Harvard Investment Club of Spain - Pitch Night

​Harvard Investment Club of Spain – Pitch Night

​Join us for Pitch Night.

​This curated evening will bring together Harvard alumni interested in investing, entrepreneurship, venture capital and private markets. The event will feature a selection of venture and investment opportunities, followed by networking within the Harvard alumni community.

​​Guest Speaker

​Simon Bores Llanos is founder of Istria Capital, Europe's leading fund of Search Funds. Simon has been instrumental in the development of the search fund market as an asset class. Today, Spain is the leading European market and the second-largest globally (behind only the US) for Search funds, serving as a top hub for entrepreneurial acquisitions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

​Simon is a graduate of INSEAD MBA and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He is also a co-founder of Search Fund Spain and formerly a lawyer at Latham & Watkins.

​Moderator

​Aris Xenofontos is a Partner and Co-Head at Seaya Ventures, a European venture capital firm with $1.4b AUM, investing in purpose-driven technology companies. He brings extensive experience across VC, technology investment banking, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. Before joining Seaya, he worked at Santander InnoVentures (now Mouro Capital), Thomson Reuters and J.P. Morgan’s Technology Investment Banking team. Aris holds an MBA from IE Business School, an MSc in Information Systems from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a BSc in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.