Toby Coppel is a co-founder and partner at Mosaic Ventures, a European venture capital firm focused on early stage investing. Toby has been investing and operating in internet startups since 1996. He began his investment career at Allen & Company, before starting his first investment firm. He joined Yahoo!’s new management team in 2001 and spent 6 years as Yahoo!’s Chief Strategy Officer, leading over $5 billion of investments and acquisitions including $1 billion into Alibaba. Since then, both as an angel and alongside Richard Branson and Virgin, he has made investments including 3DRobotics, CreativeLive, Criteo, Hailo, Indiegogo, Pinterest, and Transferwise. At Mosaic, Toby is thematically focused on fintech, blockchain, marketplaces, messaging and health and has led investments in Blockchain, Guevara, and Guidebook.