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Marta Krupinska
Founder of CUR8
London, England
Overview
Marta Krupinska is the CEO & Co-Founder of CUR8, Chair of YBI and Acua Ocean, with a background as Head of Google for Startups UK. She has successfully co-founded and exited FreeUp.io, and has held leadership roles at Google, Azimo, and Travelnity.com.
Krupinska's career highlights include leading Google's Black Founders Fund Europe and co-founding successful ventures like FreeUp.io. She currently serves as the CEO of CUR8 and Chair of YBI and Acua Ocean, showcasing her expertise in entrepreneurship and leadership.
Work Experience
CEO & Co-Founder
2022 - Current
Even if we do everything else right on reducing emissions, the world still needs to remove up to 220 Gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by 2050. You can’t reach net zero without removals. That’s where we come in.
Chair of the Board
2021
Supported by the likes of Accenture, Google, IKEA, JP Morgan and more, and with 20 years of experience around the world and millions of young entrepreneurs supported, YBI is a global network of expert organisations in over 50 countries supporting underserved young people to turn their ideas into successful businesses, creating jobs and strengthening communities.
Chair
2021
At ACUA Ocean we are developing hydrogen powered uncrewed surface vessels (H-USV) and cutting edge software for safety, security and environmental monitoring of our oceans and waterways.
Investor & Impact Board Member
2022
The climate crisis is one of the greatest threats mankind has ever faced, but also one of the greatest opportunities to reshape our civilisation. Climate.vc funds early stage 'gigatonne impact' startups that will drive material decarbonisation of the economy and day-to-day life.
Head of Google for Startups UK & Co-Lead of Google's Black Founders Fund Europe
2018 - 2023
Levelling the playing field for founders in the UK and EMEA with the best of Google's resources. Working with high potential tech startups, with a particular focus on social impact tech and diverse founders. Co-leading Google's Black Founders Fund in Europe.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Co-Founder (exit in October 2019)
2018 - 2020
At FreeUp we create the everyday financial freedom that people deserve by giving them access to their salary ahead of payday. Acquired in October 2019 and rebranded to Earnd.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2018 - 2018
Helping create the GovStudio initiative to build and scale startups that will transform the public sector. Supporting the growth of the 2018 GovStart startup cohort.
General Manager & Co-Founder
2015 - 2017
At Azimo, we believe sending money should be easy, simple and good value for everyone. Azimo is a mobile and internet-based social remittance network allowing customers to send money to banks, payout locations, mobile phones and home delivery in 190 countries around the world, aiming to disrupt the industry dominated by legacy players Western Union and Moneygram. The first to feature a full Facebook integration, Azimo is also one of the cheapest - charging on average 2% instead of the 9.5% which is the industry standard. For further information visit https://azimo.com
Head of Operations & Co-Founder
2012 - 2014
At Azimo, we believe sending money should be easy, simple and good value for everyone. Azimo is an online remittance network allowing customers to send money to banks, payout locations, mobile phones and home delivery in 190 countries around the world, aiming to disrupt the industry dominated by legacy players Western Union and Moneygram. The first to feature a full Facebook integration, Azimo is also one of the cheapest - charging on average 2% instead of the 9.5% which is the industry standard. For further information visit https://azimo.com
MD & Co-Founder
2008 - 2011
The first travel portal embracing the opportunities presented by social media. A place where travellers learn, explore and socialise which lacks the strictly informational, depersonalised style of regular travel portals, but at the same time is a lot more than a purely-for-fun social network. Travelnity.com. Life's a journey! Share it.
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