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AI-native
fundraising and investor
relations co-pilot for private markets

Team

Backed by broad market expertise and a robust distribution network, meet our team of core founders and investors.

Ed Barrow

Ed Barrow

Co-Founder and CEO

Ed is a serial founder and product builder with 15+ years of experience launching and scaling ventures across Europe and Africa. He co-founded Patch and previously ran marketplace businesses at Rocket Internet, building from zero to scale in fast-moving, high-growth environments.

He started his career on the trading floor, structuring complex fund-linked products for institutional investors. Selling to these clients was a grind - long deal cycles, bespoke requirements like Sharia compliance, capital protection, diversification mandates - every pitch was a custom job.

This led to a conviction that intelligence and automation could transform the way high-touch, complex products are discovered, sold, and delivered.

Later, at McKinsey he advised FTSE 100s on Product, Transformation and Venture.

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Patch Plants

Co-Founder & COO

Rocket Internet SE

UK CEO

McKinsey & Company

VP Product Management

Commerzbank

VP Fund Structuring

BNP Paribas

Equity Derivatives

Lasse Nørby Rasmussen

Lasse Nørby Rasmussen

Founding Product Lead

Lasse Nørby Rasmussen is a seasoned fintech entrepreneur and product leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling financial ventures. He was Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Heap, Denmark’s leading digital pension platform, which was acquired by Topdanmark/Nordea Pension in 2022.

Previously, he led product strategy for June, Danske Bank’s robo-advisor, and drove digital innovation in wealth and mobile banking.

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Bifrost Studios

CPO

Diana Semenosa

Diana Semenosa

Founder's Associate

With a background in operations and strategy, Diana brings experience from two of Europe's unicorns - Babylon Health and Tier Mobility.

She began her career at Babylon, where she worked through a period of rapid scale and IPO, and saw how AI could be applied to solve sector-specific challenges. She later joined Tier Mobility, supporting its global expansion.

She combines operational execution in high-velocity environments with a clear understanding of what it takes to grow ventures, now contributing to Leopard Labs' mission to reshape how institutional capital operates.

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TIER Mobility

Associate to the CFO

Babylon Health

Strategy & Partnerships

Fred Russias

Fred Russias

Founder Engineer

With a background in product, data, and engineering, Fred has spent over ten years building and running tech startups. As the technical co-founder of Sourcing Playground, he worked with brands like Under Armour and Lacoste to improve sourcing decisions by making sense of fragmented supply chain data.

He's built everything from LLM-powered research agents to large-scale data systems. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on going from 0 to 1 with a clear understanding of how products get used. He likes to ship fast, iterate faster, and always aims for practical, working solutions powered by automation and AI.

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Sourcing Playground

Co-Founder & CTO