Harry Stebbings

Harry Stebbings
Born	(1996-06-22) June 22, 1996 (age 28) England
Occupation	Venture capitalist
Known for	The Twenty Minute VC podcast

Harry Stebbings is a British venture capitalist who started "The Twenty Minute VC" podcast and in 2020 launched his own venture capital fund.

Career

Stebbings started The Twenty Minute VC podcast with $50 and not a single contact in the venture capital industry.^[1] The first episode was an interview with Guy Kawasaki, released on 10 January 2015.^[2]

In May 2017, Stebbings left his job at venture capital firm Atomico after six months working there.^[3]

Stebbings stepped down as partner at Stride.VC, a firm he co-founded with Fred Destin in 2018 with £100,000,000.^[4][5]

In 2019, Stebbings was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe list, in the finance category.^[6]

Stebbings launched his venture capital fund, 20VC fund, in May 2020.^[7] In June 2021, Stebbings raised a further US$140,000,000 in funding.^[8] The fund focuses on investments in Europe and North America. Harry's largest investment to date is Tripledot Studios, one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. Other notable investments include Pachama, Nex Health, Sorare, Captions.ai, Linktree, Taxdoo, Linear and Merge.^[9]

References

1. Ralph, Alex (17 June 2021). "Harry Stebbings moves from teenage podcaster to $140m investor". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
2. Barker, Sam (1 December 2016). "From podcast star to 'the world's youngest VC': 20-year-old Harry Stebbings is joining Atomico". Wired. Condé Nast. ISSN 1078-3148. OCLC 24479723. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
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6. Smith, Oliver; Schoenberger, Leonard. "30 Under 30 Europe 2019: Finance". Forbes. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
7. Chernova, Yuliya (16 June 2021). "Harry Stebbings Builds on Podcast to Raise $140 Million for Venture Funds". The Wall Street Journal. News Corp. ISSN 0099-9660. OCLC 781541372. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
8. Kahn, Jeremy (16 June 2021). "24-year-old podcaster turned VC scores $140 million from MIT, Spotify backer to invest". Fortune. ISSN 0015-8259. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
9. Lunden, Ingrid (17 July 2020). "From Twenty Minute VC to 20VC, Harry Stebbings launches a micro VC off the back of his popular podcast". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.