Significance of Mental Resilience: Fireside Chat for Founders & Investors.
Join us for the second panel in the Resilient Mind Series, brought to you by OMA Mind, WellFounded & SeedLegals
An unfiltered fireside chat about resilience, where we delve into the often-overlooked aspect of the founder's journey: managing their own psychology.
The series bring together a distinguished panel of investors, founders, and therapists to share their insights and experiences.
Our panel of speakers:
Christian Dorffer - Founder and General Partner of Defiance Capital
Yariv Ganor - Startup Psychologist and 3 x Startup CMO
hosted by Monika Holod - Mindfulness Coach and Founder of OMA Mind
Meet the Panelists:
Christian Dorffer
Christian Dorffer is the Founder and General Partner of Defiance Capital, an early stage fund specialised in helping extraordinary non-obvious founders disrupt industries using AI.
He previously co-founded Mindshapes (a gaming company backed by Index Ventures), Masters (a holistic training app backed by Mucker) and Midnight Runners (the world’s largest urban running community).
He has been a full time investor for a decade and set up and ran Sweet Capital (the King . com founders fund) as CEO and Chairman from 2015 to 2022. He has made 75 early stage investments to date.
Yariv Ganor
Yariv is a startup veteran turned clinical & industrial psychologist.
His unique approach is dedicated to support startup founders in dealing with the emotional and mental load that their work generates.
A firsthand knowledge of startup dynamics and the complexities that founders experience, lead him to develop efficient, applicable and scalable tools for his clients.
Startup Psychology uniquely combines elements of business strategy, crisis management, product development, cognitive and interpersonal psychology.
Monika Holod (Host)
Founder of OMA Mind, a software platform for instant mental health support. Monika previously led global brand teams at BlaBlaCar, OYO, and Ankorstore, and worked at Saatchi & Saatchi and Isobar during early social media days.
She is a trained mindfulness and meditation coach working with entrepreneurs individually and in group settings.
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OMA Mind provides bespoke Mental Resilience workshops for founders and investment teams delivered remotely and in person - contact monika@omamind.com
For the Resilient Mind Fireside series we are proud partners of WellFounded, who set the industry benchmark for founders wellbeing and performance through their program used by Mosaic, Balderton and many successful entrepreneurs.
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