Anil Hansjee, former head of PayPal Ventures in Europe, has resurfaced at venture capital firm Fabric Ventures.
Hansjee had spent five years to April as Luxembourg-based co-founder of US-based payments company PayPal’s corporate venturing unit.
His deals at PayPal ventures had included Cloud.iQ, Raisin, Monese, PPro and Tink.
It is his latest switch between corporate and independent venture roles for Hansjee. Over the past two decades he has advised financial funds EQT, Creandum, MCI, Investinor, Seedcamp, IDG Ventures, Mojo.capital and Firestartr.co, and set up investment teams for corporates Google, Modern Times Group MTGx, as well as PayPal Ventures.
He said in his LinkedIn profile he had invested in 136 companies, 37% of them in financial services and covering 14 “10x” returns and 16 unicorns (private companies worth at least $1bn).
