Co-founder and Partner at Kembara · Joined 2023
View Live Interactive Profile →Yann de Vries is co-founder and partner of Kembara, which he started with Javier Santiso to back European deep tech companies at Series B and C. He spent about four years as a Partner at Atomico in London, where he led investments in Teralytics, GoEuro and Jobandtalent and worked on Lilium's Series A and Series B rounds. He then joined Lilium itself as VP Corporate Development in 2018, responsible for long-term partnerships and investor relations. Earlier he co-founded and was a managing director of Redpoint e.ventures in Brazil, where he led investments in Farfetch and Gympass, and before that led corporate development for Cisco across EMEA and Latin America. He holds an MSEE from ETH Zurich and an MBA from Harvard Business School. The Kembara site lists Lilium, SpaceX, OpenAI, Groq and Anduril among his investments.