Timm Schipporeit serves as Managing Director and Head, Europe at Financial Technology Partners. He served as Investor at Index Ventures. He has spent his entire career working in the European technology sector, having advised tech companies on more than $20 billion of mergers and acquisitions, IPO and capital raising transactions - including Adyen, Alcatel-Lucent, Autotrader, First Data, SAP, Siemens, Scout24, Supercell, Worldpay, Yandex and Zalando among others. At Index, Timm focuses on venture and growth investments in the DACH region and across Europe. His prior career experience includes 11 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as an executive director in the European technology investment banking practice. Timm sees a future increasingly shaped by young ambitious entrepreneurs - and believes supporting them today is one of the smartest investments that can be made.