Colin Turner

Investor / Corporate Business Developer / General Counsel * Non-exec director / secretary / chairman for scale-up businesses * Across the investment cycle / across cultures / for corporates and funds

Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Independent Consultant at M-T Consultants
    May 2008 - Present · 18 yrs 2 mos

    Provides fund-raising, business development and legal counsel to investors, start-up companies and acquirers: Advises management teams forming businesses, raising funds, selling their businesses Develops presentations, business plans and financial models Presents opportunities to potential investors Negotiates investment/acquisition documentation Develops and delivers bespoke training sessions

  • Corporate Business Development / General Counsel at Unleash live
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    In a world where decisions need to be made fast, Unleash live turns Vision into Visual Data to Measure Reality. By connecting video and images to data analytics, Unleash live provides powerful decision making insights. The platform connects media captured through aerial drone cameras, CCTV, smart phones, BodyCams, thermal cameras and other sensors to the cloud, applies artificial intelligence and delivers actionable insights direct to our customers' workflow. Unleash live is automating and revolutionising the decision making process in the Infrastructure, Safety and Smart City sectors: see unleash.live

  • General Partner at Rising Star Ventures
    May 2015 - Apr 2018 · 3 yrs

    Rising Star Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early stage businesses to Secure the Connected World. RSV's team accelerates innovative businesses to take revolutionary products to market by providing technical, financial and commercial expertise, transforming technologies and services into market leading solutions.

  • Co-Founder at Rising Star Accelerator
    May 2017 - Dec 2017 · 8 mos

    The Rising Star Accelerator is an invitation only accelerator that is focused on 'best-in-class' Swiss and European pre-seed / seed stage Cyber Security start-ups. By delivering an acceleration program tailored for Cyber Security start-ups and providing introductions to an extensive network of key industry players, the Rising Star Accelerator takes Europe’s most promising Cyber Security start-ups from proof of concept to market entry.

  • Mentor at A3 Angels
    Jan 2010 - Dec 2017 · 8 yrs

    The A3 Business Angels contribute to the development of start-ups related to the Federal University of Lausanne (EPFL) by investing and mentoring. Mentored 4 companies, including: Akselos, a developer of advanced simulation technologies www.akselos.com Gamaya, an integrated solution for large-scale airborne diagnostics of vegetation for precision agriculture and environmental monitoring www.gamaya.com