Overview

H2 Innovate connects founders of fast-growing startups and senior operators from the H2 network to facilitate the sharing of industry expertise and advisory insights. Participants include founders from H2's extended entrepreneur community and experienced leaders from H2's member network across leading innovation hubs globally. Our program community consists of the following groups:

• Advisors: experienced operators and domain experts from H2's global member network
• Founders: entrepreneurs of fast-growing startups scaling in large global markets from H2's extended community
• Partners: leading investors and organizations supporting innovation ecosystems around the world

Model

H2 Innovate is designed around the the following operating elements to support successful participation for both Founders and Advisors:

• Matching: Founder <> Advisor introductions made based on fit/availability of relevant Advisor(s) to participate in a structured Advisory Session (default: 30-min VC)
• Advisor Inquiry Stream: global resource for Advisors consisting of active Advisor Inquiries and related company information to support Advisor Matching activities
• Advisor Participation: flexible, targeted and time-efficient participation model for current/active senior operators to engage with participating Founders of qualified startups

For additional information covering our program participation model, please visit our FAQ page.

Partners

Participating partner organizations include leading investors and organizations supporting innovation ecosystems around the world:

Advisor Network

H2's Advisor Network consists of senior operators from our global member community based in major technology hubs around the world. It is comprised of experienced Founder/CEOs and CxOs with strong collective experience at leading startups, category leaders and major global firms across both consumer and enterprise domains. A representative cross-section of experience and profiles in our Advisor Network may be viewed below.

Dilawar Syed Lumiata, Freshworks H2 Silicon Valley	Ashish Kashyap INDmoney, ibibo Group, Google H2 India	Valerie Wagoner Gojek, Credit Karma, Twitter H2 Singapore	Marc Strigel SoundCloud, PayPal H2 Berlin	Paulo Veras 99 H2 Sao Paulo
Aiko Katoh Houzz H2 Tokyo	Hari Krishnan PropertyGuru, LinkedIn H2 Singapore	Fabiana Salles Gesto H2 Sao Paulo	Aakrit Vaish Haptik, Flurry H2 India	Rabin Yaghoubi babylon health, Google H2 London
Dennis Yang Udemy, 4INFO H2 Silicon Valley	Floriane Gramlich OLX, Twitter, PayPal H2 Berlin	Itay Levy Identiq, Teradata, Appoxee H2 Tel Aviv	Chris Misner Roblox, Apple H2 Silicon Valley	Sean Cornwell Direct Ferries, Shutl H2 London
Holger Luedorf Google, Postmates, Foursquare H2 Silicon Valley	Ken Mandel Grab, Hootsuite, Salesforce H2 Singapore	Linda Kozlowski Blue Apron, Etsy, Evernote H2 New York	Matt Romaine Gengo, Sony H2 Tokyo	James Quarles Strava, Instagram, Facebook H2 Silicon Valley
Sebastien Gaudin The CareVoice H2 China	Mike Mallin Yotpo, NSO Group, MyHeritage H2 Tel Aviv	Jorge Espinel Lemonade, Spotify H2 New York	Melanie Mohr YEAY, WOM Protocol H2 Berlin	Evan Cohen Lyft, Foursquare H2 New York

Advisor Inquiry

Connections between Founders and Advisors are facilitated through the completion of an Advisor Inquiry, allowing for the capture of basic inquiry information and its distribution into our Advisor Inquiry Stream for matching purposes. Based on fit/availability of relevant Advisors, introductions will be made 1:1 in support of joint participation in a structured Advisory Session (default: 30-min VC per match).

• Advisor Inquiry Form - for participating Founders