Leopard Labs

We build scalable financial businesses with exceptional domain experts.

Backed by Morph Capital and Bifrost Studios

What we do

Leopard Labs partners with proven domain experts and builds the product, data and operating infrastructure needed to build a scalable business around that expertise.

We focus on complex, data-intensive markets where better information and better judgement can materially improve how capital is deployed.

Who we work with

We partner with experts who have a real edge in how they understand a market and make decisions.

Our partners are proven investors, operators and sector specialists with deep credibility, strong networks and a differentiated view of where value and risk sit.

We look for markets where specialist judgement changes the answer and where better data and technology can extend the expert’s reach.

Team

Ed Barrow

Ed Barrow

Co-Founder and CEO

Ed is a serial founder and product builder with 15+ years launching and scaling ventures across Europe and Africa. He co-founded Patch and previously ran marketplace businesses at Rocket Internet.

He started his career on the trading floor structuring complex fund-linked products for institutional investors, and later advised FTSE 100s on product, transformation and venture at McKinsey.

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Lasse Nørby Rasmussen

Lasse Nørby Rasmussen

Founding Product Lead

Lasse is a fintech entrepreneur and product leader with over a decade building and scaling financial ventures. He was Co-Founder and CPO at Heap, Denmark’s leading digital pension platform, 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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Diana Semenosa

Diana Semenosa

Chief of Staff

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

She combines operational execution in high-velocity environments with a clear understanding of what it takes to grow ventures.

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Fred Russias

Fred Russias

Founder Engineer

Fred is a CTO and product strategist. He has spent 15+ years building products and shaping the strategy around them, and co-founded Sourcing Playground through three funding rounds.

He works full stack across LLMOps, AI automation and SaaS strategy as a 0 to 1 specialist.

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Nelson Reis Monteiro

Nelson Reis Monteiro

Engineering

Nelson is a technology leader and former CTO with 15+ years building software in technical domains. He spent five years as CTO of Valispace, the engineering platform used by teams building satellites and rockets, taking it from proof-of-concept to a venture-backed SaaS business acquired by Altium in 2024.

He works across architecture, data models, algorithms and cloud infrastructure, and takes on hard problems in whatever domain they show up in.

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Tyler Hildebrandt

Tyler Hildebrandt

Engineering

Tyler has spent 15+ years as an engineer and engineering leader at early-stage and scaling startups, from first engineering hire and Head of Engineering to senior roles at high-growth scale-ups. He has built and scaled the systems behind high-traffic real-time platforms, e-commerce operations and logistics, and AI-powered products, alongside data platforms spanning pipelines, warehousing and analytics.

Pragmatic and product-minded, he works end to end, from architecture to production, and cares as much about how a product gets used as how it is built.

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Get in touch.

Whether you’re an expert with a differentiated way of understanding a market, an investor, or an institutional partner, we’d like to hear from you.