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EdenBase is a venture investment platform and ecosystem. It unites investors, corporates and startups creating the next game-changing companies powered by frontier technologies, including AI and Quantum.

Arian Alikhani

Co-Founder & General Partner

Arian is a Co-Founder and General Partner at EdenBase. He brings extensive experience as an entrepreneur, strategic investor, and connector to build the next game changing companies of the future. He has been instrumental in leading EdenBase’s recent investment in Quantinuum, the world’s largest full stack quantum company.

Daniel Doll-Steinberg

Daniel is Co-Founder and General Partner at EdenBase. He has built disruptive tech startups, managed large-scale corporate change and advised governments and supranational organisations on policy and regulation. Daniel invests in the convergence of AI, Quantum Computing, Blockchain and Immersive Tech that are rapidly becoming general purpose. In 2021, he built the financial model for Quantum Computing Inc’s Nasdaq listing (QUBT).

His book, Unsupervised (Wiley, September 2023), a Bloomberg Book of the Year focusses on how AI, Quantum Computing and other frontier technologies are impacting our lives and society, how we all need to seize the opportunity and what could happen if they are left unchecked.

Daniel started his career in the global derivatives technology industry in the early 90’s, the first true disruption that technology brought to the financial industry. He led change management at a major global bank in New York between 1995 - 1997. After which he founded a company that created one of the first global standards for Digital Rights Management (DRM).

Daniel was appointed by the European Commission as an expert advisor specialising in education, disruption, and future of work. He was also advisor to the UK Government where he co-wrote the 2012 Innovation Report.

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Eric Van der Kleij

Eric is Co-Founder and General Partner at EdenBase. He is a disruptive tech investor, entrepreneur and one of London’s leading tech ecosystem builders, now leading the charge in quantum by launching QBase, London’s Quantum-AI Centre of Excellence.

He previously supported Cambridge Quantum Computers (now Quantinuum – the world’s largest full stack quantum company) on their 2019 capital raise and today supports their secondary transactions. He was the driving force in bringing a Nasdaq listed quantum photonics company to the UK, hosting quantum industry roundtables.

Eric has previously created and led some of the UK and Switzerland’s most prestigious technology ecosystems and hubs. This includes the world’s leading Fintech hub Level39, the Fintech vertical of the Kickstart Accelerator for Digital Switzerland, as well as the UK’s groundbreaking Tech City/TechNation initiative, where he was appointed by the former UK Prime Minister to develop the UK tech economy. He was also instrumental in establishing the UK’s leading trade body for fintech – Innovate Finance.

Prior to this he pioneered the UK Governments highly successful Global Entrepreneur Inward Investment Programme, which has attracted over 1,500 startups and $2.5Bn of investment to the UK. Together these initiatives have supported the growth of one third of the UK’s tech unicorns as well as accelerating the UK and international technology ecosystems and economies.

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