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May 24, 2007
Puzzler Winner - Joyrides
This week's quiz winner is Gayathri Radhakrishnan, the only female associate on the tech team at Earlybird Ventures, the German VC that just recently invested in lending platform Smava.
She was the first to write in with the correct answer to the Puzzler question:
Which Austrian tech and automotive investor races one of these (picture of rally race car) and actually wins?
The answer: Christian 'Toto' Wolff
Radhakrishnan, as we said, is an associate at Earlybird. She hails from SozoTek, a mobilephone camera startup, and before that she was involved with the broadband components biz at Corning. She's is an India-educated engineer that did an MBA at Insead in France, after getting a Masters in E Engineering at Ohio State.
We think that Wolff who runs march.sixteen puts a whole new spin on the term investment vehicle. Check out this photo that fatfoogoo co-founder, Martin Herdina, sent us after reading our posts mentioning his startup.
Wolff's previous vehicle, march.fifteen, backed Jowood, the publicly traded video games company, and ucp morgen, part of which was acquired by Amdoc for a couple of hundred million euros after it merged with Qpass.
The supplementary question about which tech trendsetters drive James Bond's brand: Aston Martin, flopped.
Not one reader wrote in to mention names of owners like Klaus Hommels, a business angel and venture partner at Benchmark and Brendan Hyland (the Irish co-founder of Scotland's Kymata and several other high tech startups).
We were inspired to ask because a recent poll on French entrepreneur Michel de Guilhermier's blog says its the status brand today among his readers. He's a big fan of the British label but we don't know if he's driving one yet.
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