Saul Klein

Partner at Local Globe

Speaker

Saul Klein is a serial entrepreneur, operator and investor with over 25 years experience building and exiting companies in the US, Israel and Europe. He has a passion for working with seed and early stage businesses and the positive impact that technology can make on society.

Saul is currently a Founding Partner at LocalGlobe and Latitude Ventures. Previously, Saul was a General Partner at Index Ventures from 2007 until May 2015. In 2012 David Cameron appointed Saul to be the UK's first Technology Business Ambassador to Israel and in 2016 he was awarded an OBE for services to Business, he currently serves on the UK Government’s Digital Economy Council.

Most recently Saul co-founded Platoon (acquired by Apple in 2018), Zinc (co-founded with the LSE), Kano and Seedcamp (seed investors in UIPath and Revolut), as well as being co-founder and original CEO of Lovefilm International (acquired by Amazon in 2011). He was also part of the original executive team at Skype (acquired by eBay in 2005).

In a previous life he created the role of Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft, having exited Firefly (a spinout from the MIT Medialab) to Microsoft in 1997. In 1994, he helped to put the Daily Telegraph online, a week before the San Jose Mercury News.