Biography
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Julie Meyer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ariadne Capital
Julie Meyer has 18 years of investment and advisory experience, helping start-up businesses and industry standards to emerge and establish themselves. As Chief Executive of Ariadne Capital, she has overall general and financial management responsibility for the group which she founded in August 2000. Ariadne is an investment and advisory firm focused on the Digital Media and Entertainment, Communications, Net Development and Life Services [consumer financial services, e-Health, Digital Home] sectors.
Julie is well-known for founding First Tuesday, the largest global network of entrepreneurs, which many credit for igniting the Internet generation in Europe. It was sold for $50 million in cash in and shares in July 2000. Julie has raised hundreds of millions of capital for start-ups in addition to overseeing another $150 million of seed capital found for start-ups through First Tuesday. From 1998 to 1999, Julie was part of the team at NewMedia Investors [which became NewMedia Spark, an early stage investment firm, in October 1999] where she helped several companies, including lastminute.com, WGSN and Arc Cores raise significant venture capital financing and internationalise. Each of these businesses has had successful exits for their investors.
Ariadne is backed by 42 Entrepreneurs who founded the firm in 2000 in order to build the market leading companies of the new Millennium. They include the founders of lastminute.com, betfair, worldpay, hotmail and SES Astra. Headquartered in London, our network of Executives, Investors and Partners extends from Asia to North America to Europe, giving us global reach.
Ariadne Capital was an early advisor to Skype [Ebay] and Espotting [MIVA], two of Europe’s biggest VC-backed successes in the early 21st century. She advises leading corporates such as British Telecom, CarPhone Warehouse, EMAP, Morse, as well as a portfolio of start-ups including Intamac, Monitise, SpinVox ad Zopa.
Named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum and one of the top 30 most powerful women in Europe according to the Wall Street Journal, Julie's mission is to back the best entrepreneurs in Europe with global ambitions. She was awarded "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award in October 2000 by Ernst & Young U.K.
The works of Ayn Rand, in particular Atlas Shrugged has profoundly impacted Julie and Ariadne Capital.
Julie is setting up a foundation for girls in their teens to help them find their unique contribution to the world.
