Onic Palandjian

Director, Capital Connect Ventures

Onic is a seasoned Venture Capitalist with 18 years of professional experience in Europe and the USA. He co-founded Capital Connect Venture Capital fund in 2003, which invests in medical devices, consumer goods, information technology and clean-tech companies. Onic has been spearheading the fund's clean-tech investment practice since the early days and became the founding investor of Herco & Mavin. Previously, Onic headed the international expansion of the leading mobile marketing company Velti Plc. Prior to that, he founded two sister technology companies which pioneered the concept of online address change; ihavemoved Ltd in London and ichziehum GmbH in Hamburg. The companies were acquired by their key competitors Royal Mail PLC and Deutsche Post AG. In the early 1990s, he financed and operated shipping companies at Eagle Financial Partners LLC. As an advocate for entrepreneurs and socially-responsible growth, Onic regularly speaks in entrepreneurial conferences and Universities. Onic studied in Boston and earned a BSc in Management from Bentley and a CSS in Business Administration from Harvard.