From concept to company
A practical structure for moving from an idea to an organisation that can deliver.
Venture formation · Founder support · Programme leadership
04 / Founding Perspective
A life between worlds, a practice that connects them
Christo Thekkel works across the fault lines of frontier technology, venture building and global coordination. A dinner host, a curious traveller, and someone who brings unexpected people and ideas together.
Over the past decade Christo has operated across Europe, Asia and emerging ecosystems, supporting founders, venture platforms and institutions through growth, transformation and strategic inflection points. The journey spans business intelligence at Hewlett Packard, a diplomatic platform-building role in China, technology strategy at PwC, venture acceleration at Startupbootcamp and independent work through Eikyō. Different settings, one recurring contribution: perspective connected to operating reality.
Educated across Europe and Asia — Erasmus University Rotterdam, Peking University and the University of Oxford — with an abiding interest in the connections between technology, geopolitics, capital and coordination.
Founding Values
Techné, bridging worlds and a shared endeavour — personal commitments, extended into a company.
Craft before scale
Technology as craft. The quality of the work, the judgement behind it and the conditions that allow it to become useful come first; growth builds on those foundations.
Interconnected, beyond silos
Digital, physical and social infrastructure connected across disciplines, institutions and geographies, without flattening the differences between them. A bridge needs a useful purpose on both sides.
A shared endeavour
Long-term alignment, integrity and mutual respect. Partnerships are relationships in which people can rely on one another and contribute meaningfully, not simply access to a network.