Managing Partner
Before founding Nova Founders Capital, Mads worked as a Global Partner and Managing Director at Rocket Internet and Managing Director at Groupon in Asia. Prior to this, Mads was a Consultant to CEO and Board at ProSiebenSat1, a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an Analyst with the Private Equity Fund DanKap.
Mads holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BSc in Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.
Mads has been named one of the top talents in Denmark and is an Expert Advisor on Web Entrepreneurship to the EU Commission. As of today, he has started over 30 companies globally.
Managing Partner
Before founding Nova Founders Capital, Raphael worked as a Global Partner and Managing Director at Rocket Internet and as Managing Director at Groupon in Asia. Prior to this, Raphael was in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs and Lazard in London and Frankfurt where he was involved in major European IPOs and equity transactions.
Raphael holds a Master in Business Administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business, and as of today has started over 30 companies globally.
Managing Partner
Before joining Nova Founders Capital, Stefan has worked as Marketing Managing Director for South East Asia at Rocket Internet and as Vice President at Groupon Asia. Stefan has also been involved in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley in London and private equity with the Nordic Real Estate Partners across Scandinavia respectively. He is on the Forbes 30 under 30 lists.
Stefan holds a BSc in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and has so far started over 24 companies globally.
Tim is Skillcapital’s Chief Executive Officer and has led the development of the company since its inception in 1998 backed by Soros Private Equity Partners.
Additionally, Tim is an investor director in a number of privately owned companies such as Ellas Kitchen (www.ellaskitchen.com) a baby food company recently sold to Hain Celestial, Joinin (www.joinin.com) a social media company, ScribeStar (www.scribestar.co.uk) a legal software company, and an investor at OPTO International (www.Optosystem.com) a US based retail display company along with a number of other private equity backed companies.
Prior to starting Skillcapital Tim had studied Law at Leeds University where he graduated with LLB Hons.
Jonathan Paul has more than 25 years of experience in a broad variety of financial markets globally, including having founded and run an event driven hedge fund, Ardmore Park Capital.
Prior to this, Jonathan worked at Deutsche Bank, where he held a variety of roles, including Global Co-Head of Client Coverage for Global Markets and Head of Corporate Finance in Asia. Previously he worked in the fixed income divisions of Goldman Sachs and Solomon Brothers. He was also a consultant to Decura, a fiduciary based fund in the UK.
Jonathan has a degree in mechanical engineering from Bath University. He lives in Singapore with his family.
Do you want to kickstart and get ahead in your career? Are you looking for challenges and want to invest in your professional and academic development? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? If so, now is the time to apply for our 1-year Global Internship Program.
About us
Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment company that identifies opportunities for creating and investing in innovative internet businesses. We’ve launched and exited multiple successful businesses across the world.
What we offer you
As part of our Global Internship Program, you will rocket launch your career in a high-paced environment with a continuously steep learning curve. You’ll get a tremendous level of autonomy, ownership of your own projects, and the opportunity to learn, develop and grow both personally and professionally, whilst being supported by very successful entrepreneurs. You get the chance to test the water, show us you can swim, and if so you’ll be rewarded with an invitation to join our Management Trainee Program, where you’ll pursue a bachelor’s degree while working full time as a manager in Nova Founders Capital.
The Global Internship Program lasts 1 year, and you’ll be working out of our HQ in London. In short, we offer the brightest talents:
Your responsibilities
The common denominator for all of our interns is that they are involved in everything from the most mundane to the most glamourous. Some of your tasks will include office management; e.g. scheduling meetings and making sure the office is looking its best. At the same time you will be assisting our global portfolio CEOs with ad hoc tasks and participate in board meetings. Besides that your responsibilities will vary depending on the specific role you’ll be assigned. Depending on the role you take, responsibilities could entail (e.g.):
What we expect from you
You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:
Start date: As soon as possible
Apply here and we will be in contact in the nearest future.
Do you want to be a key player in building new and exciting ventures? Are you looking to be challenged and wanting to invest in your professional and academic development? Do you want to find and develop this generation’s greatest talents while building a large and broad network? If so, you may be Nova Founders Capital’s new Talent Associate.
About us
Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment company that identifies opportunities for creating and investing in innovative internet businesses. We’ve launched and exited multiple successful businesses across the world.
What we offer you
As our Talent Associate, you’ll get a unique opportunity to be a key part of a team that truly needs you and what you do. Our success fundamentally depends on our ability to find the right people to support our vision, ambition, and principles and give them the right tools to succeed. This is exactly where we need your help. In a team of collaborating, and ambitious people, we offer you the chance to collaborate closely with our managing partners on finding the greatest talents and developing them into the CEOs of today and tomorrow. We try to stand out by creating and executing new strategies for sourcing, testing and interviewing candidates, and we want to give you the chance to come innovate with us. You can watch this video where we elaborate a bit on our thoughts on recruiting and why we believe it to be the most crucial task facing businesses.
Working out of our HQ in London, you’ll be part of expanding and building a winning culture throughout Nova Founders. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:
Your responsibilities
You will be recruiting for positions across our portfolio. It means assuming responsibility for recruiting c-level through management positions all the way down to entry-level positions. More specifically you will be:
What we expect from you
You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. Moreover, You are humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. While we have no preferences as to whether you have a background in HR, marketing, sales, or something completely different, we expect that you have an innate desire to get to know other people and learn, develop, and push yourself. If need be, we will teach you everything you need to know about recruiting. We do expect you to:
Start date: As soon as possible
Apply here and we will be in touch in the nearest future.
Do you want to be a key player in building new and exciting ventures? Do you thrive in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment? Would you like to be part of a culture that is rooted in an ever-unquenched thirst for knowledge, where we listen to each other and strive to deliver extraordinary results? If so, you might be Nova Founders Capital’s next Management Associate.
About us
Nova Founders Capital is a global operational investment company that identifies opportunities for creating and investing in innovative internet businesses. We’ve launched and exited multiple successful businesses across the world.
What we offer you
As our Management Associate, you’ll get a unique growth opportunity in a role that is crucial to reaching our strategic goals. You will expand, build, and run parts of our portfolio companies, which means assuming responsibility for high-impact decisions that will develop you to be part of the next generation of CEOs. Attaining the extraordinary means investing lots of time, effort, and moving fast when new insights or opportunities arise. In this process we will be there with you, providing the right questions, sparring and guidance needed.
Depending on your interests and our businesses needs, you’ll be working out of one of our offices in Europe. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:
Your responsibilities
Your tasks will vary, but some of your responsibilities will be:
What we expect from you
You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:
Start date: As soon as possible
Apply here and we will be in touch in the nearest future.