Calin Fabri
Founder of uTopic
Calin Fabri
Founder of uTopic
Norway
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder and CEO
2024 - Current
Peers, not followers
Producer and Host
2022
Our mission is to inspire, educate and support 10k entrepreneurs by 2030. Some of our guests are guests are David Friedberg - Founder and CEO of The Production Board and co-host of The All-in podcast, Saul Klein - founder of Local Globe and Seedcamp, Johan Brand - founder of Kahoot, Matt Miller - Partner at Sequoia and Karl Munthe-Kaas - founder of Oda among others.
Investor
2022 - 2022
Investor
2022 - 2022
Investor
2021 - 2022
VC
2020 - 2022
Peak is a venture capital fund, 100% funded by successful European entrepreneurs, supporting with capital and knowledge fast growing SaaS and Marketplace startup founders. Peak provides Smart Capital with hands-on support and is backed by seasoned tech entrepreneurs. It is known for its strong track record with over 30 investments under which among others IENS (exit to Tripadvisor in 2015), Radionomy (exit to Vivendi in 2016), CheapCargo (exit to PostNL in 2017) and Catawiki. If you have a fast-growing European SaaS, Marketplace or Platform company and are looking for smart venture capital, get in touch via http://peak.capital/contact
Entrepreneur In Residence
2020 - 2020
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. In the last 2 years Antler has made 190 portfolio company investments across 30 industries and has opened offices in 14 cities across 6 continents. The founders from their portfolio represent over 60 nationalities and 42% of those startups are led by female entrepreneurs. Several of their early-stage startups have since secured follow-on investment by top-tier VCs, such as Sequoia and Golden Gate. Antler enables exceptional people to build impactful technology startups by building complementary co-founder teams, supporting the teams with deep business model validation and providing a global platform for scaling their startups.
Growth and strategy consultant
2018 - 2019
Established in 2009 as a consultancy, Generous Minds has meanwhile evolved into a Covestment (Consultancy and Investment) Cooperative in Good Business. We deploy the strengths of impact-driven entrepreneurs, financiers and experts into one single entity to guide social enterprises towards success. Our mission is to increase and accelerate societal impact and financial returns.
Expansion Manager
2017 - 2018
We create tailored communication tools to put an end to loneliness. No Isolation is a VC-backed Norwegian startup that builds communication tools designed to reduce involuntary loneliness and social isolation in vulnerable groups in society. Responsibilities: • Built strategic partnerships in new markets with commercial and governmental accounts • Built Cash Flow analysis and forecasts for management to influence decision making • Conducted analysis of key sales and marketing metrics and delivered weekly reports to C-Suite • Identified trends negatively impacting conversion funnels and provided recommendations to fast-track solutions. Helped cut data entry by 50% and increased my team’s efficiency • Initiated ‘Academy EU’, a medium for knowledge sharing and skill development in the EU office • Pipeline and deal flow management • Create KPI dashboards to support the CSO and Head of EU • Implement the CRM and Sales software used by 17 sales reps across 3 time zones
GIS Consultant
2014 - 2015
Geodata is the leading provider of GIS software in Norway. I was part of the Support and Advisory team and had the following tasks: • Customer support by phone and e-mail. The work was about clarifying, solving and communicating answers to problems our customers had with GIS products. This is a work that requires product competence and good communication skills. • Assisted in the delivery of technical demos in Geodata's sales organization. • Course holder for Geodata's standard course in the ArcGlS platform, including a custom-designed course for Esri's Web-App Builder.