Manfred Krikke

Manfred is a member of the Investment Committee of Smile Sail. He has over 20 years of technology experience as an entrepreneur, investment banker and investor. Manfred worked in the US for 16 years, primarily in Silicon Valley, where he managed over 30 transactions in the technology sector, with an aggregate value of over $2 Billion, including 16 Nasdaq IPOs and took a silicon valley start up from inception to a successful Nasdaq IPO as an entrepreneur and part of the management team. 

After spending time in the entrepreneurial trenches he first started investing in technology start ups and growth companies at TPG as one of the founding partners of TPG Ventures (the predecessor to TPG growth).