Alexander Joël-Carbonell made his first stock trade at 14, funded entirely by a year's worth of pocket money savings, high-frequency trading into sizeable teenager money. But It didn't end well. He lost all of it in the dot-com crash of 2000, a lesson that turned out to be more valuable than any of the gains. He studied at EBS and Cambridge, earning two Master degrees and graduating top of his class, picked up a DAAD scholarship and a Student of the Year award along the way, and joined Morgan Stanley in the middle of the financial crisis in 2008/2009
He stayed for nearly a decade, executing IPOs, M&A, and capital markets transactions across the technology sector. From there, he joined Delivery Hero as it prepared for its successful 2017 IPO and jointly helped turn it into a DAX company, leading its M&A and Growth VC efforts across a portfolio of more than 20 companies with nearly €1 billion in AUM.
Among his picks which turned into unicorns, decacorns and some even IPO’ed: Glovo, Rappi, Zomato, Impossible Foods and Instashop. The depth of experience he built across those years has made him one of the most sought-after voices on growth investing in Europe across sectors in the last 10 years
At HV, he has always been drawn to founders capable of building with sizeable, global impact - regardless of its sector, whether Frontier AI, Enterprise SaaS, in Digital Assets, FinTech, or Consumer. Over the past two years, he has devoted considerable time to the AI infrastructure space, working alongside leading researchers and championing HV's major Growth AI investments in Nabla and AMI Labs
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