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Laura Connell
Senior Partner,
Atomico
Laura Connell is a Senior Partner at Atomico, the founder-built European venture capital firm. Laura leads Growth stage investing at Atomico, where she focuses on AI infrastructure and applications. Laura has recently led Atomico’s investments in DeepL, Corti, and Pelago, inter alia.
Prior to joining Atomico in 2022, Laura invested in global publicly listed technology with Marcho Partners. Before this, she was an investor at Balderton Capital, investing in private late stage leading European tech companies including Darktrace, Truecaller, Vestiaire Collective, Lendable and GoCardless. Laura spent 6 years at Goldman Sachs, first in Investment Management and subsequently in the Financial Institutions Group in M&A. Laura was a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MBA from Harvard University, a Sir William Paddy Scholar at University of Oxford where she read Philosophy and Economics (PPE) and an Assistant Researcher in the Brain Sciences Team in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College.
Prior to joining Atomico in 2022, Laura invested in global publicly listed technology with Marcho Partners. Before this, she was an investor at Balderton Capital, investing in private late stage leading European tech companies including Darktrace, Truecaller, Vestiaire Collective, Lendable and GoCardless. Laura spent 6 years at Goldman Sachs, first in Investment Management and subsequently in the Financial Institutions Group in M&A. Laura was a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MBA from Harvard University, a Sir William Paddy Scholar at University of Oxford where she read Philosophy and Economics (PPE) and an Assistant Researcher in the Brain Sciences Team in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College.