Julie Meyer MBE
Julie Meyer is the founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder – Entrepreneur Country, Managing Partner – Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs Fund.
She believes that Individual Capitalism aligns and releases people’s ingenuity for the solving of the world’s problems at the macro and micro levels as well as accelerating the future.
She is one of the leading champions for entrepreneurship in Europe and the UK and since arriving in Paris in 1988, she has advised technology firms and backed Europe’s entrepreneurs in Paris and London.
Julie founded Ariadne Capital in 2000 to create a new model for the financing of entrepreneurship in Europe and the UK – “Entrepreneurs Backing Entrepreneurs”. She created the founding Investor Partnership of 60 leading entrepreneurs and business builders who are Ariadne’s core shareholders.
Julie was part of the early team at NewMedia Investors in 1998, which became Spark Ventures in 1999. At NewMedia Investors, she managed deals in key technology companies including ArcCores, lastminute.com and WGSN. Also, in 1998, she founded First Tuesday, the network of entrepreneurs, which many credit for igniting the Internet generation in Europe. It was sold in July 2000 for $50 million in cash and shares.
She has been named one of INSEAD’s Top 50 Alumni, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow, TIME Magazine Digital 50, one of WIRED’s 100, one of London’s 1000 Most Influential People 2010 & 2011 (Evening Standard) and one of the Top 30 Most Influential Women in Europe “WSJ Europe”.
In 2009 and 2010, Julie was also one of the BBC’s Online Dragons in the award-winning Dragon’s Den Online, and is has set up a “Dads and Daughters” foundation to support and extend her thesis that women’s identities are shaped – for good or bad – by the messages they receive from their father’s as children and young adults.
She is on the Board of Directors of Vestergaard Frandsen, INSEAD, her business school and Medikidz. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities and English Literature from Valparaiso University, near Chicago, US in 1988, having spent her junior year in Cambridge, UK in 1986.
In 2011, she was asked to be on the Secretary of State’s Entrepreneurs Panel and the Secretary of Health’s Innovation Panel. In 2012, Julie she received an honorary MBE, for her ‘services to entrepreneurship’. Julie’s first book ‘Welcome to Entrepreneur Country’ was published in June 2012.
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