Jake Christoforou

Jake originates and manages start-up deal flow for Wayra UK from Seed to Series C for both venture investment and business development opportunities with Virgin Media O2 and Telefonica. His key focus areas are Emerging technologies in Telco, Enterprise Software, Sustainability and AI applications. Before Wayra, Jake worked in a VC fund executing on early stage investments.

Wayra is Telefónica's innovation hub and early stage Venture Capital vehicle. We provide startups with capital, BD opportunities within Telefónica and access to its 350 million customers in 14 countries.