu Nishijima is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. He considers his focus areas to be: Internet, XR, blockchain, APIs, and SaaS.

Isamu Nishijima | Headline

Isamu Nishijima is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. He considers his focus areas to be: Internet, XR, blockchain, APIs, and SaaS. Given a blank check, he'd build a product to allows people to have higher quality sleep in less time.

The most important trait in an entrepreneur are those that embrace the absence of comfort. Great success is rarely found by fitting in.

Jacob Conger is an Investor from Headline's US office. He focuses on businesses that have begun establishing a level of product-market fit and are feeling tremendous market pull.

Jacob Conger | Headline

Jake Horwitz is a Growth Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline. He is a growth software enthusiast.

Jake Horwitz | Headline

Jake Horwitz is a Growth Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline.

Jennifer Lin is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. Her focus is on Enterprise Solutions, InsurTech, Real-estate Tech, and select consumer sectors.

Jennifer | Headline

Jennifer Lin | Headline

Jeremy is an Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia.

Jeremy Kai | Headline

Jeremy Kai

Jerry Fung is an Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US. He focuses on SaaS startups.

Jerry Fung | Headline

The most important trait in an investor is a constant thirst for knowledge.

Kate Liu is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia. Her focus is on cross-border Logistics, E-commerce, SaaS, Enterprise Solutions and Online Medical technologies.

Kate Liu | Headline

The most important trait in a founder is the ability to recognize when to conform and when to rebel.

Ketul Patel is an Investment Researcher from Headline's US office. He looks for an intellectually curious founder who can empathize with customers and build strong teams.

Ketul Patel | Headline

Kiran Modi is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the European office.

Kiran Modi | Headline

I seek out companies where consumer love resonates so deeply that users will attend a meet-up, join an online community, wear the brand on a t-shirt and in extreme cases, get a permanent tattoo!

Matt Brown is an Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office. He focuses on consumer investments.

Matt Brown | Headline

Ram Raval is an Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office.

Ram Raval | Headline

Rômulo Bovolon is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in LatAm. His focus is on Agtech, Foodtech, Proptech, Sports, and Gaming.

Rômulo Bovolon | Headline

"The most important trait for an investor is never-ending curiosity."

Santiago Rallo is an Investment Researcher from Headline's US office.

Santiago Rallo | Headline

"Do one thing every day that scares you." – Eleanor Roosevelt

Savanna Silver is an Investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US office. Savanna specializes in growth-stage software companies, looking for companies that reshape antiquated industries and processes.

Savanna Silver | Headline

I focus on all things fintech and fintech adjacent. Early stage tech companies that change the way businesses and consumers pay and get paid, detect and prevent fraud, grow and democratize access to wealth, and facilitate financial markets.

Investor, Fintech

Sophia Samutin is a Vice President at the global venture capital firm Headline based out from the US. She focuses on Fintech.

Sophia Samutin | Headline

Valentin Kremer is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Europe. He focuses on Seed and Series A companies across Europe.

Valentin Kremer | Headline

The ability to sell a dream and transform it into a reality is the most important trait of an entrepreneur

Victor Cintra is an investor at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Latin America. His focus is on Fintech, SaaS, and Insurtech.

Victor Cintra | Headline

Marketing & Community Manager

Enkhjin Enkhbayar is a Marketing & Community Manager at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia.

Enji Enkhbayar | Headline

Enji Enkhbayar is a Marketing & Community Manager at the global venture capital firm Headline based in Asia.

Managing Director, Headline Asia VP of Partner Relations

Tatsuya Kawamura is a VP of Partner Relations from the Asia office at the global venture capital firm Headline. His focus sectors are Consumer Internet, Fintech, Education, Logistics, AI, and SaaS.

Tatsuya Kawamura | Headline

Tatsuya Kawamura is a VP of Partner Relations from the Asia office at the global venture capital firm Headline. He is on a constant search for the crazy that pushes the human race forward. His focus sectors are Consumer Internet, Fintech, Education, Logistics, AI, and SaaS.

Tatsuya Kawamura

Being a good person is the most important trait for an investor.

Community Manager

Tomokazu Okada is a Community Manager from Headline's Asia office. His focus in building an ecosystem for the startup community in Japan.

Tomokazu Okada | Headline

Tomokazu Okada

An entrepreneur needs to have grit and perseverance to get up from inevitable failures.

Conrad Chu is an Operating Partner and CTO from Headline's US office. He supports the investment team's efforts using technology and his past operating experience as a startup founder.

Conrad Chu | Headline

Conrad Chu is an Operating Partner and CTO from Headline's US office. He supports the investment team's efforts using technology and his past operating experience as a startup founder. He brings 20 years of product and technology acumen as a jack of all trades.

Conrad Chu from Headline

Head of Brand

Molly Martell is Head of Brand at the global venture capital firm Headline based in the US. She started in TV advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi. Then, she jumped to branding, where she has worked with entrepreneurs to launch new products in every category from personal robots to clean beauty.

Molly Martell | Headline

Molly Martell is Headline's VP of Brand. She started in TV advertising, learning the legal number of marshmallows in a bowl of Lucky Charms. Then, she jumped to branding, where she has worked with entrepreneurs to launch new products in every category from personal robots to clean beauty.

The most important trait in an entrepreneur is the ability to inspire new ways of thinking and galvanize others into action.

Michelle Fang is a Community Manager at the global venture capital firm Headline based out of the US.

Michelle Fang | Headline

The most important trait of an entrepreneur is adaptability: being persistent but also being able to let go.

Senior Growth Marketing Manager

Ines Kopácsi is Senior Growth Marketing Manager at the global venture capital firm Headline, based in Europe. She focuses on helping founders and their teams with SEO, digital marketing, tech stack optimization, platform partnerships, and team building.

We are actively on the ground across continents,seeing local trends up close, searching for top founders,and bringing them our world of resources.

Meet the Team