Michael Mc Graw opened Inovia Capital's London office in 2018 alongside Patrick Pichette, and now invests in growth-stage companies across Europe from there.
Worth knowing
He has worked on Inovia's positions in Lightspeed, Neo4j, Booksy, Zwift and Forward, and knows the travel sector from the inside through Hopper, Super and Guesty. He has also sat on the operating side, helping SalesAPE scale into the US and close a $10M round. Founders raising growth capital in Europe, and Canadian companies opening a London base, should get in touch.
Story
Michael graduated from McGill in 2014 and started in Canadian institutional capital, first as an investment analyst at PSP Investments, then on the Funds and Technology team at CDPQ in Montreal. There he watched companies like Lightspeed and Hopper from the board table, and took a secondment as a project manager at Hopper to learn how a travel tech startup actually runs. In 2018 he moved to London to help build Inovia's European presence. He has since done it again on the operating side, spending time as VP Operations at SalesAPE. He writes on startup funding for Startups Magazine and speaks on European venture, including at the TravelTech Show and on the EUVC podcast.
Highlights
- Principal, Growth Equity, Inovia Capital, London
- Opened Inovia's London office in 2018 with GP Patrick Pichette
- Board member/observer at Lightspeed, Hopper and Felix & Paul Studios while at CDPQ
- CFA charterholder; BBA, McGill University (2014)
- On Inovia's 2023 investment in beauty marketplace Booksy
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