Julie Meyer

Julie Marie Meyer MBE is an American businesswoman and the author of Welcome to Entrepreneur Country. She is the sole director of Viva Investment Partners. She founded Ariadne Capital Limited and Ariadne Capital Malta Limited, and was a co-founder of the networking forum First Tuesday. In 2009, Meyer was a guest on the online edition of the Dragons' Den TV series.

For similarly named people, see Julie Mayer. For the Norwegian cyclist, see Julie Meyer Solvang.
Julie Meyer
Julie Meyer, Ariadne Capital
Meyer in 2015
Born
Dearborn, Michigan U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationValparaiso University
INSEAD
Occupation(s)CEO
Author
Years active1998–present
Websitejuliemariemeyer.com

Early life and education

Meyer was born in Sacramento, California.[1] In 1988, Meyer graduated from Valparaiso University with a B.A. degree in English Literature[2] and moved to Paris.[3] In 1997, she received an M.B.A. from INSEAD (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires).

Career

Meyer moved to London in 1998 and worked at NewMedia Investors (later known as Spark Ventures) from 1998 to 1999.[3] In 1998, Meyer co-founded First Tuesday, a networking forum designed to build an online community to connect entrepreneurs and investors, which was sold in 2000.[3][4][5]

In August 2000, Meyer founded the investment advisory firm Ariadne Capital.[3] In 2009, Meyer announced the Ariadne Capital Entrepreneurs (ACE) Fund.[6]

In 2009, she was a panelist in the online version of Dragon's Den.[6] In 2010, Meyer was selected as one of 26 business people tasked with advising the British government on its business policies to encourage entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom.[7]

In 2012, as CEO of Ariadne Capital, Meyer was part of an advisory committee led by entrepreneur James Caan called StartUp Loans that was funded with £82.5 million.[8] In 2015, Ariadne Capital was ordered to pay £50,000 after a contract dispute related to StartUp Loans was heard in court.[9] In 2016, Ariadne paid a £64,500.90 judgment as ordered after a contract dispute with a former employee.[10]

In 2014, Ariadne Capital hired the public relations firm Lansons Communications.[11] A Lansons employee contacted Wikipedia and the communication was posted on the Talk page of the Julie Meyer article.[11][12] Ariadne filed a lawsuit against Lansons for more than £100,000 in damages, and Lansons counterclaimed for about £76,000 in unpaid fees.[11] The litigation settled with an undisclosed sum paid to Lansons.[13]

In April 2018, a summons was not successfully served on Meyer in a case in Malta where Meyer claimed to be attempting to pay employees, and her attorney confirmed the money was available and would be paid.[14] By May 2018, the summons continued to not be successfully served on Meyer, and the Malta court indicated the case would continue until Meyer or her co-defendant appeared for a criminal case, regardless of whether the payments were made.[15]

On 11 May 2018 the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) suspended the investment services license of Ariadne Capital Malta Limited with immediate effect, alleging multiple "serious breaches of license conditions".[16][17]

Since 2018, Meyer is sole director of Viva investment Partners AG, a company registered in Switzerland.[18] In February 2022, Meyer was sentenced to a six month suspended sentence by the High Court in the UK, following a judgment of contempt of court for failure to appear in court hearings and follow court orders in a case brought by attorneys Farrer & Co, based on allegations of unpaid fees.[19] Meyer unsuccessfully appealed the suspended sentence.[20][21]

Awards and honours

Works and publications

Book
  • Meyer, Julie (2012). Welcome to Entrepreneur Country. New York: Constable & Robinson. ISBN 978-1-780-33896-5. OCLC 795120035.[29]

Talks

References
  1. Moulds, Josephine (August 26, 2006). "'I don't see another bubble' JULIE MEYER, CEO ARIADNE CAPITAL". Daily Telegraph: 35. Gale A150143344.
  2. "Distinguished Alumni". Valparaiso University. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. "Dragon's Den: Online Dragon - Julie Meyer". BBC. 2014.
  4. Sorkin, Andrew Ross (16 July 2000). "Red Dot, Meet Green: If It's Tuesday, Network!". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  5. Gruner, Stephanie (2001-01-24). "City Leaders Bid to Acquire First Tuesday from Yazam". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  6. McMahan, Ty (2009-09-11). ""Dragons' Den" Judge Julie Meyer Makes Her Pitch". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  7. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street (4 May 2011). "Second meeting of Cable's Entrepreneurs' Forum". UK Government Digital Service. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  8. Jones, Paul (2012-05-28). "James Caan to chair new Board to distribute £82.5m of start-up business loans to young entrepreneurs". Business Matters. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  9. Scott, Brendan (28 March 2015). "Former Dragon's Den stars square up in court spat". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  10. Lynch, Russell. "Julie Meyer - 'entrepreneur's champion' who delayed paying up for three years".
  11. Chellel, Kit (14 March 2016). "How a Venture Capitalist's Bid to Edit Wikipedia Page Backfired". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  12. Smith, Matthew Nitch (15 March 2016). "A PR firm is being sued for 'botching up' an investment fund's Wikipedia page". Business Insider. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  13. Harrington, John (20 January 2017). "Ariadne Capital pays undisclosed sum to Lansons after withdrawing 'joke' £100k lawsuit". PRWeek. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  14. Macdonald, Vanessa (25 April 2018). "Julie Meyer fails to show up for unpaid salary cases". Times of Malta. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  15. Agius, Matthew (9 May 2018). "Magistrate displeased at being emailed by Julie Meyer about her case". Malta Today. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  16. "MFSA suspends Ariadne Capital Malta licence with immediate effect - The Malta Independent". www.independent.com.mt. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  17. "Ariadne Capital has investment license withdrawn by MFSA". Times of Malta. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  18. "Swiss Company Registry Entry for Viva Investment Partners AG". Swiss Company Registry. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  19. Hurley, James. "Arrest warrant issued for Julie Meyer". Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  20. "Venture capitalist Julie Meyer fails to overturn six-month suspended sentence". CityAM. 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  21. Sebag, Gaspard (February 23, 2022). "Venture Capitalist Dubbed 'Selfish' by Judge Faces U.K. Arrest". Bloomberg. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  22. "EY Entrepreneur Of The Year: 2000 Award recipients" (PDF). ey.com. Ernst & Young. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 4, 2016.
  23. World Economic Forum (2002). "Class of 2002" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  24. "50 Alumni Who Changed the World". INSEAD. 14 May 2010. Archived from the original on 19 November 2009. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  25. "UKtech50: Meet the 50 most influential people in UK IT". ComputerWeekly. December 2011.
  26. "2nd annual Wired 100: Positions 79-50. 69: Julie Meyer. Founder and CEO, Ariadne Capital". Wired. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  27. "The Stevie Awards". The Stevie Awards. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  28. "Winners | CEO Awards". Globee® Business Awards. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
  29. Reviews for Welcome to Entrepreneur Country
    • Cave, Andrew (1 July 2012). "'Entrepreneurs can lead Britain out of recession': In her new book, Julie Meyer hails a new era of individual capitalism, writes Andrew Cave". The Sunday Telegraph; London (UK) [London (UK)]. p. 8 – via ProQuest.
    • Moules, Jonathan (14 June 2012). "Taking on the Goliaths of the business world". Financial Times; London (UK) [London (UK)]. p. 14.
    • Morrissey, Helena (5 May 2013). "Why embracing change means we all can thrive". The Sunday Telegraph; London (UK) [London (UK)]. p. 4.
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