Steven Collins

Venture Partner and Advisor

2020 - Current

Partner

2017 - 2019

Frontline is an early-stage B2B venture capital firm powered by people - the ambitious founders we invest in, our strong networks of industry experts, and our own passionate team of ex- operators. Based in London and Dublin, Frontline backs companies throughout Europe. As a team, we strive to unlock the power of collective intelligence through our platform - we believe in bridging the gap between technical and human, providing both capital and experience to shorten our entrepreneurs’ learning curves. With deep connections in the US, Frontline provides a wealth of knowledge and content around international expansion and we invest time and money into building the relationships needed to fast-track expansion, from investors to recruiters to other founders.

Chief Technology Officer

2020 - 2024

King is a leading interactive entertainment company in the mobile world. King creates unforgettable games that are played around the world every single day, like Candy Crush. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), which acquired King in February 2016. As CTO, I led Technology Strategy at King and manage the Shared Technology team which has responsibility for the common products and platform that King has created to build and operate its live mobile games. The Shared Technology platform encompasses cloud & on premise infrastructure, developer tooling, game services, AdTech, game engine and our data warehouse, streaming and analytics capabilities.

Board Member

2019 - 2023

Cloudmith is the leading cloud native SaaS package and artifact management platform for software developers. Level up your DevOps with enterprise-grade hosted repositories for Alpine, Composer, Debian, Maven, Npm, Python, RedHat, Ruby, Vagrant, Raw & More!

Board Observer

2018 - 2020

Logical Clocks AB are the makers of Hopsworks - a Data Platform for hyperscale Data Science on scale-out GPUs based on Hops the world's fastest Hadoop platform. Logical Clocks also provides the first commercially available Feature Store for super scalable machine learning workload management.

Board Member

2019 - 2019

Blokur helps musicians and music companies get paid what they should, when they should, by ensuring that their rights are accurately represented. Using proprietary machine learning and graph matching technology, music rights owners can track ownership of their IP and ensure they have a single source of truth.

Board Member

2019 - 2019

Modulz is creating the visual code editor for designing, developing, documenting and building the design for digital products—without writing code.

Board Member

2018 - 2019

Localistico enables physical location-based businesses to enhance their online-to-offline marketing capabilities and increase both local awareness and footfall, empowering brands to convert online engagement into offline sales, globally. The platform helps both in-house marketing teams and agencies improve specific store performance with features including automated local advertising, store-by-store comparative competitive positioning and a secure, central store for location data that is synchronized with platforms such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Foursquare and Bing.

Board Member

2018 - 2019

Astronomer helps organizations adopt Apache Airflow®, the leading open-source data workflow orchestration platform that helps organizations get their data in motion. Backed by Sierra Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Frontline Ventures and others, Astronomer is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Board Member

2017 - 2019

Video marketing automation platform for creating and deploying personalised and contextual video marketing campaigns at scale across multiple channels including Facebook, Youtube, Snapchat and email.

Visiting Professor

2015 - 2019