Nicole Junkermann digital innovation




Nicole Junkermann is a London-based investor with significant international experience in digital innovation, working and living in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Junkermann was born in Düsseldorf on April 27, 1980. She speaks six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her investment career began in the sports sector. In 1998, she co-founded Winamax, a football gaming portal. From 2002 to 2011, she was a strategic investor and Vice-Chairman of the sports and media company, Infront. In 2007, she founded United in Sports, the world’s first private equity fund focusing on sports. 

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Since 2011, however, she has returned to her roots in digital innovation and experimental technology – areas like robotics, genomics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence – and media rights, generally.  Her principal investment vehicle is today NJF Capital Ltd, which currently has over 30 companies in its portfolio. NJF Capital serves as a bridge between traditional business and industry-defining technologies and brings a deep understanding of business strategy, entrepreneurial know-how and a wide network across business and government. In addition, Nicole Junkermann has interests in real estate and private equity.

OWKIN, Diagram and Grabyo

Nicole Junkermann is a member of the UK Government’s Healthtech Advisory Board, chaired by Dr. Ben Goldacre, which advises the Secretary of State Matt Hancock on his digital innovation and technology vision for health and social care.

The German  entrepreneur and business mentor is also an investor in a number of cutting edge, deep tech companies, including OWKIN (on whose Board she also sits), Blockchain and Groq, and has successfully exited companies to Google, Unilever and Salesforce. She has also invested in Emoticast alongside with entrepreneur and Napster co-founder Sean Parker through Strangeloop Ventures; producer and Black Eyed Peas founding member will.i.am; DJ and producer David Guetta; Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mattel; Alan Cannistraro, ex-Apple engineer and founder and CEO of video-app startup Rheo; and Archer Gray, a media production, finance and venture investment company. Moreover, she has invested in Paul Desmarais III‘s and Francois Lafortune‘s Diagram, as well as in Grabyo, alongside with football stars Thierry Henry, Cesc Fàbregas and Robin van Persie, Nicole Junkermann is a longstanding board member and shareholder of China’s third largest sports retailer, Really Sports, and is a member of the European advisory board of Trilantic Capital Partners, a global private equity firm focused on control and significant minority investments across a range of industries in North America and Europe.

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